Tax Commission efficiency bolsters Iowa war effort
Left To Write by Low Gardner. The State Tax Commission Expanded powers and spending show economy and efficiency under the Republican administration. Costs declined while tax collections rose across income, sales, beer, cigarette, inheritance, and other taxes. Secretary H. A. Grantham describes reorganized operations. Politicians avoid war year politics. citizens demand accountability and patriotic governance.
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State Tax Commission
Iowa
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Tax Commission
Brother Harvey Returns to End a Dublin-Style Tale
A reflective column chronicles readers and neighbors, notes a London Daily Times shipment, and wraps the Brother Harvey series with a humorous misadventure. A Red Cross basketball game invite and a cold date night on Bun ker Hill cap the piece.
Patriotism and Civic Duty in Wartime Shortages
The piece argues patriotism includes restraint from hoarding scarce materials like rubber sugar and silk. It rejects private stockpiling for personal use and urges civilians to support government needs by making do with available supplies and accepting substitutes for national defense.
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United States
Uncle Sam
Daylight Saving Time Arrives Across Nation
The nation will move clocks forward one hour on February 9 1942 marking daylight saving time. The change disrupts rural and urban routines with earlier chores and late evenings causing farmers to miss social functions while enjoying longer daylight for labor.
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John Jones
Middle West
Safety Discussion Highlights PTA Meeting
A round table on safety led by Mrs. Earl DeShaw and Mrs. Ralph Bone capped the January PTA session held Thursday the 22nd. Boyd Shannon read an air raid precaution note from the State Education Department as Mrs. Carl Morning and Mrs. Herbert Kuntz chaired the social committee for the evening, sponsored by the second grade.
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Earl DeShaw
Ralph Bone
Parent Teachers Association
Boyd Shannon
State Education Department
Carl Morning
Herbert Kuntz
High School Dance Enjoyed By Students On Jan 30
The annual all high school dance was held in the school gym on Friday Jan 30 with Don Sieverts orchestra. A patriotic theme filled the decorations as posters and balloons brightened the venue. The evening featured mixer dances a speech class floor show master of ceremonies Wally Schneider and a notable performance by Velez and Yolanda in Marriage. A weight lifting display by Bob Clark capped the program and refreshments followed intermission.
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Don Sieverts
Wally Schneider
Bob Balster
Wally
Bob Clark
Velez
Yolanda
Ralph Bender
Celestia Kuhns
Wilma Doris Yount
Jack Stuhler
Betty Clark
Joyce Wismeier
Arlene Lubben
Dorothy Bartlett
Audrey Podhaski
Bill Shrove
Honor Society Officers Named for Year
National Honor Society elected officers: president Mary Lou Luett secretary Ruth Ann Decker and treasurer Betty Adams. Initiation of the seniors will take place Friday February 6. Five percent of seniors were initiated in junior year and ten percent are eligible this year.
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National Honor Society
Mary Lou Luett
Ruth Ann Decker
Betty Adams
Baum and Moats Teach This Week in Country School
During the second week of practice teaching Laurabelle Baum and Georgia Moats will lead a country school room with students from the second fourth and fifth grades Carolyn Schlemme will teach eighth arithmetic and Edna Steuri eighth English Monday February 2 the Future Teachers of America monthly meeting was held after school with Laurabelle Baum Carlene Stahlberg and Dorothy Heyen in charge After the business meeting the lab period was spent making valentines The March committee will consist of Georgia Moats Maxine Poppe and Mae Null.
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Laurabelle Baum
Georgia Moats
Carolyn Schlemme
Edna Steuri
Future Teachers of America
Carlene Stahlberg
Dorothy Heyen
Valentines
Maxine Poppe
Mae Null
Monti Adds New Courses For This Semester
Monti introduces a revised physical training program for boys with gym three days weekly and will be fully in place in three weeks. Girls gym remains two days weekly with a home nursing course to be added later. Other new offerings include seventh grade science eighth grade physiology tenth grade junior business training. junior normal training agriculture. senior normal training economics. juniors American government. advanced speech. music taught by Mrs Goettsch replacing Mr Hobson.
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Monti
Goettsch
Senior Committees Named for Commencement
Senior committees for class activities are chosen. Class Flower Deloris Yossi Don Leggett and Venita Shover. Class Motto Sue Banghart and Mary Lou Luett. Class Song Helen McLaughlin Ann Marie Husman and Bill Marsh. Class Prophesy Betty Adams Laurabelle Baum and Louis Havlilchek. Class Will Ralph Bender George Coxsee and Wilma Doris Yount. Class History Wally Schneider Eloie Timmins and Betty Podhas ki. Class Picnic Harold Hogan William Minney and Dorothy Heyen.
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Deloris Yossi
Don Leggett
Venita Shover
Sue Banghart
Mary Lou Luett
Helen McLaughlin
Ann Marie Husman
Bill Marsh
Betty Adams
Laurabelle Baum
Louis Havlichek
Ralph Bender
George Coxsee
Wilma Doris Yount
Wally Schneider
Eloie Timmins
Betty Pod Haski
Harold Hogan
William Minney
Dorothy Heyen
Intramural Grades Open. 6th Strikes Early
Interscholastic intramural play runs noon to 12th grade with boys and girls. 5th and 6th grade rounds finished. 6th boys lead 9 to 3 and 6th girls lead 8 to 5. Winners advance to 7th grade. Meanwhile first to fourth graders perform story plays London bridge Ring Call Bell and tap dancing in physical education.
F. F. A. Boys To Sell Garden Seed
Monticello FFA chapter held its January meeting with talks on FFA history by Gene Walker Dick Mardoff and Bob Buel. Seed sales planned as in previous years to fund an expected summer trip. Seven of ten Green Hands named, three others eligible unable to attend. chapter to sponsor basketball, secured games with nearby vocational schools. Members visited Frank Walker farm to mix minerals for sale to raise funds.
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Monticello
Future Farmers of America
F.F.A
Gene Walker
Dick Mardoff
Bob Buel
Green
Elmer Heeren
Milton Reiken
Art Husman
Bill Kiburz
Roman Welter
Bill Welter
Glen Adams
Milton Harms
Norman Opfer
Paul Chaplin
Frank Walker
Dark Town Strutter Ball Halts Speech Class Fun
Friday's speech period suffered muffled off stage sounds from rehearsals for the dance floor show. The piece included The Dark Town Strutter's Ball and The Yearling with a shoe incident in class.
Yearling study offered in American literature class
The American literature class will study Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings The Yearling over the next weeks. The novel won the 1939 Pulitzer Prize and is being offered to public schools in textbook form for the first time. It portrays a Florida back-country boy’s fight to keep his pet deer amid harsh swamps and hardships.
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Marjorie Kinnan Rawling
Florida
Manual Arts End Project in Freshman Class
Freshman manual arts students completed a semester of woodworking projects. They began with signs and orthographic plans, then bench work with chisels and planes. Major projects included knife racks towel holders hot pot holders and small furniture before turning lathe work and refinishing furniture.
Seven Hour Day For School Now
An assembly was held Friday at 3 45 to explain the new hours 8 30 to 4 30 for the rest of the year. The change will end three weeks earlier allowing boys to help on the spring farm. Three yells led by the cheerleaders closed the assembly.
Senior Class Pot Luck Supper at Schoolhouse
The senior class hosts a party at the schoolhouse this evening with a supper, games, and dancing. Wally Schneider and Fay Haus sler chair the food and entertainment committees.
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Wally Schneider
Fay Haeussler
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