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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1942
Page
2
The Graettinger Times reports Paul Mallon praising U S war production gains. April output reaches 240 billion dollars yearly, with June and year-end projections up 25 percent and to 70 trillion dollars respectively. The piece notes efficiency gains, new methods, and plant-wide shifts from peacetime goods to weapons, while cautioning against complacency amid Axis threats.
E. B. Merriman III, known as Fe. B. Merriman of Minneapolis, was quite ill with sinus trouble last week. Local friends hope for his early and complete recovery.
A string of social notices records birthdays births and visits. Dorothy Swift heads to Chicago Tuesday evening while Alice Ploghoft returns from St Paul for a weekend at home. Several families in Graettinger Bedford and Spencer host relatives and attend Memorial Day gatherings as friends and neighbors send congratulations on new births and marriages.
The 75-millimeter gun, a divisional anti tank weapon, has been modernized into a blaster by Ordnance and costs $12,000. It is being promoted as an efficient weapon with maximum power for light weight, backed by War Bonds funding. Citizens are urged to invest 10 percent of income in War Bonds to ensure supply for fighting forces.
Edward T. McCarty returns from Creighton University for summer. Karl Spies visits Mayville with son Otto Spies and family. Elmer Feldman and Arthur Jensen head to Milford to plaster a new farm home by Asheland Ruinsland. Doris Henningsen returns from State Teachers and will teach in Manning next year. Edward Sullivan visits from Camarillo as he plans to return to Los Angeles. Ann McManus returns from Mundelsen College to spend time with her parents before a summer course in Iowa City. A black cat named Lilly gets a guardian amid an estate settlement. J P O’Brien and wife visit J J Sullivan in Chicago, noting strong business conditions. Judith T Chase promotes waste-fighting via a new test in The American Weekly. Ray Anderson recalling a silver dollar lost decades ago finds it during store remodeling. Florian Manternach’s cattle return after a neighbor reports their location. Mrs Nora Kreger ends 33 years of teaching in Grant school. Lightning kills seventeen cattle on W. T. Kuesel’s farm. some wash away. Potential opening of lead mines near Waukon might revive metals demand.
The army’s fighter planes reach speeds up to 400 miles per hour and cost about $100,000 each. They escort bombers, extend range and firepower, and production is booming. War Savings Bonds fund the effort as Americans commit at least ten percent of income to buy bonds. Each worker’s share each payday helps supply the air corps with these supreme Eagles of the air.
Miss Lillian Peters of Sheldon is a specialist in rock cutting with one of the state’s largest collections of rare stones. Her workshop uses modern machinery for finishing stones, drawing fans nationwide. Nearby, hogs escaped from a truck sparked a town scare but caused no injuries.
Palo Alto County Board orders landowners to destroy noxious weeds by set dates in 1942 including Group 1 June 1 15 Group 2 June 15 30 Group 3 July 1 15 Group 4 July 15 30, to prevent seed production and limit growth along roads with penalties and Weed Commissioner enforcement.
Fred Gardiner a cattle tester for the Norrih Hardin Dairy Herd Improvement association eats at a different farm house daily. He carries his private sugar bowel containing his ration on his travels. The bowel is secured with a chain and padlock.
Elbert McIntyre of West Union found a small first aid packet dated August 29 1910. Contents were clean and white. It is unclear to whom it belonged or if it saw use in the last war. Clare Davis who runs a candy and pegbox machine chain paid 15000 pennies at a Clear Lake lumber office in six sacks of 25 each. Anne Diamond daughter of a grocery chain executive won a 1000 prize and gold medal from the American Newspaper Publishers Association for a journalism monograph. Dale Smith of Grinnell began patent proceedings in January 1988. patent granted in April 1942 for a bed and carriage for ambulance work.
The Silver Streak Manufacturing Co of Dyersville received an order for 10 000 renewable cutting edges for plow shares to the Durban port near Madagascar in South Africa, with a previous shipment to the same destination last December.
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