Protect Tires Campaign Faces Tire Allocation Struggle
E L West of the La Crosse division urges all industries to protect driveways and tires as shortages deepen. The Office of Distribution and Transportation advocates increased daily tire quotas for essential trucks and buses, appealing to the War Production Board for 165 000 monthly tires, later adjusted to 75 000, amid October negotiations led by Monroe Johnson of the ODT.
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E. L. West
la Crosse
ODT
Crosse
WLB
WMC
ORD
Office of Defense Agetation
War Production Board
Military
WPB
Cal
Milkweed Pods Gather Soon in Trempealeau County
In Trempealeau County Wisconsin milkweed pods will be ready for gathering the first two weeks of September due to hot dry weather. Jens Klavestad chairs the project noting pods ripen earlier in the south and seeds should be collected before they burst to preserve floss for life jackets. About 3500 sacks will be filled and distributed to schools with remaining supply at the county office for sale at two cents. a booth at the County Fair in Galesville September 1 through 4 will promote the milkweed program.
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Whitehall
Wis
Jens Kilevestad
Trempealeau County
Klavestad
Court House
Edna Langseth
Home
Galesville
Annual Rain Supplications and Local Turmoil in Villages
Annual rain prayers continue at Ghungopovi and Shipaulavi despite ongoing hardship at Hotevilla. A third dance event is planned as villagers face delays in securing eight priests. In a clash of luck, an antelope incident leads to a jail term linked to sheep dipping in the region.
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Ghungopovi
Shipaulavi
Hotevilla
Girl Scout Camp Teaches Weather Craft and Teamwork
Girls at Camp Decorah built homemade barometers from coat hangers and cardboard, recorded daily weather readings, and forecast the day. Units formed groups to cook outside, build a bridge, and study wind and cloud patterns, with many participants named across units.
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Camp Decorah
Ghica
Lu Vanzandt
Tonia Modahl
Jane Audrey Buros
Joyce el Anne Fox
Jane Daley
Geraldine Lamke
Ethel Janet
Joyce Dahle
Mary Ellen Killian
Jean Tschumper
Beverly Grosskopf
Marie Iser
Trick Washed Up Housewives Find Basement Washing Machine Sign
In New York an apartment building’s housewives discovered a disconnected washing machine in the basement. A sign on it urged tenants to stop using red and blue ration tokens and to insert dimes, promising it would resume operation.
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New York
Milkmaid Contest Winner Milks Six Cows Fast
Julia Drabek of La Grange Ir won at the New York state institute of agriculture Farmingdale by milking six cows in 72 minutes for 116.3 pounds of milk, beating all contestants including boys.
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New York
Julia Drabek
la Grange
State Institute of Agriculture
Farmingdale
N. Y
William D Gordon Receives Signalman Third Class Rating
The Great Lakes naval training center awards William D Gordon the rating of signalman third class at graduation exercises. The 19 year old Ettrick Wisconsin native earned the honor through strong recruit training aptitude test scores. Graduates from the service school advance to sea or shore assignments or further training.
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Great Lakes, N
William D. Gordon
A. T. Gordon
Ettrick
Wis
U. S. Naval Training Center
Wisconsin bishop to speak at First Methodist mortgage burning
Bishop Schuyler E. Garth of Youngstown Ohio will give the keynote at the mortgage burning ceremony at Sparta First Methodist Church this Sunday October 1 announced by Rev. E. E. Clarke local pastor. Garth heads 509 churches 285 pastors and 91 690 members as elected by the North Central Jurisdictional conference in Minneapolis. Also attending will be Rev. Harold Gee district superintendent. More than $9 000 was raised in two months to clear the church debt.
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Sparta
Wis
Schuyler E. Garth
Youngstown
Wisconsin
First Methodist Church
E. E. Clarke
Garth
North Central Jurisdictional Conference
Methodist Church
Minneapolis
Harold Gee
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Miram MacLachlan
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Linnea Anderson
Marian Niebuhr
Jon Poten
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Ray Smith
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Chungking
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