First Day Under War Rationing in Eastern Iowa
Eastern Iowa housewives purchased rationed items on the first day of War Rationing Program No. 2. Buyers lined up for baby food and vegetables, with many checking point values from official lists as grocers noted conservative use of points and no meat purchases yet. Officials urged even spending across the four and a half weeks of March and warned against wasting stamps while delivery and phone ordering remained allowed.
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Iowa
OPA
Linn County War Price and Ration Board
Iowa Governors Meet. Hickenlooper Leads Food Aid Push
Des Moines hosts a 12-governor conference on March 15 as Governor Hickenlooper seeks a speedy Axis victory pledge from states. The piece notes Stassen as a future GOP prospect and warns about federal tax payments and postwar budget aims, with Rep. Yager declaring he will stop introducing bills and focus on defeating bad ones.
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Frank T. Nye
Iowa Daily Press Association
ES Moines
Des Moines
Washington
Rourke B. Hickenlooper
Washington, D. C
Harold Stassen
Minnesota
House
Rep. W. A. Yager
Spirit Lake Democrat
Luzerne Man 69 Dies In Fall Down Stairway
Theodore H. Bebensee 69 was found dead Saturday night at the foot of a stairway in Luzerne. Believed to have fallen from the top of the stairs, he died instantly. Born Davenport June 25, 1873, he lived in Luzerne with his sister Clara Crelly. Survived by two sisters and two brothers. Services Tuesday at 2 pm at the Crelly home conducted by Rev. F. Starke. Burial International cemetery south of Luzerne.
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the Gazette
Luzerne
Theodore H. “Duff” Bebensee
Clara Crelly
Chicago and North Western Railroad
Crelly
Alvina Bistline
Belle Plaine
Rudolf
Henry
Marshalltown
F. Starke
International Cemetery
South Jones grants tire and tube certificates
The South Jones county rationing board issued tire and tube certificates last week to residents across Anamosa and nearby towns. Recipients include Henry Rohweder Joe Tyler P E Wolfe Alvin Thumma Grace Vrooman Albert Benischek Ray Mowry Fred Krutzfield Carl Heideman Harlan Tallman George Wooder J N Parks John Bahnsen Jay Taylor Maline Harms A T Allen Hans Henrichsen Richard Krutzfield Willard Houstman Maurice Fay Kenneth Conley Velma Bramer A Stanley Allen Carl Seehusen John Petersen George Topping Raymond Garside Louie Kouba F M Robertson Le Roy Taylor and others for various tire grades and recaps serving passenger cars and trucks.
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South Jones County
Fred Krutzfield
Olin
Carl Heideman
Center Junction
Harlan Tallman
Anamosa
George Wooder
Hale
J. N. Parks
Morley
John Bahnsen
Wyoming
Jay Taylor
Onslow
Maline Harms
Monticello
A. T. Allen
Hans Henrichsen
Richard Krutzfield
Willard Houstman
Mechanicsville
Maurice Fay
Kenneth Conley
Martelle
Velma Bramer
A. Stanley Allen
Carl Seehusen
John Petersen
George Topping
Raymond Garside
Louie Kouba
F M. Robertson
Marielle
LeRoy Taylor
Oxford Junction
Henry Jurgensen
Tire
Iowa Electric Company
Ernest Lactare
Harland Newman
Martello
Hurst Produce
Raymond Ward
Monmouth
U. L. Cram
Oxford
Production awards honor Uchtorff Davenport and Wincharger Sioux City
Army navy production awards were presented to the Uchtorff company of Davenport and the Wincharger corporation of Sioux City for outstanding wartime manufacturing performance.
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Washington
Uchtorff Company
Davenport
Wincharger Corporation
Sioux City
Penetro Cold Remedy Advertises Quick Relief
An old time advertisement urges readers to beware a wave of colds and to use Penetro. It touts a two way action with external counter irritant effects and medicated vapors to ease chest tightness nasal congestion and coughing. A 25 cent jar or 35 cent double supply is offered.
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Penetro
Grandma
Dr Edwards Olive Tablets Ad Promotes Gentle Bowel Movements
An old advertisement urges using Dr Edwards Olive Tablets to relieve constipation and headaches. It claims the product stirs liver bile and tones intestinal action and directs readers to follow the label with prices 15 30 and 60 cents at all drugstores.
Five Die In Iowa Weekend Traffic Toll
Iowa’s traffic toll rose with five fatalities over Saturday and Sunday, swelling the two month 1943 death toll to 40. Cedar Rapids children Sleyman Bedra and Thomas Everett Hoyle died in separate accidents, along with Anita teen James Ehrman. Two men Forrest Miller and Alvie Duinink died when their stock truck hit the Hiawatha streamliner near Van Cleve.
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DES Moines
Iowa
Sleyman Bedra
Cedar Rapids
W. A. Milton
Chicago
Thomas Everett Hoyle
Larry W. Jennings
Marshall County
Forrest O. Miller
Montezuma
Alvie W. Duinink
Olumwa
Hiawatha
van Cleve
Miller, Coe College Graduate, Becomes Lieutenant Colonel
Richard S. Miller, a Coe College Cedar Rapids graduate, was promoted from major to lieutenant colonel in the army. He serves as quartermaster at the WAAC training center in Fort Des Moines. Miller began ROTC at Coe, entered as a first lieutenant in 1933, and led inspection of 15 CCC camps in Iowa. He is the son of Dr. S. N. Miller of Rock Island Illinois.
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Fort Des Moines
Richard S. Miller
Coe College
Cedar Rapids
Army
WAAC
Col. Miller
R.ot.c
Coe
Regular Army
CCC
Iowa
S. N. Miller
Rock Island
Iowa Highway Fatalities Highlight Truck Involvement
The state public safety department reported on fatalities last year with 396 deaths across all classifications on Iowa highways. Forty truck drivers were charged with violations in fatal accidents, and 3,006 truck drivers were involved in all types of crashes.
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Iowa
State Public Safety Department
Farm home of Earl Sanders burned. hog house also destroyed
The farm home of Earl Sanders six miles northwest of Shennellsburg burned last week, with only a small amount of furniture saved. The fire started on the roof after the kitchen chimney burned out. The house was insured but furnishings were not. On Friday a hog house near the Cecil Rails back farm two miles east of town burned for about $300. the hogs were saved.
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Shnellsburg
Earl Sanders
Fifty Thousand Dollar Fire Hits Waterloo Plant
A high wind fed a blaze at Hawkeye Steel Products in Waterloo early Monday causing an estimated 50 000 damage. The fire started near the foundry cupola and spread through the patterns department paint and oil storage room threatening the entire plant. Owner M H Lorenzen said the plant employs about 40 workers and about 60 percent of losses were not insured. The Rocket train nearest the plant was delayed 20 minutes.
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Waterloo
Hawkeye Steel Products Company
M. H. Lorenzen
Patterns
Lorenzen
Rock Island Railroad
Minneapolis
Largest group of Negroes begins WAAC training intake
The Des Moines dispatch reports the largest group of Black women to start training at the WAAC center in Fort Des Moines arrives Monday. When both companies are filled, total personnel will reach 373.
Oelwein Woman to Marry Raymond Maser in Los Angeles
Mildred Alyce Ross of Oelwein will wed Raymond Maser in Los Angeles on March 6. She is the daughter of Mrs Edna Ross and will maintain ties to Oelwein after the wedding.
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Oelwein
Mildred Alyce Ross
Edna Ross
Raymond Maser
Los Angeles
Allamakee Jurors Report For March 29 Post
Allamakee county district court opens March 22 with Judge M M Cooney presiding. A list of 35 jurors, eight women, is given for repost March 29 at 10 am including Otto Fish Harold Stone Ruth Valentine James Gruber and others. In Oelwein Lieut Irene Sweeney and Lieut Helen Wallace met with local women to plan recruiting for Wane Days March 12 and 30 with an executive committee led by Mrs Pearl Schneider E F A Lundstrom Reynolds Glenn Johnson and Mrs W E Fisher.
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Waukon
Allamakee County
M. M. Cooney
West Union
Otto Fish
Palmer Severson
Kenneth Moore
Lansing Township
Harold Stone
Pat Welch
Makee
Dan Snitker
Ludlow
Clarence Bulman
Union City
Helen Looney
Rudie Everman
Gretchen Harris
Ethel Meyer
Harold Stover
Post
Nick Colsch
Ruth Valentine
Iowa
James Gruber
Lafayette
Arvid Gasle
Leo Fitzgerald
Vernon Gallagher
Hanover
Ruedolph Anderson
Center
Frank Thies
Ernest White
Jefferson
John Blagen
Austin Moen
Thorwald Nordswen
Union Prairie
Henry Schulte
Waterloo
William Shields
Tasdoi
Paul Strelow
Linton
Ray Peck
A N Jacobson
Luella
Oelwein
Irene C Sweeney
Omaha
Helen Wallace
Des Maines
Mmes
Pearl Schneider
Efa Lundstrom
Reynolds
Glenn Johnson
W. E. Fisher
Riverside and Wellman Newspapers Change Hands
Merritt Learned surrendered his lease on the Riverside Leader and Wellman Advance and will move to Cedar Rapids for work. Fred M Learned, in charge of the Leader, will relocate. Adrian C. Kuipers transfers management to Mrs. Ivan Sams of Milo, a veteran newspaper woman, while Kuipers serves with the Army Air Corps in Tulsa Oklahoma.
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Gazette
Riverside
Merritt Learned
Riverside Leader
Wellman
Cedar Rapids
Fred M Learned
Leader
Adrian C. Kuipers
Ivan Sams
Milo
Kuipers
Army Air Corps
Tulsa
Okla
Tipton School Boots Up War Effort Programs
Tipton consolidated school under Supt H C DeKock gears for the war program with new shop and science courses and vocational agriculture seed tests. A vacation the last week of April and first week of May will let pupils aid farmers. Five hog houses are being built and cross country hikes join the get fit program. Instructors run rationing registration and volunteer for other emergency tasks.
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Specul
Gazette
Tipton
Tipton Consolidated School
Supt. H C. DeKock
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Congress
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Capitol
Supreme Court
General Assembly
South Jones Tire and Tube Grants
Allamakee
Riverside, Wellman Newspapers
Tipton School
Johnny
Philip Morris
Americas
Sony Lack
America
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