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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1944
Page
14
Mrs Hegarty runs an 80 acre farm seven miles northwest of Tipton with her husband and four children. They raise oats corn hay and keep 400 chickens milking six cows and maintain a large garden. The family’s two 4-H daughters enjoy farm life while John excels in sports. Merlin Springer in the army holds the Purple Heart.
The Rev. Mr. and Mrs. F. Wolter of Homestead will celebrate their 50th anniversary with an open house Saturday from 3 to 5 p.m. A 2 p.m. Thanksgiving service at St John Lutheran in Iowa Township precedes the event with Rev Otto Beer giving the jubilee address. Married July 1, 1894, they have 12 children and 18 grandchildren.
The marriage of Lt. C. L. MacGregor son of Mr and Mrs David Mac Gregor of Cedar Rapids to Miss Kathryn Wick of Cedar Falls was held in New Orleans with Rev D S Lord officiating. Attendants were Miss Sherry MacMullen and Louis Garter. The groom, a Washington high school Cedar Rapids graduate, worked for Northwestern Bell before service. Mrs MacGregor is a Cedar Falls high school and Iowa State Teachers college graduate.
An excellent cook shares a butter cream cheese crust recipe with water for dough. A reader reports a mosquito bite remedy using a styptic pencil. Luncheon vegetable hamburgers are suggested with toppings and a lamb pairing with chow chow or currant jelly amid market notes on currants.
Miss Betty Lubbock daughter of Mr and Mrs R J Lubbock of 1931 C Avenue NE married James E Green of Muscatine in a candle light ceremony June 23 at Central Park Presbyterian Church Dr David I Berger officiated Attendants included Mary Lubbock sister of the bride Raymond Garvin of Muscatine and Margery Lubbock flower girl The bride wore a white satin and lace gown with yellow rose bouquet The couple will reside at 1006 First Avenue NE Both newlyweds are graduates and employed by Universal Engineering Corporation
The article urges readers to plant Victory gardens due to food shortages from wartime conditions. It outlines three general summer planting windows and adjustments for northern central and southern Iowa. Tips include deeper furrows, immediate watering if soil is dry, and careful soil coverage to prevent cracking.
Hardened rangers reached the Colorado River to begin a risky high cliff rescue of three Army airmen marooned on a Tonto plateau ledge. A breeches buoy plan and portable boat prepare the way for a 500-foot ascent descent using cann vas pants.
The article lists crops suitable for a first summer garden including corn carrots red beets sweet corn and bush snap beans. It recommends Detroit Dark Red beets and Danvers Half Long carrots and warns late planted crops store poorly. It notes July as a critical month for potato late blight and tomato leaf spot and advises coverage with Bordeaux mixture 4-4-50.
CHICAGO Former President Herbert Hoover arrived for the Republican convention and said the platform, as far as he has seen it, is in the right direction and that he has been in contact with Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York. He added the convention had developed good prospects for platform and possible candidates and pledged to stay active in the fight for the ticket and American interests.
Des Moines AP. Iowa selective service announces a switch from Camp Dodge to three external induction stations Fort Snelling Fort Leavenworth and Jefferson Barracks. Northern counties to Fort Snelling southeast to Jefferson Barracks southwest to Fort Leavenworth. Polk county to Fort Leavenworth. Assembly points listed for each station. Inductees travel by bus to assembly points and then by rail to stations. First move occurs in early July with daily departures thereafter.
Mrs Edwin H Wadsworth Linn county women war bond chairman leads efforts to contact about 250 firms employing 10 to 50 people as county totals rise to 6 238 507 toward a 510 025 000 quota with reports due soon from county and city chairmen.
City firms face new Treasury flag rules for the fifth war loan drive after only 145 of 635 initial 10 percent payroll deductions remain above the 90 10 level. Tom Walpole named payroll chairman to track qualifying firms while women’s bond teams are listed under captains and members. Monday sales totaled 1250.00 with EB bonds at 991605 county 2860.00.
Lt. Gen. Omar N Bradley praised American forces in Normandy for capturing Cherbourg. He lauded their bravery and skill, while noting the Seventh Corps under Maj Gen J L Collins carried out operations on the peninsula and he awarded the Oak Leaf Cluster to the Distinguished Service Medal.
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