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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1944
Page
1
The Atlantic wall is broken and Allied forces push rapidly across France after D-day. Canadian American and British troops secure beachheads with 50 mile gains in two to three days as a major German counterattack is anticipated.
Monticello victory gardeners, numbering 500 to 600, find it pays to raise and can vegetables. Veterans and novice gardeners alike plant tomatoes and crops to aid soldiers overseas and at home. Officials praise the effort and urge a full season of work through summer into fall.
Clifton Fadiman becomes the first new member of the Book-of-the-Month Club editorial board since its 1926 launch. He will help select the monthly book from about 300 submissions. The club notes his deep literary concern and independent judgments fit its mission.
Varied editorials review wartime policy and politics from multiple papers. References include opinions on Dewey and the Republican nomination, economic policy, and the impact of federal spending on war effort and debt.
The speaker describes a feeling of shame when encountering a soldier outdoors and frames the hoe as an honorable weapon in a provocative, nonliteral context.
The Iowa Poll finds nearly two thirds expect Europe’s war to end by spring and 85 percent by 1945, with 53 percent predicting Japan to end within 1945 and 26 percent expecting 1946 or later. It also surveys whether there will be another world war in the lifetimes of respondents.
Conserve and preserve strawberries with guidance from Iowa State College extension home economists. Choose full colored berries, wash, trim, and crush or slice. sugar optional. Freeze in pint or quart containers, quick freeze, then store. Canning involves sugar, boiling, standing overnight, and a 15 minute boiling water bath.
The notice lists ration details: meats fats red stamps A8 to V8 valid indefinitely, processed foods blue stamps A8 to V8 valid indefinitely, sugar stamps 30 and 81 for five pounds indefinitely, sugar stamp 40 for five pounds via canning sugar through February next year, gasoline A-11 through June 21, fuel oil periods 4 and 5 through September 30, new period 1 coupons for 1944 46 heating year usable on receipt, shoes airplane stamps 1 and 2 valid indefinitely. Express Want Ads get results.
Two Monticello public school teachers wed in June, Miss June Meyer to Thomas Chambers in Breda and Miss Louisa Cooper to Virgal L. Page in California Missouri. The week features local 4 H rally plans, obituaries, birthdays, graduations and community updates from Monticello and surrounding areas. Several births, deaths, marriages and public notices massage the community record.
The Office of Price Administration公布 new price ceilings for used cars in Region B including Iowa. For 23 makes and about 6,000 models 1937 to 1949, two prices apply: an "agig" price and a "warranty" price. July 10 start, with transfer certificates filed at local rationing boards.
The origin claim states tavern keepers placed a receptacle labeled To Insure Promptness for patrons to drop coins. The phrase allegedly evolved from this practice, contracting to T LP and finally Tip, with the word becoming common in English taverns long ago.
Multiple property transfers listed with joint tenants and grantees including Emil Schultz Vivian Brunscheen Mable Voss William Schultz and spouses. Dates 1944. Properties in Olin Monticello Morley and Morl ey areas with deed amounts around $1200 to $1500. Descriptions include lots and blocks in Smiths and Bradstreets additions and a Morley description with section and township details.
The document details multiple land parcels deeded in Jones County including 40 acres described as NW NW Sec 22 96 3 and a beginning point 765 ft east of a carrier NW NW, plus a triangular parcel for a public highway totaling 0.62 acres. Various deeds dated 1944 involve L W Lovell as trustee, Sophia Lambert, Asa Lambert, and others with values cited, along with adjacent railroad lots and additions in Monticello Olin and Anamosa. The Military Order of the Purple Heart decoration is described with its insignia and inscription.
Sergeant Nielsen of Onslow Iowa led construction for US AFISPA in the South Pacific. He ran a hurricane proofing effort to protect vital war records and equipment while building a new HQ for Lt. Gen. Harmon. He emphasized prefab parts, coral sand substitution, and rapid, sustained labor from Aug 1942 onward.
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