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Newspaper
Carthage Citizen
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1942
Page
5
Eight room house with three adjoining lots in Carthage offered by D. W. Grossman agency Knightstown. Early possession available. Phone 11 itp.
Tarry Awhile Bridge club hosted by Mrs. Leroy Moore with two tables of play and refreshments. Jolly Eight club, hosted by Mrs. Fritz Patterson, also had two tables and refreshments. Margaret Hill McCarter club met in Posey township with an program, flag salute, poems and wedding-day roll call. A flurry of social visits followed as residents traveled between Rushville Petersburg Indianapolis and nearby towns.
The Air Scout program for boys 15 and older is officially released by the Boy Scouts of America. It covers aviation topics except flying, allows non-registered youths to participate, and forms squadrons nationwide. Notables like Eddie Rickenbacker and General H H Arnold praise the initiative. details available from Scout Headquarters.
A set of brass curtain fixtures contains metal enough for eighty rifle cartridges, illustrating how everyday items could be repurposed for ammunition.
In May Indiana auto graveyards under War Production Board district chief Donald Cummings supplied 13,798 tons of scrap and pig iron totaling enough steel for 15 destroyers and 121 medium 27 ton tanks, reflecting a strong regional contribution to wartime output.
Office of Price Administration investigators surveyed Indiana polis and found that about one third of retailers fully complied with cost of living price postings, one third complied partially, and one third did not comply. The notice urges merchants to conform and warns of further surveys.
A fragment notes resolve to act together toward a common end. It asserts democratic people reject dictatorship propaganda and condemn claims of factional incapacity. The passage emphasizes unity and shared responsibility.
The text argues that people only collaborate when forced by tyranny. It notes that dictators fear both wartime production effort and the Russians’ resolute resistance.
War time orders at WPB bring up unusual items from industrial seas. Notes mention istles, waste, osnaburg, and decorative dotted women's footholds. These are the bottoms of rubber galoshes with rubber dots used for adornment.
The Office of Price Administration has imposed a price ceiling on the victory bicycle, with the highest middle zone retail price set at 33.50 dollars. Bicycles will be rationed nationwide, mirroring controls used on other goods.
The message outlines rationing edits under OPA and WPB rules. Tin for civilian use will drop an additional 10 percent from July 1 to meet urgent military needs. Milk trucks risk reduction as tire savings are targeted. After Sept 1 iron and steel cannot be used in mattresses or pads. Substitutes will appear in electric light bulbs but efficiency should stay intact.
WPB estimates the mandate to use substitutes in light bulb production will save about a million pounds of brass, 40 000 pounds of copper and 30 000 pounds of nickel. The board has banned cellophane for packing animal food rubber nipples candy and window cards.
Readable text states that the lumber in two average desks would supply enough material to construct a trailer for a war worker. The line implies a wartime framing where desk wood supports broader industrial aid.
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