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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1942
Page
1
Notice from the Aurelia Sentinel published by E C Lighter and Carl J Lighter states renewal terms for continued delivery past expiration and a subscription rate schedule per year in advance including foreign countries.
Iowa salvage head Herbert C. Plagman announces a 245000 ton quota for the remainder of 1942. The plan splits 95000 tons from general salvage and 146000 tons from industrial salvage. A meeting was held to organize local and county chairmen for depositing and collecting scrap. Des Moines representative S. W. Lowry joins the effort for rubber salvage.
Iowa training camps at Camp Dodge prepare the state guard second regiment with units from Mason City Jefferson Ames Boone Webster Guy Marshalltown Cedar Rapids Cedar Falls Waterloo Dubuque Clinton Missing Fort Dodge joins later The bank system shows deposits up 79 million while loans fall reflecting wartime economy and war bond purchases The piece notes political clashes over grain alcohol rubber and parolees entering military service
Afton vicinity residents share a weekend of visiting and events across Cherokee and surrounding towns. Kenneth Hanson returns to Mitchell Field New York while others attend gatherings, parades, and farm bureau activities.
Local column notes social visits and family gatherings. Fred Radke and family and Harold Radke called on the Henry Otto home. Mrs. John Lindquist visited sister in Cherokee after noon at Sioux Valley hospital. Melvin Lindquist went to Harlan. trail ride at Sac City. Cherokee visitors at Peterson and Schmidt homes in Alta and Storm Lake areas.
A pair of chimney swallows were captured at the Ed Bray home in Bedford after flying down the chimney. The birds were banded and sent to the Iowa State Conservation Commission. One left Memphis while the other came from Gainesville Florida.
Lawrence Lansing of Dyersville reports finding hickory nuts that hardened into stone, an unusual petrification of forest produce.
On July 4 1941 a fragment from a plane fell on Rudy Ulrich’s farm near Garner. Ulrich publicized the incident and learned over a year later whose plane it came from when C W Heinselman now with the army air corps sent a letter saying the piece was aileron from a plane ripped by heavy wind but landing remained safe.
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