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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1942
Page
6
A health writer urges correct posture to look younger. Stand tall with head level, chest lifted, abdomen pulled in, and hips forward. Maintain easy, natural movements in standing and sitting to project youth and grace.
In Chicago area Oak Park, Dr. Paul F. Becker kept his appointment with his wife Helen 63 and offered aid after a crossing accident. He moved the unconscious victim to hospital but she died on the operating table.
Cedar Rapids board of education passed a resolution tribute to Harold Trewin former president 1937 to 1942 praising his policy focus fair judgment discretion humor and frankness in school administration and trusteeships.
Anne Adams pattern 4240 presents a panelled frock suitable for important dates with dark crepe and floral trim. Available in sizes 14 through 40, size 16 uses 35 yards of 39 inch fabric. Order by sending size name address and pattern number to The Cedar Rapids Gazette Pattern Department New York.
Cedar Rapids public school teachers petition the board Monday night seeking a raise for 1943-44 and reclassification to allow earlier reach of maximum pay amid cost of living pressures and a government wage freeze. The board granted an extra month's pay to seven teachers who left for military duty. Dr Myron L Koenig was named delegate to the Iowa State Teachers Association Institute on Education and War in Des Moines November 5 to 7. A $505 fluorescent lighting project at McKinley school, tied to a government defense training program, was approved with delivery of the first machines in the coming weeks.
Moscow dispatch reports a wooden 39 inch wide bridge across the Volga at Stalingrad built in three days. It carried seven rifle battalions about 7,000 men and 28,000 civilians, plus a telephone line. German bombing attempts totaled 27 raids, with only three bridge units disabled and quickly repaired.
Lieut Bill Reed Marion’s Flying Tiger told Rotary at the Roosevelt hotel he would rather return to combat than continue touring Nebraska Wyoming and Colorado with movie stars as part of a treasury department bond selling campaign. He just came back from Texas after a world tour and said he wanted to see America first but has barely had time for his family since September.
Berlin reports that French prisoners of war in Germany may bring their wives to live with them in camps being built for prisoner couples, according to informed quarters on Monday night.
The News Chronicle dispatch from Ankara says Albanian mountaineers have proclaimed an independent Albania and are fighting the Italians on three mountain fronts.
Advertises Pattern 459 featuring seven bluebird and flower motifs for kitchen towels. Provides transfer design with seven motifs averaging five by six inches and instructions for stitching. Request 1 cent in coins and mail to The Cedar Rapids Gazette needlecraft department at 82 Eighth Avenue New York NY.
Des Moines AP Senator Clyde L. Herring urges Brig. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey selective service chief to visit the Middle West. He cites an acute farm labor shortage and asks for a meeting of farmers and Midwest state directors to discuss a plan to address the crisis.
A home cook friendly apple cobbler recipe with a gingerbread topping and liver stuffed green peppers are shared. The page lists pantry ingredients, method, and oven steps, plus notes on cheese sauces and current produce prices including tomatoes squash and apples.
Markets show snacks like pickled herring in glass jars at medium price and new smoked carp spreads. Pineapple canned in smaller tins with ceiling prices. Tart red cherries stocked for sauce. broccoli fresh and preferred frozen for ease. cauliflower excellent, medium price. Idaho baking potatoes popular for baked dinners. Texas and California grapefruit and oranges quality fair with high prices. Cabbage excellent and cheap. cheese demand rising.
The Gazette Cedar Rapids Iowa asks readers to contribute tested recipes for the back fence Cooking Page. A recipe for sliced potatoes with ham cups uses potatoes onion pepper optional, milk and flour baked until tender. It also notes endive slaw prepared finely and soaked in cold water for two hours.
A historic food excerpt presents Mrs. Harvard Beets and Corn Bread recipes. It lists ingredients and steps for corn bread with milk cream topping and spiced beet side dish, including measurements for flour corn meal sugar butter spices and cooking times.
William L. Laubly of 3422 C Avenue NE criticizes passengers who smoke on buses and spits, urging Cedar Rapids to enforce or pass a city ordinance banning smoking and spitting on public transit for public comfort and wellbeing.
The Gazette prints a note from the local post office about Christmas packages for boys in foreign service. In Current Comment the writer urges local merchants to stay open extra evenings to capture surrounding territory trade. The letter says a brother is in service somewhere in the Pacific and that all family members are employed.
Wilma L. Martin urges readers to begin Christmas gift shopping early as only two weeks remain to mail overseas packages and messages to service members. She notes time constraints may delay boxes to soldiers abroad and to camps at home, advising prompt action.
Reuters reported from an Italian frontier dateline that an Alpini regiment mutinied at Goriza in northern Italy when ordered to the Russian front. Ringleaders were shot by the Fascist military and troops were embarked forcibly without arms.
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