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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1944
Page
13
An old classifieds snippet lists coal prices and suppliers including White Eagle Coal Co with $7.20 per ton for coal and $38 per ton for stoker coal, plus contact numbers for Pocahontas Forkings Riverside and Dry Oak Slab Wood sales.
Classified columns show numerous rooms for rent and furnished apartments in Cedar Rapids with phone numbers and rates. It lists houses for sale or exchange, vacation and war bond mentions, storage services, and moving company ads, highlighting opportunities for lodging and property sales, with names like Malcolm V. Bolton & Co and Lundquist Realtor.
LaPlant Choate appeals for spare rooms apartments and houses to shelter skilled workers aiding the war effort. Call 3?0261 and ask for Miss ta in the Personnel Department with location details to help meet housing needs in Cedar Rapids.
Arthur M Stadtmueller of Center Junction Iowa offers a set of 12 38 tractor chains for sale at 23c each, located at 70 3802 MT Ion Road unit 3010.
Good buy on easy terms with March 1 possession. 154 acres on gravel road two miles from town with high ground, tiled land, pasture, and a six room house with electric lights, cemented yard, and large barn. Well, pump, and pipe yard. terms include 125 per acre with contract at 7% interest and yearly payments. Also 150 per acre option with other terms. Contact Harry Green at 716 Third Ave SE or 2-8045 evenings.
Real Estate notice invites inquiries for property at Bow Building. Contact telephone 291505 for details on ownership, base information, and cash-related terms. Includes references to Pere MB and ESAS ARS years.
An editorial discusses epidemic respiratory disease control amid war crowding, praising sulfonamides for meningitis and scarlet fever despite limits of newer drugs. It explains transmission by droplet spray, notes cough or sneeze reach, and cites public health surveys showing respiratory infections cause most physician caseloads and related surgeries. Measles spreads via spray from catarrhal stage to rash onset.
The piece recalls Edgar A. Guest themes while highlighting Cedar Rapids’ oldest Czech cultural organization. Officers Lorene, Anna Bohac, Jindra Jambor, and Josef Holub led the group as financial secretary, treasurer, and librarians. The society celebrated its seventy fifth anniversary last November.
Dr. Mike Capek of Iowa City will discuss his escape from the Gestapo in a Sunday lecture at 2 p.m. in the Z C B J hall. The public is invited and admission is free under the Czech American Noose Alliance Narodni Sdruzeni auspices.
Most officers of the Ctenarsky Spolek Czech Reading society were reelected at the annual meeting. New/old officers include Jaromir Mahring as chairman John B. Vondracek as vice chairman and Frank Janeba as recording secretary with other officers continuing in their posts.
New officers of the Sokol Gymnastic association will be installed tomorrow night in the Sokol lodge rooms starting at 8 oclock. Rudolph Novak is the new president succeeding Joseph Klinsky.
A meeting of Prokop Velky lodge in the CS. P.S. hall is set for 9 this morning. T. B. Hlubu cek will install the new officers for 1944, acting on behalf of the executive council of the society.
The Czech Cemetery association will meet Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the C.S.P.S. hall. Karla Masaryk lodge, C.S.A., will meet Wednesday at 8 p.m. in the C.S.P. hall. The Czech school board will meet Thursday evening at the library.
MT VERNON Miss Dessie Summerville completed a sleeveless army sweater and has a list showing 78 sweaters 15 helmets and seven scarfs toward the Red Cross. She believes the first 100 garments are the hardest and has begun another sweater.
Walter Winchell style column blends poetry, theater gossip, and wartime ironies. Notes on actors Katharine Cornell Blithe Spirit reception in Pittsburgh, Time editors, and a reader’s letter about press freedom and wartime measures. Reports on GOP dark-horse prospects and theater audiences.
The London funny man Tait, known for his motoring routine, was persuaded by Martin Beck to tour the United States. He began in Yonkers New York with a sharp entrance and a comically frightful omelet as his opener. While strolling downtown he complimented a dead mackerel in a fish shop window and declared he would perform a matinee.
The Rev H L Buse will conduct funeral services Monday at 1 p m in the American Lutheran church for Herman Regennitter 80 who died Friday Burial will be in Bennett cemetery Born at Walcott Oct 14 1863 he had lived in Anamosa the last five years Surviving include wife three daughters Mrs Tom Mullinex Cedar Rapids Mrs Car Bock Anamosa and Mrs Bertha Kinyon Oxford Junction a son Harold Cedar Rapids two sisters Mrs Anna Hamilton Iowa City and Mrs Dora Doyle Colfax two brothers Fred Holstein and Adolph South Dakota 12 grandchildren and several great grandchildren Friends may call at Loder funeral home Manchester Services were held at Gill funeral home Saturday for Barbara Jean Pohlman two months old daughter of John and Myra Klaus Pohlman who died Friday at her home in Coffins Grove township
Iowa's Employment Security Commission reports 11,004 more employed persons in the July-September period of 1943 than the same quarter in 1942 and 28,970 more than in 1941. Wages for covered employment totaled 121,311,644 dollars, with smaller industries not included in the count.
Capt. William G. Nechanicky Jr arrives in Traer for holidays with his parents Mr. and Mrs. William G. Nechanicky, bringing news of his Army service. A former standout basketball star at Geneseo High School in 1934 and graduate of Iowa State College in 1938, he coached at Pennant and Aurora, Iowa, before entering the service two years ago and is now stationed at Camp Polk, Louisiana.
The text notes newspapers attacked Woodrow Wilson violently, with one personal assault stronger than a Hull criticism. Wilson expected to lash out but instead controlled his fury and declared that criticism is essential even when destructive, preferring constructive, tolerating the rest.
Six persons were injured in ten Des Moines traffic accidents late New Year’s Eve and early New Year’s Day. Harold Anderson, 23, suffered a fractured skull and broken leg when struck at 4 50 a.m. by a motorist who did not stop. He was aiding others after an earlier crash. Police arrested three drivers. Thirty New Year’s Eve celebrants faced intoxication charges.
Sen. Lodge argues it is cheaper to maintain a full strength army and navy in peacetime than to pay recurring war costs. He proposes spending 2 billion annually to deter conflict, stating 60 billion could prevent large war expenses versus 82 billion spent fighting. He notes 1943 spending reached 88 billion with 82 billion for war.
Washington AP report notes the National Youth Administration dwindled to 46 employees and 300 tons of records before dying on New Year’s Day. Abolished by Congress July 1, liquidation set at 708 million dollars. old records to be sold as waste paper.
In Little Ferry New Jersey the 1943 fortune teller forecast a winning year for Stephen Ferkiss. He played poker while sick and claimed he did not lose any stake during the year.
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