Scrap Quota Exceeded by 20 000 Tons Jones County Push
Iowa drive on scrap metal continues after a Saturday end date as Jones and other counties report high totals. Des Moines says 84 875 tons collected to 4 p.m. Saturday toward a 245 000 ton six month quota. Details include county leaders, town canyons, and plans for localized pickups and school and business participation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert C Plagman
State Salvage Organization
Des Moines
Iowa
Jones
Wayne
Clay County
Polk
Monona
Linn County
Elmer Wickham
Cedar Rapids
Endan Defense Office
Black Hawk County
Dubuque
Johnson
Springville
Viola
Brown Township
War boom in Rod and Gun trade drives record licenses
Towans turn to outdoors amid war work tempo with 250 923 hunting fishing and combo licenses sold April 1 to October 1. The figure tops 1941 by 15 620 as waterfowl season opens and pheasant quail seasons approach. Officials cite stress relief and nostalgia as motivators for renewed interest in hunting and fishing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Ree Berry
State Conservation Commission
Iowa
Bruce Stiles
Fish and Game Division
The
Commission
Junkman Who Left Fortune Owned Linn County Land
Henry Wefer the junkman who died in Missouri left a $100000 fortune. He owned three Linn County parcels including an east Cedar Rapids lot valued at 1655 dollars and two Bertram township tracts of 40 and 125 acres. A stash of 91000 was found among his effects. Ten nieces and nephews in the Williamsburg Marengo Homestead area will share the estate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Wefer
Linn County
Cedar Rapids
Frank Bates
Bertram Township
Wefer
Henry G. S. Wefer
St. Joseph
Williamsburg
Iowa
Johnson County
Williamsburg-Marengo-Homestead
Marilyn Anderson leads Iowa marching band at home games
The article profiles Marilyn Anderson, 18, a sophomore from Marshalltown, as the queen of baton twirlers and a feature member of the University of Iowa marching band of 110 players. She majors in physical education and performs at halftime of Iowa home football games.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob Buckley
Po City
Marilyn Anderson
University of Iowa
Iowa
Marilyn
Marshalltown
Cornell college homecoming queen crowned at Mt Vernon
Oris Boerema senior was chosen by Cornell football players as homecoming queen amid the homecoming dance. She is daughter of Chicago residents J A Boerema and a member of Delphi Oratorio English and Orchesis and W A A social chair. Attendants crowned by John B Magee and Dick Silliman as Walt Haloupek escorted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oris Boerema
Cornell College
Mt. Vernon
Cornell
J. A. Boerema
Chicago
Delphi Social Group
Oratorio Music Society
Orchesis
Dick Silliman
The
Royal Purple
Bocrema
Walt Haloupek
Blanche Marquart
Bowman Hall
Merner Hall
Pfeiffer Hall
Marquart
Francis German
Harald Baltz
Fort Dodge Des Moines Railroad Reorganization Approved
United States District Judge Charles A. Dewey signed an order confirming the reorganization plan for the Fort Dodge Des Moines and Southern Railroad as drafted March 6 1941 by the Interstate Commerce Commission. A three member reorganization committee and a five member board of trustees were appointed including Ben J. Gibson A A McLaughlin E McLain Watters C H Crooks Walter R Dyer John L Hugg and Carl A Dixon. The plan provides 2 260000 in income mortgage bonds and 1 4125 million in common stock for the reorganized company which operates between Fort Dodge and Des Moines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter R. Dyer
Boone
Stanwood Woman Home From Egypt To Visit Parents
Mrs. Edward Chorlian arrives in Stanwood from Cairo Egypt to visit her parents Mr. and Mrs. Otto Evers for an extended stay. She was part of American evacuees who left Egypt in July during the Axis advance and flew to New York by Clipper visiting 11 countries and crossing the equator twice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gazette
Stanwood
Edward Chorlian
United States
Cairo
Egypt
Otto Evers
Chorlian
New York
Clipper
Equator
Tipton Plans Winter Pinochle Sessions Despite War
Tipton business and professional men and farmers decide to continue the annual winter pinochle sessions. The first gathering will be in the lantern room of the Tipton hotel on Wednesday evening with dinner at 6 30 and games to follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tipton
Tipton Hotel
Clinton to Train Girl Machinists
Clinton designated as a five state training center to fit women aged 16 to 25 for machine shop work in factories and arsenals. Participants from North and South Dakota Minnesota Nebraska and Iowa will train at Clinton NYA workshop, aimed at Rock Island arsenal jobs. First group of about 45 arrives after completion of current training on October 23.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clinton
National Youth Administration
Womn
North
South Dakota
Minnesota
Nebraska
Iowa
Rock Island Arsenal
Clinton Nya
Locomotive on Iowa State Campus Set for Scrap Sale
The old locomotive landmark on the Iowa State College campus will be sold for scrap within a week. B H Platt says bids are pouring in for the engine, expected to yield at least 11 000 pounds of scrap metal, despite protests from several quarters fading over time. A student letter in The Daily Student criticized the move while another editor emphasized wartime priorities over campus nostalgia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Student College
Delaware County Sends 46 More Men Into Service
Forty six of fifty nine Delaware county draftees examined at Des Moines will depart Manchester by Monday for active duty. Several men enlisted in Marines Navy Army and left Saturday for various posts. Names and towns of the draftees are listed, with transfers to Washington county and others bound for military service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester
Delaware County
Des Moines
Marines
Lewis M. O’reagan
Ryan
Navy
Ralph C. Simons
San Diego
Calif
William E. Kappmeyer
Oneida
Benjamin D. Hilsenbeck
Carroll C. Rimmer
Delhi
Army
Walter R. Dunn
Masonville
Daniel P. Ballard
Gordon V. Bechelli
Nyle A. Bergstrand
Burdette A. Franks
Gerald W. Glanz
Albert P. Hale
Albert Heiserman
Norman R. Johnson
Ernest F. Scheel
Robert R. Shaffer
Fenelon Earl
Sam" Sheldon
Jack R. Barnes
Edgewood
Elden G. Crippen
Harold F. Diesch
Earlville
Cletus A. Eike
Joseph G. Engelkien
Greeley
Howard W. Gleason
James P. Hawkes
Colesburg
Lawrence J. Herman
Dubuque
Clarence R. Johannes
Dyersville
Robert A. Kerby
Leon J. Kramer
William D. Loomis
Harry B. Lubben
Benjamin L
Ivan J. Haas
Hopkinton
Leo E. Handley
William M. Melchert
Beryl
Scott
Robert H. Traver
Courageous Newhall Farmer Keeps 80 Acre Farm as Sons Fight
Mrs. Josephine Thompson of Newhall runs an 80 acre farm near Newhall while four of her six sons serve in the armed forces or work in defense plants. She drives a tractor, tends to 400 chickens, and maintains the home while describing her French heritage and resolve to keep the farm going until her sons can return home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newhall
Mrs. Thompson
Minnesota
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Jones County
Center Point
Merle Newman
Earl Pulver
Cecil Farmer
Anamosa Club
Anamosa
American Legion
R. D. Finnigan
Iowa City
Solon
F J Bittner
Ladora
Dale Bricker
Lisbon
Hich
Traer
Leonard Cherveny
George Yordy
Perry
Buckingham
Cristal
Strawberry Point
Clare B Huntley
U. of Iowa
Fort Dodge Railroad
Haven
Ames Neckers
Dora Jane Hamblin
Josephine Thompson
Elmer
Howard
Air Corps
Lee
Reede
Rock Island
Arsenal
Everett
Thompson
Lal
Ralph Thompson
Howard Thompson
Elmer Thompson
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