Altoona Plan Aids Veterans With Local Job Help
Washington reports describe Altoona Pennsylvania citizens forming a 50 member committee to counsel ex servicemen returning home. The group underwent Penn State training and now offers shifts of veterans counseling, aligning with a broader national push to place veterans first in postwar employment. Industry leaders Ford General Motors Bethlehem Steel Higgins and Martin Co adopt similar veteran placement goals emphasizing fitting each veteran to best wage earning roles. A hotel association study guides managers to analyze jobs and train disabled and able bodied veterans for roles from electricians to cooks.
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Washington
Altoona
Penn State University
The
American Legion
Legion
America
Ford
Bethlehem Steel
Higgins Industries
Glenn L. Martin Co
General Motors
American Hotel Association
Miss Mason to Work in Iowa City for Three Months
Miss Mary Anne Mason of Kalamazoo Michigan will spend a few days with her parents before moving to Iowa City to work three months in the occupational therapy shop at the University hospital. She is a junior at Western Michigan College majoring in occupational therapy. The Linn County Republican Women's club met for a 9 30 a m breakfast at Bever Park pavilion where Mrs Susan Merriam Gearhart reviewed a book on women in home and world amid peace and war titled The West is Here. Mrs J P Mills was elected corresponding secretary of the State Republican Women's club and reviewed a meeting in
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Mary Anne Mason
Kalamazoo
Mich
A. I. Mason
Avenue
Iowa City
University Hospital
Western Michigan College
Linn County
Republican Women’s Club
Bever Park Pavilion
Susan Merriam Gearhart
J. P. Mills
State
Hickenloopers Visit in Cedar Rapids
Senator and Mrs. B. B. Hickenlooper returned to Cedar Rapids from Des Moines after a ten day visit. They will stay several days here before returning to Washington. The couple will be guests of the Forrest Stewarts over the weekend, and next week Mrs. Hickenlooper will visit the A. W. Doubrasky home at 2227 Washington Avenue SE.
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B. B. Hickenlooper
Cedar Rapids
Des Moines
Sen. Hickenlooper
Washington, D. C
Hickenloopers
Forrest Stewarts
Canning and kitchen tips from the Back Fence column
Naomy Doebel notes canning methods for Bing cherries and Georgia peaches using hot water bath and syrup or sugarless methods. Instructions cover jar filling, sealing, processing times, and flavor tips with cherry and peach varieties plus a simple clam chowder dinner suggestion.
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ING
Carl Helming
Red Cross Nutrition Committee
Meeting Highlights Noted by Harriet Ballard in Des Moines
In Des Moines on June 15 Mrs Harriet Ballard provided highlights of the meeting outlining key points and outcomes.
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Des Moines
Harriet Ballard
Housewives Resist Home Expert Idea In Home Management
Civil engineer Elsie Eave argues domestic service could be modernized with trained specialists such as textile renovators. She notes housewives resist outsourcing control, fearing loss of status and ego, and asserts women need outlets for energy before accepting external experts in homes.
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Elsie Eave
Guest from Kankakee
Mrs. J. R. McCaffrie of Kankakee Ill visits this week with her mother Mrs. Mary Stebbins at 616 Fourth avenue SE.
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J. R. McCaffrie
Kankakee, Ill
Mary Stebbins
Fourth Avenue SE
Cigarettes Sold Openly At Downtown Store Demonstration
A downtown store tested openly selling cigarettes at 9 30 a m on Sunday and Tuesday. Both times customers bought steadily with no line until later. The supply ran out by 9 p m on Sunday and 9 p m on Tuesday, prompting the manager to limit sales until more stock is available.
Victory garden vegetables sustain amid meat scarcity
Bread and butter vegetables like tomatoes beans and sweet corn can still be planted. These crops help counteract meat and other foods shortages in the non producing months as victory garden fertilizer is applied.
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Victory Garden
Tomato Fertilizing and Various OPA Injunctions Across States
Guidance on lifting tomato plants with light fertilizer bands and trenching near rows. In separate actions, OPA injunctions restrict meat and fuel oil sales at certain venues and require record keeping. firms named include W. C. Horton and Sons, Larsen's Leather, Wyoming Locker service, Anamosa Poultry and Egg, Stanwood Locker, and others. Costs of 25 were assessed by Judge Graven in Des Moines cases.
Order Restraints 10 Iowa Firms On OPA Rules
Ten permanent injunctions were granted by Federal District Judge Henry N. Graven in Mason City against ten Northeast Iowa firms or individuals amid OPA violations. The actions restrain locker plants in Lowden Tipton Mt. Vernon Stanwood Wyoming a Mt. Vernon tavern a Lowden fuel oil company a West Branch leather goods store an Anamosa poultry and egg company and a Conrad livestock buyer from storing or selling ungraded meat. The cases name Burdette Easter of Lowden Locker plant and F G Port and K G Walker of the Tipton Frozen Food Locker plant among those restrained.
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Jton
Ervin Techau
Stanwood
Gerald Mader
Wyoming Locker Service
Anamosa Poultry and Egg Company
W. C. Horton
Boyd C. Horton
Don Horton
W. C. Horton and Sons
Mt. Vernon
Einer Larsen
Larsen
West Branch
R. A. Busenbark
H. O. Hoffmeier Oil Company
Lowdon
Willie Frazenberg
Conrad
Quad-Cities
OPA
Busenbark Tavern
Franzenburg
Des Moines
Graven
Iowa
Henry N. Graven
Mason City
Lowden
Tipton
Wyoming
Lowden Fuel Oil Company
West Branch Leather Goods
Conrad Livestock
Poultry and Egg Company
Burdette Easter
F. G. Port
K. G. Walker
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Institute of Launder
Naomi Doebel
Bing
Aspic
J. F. Shultz Hardware
16Th Avenue
Ruth Millett
Kankakee
Nelson CO
Mullin
Montgomery Ward
Novak Heating CO
3Rd Avenue
S.W
Novak Heating Company
Delco-Heat
Linn
Jones
Benton
Johnson and
Cedar Counties
Novak Heating
Delco
Delco Appliance Division
General Motors Corporation
Rochester, N. Y
Kem
Sherwin-Williams
Suerwie-WiLliams
Mar
Sherwin -Williams Paint and Color Style Guide
Sherwin-Williams Paints
Gree Rapids
Third Avenue
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