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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1943
Page
8
Wayne Poole left early in the week for Fort Snelling to begin army induction. Friends held a farewell party Sunday evening at the neighborhood schoolhouse in his honor.
Highmore notes a drive by the American Legion to collect discarded phonograph records. Materials from old records will be used to manufacture new ones for servicemen, aiding morale and supply efforts.
The Office of Price Administration issued guidance on point rationing for canned dried and frozen fruits and vegetables. It covers authorizing a dealer to deduct stamps as an agent, replacing swelled cans, losses from broken containers, exchanging canned goods of equal value, and buying rationed food during the first month.
Washington March 4 James M Landis director of Civilian Defense urges every adult and child able to wield a garden tool to plant a victory garden as practical defense against food shortage. He notes millions already prepare back yards and vacant lots but many more are needed and calls for local defense councils to guide planning planting care and cooperative use of tools plus instructional pamphlets and films for inexperienced gardeners.
A wartime guide addresses how ration stamps become invalid at period end and confirms smallest food cans are rationed if they fall under program rules. It explains that dry beans are more economical per ration point, notes returning ration books for service members, and outlines issuing ration certificates during leaves. It also covers merchant seamen surrendering books for 20 days abroad and reclaiming them on return.
The War Department released 233 U S soldiers wounded in action across Alaskan, European, North African, South Pacific and Southwest Pacific theaters. The South Dakota names include Pvt Harvey Meyers and Pvt Richard Pundsack among others, with next of kin listed in 42 states and Canada.
Georgia legislators after two days of debate passed a constitutional amendment to lower the voting age from 21 to 18. Governor Ellis Arnall, who backed the move, signed it immediately for a 1944 referendum to ratify. He said if 18 year olds are old enough to fight they are old enough to vote.
Miss Kathryn Mack married Clyde Peterson of Brentford Thursday morning in Aberdeen. The bride returned to teach at Frankfort High School, and the groom went back to Corpus Christi, Texas, where he is in the air corps.
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