15 Feb 1944
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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1944
Page
1
Entry lists post office as second class matter at Atlantic Iowa withAct of March 8 1879. It shows staff addresses and trade associations including Iowa Daily Press Association and National Editors Association, plus rates and figures for advertising and charges.
The News-Telegraph urges preserving farm labor in Cass County to avoid harming food production while drafting soldiers. It warns that taking too many key workers risks slowing farming, groceries, and related businesses, undermining the war effort despite larger draft quotas. It stresses balanced priorities and careful selection by draft officials.
The piece notes that Food For Victory loans are available to farmers to buy seed feed tractor fuel machinery and supplies for planting producing and harvesting war crops and to bolster soil conservation and cash crops. It contrasts farmer loan activity with government bond purchases and questions the banking dynamic.
The A H S Trojans meet Creston Friday to decide the conference crown. Atlantic holds 12 wins against one loss and four of six key players are juniors, two of them 16, signaling strong prospects next year. The key task is defeating Creston, a demanding foe, as the team seeks a historic title.
Washington reports a heated argument over how much Army wives affect promotions. Colonel Alfred Jewett warns air force officers that their efficiency reports may reflect their wives’ activities, pressuring participation in the Gulfport Women’s Club. A separate note highlights a customs union among the Low Countries postwar to ease tariffs.
This week in 1804 notes many trips and moves. Worthing family returns from Anita. J H Wood visits Chicago. Franklin and Kirk travel to Stuart. Jiltich moves to southeast city after Windsor hotel stay. Gilespie family visits Des Moines. Levi Downa heads to Monticello NY. Crooks called to Tarkio for illness. Studley campaigns for Cumberland mayor. Judd plans Cherokee Strip departure. Clarence Brown buys a bicycle. Tom Whitney injures hand by accidental gun discharge.
Extra Sorr. E Sorensen bought the Lona Peppers property just south of the city limits and plans to move March 1. Peppers will move to the Mrs Carrie Christensen house he purchased recently. The Oscar Wedemeyer family moved Monday to the residence they bought from Hans Hansen, and the Hansens moved to rooms over the Palace theatre.
A humorous verse about a downtown hatter who sells Nellie a hat and gown. The speaker admits his ignorance of fashion but judges by the eye and declares he would not let Nellie buy the hats the tailor sells. The poem reflects satirical views on men’s fashion knowledge and authority.
In Erie Miss Margaret Crown aged 78 serves as a telephone operator at the Sarah Reed home and helps St. Vincent's hospital by folding babies garments four days a week. She plans to continue while labor shortages persist.
William LaVarre former chief of the American Republics Division resigns and accuses Leo Crowley Wallace and others of attempting to Sovietize American business and to aid Axis aligned interests. The piece also notes Bricker’s Washington tour and Lincoln Day banquet attendance and McNary’s expected Senate return amid cold Washington weather.
Akron based B F Goodrich Co unveils a new synthetic rubber field tested over three months. Hand block tracks for Army half track scout cars lasted appreciably longer than those made with natural rubber, marking a significant performance advance.
A columnist muses on word usage materiel versus material and aide versus aide in American English. He recalls Big Joe Stalin and Marshal title jokes, then describes Patricia Yates, a Connecticut-born harpist in New York, who notes harp calluses form from practice.
Census data show Iowa’s civilian population fell 10.5 percent from April 1, 1940 to November 1, 1943, with losses in seven counties. Des Moines and Scott counties posted gains, while the nation as a whole declined about 3.1 percent, births lagged behind wartime inductions and illness.
The navy department released 73 U S Navy personnel held as prisoners of war by Japan in Burma, Japan, and the Philippine Islands. From Iowa, Donald Francis Godfrey of Des Moines and William Ridgeway Miles of Lime Springs are named. Loran Waldo Anderson of Des Moines is listed as dead.
Mr Dory and Mrs Dory relocate from Atlantic to the Myers property. He plans to open all garage in the Masonic building.
Last week's storm brought joy to youngsters who received skis for Christmas and had their first chance to enjoy the gifts. Basketball fans look to Friday for a hoped Trojan Six title clinch and a high scoring home game.
Des Moines announces the appointment of Charles S. Vance a veteran Des Moines insurance man as state counsel for the state insurance department. Commissioner Charles R. Fischer says the new post will compare fire casualty and workers compensation rates in Iowa with other states, noting Iowa remains unregulated for such rates.
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