Housing crisis prompts rushed wartime housing in Los Angeles
From Burbank through Griffith Park, observers note Rodger Young Village near Riverside Drive, a quonset hut complex for displaced veterans. The project aims for 750 huts housing two families each, with many huts occupied and hundreds more under skeleton frame. Labor and material shortages leave limited homes while malls, cocktail bars, and new commercial structures rise, reflecting a desperate housing situation.
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Burbank
Griffith Park
Riverside Drive
Rodger Young Village
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Los Angeles
Editor notes and local anecdotes from the Skyline issue
A clipped note from Los Angeles Skyline editor laments a printing error and recalls a near miss to health in Kansas involving Mrs Byrd Earnest and Mrs Alvina Shuer Duke while a Sioux City sister suffers illness. The piece thanks a farmer who reported a faulty New Deal implement dealer and jokes about true stories of four youths dodging Army enlistment.
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Jayhawk
Hawkeye
Tony Sartori
Los Angeles
Iowa
Kansas
Skyline cdl
New Deal
OPA
All Snelling
Slaughter steers, heifers lead Sioux City market gains
Slaughter steers, yearlings, and heifers rose as much as 25 cents early in the week at Sioux City, marking the year's high and the strongest level since World War I. Prices climbed 15 cents to 1.28 in two weeks. hogs sold at ceiling. Fat cows, stockers, and feeders were strong while fat lambs and slaughter ewes dipped up to 25 cents. Steers from 14.75 to 17.65 with about 65 loads at ceiling. fat heifers 14.00 to 17.25, top 17.50. cows 7.50 to 16.00.
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Sioux City
Plymouth
Sioux County
E. Wesley
Leonard Brown
John Heidesch
Matt Bruscher
Otto Kroeger
Lowell
Kehrberg
Steers
So Nick Ruba
Val Sitzmann,jr
Hidon -Roepke
Carl Muecke
Ben Freking
Roy Jobson
Frank Smith
Clarence Schroeder
Will Johnson
Wm. Reinken
Mary Gable
Clarence Singer
Herman B. Renken
Bert ‘Hoss
Sioux
A. van Kakeriz
Elmer Wiersma
Edward Kading
John van Wyke
Fred Yunker
Wm. Wolken
Albert Heubner
Jack Weiland
John H. Dekker
Ed Vancer Hoef
Albert Wagner
Mike Holles
Tiedeman Bros
Ben Vande Berg
Frank Mouscel
I. M. Kirby & Son
Ie Wm. van Bochove
Ae Sweard van Buskirk
Ea Henry Keunen
C. W. Halstein
Cnrad Jacobs
Desperdang Konz Nuptials Held
Desperdang Konz nuptials held with relatives in attendance. The ceremony featured Clarice Meis as bridesmaid and the reception followed in pink lace over satin decor. Afterward the couple planned to reside on a Granville area farm.
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Leo Meis
Clarice ] Meis
Rita Alber
Monica Bode
Dorothy Wolf
Shirley Their
Ad Wirs
al Scheitler
Andrew Srunkel
Theo. Reichling
John Cronin
Emmet Wolf
Will
Granville
Pat Their
Bsig, Minn
John Delperdang
Los Angeles
Cal
Traveling Farmers Move Toward Home Midweek
Report notes traveling farmers expect to return by midweek. Seattle waterfront activity includes docks and ships, with talk daily of a strike affecting world shipping. The group took photographs while seeing the business district and arranged a saw mill tour with two guides guiding 22 men as logs six to seven feet in diameter are unloaded.
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Seattle
Wash
Srike
Wichelmann
Greiman
Local Society Notes In Seney And Nearby Towns
Seney residents attend summer school at Western Union college and visit Rockwell City. Paullina and Boone guests share church services and family visits. Nanninga kin and Ala visitors join at the home. Ames students and 4-H events, plus a birthday luncheon by the Women's Society of Christian Service with musical entertainment and a spelling bee.
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Wayne Gower
Western Union College
Rockwell City
Ernest Reeves
Paullina
Edgar Lancaster
Boone
Wesley Lancaster
L. J. Peterson
Elsie
Long Island
Ala
LeMays
Henningson
Fete Keizer
Alton
Marshall Rees
C.F. Nanninga
Alex Nanninga
Crofton
Neb
Lloyd Nanninga
Struble
Howard Nanninga
Clarence Albert
Helen
Hart Albert
James
Judith Nanninga
Raymond McArthur
Harold Berkenpas
Ames
Raymond
Women's Society of Christian Service of the
Seney Church
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