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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1940
Page
15
A daily menu plan asserts a family of five can eat well for about $12 weekly. It emphasizes balanced calories protein minerals and vitamins with inexpensive spiced and pressed meats. It advises serving hot and crisp to improve appeal and variety.
A dated household menu lists breakfast and luncheon dishes with quantities and ingredients such as tomato juice scrambled eggs toast coffee cocoa and craved desserts. It also shows prices totaling about 1 dollar 55 cents for the day and includes items like crabapple pickles Harvard beets and apple tapioca.
A recipe yields about two dozen four inch cakes from flour cornmeal baking powder salt sugar milk water and shortening. Mix dry ingredients then beat eggs milk and water and pour into dry mix. Stir in melted shortening and cook on a greased griddle until golden brown both sides.
Henry Grabowski a 20 year old window cleaner fell 60 feet from a fifth story window in Pittsburgh and landed on the metal roof of a car. He escaped with no broken bones as X rays showed no injuries.
The Social Security Board said November 1939 payments for public assistance and earnings of workers under federal work programs totaled 271.537 million dollars. This is up over October by more than one percent but down 17 percent from November 1938.
In Copenhagen Swedish farmers join factory workers by contributing half their Saturday wages and match with double pay. Each farmer plans to give one egg per hen one day's milk per cow and one sack of flour per five acres to aid Finland. Woodsmen to contribute pay for a Sunday’s work with employers doubling wages.
Cub Pack 26 held its first 1940 meeting at Van Buren school. Elected were Francis Luse as cubmaster Lester Black as assistant cubmaster Orlo Levan as chairman George Naxera as secretary treasurer Joe Gaskill as Den dad and William White as publicity. Den mothers are Mrs Naxera Mrs Luse and Mrs Hamilton. Den No 3 received attendance and advancement awards. Twenty one parents 19 Cubs and nine leaders attended. Twenty one Cubs reregistered for the coming year. Awardees included Joe Gaskill Jr bear rank gold pointer Jimmie Luse silver pointer Bud Micoscript special pointer William White Jr bear rank and Raymond Shore lion rank gold pointer.
Dennis R Scanlon alleges a contract to obtain judges not unfavorable to Sonja Henie in the 1936 Olympics and to share 20 percent of her movie earnings. Henie calls the charges ridiculous and plans to fight them in Cleveland as her attorney seeks dismissal on public policy grounds. Judge Valente denies.
Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota, 32, tops discussion as potential keynote at the Republican National Convention. He wins one endorsement and draws praise as a natural choice, while party leaders plan Feb 16 meetings to set convention dates and leadership posts.
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