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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - April 17, 1943, Mount Pleasant, IowaVALID RATION STAMPS Sugar 12 - Mch. lfi-May 31 (Each stamp, Five pounds) C offee 26 - Mar. 22-Apr. 25 (Each stamp, I pound) THE MT PLEASANT NEWS VALID RATION STAMPS Fuel Oil I - - - Fntil Apr. 12 Fuel Oil 5 - - - Until Sept. 30 (Each stamp, ll gallons) Gasoline 5 - Mar. 22-May 21 VOL. IAX I, No. HO SAK RDW, APR. 17, 1913 Marching Flag Given At C eremony Flights From Air Detachment Take Part Advance Slowly Toward Axis Bases A rn, !'hit! ', flag wa prt rated bv tile American Legion Auxiliary late Friday to the 82nd Iowa Wesleyan College Training Detachment during a review on the East Campus of there hool. During regular retreat ceremonies at 5 OO p m. the college band struck up the “Star Spangled Banner” while the post flag was lowered. Then left by the band, flights comprising 'he 82nd Detachment marched from the West to the East campo where they a-'^embl-ed before the officers reviewing stand, At the command to ‘Sound Off" the band passed the stand, playing th" “Army Air Corps March ” Win n *h‘‘ group again stood a? attention Mi Frank Jones, chairman of the Auxiliary’s Americanism commit***-, presented a beautiful silk and wool marching flag to Ca pl Sam Cowan who acted as commanding officer erne to tile illness of Cape elate Herbert. Cape C Auxiliary ta* wor rit Sergeant Grutzm across the field, f guard. Follow ing ?. man I to “pa The W* deva) reviewing st* playing ’Offic flight march* wan thank'd the Legion n behalf of the 82nd De thpn passed the flag to who carried it . escorted by an armed - present a ton the coin -in rev!* w" was given band then led pad. the cl, and stood opposite • of tile Guard" as each by. Junior High Bond Sales at $5,649 Estimate 35 Farms To Take Advantage of Electricity Oi ler An estimated 35 farms along power lines operated by the S. E, Iowa Co-; erat)vc Electric Association will likely be connected for service as a result of the War Production Board order making farm tead iring materials available according to Warner A Bussell. system superintendent. Farmers who want electric service as a means of increasing food production should now be able to obtain wiring materials without difficulty Mr Rus-11 /dd providing the*. c ,n meet the animal unit requirements cf a previous WPB cider permitting farm service connections Although 18 farm members of the svst* rn have already applied for connections and five services have b^cn in tailed in recent weeks. Mr Russell reported ‘hat many farmers hesitated to take advantage of the previous order because they didn t know hew they were going to obtain materials to wire their farm buildings “To establish the right to obtain wiring materials a farmer need only show tim* he i-. coing to make effective use of electricity to help overcome the a -cute shortage of vital foods," he said “A firmer must have a present cr a' Mired production capacity of at '••ast five animal units — for example -- five milk cow's, or a combination of different types of livestock and poultry to mak< the i<quir*d total Up to IOO fen of I in*- per animal unit is allowed. They’ll Do It Every 'l ime - - - ( THERES That CHISELER \ * I TW HEH WEH 1 GOOD \ > GRABBING A FREE RIPE MORNING ‘what A \ S AGAIN f AND HE’S T}C COINCIDENCE —WE ' V,<5UY WHO WOULDM r MEET AGAIN GOING \ „PoQ^H!S j DOWNTOWN 7 SO AM J I. THANKYOU. { / COINCIDENCE9 HE MUST HIDE ^ \ (behind the hedge waiting < \ / FOR us. IF WE WALKED,HED HES Tighter THAN A GASKET? \ ( THAT WORM WOULDN’T GIVE J \ His MOTHER A Ride to r V THE POOR- HOUSE • / HE WOULDN’T \ EVEN USE HIS J OWN GAS TO / CLEAN THE EGG \ Committees For Federated Club Meeting Named The motor mooch — NO MILEAGE ON HIS GALLONS-BUT plentv ON HIS GALL «• to- FERD GOODFELLOW, CHICAGOJLL. WITH OUR BOYS in the BPWC Activities SERVICE 9< For Year Reviewed, FIRE IN BALED HAY AT GERALD SHAW BARN WinL* .d Plans have been made for the county meeting of the Federal n of W man s Club which meets from I lo 4 30 pm at th*' Winfield Methodist church on Thursday, April 29. Mrs William Grimmer is general hail man. Committees are; Bulletin Board - Keep Pace Club of Mt. Union. Hand-to-IIund Fighting In One Arc** Mr and Mrs. H B; ctiv*d wold that th cir son. Aviation Icadet. Robert L. Baker n I be* •ll Man - n3f’1f erred from Prim a ry training ar':irKThunder Bud Field, Phoenix Arizonato a Basic training field a t Peco.», 1Texas.wasrnancPvt. Hr nald Hague o f Camp Crowder, *: ,y______ but no extensions may exceed 5.000 Bale of bond-, and stamps at -Junior feet lr* length without special WPB High has reached the remarkable permissr n * total of $5.04915 in the few week The first cp in obtaining electric Mo arrived on Wednesday to attend that til** school drive has been in service Mr Russell pointed out, Is to the funeral cf his unci* Dr John progr* vs * ck the approval of the county U8DA Laird of Mt. Pleasant on Thursday t,» »-n ti Total bond sates amount to $5.157 95 War Board for a service connection. He will remain at Hillsboro for a few at ion. and amp sales, $491 JO On Apii! gucp approval is necessary before a days with his father, Major J. K. Hi* money rained by the organiz priority on farm1 tead wiring materials Hague, ’ at ion ha be°n used for contributions may be ha : ( MW to Mu* work of the R*d Cross, the city A fire in the Gerald Shaw barn in'appeared on a program here sometime >( gu ]n<. and professional Wo- the 120C block on West Saunders about; aL’r‘ will close their year this month six o’clock this morning was soon eX- ucc* sful year it was from every tinguished without great damage. The HONOR LELAND LINNS blaze piobablv had been sm uldering it lOFICRinTF HAI I if f i >f April the $25 War Bond several hours before it was discovered , AWNIVCDC ADV t.j y[i Louise Jordan Some ground corn was stored'in th* UlN A Jill AININI V LKNAK Y th* ailing of-Ibis bond netted the barn Friday afternoon and bales of; - lunation a nice little sum. Some of Pilfered Fitting of Campaign Allied Headquarter., in North Africa Nommatinu ccmmi’tee - Miss Grace 'IN?1 Allied troops in Tun la hav-Roberts. Improvement League of Mt ing beaten off a series of desperate Pleasant; Mrs. Ola Jericho. Woman's Nazi counter attacks in the north re-Club of New London; Mrs O n reason girn today consolidated their hold on of Salem Woman's Club. strategic heights near Medjez-El-Bab Tea Table - Mrs Lloyd Fry, Mrs and advanced slowly toward the prin-Ralph Gorham, Mrs. G. G. Bellamy, cipal axis buses at Tunis and B!«erte. Mrs. L. S. Tompkins. Mrs. Clark Craw- S >me of the bitterest hand to hand ford, M s. Russell Beauehamp and fighting of the African campaign d^-Mrs. Anriv Schmidt. veloped when units of the British first Hospitality - Mrs. Brooks E Mell- army hurled back a number of sav-r ker, Mrs Marion Lemon. Mrs, Paul age enemy assaults launched in a fu* Huston, Miss Cora Smiley, Mrs. Eu- tile effort to dislodge them from th" gene Patterson. Mrs. Raymond Kerr. 22C0 foot Dj bel Ang, 8 miles north-Mrn Ralph Joy, Mrs. Karl Kneen and west cf Mer? jez-El-Bab. Mrs. D C. Chrinnger. ! Meanwhile, the British and Ameri- Decorating - Mr- N J Kicker. Mrs. can airman continued to hammer axis Clark Rodruek, Mrs. John Porath, Mrs. airfields, transport cc’umns and sup-Helen Fcpoer and M’.ss Cl rtrude Sha- ply depots despite unfavorable weath-han. cr conditions. The guest speaker will be Lieut. ------ Elizabeth F Adam- of WAAC. who _ 603 Bombers In Action: 5SLost Lcndcn, Fng. (INS)—A force of more than 600 of Britain’s b!g four-motored bombers carried out the heaviest raid of the year las? night on the Nazi operated munitions plant at -P.Ken, Czechoslovakia, and the Ger- Lelar.d Linn cele- man citie- of Mannheim and Ludwig- Ai oi h* t money making scheme in ie* cut through- the winter has bridge club I the organiz- rather badly burned. $3.15750 for bonds 16 the total wa and stainps Mrs. Lmnie Lyon is the teacher in charge of the Junior High bond and stamp effort In announcing the new regulations Sergt. Edward R- Williams ut Lowr. furcj fCr children, md the edu- * ii wiring, WPB emphasized that ma- Field, Denver, Colo., U on furlough f ational lear. fund. The loan fund has fermis wcie not to be- made available for fourteen days and is \isiting iii be*, ii designated as being used to help CURFEW REGULATIONS IN EFFECT AT CLINTON ‘‘^elusively t furnish electricity for parents, Mr. and Mr household lighting ” This viewpoint is hams at New London. supiK.rted by the animal unit requirement. which involves definite assurance on the part of the farmer apply- , . . here with his family ing tor a ervice connection that rte tphen Wil- iir yotwig lady with her educatio n wiio will in turn help in the war effort. hay were placed along one side as a1 Mr. anti Mr wall for the corn. The tire evidently j bruted their 25th wedding anniversary shafen, the air ministry announced started in the hay as the bales wen at the Lockridge Community hall on today. April 9. Mr Linn started the evening Fifty-five British planes were lost, with a welcome address and then in- Preliminary reports from returning trcducrd all tho: e present, 70 in num- crew members indicated that the < ber. ra-ds carried out in brilliant moon- I The Linn’s son. Leslie, of the Ooas* light were highly successful. 1 Guard Academy of New London. _ _______ ;Conn., who L visiting his parents here and who will be leaving in a few- Heavy Bombers Farmers Union Buys Elevator Chain Des Moine.-. la. <INS* Don W, Van for California, presented a Truth Vice?, president of the Iow a Farmers^ c. ^sequence program. ™ia ‘L™* TXro A ,, - I Union, announced today that M W . ,___ ^ buro, Egypt. <IN .»—An allied mid- < apt Perry Mathews of Fort Un* ll- 1 ha' leen donf' through loanlnf t0, Thatcher, general manager of the ing, Minn., is spending a few' days Clinton, Iowa—<INS)— Curfew re gulalions vrere in effect today in Clinton To keep down juvenile delinquency, cfficiais have imposed a rule that boys and girls under 14 years old most bi* “off the streets’’ bv 9 OO o’clock every a I. „ and dairy s«nitation equipment night unless accompanied by a patent or other older persons. Those over 14 but under 18 must be off the streets by midnight Off the streets," the police said, means out of moving picture theaters. restaurants and other places. student -• taking nurses training or;Farme,s Union Grajn Terminal ass0 otI t-*r educatmn thar will be of im possesses, or can ob’ain without prim - j w illiam C’aris, who was home ai ity, at least one of the following clee- furlough recently from Monmouth, III . trie devices or facilities; waler pump;Where he had been in pre-flight train-f r livfstotk, milking machine, milk jng jn naVy writes that he has cooler incubator, brooder, feed grinder transferred to Boulder. Colo., is Teaching Positions In School Filled mediate use in the present emergency. lh- flub also helped with War Bond drive and spent much time, effort, and money to make the scrap drive a real .success They have also had a group . i ting with making surgical dress-residing in a sorority house along mas. with 23 other men and will get 50 hrs. On last Thumdav evening the reg-of flying at the university training ular monthly meeting was held at the | northeastern Iowa elation, had completed a-deal for the purchase by the association of the St Anthony and Dakota Elevator company. Assets acquired totalled over $2,700,-000 and include 200 properties in north central states. Van Vleet said. Properties in Iowa consist of five ele-j valors and 12 lumber yards located in die east command communique today disclosed that heavy bombers raided Naples and Rossano in southern Italy and Messina in Sicily in the continuing assaults on supply lines to Tunisia. field. tm Harlan Hotel. Dinner was served at * 33 and following the dinner Super SOME FARM MACHINERY WILL BE RELEASED The new address of Pvt.. Richaib irjtendeiJt Cottrell spoke on "The Con- --Mabeus is Service Training 6 Ii c a\- *i’ution,'' an enlightening lecture and All teaching positions in the Mt. alrY> A p D- No 40-• Nashville I* im. tpj roprlate for the present time. Pleasant public schools, except one,! " After the program the election of are now filled, Supt. C. A. Cottrell Lieut. Revert L. McVejr of La J un? a, 0jj:cei was held for the coming year, said today. All teachers except those Colo., flying school was graduated Ttje s ame eft leers w**re elected for the previously announced as not return- Monday receiving his commis ••don. He COfning v?ar as have served this last A quant- jng_ have signed their contracts. | will be there for nine weeks rome year: “ President - Iv* G. Holland leo J earn bey writing from San An- De.s Moines, Iowa—(INS) ity of specially designed and obsolete The one position not yet filled is machinery ma nut actured prior to 1943 that formerly held by Basketball and being held in stock by manufact- Coach C. O. Sharer, who resigned to tonio. Texas, aviation cadet center urers has been released for distribution accept a nosition in the hysical train- writes of spending several hours wi I \ A J. Loveland. USDA war board chair- fog department at Iowa Wesleyan. Eldon Parker, fennel Iowa W• van man announced today. Sharer taught biology and general coach, and also that Ward Miner n Most of that machinery and equip- science in addition to coaching. I in camp there. Enos Slaughter the m*nt was made for tractors, that are The opportunity room taught by famous bail player, also is in his not being manufactured now. he said. Mrs. Linnie Lyon is being discontinu- camp, he stated. ^ However he explained much cf it can ed and she is being transferred to J be used by farmers having older tract- one of the grades. This will call for The address of Robert L. Baker, or> 1 some shifting, details of which have A-C.. is: Class 43- H. A. A S. B. P. The equipment is not rationed and not been completed, purchase certificates are not needed Cox-Kane Wedding Announcement is made of the marriage of Mrs. Eva Cox of Mt Pleasant MORE MEAT FOR MINERS AND LOGGERS D., Pecos, Texas. Robert was transferred from Thunderbird Field. Glendale, Ariz. ft Lt. Stanley Johnson, son of Mr. ani Mrs. Amil Johnson of north of Mt. The cf- Pleasant, is now stationed at Camp Washington, D. C — (INS) and Earl Kane of Fairfield at Kahoka. ^ prjCP administration today pre- Shelby. Miss. His address is Ll. Mo., on Saturday, March 27. Both are j _are(| iron out another sore spot in Stanley Johnson. 965 Engr., Maint. employed at the Iowa Ordnance plant. mpat rationing regulations by Co., Camp Shelby, Mi.s^ granting an increased allotment to, -------- miners and loggers. IIT a A I Indications arc that the weekly PUI’PR* Heart Awald Vice Pies. - Dorothy Raid Recording sec. - Garnelle Sizemore C* rn .-sec. - Lola Drawer Ti* s. - Gladys Miller The Finance committee was in charge of this meeting. Th*’ State War Conference will be held ii Mason City starting May 21. Th-* work of organization will be t lanced . but all formal parties will muted. The club was invited to attend the district meeting to be held in Burlington on May 2. The auditing committee was appointed to audit the books of tfie lo a1 club lor the vear. This committer’ is Hattie B Leach. Mary Williams and Ltira Wright A telephone was installed in the hall and about 10:30 p. rn. a greeting came from E:'mund Linn now attending Yale Divinity School in New Haven. Conn., who will graduate from there in this coming June. This call was truly one of the high lights of _ the evening, as the various members of the family talked to him. t London. England —'INS)— There Mrs Linn wore a beautiful corsage was no mistaking the giant Skoda mu- of Sweetheart roses and sweet peas niticns plant it Pilsen when the RAF presented by their daughter, Bernice, plastered it with bombs last night, the of Iowa Wesleyan college. captain of a Halifax bomber which Currency and silver received, $53.0) participated said today. in all, will be invested in a war bom ‘ A layer of clouds at 10.000 feet re-The evening w*as an eventful on**, fleeted flames which shown on roofs {all present seemed to enjoy them- of iactcry buildings and made them Soldiers heme on leave are not elig- |selves immensely. Ice cream. Cake stat d out," he said Within a few ihle for snerial caroline a rnlintr an:i coffee were served, as refresh- minutes,” he continued, “the whoje which is causing difficulties for many ,ments- fat tory area "ewned a mas-’ of smoke of the soldiers I - with flames and flashes from high ex- This is not a ruling of the Heal ra- MASTER EDITOR AWARDS plosives cerning up through and leav- t ion ing board or of other county ra- ta o a t rAmrriiTiAAt *n8 ’i1" red ot 1!!ps Honing boards, but is an OPA order out cf Washington, D. C.. W. K. Rogers county board chairman, oointed out. The refusing cf the gasoline to the soldiers is one of the hardest things the board has to do. but the ruling is definite and boards must abide by it. In spite of efforts to have the ruling revoked, it still stands. NO EXTRA GASOLINE FOR SOLDIERS ON LEAVE TO 3 AT CONVENTION Deeds Recorded Des Moiness, la. (INS*—Three veteran Iowa newpapermen today held ______ tile coveted master editor-publisher Leslie D Swan ai d wife have given awards bestowed upon them by their a deed to Everett Woodsman and wife fellow members association. of the Iowa Press They are: Don IT Berry, of the In fer two lots in Highland addition. Ccn-sideraticn wa^ $165. J. T. Chandler has deeded a proper- Republicans Hail Senate's Action Large Crowd At Concert Tile high school auditorium was nearly filled to capacity for the spring 1 meat ration of such workers will be Barn Blown Down At McDowell Place concert by the school band Friday evening. The entire program was enjoyed by the large audience. boosted from tile two pound limit which currently applies to all civilians to approximately five pounds. For Raymond Tulk WIND TOPPLES TRUCK LAD. IO, ALL NIGHT ONTO A PARKED CAR IN KEOKUK THEATER Clinton, la.—A semi-trailer truck Keokuk. la. — Fredj Semple was loaded with IO tons of cargo, was startled at 5 a. rn. Friday as he walk- , blown over on HighW’ay 30 in Fulton, ed past the Iowa theater and heard III., at noon Friday, and crashed a ‘someone pounding on the inside of parked car belonging to Mrs. Georgr* the lobby door. I Kinsley, Clinton. Mrs. Kinsley was Looking through the glass, he saw not in her car and) the truck driver. 10-year-old Joe Haskins trying des- J Dwight Mitchell, Clinton, was unin- perately to get out. The frightened j jured. The car was crashed against lad explained he had gone to sleep In ad itioTi to wind damage in the - Wednesday night storm reported on The purple heart award fcr Collins Thin day. a barn on the McGavic Raymond Tulk in recognition of his farm south of Mt. Pleasant occupied supreme sacrifice on the field of battle by Emmett McDowell, was blown was received here by his sister. Mrs. d wn. The birn is located at a dis-Ella Hummed, Friday. twice from other buildings on the I Tile award of merit has Tulk's name farm. No animals were reported inscribed en the bark. Tulk died, of trapped, wounds suffered in the Axis thrust of — Washington. D. C. <INS>—^publican senate advocates of sound money today hailed as a victory of majoi proportions, the senate’s action in voting unanimously in • discontinuing President Roosevelt's power to further devaluate tile dollar. The senate in passing a bill extending until June 30. 1945, the two billion gold stabilization fund, struck from the measure provision to continue existing devaluation authority. dianola Record; Sherman W Need- tjjron East Washington to Ira A. Priek-ham cf the Ames Milepost and George- e?t and C. Tucker, of the Webster City Free- I__ man-Journal (Editor’s Note: Needham is an Iowa Wesleyan graduate and has many friends in Mt. Pleasant.) i Conferring of the awards was at a banquet last night in Hotel Fort De-Moines in connection with the 28lh mid-February. Enlists In WAVES TODAY’S MARKET Cli ic a go. IIL rifest— Hog receipts 3,500; steady; top $15 23; bulk $14 90 to $15.20; heavies $14.85 to $15.50; mediums $15 to $1525. Cattle, receipts 1,000; steady; calves annual convention of the association. 100; stea ;y; beef steers, choice $16 to K Crabb of the Grinnell Hawk- |l7.75; me nun Sit to $16. eye Gazette today was elated prest- sheep receipts 2,000; steady; lambs dent of the Iowa Press association. $15 50 to $16; common $14 to $15.50; Nam* d as vice president was G. F yearlings $12 50 to $14.50; ewes. $8 00 Whitehead of the Perry Chief to tgoo; feede’s $14.09 to $19 00. Estimated for Munday: cattle 12,000. Lieut. Tommy Harmon Safe h * 20 000 shefP- 10 000 * C iL A • D LOCAL HOG MARKET at South American Base At thP Kn>v station Market steady; Top $14.50; 160 San Juan, Porto Rico (INS)—Head- to IRO lbs . $1380 to $14.20; 190 to 330 Miss Bette Moyle, secretary in the quarters of the Antilles air task force JK $]4 30 to $14->0; p^ing sow., office of Sup? C. A Cottrell at th* announced today that Lieut Thomas $1400 to $14.20. high school, was sworn in as a mein- Dudley Harmon - - the tommy Hat--ber of the WAVES, the women’s re- mon of football fame - - has turned serve of the navy, Friday at Des up safely at an undisclosed South Moines. American base after his bombing On Way To Air Corps _______ De Moines, la. 'INSt—Oamp Dodge | Within a short time, she will enter plane cracked up in the jungle, v irHnrtinn officials said tod av training at onp of the colleges where The former ail-Amel iran stat f? Simpson Wins army induction ofltcials said today training at one of the colhges where The former all-American star from Indianola, Iowa. GNS)—Simpson (hat Jim Harris, former University of the navy department has ^established the University of Michigan was re- Hm curbing but the truck was non during a show Thursday night and did college trackers today held a 90 to Iowa football coach, was enroute to’special schools. ' ported missing on April 8th. ’Hie war badly damaged It toppled over as not awaken until shortly before Sem- 40 victory over Central college after a an undisclosed training center as a She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. department announced he was ovtr- the drivel- was rounding a turn. pie heard him. dual meet yesterday. mc rube;- of the air corps. J Noah Moyle of Hillsboro. due on a flight to South America. LOCAL MARKETS Eggs—32c. Sweet Cream dc Cream No. I —50c Cream No. 2—48c Heavy Hen.- I8c Leghorn Hens- 14c Leghorn Cox Sr Heavy Cox—8c

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