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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1942
Page
15
A wartime guidance piece urges sending sturdy gifts to service members overseas or at camps. It favors durable items like fruit cake and hard candies over perishable cookies, with recipes for a Wartime Christmas Fruit Cake and a sugar conserving cream candy, plus tips on packing and timing to ensure quality on long journeys.
The Gazette Cedar Rapids Iowa invites readers to swap tested recipes on the back fence page. Share your best dish and any tried and true tips with the Cooking Page Editor as the community joins in a kitchen exchange.
Campaign materials were distributed to workers at the kickoff dinner in the Y Monday night. The drive will run a week with report nights at 6 03 p m. Russell Landish leads the campaign assisted by Ed General secretary of the Y. Three Gazette newsboys published an extra to publicize the drive. Dick Jones of the American Legion and Alex Fidler spoke briefly. Russell Knapp C V Shepherd and Jack Shephard performed a short skit. Community singing was led by Lee Winterberg with Mrs Winterberg at the piano.
Package of three English muffins with a note on Morten Salt Scot Towels offering two for a deal. Includes limited details and pricing unclear due to fragmented OCR.
A mixed set of kitchen instructions covering peach preserving in boiling water then caramel hang, ham and pork loaf with bacon, breaded stuffed vegetables, and baking idea notes. Includes tips on making lemon pudding and batter with eggs, dates, and baking powder, with brief dish names and steps.
The notice states Claude Gavelard and Chas Penningroth acting as executors of the estate of Grevia Roth of Linn County Iowa request all persons indebted to the estate to pay promptly and those with claims to file them in the district court. The filing is dated September.
Robert Rissman of the NLRB announced a public hearing for September 29 in Cedar Rapids regarding which union will represent Iowa Electric Light and Power Co. workers. About 300 employees are involved. unions are International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 931 and International Union of Engineers Local 275, with Frank C. Byers representing the company.
The markets list home grown and imported produce with quality notes and prices. Apples are cheap and excellent, broccoli and grapes vary, oranges nearing Valencia end with ripening signs, tomatoes scarce with higher prices, and other items like lettuce onions and peppers noted for plentiful supply or good value.
McKinley junior high will hold its first assembly of the year Thursday at 2 45 p m in the school auditorium with the public invited. Announcer Lida Mulvany will lead in the American Creed and the Pledge of Allegiance.
Washington reports the internal revenue bureau says August gasoline tax receipts dropped to 28.66 million due to rationing while the new automobile use tax brought in 13.26 million, offsetting the loss and lifting total August receipts to 681.67 million. The August gain over the prior year reached 207.30 million.
The Cedar Rapids Credit association met at the Roosevelt hotel to discuss Regulation W. Reports show only 16 percent of accounts in the Chicago Federal Reserve area are frozen versus 22 percent nationwide, highlighting Cedar Rapids as a strong performer. A buffet dinner preceded the discussion.
A new Editor and Publisher article states key newsmen may enlist or be commissioned without written release from their employer only if designated as key men. The policy lists communication services including newspapers as war industries needing protection against manpower loss and requires employer release for non key personnel.
Sergeant Joseph Baidy of Danville Pennsylvania was digging a trench at Third Army Headquarters Louisiana when a snake coiled around his ankle. He swung his shovel and broke his leg but the snake escaped unharmed.
Mrs. Paul Melrose a former missionary to China who returned aboard the Gripsholm will speak at Westminster Presbyterian church Wednesday at 7 30 p m. She will discuss her Orient work and her experiences as a prisoner of the Japanese.
The First Presbyterian Church of Mt Vernon unanimously called Rev L L McKibben of Highland Kansas to be its pastor at a meeting led by Dr Lloyd Morris of Cedar Rapids.
A reader column quotes Mary Manners urging a wife to exercise and maintain sportiness, while The Shadow pleads for more letters from wives and sweethearts to soldiers. Blondie The Second notes parental approval is key for teens dating, balancing fun with school work.
The death of Admiral Richard, who commanded the French fleet at Mers-el-Kebir in 1940 alongside the British, was announced. He recently sustained a skull fracture in a bicycle accident.
Pattern 454 offers transfer image of a kitten scene 14 by 19 inches with color chart materials and stitches. Send 11 cents to The Cedar Rapids Gazette needle craft department 82 Eighth Avenue New York NY and include pattern number name and address.
Washington AP reports the Office of Defense Transportation says too many people travel on weekends by bus and train and a further eight percent shift to midweek travel is needed to reduce peak weekend congestion.
Japanese Ambassador Naotake Saito conferred for half an hour Monday with S A Lozovsky head of the Soviet information bureau in Kuibyshev.
The article describes physical and emotional changes in adolescent girls from ages 12 to 20, noting rapid limb growth, body proportions, and the need for good posture and rest. It advises skin care, diet rich in milk and vegetables, regular meals and sleep, and acknowledges fluctuating emotions during puberty.
London reports Britain has finished the King George V class of 35 000 ton battleships with all four survivors in service. In progress are Lion class ships of 40 000 tons or more with details still secret. The Daily Mail notes Anson and Howe join Duke of York and King George V in commission. The piece references the Prince of Wales and Japanese torpedo planes off Malaya last December.
A wartime requisition fragment lists items exchanged for scrap metal including copper kettles rifles washing machines bombs mortars and explosives. The ledger maps quantities like 1 copper kettle for 84 rifle rounds and 25 washing machines for 1 37 mm gun, illustrating a broad exchange scheme.
The passage notes restlessness and irritability in a teenage girl. Physical activity such as hiking tennis and bicycling provides an outlet for pent up energy. Gradually teenage problems lessen as mind and body mature and childish emotions fade. The growing up process completes with time.
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