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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1940
Page
3
A Wallace speech is set for tonight with Valentine presiding. A poll of Iowa farmers asks if every able bodied man 20 should serve one year in the armed forces. Results show 85 percent in favor, 27 percent undecided, with a notable farmer opposition prior to major Nazi raids on Britain.
State headquarters and the state fair grounds report rising requests for candidates badges and campaign literature as interest spreads across Iowa. Democratic HQ printed pamphlets from the recent convention with speeches by John K. Valentine and Edward Breen and skits on Valentine and Wallace. National Guard units may train in Louisiana around Oct. 1 under a plan tied to a pending federal mobilization bill. The final date depends on the passage and signing of the bill. Space needs prompt the banking department to vacate the state house basement by Sept. 1, likely relocating outside the building.
The state fair board will relocate offices from the basement northeast corner to rooms used by the banking department after the fair ends. The vacated space will go to the animal husbandry division. An interim committee studies new office space and overcrowding at six Iowa hospitals for the insane, with two plans: a central receiving hospital or new receiving buildings at existing sites. Defense plans may push these priorities aside.
Dyersville resident John Knipper found a White Rock hen perched on a car manifold with five hard boiled eggs laid in a row beside the engine. The bird survived with only scorched feathers. In a separate incident, George Seidel Jr burned feet and hands stepping on a hot metal disc in the sunlit yard.
The diamond is described as the simplest gem, consisting of crystallized carbon. The piece emphasizes the chemical purity and orderly lattice structure that defines this precious mineral.
Marshalltown Iowa special photo by H R Benz shows prize winning corn stalks in a local contest. Despite tough growing season, farmers produced full corn with Ellis Staveley first for tallest stalk at about 15 feet and Henry Buschbom close behind.
Clermont residents hosted and visited relatives from Chicago Postville and Waterloo over the weekend. Norbert Gerner family returned home from Chicago while Wm Kneeland and family visited from Postville. Francis Horan Donald Horan and Donald Gress Lloyd Gress from Waterloo spent time with local parents. Ed Dugstad attended the American Wire and Steel fence banquet at the Winneshiek hotel in Decorah last Wednesday evening.
A collage of brief items from across Iowa notes motorists escaping a car hit by a train, a contractor delaying a Friday start, smoke from a refrigerator motor with no fire, a runaway truck ending at a porch, theater plans in Grundy Center after a blaze, a lucky lightning strike on a Worthington watch, and more. Also covered are wall failures at Knoxville High, six accidents near Decorah, a Baxter school tank explosion, a terrier killing a rat, police saving a man in Sioux City, an old Adel baseball bat returned, and an air raid fear during a Seymour fire siren glitch.
Fayette County cow testing association hosts a farewell for tester Stanley Hamilton at Fayette. The event occurs Friday evening August 30 with invitations sent by secretary Karl Miller. Hamilton plans to move to Chicago to enter Northern Baptist Seminary after two years of service.
Collier's declares that at least 1,600 of the 1,900 U S airports today are too small or inadequate for landing or taking off larger transcontinental airliners.
A discussion on why youngsters adopt coarse language and seek group approval. It notes imitation from outside the home, social belonging, and shock value as drivers, and suggests enlisting the gang in adopting better speech to curb the habit.
The text discusses reducing violence by reforming gangs into positive groups like Boy Scouts and Woodcrafters. It notes transforming neighborhoods, avoiding shock from violent speech, and offering a patient approach toward youth, treating them not as wicked but as mildly misguided.
Parents should choose the safest routes for children to store or school to reduce traffic accidents. Walk routes with the child, demonstrate safe crossing behavior, and emphasize looking left and right before crossing. Demonstrate why certain crossings are hazardous and when extra watchfulness is needed.
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