One Hundred Men Out On Strike At Estherville Plant
One hundred union employees at the Tobin packing plant walked out Tuesday morning in a nationwide UPWA strike. The union seeks a 25 cent hourly raise, claims industry wages average 87 cents, and has pickets at plant gates while office and maintenance access is controlled. Meat in storage is government stock only. Other Iowa plants listed include Armour, Swift, Cudahy, and Morrell locations across several cities. Washington talks loom as retail dealers warn of potential severe meat shortages and black market risks.
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Estherville Daily News
Tobin Packing
UPWA
Ihe
Davis Packing Plant
Davis
Tobin Plant
Estherville
Iowa
Tobin Packing Co
Fort Dodge
Armour Land
Mason City
Rath Packing Co
Waterloo
Town Packing Co
Swift & Co
Des Moines
Perry
Swift, Armour and Cudahy
Sioux City
Wilson Co
Cedar Rapids
Morrell Co
Ottumwa
Kingan & Co
Storm Lake
AFL, Meat Cutters Union
National Retail Meat Dealers Association
George Dressler
Meat Dealera
Atate
Dressler
Washington
Fort Raleigh site tied to early English settlement
Fort Raleigh blockhouse marks the first English settle ment on Roanoke Island as Amadas and Barlow claimed the continent for Sir Walter Raleigh on July 1, 1584. The text notes ongoing coastal patrols by U S submarines planes ships and the Coast Guard to deter enemy landings, with War Bond funds supporting weapons supplies.
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Roanoke Island
Fort Raleigh
America
Amadas
Barlow
Walter Raleigh
U. S
Coast Guard
U.S. Treasury Department
Meat supply outlook from union forecasts limited impact
The union warned that current meat supplies would last only two or three days nationwide, though some small packers already aligned with the union could continue to bring meat to market for a limited period.
Palo Alto and Kossuth County basketball league schedule
The Times publishes the league schedule from Raymond Suss. All games start at 8:30 with admission 36 cents and 10 cents for under 15. Fixed dates show Emmetsburg, Burt, Whittemore, Graettinger, Mallard, Havelock, Algona, Lone Rock meeting across January to March with venues and Wednesdays and Saturdays noted.
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Palo Alto
Kossuth
Raymond Suss
Emmetsbug
Havelock
Burt
Algona
Whittemore
Graettinger
Mallard
Emmetsburg
Mon
Lone Rock
Gracttinger
Graetlinger
Turf
Volunteers Sought in Iowa to Fight Inflation
OPA marks its fourth anniversary in Iowa as volunteers are urged to join price control work. State Director Walther D. Kline notes limited paid staff across the Sixth Region and stresses that pressures for higher prices demand broader volunteer participation. County price board chairmen are asked to contact for enlistment.
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OPA
Iowa
Walter D. Kline
Towa
Kline
Minnesota
Nebraska
Dakotas
Wisconsin
Illinois
Outdoor Iowa Map To Be Printed
The State Conservation Commission authorized an Iowa Outdoor Map to show state recreation areas and hunting and fishing territories. Twenty thousand copies will be printed with a full page highway map and detailed park and facility locations. The map also marks fishing waters public hunting grounds and game ranges showing abundant pheasants quail ducks and squirrels. It should be ready for distribution in early April. Tom Neuhardt and Harry Madden of near Creston reportedly bagged a 48 pound wolf on a hunting expedition, possibly the area’s largest.
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Iowa
State Conservation Commission
Tom Neuhardt
Harry Madden
Creston
Grodland Auctioneer Sale Dates Listed in Graettinger
Auctioneer My Headquarters will be at the J. J. Show Land Office. Sale dates can be made at the above office at the Times office or at the Graettinger State Bank of Phone 139 Graettinger or Farm Telephone No. 25 on 8 Wallingford M D Graettinger.
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GRODLAND _ Auctioneer
J. J. Show
Times Office
Graettinger
Women's County Committee Meeting Set in Emmetsburg
The Women's County Committee will hold its first 1946 meeting in the Methodist church parlors Emmetsburg on Thursday January 3. Officers will be installed with Mrs. W. E. Schroeder directing. All township chairmen and officers are urged to attend plus any interested person. The gathering aims to boost Palo Alto County women in the Family Living program and Farm Bureau Women’s work with special leaders for library school music recreation and international relations. Afternoon recreation followed by tea.
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Women's County Committee
Women’s County Committee
Methodist
Emmetsburg
W. E. Schroeder
Palo Alto County
Farm Bureau
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Raleigh
Farmers Grain CO
Raymond Tindall
Maruer Graettinger
ST. Louis Cathedral
New Orleans
Don Andréa Almonaster
Cabildo
Presbytere
Liberty
Almonasters
Palo Alto Studio
the ‘Tannens “oFeepers Firm
SHOUX
Louisiana’s Capitol
Louisiana
Baton Rouge
State Universit
Europe
Maximiilian
Mexico
U. S. Treosury Departoment
Gall. Hansen
Statio Graettinger
Emmeteburg
Nchbtieka von Clean H
Col
Ben F. Reeves
Graettinger State Bank
Kansas Capitol
Topeka
Kanaa
Tersinry de da
Graettinger Block & Tile CO
Graetinger, Iowa
D-X
Diamond 760
Porreson Oil Co
Wallingford
F. B
Heidecker
Stuthven
Crippen Elevator
Amouth
Farrow
Poland
Allis Chalmera
New Hampshire
Wm. J. Ganley Reeves & Goodchild
Auds
Iowa Trust & Savings Bank
Times’ Sale Service
Mr. Farmer
M. N. Jacobsen
Wallingford, Iowa
Grasttinger
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