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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1943
Page
3
A notice records that the publication is a member of the Iowa Press Association and the National Editorial Association and is entered in the Clermont post office in Fayette County Iowa as second class mail matter.
Mary McGreevy returns from Preston after a year in school. Dr. L L Carr receives commission as first lieutenant in the U S Army Medical Corps and expects active duty around July 10. Sept N J Breckner leaves for Chicago to study for county superintendent, takes office Sept 2. Beulah Gruger to Minneapolis for stenography work. J A Erickson and H F Shipton attend state bankers convention in Dubuque. Mrs F R Frisbie injured in a fall at A O Gilbertson home. Editor and clergy members visit Waukon for Taft commencement address.
Iowa State Guard personnel are being fed with ration points supplied by the state and food from Camp Dodge army commissary. Guardsmen follow a regular army menu, cooks drawn from camp companies. The second regiment moved in last Saturday and the first regiment joined Sunday. When camp breaks July 3 the guard will be trained to handle unruly crowds at home. Four officers and 28 men from Camp George West, Golden, Colorado, including eight Iowans, are on hand to instruct the guardsmen.
Rumors say Speaker Henry Burma Allison may not seek the governor’s office. He could aim for Rep. John Gwynne’s congressional seat, while Lieut. Gov. Robert D. Blue appears set to run. No decisions reported until after the primary and voting. Blue has campaigned statewide and subbed for Gov. Hickenlooper on occasions.
Clarkson last agency head controlled by Iowa democrats will pass to republicans July 1 when John T. Clarkson Albia departs the Iowa industrial commission for former state Senator E P Cor win Fruitland in Louisa county. He authored the workmen's compensation law now administered. Appointed by Gov Kraschel in 1937. An unusual Iowa board of pharmacy examiners issue arises with Geo Brown Onawa term expiring June 30 and the district shift placing Monona county in the seventh district. Duane Redfield Shenandoah Democrat remains on the seventh district board through 1945, complicating Brown’s possible replacement. A familiar name, Earl G Miller, former Iowa secretary of state, may run for Des Moines mayor, signaling political change ahead.
The piece notes Iowa governors run lean on travel funds with Hickenlooper paying most expenses himself while past governors drew small travel stipends. It asks whether Atty. Gen. John D. Rankin will seek re-election or a nomination to Iowa's supreme court in 1944.
Iowa ration calendar lists second inspection deadlines for Class A and B and third for Class C or bulk coupons, with commercial vehicles due every 90 days or 5000 miles. Several coupons remain valid through specified dates, including gasoline A book No 8, Fuel Oil Period 5, Coffee No 24, Sugar No 13, and canning coupons 15 and 16. Also notes blue stamps through July 7 and red meat stamps. shoes No 18 valid to October 31. A fire in Sumner theater ends a show after half a reel is destroyed. production resumes next day. A cow on Einer Jacobsen farm near Harlan calved twice in three months, signaling higher production efforts.
South American imports of steel typically total 1,500,000 tons per year, reflecting steady demand across regional markets. The figure represents average annual steel intake for the region, suggesting ongoing industrial activity and reliance on foreign supply.
The month shows 14 drownings and 9 automobile fatalities over the past 18 days. Iowa State Safety Council Executive Secretary Bert L. Woodcock offers tips: stay along shore unless expert, never swim alone, wait two hours after eating, call for help and rest on back if drowning, and use a boat rope or life preserver in rescues.
A remedy, Carl Sexauer of the Ogden Reporter, offers a box of flash bulbs to boys who show marksmanship by shooting bulbs in a nearby pasture. The offer follows recent damage to street lights caused by youths using guns and sling shots.
Compressed dehydrated eggs are highlighted as a crucial lend-lease and army item. Dried form takes up one sixth the space of shell eggs, and further compression halves bulk. A 14 pound package yields the equivalent of 537 fresh eggs, illustrating high nutritional value and efficiency for space missions.
After frost danger passes, plant beans butter beans squash cucumbers okra green peppers and tomatoes. Follow local frost-free dates and cover seedlings if cold nights return to protect young plants.
A cat at the Agney home in Guffnell bit Bobby and his father after clawing at Mr Agney. The boy and his dad receive rabies precaution treatment. The cat was found to be rabid and other cats on the property have been killed. The Agneys fear their livestock could be affected.
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