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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1942
Page
14
A vintage recipe card promotes apricot milk punch as a cooling June refreshment after garden or sport. It includes ingredients like apricot puree juice corn syrup milk and whipped cream with optional dried or canned apricots for garnish and a note on reducing sugar.
The Gazette invites readers at Cedar Rapids Iowa to share tested recipes for a back fence cooking page. A Sour Cream Cake and “Recipes to match your sugar ration” from US Agriculture are detailed, including rice pudding and custard variations and methods.
Home grown strawberries and turnips show good quality and cheap prices. Spinach lettuce and radishes are affordable. peas and green beans arrive from California and Louisiana with medium to cheap pricing. Fish prices vary by origin with lake perch and walleye high, shrimp costly, while carp and herring remain cheaper options.
Reno reports Myrna Loy has obtained a divorce from movie producer Arthur Horn blow Jr after a Reno court session. Observers note Loy, famed as the “perfect wife,” heads for New York with the case concluding in Nevada.
The report notes tears in Miss Loy’s eyes as she obtained her decree. She dabbed at her eyes and maintained a composed posture as the moment concluded.
Dr Mary MacFedyen cautions that bicarbonate only masks heartburn while underlying causes persist. A list of eating habits linked to headaches coated tongue and fullness after meals is reviewed, including eating fast eating too much greasy foods and skipping greens.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette Pattern Department offers pattern 4107 for miss and women sizes 14 through 40. Size 16 requires 234 yards of 39 inch fabric. Send 15 cents plus 1 cent mailing to Anne Adams pattern to receive the Summer Dress Parade hue and the Pattern Book for 10 cents.
A Miss Manners column offers guidance to a reader stuck in a dating rut and a second note about a dancing incident. It urges self improvement, listening skills, and engaging with both peers and elders, warning against passive self-pity and explaining why some escorts attract disrespectful behavior.
Secretary Frances Perkins certified a Wilson and company meat packing dispute with Cedar Rapids workers to the War Labor Board. The protest is part of five Midwest plant cases involving Swift, Cudahy, and Wilson. Harold Smith said a master contract talks stalled since February 6 with company officials resisting a universal agreement.
Plan Smith states they have been unable to obtain the written agreement at this location.
The Cedar Rapids firm McGladrey, Hannaftee, said its five year audit cost was 38 percent lower than the state auditors. The firm claims significant savings versus state hires for school district accounting.
The school board directed the transportation chairman to ban hardball as most grounds are too small and some windows were broken this spring. The ban also covers softball under supervision at Kenwood school grounds amid residents’ complaints about damaged gardens.
Washington report notes driver salesmen whose routes extend beyond local delivery areas fall under local delivery service. The change requires conserving tires and vehicles by reducing delivery mileage by 25 percent compared to 1941, effective immediately. They are removed from over-the-road operator restrictions that would have mandated a 75 percent return-load capacity starting July 1.
Pattern 250 offers a 15 by 20 inch transfer image with stitch illustrations a color chart and a materials list. Send 11 cents to The Cedar Rapids Gazette needlecraft department 2 Eighth Avenue New York NY and include pattern number name and address.
Washington AP reports War Production Director Donald M. Nelson appointed a special committee to study using long-range aircraft to haul war cargoes. The panel will review feasibility, efficiency, and logistics of airlift operations to support war efforts.
In Washington a federal court jury found Frederick V. Williams and David W. Ryder, both San Francisco publicity men, guilty of violating the foreign agents registration act.
Two midget submarines were raised from mud in Sydney Harbor with a third believed sunk. Six sailors died, 13 missing believed dead, and 10 injured as Allied planes combed eastern Australian waters for the mother ship. An official cited prewar defense plans for harbor safety.
DES MOINES AP There was a hitch to a trade as a motorist asked to exchange a roll of 50 dimes for a five dollar bill. The roll had a dime at each end and 48 pennies, costing attendant Russell L. See $4.32 in losses.
Joseph Suma reports to the board that trees on school property between Nineteenth and Twentieth streets NE and near the Milwaukee tracks have been sprayed a second time in response to a petition by 23 residents. Weeds, notably dandelions, were also a concern, but the grass has since been cut.
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