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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1942
Page
1
The column describes dad friendly frozen desserts with recipe steps for peanut brittle custard and a lemon cream blend. It also suggests using store bought ice cream layered with angel food cake and fruit for a quick dessert trick. It lists fresh produce including beets onions peas green beans cauliflower and spinach with notes on origin and price.
The Gazette Cedar Rapids Iowa invites women and men readers to swap tested recipes on the back fence of the cooking page. Submit your favorite recipe or request a recipe you want to see.
Cantaloupe from Imperial Valley offers good flavor at a medium price while Grapefruit from the California desert remains medium priced and sweet. Red Beauty plums and Bing cherries from California show good to excellent quality with medium to high prices. Valencia oranges costly, lemons cheap for the season, head lettuce and apples Winesaps present but pricey, onions and carrots show mixed California and Texas origins with varying costs.
A kitchen note lists steps for a bacon and macaroni casserole with onion celery green pepper and tomato soup then baked with cheese. It advises simmering until heated through and reheating later. Also includes a honeyed cherry preserve method from Sunshine Preserves Cedar Rapids with honey and sugar boiled then cherries added and cooled.
A vintage style kitchen note from Madison Wisconsin lists Cherry Relish with oD raisins and pecans, plus a Strawberry Pie method. Steps include cooking pecan mix, sterilizing jars, and assembling a baked pie with cooked berries, sugar, cornstarch and salt, finished with whipped cream or meringue.
A huge crowd gathered at the Memorial coliseum for sugar rationing Tuesday, handled efficiently by Sam Hawkins, Bob Vinch, and 100 volunteers. Applicants entered through the east, queued along long rows, and exited after verification by a checker. By noon about 300 remained, with later surges expected. Hawkins warned another day may be needed later in the week or next week.
Corporal Arnold Lynn Mineck of 1608 First Avenue NW is on a five day furlough from Fort Ord enroute to Fort Sill Oklahoma for a three month officers candidate school. Lieut J R Jadrnicek of 144 Seventeenth Street SW forms part of a naval air corps squadron at Atlanta for instrument flying instruction. Preston B Hanson of 901 Tenth Avenue SW has been promoted to sergeant at McChord Field Washington, enlisting in February. Private Lawrence D Weibe of 906 Eighth Street SW returns from Cedar Rapids on furlough to transfer from field artillery to the ute battalion at Camp Wheeler Georgia. Roy L Freshwater of 1919 Ellis Boulevard NW leaves to take volunteer officers training. Sergt Ernest Telecky leaves to report for duty at the army camp in Spokane after a 15 day furlough. Technical Sergeant Jesse D Hughes of Fort Moultrie spends 14 days on furlough with his sister in Cedar Rapids.
Assista Chief Al Mikota Tuy warned motorists about a city ordinance banning following emergency vehicles within 300 feet after a Sunday traffic tie up blocked an ambulance near Bever Park. Attendants said they were forced to navigate across a lawn to escape. Assistant city attorney Dwight Krumholtz said drivers must pull over to the right and remain clear until emergency vehicles pass, with fines up to 100 dollars possible.
At the Fort Dodge state DeMolay conclave Charles C. Moeller of Cedar Rapids was awarded the Chevalier degree the highest DeMolay honor. He was among six honored with the distinction as participants included Robert J. Kolarik Cedar Rapids commander Harry K. Burmeister Cedar Rapids who conferred the degree and Fred J. Witousek of the same city.
A two year federal probe led by Postal Inspectors Mansfield and Jefferson charged 63 individuals and one company from 10 states Cuba and Panama in a large scale lottery scheme. The operation tied to the Republica de Cuba hospital funds lottery in Havana reportedly took about 1 million dollars yearly in the United States. Indictments charged mail fraud and conspiracy with 45 lotteries and involved 21 co conspirators, mainly Michigan residents.
Nine men enlisted through Cedar Rapids recruiting station will report to Moines on Wednesday to begin service. The list includes Wendell W. Conrad Gladbrook Almon S. Heath 1631 Washington Ave SE Everett H. Weller RFD 2 McGregor George I. Burrow RFD Fredricksburg Robert J. Lockwood Central City Robert R. Pooley Manchester Elvin S. Shirley Marion James M. Lathrop Rock Island and Stanley R. Pokorney 2020 Second Street SW.
Cedar Rapids purchasers are turning in about 16 000 in war savings stamps monthly and exchanging for bonds. Most exchanges use the smallest bond of 18.75 for a 25 maturity. April to June 12 totals show 70 184.80 in stamp redemptions with bond sales rising in June as buyers convert stamps to bonds.
In Chillicothe Missouri women organize as a group to harvest and can all garden produce using a rotating home production line. Each day the line moves to another member’s kitchen until all gardens are bare.
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