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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1942
Page
20
Iowa primaries near with 10 days left to file. Lloyd Thurston weighs a possible U S Senate bid. Republicans list candidates for many offices. petitions demand set signer thresholds and county and district totals. Officials warn late filings risk ballot exclusion and require corrections.
Lamoni resident Mrs Loren Stevens works a man’s job in a war industry covering her husband’s cream route. Dressed in overalls she drives 125 miles of rural roads, makes 100 stops to pick up cream, leaving at 6 am and returning by mid afternoon. She notes the hard work isn’t a shortcut to losing weight and gained five pounds in the first week.
The Rock Island arsenal payroll reaches 13 296, surpassing the 1917 peak by 33 employees. Brig. Gen. Norman F. Ramsey announced the figure in a memorandum. A new civil service class War Service now covers appointments for the duration of the war and up to six months after. Including 13 296 civil servants, about 600 construction workers, 100 military police enlisted men, and several hundred WPA and NYA workers are employed.
The Federal Power Commission will reopen the Cedar River Mississippi river project hearing in Chicago on May 18 for the First Iowa Hydro Electric Cooperative of Muscatine Iowa. The project foresees a Cedar River dam a diversion canal and a power house on the Mississippi river at Muscatine with 50 000 kilowatts initial capacity.
Seattle AP report says 16 inland colleges replied to a UW relocation inquiry that American born Japanese students forced to leave the Pacific coast will be accepted. Army authorities favor further education for high school seniors and college students to aid postwar Japanese Caucasian reunification. Responding schools include Minnesota Michigan Chicago Iowa State Yankton and Grinnell.
Spirit Lake brief funeral services will honor C. W. Price 73 longtime justice of the peace who fined many for game law violations though fond of hunting. He lost a leg in a hunting accident as a youth. His daughter Dr. Mary Price Roberts is an ornithology writer and another daughter Mrs Virginia Bedell chairs Iowa parole board.
DES MOINES INS Wilson appeals to all Iowans over radio to set aside non essentials and unite to defeat the Axis. He frames Iowa as a republic bound by freedom and republican government and stresses citizens must sacrifice and focus on essentials for victory in the war.
The Tipton school system marks a century of progress from a log schoolhouse with eight students and teacher Thomas Gracey to Iowa's largest consolidated district. April 20 will begin anniversary celebrations, honoring founders who built the foundation for Tipton’s enduring education heritage.
Iowa City AP report highlights Albert Baumgartner, University of Iowa gymnastics coach, organizing local fitness classes to boost enlistment readiness. His program improves chest measurements height and waistlines, while urging daily exercise amid broader Navy fitness efforts led by Lieutenant Commander Gene Tunney.
Navy recruiting officers plan visits to 20 Iowa high schools this week to explain the V-1 program. Comdr. Philip R. Weaver says seniors may enlist, be guided by the navy on course choices, and possibly enter naval air corps after two years, or complete college and enter midshipman training. Itinerary lists Dubuque Senior High and Loras Academy dates, with times, and Anamosa on Thursday.
DES MOINES AP The Iowa liquor commission announced that stores sold 195 900 permits in the nine months ending April 1, topping the prior peak of 1940 41 by more than 12 000 and averaging 1 969 per county. With three months left before renewal, officials expect sales for 1941 42 to surpass 200 000.
Special to The Gazette Blairstown plans a Benton county American Legion auxiliary convention Tuesday in the Legion hall. Mrs. Harlan Briggs former department president will address attendees with Mrs. T. J. Thompson as county president. Morning program includes registration call to order colors by Atkins Blairstown Vinton units. Veranda Loehmer responds and Mrs. Young welcomes. Afternoon features talks by Mrs. Reinhart and Mrs. Briggs and election of county officers.
DES MOINES AP W W Weatherwax Republican of Clarence asked for nomination papers for Cedar County state representative. He is a former resident of Cedar Rapids.
In Des Moines Iowa editors elected James W McCutcheon president of the Iowa Press association to push wartime controls on wages hours prices and profits while urging a congress friendly to America First. Veterans and executives including S E Tennant and L B Watt were reelected to posts as activists call for restraint and victory driven by broad public support and paid advertising. Luther Harrison challenged middle ground between labor extremism and anti labor reactionaries urging a safer path and noting rising costs of mobilization.
Senator Clyde Herring of Iowa urged denying draft deferments to workers who strike in war plants. He plans to push a plan during Senate debate on the Connally bill, aiming to cool labor unrest with a cooling off period mediation and penalties. He would bar strikers from defense plants for a year and remove deferments.
Jaycee candidate LaVerne C. Johnston, former Marshalltown Junior Chamber of Commerce president, will seek the Iowa Junior Chamber of Commerce presidency at the Davenport convention set for April 24 and 25.
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