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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1944
Page
9
A family menu features roast shoulder of lamb with mint jelly parsley potatoes and corn plus a dessert of ice cream or sherbet. The recipe covers a rich sauce of butter substitute flour chicken stock milk egg yolk and cheese with alternating chicken and broccoli baked in a dish then scalloped tomatoes and corn layered with margarine and baked at 375 degrees for thirty minutes.
Norma Manson profiles Mrs Ernest Diltz on an 80 acre, owner operated farm near Walker. She raises poultry and crops, helps with field work, and shares war era views and family duties. Her relatives include service members in World War II and her husband runs custom work with a combine. She plans an electric roaster after the war and favors political change at Roosevelt's presidency.
Mary Beard of the American Red Cross discusses how caring for a mentally deficient child strains the family. She urges recognizing feeble mindedness without shame and suggests institutional placement may ease pressure, offering better training and appropriate competition for the child.
In a summer page by Naomi Doebel youngsters are encouraged to help in the kitchen with three easy baking recipes. The first yields honey rolls for Sunday breakfast, the second makes graham cracker peanut bars, and the third outlines a sweet dough for rolls. Each includes ingredient lists, steps, and moderate oven temperatures.
The article argues that mentally deficient children should not monopolize family life. Normal children benefit from home opportunities that develop their own potential. Keeping the disabled child at home risks social awkwardness, imitation, or withdrawal by siblings, so the majority's needs should prevail.
New York Herald Tribune reports the Office of War Information expanded Dewey coverage. A 2000 word biography of Gov. Thomas E. Dewey was distributed to OWI outposts and 15 public statements by him were sent to Europe Asia and Africa via cable wireless and radio between Feb 29 and June 14.
Poem narrates Edgar A. Guest as a war time newsboy delivering papers from the sky to Nazi occupied Europe. It contrasts his past porch deliveries with a new aerial route over Brussels Paris Rome and Berlin. The piece celebrates a familiar columnist becoming a symbol of free press across occupied lands.
The Cedar Rapids war bond premiere at the Iowa theater raised about $258000 toward the fifth war loan, with around 1600 attendees. The event featured a half hour stage show by Cedar Rapids musicians, an advance screening of Step Lively, and performances by Rosemary Jennings, Betty Jean Gaffney, Bob Welty and the Rhythmaires, organized by local theater leaders and sponsors.
Edwin Johnson the plumber missed a luncheon after a call to fix a leak. A club member recalled a wife’s demand and a flood in the home basement. Jackie Coogan returned home on furlough from Burma to visit his mother.
City of Cedar Rapids Iowa invites sealed proposals for constructing sanitary sewers on Soutter Avenue SE and Avenue NW using 8 inch No 1 vitrified sewer pipe and brick manholes. Bids due July 17 1944 at 10 AM with 10 percent bid bond. contract awarded by City Council.
An American staff officer in France says five years of war have wiped out the cream of German youth, the 20 to 28 age group forming the backbone of any fighting force. He notes over 37,000 enemy troops have passed through prisoner cages since Normandy and concludes the cream of Germany’s armies is gone, slaughtered or captured.
A wartime assessment notes American prisoners in Russia and North Africa range from 18 to 20 years old to 69, with many young men captured in Western deserts. The staff officer argues German troops lack the overall quality of U S forces, a key factor in their relative disadvantage.
Washington AP report says Price Administrator Chester Bowles warned that other kinds of meat will be added back to ration lists with choice lamb and beef cuts if nationwide supply distribution does not improve next month.
The Americ an Meat Institute said black market operators control the beef supply and divert higher grade beef from legitimate trade, causing shortages for civilian retail. It faulted the Office of Price Administration and other agencies for mismanaging rules without practical industry input.
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