Victory Gardening Family Earns Big Rewards
The Walz family of Cavetur South Dakota exemplifies wartime garden effort. They canned 126 pints of beans 70 quarts of tomatoes 50 pints of relish 28 gallons of peppers and pickles and stored bushels of potatoes and carrots. They grow cabbage tomatoes and herbs, rotate varieties, and follow scientific preservation methods. Mrs Walz stresses fall cleaning, fertilizer use, and fall plowing as keys to a paying garden each year.
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Claude R. Wickard
Christ Walz
Route Two
Cavetur
South Dakota
Walt’s
Laverne
Alvin
Yale Hitch School
Mary Jean
Vale’s
Walts
Walz
South Dakota Legislature Deliberates 54 Appropriations Bills Today
Pierre reports the South Dakota Legislature will tackle 54 measures including unemployment compensation reforms and a range of appropriations. House calendars include funds for a South Dakota Aid Corporation probe and per diem changes for county commissioners. Senate actions cover livestock inspection, funding for Redfield and State College projects, and extending veterans' preference.
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Senate
Redfield
State College
House
Secretary of State
Big Four In Farm Munitions
War production focuses on meat milk eggs and oil crops from American farms as vital combat supplies. 1942 output is described as sufficient to pave seven highways with steaks and to fuel ships with milk while soybeans and flaxseed could paint the navies 480 times.
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United Nations
New York City
San Fran
Cisco
Women Volunteers Train for Farm Tractor Use in War Effort
In wartime America women volunteers in the Red Cross and AWVS show a shift from glamor to trained service. The AWVS reports 3.825 million volunteers focusing on land work and home support, including child care. Red Cross numbers rise with 1.21 million members and millions of hours logged, while first aid and home nursing training expand to factories and communities.
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New York
Red Cross
American Women's Voluntary Services
Alice Throckmorton McTean
AWV3
Land Army
Red Cross Motor Corps
Motor Corps
Od Renue
Dwight Davis
Red Cross Volunteer Special Services
War Industries
Fake News Flash Confession Sparks Police Probe
In New York on a February night a suspected gasoline black market boss named Louis Mongno confessed amid a staged news broadcast designed to trigger relief efforts. Police captain Richard Fennelly described Mongno’s outburst before guiding officers to a hidden stash of ration coupons.
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WEW
York
Africa
Richard Fennelly
Louis Mongno
Mangno
Fennelly
Mongno
Gettysburg Board Offers Tollefson School Superintendent Contract
The Gettysburg Board of Education offered Oscar W. Tollefson a contract to serve as superintendent for the 1943 44 school year. Tollefson has spent 13 years with the district including roles as science instructor principal and superintendent. Beatrice Brooking’s resignation was accepted effective March 19, 1943. Santa Isabel Island was transferred from Germany to Great Britain by treaty in 1990.
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Whysburg
Gettysburg
Santa Isabel Island
Solomons
Germany
Region Over Tops Scrap Drive In Upper Midwest
Minnesota North and South Dakota regions exceed scrap quotas in 1942 last six months, with 101.3 percent of 533000 ton target. 1945 quotas set at 466000 in Minnesota 34000 in North Dakota 39000 in South Dakota. Region No 12 leads nation in waste fat salvage with 44.7 percent in December. Minnesota 36.4 South Dakota 63.2 North Dakota 60.2. Total December waste fat 259607 pounds with Minnesota 161467 North Dakota 52942 South Dakota 45193. November sums were Minnesota 143548 North Dakota 30597 South Dakota 12047.
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Minneapolis
Minnesota
North and
South Dakota
General Salvage
Norman S. Olson
War Production Board
Washington
WPB
North i Dekota
North Dakota
Iegion No
North v
L. E. Vorpahl
Reneral
WPE
Warpahl
North Dakotas
Highmore WRC Hears Committee Reports
The WRC met Saturday with 18 members present. Total relief since last meeting was 50.80 dollars. A thank you card from the Hot Springs WRC thanked for quilt pieces sent to widows of Civil War veterans at the State Soldiers Home. Violet Eberlein reported seven quilts near completion. A Washington birthday program was led by Mac Dillon. Lunch was served and Zillah Bancroft led the birthday song.
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Mghmore
W.rc
Hot Springs W. R.C
Violet Eberlein
Red Cross
Zillah Bancroft
Churchill Improves After Night of Rest Amid Illness
Churchill, confined to bed with catarrh, is reported improved this morning after a good night. The Prime Minister's condition was described as better in a London update dated February 24 07.
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Churchill
London
Farmers urged to invest profits in war bonds for future needs
Brookings reports banker R M Depuy advising farmers to buy war bonds as a reserve for equipment purchases farm repairs and to cushion short crop years. He notes farmers are in strong financial shape with loans being paid off and real estate debts on a conservative plan.
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Brookings
R. M. Depuy
South Dakota Bankers Committee On Agriculture
South Dakota
Depuy
Roosevelt Declares March Red Cross Month
President Roosevelt designates March as Red Cross Month urging Americans to enlist in the Army of Mercy and contribute to a wartime fund aiming for 125 million dollars with every cent needed.
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Red Cross
Washington
Roosevelt
Army of Mercy
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