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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1943
Page
1
The Elgin Echo is published every Thursday by R. P. Strauch and is entered in the Elgin Iowa post office as second class mail matter.
An old classified ad rate card lists pricing for foreign and local display per inch, readers per line, and per word for notices. It notes payments in advance, commission, and special rates for cards of thanks, memoriam cards, and resolutions of respect with admission charges for church, society, and school notices and obituaries.
Government agencies rush to ease farm supply rules, letting dealers order up to a month's inventory from 140 listed items but wholesalers lack stock and delivery dates. Commentary notes bureaucratic delays persist, with satire on the OWI and WPB. Also a string of light observations about culture, jokes, and local humor.
A fragmented wartime scene shows a truck crowd urging release, a Scout invoking home in war, and Lincoln on laughing amid duty. An absurd budget list follows with rent, whiskey, tobacco, poker, and life insurance, ending in a quip about attire as morale.
Mr and Mrs Marshall Allen of south of town welcome a daughter born Saturday morning. Mrs Thos Knudtson visited Postville with son Laurence for a tonsillectomy. Walter Wilbur and wife greet a son born Friday last week as Walter heads to Camp Dodge. Mr and Mrs A S Hoag returned from Camp Dodge after visiting their son Elmer now a sergeant and company clerk. Mrs J H Graham of South Brantree Mass visited F R Berg home, wife of a former Methodist pastor. Sergeant Leslie Conner, on a six day pass, visited his parents and sister. he has served 13 years in Hawaii, the Philippines and Cuba. Several local youths had tonsils removed this past week. Georgia May and Leo Schori, Mabel Rennison, and Laurence Knudtson underwent tonsil surgery. Dan Sutter, home on a 10 day Camp Dodge visit, returned yesterday after hospital time.
Lorenz Handke and James Noack of Guttenberg pleaded guilty to stealing a safe with 3500 from Clarence Kann home. Handke received an indeterminate term in Anamosa Men's Reformatory. Noack got one year in county jail as an accomplice. They were farm workers who fled as authorities arrested them Sunday in Guttenberg.
A clog proof spark arrester designed to fit chimneys stalls on aged roofs with curled wood shingles or worn mineral surfaced roofing to prevent sparks from lodging and causing fires.
CCC officials found 3 in 100 enrollees illiterate and began reading and writing classes. In seven years 80,000 youths learned literacy in CCC camps. A new primer, the Camp Life Reader and Workbook, uses camp life stories to teach reading and writing and is being rolled out to all camps. The second workbook adds 425 words to the vocabulary during trials.
A textile company tried to corner a cloth used for 1,000,000 army shorts. Don ald Nelson and Brig. Gen. Clifford L. Corbin investigated and uncov ered the price boost. They persuaded changes to a suitable cloth type, preserving supply and preventing gouging.
John High 75 was believed dead in Sabula after a decades long search by his wife and two sons. A newspaper notice led Mrs. High to Sabula where funeral services paused when the casket revealed the remains were her husband. Sabula lies 15 miles from Mount Carroll Illinois.
A Boston NFPA report finds that combustible roof shingles were the direct cause in 55 of 100 major conflagrations since 1900. The study highlights roofs as a key fire source and urges stricter roofing materials and codes nationwide.
The seven member School Code Committee organized this week and said no rewrite of school laws will be attempted. It will seek deletions of duplications and corrections of conflicts and ambiguities, proposing only prudent additions or policy changes. The last legislature refused to pass a 437 page school bill saying it was too important to pass hastily.
Towns face second inspection deadlines for Class A September 30 and Class B June 30 with a third period July 1 to October 31 for Class C. Commercial vehicles follow 301 days or 5000 miles rules. Gasoline A book No. 6 and fuel oil coupons have varied validitites, with multiple periods ending July 21, Sept 30, and into 1944. Coffee, sugar, blue stamps K to M, and red stamp schedules cover July through August and into October. Shoes coupons, notations on poultry and other staples appear with end dates through October 31.
Livestock prices declined for the month ending June 15 while grain and poultry costs rose. The all commodities index stood at 192 percent base, meat index down to 200, grain at 177, and poultry egg at 194, with dairy unchanged at 189 for the fifth straight month. A Knterim farm lightning event damaged walls and ceilings, narrowly missing a sleeping boy.
The Iowa Taxpayers Assn releases a cost sheet for county offices showing Fayette county as average for the sheriff and below average for supervisors in 1941. Supervisors cost 22 cents per person versus 24 cents state average. sheriff cost 4 cents per person, equal to the state average. Polk county topped the state at 54 cents for sheriff and Clayton tied with 23 cents for supervisors and 26 cents for sheriff.
In a curious turn, several Elgin residents started fires in their furnaces on Tuesday, June 29 to cope with unexpectedly cool weather after a recent stretch of 90 degree heat. Indoor temperatures hovered near 60 degrees following Sunday night rain.
Oscar Winger placed an ad after misplacing his pen. A large parcel arrived with nested packages until the final small one revealed the pen. Mrs. Winger sent the package and the pen was found under Oscar’s dresser. It is unclear if Mrs. Winger received any reward.
The 1943 Iowa spring pig crop reached 15 117 000 head, up 19 percent from last year and surpassing all but three of the past 20 springs and falls. Iowa farmers respond to a meat hungry world with higher pork production, while plans indicated another 15 percent boost in fall farrowings.
A leak in the water main near Capper's on Canter street was fixed by town workmen on Tuesday. The joint lead pulling had loosened and caused a slow leak. Local mains troubles largely arose from faulty caulking during laying.
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