New Draft Rules Clarify Towans Deferment Criteria
Col Ralph Lancaster outlines revised draft regulations for Towans. Eligibility for occupational deferments now hinges on age groups 18 25 excluded from general deferment, 26 29 limited to war production support, and 30 37 eligible if engaged in national health safety or war production work. Local boards must adjudicate cases individually and aim to meet quotas from the top groups first. Fathers receive priority in classifications and federal employee deferments require official requests or orders.
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Des Moines
Towans
Ralph Lancaster
Selective Service
Col Lancaster
Lancaster
Putnam Heads Iowa Public Health Group
Dr. Co L Putnam of Des Moines will be president elect of the Iowa Public Health association and assume duties in 1945. Paul Hauser will serve as president until next spring. Officers include Hazel Roberts as vice president and Dr Carl F Jordan as secretary and treasurer. Fern Goulding and A H Wieters won short and longer terms on the executive board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Co. L. Putnam
Iowa Public Health Association
Paul Hauser
State Health Department
Hazel Roberts
R. N
District Health Service No. 8
Manchester
Carl F. Jordan
Fern Goulding
Iowa State College
Ames
A H Wieters
50 000 Blaze At Marshalltown
Loss estimated at 50 000 dollars, partly insured, destroyed Four H baby beef barns at Central Iowa fair grounds in Marshalltown. Three quarters of Marshall county’s trucks and equipment housed there, eight trucks destroyed along with road maintenance machines and a carload of cement. Fair association loss 15 000. county loss 35 000.
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Marshalltown
Iowa Fairgrounds
Marshall County
Fair Association
Decorations For Monona Flyer Capt Stuber Receives High Honors
Monona Captain Stanley E. Stuber a P-38 fighter pilot in Italy has earned the Distinguished Flying Cross and Silver Star for extraordinary aerial achievement in the Mediterranean theater. He previously received the Air Medal 12 Oak Leaf clusters and the Purple Heart. Capt Stuber is the son of Mrs Roy Roth of Monona and his wife lives in Glendale California.
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Monona
Stanley E. Stuber
Army Air Forces
Italy
Mediterranean
Stuber
Roy Roth
Glendale
Calif
Swift & Company Records in 1943 Livestock Push
The 1943 government food program spurred record hog cattle and lamb production. Patriotic farmers met quotas despite shortages while marketing and packing faced oversupply. Swift & Company bought more live stock in heavy markets, working long hours to maximize capacity amid held over livestock costs and losses.
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Swift & Company
Armed Services
Army
Navy
Jendlease
Sgt. Omer L. Young Killed on Tenth Mission in England
War department reports 24 year old Sgt. Omer L. Young of Robins and Hazleton wife killed April 11 in a crash landing in England after completing his tenth mission. Eight crewmen died. Young credited with one Nazi plane shot down and awarded the Air Medal. He served since October 1942 with training at Lincoln Nebraska Lockheed Burbank Pyote Texas and Alexandria. His brother Cpl. Norman is stationed at Las Vegas Nevada.
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Omer L. Young
England
Hazleton
War Department
Elmer Young
Robins
Sgt. Young
Sgt
Young
Lincoln
Neb
Lockheed
Burbank
Calif
Pyote
Texas
Alexandria
Cpl
Norman Nee
Las Vegas
Club Owners Fined For Possessing Gambling Devices
Burlington police raided two clubs the 40 and 8 and La Nueva, seizing nine slot machines. The owners pled guilty in district court and were fined $500 plus costs for the 40 and 8 club and $200 plus costs for the La Nueva club.
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Burlington
la Nueva
Marion News highlights from club luncheon and school assembly
The Milwaukee Woman's club hosted its annual spring luncheon with 61 members served at the church by the Keystone division of the Methodist W.S.C.S. A Maypole drill and performances followed, then blood plasma fund donation. Marion junior high held a closing assembly with eighth and seventh graders receiving ribbons for perfect attendance and honors.
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Milwaukee Woman's Club
Keystone Division
Methodist W.sc.s
Guy W. Miller
Archie Conklin
L. R Boettcher
Mines
Kieckhaeffer
Clark Bartlett
Richard Bristol
Howard Martin
Donald Hempy
Robert Low
Kenneth Plate
L. Z. Stotts
Merle Robison
Robison
Kieckhaefer
Billie Lundquist
John Kassler
Edwin Blinks
Reading
Marilyn Conklin
Mary Ann Ross
Memorial Hall
Marion Junior High School
Lincoln Auditorium
Floyd Domer
Lynn Ford
John Snell
Jean Carlson
Jerry Jeffrey
Diane Hess
Rita Biddick
Marilyn Bristol
Mary Ellen Dumbalton
Rosalie Hess
Richard Jeffrey
David Lyons
John Ross
Robert Stull
Carol King
Stanley Kepros
George Carsner
Patricia Welter
Robert Cippera
Velda Hamblin
James Jelinek
Twyla Hutton
Shirley Stimson
Marty Gogg
John Jellison
Wilfred Wilkinson
Larry Yauslin
Phyllis Lockey
Robbie Boettcher
Joan Michael
18 Practice Bombs Retrieved After Plane Crash
Sioux City air base officials supervised the removal of 18 three foot practice bombs found buried six feet deep in an alfalfa field seven miles northwest of Carroll Iowa. The bombs dropped from a burning Flying Fortress as the crew bailed out during a four hour flight that ended with a crash near Denison Iowa.
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Sioux City
INS
Army Air Corps
Carrol
Denison
Cadet Nurse Induction Ceremony at University of Iowa
Army and navy officers lead the induction of 150 women into the cadet nurse corps at the University of Iowa Old Capitol ceremony. Col Luke Zech Capt John Shipley and Col Douglas McEnery speak with Miss Lois Corder broadcast from Washington. The corps receives uniforms tuition books and stipends and must stay active in nursing during the war.
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Iowa City
Army and Navy
University of Iowa
E. E. Harper
Congress
Iowa
Old Capitol
Luke D. Zech
John L. Shipley
Navy
Douglas McEnery
Army Medical Corps
Elmer Elsen
Lois Corder
School of Nursing
Washington, D. C
Eleanor Roosevelt
Paul McNutt
Thomas Parran
Helen Hayes
Former Convict Guilty of Murder in Des Moines
Stephen C. Emery, 50, a former convict, was found guilty of first degree murder in the death of Harry W. Brown, also a former convict. The five hour jury deliberation preceded a May 20 sentencing date set by District Judge O S Franklin after Emery pledged self defense saying he killed Brown in an argument over a watch. A motion for a new trial was filed.
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Des Moines
Stephen Co. Emery
Harry W Brown
O. S. Franklin
Emery
Brown
Kill 100 Red Foxes In Decorah Vicinity
Jackson Junction residents Joe Collan and Clarence Wichman report killing 100 young red foxes in the Decorah area including Spillville Fort Atkinson Conover and Decorah. Dens yielded remains of lambs pigs ducks turkeys chickens pheasants rabbits gophers squirrels mink and muskrats.
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Gazette
Decorah
Joe Collan
Clarence Wichman
Jackson Junction
Spillville
Fort Atkinson
Conover
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Arthur Chudzinski
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Springville
Putnam
Iowa Public Health Group
Old Federal Building
Marion, Iowa
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Chicago
Illinois
Omer Young
Marion News
Roy Rosenstiel DX Products
Near Car Service
J. A Beiber
Mercy Hospital
J. F. Swartzendruber
Eleventh Street
Irving
Emerson
Colorado
Mother
Boston
The
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
Warren Johnson
Olin
Ramona Johnson
Sigfred Co
J P Mentzer
J . Alexander
Omaha
Elmer Hollingsworth
Lée, Syl’s Grocery
Harry Dearborn
Trinidad, Colo
Stone City
E. J. Reed
Bob Chamberlain
G A. Chamberlains
Farragut, Idaho
Howard L. Young
Seventh Avenue
Keith L. Young
Marine Corps Hospital
Katz Salvage
WCT. U
Raymond Eckhart
Elda M. Kemp
Marion
Paris
M. L. Brasha Co
John McLane
Minneapolis
Rainbow
Methodist
R. C McCalley
Seventeenth Street
P. A. Osborne
Carl Wightman
Perry
Owen
Mercy Hospital School of Nursing
Ellis Park
Clyo Castle
Ninth Avenue
Cedar Rapids
Maryanne Krob
Glassberry
L. E. Storm
Dickey’s
Quality Foods
Millar
Florida
University
Mellod
Pidial
Killian Company
Hollywood
Eshion
Yan
Bentley 'Shie
AR Bond
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