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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1942
Page
5
After a state record scrap drive, Central City reported about 400 tons salvaged. A Thursday night meeting saw 75 workers vote to repeat next week. Children will collect door keys as the refreshment stand stays at the depot.
Elkader county superintendent H F Oelberg released a list of 33 rural schools eligible for state aid. Funds come from the state school fund and are prorated according to each school’s average daily attendance.
Jones county will suspend schools and close businesses October 20 to allow a scrap metal cleanup. Co chairmen Charles Niles and H M Carpenter Jr announce the drive with a county quota of 1 000 tons and early totals around 600 tons since April. Anamosa and Monticello leaders oversee pickups and Red Cross lanes plan mass volunteer calls.
Alburnett businessmen and farmers will gather at the Alburnett bank Saturday at 8 p.m to organize a scrap collection drive. Bob Vlach of Cedar Rapids, manager of the Linn county civil defense office, is slated to attend.
Mayor M F Gunderson and the Oelwein city council designate Tuesday October 20 as an official scrap collection day with all business closed so citizens can cooperate in gathering scrap metal and rubber.
Supt. C B Vernon spoke in Waterloo on social studies and attended a Northeast Iowa Teachers convention as Marion schools closed for faculty attendance. Local ads note groceries and fashion items while the community reports a death in Londonderry and a marriage in Salisbury. Keystone W S C S elects officers with Elizabeth Gibson as president and18 members attend a dessert luncheon.
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Eastern Iowa airmen Col Colin B. Martin Jr Lieut Lawrence N Smith and Staff Sgt Donald E Sturdevant earned silver wings at seven Gulf Coast training centers. The group elected crew chiefs at each field and began immediate flight study after graduation from Foster Field Ellington Brooks and Kelly Fields and the Tub bor t arms flying school.
Mechanicsville World War I veteran Myron Moses age 45 will report for limited service at Camp Dodge next Tuesday. Moses born April 15 1897 served Sept 4 1918 to May 27 1919, as Cedar county inductees travel from Tipton at 7 am. The group includes Walter Juhring Ralph Klinkhammer and many others from Tipton Wilton Junction Durant and Ottumwa among towns listed.
Mr and Mrs Ray Minkler received a letter from their son Richard a U S Marine describing action in the Solomon Islands The letter dated September 5 praised the American Red Cross for its work with the armed forces Richard enlisted last spring and wrote glowingly of the relief organization’s efforts during service
Traer’s Wilma Kalinay becomes Tama county’s first WAVES recruit leaving for Bloomington Indiana to train. She is the daughter of Mrs Frank Thorne of Traer and Toledo high school graduate who has worked as an office assistant for Dr. H Berman and Dr. D N Voetberg for two years.
Cedar Falls, IA population 10,000, awaits about 1,000 Waves trainees arriving Dec 15 at Iowa State Teachers College. Local officials, students and residents rally to welcome the naval program, with plans for five weeks of training in machinists mates cooks bakers and other behind the lines roles.
A state of Iowa bank in Palo Linn County submits the condition as of September 20 1942. Resources include loans 72429.12 and U S bonds 50450.00 with other items totaling 104 901.38. Liabilities show capital 10000 surplus 10000 undivided profits 8500.45 deposits 247 572.65 and other liabilities 24001.11. Signed by Vice President John A Owens and Cashier J Warren McClintock before notary George H Squires on October 18.
McGregor Wisconsin and Prairie du Chien Wisconsin to stage test blackout Monday evening from 8 30 to 10. Auxiliary police and air raid wardens will patrol the streets and block highways into both towns to check citizen compliance with the blackout.
Brig. Gen Charles H Grahl Iowa director of selective service says the October draft call for Iowa is the heaviest yet and the November call will be slightly higher, confirming the surge in enlistments and mobilization plans.
Special to The Gaze reports Gareth Gilson a second lieutenant in the U. S. Army Air Corps at Enid Oklahoma was killed in a plane crash. He was the son of L Calon of Emponasan formerly with Flying Three members of the family trained as pilots at Kellsfield Texas. One served in India and another became an assistant manager of an airport at Eldorado Kansas.
Sperothe Gare to ANAMOSA David Mathias, an inmate of the Iowa Mens reformator y, changed his plea to guilty before Judge Chiles J Haas in Jones county district court. He received a five year reformatory term and costs, to begin upon expiration of his current sentence after leaving Polk county on March 21, 1942 in violation of parole terms.
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