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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - January 20, 1943, Mount Pleasant, Iowa\ AUD RATION STAMPS Sugar IO - Dec. 16«Jan. 31 (Each stamp, Three pounds) Coffee (I lb.) * Ian. 4-Feb. 7 Gasoline No. 3 - Dec. I-Jan. 21 THE MT PHEASANT NEWS VALID RATION STAMPS Fad Oil 2 - - - Until Jan. 26 'Each stamp, IO gallons) Vuel Oil 3 - - * Until Feb. 20 (Each stamp, 11 gallons) NEWSr Behind the News by Paul Malign (Disflouted by King Features Syn- ilcate, Inc., Reproduction in Full ©* a Part Strictly Prohibited.; Fire Destroy Railroad Statio WASHINGTON — SOME SORT OI pay-as-ycu-ga tax plan will toe adopted by congress. Taxes have fist n so high that everyone in the treasury aud congress knows many citizens may be unable t meet their tax obligations unless the money is taken away us it i» earned Toe treasury has privately passer the word along to senate finance committeemen that it may be w ll Un,; to accept a kind of Ruml plan for lowest income taxpayers. But they want to limit the pl m to the six pet fen’ normal and 13 percent surtax bracket. Congress will probably extend to ail bracken whatever plan I- adopted, but the details of application are diffr rn' to dec Id« Parsons Edges Out Tigers t _ Teams Provide Exciting Moments for Spectators They’ll Do It Every Time Vmen Wdrmsl&v LEP ~ Poe "TVC. AP KTV, zz&yz FRIENDS AND RELATIVES PROMISED TO WRITE him* regularly Gimme vour ADDRESS, VJDR^'S I WANMA SEND SOME SMOKES M'0O/, WELL WRITE SO OPTEN VOCl LL j THINK MOURE STILLJ WERKING HERE LETS KNOW TOUR -A I ADDRESS AS SLOu A S V^j I you GET SETTLED - / well have The mail- S' MAN SOW'LEGGEPL , '/v t I- Filling Station Hoars Limited May Stay Open Not More Than Hours Weekly TIII, I RHOE ic mind, lie laxpa; I Huml p our taxes Your pa common in t en in congre id save moue that Mime po would be ! rer.en mends would not bt* md e Pf WO! iii or pu th of In a game which contained all the elements cf a coed footrace but little good basketball, the Wesleyan Tiger bowed to a determined Parsons squad by :i score of 34 to 32. Stepping into the lead at the opening whistle the purple and Whit* locked like the squad that held thr champion Bedoten to a 40 to 3.3 scot1' J last Friday* night. However, after running up a Had of six points they apparently thought the game wa n lei arid settled down contentedly to a heavy-footed, fumbling st vie of floor play from which they never roused until Ute game was lost. It wa th' old fab!* of tie t land the hare* portrayed in a modern manner but faithful attention to de tail. Wesley an s men played the part :f the fool The Kelly ied mined or eased. You would merely pay last wars taxes th is year as usual. and oppotcall it lids year s i4xes, Use saint next the g• car and so on. I irne.Chief ohs tach toward clear.ancscorerthe atmosphere now is house ways and w asmeans cliairma i Dought©!!, who has tradesaved the mono v for ais can tax es of Btlast year and thinks everyone Cise • and. hould have done likew r ejIn any event no p.an is like y to * the cgo through bel are March 15 so pa y - andmerit mu-’, be r nude then on the basts momof last year’ income* instead of lh st bothquarter earning s Of 1943hairbut tents amt* W* fish and overconfident hare Greens c nu as the deter torte got away to a slow > once having overtaken their were never headed although was tide 13 to 13 at the half j sleyan led 11 to 2. then * Four Persons Believed Dead In Bi<r RI. (tic ' V reek, day :pen and the or- Less In f irht Fire May Exceed S103,033 stations stay i ay, seven days „ ______ e Saturday. Alternative Davies, deputy petroleum \ said tin- 24-hour-a-day vrculd permit o-called to service common car's* T card holders, f the order: s must post openly in a conspicu- e for 72 all cur* tai of 12 12 hours s of less Al, Firemen to** ■ wrckage of iii,' n I {nit o d four persons which early the building bv ‘ho Toe*;I than a TIU* j un Acting Class To Present Comedy County Men In The Service Bill Would Boost Governor’s Salary only two points w hilt- Parsons Wesleyan W MR. KUDZIA KLI S requ*. * :' $16- JOO.0000,OOO mere in compulsory savings and taxes will not be granted bv congress. No one sees how such a fblare can be met Congress is In the mood to go along »ith* a compulsory savings plan, perhaps not to as grea an extent as Mi Roosevelt wishes, but it will net accept the spendings tax. and does n-t believe it would raise the money anyway In lieu of it a sales tax probably will bt* adopted Tile preponderant guess is that the nation's pocketbook will be tapped tor less than two-thirds as much a* Mr Roosevelt wanted Pa making d 28 to Eh teams the game rts from tiler anc recoveries guts let coaches spier Of ie game oils tied ? with 9 L ?d well d* fensively | featured bv furious ll ll pla wa me end of the court lo wild flurries of fumbles i that furnished exciting the spectators but kept opium? their thinning Wesleyan wav riigi with 12 points Tcdd ot with Buckncy for .second Will Give “The Doctor In Spite of Himself’ addn s ot Pvt. N.. 37251804. Co. * Training Cent-Los Angeles, Cleo La user return* | ping frcm Wichita Pa he visited his brother Lauser, w ho ll* point: Box each Score SOME ARE ADVOC ATING the doubling of the current 5 per cent Victory Tax on inc me.s of $624. but this is unlikely. The Victory Tax is not yet considered a success. A great inner wail is .starting to rise against it, although it went into effect only Jan. I Employers compain that labor ii demanding an increase in wages equal to the amount deducted for the tax. If granted, this would nullify the govern- J meat’s program of wace restraint and ■ inflation control and destroy the basic * reason why the tax was adopted. I The idea of making one man re- i sponsible for another mans taxes is wrong anyway Wesleyan Diehl, f Car-tenser, f Nan f Bu kney. c Wagner, g Tuba ugh. g Lange, g Lott, g I i Totals ! Parsons Middlekauf f McDowell, f ; Fifield, f I Todd, c Littleton, g Dahl, g Hanson, g 1 Evans, g FO. ..I .1 . .0 4 ..6 I . .1 13 PG 9 FT I 0 0 The fellowing is th* Warren F. Howe, A S I A G06-T D Bn. Des* t ... , I cr, care Postmaster The acting class at Iowa Wesleyan I calif college vvill present M here * - imou t w comedy “The Doctor in Spite of Him- j self*' Friday evening at 8 p. rn. in the I college chapel Filled with humor of the .slapstick, ! variety, the farce furnishes counties-, j coursc oI mechanics scorer chuckles and much w hole-hearted I laughter. The writer choosing for his setting • *- a small French Milage in the 17th I Al tile morning church service at century makes hi characters ex,*?- j Camp Jt)S t. Robinson, Little Rock, gerate and ridicule custom- anc! prat-j^g sunday, January 17, i-ur Mt. tices of thai day. Underlying the I pleasant boys had >art in the program. Hall Weir sang a solo entitled “Dedication.’' With Tommy Roberts Would Increase Pay From $7,500 to $12,000 Des Moine which would Tuesday cve-. Texas where Private Gerald bee ti taking the technician. Cleo ' was gone seven days. Gerald has b*^". * stationed at Sheppard Field. PF 0 I 0 3 0 3 I II “I 8 and prac-Underlying the broad humor are hints of wi.-d m which have kept the pl * v timely and popular for nearly 3< ) years {pa lying the organ. Russell Wittmer The audience will see many parallels >anc} Rcycc Chambers played a comet with present day life and Un will add dUet “The Holy City. to the enjoyment of the play. 6 FT. PF 9 LOANS AVAILABLE FOR SUPPLIES IN “FOOD FOR FREEDOM” DRIVE INCREASE IN SHEEP ON FEED IN IOWA Iowa —(INS*—A bill raise the .salary of the Governor of Iowa to $12,000 a year was intrcduced in the Iowa senate today by three republicans and one dem-I ccratic senators. . I At present the governor receives $7 -500 a year. Under the bill the in-I crease would no* be effective until the j year of 1945. I Signing the bill were Senator Jean P. Ber?, republican of Cedar Falls S. R. Emerson, republican of Creston, and I George Paul, republican o: De- Moines. and Leroy Mercer, democrat cf Iowa City, j The senate held only a brief session I at which IG bills were dumped into I the hopper and the names of the 50 ■ committees appointed by Lieut. Gov-ernor Blue were announced. S The senate adopted a resolution of-| fered by Senator Berg offering cen* I doler.ces to the Sullivan family a’ Consecutive ealer elects to remain open 24 day, he must serve all cut-for 12 consecutive hours si:: days of the week. Only T card hold-er5- mav be served during the remain-I ing period. Davies said th*1 12-hour-day provis-i;n was intended to enable service station operators to reduce operating co-t at a tune of decreasing business. Sieved to toe the second Totals Officials 15 4 Brodder and Steven*. ll Carl W Danielson, Field Supervisor for the Emergency Crop *and Feed Loan Office announced today that . ‘ Food for Freedom" loans are now available. The loan fund-* can be used to purchase seed, feed, tractor fuel and oil. machinery repairs, fertilizer anc! other Next College Home Game on Feb. 9 On January first Iowa farmers were feeding 610,000 head of sheep and lambs for market according to estimates released bv the I:wa Corn and Livestock Reporting Service. This I number is the largest since 1935 and ' compares with 580 OOO at the same time last year While the Iowa and other Cern Belt states increased >heep feeding operations, '.lie U. S. total was Iowa Wesleyan’s game with Parsons here en Tuesday evening is the last home game until Feb. 9 when Penn comes here. The Tigers will have a three day road trip next week. They will meet Central on Jan. 26. Simps n on the 27th and Penn on the 28th. The latter game will be played in the Eddyville high school I gym. FORMER SWEDESBURG WOMAN DIES IN TEXAS FRANK WALKERS CHOKE as Democratic national chairman was a defensive, rather than an offensive political gesture. Walker is a quiet, tin-aggressive J capable man, who is likely to sit com j fortably on the partv cauldron, and, _ its seething currents within, until af-1 Anderson received a tor the war. His appointment by Mr. ^ J^ng ,dlmg ot tht, Roosevelt < the president made it. no ^ ^ Hannah Hanston! of the committee) will attest a current ^^ 0CCUrred Tuefcdfl. theory that politics is a jowl {afternoon Mrs. Hanstrom was for- Of far greater note is the unannoun-1 cod fact that the whole Democratic I National Committee staff, from top to • ^ a. botton, including the office boys, has been quietly fired. Mr. Walker start from scratch. supplies j 2 percent smaller than the record num- Mr. Danielson states that a first lien l>cr q{ January I. 1942, but larger than [on the crop produced cr livestock fed the numbcr on jar,.;,ny I in any other is required as security. Farmers who are unable to arrange for credit from local banks, production credit associations or other local .sources on reasonable terms are eligible to apply. To obtain information en where to make application, farmers should get In touch with the County Agent. AAA County committee or Township committeeman or by writing to Carl W. Danielson at Ottumwa. Iowa. Box 375. Woman Accused of Drunken Driving Fairfield, 2a. — Laura Freshwater. Fairfield, was taken into custody fy Ronald P. Ha Heck. highway patrolman for driving while intoxicated. She appeared before Justice of the Peace J, R. Peters this morning and waved ; preliminary hearing. I The defendant was bound over t the grand jure and her bond was fixed at $1,000. The same charge was filed against her in 1941 Tile arrest cam* i this week after the highway patrolman followed the car about one mile west of Fairfield. Elbert Barker, also of Fairfield, an Waterloo which lost five boys on the occupant in the car driven bv Laura Freshwater, was charged with intoxication, He was fined $10 and cert? when he appeared before Justice ot the Peace J. R. Peters this morning. In forma ti rn against both defendants was s gned by Patrolman Haliock I. S. To Buy and Resell Cows year. The estimated nuni bo; this year for the U. S is 6.783,000 head, compared with 6,Ors DCO a year earlier. 6,479,000 in 1941. and 5.8 1,000 in 1940. The number on feed in the ll Cern, Belt .states was larger this year than j last, but the inerts.e in this area was not sufficient to offset the rather I sharp decrease in the total in the ^ feeding state- outside tile Corn Belt , U. S. S. Juneau. Senator Fred Cromwell, republican of Burlington, wa; named to represent the senate at tire council of state government meeting to be held at Baltimrte next month. ; The house moved into high gear today following committee appointment yesterday with 12 committees to hold meetings this afternoon. The house devoted attention to deficiency bills this rn "ming. One passed was a bill to allow committees toj make expenditures for clerical help and other expenses in promoting the sale of war bonds and for similar projects. It passed 93 to 5 after a motion by Hep. A. J. Nelson, republican of Council Bluffs, t. refer the bill to committee had been voted down. Burling Jay probed through ti the Buri ngton, Iowa, station for the bo-lies of belier cd killed in a blaze this morning destroyed fter a five hew battle fire department. Feu* Believed I) Mi Believed dead were: Doris Kenning. 4 s. a relief night telephone operator on duty at the witchboard on the .second floor. Lyle H. Honey, about 12, cf Ottumwa. Iowa, a civil engineer who had been sleeping in a records vault on the ccond iioor due Ic lack cf hotel ac-ccmmodatlons in Burlington. peter Carlin a Burlington railroad conductor was last seen entering the station. An unidentified man a telegranh on era tor c fleer. The fire broke out in the wading rc:m cf the station where 75 to IOO persons were writing for trains, according to eye witnesses, Henry Schlichter. Luca.,, Iowa. one of the persons in the room, raid an crdor of fuel oil wa.s noticed in the waiting room. Flame In Air Duct “Then a burst f flame shot out ’ through a hot air duct.” Sehlichter said • and the travellers hurried from the building." Night licker agent Allen Shank escaped from the blazing station with $700 in cash but mail and baggage in the offices were destroyed, as were th: records in the ticket office No estimate on the damage was available Immediately frrm railroad officials, but it is believed the loss would amount to $1CO.C30 or me re. A $75,000 modernization project was underway. Trains Delayed All trains through Burlington on the two lines w*ere held up for four or five hours. Also disrupted was telegraph communication Commercial telegraph : ffices were in the station. CARRIER BOY HIT BY LOCAL DOCTOR’S CAR IN FLORIDA AiTENDS MEETING OF EXTENSION DIRECTORS merlv Miss Hannah Anderson of I xtension direr* )r Floyd Goaded ii j attending a two-dav meeting o! tin-1 extension directors of ll southeastern ^ Iowa counties in Fairfield today anti Thursday. Representatives from the extension service at Iowa State college are laking part in the meeting. which ordinarily would require onl> 'one day. but 'bec.au e ot the war pro-' duction is being held over two cia vs. She is survived by four daughters. wjjj I all married, and one son. The son is in Alaska. She was preceded in death I by her husband. Burial will be in I Hutto. BLACKOUTS REDUCE , DEMAND FOR BOOKS TO THE SAYINGS of great men j must be added the utterance last week . of the possible ambassador to Austral- j ia. Edward J. Flynn, whose appoint- J men! is being contested on the ground i """ that i. is sheer politics, as there seem- Pacific Grove, Col. en ,0 be no oilier reason for it. Com- {becks at the nubile hb^-ary d™PP« ^1 mcr»n” noon toe opposition of sen- 1500 volumes in December Fort Myers. Ha.—Lawrence Hansen, ll-year-Old son of Mr. and Mrs. Hans Hansen, of Miramar street in Russell park, was in Lee Memorial hospital wi h a broken leg as the result of an accident in which he wa# struck by a car. Lawrence, a News-Press carrier boy, was standing beside his bicycle _____ _____ on the edge of Palm Beach boulevard cccn aVAii imp near Tice when he was sides wriped by .rcXl/ A VAIL ADIX a passing auto. FOR GAME BIRDS Driver of the car w*as Capri Bern- --- J hard B. Gloeckler, doctor at the base people interested in feeding quail or hospital at the gunnery school. High- o;hcr game pp-d may call at the way Patrolman Collier Brown, who in-'Ciane jiar(hX;jre for food left by the vestigated, said the accident was un- state Conservation commission. Due avoidable. Glot'ckier said that because gas raBoning hunters in the habit cf the fog at that early hour he did CLINTON BUSINESS BUILDING DESTROYED Clinton. Iowa (INS*—Seven familr . were driven out of apartment houses, ’ a grocery store and a tavern by a fire I which swept through a Clinton busi-i ness building early today. Hie fire j was believed to have been caused by a defective furnace. 3909 RENT INSPECTIONS MADE AT BURLINGTON Burlington, la. 'INS* Nearly 3riri rent inspections have been made in Burlington, it was announced today ov Oscar Brandt, area rent iii fetor. A but 300 of the inspect! im have b en disposed of. Brandt decl ired Tile OPA rental btl tee at ton was set up last sprint. Washington, D. C. In an effort to he'd milk production to the highest possible level, the agriculture department announced Saturday it W’ould bur and resell dairy cows to prevent their be inc sold for slaughter. Th** deoartment said tha* in some areas, particularly in the New York N. Y.. and Chicago, 111., and Kansas Cite, Mo., milkshed? and surround'ne, territory, dairv cow were being sole for slaughter becall e oi labor shortages and other anticult ie-. Ccw - bought by the department wih be sold to farmers having facilities for caring for additional ccws. Sale.- will be on easy terms. Beleve buying cows, the department will attempt inst to meet the labor shortage so that, the cows mav be k“p’ on farms where they are now Meanwhile the war product ioi board authorized manufacturers to produce 1.500.000 milk cans in the 12 months ending June 30 instead «of 8'0,000 previously authorized. NAVY WANTS LANDING FIELD IN JEFFERSON Ottumwa. la. — The navy department, through its attorney Daniel F. Sleek. Tuesday sought a federal court oider to take immediate possession ct a thousand acies of land iii Jefferson and Mali.ska counties for landing lit-lds in connection with the naval air base near Ottumwa. Federal Judge Charles A. Dewey did not sign the order at the tune. que.'-trining the navy’s right to condemn and acquire the land without serving notice on tile owners. Sleek said the navy wa.* taking action under wartime powers authorized by congress. The petition stated th* navy needs SCO acres in Jefferson count v and C» A acres in Mahaska, SEN. FOSTER NAMED TO COMMITTEE POSTS Des ment senate v Govern* Serial* Fillers ai Molt) of *0 cc rn nut: s announce Robert Bai K. A. bv.* was n.amu ANTHRACITE MINERS CONTINUE STRIKE propr int ion.1 Senator Jo Cen ti- Falls ber. Berg com n P elect; ie!d I Burling- of feeding birr's are not. going out so I frequently. Mail carriers, cream truck drivers and other are therefore urged Circulation of’not see the boy. He said that he felt the car strike under the * something but that because of the ^ Birt arain and scatter it where . Hour„ frr the garae month in 1940. heavy traffic—rime to workers going to u birds will easily find it, ate republicans to his nomination. Mr. . figure ic the wme n gunnery schocl-he was unable to ;-- Flynn shrieked with righteous indig-j pre. ana . \ rev a s o ’ "B1 k.‘gct turned around before he had gone the bey to his home. Capri Gioeekler |brfanrt^ iSt. Three WecR., Bv that time Mr atte, returned to For, Myers ane. reported "They they are Waving politic, out cur TtoWrtin the celtar BO* Mrs, Bill Bes., neighbors, had taken the ma u r to police. with me," ait c . 1,453 FORMER I0P EMPLOYES IN SERVICE Wilkes-Barre. Pennsylvania (INS*— The wild-cat strike oi anthracite miners continued into its 21st dav with no sigil today that normalcy was approving in the ncrthe ist Pennsylvania hard coal fields despite President Roosevelt s , order that the men return to work. Burlington la. (INS.-Offlctafa ot j Although aam Ha"' at.tis ot Bathe Iowa Ordnance plant at Burling- striking miners, who ate pious.ln, ton today announced that 1.453 tom- “ cr employes of the plant are rn the tilted rn un armed forces. representing alt t-aneft- do so bespit, es of the service. meUt u \ his committee last Senator Paul Ste Maynard was cairn Tie alture committee Harlan C Foster, pleasant, a* Private co ural C. Foster. Mt Pie es in the low i today by Lieut. cf Eagle Grove. n. reouM can -f chairman of apio it toe No. I with Berg, republican oi ■cl as ranking nit rn-he t Mrrmanrtup cf session • art, republican of ] chairman of ag* No. I w itll Senat r republican of Mf. ranking mein be int, mater Haiku chairman. Game On January 26 others have refused tc the threat of gcvern- .! I* The Mt. Pleasant-New ketball game originally Tuesday even in- but ;• I c n la red * ii Jauu sr> 26, London bas-ishedukd for cstnoned. will

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