Linn county 1942 board organizes appointments and reports
Linn county supervisors approved appointments for 1942 including county engineer Behrens team and staff, overseer of the poor Mrs. Mildred Hunt, sheriff deputies and jail staff. A soldiers relief report showed expenditures and refunds, Farm Bureau funding was approved, and tax funds were apportioned to the secondary road maintenance fund for 1942.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linn
Board of Supervisors
William H. Behrens
F. E. Buckner
W. C. Brownell
H. A. Gillette
J. L. Bigger
D. A. Peterson
Mildred Hunt
Helen Schnee
Helen
Virginia Sigmund
Elinor Sweitzer
Lillian Locher
Charlotte Hubbard
Ida Hampton
Norma White
Lucy Siver
Evelyn Gibson
Mabel Holton
Norma Knight
Flora Graham
Ina Nash
Alta Hageman
Velma Hauser
James Smith
Roy Radebaugh
Larry Condon
Harlan Snyder
Pete Whittemore
Seth Hendryx
John M. Henderson
Forest Taschner
Richard Preston
Henry Wright
Jerry Hanns
Maxine Paeper
Linn County
Smith
Forest J. Maag
Fred Todd
James M. Parker
Soldiers Relief Commission
Frank Simon
County Farm Bureau
Bureau
County Levy, Finances Reported for 1941
The county board approved a .621 mill levy on taxable property from September 1941. County Treasurer Frank Bates reported $7.25 from tax deeds and $4,613.50 in bank deposit interest. Sheriff reports included $387.50 in fees and $195.55 mileage. total sheriff fees and mileage for 1941 were $2,432.80. Justices of the peace W. E. Bell and E. M. Wetherbee filed annual reports showing $326.50 and $66 respectively. Funds go to the county school fund.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Bates
Smith
Sheriff’s Office
Sheriff's Office
W. E. Bell
Springville
E. M. Wetherbee
Central City
Justice Bell
Justice Wetherbee
County School Fund
Clipper Safe After First Round World Flight Via Equator
Pan American Airways Pacific Clipper landed at LaGuardia after a 31500 mile flight around the world to skirt the Pacific war zone. Capt Robert Ford led the westward return from Auckland to New York, completing a 36 day journey that crossed Australia Asia Africa and both American continents and crossed the equator six times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Pan-American Airways
LaGuardia Field
San Francisco
Auckland
New Zealand
Equator
Robert Ford
Berkeley
Calif
Australia
Asia
Africa
North
South America
Learns Son Safe Then Dies in Salt Lake City
In Salt Lake City AP report Mrs. Frank Dunn waited nearly a month for word about her son James, stationed at Pearl Harbor. A cable said he was safe, and hours later she died of a heart attack.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salt Lake City
Frank Dunn
James
Pearl Harbor
Popular Comedian Horizontal Partner of Pictured Lou
Puzzle clues list with several wordplay items including animals objects measures and place names. It references a crosswise fill of terms tied to comedians and various definitions across two columns.
Red Cross Volunteers Swing Into Action in Many Fields
Red Cross volunteers in Cedar Rapids organize nine corps at an administrative meeting led by Mrs. Paul H. Huston. Officers named include Mrs. Neil Montgomery as canteen and nutrition chair with Miss Lucy Simpson co chair. Departments report progress and plan auto mechanics, home nursing, staff assistance, hospital recreation, nurse aides, and Braille for the blind. First aid aims to train 2 000 by year end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
Paul H. Huston
Federal Building
Neil Montgomery
Lucy Simpson
Junior League of Cedar Rapids
J. R. Treichler
John H. Rieniers
D. C. Gillette
H E. Pfeiffer
E. K. Beane
Eugene M. Pinney
H. D. O'Meara
Motor Corps
West Side
Glenn W. Higbee, Jr
Staff Assistance Corps
Wells C. Peck
Mary Frances Battin
J. T. McRaith
Hospital and Recreation Corps
Gray Ladies
Wayne J. Foster
McRaith
Irvin L. Huffman
Nurse’s Aide
Miss Rasmussen
St. Luke’s
Sister Mary Victor
Mercy Hospital
M. A. Carlson
Cedar Rapids
Dean M. A. Carlson
Coe College
Ed Millikin
First Aid
Linn
R. A. Donahue
Coe College Debating Squad Heads to Illinois Invitational
The Coe college debate squad will leave Friday at 9 a.m. for Normal Illinois to compete in the Illinois State Normal university invitational forensic tournament. Championship division debaters include Miss Mary Towne and Miss Lucile Speer on the affirmative side and Charles McManaman with Robert Ray on the negative. Other participants tackle the national question on labor unions with multiple speakers across divisions one and two. Judges include Prof. C Dale Welsch and Mrs. Welsch, plus Miss Phyllis Darby and Miss Lorraine Rawlings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coe College
Normal
Ill
Illinois State Normal University
Mary Towne
Burlington
Lucile Speer
Freeport
Charles McManaman
Hawarden
Robert Ray
Davenport
Phi Kappa Delta
Jane Spillers
Newton
Lorraine Peck
Bert Offner
Chicago
James Lambert
Betty Subotnik
Margaret Blaine
Cedar Rapids
Beverly Lieberstein
Winifred Deyo
Oelwein
John Holsey
Carroll
Frank Sherman
Independence
Derle Schafstal
Oskaloosa
Loren Hechtner
Sac City
Dorothy Moser
Strawberry Point
Bernice Brandau
Rudd
Dorothy Plock
Mercedes Bruckner
Elgin
Helen Mary Knox
Milledgeville
C. Dale Welsch
Welsch
Phyllis Darby
Cresco
Lorraine Rawlings
Senior speech students at Coe College named
Council Bluffs and Miss Barbara Eder of Freeport Illinois are identified among Coe College senior speech students.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Council Bluffs
Barbara Eder
Freeport, Ill
Coe
Gopher Star George Franck Joins Flying Kernels Squadron
George Franck former Minnesota All American halfback and New York Giants star has joined the Flying Kernels naval aviation squadron to be selected from the Tri Cities Cedar Rapids Dubuque area. Training begins at Glenview Illinois in March under Lieut Carl Olson. Franck born Davenport September 23 1918 earned 1939 and 1940 All American honors and was MVP of the Chicago Bears All Star game. Free travel to the Chicago selection office offered to qualified applicants. A contest for the squadron insignia is underway by local daily papers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Franck
University of Minnesota
New York Giants
Flying Kernels
Naval Aviation
Tri-Cities
Cedar Rapids-Dubuque
Glenview
Lll
Naval Reserve Aviation
Carl G. Olson
Naval Aviation Cadet Selection Board
Chicago
Davenport
Franck
Chicago Bears
Soldier Field
Flying Kernel
Navy
Cadet Selection Board
First Electric Cooked Meal Prepared in England 1895
A historical note records that the first electrically cooked meal was prepared in England in 1895. The event marks an early milestone in domestic electric cooking technology and shows how innovation spread to homes in the late 19th century.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Red Cross Notes Updated Thursday First Aid Class
Red Cross notes a Thursday night first aid class taught by Mrs Jeanette Tap in room 201 main building Coe college now at 7 30 pm. Bring correct change for textbooks. The first surgical dressings class since holidays is set for Monday morning Jan 12 in Armstrong production headquarters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. K. Stoddard
Home Nursing Service
Jeanette Tapper
Coe College
Armstrong Building
Local clubs aid war effort with knitters and pledges
The Home girls plan to knit afghan squares for a larger quilt project while the Hesperian Reading club led by Rachel McIntyre donates 5 toward the Linn county war fund. Mrs. Philip W. Shive starts a Johnson school first aid class January 13 from 9 15 to 11 15 a.m. The Donets coal basin is nicknamed Soviet Pennsylvania.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hesperian Reading Club
Rachel McIntyre
Linn County
Philip W. Shive
Johnson School
British Press On Halfaya Pass Fate In Egypt Front
Cairo dispatch reports British Empire forces press toward the Halfaya pass sector on the Egyptian frontier, the last Axis holdout in eastern Libya. Bad weather and low visibility slow both ground and air operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cairo
Egypt
H& Command
British Empire
Halfaya Pass
Egyptian
Libya
Empire
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Graybar
America
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Bud
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Rome
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Timothy
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Mabel Chadband Wilson
Carl N. Ettinger
Home Service Committee
Illinois State Normal
Caromel
Carter
Smulekoff
Ist Prize
Joseph Leehman
St. SW
Ted Nesper
Ave
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10Th St. SW
Leona Funcke
Frank Verteiko
J. A. Dubies
Bever Ave
H. L. Sunderland
Magnolia
Iowa
Elsie Krouse
Toddville
Frances Storm
Lith
Marion
Jos. Kurst
Linn Blvd
H. James Clemens
8Th St. SE
3Rd Ave
Red
J. C. McIntyre
MelIntyre
A. Normand
Ninth Street
Red Cross Knitting
White Eagle Coal
DIAL
White Eagle Coal CO
First Street
Donets Coal Basin
Pennsylvania
Halfaya Ford
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Federal Home Loan
U. S. Defense
Total Assets
H .H. Bennett
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