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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - January 23, 1943, Mount Pleasant, IowaVALID RATION STAMPS Sugar IO - Dec. 16-Jun. 31 (Each stamp, Three pounds) Toffee (I lb.) - Ian. 4*Feb. I Lanoline No. 3 - Dec. l*Jan. 21 THE MT VOL. LXXI, 19 SAT! KOAY. JAN. 23, 1943 \ ALIU KA I ION STAMPS Fuel Oil 2 * * * Until Jan. 26 (ifaoh stamp, IO ga I Iona) Fuel Oil 3 - - * Until Feb. 20 (Each stamp, ll gallons) MT. PLEASANT. IOWA Property Taxes For Henry County Show Little Increase Some School Tax Increases Are Being Noticed By Taxpayers Taxpavt i s of Henry conny, with Home exceptions, are finding little change in their property taxes this year from a fear ago as they trek to the courthouse to make their payments. Inc eex-cepitons are in some school districts, including Mi. I leasant. While there have been increases in school taxes, most of the increases art offset by the state omission of the state tax levy and the soldiers’ bonus levy. However, in some districts school tax Increase has been so sharp that the dropping of the state tax has made little difference and taxpayers have been questioning what has happened. Mussolini’s African Empire Passes They’ll Do It Every Time - - IGW) 1600 I too 1600 line U JOO 924 50 117 IOO 200 rear. , ann me siaiej grand total last j g rear the grand I or The decision not to levy for .state purposes saved Henry county taxpayers some si7,561 while th** di continuance cf the soldiers* bonus levy saved at ut ; $4,742 Increase in school leviei amounted to $25 066 ipore in towns and consolidated schools and $5,330 more In the rural schools than the amount scheduled for collection last year little ( bange For ( aunty Purpose* The taxes for county government with all of its phases such as court expense poor Insane countv school, emergency, hospital, roads and the, like are Just about toe same as last! year A little mere is being collected * tor court expense and the general fund t while leas is being collected for the ixx>r fund. Other slight adjustments have been made, but the grand total, aside from school.-, and the lack of state or bonus j taxes, is about the Including the sc ho and btnus taxes th vear ’ass $$r>9.059; t total is $565,488 The Srhw)l Taxe^ Since the schools are respomibl an increase this year, sonic detailed; figures are given here on what has. happened in the school districts of the • countv Three of the town and consolidated J .schools hav*- school tax decreases, one j of them. Hillsboro having a decrease, but using some $1,600 of surplus from last year In addition to the tax levy. this year to carrs on the school work.. Other schools also are counting -iii left over surplus to help them through the year. Olds and Wayland are the other two showing decrease#, Mt. Pleasant Increase MI Pleas.nit has the greatest in-j crease of any of the schools Taxes j to be collected this year for the Mt j Pleasant schools amounts to $67,260 which is $17,162 more than last year. i Treat is th** reason Mt Pleasant pet sons have found their 1943 taxes appreciably higher than last vear or foi that matter higher yea rs The increase this year had foreseen by school officials, not because of the increase in the salary of the teachers gven though the upping of salaries accounts fir a part of the added costs. It will be recalled that Mt. Pleasant - salary level was below average a few years ago and a defi-1 nite program for Increases was adopt-! cd to correct, this condition Just a' the time the increases had reached the level previously mapped out. war \ conditions have made necessary some j additional increases Another Factor But anither factor enters the local j tax picture, school officials point out j For the last five years at least, the j school district has been receiving -omo “‘extra income” such as money I coming in from funds tied up in closed j banks to assist in paying current costs ; This income made it possible to -per- j ate without making much increase in the tax budget. The school board chose to operate this way rather than to impose additional taxes and build up a surplus. In other words, they decided to operate as long as possible en the low tax rate and then make a sudden in Old Wayland Pl Lawn Win! .**ld Hillsboro MI, Plea.' Rome Salem Trenton Coppock 28.059 22,200 11.500 45.390 9 OOO 67.260 1.238 7.000 2 430 1,180 2,894 17.162 592 I 963 414 ,993 717 116 levy mad*- Wash Co. Total p; Cl rovi Lowell . Linwood Bethany Pl Hill Union Buckeye Center W Cloud Colfax Sherman $26,894 $1,826 258 200 500 IOO 57? IOO 170 55 25 800 200 IOO 359 300 375 IOO 162 Maple G I im Flowers Douglas Pl Grove Oak G P Mound Hick ry G Cedar G Prairie G JSagl* Oak G Lee . Excelsior Hawkeye Bethel Fairview Maple G Cedar Oak Hill Cedar Forest Hill Prairie G. Ballimore 960 1,710 . 1,201 900 600 1,600 250 < atman . . 1,000 . I 400 1,200 1.008 Jefferson 1.772 900 I 400 1.500 Marion 1.000 I 300 918 GOO 1.500 1,200 New London 1.000 800 1.500 • 1.200 WX) 750 Salem 1,000 1,000 700 lo Hi~AR HIZA TBUL IT, NOT SO LOMu AbO HS WAS k:D EXERCISE/ HI AASE LF I ill tellnou how lo get THEM LAY WINDOWS OFF DO WHAT I DO * CWE IT Ties SIXTY*FVE Times every MORN *16-"HEN ACOLD BATH -"HEN TOUCH NOOR times And run i X WALK To WORK 0*OOH? Thus IS Kill M<5 3UT- HEAR HIM NOW IN I ,(,£ t WHATS THE idea OF J THE C0LD.6&AV \ THS STUFF ANYWAY ? ARE \ DAWN-THATS I THEY trying to TUON OUT/ Different ' V soldiers or adagio they’ll DO it ^ DANCERS EVERY Time' 163 400 700 775 800 25 GCO 3 101200248203 24 116 18I 31 i4 I IO i297 f 134305 { ( 7 * 18 128G j103 3fi4 I 197 |82 I I164 ]396 j 5 ■ f 8 4101012022115County Men In The Service The new andre - os V( Cites A. McCabe i- 316th A. A. I T T. D A cn- r r Field. Sw # *«’•: Texa . rn The follow ing is the erie;re of IM. Virgil I Campi ell. Cf; A lr* PS' non 1st Finance Training Btl Group 12 Fort Benjamin Harrison, tr.d'ana. British Flair Waves Over Vast Area Union Jack Hoisted Over Tripoli Merle Linder of Winfield .eft Flirt \ j Cure Egyp* • 1 EFT'—The 1.070.000 for Cleveland, Ohio, to begin advanced qua re mil'- African t .Tipi re treated by diesel training .Merle ha? oeen in the j Premier B nito Mussolini with the navy Lr three months and was grad- tools and weapons cf Fa;?ht tyranny, unled last week from the Great Lakes | pa * sed into oblivion today when Gen. Naval training school with the t ting1 Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's British of 1st class fireman. r anti n a> lauu rail tilers juusc * ~....... Win In League A Close One damaged By I ram Or iii John.'* n, on of XL anc Theodore Johnson of Winfield enlisted in the armv air corps i at San Antonio, Texas, t get his training alignment, Hres address is; Grin Johnson. AAF CC Sqdr. 102. S n i Antonio Aviation Cadet Center. San ! Antor.io. Texas. Mi ; Loren Carlson, caman sc rend class j arrived -Tuesday evening to spend an I eight day furlough here with iii parents. Mr and Mrs L. M C rl-on anes I his brother. Clayton, at Winfield His I, sister. Maybe], cf M line, Illinois, returned to her work at the Moline Public hospital Friday after spending two days here visiting with him. Will Play For Tri-County Championship Many Letters Ground To Kits Rally In Closing Minutes Near- j ender Wheels ly Upsets Fairfield Cotter and Wayland, winners in ti jrth-half afld County League Corp. R. R. Belike cf Camp Robinson. Ark., visited friends at Winfield _ I Tuesday and Wednesday. He was yeti pouch of mail falling under the cational agricultural teacher in the . - * - * * the n i f ancMvuin/j train No. 15 here Winfield school foi two jears fen aut h-ha lf of the 'rn Fairfield. la.-The Fanatic: Trojans j ht literally ground to being inducted Into the army last will compete in tile .got the care of their life here Friday m tiie n‘&ni was y * ba';; san,, ». adight from the M Pl casa* Panthers 'tits In one of the worst examples of summer. date to be determined at a meeting of (in w inning out 34-32 league representatives tonight. Re.1 alts in Friday nigh ^ were: Cotter 53. Ainsworth 29 Crawfordsville 36. Wyman 27 Wayland 56. Mt. Union 17 Olds 33. Yarmouth 27 Olds 43 Yarmouth 33 (girls) Final standings in the league North Half Gilbert Schantz I Wayland who h taught journalism and English in thr Tippecanoe than for severs been Oakland I 400 460 Charter O 1.000 5Fairview 1.100 153Oak Leaf 1.100 124Pl FYnnt 1.600 139Maple G. I 174 225PT HUI 1.150 51Clay G 700 22P Gem . 1.150 Highland 1,200 178 Wayne Maple G. . 1.450 278300 Crawford 900 83200 Johnson 400 Union . 1.300 196J Center 550 D T 9.000 2.491 Jackson D T 8,606 634 Trenton 2000 D T. .. 7.000 1.03610.582 $75,574 $8,485 IMrs. Anna Graber851 I Corer ,................ Ainsworth ...... ..... Crawfordsville ....... Wyman ............ South Half Wayland .... * Olds ................* • Yarmouth ............ Mt. Union ............... 0 W 6 4 I I 5 4 3 this kind occurring here in many For the first time this season tile I months, games Trijans had to go through the torture' Nearly all ol the letteis weie clamor a close game on their home floor aged. and manv were tom and chop's nd when the smoke had cleared away ped into fragments. An effort is be-they were mighty happy to settle for ing made by the postoffice to deliver • their small margin of victory. .-as many ot the letters as possible. ! yeoman 3rd class, U S. R. N. 2280 ; Aller piling up % good halftime j Thia «xpt»i*>* ,h* t0 , ' Beard of Trade. Chicago. Ill I lear of 21-12, they sipped away in the mail received by local patrons .. b j thiid canto until they only had a morning. Many had suspected that I 24-20 lead j Ihe mail might have been damaged in i It w’as with tiiree and one-half min- the fire at the station at Bul ling tot. I lites left in the game that the Panth- As No, 15 does not step, 'he pouch of I era really made things hot and they mail is dumped onto the station plat-I tied the game up at 28-28. Messer form as the train .speeds through Mt. I then .slipped in to put them out in Pleasant. In some way the pouch lei! Two free throws by Gor- back under the train wheels. j 8th army swept Into the gregt Libyan j port cf Tripoli. Mrs I As dawn broke over the southern who Mediterranean, at 5 OO o’clock this nc*'; morning, vanguards cf the victorious army composed of United Kingdom. Dominion and colonial forces, occupied the city and raised the Union Jack above its gleaming white gov en men! buildings. Tile R -me-B rim axis acknowledge I this great British victory with surprising alacnty and in official broadcasts admitted that Tripoli had been evacuated. Tripoli itself, scene of the first oversea- exploit by American marines in 1805. when the United S'ates struck at the barbary coari pirates, fell almost without a struggle. But heavy fighting in the hilly outskirts surrounding the has bor, preceded the capitulation, and Tripoli new goes down wi h its Ypres Mons and Khartoum a.- a major victory in the desperate history cf British arms. To Cairo and other outposts cf the British empire which p'ayed a leading role in this great triumph which stripped Victor Emmanual of Italy of his XX X IX tv . . . , . imperial mantle and reduced him to Cedar Falls high school has envied J* BrlIlsh secretary of in the U. S Naval Reserves and ie- broadcast a stir- ported Jan. 13 at the Naval Intelligence wa offices in Chicago. His address is ring message of congratulation. Pvt. Myron L. Carbon, Battery B. 86th C A (A. A *. Camp Haan, California. Still Hope For Short Session 439 I 114 I Des Moines. Iowa GNS—Having ; completed the second week of the (50th general assembly with six bills passed by the senate. 41 by the house and two by both houses, legislators today had not given up their hopes of 1 a short session I The law-makers guessed today ilia’ • the session would be "a little shorter '.than two years ago,” which was 90 j days. Most assemblies have lasted IOO ! days. ■I Both houses .were in adjournment > today until 10:00 a. m. Monday, and I many legislators left Des Moines for | their homes Friday night. FIGHTERS SHOULD GET front 30-28 j man tied things up once again but Pounds. Panther center, sank a char-' I ity toss to put the M\ Pleasant five j back into the lead 31-30. Once again it was Don Gorman, speedy Trojan forward, iha* saved he day as he sank a long one from away out with two! minutes left to play. to put the Trojans back into a one point lead. Bob Welch slipped in to put the game on ice with a field goal and a charity toss by Cornell gave the Panders their last point of the game. Bob Welsh. Trojan guard, led the ^cering in the game with five field goals and one charity to^s for eleven points. Cottrell and Messer were high for th? Panthers with eight points apiece. Pvt. Gerald Corm ck 3725 1836 Battery H Specia1 raining B M.. 181st F A.. E. Garrison. Camp Roberts. California. BPWC Welcomes 13 New Members Deeds Recorded At Courthouse ccurthous The Business and Professional Worn- Deeds receded it the en's club held their regular monthly include the folio*ms meeting at the Harlan hotel Thursday John H Huston sod atte. Spain, evening, Jan. JI. and Ro"° L“ml>,'r CO ».«!_ Mm tole Dinner was soared at 6:30. After M. Huston, in separate deeds to Mr dinner Patti Joy Weir read Dark Vie- and Mrs. John A. Alvine, ti at ta a tory.” the selection which she used to Olds. win an A-l rating in a recent declam- Mrs. Bilder Spangle!*, attorney in a tory contest. It was very well read fact, to Ernest L. Whaley, property and the club would also vote a top in the College First Addition to \ I, rating for Miss Weir. Pleasant A business meeting followed. Thir- Red Army Draws Nearer Strategic Towns Moscow, Russia —UNS*— Russian armies pounding through the Ukraine have driver, into the Kursk area, front line dispatches reported today .rs Red army forces drew closer to Kharkiv and Rostov. Tile three objectives of the Soviet ' offensive are key points on the axis winter line and the capture of any one would force a general enemy withdrawal Friday’s Soviet communique disclosed that Russian forces driving southwest from Voronezh were starting an offensive to outflank Kursk which is 130 miles west of Voronezh and 120 miles north of Kharkov. m i i» ix *k FIGHTERS SHOULD GET I aken By Death | J0BS without union Fairfield 134) Brown. F Gorman, F Warner, F Vara ta F Hem I. C . Lindsay. C Welsh, G Parkin, G Pasch G Totals . .............I 0 4...........2 2 4................ 0 0 0............0 0 0...........2 0 I.............. 2 0 0................ 5 I 2....... 3 I 3..........0 0 0..............lo 4 14Continue To Mop Up Japs on Guadalcanal •Washington, D. C. * INS)—American ground forces on Gaudalcanal are continuing to mop up Japan’s dwindling F t Jackson and wife to Homer E-. troops on that embattled island, the £\ UUJlilCW lULLliilg, * v/**w *t teen new members were voted into the Jackson and wife. 80 acres in Marion navy disclosed today, club They were Lulu Anderson. Olive township A brief communique indicated Tie Bates Louise Bums, Cleo Cai hon, Es-1 At ax sale deed to J. R Friend for offensive Is moving along on schedule. teiene Haviland, Alma Kerr, Marjorie a Salem lot. Consideration was $65.51. Th< Japs now face annihilation. Long. Louise Messer, Jean Louis** Moore. Enid Murry. Bernadine Panther. Margaret Snyder and Dorothy Wittmer. After the new member- were w 1-comed into the organization, the meeting was adjourned. Farmers To (Jet More Machines NEW NUTRITION CLASS TO START 68. died ihisi CARDS - RICKENBACKER | '" ''';asant l32' Mrs. Anna (Jraber ( _ morning at 5:20 at the home of her j Mlchigan (INS!—American son, Joe Graben wes1 of Trenton. Snt j {ighters returning from war fronts crease as the funds from other sources (was tak n ill en Sunday. . J should be assured under congressional wore exhausted. ««■ Z Z' legislation, .ha, they win have peace- Oilier Behinds I son, L(. ir, time employment without being iou M,.tv I uidor’s school taxes are up| sist rs. Mrs Mary Stutzman anc! M s. j >m. nr2anized labor union.' ever WIP£5? t-ar.y $3,000. j Emma Zender. both of Denver, Colo^ Salem's nearly $2,000 and In addition,! The funeral likdy all Jo ie < . ta. use of $1 .GOO of the .surplus is anttM* dV afternoon.______• pated there. Pleasant Lawn has near- j # ly a $1,200 increase and expects to usc| Momill^ F IFC $1,000 of the surplus. In Vacant Building A list of the schools of the county is given here together with figures on I their surplus, which they expect to w . use this year their total cl school Fire was discovered rn the Weir va-1 uxo, for. tliis year. th.- amount of In-1 cant building on North Jefferson, .he crease or decrease in taxes. ed to join any organized labor union I This was the battle-cry today of i Lieut. Colonel Eddie Rickenbacker. I who prefers to be called a captain. | xhe plea struck with all the fury • of a block-buster, and came as an electric shock to 1.200 members and guests of the Society of Automotive Engineers. labor 0 2 0 0 0 0 8 ......... I Cottrell. F..............3 Pounds. C ...... I Klcpfcnstein. C ...... 0 Mf? sci*. G .............. 3 Bogle. G ...............3 Tribby, G .............I Arbuckle, G ...........0 Carnahan. G ..........0 Totals ...............12 Score by periods Fairfield .......... 13 Mt. Pleasant...... 3 Technical fouls: Bogie. I Officials: Sam Clark of Iowa Wesleyan and Wendell Warner of Coe. WINFIELD SCHOOL CLOSES TUESDAY Washington, D. C — Th* war production beard. Thursday authorized a 30 ner ce*nt increase in production (’ farm machinery, and at the same time Chairman Donald M. Nelson questioned the fairness ct a senate A new nutrition class will s'ar: Tuesday. Jan. 26, at two o'clock, at s’nicr high school. This will be the last class for several months. D< Linn To Washington Moines. la. GNS i—Gov. ll. Ii. 21 12 24—34 20—32 Winfield, la. — The Winfield school was closed Tuesday because of blocked reads and the extreme cold. The PT A meeting scheduled for Tuesday eve • 0 ning was postponed. The meeting ol ^ the Woman's club was postponed until January 27 urogram. committee's criticism of 'he previous Hickenlooper announced today tha J w a -< c!. ‘ary of agriculture Harry D Linn would leave tonight for Washington- D. C.. to confer with government officials on critical farm problems. McGuire farm home DESTROYED BY FIRE Wav Land.—The farm home of Mr I former Swift produce location, early Tbe totellcU. taxes .Ms ye,, »n-jFriday morning, for. ana,fly before Ufo dude all of the district, even though I Barnes had gained much headway, nar (it the district is outside Henryjr sidcms in th. nearby apiirtmen. countv The increase or decrease is in over the bowling alley smelled smoke mf portion to be paid by Henry jai an early hour, but could not locate county. Surplus 1943 In- De» to be Used Taxes crease crease Mt. U'on $17,681 $ 1.180 N, London *33,581 2,094 He explained he was not a Vi»tf»r because I have labored all my , life,” but want "what. is right tor our i EAST HENRY STREET boy*.” . j PROPERTY IS SOLD Bread Making Demonstration Hugh T. Snyder left Wednesday for and Mrs. Mix McGuire burn* I to th* Des Moines fir his final examination ground Wednesday night shortly begod induction into the U. S. navy and fore midnight will go to Great Lakes naval train t.u station lrcm there. CAPT. HARTLEY’S CAR DAMAGED IN ACCIDENT COMEDY PRESENTED BY ACTING CLASS P. J. Hurley & Son today report the sale of the property located on East a lame section of the Iowa Vies- , ‘ * fir >1 for ll' Join Navy VV viand. Iowa - The Pi cher *' m;ul uul .............. There will be a bread making dem- Henry street and belonging to Mrs, leyan auditorium. was n ^ ^ ^ RU s-. Iw|gi K. Ft greg ion will be unable to get Rev many ll was traced to the! operation at the Nutrition class on, wyvon Harper of New London, to pre«ntati«i « _Tn _ ton and lee Ouy Elmore have been Clyde Dirk., of Hutchins.,,: Ka. ,e m the Weir building. A!Monday evening at the high school Mr. Claude Smith of West Butling,on. o ? 1 . The” comedy accepted I the navv ared hive tee) as his congregation there ii or.iv re- hole* was burned in the floor before J building. Anyone interested in this j Mr. Smith is employed at the Ord- n*ic n a,■ ‘ ^ Braden included inducted according to word received fused to idea*. tm but gave him a Bremen extinguished the blaze. Origin special lca^n & cordially invited to nance plant and will move here March om. f • f ' t x at the S lecture* Service office. ven ubriantial in ire se it. salary •»t*pnd 1st to make his home. ail memoers oi cue of the fire is a mystery. awena. The timely arrival of tht neighbor.' Captain Byron D Hartley’s car was and friends from town helped the damaged in an auto wreck this week family remove some furniture aud ; ceding to word received here. Copt. ( Ic1 bing from the first floor. Mrs. R red Bar lev is stationed at Yuma. Ari/.. owns the property and canned insure- als ccn rrni’ g the accident have alice. The McGuire.' had some insur- not been learned a nee on household goods. - Pastor Not Coming Join Navy i the fire. Finally former effice IU

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