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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1944
Page
6
The Graettinger Times discusses how federal taxation on deferred maintenance funds threatens small telephone companies and railroads, risking postwar earnings and readiness. It notes manpower shortages, rising maintenance needs, and the need for fair tax treatment to sustain transportation and communication jobs, while comparing historical fire prevention progress and public education gaps.
A railroad committee appointed by the Association of American Railroads will study every form of transportation, including 42 major industries, to ensure more adequate and efficient rail service after the guns cease firing. The group, backed by experienced transportation leaders, aims to anticipate postwar needs and ready the system for peaceful conditions.
In Franklin era water was the main fire antidote but the modern industrial age has multiplied fire hazards. Fire prevention now races to outpace hazards with new methods, public education, and three main automatic extinguishing forms including sprinklers controlled by insurance bureaus, and more devices evolving beyond water.
A steel company advertises coal as a crucial wartime material, noting daily consumption of 17,000 tons to heat 2,600 homes and the role of blending coals for cleaner blast furnaces. It highlights sampling and testing at mines, the vast fossil fuel legacy, and future pipeless heating innovations from coal research.
In Portland Oregon physicians struggle to cover rising demand as Kaiser shipbuilding expands. Government delays and hospital space shortages plague care while a tragic case of a burned boy highlights system stress amid socialized medicine debates. Local memories surface with a Washington Prairie drumhead find and a wallet recovery case in Grundy Center.
In the text, wartime rhetoric shifts toward a possible sustained alliance with a communist government in Russia. It notes that leaders already demand the enemies be reduced permanently, forecasting a tightly intertwined future among England, Russia, and the United States as the war progresses.
A nostalgic column discusses Cold War era fears of Soviet American shifts after a hypothetical war. It recalls 1849 French Communists led by Etienne Cabot settling in Nauvoo, noting the colony’s rise and fall, and contrasts past utopian attempts with Nauvoo’s historic Mormon sites and nine mile Mississippi river drive.
Palo Alto County Iowa Board of Supervisors met in Emmetsburg on March 24 1944 to consider issuing 500 000 in Primary Road Refunding bonds after publication in Graettinger Times. Present were Robinson Traog Phillips Cottington with Huskamp absent. Resolution adopted with all four in favor.
The meeting adjourned after a motion and vote. George W. Doerr reports the sale of 500000 Primary Road Refunding Bonds to Halsey Stuart Co and Central National Bank with a premium of 4466 and interest at 0.75 percent. The board confirms the sale and adopts a resolution for redemption and delivery of the bonds to fund the Primary Road Bond Redemption Fund.
Palo Alto County Iowa moves to redeem 500000 dollars in primary road bonds dated July 1 1938 with 2 percent interest. Notice to be published in Des Moines Register and mailed to bondholders at least twenty days before May 1 1944. Board approves April 1 adjournment.
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