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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1944
Page
3
Entry recorded as second class mail matter at the Clermont post office in Fayette County Iowa under the act of March 3 1652.
A wartime photograph dated August 26 shows soldiers with civilians viewing the image. Mrs. Stewart misidentifies a front-row figure as Pfc. Michael Blockhus Jr., who is now in Germany and requests a foxhole heater. Oscar Hanson reports rapid travel through Chicago New Orleans and Central America en route to Guatemala and Nicaragua, with a stop in Balboa. Corp and Mrs. Kenneth Evans visit from Casper for a 20 day furlough at N. W. Evans’s home. Emmet A. Gunderson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Gunderson near Clermont, earns a petty rating promotion.
Local families hear from servicemen in France and the Mediterranean, Hawaii, and Ohio. Walter F. Becker reports good health from the Mediterranean area while on shore leave in France. Others share furloughs and new overseas APO addresses as siblings and cousins cope with war separations. Major Erickson notes Linsworth Island pals with polio. several men move to new posts at Des Moines, Camp Maxey, and Camp Bliss.
Letters reveal APO number change to 662 and illness cases. Sgt Archie Johnson now at Camp Maxey after Fort Bliss posting. Bernard McMullen and Mrs McMullen visit Harry Johnson. S Sgt Lorence Muehlethaler on 15 day furlough from Childress Texas with parents. Pfc Truman Paulson in South Pacific reports 8 days hospital stay for high blood pressure. S Sgt Harold Triem in India hospital with malaria fever. Frc Francis W Horan to return home in about ten days. Sgt Reuben Lehman in Hawaii convalescent after pneumonia.
A reader asks how to keep children busy indoors when weather confines them. Suggestions include water colors knitting model airplanes and other quiet activities to save for rainy days.
Children help prepare a rainy day list and add new projects. Mary can learn to knit on the very next rainy day, giving her mother something productive to look forward to when indoors. Rainy days become more pleasant for everyone.
In postwar materials talk, many advances come from vastly improved adhesives that bond wood to wood cloth to wood and metal to metal. So strong are these adhesives that under stress the joined material fails before the glue line.
The report notes that impregnating wood with a resin solution like lacquer fills wood cells but does not change fundamental wood behavior. Wood will still shrink and swell with humidity and the grain will rise when a sanded face is exposed to moisture.
A report claims Americans waste about 100 million loaves of bread each year. The figure highlights diet waste and potential efficiency improvements in households and retailers.
Reports indicate that adaptation of night aviators to dim light has been reduced to five or six minutes by new techniques. Previously eyes required about half an hour to adjust for night flying, extending the time needed before pilots could operate effectively.
Total fiber consumed in 1943 exceeded 6.5 billion pounds, equating to 48 pounds per person. Cotton supplied about four-fifths of the total, with the remaining fifth roughly split between rayon and wool.
Advice on treating oil and grease stains from mud by applying gasoline or lard to loosen the grease, then sponging with cleaning fluid for removal.
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