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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1944
Page
4
An article advising home nurses to plan for long illnesses by gathering equipment and arrangements to ease patient care. It covers bed selection, height adjustment with blocks, and safety to prevent falls, noting the care provider protects health while aiding the patient.
The article suggests building two two foot wide sideboards to guard a bed. Boards are cut to bed length with holes at ends for cords to tie at head and foot. When care is given the nurse can drop the boards using cords as hinges to allow access.
Naomi Doebel suggests meals for Sunday using pork chops and a fruit salad with Malaga grapes topped by date nut and marshmallow dressing. The piece offers a pork chop bake method, a date nut marshmallow sauce, and a festive stuffed frankfurter dish for house guests.
Recipe notes describe making stuffed acorn squash with a filling of Hamburg steak and noodles. Include onion, flour, milk, Worcestershire sauce, and bacon fat, then bake squash until tender and serve with a green salad and rice pudding for dessert.
Ruth Millett argues a national nurse shortage foretold by July 1946 justifies compulsory or voluntary young women training in nursing. She compares this to military service debates and suggests a structured nursing program as a practical alternative to women officers’ programs.
The article argues for a year long nursing foundation for girls to prepare them to assist in wartime. It envisions a consistent pool of trained, ready workers under a registered nurse, benefiting both national service and family care even if war never arises.
Pattern 4725 offers scallops and heart pockets in sizes small to large. Small requires one yard of 35 inch material, order by sending 20 cents, name address and size to Cedar Rapids Gazette Pattern Dept, 130 N Clinton St, Chicago Ill. Print plainly.
The piece argues that despite male troops, modern wars require women as nurses. It asserts that wars can be fought without women soldiers but cannot without women nurses to care for the wounded on fronts and for civilians at home.
William L. Hutcheson, general president of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, condemned Sidney Hillman for organizing a Political Action committee calling it a damaging blow to the futures of all trade unionism. The AFL leader's remarks appeared in his union's publication.
A heated critique laments the labor movement split with phrases about a terrific union boner and bitterness stirred by Hillman and associates. It warns that the AFL and CIO will suffer, predicting lasting enmity from the campaign and the PAC’s role.
Under secretary Ralph A Bard demanded Japan be knocked out and its war making ability destroyed for generations to come in a hard line statement from Los Angeles. He called for total destruction of Japan and all its means of waging war in the future.
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