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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1942
Page
4
The English Valleys Cooperative Creamery announced the cheese department would close after cheese value dropped 10 cents per pound last Friday. Manager Hauskins said the unit may reopen if prices recover, noting wartime diversion rules and delayed equipment delivery affected production begun February 2, 1942.
A brief verse notes a fence drift snag in woven wire as sunshine returns and the countryside prepares to wear the green in celebration of springtime.
Washington AP The Agriculture Department reports 1942 farm wage rates may average about 20 percent higher than 1941 due to a reduced supply of farm labor. The department notes fewer workers expected from 10,267,000 in 1941 and 10,445,000 in 1940, with women and younger people likely to seek farm work.
Farmers must plan carefully to maximize the use of available labor for achieving production goals. The article emphasizes strategic scheduling, resource allocation, and timely execution to boost efficiency.
United States employment service in Iowa placed 521 farm workers in February, 61 fewer than February 1941. Of the 521, 387 were on general farms, 93 on truck farms and nurseries, 55 livestock and poultry, and 24 on dairy farms. In 1941 total farm hands placed were 10,488 with 4,942 regular. Women numbered 485 among placements. Peak regular job months were March 919, April 713, July 340.
A 64 by 64 foot barn on the A. E St. Clair farm seven miles northwest of Vinton burned to the ground Sunday noon during an electrical storm. The Vinton fire department failed to save the building. Tenant Howard Mack lost about 20 tons of hay some straw one hog a disc and planter and other machinery.
Murl McDonald assistant director of Iowa State College extension prepares to travel to Washington with a report on the educational coop erator system used in Iowa. The program trains 28 000 farm families to relay food production and nutrition information to neighbors via discussion groups. The war policy committee has recommended Iowa’s system for nationwide adoption in the Food for Freedom effort. R K Bliss notes current programs Keep Em Eating and Livestock and Feed Budget aid nationwide acceptance.
Anamosa Jones county forms a county food production board and lists cooperators for each four mile section. Two hundred seventy three men and women volunteer for the educational program to boost production. Men plan budgets for livestock and feed while women supervise expanded garden work this year.
Forrest Cherry, a farmer three miles east of Walker, was discing cornstalks Saturday. Robins are abundant as signs of spring appear. A heavy rain fell Sunday and Monday with hail Sunday noon the largest measuring about half an inch.
AMES AP Avoid southern or southwestern exposures when planting fruit trees says S W Edgecombe extension horticulturist at Town State college. Trees on such sites dry out and suffer sunseald. Choose a light sandy soil fertile site on a contour with clean cultivation until July 1 and use hardy stock.
A COUNTRY WOMAN describes fields scarred by flood and drought, rows of corn shocks in a quiet landscape. The verse uses etched imagery to portray desolation through broken stalks, muddy pools, gray barn shingles, and a drizzle that ties it all together.
TRAER Sylvan Ames of Lincoln Iowa recently purchased an improved 190 acre farm two and a half miles northeast of Lincoln for $25,000 or 181.58 an acre. The Equitable Life Assurance Society owned the property. Conant and King handled the deal.
A. D. Oderkirk, poultry marketing specialist at Town State college, says egg prices will average higher in 1942 than 1941 due to stronger consumer demand from larger payrolls, lend-lease purchases, and army-navy buying. He notes chick and bird populations rise, with 12 percent more baby chicks planned and a near record laying flock, while feed-egg ratios may weaken somewhat unless government wheat releases aid livestock feeding.
February shipments into seven corn belt states show 11,467 fewer cattle and calves and 51,166 fewer sheep and lambs than a year earlier. Des Moines AMA data record 61,325 cattle and calves and 82,384 sheep and lambs versus 72,792 and 138,550 previously.
Secretary Wickard ordered about a 22 percent minimum wage increase for early season sugar beet labor, with rates ranging from 2 to 3.50 dollars per acre. The move, tied to the 1937 sugar act, cites higher prices and costs of living, while harvesting rates will be announced soon for districts including Minnesota and Iowa.
B O Brownlee of the state agriculture department lists a series of cream grader and creamer manager schools set for March in eastern Iowa. Sessions run evenings at Monona Dyersville Waterloo DeWitt Monticello and Cedar Rapids from March 18 to 25, with an initial session held last Monday in Tipton starting at 7 30 p.m.
In Reading Pennsylvania AP reports 76 year old Alvah Schaeffer, once a church musician, will keep his vow to honor his late friend Tom Hannahee at his grave. They pledged in 1896 that tunes would be played on St Patrick's Day with trumpets nearby as witnesses. Despite rheumatism Schaeffer will attend with helpers. He notes he hopes the custom ends with him and recalls past celebrations dating back to 1898 and 1918.
Superintendent Arthur Deamer urged the board of education to decide promptly on advancing salaries for 166 teachers and 37 principals and supervisors facing peak pay under the current schedule. About 197 teachers would be raised automatically, costing roughly 13000 dollars yearly, with April 15 contract renewals looming. Committees will meet before April 6 to review the entire pay plan amid rising living costs.
Frederick E. Fluegel of Iowa Adjustment told Cedar Rapids Retail Credit members at the Roosevelt hotel that Cedar Rapids ranks near the top in collection percentages while state laws lag. He credited teamwork among credit managers and agencies, data sharing, and improved debt collection methods for a rise in retail credit use and a drop in loss rates over 25 years. He noted public awareness of paying records and a well organized agency’s role in prompting payment. During the meeting, committees for the new year were named by president Richard Miller.
In a jumble of clues many entries refer to wordplay and abbreviations. The puzzle lists definitions for terms across computing, language, and geography, including Roop, rupees, and CeN. It weaves letters and hints into a cryptic grid with vertical and horizontal prompts.
Lieut. Comdr. R. A. Brown says a U S merchant vessel fought off a submarine after a torpedo strike in the Caribbean. Ensign Peter M. Wendt led the gun crew as the sub fled, the ship stayed afloat until abandoned next day. one lightly injured and all hands saved. Ensign Wendt is Milwaukee’s city comptroller’s son.
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