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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - January 9, 1943, Mount Pleasant, IowaIM AFRAID III BE ON OCK call FOR THE REST ^ OF THE WEEK, J SARGE j I GOT A I-AD x CBARLEY HORSE IM MV LEG ' THAMX to HELT FL BARRETT FORT jo SORCE O MEADS r MARYLAND. A Bos - Wow \THE IHT PLEASANT NEWS V01,. I,XXI. No. 7SAT! KOAY, J \.V 9, 1943 MT. PI,BASAN I , IOWA More Details About Farm Day Jan. 12 Some of Th** Speakers Are Listed Russians Continue To Push Forward OPA Ceiling On 5 Machines They’ll Do It Every Time - - - Pi epa rat tons are being completed for Fairn M' oili/ation Dav hex Tues ay, Jan 12 The meeting will be vin at the American Legion Hall, the morning | serial beginning at IO JO follow cd by • a dinner at the Hall at noon The Merlon will re ame immediately thereafter and continue until the three belock broaden* * o bi given by Pre.*,:- I dent Roosevelt arn! Sen et ary of Agri- « culture Wickard At the morning session the subject f ! goals, live lock feeding, vtterina: y j and disease ,problems, machinery rationing and Uh human element •*> involved. including the blood bank., will j be presented bv Max Kauffman. Floyd j Gnodell. Glenn Campbell, Dr W A. Stei nberg a lad others Immediately aper It will be ‘l.nwii on an ject. folio’* ing winch will i)“ given by repr various organic a'ions $ ira'ion cf Women- c War Bon : Chairman read, Farmers Union community and busine Tractors, Combines, Pickers And Binders Included For. Five day-, a week the Dispensary at fort foot-BliSTER is so crowded with cripples they could use a TRAFFIC COP / I CAN hardly ( walk, Sarge It IS from ti* bi pres The s Cottrell rece nil] Charnu followei o‘c loc k a movi '■ ippropriato sub-wry brief talks ur.tatives from U( ii as the Fe l-uh Red Crc - -FTA. Farm Bult nd other civic ss groups, which through Mrs K rn -: Fit le woman. a representative of the AAA may /gram will close ad lr*- bf C A Ames Im*, j The Office of Price | Administration ha-, taken steps to pie-J vr ut nrof Perrine on 5‘tvpe.s of used* I farm maminrry. C H Cha e, secretary of the Iowa L. piemen! Dealers A acetation, said here today. Chaae said that according to information received trim the W ;sh-ingtor. OPA headquarters ceilings on a tv.pea of farm machinery became effective a* 12:01 a, rn.. Jan. 9 Used tractors, combine . coni pickers, corn binders and motor or trar. tor operated hay balers are the farm rn rhine, placed on the ceiling price li t Th* e machines cannot be sold in excess of ceiling prices at either private sale or public sale Chase PLANE CRASHES NEAR LO P. Army Plane Falls Killing Tun Officers Germans Drop Hack After New Defeats BUT- COMES ST SATURDAY AND the week-end pass, you oughta SEE "hem "CRIPPLES Pun FOR. Omaha Nebraska <INS* An army plane crashed three miles west of the Ord i a nee plant at Burlington. Iowa. killing two cfficeis, 7th command headquarters ..t Omaha anncunced tori IV. Ti:e plane was on a rout ne flight from Ellington Field, Texas army ot-ficiais said. Some Hand To Hand Fight- in? In Sta! in grad Area j, mu- d out T he ceiling i prices arthrtu* groups a: s followsWire re the in aedine it-old 11 cannot ta ? old atcent o I the ba e price.Hie la St list p ne5 publin mufi acture: ai id is figuEt ll i t h :»»rcent OI we ©ase price e machine.- are reconditioned tty experts, and guaranteed for days to the next buyer, they c *n-t ta old at more than 95* of the i se price Chase pointed out one difficulty in ASK NEW parity Legislators Appraise Job PRIfF RACIC* a v Ahead of General Assembly ........* iv Farm (iroups Request Al Hour _ Week For InduMrv Des Moines, la.. UNS)—Legislators tical-politics quest.on of what effrct -day appraised the job that lies be- the change might I va or. party trgan- -Congress • fore the 50th Iowa general assembly, ization campaign cf lei farm organizfflons for new parityJcentered on the fellowing: price basis and a longer Industrial! School cede revision, for which Burma Gets Endorsement For Speaker Fairfield team • INS* Henry w former* Butle: years, this morn-i.'.>j.se peaker of Of Burma • ouniv ing w i the cOth general a embly by 07 of th 98 republican house members at th pre-'•et Non caucus He received 52 votes on the Secor ballot to 32 for Eat i C FlsnPaugh, Jr l f Dc M lines The off} vote then was mad rn ai nm ur for Burma on motior Fl.-i.ua Ugh Burma 4? is a World War veteran who val actu.*' in sc i vice qverseas. He i married and has ”vo children; is a farm laud owner and before catering politics by serving as a sheriff, he was in the hardware business at Allison. He is beginning his fourth; term as a house member Avt ry of Spencer# was . named as speaker pro tem ani Steinberg, Am* s lawyer beginning his thiitd the house, wa (*r I I A, C. Gustafson, chief hoU-se clerk for J many years was endorsee! for Ute* jrosition again. Washington. D C INS today was confronted with the de- most discussion, other than on organ- Among supoorters of the fcur-ytar mands of the nation's Big Four j ization and civilian defense legislation, term proposal is the Iowa Taxpayers association. a The association also is on record as * new : .in whi h OPA will need to! work week cf up to 54 hours with,'bulk-, report is virtually completed by advocating Exemption cf loo.) I tax- ar un Where several bidders eek overtune requirement s el ann. ted the commission set up by the 1941 leg- supported units from payment of the machine and have bid it to j in a statement leaders of the four j islature. J sales tax. and of a provision tor reice who will get the organizations said that America will i The state income tax; efforts for fund of any tax moneys which are I be faced with acute fc-d and fiber j repeal or partial suspension are an- paid without protest on levies subse- I shortages and possibly with actu <11 ticipated quently held illegal. Joe Long, the or- ' hunger unless changes are made in t increase of county officers' terms to • ganization’s executive secretary, said. ■the present price ceilings and man-j fear vt irs. REA Lines Tax power conditions improved. ' Question of assessing REA lines and On the REA line t ixing question, j The statement, issued after a w ck municipal plants and lines for taxa- j the Farm Bureau Federate n went on i of conferences, was signed by Edward j non {record in November with a resolution It was coming dew ti h r a lanai: and was inly about 20 feet off the Re-tov, ground v, hen it suddenly nosed clown- ported t< ward, eye witnesses told officers at Russia: Buri ngton. both side ^ At Ellington Feld. Texas, the occu- reported pants of the plan** were identified ti from the j Lieut. Wayne S. Forsyth, pilot, and I Lieut. Lewis K Barnck, medical corps. ! both of Houston Texas. Barrick form-. eriy resided in Pennsylvania. County Men In The Service , ** «i . rn j New London friends have heard from Bul dell "(ii ph Giilearri. who I has been in Hawaii for .several mc nth y th ii he is learning tile language of th<* island and that he Ukes it there very much. He says the people are very friendly and want to do everything in their power to help th ; American boys. and wa re n arles he imme- HAS BAD NIGHT TOO Fairfield. la The Burlington Grey- • hounds caught the Trojan- of Fair-! field on one of their wo: ,t nights cf ' the current cage race and handed them a severe lacing of 50-23 * Nih once during the game did the | Men of IYoy look like the outfit that t had been beaten on!*/ once previously. , In a nutshell tire Trojan style of play I was plainly terrible Mr. and Mrs. R limier A Scott were thrilled by a telephone call from their son Edward Scott, Wildness,! morning. Earlier that day they had received a telegram, In his call hs said that he was in California and would be heme on furlough within ten days. his first in two years of service He h is sci n much active service in the PaciKc as Iv wa at p-arl Harbor and has later been in the south Pacific arca. Fort Benning, Ga Elbert Cammack dial?■ct iv e of * he rn ult n prot i §6 Clcf fens. Ive.Far bchHie ma io.— It* * 11 ’ ‘ Run i ■ 11 s foul Un bit *er ll; and-to-h andi ittle? - in the ruins , f si ll titered H ' a I -.na.ac I: d d . vc tiGe rmans fi mm*0 tre ll Ch po? i lions./lor e than 500i iii my t re >oi es cr'' sla in in the f ii;; -t OI v a rea en the out Sr. its of the Vilga cit J I he Sov let sweep t hn jug li the nor •th-em C UUCi I HUS cuntii lUt id w itiiout in-terr uiition C ierman ii -SCI yes rus hetito the Iroi til i ailed to . h alt the adva neeZI the Re d a rmy.Far to the north the cen ti .1; rom Sov i ct u nuts Jo;■ti & 11 read in theVeliki ( ? Ll i kl < ires wi ierhe Germ answere in ak ing fur I OU;JOU! altr-as?a ult-in th* » et fcx t to sic •rn t ! e Run I indrive tow. i rd? the LKUI bs rcler. lessthan 90 miles to the wast The headlong German Vt tmued in the northern Caucasus under increased pressure of Red army forces driving trim the east and south. As they retired the Germans abandoned I .rgc stores of equipment and supplies. Heavy Damage To Jap Convoy . A. O'Neal, president of the American j Aid To District?. that "REA transmission lines should of Salem, Iowa. was commis cned Farm Bureau Federation; Alb* rt 8. j The school code revision c.mmis- ’ not be taxed on the same basis as rub- second lieutenant in the Army of the Goss master of the National Grange; ... ions recommenda'ions embrace state lie utilities" because they are -a sen- United States tcdov up n since Charles C, Teague, president of the . aid to local districts through an "equal- ice to the fanner rather than a prof- completion of the Officer Candida** National Council of Farmer Co-cper- ization ’ fund, a teacher annuity pl in, i it-making venture tor a group cf Course at the Infantry School at Fort alives and John Brandt president of employment tenure, new transporta- stockholders." Benning. Lt. Cammack is the son o« the- National Cooptative Milk Pro- j tion proposals and revision of districts; However, the Bureau resolution add- the late Mr. md Mrs Ray Ca rn mac. ducers Federation. j tv a county b ard of education. j ed that “if and when municipal power of Salem. Iowa. ------------------i 7*jie scope of the county board of ; plants and distribution systems are Tile new Lieutenant was inducted ^1 Pass FORMER RESIDENT I Lf . VT . .. dies at Waverly r mal Examinations I education, now of little power, wouic I be expanded. A function would be to prepare plans and recommendations lei* revision of districts within the ccunty. Revision would require ma- Nanus, of 21 of the 33 men Tho re- I Jont> votes m each °‘ the districts of' for final examinations f:r fected »“ ou!U"e P«P»red by the commission pointed out. Weight would be given to the board’s er alants are assessed for taxation. | Oren R En:.-*. 61. a former Mt. j . Pleasant resident, died on Sunday, ported for final examinations f:r i Jan 3. after a heart attack. He is entrance into the army, were listen at ! survived by his wife and a her rela- the Selective Service office today as ; live having passed the examination. They *, In hi- younger years when the tam- will report for active duty after, a | ilv lived rn Mi Pleasant, they w*ere week’s furlough at home. I members of the Presbyterian church. Reports are that ll of the group *fco schcols meeting organization require-| lines onerated for profit outside the subject to taxation en a nim’I ar basis, into tho army on Mar. 9. ISH ami we recommend that REA transmission served with the 133rd Infantry. 83ni lines be evaluated s property and School Squadron, 7G5th School Squad-that the tax be assessed against the ron before going to Officer Candidate local REA co-operatives to be collen- School three month- ago He held th ted by such co-operatives from Ult rank of Corporal before beme ccm-users of the service.” missioned Legislators explained that RFA pow-1 recommendations, it was explained by j but that transmission lines are not. members, by the fact that the state j Municipal plants and Hies are no* aid would be contingent upon the i assessed, it was explained, except en term I picked Its floor lead- j Mr Ernst was president of the Wav- went recently were rejected I el Iv Publishing co. THREE TEAMS LEAD IN TRI-COUNTY LEAGUE MORE TECHNICAL WORK IN HIGH SCHOOLS URGED Iowa Cite, Iowa (INS'-' Iowa high Old- and Wayland are now tied for leadership in the south half of th* Tri-county League and Cotter is leading the north half of the league. At sc hool education should 'deal mon-1 the end of the season, the leading with technical training Resigned tv*! team in each half of the league will prepare young men for military serv- play for the championship. j ice, it was recommended Gdav by Urn- j winners Friday night were Olds. ‘ varsity ot Iowa education expels. | Cotter. Wayland and Ainsworth. Greater emphasis should be placed j scores are given elsewhere, upon phvsics courses iih Iowa high- J - ,1,00b It was asserted f0X HUNTING BECOMES “Much time .should bv spent on the laws of force and motion, mechanics, heat and electricity, with a reduction - of time en sound and light." the ed- Recent have made fox hunt- Hcatoi-S declared. ! “n,«*aWe for seven,‘ H®1'7 coun’ _) J tv residents. Barton Simmons heads j The 21 accepted are: Lloyd M Burns. Clement D Hes-. ter, Marvin K Roth. Clarence C. 1 Stanley Marvin J. Hitch Waller R. j Jackson. Hirold Z Ricks. Rey L. How-1 aid. Donald M Oge, Vernon Reeves. Bernard Smith, Virgil E. Campbell I Carl E. Brown, Donald J Waldcmeier. = i>ai<i , Beryl W. Barney. Walti'r W KiJg.mi. (Lewis A. Kittle. Herbert F Stonehou.se. I Delbert L. Flay hart jr. Maurice L Swan, I Richard H Van Tuyl. ments j municipality Opixxsition to the proposals Is an- j — — - ticipated There is the possibility that. B.P.W.C. TO HELP WITH SURGICAL DRESSINGS if demand for a streamlined session mounts, it may never get out of committee. In general, farina are believed to ROOM OPEN ONE EVENING favor the equalizetion-through-state- I _ feature cf the plan, and the Iowa State Farm Bureau Federation at! Uie Business an professional its convention in November. voted bornan.- club is going to assist tile st.I to aid as a means of easing the lo- Surgical Dressing commit/ee of the cal real estate tax load > Rcci Cross to fold bandages for the Deeds Recorded At C ourthouse Income Tax Ef forts to repeal or at least to suspend part of the state income tax are expected. To some extent those at- The Business and Woman's club is going to assist Surgical Dressing ccmmitfee of Red Cross to fold bandages for Army and Navy. For this purpose the work room will be open on Tuesda; evening of each week from 7:30 to 9:30. Each one is asked to bring a wash dress to put on and a hairm r PROFITABLE RECENTLY ANNUM. REPORTS GIVEN i the list the last few days with a total ! of nine to his credit. He collected the AT. 0. E. S. MEETING i dollar each bounty on eight a few days The regular meeting of Bethlehem ago and brought in another today. Chapter O- E. S.. was held at the Ma- j Harold Kauffman collected on two sonic Temple recently. Mrs. Ellen J today and Delmar Barton, on one. Bryant, the Worthy , Matron, hadj — charge of the business cession. There KOCHNEFF SCORES 38 POINTS IN GAME tempts may become something of a | or k rchief to cover the hair. Any rural-urb.m issue The repeal support women who are not members of ’he is said to lie in cities and towns, while b p w c but who arr free in the at least tw'o farm organization.-, the J evening and would like to help in th! ; Bureau Federation and the Farmers ; work, are cordially Invited to come I Union, have gone on record as oppos- ' • ing repeal. scoring Kothneff There was a very good attendance of tin members and two visitors. Tin- annual reports of the secretary - and treasurer were given and were! Muscatines high most gratifying. An increase in mom-1 went on a scoring spree in the game be f sh ip was shown and \the financial i with Keokuk Elida \ night mopping standing most satisfactory. -in 17 field goals and tour hee throws Installation of the 1943 officers will' t i* a total of 38 points. The figuit be held on Tuesday.'^Jan. 19 The'probably sets a record in Little Six members are privilegttd to invite scoring by an individual in a single guests. game. Maurice Green and wife have given a deed to Alice Green Weir for their interest in 80 acres in section 36 cf Jefferson township, iccording to records at the courthouse. C E. Christner and wife have given I pocjPration's resolution also op- deed to William M. Sempf for a tract )nv suspensicn by urging that in section 18 of Tienun township., sufficient state funds are on hand to Consideration was $4 >0 j tax reduction during the war Jennie and Stella D. Petzingei have , emergency, that such revenues be used given a deed to Guv L Redfearn and , ^ ri,piace property taxes collected for Marie Wick Redfearn for 16.42 acre» county 1unctions was; The Farmers Union, urging gradual* Corp. Donald It. White, visited on ; five dav leave with h;parents, ’Mi and Mrs. Roy White, a day tin (last week. He was being transferred from Camp Murphy, West Palm Beach, Fla to Drew Field, Tampa. Florida. I i cd Wchi Ic. who re -* • I ho com mission a few weeks ago. is now* stationed at Pearl Harbor, according to word received by his parents. Mr. and Mrs Wall Wi brie Observe Their oath Anniversary Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Anderson of N. Van Buren street* celebrated the!: 55th wedding anni versa ly at the home cf their son. Clarke, at Stockport, on January 4. Both are hale and hearty and enjoying life. Greens Married 53 Years A<><- United Nations Headquarters hi Australia (INS)— rile fierce sea and air battle cfi the c as! cf New Guhiea, during which allied planes pounded a great Japanese convoy for three days. cost the em my a third transport, damage to another, and destruction of at least 24 and possibly 46 more Nlp-Ijoncse air craft, a communique from General Douglas MacArthur^ head-qyalters revealed today. Tiffs raised ic five die number of enemy transports sunk or damaged and raised to 73 the total of Japanese planes either shot down cr put out of action. The battle, which began Wednesday. ended when allied forces pursued, remnants of the Japanese fleet into Lie harbor. Bombers in New Tunisian Attacks Allied Headquarters in North Africa (INS— American bombers lad a big day in Tunisia yesterday, n headquarters’ c nimumque nr "nevi ti - (;;i * , They carried out the vital axis base new ob,] railroad: attacks on ate and a vc. Perryville, and bombed in! brid ’cs through eastern Tunisia, the communique revealed It was also aunounced that Major Gem r I Cai I Epa it/, conin noer of the American airforce:- in Eun >e. had been appointed commander-iit-chief f the allied airforces, in North Africa, Meanwhile a French canel corps flying column wa- disclosed officially to have stormed and caplin d tho axis held out dost of El Ca! run in the Fe/* GLIDERS TO MAKE at New $7,500 London. Consideration Basketball Scores Ft. Madison 42, Mt. Pleasant 19. Burlington 50. Fairfield 23 Muscatine 52. Keokuk 19 Ainsworth 44, Wyman 18. Olds 19. Mt. Union 18 (boys) Olds 34. Mt. Union 30 (girls! Cotter 43. Crawfordsville 13 Wayland 42. Yarmouth 30 erl land tax and elimination of the ■ sales tax. f nots retention of the in-, come tax. Mr. and Mrs Millard Green very TEST TRIP TO DENVER fiule S ^ !i 1 - t in ______wedding anniversary at their home. 710 Two large Broadway, Friday, January 8. The day was made pleasant by friends calling and in the evening the children were entertained at an oyster supper. Several friends called in Appoints Five To Board of Health Chicago. Illinois UNS' dual-control gliders destined tor army training work were scheduled to leave Chicago municinal airpnt ted ay on i test flight to Deriver The gliders have been purchased by lh(’ evf>nUlu a,s(> ('•aunty Affieer Terms Also discussed is a proposal for the University ot Denver for civilian and military training and will be given a thor ugh-go1 ng workout in the fii lengthening the county officer terms ; long distance glider towing Ii ic lit from two to four years, which passed made in America, the senate twjo years ago but failed to The test eoum- includes step get out of the house sifting commit-scheduled at Davenport and Des M tee, A phase of that issue is the prac- es. Iowa. Des Moines. Iowa (INS’ — Governor George A. Wilson today reappointed four members to tin* state board of health and named Dr A O, Wirsig of Shenandoah, to succeed Dr W A Sternberg of #Mt. Pleasant. Members reappointed wa re Dr E NT Myers of Boone. Dr Herbert FE Birny ———-— of Osceola. Dr. Addison C Page of Betty Dewitt, Wiliam Dyad and jx>s Marne- and Dr Frank P M<*- Cheryle Swarst n are other Iowa Wes- Na mara of Dubuque. ley an students listed in the college anti q'),,. terms are for two years and are university Win Who Four sfui!»'n:s , effective immediately. The new board v. ere announced Friday. I will hold its first meeting next week. Others In Who’s Who t

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