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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1942
Page
1
Memoriam and resolutions of respect are listed along with church society and school notices where admission is charged. Obituary poetry is offered at regular advertising rates, per the card.
In a Hawkeye column from May 7 1942 readers note ration card chaos at county boards in West Union and mass filing of sugar cards by teachers. The piece jests about the booking office vibe and jokes about ration humor, shortages, and humor to endure wartime strictures. It cites Mississippian regional voices and quotes lines about frosting, rubber, and a legal notice vibe.
More than 31,000 persons are now engaged in various phases of government press agency at an annual cost of $27,000,000. And there is still a law on the books prohibiting the employment of press agents by the government. Every community has just about the kind of government it deserves.
Walter Kohls begins military service with an exam in Cedar Rapids and training in Missouri after initial processing in Dubuque. Other items note Mrs. Shaffer’s successful surgery in Rochester and the Halversons’ new eight pound daughter. Ed Hanson quarantined for smallpox. travelers Werle Kniel and Draewels. Kinney’s Cedar Rapids move. Elmer Scholl’s Iowa City trip. Rev. and Mrs. R. D. Kinney welcome a daughter. George Vaughn in Decorah brick work.
Price Administrator Henderson enforces a general wartime price control program. From May 11, wholesale prices must not exceed March 1942 levels for each seller. from May 18, retail prices may not exceed March levels. from July 1, retail service charges tied to March. Sellers must keep March records and display ceiling costs publicly. Roosevelt notes 15 percent rise since 1939 and urges a multi-factor attack including prices and wages to stabilize living costs.
The April mid month index shows Iowa farm product prices at 717 percent of 1909 14 base, highest since 1920 except August 1936. Hog prices reach 13.00 and cattle 12.00, with meat animals leading gains while grain and dairy prices lag behind the prices paid index. Wartburg college note reports students fishing with a pipe wrench at the campus fountain, permission granted to remove fish.
Elgin Echo notes A. E. Del Smith will run for member of the Fayette county board of supervisors for the 1943 term. Nomination depends on Republican voters at the June 1, 1942, primary.
Wilford Clark announces candidacy for county attorney of Fayette County subject to Republican primary voters decision on June 1. Clark serves as editor of Elgin Echo and seeks support from party members to secure the nomination and continue public service.
The editor urges renomination in the Republican primary on June 1 for the office of state representative from Fayette County's 71st district, naming George L. Scott and asking if the call is for bonds or bondage while promoting U S Savings Bonds.
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