Beef ration cuts offset by cheese price increases in December
The Office of Price Administration announced cuts in beef point values effective Sunday, while cheese and canned fish point values rise significantly. Butter and margarine stay at sixteen and six points per pound, respectively, as pork rations retain reductions from November. OPA expects housewives will see about a 30 percent meat ration increase in December with 1.3 billion pounds available for civilians versus 1 billion planned for November.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Price
Chester Bowles
Margerine
Munster
Brie
Pardon Likely Denied For Sam Allen In Topeka
Topeka December 1 Sam Allen of Jefferson county probably will be denied clemency before starting a 1 to 5 year prison term announced state parole attorney 8 C Bloss Allen jailed for stealing hogs from Norman Hamm a Jefferson county farmer who later married Allen’s daughter Hamm had urged clemency Bloss said a wedding is not grounds for clemency.
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Topeka
Sam Allen
Jefferson County
C. Bloss
Allen
Norman Hamm
Hamm
Bloss
Largest Stone Quarry Supplying War Plant Near DeSoto Kansas
The Midwest PreCote Company runs the vast stone quarry around a hill rim near DeSoto Kansas supplying crushed rock to the Sunflower Ordnance Works. Over 1,000,000 tons were produced in eleven months, totaling 1,300,000 tons to date, with a record 163,500 tons in April. Work began May 14 1942, rock extracted from 225 feet in, with multiple levels and good drainage 18 feet beneath the surface.
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Mississippi River
Sunflower Ordnance Works
DeSoto
Kan
Midwest PreCote Company
Kansas City
Explosive Engineer Magazine
Baldwin News Social Roundup and Obituaries
Mrs. Tom Hill is reported ill at home on North 5th. Thanksgiving visits span Kansas City, Lawrence, Omaha, and Guthrie with multiple LeMaster and Stewart family members. Funeral services for Mrs. Jesse Sayler and James M. Hutchinson are noted with local pallbearers and clergy.
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Tom Hill
North 5Th
A. A. LeMaster
Maud Stewart
Mamie van Landingham
Mary Nell LeMaster
Edith LeMaster
Kansas City
Andreas Bard
Julius Ziesch
Perry
Okla
Clyde Stewart
Beulah Helen Stewart
Marian Stewart
Robert H. Stewart
Lawrence
Sam Hedrick
Tommy
Nancy
Sammie
Hannah Toni
Baxter Springs
Gayle Chubb
Elsie Schnebly
Lawrence L. Thompson
R. S. Koon
Kaye
Diane
Manhattan
Arlene Schooley
Barbara Bussing
Omaha
Miss Bussing
Fred Christ
Chanute
Anna Moore
Oklahoma City
Earl Maxwell
Jesse Sayler
East
Indiana St
Barnett
Clyde W. Brewster
Carroll McLaughlin
R S. Koon
Oakwood Cemetery
Shannon Shirk
G. H. Atherton
C. €. Clarridge
W. R. Sutor
A. H.steele
E. L. Geyer
Jessie Donahue
Leavenworth
Ruby Walker
Topeka
Letha Story
Wichita
Robert Saylor
Douglas
Mildred Sanborn
Virginia McDonald
Saylor
Baldwin
Claude Willey
8Th St
Mary Bonebrake
Ben Bonebrake
Hia Ie
Parsons
Vernon Benham
Oakwood
Hutchinson
Fort Gan
Colo
Ardis
Town
Seals at Gas Office for Tuberculosis Christmas Drive
Those paying gas bills in time for the discount can buy tuberculosis Christmas seals at the gas office. Mrs. Harold Simon praises the Gas company courtesy. Volunteers selling seals December 1 10 include Mahlon Ball C R Stewart Ed Elam Frank Liggett H B Latimer Howard Sutherland Jessie Scott B Z Stephenson Orville Stone Philip Ernst Jr Bessie Taylor Warren Decker Frank Evans W M Auchard Myron Metz Louis Rockland M J Patterson Carl Graeber. In Lapland Sweden 32 percent of trees are over 160 years old.
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Harold Simon
Mesdames Mahlon Ball
C.R. Stewart
Ed Elam
Frank Liggett
H. B
Red Cross Canteen Course Opens After Enrollment
A new Red Cross Canteen course will start once enough students enroll. Miss Catherine Tis sue, nutrition aids committee chair, announced. Miss Andris Rife will teach. A standard nutrition course is planned, and qualified nutrition aids should inform homemakers and support the Food Fights for Freedom campaign.
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Red Cross
Catherine Tissue
Nutrition Aids Committee
The
Andris Rife
Kaw
Blood Bank
Lawrence
Red Cross calls and War Bond tips float in ad lines
Nutrition course inquiry directs readers to the Red Cross office and a 803 phone number. An encouragement to obtain a War Bond appears alongside a classified ad offering cash for unused household goods with a 22 contact.
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Red Cross
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Stote Hogs
Ordnance Plant
Baldwin News
Sam
Santa Fe
E. P. Addy
Santa Fe Ticket Office
Lawrence,' Kan
T. B
Lapland
Sweden
Lesealrights
Jayhawk
Ozi
Young Patriot’s Array
Montgomery Ward
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