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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1943
Page
16
Brig. Gen. Charles H. Grahl, Iowa selective service director, said volunteers are filling June draft quotas, mainly 18 year olds finishing high school. He noted scarce replacements, essential-industry judgments, laundries in Des Moines area, and praise for local boards and press support.
In Iowa Falls Iowa on the last Sunday of the Methodist year Dr John D Clinton preaches in the morning and his son Rev De Witt Clinton leads the evening service This marks a fourth generation in Upper Iowa Methodist conference The lineage began with Dr John W Clinton in 1866 and extends through De Witt Clinton who completed 50 years in 1930 and now moves to Davenport for admittance at the first session since his grandfather retired
Shellsburg with 600 residents shows wartime resolve by working double duty. Local households support war plants in Cedar Rapids while many townspeople take additional jobs and aid the war effort and its men overseas. The community keeps faith, with few families moving away and leaders like Dr. Brandt and volunteers helping keeps essentials running.
In Des Moines, five Iowa first places lead a National Federation of Press Women contest. Winners include Anne Marie Sheely Marshalltown daily paper first and Mrs Blanche Bailey Reed Dysart second in weekly, Isabelle Loar Iowa Falls first for daily or weekly column, and Irene E French Indianola second for individual ad. Gertrude M Puelicher Milwaukee won poetry. Miss Lear led a paper editor.
Brig. Gen. Gordon C. Hollar 55 of Sioux City Iowa was appointed provost marshal of the European theater of operations army headquarters announced Saturday. He began his military career as an enlisted man in the Iowa National Guard in 1907.
Dr. John H. Haefner of the Iowa Historical Society reports that Iowa weather records extend back nearly 120 years. Records show U S army posts in 1824 began weather observations, with Davenport first weather bureau station established in 1872 followed by Keokuk Dubuque Des Moines and Sioux City in subsequent years.
Margaret March-Mount known as the "tree lady" proposes planting one tree for every man in service to aid reforestation and honor soldiers. The veteran forester, attending the National Federation of Press Women convention, says forests must be preserved and that women shape their destiny.
Lieut William J Purvis of Davenport Iowa shot down one German plane in a brief air battle after British troops seized Pantelleria.
Special to The Grzette Stat Sergeant Paul Ramage from McGregor reports the African campaign is officially over. In a May 20 letter from North Africa he lists his remaining items: glasses pen rifle ID card doe tags a leather cigarette case and a pocket slide rule. He notes much has been replaced but moving is still a challenge.
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