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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1946
Page
5
A Washington Bureau piece weighs OPA impact on firms and subsidies, noting curbs on production, possible bankruptcies, and the political struggle to sustain or repeal the agency. It argues cooperation with OPA could keep the program viable, amid bipartisan moves to limit its powers beyond June 1950.
Statistics show bankruptcies dropped from 14 768 in 1939 to 810 in 1945, with 1943 the first full OPA year. Critics claim pricing policies cause shortages, but data indicate postwar output exceeded prewar peaks. Subsidies, profits, and cost absorption are debated amid reconversion concerns.
The state government plans to move many departments to a new downtown building authorized in 1941 but delayed by material and labor shortages. To avoid diverting resources from private homes, several agencies will stay downtown or relocate due to lease expirations and real estate changes in Des Moines. The liquor warehouse, No 1 store, and banking department must move as leases end or federal takeover proceeds, with some moves tied to the Veterans Administration and International Harvester property. The downtown real estate market shifted over five years, making the new building’s completion unlikely this year.
Members of the Bigin Legion will attend two all men meetings in April. The first stag meeting will be at the club Tooms on Monday April 15. The second stag is a county affair at Hawkeye on Tuesday evening April 23.
Preliminary plans announced by A J Morris Area Manager for Interstate Power Company for a large 181000 KW plant near Lansing with water cooling on the Mississippi River. Site work to start after land acquisition with completion not set due to material delays. Sangent Lundy assist in design. new 69000 volt lines will connect Lansing Waukon Decorah Harmony Minn to regional plants and a 33000 volt line to Monona due in late 1946. The project aims to preempt shortages and provide power to northeastern Iowa including Elgin and Clermont.
G. J. Mosby of Silverleaf Lodge announces special meetings on Friday and Tuesday evenings. Five candidates were added at Tuesday's regular session, with four more Masonry seekers traveling between stops, signaling a busy season ahead. Sunday visitors included Floyd Puffet and Harold Puffet with Randall of Strawberry Point, at the George Vaughn home. Dinner guests at Mrs. Anna Schupbach's Sunday were Bob Sieleman of West Union and Mr. and Mrs. Ray Weithorn and Billy of Monona.
Arrivals and home visits noted for servicemen including Thos Fox MM3c, Norris Reierson F2e, Freder Schupbach T4, Fritz, Dorell Mitts WAC, and Glen Schupbach EM1c. Reports place returns from Korea Okinawa and Pacific theater, with discharge dates in California and Texas, plus furloughs and home visits to families in Clermont and San Pedro.
Three Elgin students traveled to Elkader for the sub district music contest. Joan Mosby earned an IE rating for her piano solo Prelude in C Minor by Rachmaninoff. Rosella Strong performed On Wings of Song by Mendelssohn and Karolin Falk Minuet in G by Paderewski, each receiving a 4 rating.
J. W. Schneider underwent cataract removal surgery on one eye at a Dubuque hospital Saturday. He hopes to be discharged home this weekend. His visitors included Mr and Mrs Harold Schneider and Mr and Mrs Paul Larsen on Sunday. Perry Larson is reroofing his home bought years ago from the Lehman family.
The unfinished hall above the Elgin Food Lockers prompts Torkelson Bros to produce their own hard maple flooring. They bought many maple trees, will air cure rough lumber for two months, kiln dry for about 15 days in Calmar, and finish about 6,000 feet of flooring.
A daughter weighing 7 pounds 7 ounces was born Friday April 5 at Postville hospital to Mr and Mrs Louis Lehman named Anita Ruth. A daughter weighing 7 pounds 0 ounces was born Saturday April 6 to Mr and Mrs Elmer Pinney of West Union at West Union hospital. A son weighing 5 pounds 11 ounces was born Saturday afternoon April 6 to Mr and Mrs Wm H Shambaugh of Clarinda. he is named William Joseph. A daughter weighing 5 pounds 4% ounces was born Wednesday morning April 10 to Mr and Mrs G J Mosby at Postville hospital. The Mosbys now share a girls quartette.
The Elgin Post of the Legion and Auxiliary will hold their regular monthly meeting Friday evening, April 19, instead of Thursday. Hostesses are Mrs. Martin Minihan, Mrs. Geo Leuchtenmacher, Mrs. Oliver Torkelson, and Mrs. Wm Baumgartner. Members should bring 22 inch bed pads for mailing.
Echo publisher visits Capper's Hatchery Saturday as a farmer delivers a week’s supply of hatching eggs and receives a check for 95.51 dollars. The piece notes that a poultry raiser’s annual income once barely surpassed this weekly amount.
Deena Saxton of Chicago was a weekend guest in the Mrs Anna Schupbach home. Mr and Mrs Wm Grover and family were dinner guests Sunday in the John Barnhouse home at Clermont.
Elgin chapter of the O E S held a school of instruction Wednesday afternoon led by district instructor Mrs Ruth Claxton of Fayette. In the evening at the regular session two candidates were presented for initiatory work.
About 150 bankers and staff attended the Four County Bankers Association gathering in Postville last Thursday evening. A 6:30 dinner preceded vocal music by Postville high school students and talks by Walter D. Robinson on GI bill loan features, Jenkens on a new bank employee insurance program, and Frank Warren on on the job GI training. Local mentions include W F Kohler and others from Elgin Clermont and Artington.
A 12 hour Red Cross home nursing course led by a registered nurse will begin around April 22 for adults. The program, with a purchase of the Red Cross Home Nursing book, covers basic care, early illness signs, home emergency relief, maintaining vigor, and healthful home life. Register at ONeill Drug Elgin or Crane Drug Clermont with preferred class time. County chairpersons are Mrs O W Heiserman for Red Cross, Mrs H H Wolf for Elgin, and Mrs Burkard Riegel for Clermont.
Mrs Robbins was taken from Pestville hospital Monday evening to St Marys hospital in Rochester Minnesota. Lorence Muehlethaler and Elmer Lantz drove her in the Muehlethaler ambulance. The Echo lists her condition as very sick. Two young men left April 1 for induction physicals at Ft Snelling Minnesota Eugene Edward Wenger from Elgin and Duane Andrew Gage from Wadena
The Elgin Community Club voted to resume the triennial homecoming in August 15 to 18, 1946, aiming for a non commercial celebration with former residents visiting friends. A general committee led by Ray DeSart will gather addresses to estimate attendance and coordinate activities, honoring Elgin’s centennial.
The Elgin firemen met Monday evening and decided to hold a benefit dance on Thursday evening May 2. They seek coats, smoke masks and other equipment and have no fund to draw from. They urge public support as volunteers whose work is often unrecognized until a fire.
Maynard Lantz, Mrs. Rudy Possehl and Bert Theman were all born on April 1 in the same birthplace, a house southeast of Elgin on the Emil Frieden farm. Data supplied by Mrs. Orlin Mason.
Mr and Mrs John Anderson have purchased the former Jud Conner residence near the depot and plan to move to their new home within the next two months. At present they are residing in the apartment over Faiths garage.
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