Local Plants Brace for Wave of Returning Students
About 300 workers in local plants plan to return to school as students and teachers come back in the next weeks. Employers fear labor shortages in critical roles across retail, hospitals, restaurants, laundries, and more. Some firms will replace workers, but most will need men and women for essential duties as they reassess staffing for the future. A US employment service manager notes part-time workers have aided repairs on thousands of vehicles and will remain in use to offset shortages.
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Trap Sign Slows Street Traffic
A Los Angeles police officer investigated slow traffic along a busy street after a partner parked nearby and found a go slow speed trap in progress.
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Lodge of Columbus Launches Early Service Trial
The Lodge of Columbus introduces a novel schedule with a confers at 4 a.m. and a service at 6 30 a.m. The piece notes the unusual timing and aims to attract early attendees to the meeting and worship.
Local Brief Sees England Connection Mentioned
In England Ettrick Wisconsin special item Mrs Wilfred Koc of French Creek reports she has heard from her brother the son of Mr and Mrs Ole Aanes of Galesville.
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Silk aids war victims in silk production push
Liberated areas of Ukraine and Russia proper focus on silk farming as Moscow reports 10 000 baskets of silkworm eggs reach war ravaged regions from Tadzhikistan. Previously egg production covered only breeders in Soviet Russia proper.
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Basil L. Townsend Named Lanesboro School Superintendent
Basil L. Townsend will become the new Lanesboro High School superintendent succeeding James Ostroot who resigned. Townsend recently served as army air forces physics instructor at St. Cloud and previously headed Dorn and Magnolia districts. He is a Moorhead Teachers College and University of Iowa Colorado graduate. Mr and Mrs Townsend plan to move to town next week. Ostroot and his family leave for Granite Falls Minnesota where he will be superintendent this year after eight years in Lanesboro.
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Brye Buys Pederson Building in Ettrick
C A Brye has purchased the former Iver Pederson building in Ettrick where he has run a drug grocery and general merchandise business for 17 years. The two story frame structure dates to Ettrick’s founding, built by the late Iver Pederson.
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Early Settler Remembers Village Building Past
The son of a 1868 French Ville immigrant recalls a building once housing a basement bar and a second floor community hall used for dances and church services. Brye is remodeling and redecorating the structure as the town moves forward. Let's Go U S A Keep Em Flying.
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Sioux City Ace Flew Heroic Patrol Over German Fighters
Lieutenant Homer W. Bennett of Sioux City Iowa and Lieutenant Edwin M. Maxey of Lincoln Nebraska flew a lone Piper Cub at two thousand feet to call in artillery fire on eight FW 190s. Bennett downed two enemy planes and dodged fire in bold maneuvers earning high praise from their commander. They returned to base for repairs and another mission. Bennett holds the air medal for 35 combat sorties in Normandy and expressed a wish to fly a Thunderbolt with full belts of bullets.
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News Guild backs Roosevelt and Truman ticket
Delegates at the American Newspaper Guild convention endorsed President Roosevelt for re election and Senator Truman for vice president by voice vote, after rejecting a minority report against any partisan stand. Milton Murray of Detroit supported the endorsement while stressing member freedom of political choice. The body also urged Congress to pass the Kilgore Murray Truman postwar reconversion bill and to modify the outmoded little steel formula.
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Thieves In Groove Take It And Git In Tacoma
Tacoma police report a weekend spree by burglars, including a thief who took a toy piano from a house and another who carried away three cases of beer and a banjo as part of a string of daytime thefts.
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Fish Harvest In Garden Riverside Victory Garden Tales
In Riverside local Victory Garden plots a fish leaps beside a pond as Vic Victory Garden Institute secretary Wing hoes plots and nets a bass with a fly rod. A soldier in the South Pacific, Private Ralph Dyer of New Zealand, requests ostrich feathers for a Kiwi Concert Party costume and receives two feather fans and feathers.
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