21 Mar 1946
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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1946
Page
1
A Graettinger Times feature discusses a shirt glut with 420000 shirts on hand and shelves bare at retailers due to price rule confusions. It explains an OPA revised rule to restore average price, plus a note on rising oil costs and gas taxes, showing how efficiency masks price increases yet cannot last.
A local surplus item is advertised for sale with a want ad highlighting quantity, condition, and contact details. The notice urges early inquiries and lists a price range and pickup location, inviting buyers to respond by phone or in person.
A historical summary notes Franco heading the patriotic forces in Spain and gaining support from England, Italy, and Germany, while communist factions drew aid from Russia and the United States. It also mentions local voting in Jackson county on a hospital, Reinbeck Rams basketball setbacks from Dike, Dinsdale, and Dysart, and a fox-catching incident on the Mikesh farm.
The Christian Science Monitor questions Truman's claim for compulsory sickness insurance by comparing U S draft rejection rates with Britain’s. It cites 1911 Britain and notes annual Army reports show Britain issued 677,515 notice papers over ten years ending 1926, implying different outcomes from a state system.
A Grinnell public school bell clapper, lost after a 1871 fire, was found by Martin Rickard amid ruins. It served as a farm anvil for decades, traveled to Illinois and Missouri with the Richard family, and was returned in 1918 to the Grinnell school by Henry M. Richard to Superintendent Rupert A. Hawk.
Kenneth Graybill, a Schaller area butcher, narrowly avoided harm after killing a hog and hanging it for skinning. The hog, believed motionless, suddenly snapped, biting Graybill and nearly severing the tip of his right middle finger, which a doctor reattached in hopes of regrowth.
For years a major concentration of blue and snow geese travels along the Missouri River bottoms into Iowa. This season the first flock arrived ten days early with Hamburg as a stop, and peak numbers could exceed 500000 in mid March as birds fatten on corn before heading to Arctic nesting grounds.
Dr M E Barnes head of hygiene and preventive medicine at the University of Town warns parents against neglecting diphtheria immunization. He explains vaccines train a child’s cells to fight disease, noting dangerous European strains and returning American troops as potential carriers.
Health officials report a meteoric increase in measles during the first months of the year with 397 cases in January and 101 in the first three weeks of February. Most new cases are in Carroll county, with additional reports across other counties, surpassing totals from the previous year. The illness resembles a cold with runny nose and cough in typical cases.
The department states we are mid measles season and expect it to continue for weeks. Prevention centers on isolating cases and suspected cases from others, with parents keeping symptomatic children from school and cooperating with authorities when advised to keep them at home.
Estherville records show February as the warmest month since 1985 with an average 23.5 degrees for the month. Local official weather observer Mrs. J H Orvis notes the state average reached 29.2 degrees, about seven degrees above normal for Iowa.
Estherville averaged 34.5 F highs for February with a 50 F peak, five degrees shy of 1944 and 1945. The month saw a 12.6 F average low and an 8 F low, with 1.10 inches of precipitation, among the wettest Februaries since 1935 except 1945. Statewide records ranged from 70 F at Lamoni on Feb 25 to 16 F below zero at Elkader and Decorah on Feb 4, while ice breakups caused local floods but limited damage.
The company outlines rising wages from 0.851% to 1.33% per hour during wartime, with a 18 cent recommended increase and a 53.40 weekly average, while steel and other material costs climb. Management argues profits will shrink under frozen prices without government price relief, and calls for price hikes to sustain production and protect jobs for farmers and city residents alike.
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