Defense Classes This Week By Red Cross
Civilian defense courses led by the Red Cross are scheduled across Pleasant Grove and Cedar Rapids venues this week. Listings include home nursing and first aid sessions at public library auditoriums, clubs, and private homes with instructors R Ns Parsons Cary Bragg Fairley Cornell Engel and others. No surgical dressings classes due to material shortages.
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The
Red Cross
Public Library
Pleasant Grove
R. F. MacDougal
R. N
Cedar Rapids
Mothers Club
J. Franklin Parsons
S. F. Cary
Atse
W. H. Ray
Albert E. Bragg
Walter Reinsch
Twelfth Street
J. R. Strong
F. S. Fairley
R.N
K. E. Cornell
Charles A. Engel
Local clubs and society notes from Marion area
Colfax circle of Grove City Rebekah lodge No 35 meets Thursday at 2 pm with Mrs. Glenn Hempy. Co chairmen, refreshment group and card games. Various social club meetings and visits noted with dates, addresses and hostesses, including Miss Marilyn Glasser visiting Miss Betty McBride and other church and garden group gatherings.
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Colfax Circle
Grove City
Rebekah Lodge No
Glenn Hempy
Fourteenth Street
Howard Mack
John Johnson
Merle Robison
Howard Caldwell
J. O. Biesecker
Callie Knapp
Minnie Schenken
Bertha Barnes
C. E. Clark
Bernice Clapp Engaged to Fern Anthes in April Wedding
Mr and Mrs James E Clapp of 944 Eleventh Street announce the engagement of their eldest daughter Bernice to Fern Anthes son of Mr and Mrs Oscar Anthes of Marion. The wedding is set for April 23.
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James E. Clapp
Eleventh Street
Bernice
Fern Anthes
Oscar Anthes
Marion
Linn county Federation spring convention set for Marion
Miss Sara Nott announced that the Linn county Federation spring convention will be in Marion on April 2 at 10 a.m. at the Congregational church with hosts Marion clubs. Speakers include Mrs. David Lennox Jr. of Marshalltown president of the state Federation and Mrs. Robert B. Moore of Cedar Rapids.
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Sara Nott
Federation of Women’s Clubs
Linn County Federation
Marion
Congregational Church
David Lennox, Jr
Marshalltown
State Federation
Robert B. Moore
Cedar Rapids
Social Studies Conference Set for April in Iowa City
The twenty second annual social studies teachers conference will be held April 10-11 at the University of Iowa. Professors from Harvard Swarthmore and Chicago, with Colonel Slaughter and Dr Ortega, will discuss war and peace, the role of social sciences, and inter American relations. Luncheons and a Friday tea are planned for college and high school teachers.
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Marion Teachers Club
Lincoln Building
H. Willard Reninger
Iowa State Teachers College
Board of Education
Iowa City
Iowa
University of
L. A. van Dyke
Howard R. Bowen
College of Commerce
William T. Hutchinson
University of Chicago
Troyer S. Anderson
Swarthmore College
Crane Brinton
Harvard University
Joaquin Ortega
Col
H. H. Slaughter
Japan
Far East
Ortega
School of inter-American Affairs
University of New Mexico
Slaughter
Army
Dr. Brinton
Harvard
Marion and Cedar Rapids clubs host O E S events and notices
Local social and civic notices list O E S school of instruction in Cedar Rapids at 9 AM in the Masonic hall with dinner at 6 15 PM and an evening meeting at 7 15 PM. Kensington of Marion chapter to be held Monday afternoon in the Masonic temple with supper at 5 30 PM. Community groups, dinners, visits and meetings follow including D A R and Methodist class events and club gatherings at homes across Marion Cedar Rapids and nearby towns.
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Marion Lodge No
Trojan Lodge No
A. F
A. M
Masonic Temple
Marion Chapter No
Cedar Chapter
Masonic Hall
Cedar Rapids
Tests Seek to Save Fortune in Nitrogen
Two Iowa State College students F. E. Campbell Des Moines and Burdette Jones Waterloo study fixed nitrogen in ordinary coal under Dr. O. R. Sweeney. They estimate 25 to 30 pounds of fixed nitrogen per ton, with national coal use yielding about 5.5 million tons annually, a potential value around 700 million dollars if recovered as sodium nitrate.
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Ames
Iowa State College
F. E. Campbell
Des Moines
Burdette Jones
Waterloo
O. R. Sweeney
United States
Deaths in Iowa: Sickles and George
Funeral services for Adam Sickles were held at the Methodist church with Rev. Floyd R. Maynard officiating. Sickles was born in Pittsburgh on September 3, 1864, and died at his son’s home near Waukon Junction. Oscar George, 71, a dairyman near Washington, died after a stroke at the dairy. funeral set for Monday morning. He was born north of Washington, married Mary Reynolds in 1900, and leaves a widow, four children, a brother, and nine grandchildren. he served as an elder in the United Presbyterian church.
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Colesburg
Adam Sickles
Methodist Church
Floyd R. Maynard
Pittsburgh
Anarewe
Waukon Junction
Monay
Washington
Oscar George
Mary Reynolds
George
United Presbyterian Church
Marion
Washington County
Norman Webster
Ligonier
Charles
Phillip
Shaw to Leave Draft Post for Active Duty
Des Moines AP Colonel Robert J. Shaw of Sigourney will leave his occupational deferment adviser role in the Iowa selective service system on April 15 to enter active service. He will undergo three months of officer training for battalion and regimental commanders in the South before possible combat action and overseas assignment. He previously served as ambulance driver in France in World War I and has been liaison officer for Iowa from the War Department and a War Production board consultant.
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Des Moines
Robert J. Shaw
Sigourney
Iowa
France
United States
Secretary of War
War Production Board
WPA in Iowa scales back as war ends
Naughton, new Iowa WPA chief, says the Works Progress Administration is now a stop gap. The agency no longer operates in 31 Iowa counties except for school lunch programs and has cut administrative costs nearly in half. He expects further reductions while continuing only projects justified by relief needs.
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WPA
Iowa
Naughton
Iowa Wpa
George J. Keller
Iowa City
Highway Patrol Reports 1941 Summonses and Fines
Des Moines dispatch says the state highway patrol issued 20 642 traffic summonses in 1941 with fines totaling 294 345 dollars. Patrolmen issued 32 422 warnings and made 537 pickups from the state police radio, arresting 810 for driving while intoxicated. 624 were convicted and 106 cases pending.
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Des Moines
State Highway Patrol
C. A. Knee
Nine Month Students Face Stricter Draft Deferment Policy
DES MOINES AP Lieut. Col. Robert J. Shaw says students must attend 12 months a year to keep deferments. Deferments now hinge on continuous training with no summer hiatus. two years of college plus enrollment in advanced training required. The policy targets essential war roles to avoid removing fit men from combat.
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Des Moines
Robert J. Shaw
Col. Shaw
Armed Services
Farmer and Sons Die in Train-Car Crash Near Newton
Newton, AP A farmer Lewis Lothe 44 and his twin sons Darrell and Duane 16 were killed when a car their group rode was struck by a Rock Island passenger train at a grade crossing Saturday. Passenger train struck car, hurling it 160 feet. youth Robert Schnathorst 20 injured. Police say bright sun blinded the driver.
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Newton
Lewis Lothe
Darrell
Duane
Robert Schnathorst
L. A. McCall
McCall
Rock Island
Man fined $10 for intoxication in Ottumwa
Donald White, 32, a farmer near Farson, Ta., was brought to Ottumwa police court after being found with $700 on his vest. He paid $690 in fines and costs, with Judge A. R. Swartz accepting $10 as the intoxication fine.
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Ottumwa
INS
Donald White
Farson
White
A. R. Swartz
Enough Rural Scrap Iron to Blow Tokio Off Map
Special to The Gazette Iowa war board chairman Al Loveland cites a rural used car graveyard survey showing roughly 20,718,000 pounds of scrap iron from over 10,000 old cars across rural Iowa. The material, sent to eastern steel plants, could build ships or tanks to aid Allied forces.
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the Gazette
Des Moines
Tokio
al Loveland
Iowa
Usda War Board
Usda War Boards
Loveland
War Board
Oakdale Herd Third in Nation for Three-Time Milking
The Holstein herd at Oakdale state sanatorium Iowa ranked third nationally for 50 or more cows milked three times daily. In the last herd improvement year the 53 cow herd averaged 517.2 pounds butterfat from 14,673 pounds milk. The region’s overall averages showed two daily milking 338.2 pounds butterfat from 10,913 pounds milk and three daily milking 446.1 pounds from 13,006 pounds. The all-herd average last year rose to 410 butterfat from 11,859 pounds milk.
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Brattleboro
Oakdale
Holstein-Friesian Association of America
Rural scrap could fuel wartime jets and bomb Tokyo
A wartime plan notes that 41 440 bombs of 2000 pounds could be produced from rural scrap iron. A state survey of used cars shows 17 644 vehicles suitable only for junk, totaling about 35 288 000 pounds.
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Tokio
War Boards
Loveland
Cornell Professors Keep Vigil as Birds Pass Through Iowa
MT VERNON The avocation of Cornell sociologist Dr Harold Ennis and Mt Vernon archaeologist Dr Charles R Keyes is bird watching. They note spring migrations of eastern Iowa birds with robins bluebirds and warblers arriving later amid habitat loss and weather factors.
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MT. Vernon
Dover
Cornell College
Iowa
Harold Ennis
Cornell
Charles R. Keyes
Ennis
Keyes
Orni
J. Harold Ennis
Manchester Adopts Budget Totals And Fire Chief Picks
Mayor Forest K. Jones and council approve next year’s budget with allocations for corporation and waterworks, light, fire, improvements, roads, library, park, and bond fund. Firemen approved include chief E W Williams and first assistant Everett E Leighton.
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Manchester
Forest K. Jones
Park
E. W. Williams
Everett E. Leighton
Louis P. Mc
Ames: Dr. Hoberman to study at Iowa State College
Dr. Henry D. Hoberman, bios chemistry instructor at Columbia University, will be sent to Iowa State College by the National Research Council for advanced study under Dr. C. H. Workman and Dr. Harold V. Gaskill announced Saturday.
Overpayments Stir Iowans As Tax Returns Spill Funds
Iowa taxpayers sent extra payments and odd sums to the state tax commission during 1942 income tax filing. One man asked for $2.50 balance after calculating $17.50 tax and $20 exemptions, while another sent $10 to cover $3 tax with a plea to use the balance against the Japs. Some funds went to the treasury to support pensions and homestead refunds. others were redirected to defense stamps or noted as intentional overpayments.
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Des Moines
State Tax Commission
Commission
Tay'sue
United States Treasury
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Victory
U. S
Owen
Marilyn Glasser
Freeport, Ill
Betty McBride
Miss McBride
O. W. McBride
Miss Glasser
Earl Glasser
McBride
Child Study Club
Kenneth Domer
St. Mary’s Circle
St. Joseph's Catholic Church
J. P. Slater
Sixth Street
Howard Cruse
Ivanhoe Club
Emma Klein
1000
Ninth Street
Marion Nature and Garden Club
Rosa Reiter
Owen Turner
Excelsior Agricultural and Literary Club
Harry B. Hammond
Russell Singleton
Bernard Tudeen
Oscar Martin
Harry Dunn
William Walker
New London
States
Mexico
Walker
Jerry Lesher
Laura Bailey
Methodist
W.S.C.S
Ed Allen
Lilian Bleakly
E. T. Hiams
Howard Martin
Davenport District of Missions
Anamosa
Bernice Clapp
Federation
Veda Mae Pollock
Springville
Joanne Bowdish
Evelyn Coppock
Emerson
Guy Mundy
W. E Doan
F M_ Doan
Hopkinton
F. L Doan
L. G. Weld
Methodist Brotherhood
A. W. Henke
Ed Manson
Harry Robson
James F Pope
Coe College
Pope
Linn
Order of
de Molay
West Marion
Robert Mitchell W. R. C
Memorial Hall
Prairie Chapel
Prairie Chapel Church
David Hindman
Earl Bailey
Alfred Hoffman
Frank Randall
Forrest Hann
George Zingula
Kathleen Newman
Michael Reese Hospital
Chicago
T. A. Newman
Sui
Col. Slaughter
O. E. S. Instruction School
Earl Booze
Earl Northrop Insurance Agency
Dr. Drummond
7Th Ave
Rochester
C. R. Grafft
Lee Voorhies
Vernon
Stewart Hawk
Mrs
Herbert Gerstman
Cornelian Club
Chauncey O'Kelly
Seventh Avenue
Marion Linn
John L. Gritzner
Eighth Street
Irvin L. Ford
Co. J. Newlin
Mabelle Oxley
Martin's Creek
Herman Nebiker
Lois Strader
E. A Strader
H. N. Strader
R. O. Shively
Miami
Fla
Robert Shively
Columbus, Q
Pluma Terrill
Brother
Dan Terrill
Quasqueton
King’s Daughters
D. B. Storck
Ralph C. Seager
Red Cross War Relief Fund
E. T. Gough
Reading Circle
A. E. Crew
Ninth Avenue
R. J. Williams
Guy W. Miller
K. V Murdoch
Shaw
Patrol
Farmer
Cherry Valley
Gazette
Evalena Sampson
Cherry Valley School
Fairfax Township
Linn County
Central
South America
Walford
North
Walter A. Shupp
Sampson
Cedar Falls
Viola Faltis
Evelyn Pavlis
Henry Buresh
Vera Schley
Elmer Rohlena
Milo Cerveny, Jr
Donald Sternad
Vernon Cerveny
Alvin Pavlis
Charles Cerveny
Jimmy Tatroe
Eddie Tatroe
Fadden
Harry L. Kelsey
Edward Matthews
Ernest Frentress
Decorah
Winneshiek County Credit Bureau
Winneshiek Hotel
W. B. Ingvoldstad
H. C. Hijerleid
Ingvolstad
George W. Johnson
O. H. Grangaard
S. &. Brickner
N. E. Vyverberg
Ossian
W. H. Haefner
Castalia
F. T. Meyer
Calmar
Waukon
Postville
Albert Thoresen
Jane
Orville L. Saboe
C. S. Saboe
West Union
First Lutheran
H. G. Schweegler
Alice
Maurice
St. Luke's Hospital
Mr. Saboe
West Union High School
Army Signal Corps
Lexington
Henry Dorseth
Burlington Ordnance Plant
John G. Johnson
J. D. Cowan
Mutual Insurance Company of
Cowan
Ennis, Keyes
Bureau of Biological Survey
Washington, D. C
University of Iowa
Ennis and
OWA News
Brectal
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