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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1943
Page
7
Reports from Graettinger and nearby towns detail servicemen returning on furloughs from Farragut Idaho Camp Carson Colorado and Corpus Christi Texas. Names include Dick Ditch Dale Noble Wayne Knutson Glenn Lundgren Kenneth Barringer Art Kliegl and Forrest Perdue with notes on England Sicily and Washington visits and a soldier’s hospital stay.
Classified items list corn oats eggs butter and poultry pricing from a local ad column. A separate note from the Legion Auxiliary thanks Grachtinger area businesses and citizens for support of the All Star Wedding event, with receipts totaling 97 dollars and post tax allocations split between USO and the Auxiliary.
In wartime dispatches from camps and ships, servicemen praise The Times for connection to home. Letters from Frances Knutsen, Kenneth Sampson, and others recount camp life, training at Fort Des Moines, Texas Army Admin School, and shipboard humor while awaiting assignments. Gene Duffy's sister notes his recovery from injuries.
The GC and N Oil Co of Graettinger received two synthetic rubber tires. The quality appears satisfactory and they are indistinguishable from earlier pure rubber tires. It is believed that after the war synthetics will be used more widely.
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