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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - March 24, 1943, Mount Pleasant, IowaVALU) RATION STAMPS Sugar 12 - Mch. 16-Mav 31 (Each stamp, Five pounds) Coffee 26 - Mar. 22-Apr. 25 (Each stamp, I pound) \ OC. CXM, No. 70 THE MT PLEASANT NEWS VAl rn I* MION STAMPS Fuel Oil I - - - Until Apr. 12 Fuel Oil 5 - - - Until Sept. 30 (Kach stamp, ll gallons) Gasoline No. 5 Mar. 22-Apr.21 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1913 MT. PEASANT, IOWA Announce Point Values For Meat, Butter THE -.-™ By Paul Mallon J# (Distributed by King Features Syndicate, Inc., Reproduction In Full or in Part Strictly Prohibited.) WASHINGTON — HEN in their own d-jily lives seem to me to have set a pretty good example for the planners of the post-war world. No man lives entirely to himself, vet i. ) m«n saorifice.!* in', integrity or hi- Ideals to another, Me gets along with his neighbors, holding opposite views in a friendly and cooperative spirit, but tie does not sacrifice his own views It Is within this s lites brotherly low life He does not eOf>e that he prac-in his own daily practice It to the ideals r.< xt-d< or extent of trying to love tie ti illy im me It i for these who than those who will The same is extent among first considers Al*er that, It neighbors in negotiated spir No? ail get a adopts itself tx once which ar lghbor mily. much a> his his ural for a man to care are around him more ar*- distant. He always rue to an International nations. Each nation Its own or should, gets along with its »n agreeable, ^friendly, t as best It can up with ai! But each i the realities o: exist-* the common laws of his Report Pierce FightingAlong Mareth Line They’ll Do It Every T ime — Americans Repulse Germans In One Sector dc WM the neighborhood ! Hamma cither to friends or foe. each individual man in his work I Ie, and hi1 community. No individual that I ever heard ol carries brotherly love to the extent of taking hi weakly pay check ami going up anc* distributing ii or both alike. Certainty in does not borrow' money from his family so to si>*ak to distribute own more than he earns ot thr-.t iu can afford If any individual man did such things, he would be considered a fool I ET PROPOSALS have been made th.ii we do collectively what each of us knows to be foolish, as far as he himself is concerned. No nation (an expect to Uv< alone just as no man can Live done Inter-dependency is al o a natural law. But to carry it in a post-war settlement beyond tile practical point, which each man ha, set for himself in his own wa> of living, is. to my mind, to cany it into the realm of impracticability. It will nos work But if we adopt the common sens*1 ir.divdual basis, it would not be nee-es-aly for us to sacrifice our national ideals a bd. or open our national purse of the peoples money any w.d-er than is sensible to live agreeably with the other fellow. We * <n protect ourselves bv main tabling our own army and navy alertly and lolly to assure as peace and protection at home. We need not adopt any foreign notions as to how government should be conducted We do not have to go half-way to them with a sacrifice of our ideals. MEN AND NATIONS of integrity do not sacrifice ideals, and the few who try are not respected, and generally are net successful, or at least do not live in peace and comfort with them- j selves and others. i Patriotism and national self-interest cannot be compromised. It should run as deep as its inherent spiritual Allied Headquarters in North Africa «INS) American troops tepulsed savage German counter-attacks and advanced ax mites east of Maknassy today after bitter fighting continued between Nazi and British lorces at the Mar* th line. (Editor's Note: In London, Prime Minister Winston Churchill announced that the Germans had largely restored ' their defense ignitions where a br ach had bi en made in the Mardi) line. This was not announced in he allied headquarters communique » Amel lean Minored forces now are 'Tx miles sr tithe ast of Maknassy, 40 mil* from (lie Metditerr&nean coast and 28 miles from the main Gabes-Mahares coastal road Two- hundred prisoners were taken and a number of en1 my tanks destroyed when axis counter attack in the Maknassy area were smashed. British 8th arm-, units flanking the Mareth line on the west picked up two miles on their way to the vital key junction of El Hamma. taking some hill positions south of the great salt marsh. Thev are now eight miles from Eh School lo Present j Aleat Averages Annual-Operetta I4 . . Six Points Per Pound Hetty Lou” Will Be Given Friday Evening On The annual operetta will be pre- ! TZ/Z'u*** Allotment For Meat, school auditorium on Friday evening.1 Butter and Cheese March 26. under the direction of G.! ______ E. McLean. The Pendletons are in financia* Washington, D C. (INS) -The of-trooblo. Mrs. Penlleton Is the extrav- fire of price administration today agant, feather-brained step-mother of made public the point values on Am-Tcny aud Betty Lou. Tony and his erica's newest food distribution pro-wiie, Iola have a scheme to get gr*.m. disclosing that consumers can money. Betty Leu is twenty and tired buy meat fcr an average of 6 points of her slep-mother's attempts to mar- j per pound witlj the 16 points to be County Sixth American Bombers In Per Cent of1" Make-i"ly Raids JOI Experimental Stage In Daylight JKOnd I^ctlCS j Bombing Has Ended Verdict For Wilbur Lyon Damage Trial Ends; Another Starts ry her to old and wealthy suitors. One j after the other, arf turned down. The latest candidate Is a clever crook in lh*" guise of a gentleman who has heard of very valuable jewels that are supposed to lie in the Pendleton heme. These he purposes to get with the aid rf Annie, an old flame, who is now going straight and a maid in the Pendleton heme. Tony has in-vitfd an old chum to visit him The chum is none other than Robert Sher-v •xxi who has lone loved Betty Lou, whose photo has been in Tony's room when he and Robert were room-mates. To avoid the new threat, Betty Lou avalable weekly when the rationing of meats, butter, cheese, canned fish, fats and oils goes into effect next Monday. The new program completes the assignment of .stamps in War Ration Book II. dis’ributed last month to augment the overloaded sugar book which also is used for coffee and shoes,, and places a new shopping responsibility on the nation's 35,000,00 housewives. Shoppcis will have to budget not only the 16-point allotment of red stamps for meat, butter, cheese and ether commodities, but also continued derides to impersonate a little girl doleing out of their weekly 12 point, and dressed in short skirts and with allowance of blue stamps for purch- Fiercf* fighting i underway along the Mareth line as well as in the southern and central sectors. Hill positions were taken along Dieted Tebaga sooth el the main rho* t extending toward Gabes Heavy enemy armored resistance Is being encountered. Yesterday, the combined allied air forces carried out the greatest scale air activity ever known in North Africa including the great offensive of El A la mein Russians Capture More Localities Mos<ow. Russia —<INS>— Russian forces smashing towards Smolensk on the central front were reported today to have captured a number of additional localities after stopping a powered German rounter-attack north of Bryansk in a fbur-day battle in which 7,000 Nazis were killed and 140 tanks knocked out; In the Leningrad area yesterday, according to the Soviet’s noon communique 13 enemy planes were destroyed. “On the central front,” the communique said, “the Germans were dis- Purchases in Two Months Total $349,908 One According to the official figures of the sales reported received today by E. A Hayes, county war bond chairman, through the Federal Reserve Bank covering War Bonds for January and it was announced officially today. Majkr General Ira C. Eaker. chief cf the bomber command of the Unit-February, Henry county ranks 6th in ^ ^ ^ 8th air forc|, declared that Headquarters of the U. S. A. A F. Bomber Command in Britain <INS> — The c-xnerimental stage in American daylight tombing of the continent has ended lid forces of IOO United j and a States bombers bv mid-summer will * late Tuesday and today another d nn- ma) * tidily daylight raids into every * age suit got underway, point of Germany, including Berlin. damage trial was concluded veridct received in local court her hair down, she quite upsets the familv plans. After more complications comes the solution. The Cast: Betty L u ........ Geraldine Barstow Mrs. Anthony Pendleton ........... ........... Marcella Tewalt Tony Pendleton . . Jimmie Green Iola Pendleton, Tony's wife ....... ......... Francis Cathey the State of Iowa, in percent of quota sales. Total sales amounted to $319,-908.75 during January and February being 169% of the quota. Henry county leads all surrounding counties by a considerable margin in sales based on the quota, Henry coun- The action of A. F Glanzman B*‘*\ a friend of Metty Lou .. against Wilbur Lyon for $20€ damasks,1 .................. Barbara Hedlund Bab. friend of Betty Lou ........... .................... Irma Orendorff Joe. iriend of Betty Leu Harold Bittie Jack .................. Elshson Elgar Robert Sherwood, a shy young man night the United States planes will follow with a daylight assault on the . . i same objective, he said. The reverses if to dom? everything nobble in the ^ wj]) ^ placc when Brltlsh cra[t fellow up American da', light' bombing war effort and has 'an enviable record so far. It is up to each and everyone to do his full part in backing the war effort to the limit during the coming month The Figures The figures for southeastern Iowa counties are: % of 2 mas quota 105 which Glanzman claimed was due him as a result oi a collision of the Olws-man truck and Lyon’s car, backfired a full schedule for round the clock ] against Glanzman. The jury brought bombing by cooperating units of the I in a verdict in favor of Lyon, granted American air force and the British j him $125 damages and a $6 doctor bill. j Hervey Van Tuyl RAF had been drawn up I gave hlm five percent interest on the Worthington Brooks, alias “Gentle- When the RAF bomb a target at amount up to date and taxed all costs I man Jim" .......... Merle Shockley against Glanzman. ' Annie, the maid Martha Jerre! Case To Jury (Mr. Lane, the man who played San- The jury took the case at five O'- ta Claus .............. Joe Messer clock Tuesday afternoon and report- Betty Wittmer ........ Accompanist ‘ By mid; summer." General Eaker said, “I anticipate we will have so many, bombers operating from here we won't rare whether they see us come or cot. ‘The more they shoot down, more we will send over." County i Des Moines Henry Sales .959,569.50 349.908.75 lodged from several localities and 200 j Jefferson .........198.292.00 killed. North of Zhukovschina, the Soviets captured a number of inhabited localities. An enemy attack was repelled and 400 Germans were killed.” Draws Deferred Sentence On Air Raid Warden Pose 160 88 102 87 126 92 HO 101 ed a verdict at 9:30 p. rn. Ellen Jer- Dale Smith rel was foreman and other members Kenneth Kirby .......... Electrician of the jury were: Leah Beery, Lela Helphre.v, Vivian Zehr, Glenn Kerker, Lulu Stack, Loren Preuss, Dal Crawford, Vera Saunas, Mrs. Lucille Lessenger. Rev. Alton Koch and Ovida Doan. Witness in the trial were Leo San- Fnsminger, Mary Margaret Everts, Paul-derson, Leonard W. Close. A. F. Glanz- inc Ferrell, Eva Roach, Myrna Leep-man, Manning J. Cline and Tom Mar- er, Joyce Miller. Willadean Pickard. IT J * D J 4- tin ot Cantril ror the plaintiff; Everett Lob Dusenbery, Virginia Ebert. Mar-K ti Cl ID nrOaaCaStJTrueblood cf Burlington, Wilbur Ly- garet Gillaspey, Jean Jaques. Betty the Soldiers On Local uses of canned and frozen fruits, and vegetables and Juices. Rationing was designed to allow every person about two pounds a wee ic, but the amount will be much smaller if con soigne rn ins st on choice cuts. At the : ame time, the OPA. from Washing on headquarters, made public the point values of butter, cheese, canned fish and fats and oils, which also will be lationed starting next week. The official table of point values (published elsewhere in this issue> will bp able to “spend" about 12 of heir weekly allotment of 16 points for two pound? of meat and have four points left for cheese, canned fish, butter fats and oils. j Point values for the latter commodities are: Bulter; eight points per pound, lard; five points per pound; shortening: five points per pound; margarine: five points per pound; ^alad and cook-Stage Manager ing oils: six points per pound; cheeses; eight points per pound; canned fish; seven points per pound. tehaiply lower on a per-pound basis than canned goods, tne meat point valuer range from on" point for a pound of pig ears to 12 points for Tynical per-pound values Dale Knight ............. Spot L*ght Dance costumes designed by Betty Finch Carl Hayes ............... Prompter Personnel Betty Chancy. Martha Cox, Maxin' dried beef are: T-bone steak --eight points; boneless ehui'k roast --seven points; round steak -- eight points; short ribs --four points; hamburger -- five Madison, Wis.—Richard Roberts. 22 year old University of Wisconsin stu-beliel. No man worthy cl his salt ex- from Wisconsin Rapids, charged pc cts to compromise his fundamental* regilious ideals, whether it be Athe ism. Agnosticism, Buddhism, Christi anil;,, or Judaism. Many seriously religious-minded I Americans do not stop to think that; they would be deeply offended if any- j out' proposed that they compromise their Methodist. Baptist or Catholic beliefs half-way to Buddhism or Ag- ( nosticism. They would not think of “ whittling down their beliefs half-way to the Mohammedans and expect the Mohammedans to meet them in a postwar world at some point called “X" halfway between them. Yet. in International politics, where j the n Lee ...............643.314.25 Louisa ............152,236 2.3 Muscatine ........613.677 25 Van Buren ........100,561.25 Wapello ..........702,659.25 Washington ......351.703.50 The pledge campaign in the various towns of Henry county is rapidly nearing completion. Rome Far Above Quota At Rome, Gladys Swedes and Ruby Marie Campbell completed the campaign under the supervision of Arthur Peterson, township chairman. The quota for Rome was $4,000.00, County chairman, E. A. Hayes, announces today that total pledges secured amounted to $6,138.75 or 153'; of their quota, ing himself as a warden. He told -Drs js a mighty fine record that will police he was "curious" about tile nard tor the other towns in Henry establishment. _ county to duplicate. a man is a irreconcilable epithet if Chairman for the Mt. Pleasant Wal- campaign is Ben Galer. The local The Thursdav afternoon Iowa Wesleyan college radio broadcast over station WSUI at 5:15 p. rn. will be presented by the army pre-flight cadets at I. W. C. The entire 82nd detachment of the army air corps will on, Lloyd Hill, Bruce Young. Mrs. Wil- Linch. Lorraine Rich. Beth Rochefort, prints; veal loin rhops -- eight points; bur Lyons and Denver Williams for Mach Killev, Barbara Aumann, Miriam leg of lamb -- six points; sliced bacon the defendant. Cathey, Carol Hayes, Miriam Oldt, Comick vs. Peterson Viola Saunders, Joyce Stuart, Mar; The nevi trial started today is that McBeth, Betty Pobanz, Patti Joy Weir. with impersonating an air raid warden. was placed under deferred sentence by Superior Court Judge Roy H. Proctor, It was charged that the youth last week gained access to a soldier’s rooming house by represent or Ellis Comick against Du Way ne Norths Weis. Eugene Brunk, Richey open the piogram bv singing the Army Peterson in which Cornick is seeking Dickson. Billie Ebert. Wendell Frazer, \ damages of $183.81 Incurred when Carl Hodson. Donovan Nicholson, Mer-’ Cornick’s tractor and Peterson’s car , itt Scarf!, Warren Anderson, Richard figured in a collision at Oakland Mills McBeth, Paul Sennet, Richard Over-on October 5, 1942. ton, Louis White. Charles Haviland, Air Crops March. a The program Witt give an interview with the following boys: Yyle M. Ains, Harmony. Minn. Orlando Berg. jr.. of Malta. 111. Clarence Slenniken. East St. Louis Mo. Bernard L. Bucttar, Eureka, 111. Scott Hawthorn. Jr., Alexandria. La. Gregory Kohn. Milwaukee, Wis. John Joseph. St. Joe, Mo. Ralph E. Martin, Wichita, Kans. David R. McGuire, Kansas City. Kans. Arnold K. G:son, Humboldt, la. William W. Skinner. Sheridan. Wyoming. James Watson, Jr., Davenport, la. The cadets will conclude the pro- -- eight points; canadian bacon -Al points; center pork chops -- eight points; pork roast -- seven points; spareribs -- six points; boneless picnic ham -- IO points; polk sausage and wieners -- seven points. Paul M Oleary, OPA depu y administrate: in charge of rationing, a'd that the average meat ration Members of the jury are: Rev. Alton Kenneth Owen. Allan Shook, James should bo approximately two pounds Koch, Mrs. Lucite Lessenger. Vera Yeung, Sa urns, Katherine Miller. Glenn Ker- pj-, Hip ker. Lela Helphrey, E. S. Tompkin. smith. Frederick Crane, Reed Jones, Niles, Date Prirkett, Keith Russell Smith. Randall Vance he does not believe in what Mr. lace suggested, or that he is a so-and- campaign is pretty well completed ex- j gram with the Army Air Corps March so conservative trying to go back to cept for some cleaning up wotk to be the old international ways. done by the various Minute Men. There has been no such thing as * Reverend Strohl, of New London, status quo in the world that I have was in charge of the Campaign there, 'tonal ideal of the United Statesj been able to observe in my lifetime, which was nearing completion tins Bernice Van Vranken. Dal Crawford, costumes .............. Miss Tumey Carroll Cook, Leah Beery and W. E. Dances .............. Miss Hallowell Vance. Drama .................. Mr. Martin F. S Finley is representing Cornick Music ................ Mr. McLean and E. C. McCoid, Peterson. PECULIAR ‘TASTE’ VACCINATION SCHOOL ON HOG CHOLERA SOON OF WATER EXPLAINED MT. UNION SCHOOL TEACHERS REELECTED; SALARIES INCREASED is concerned, they listen to suggestions that as Stalin is coming halfway toward democracy, we should carry democracy half-way toward him. and. unthinkingly, nod their heads in a1 fii mat ion — at least that is the way it seems to me. Certainly there is no part of the his- past week tory of this wc^dd of international re- Major J. E. Hague is the chairman latinos of strife from the beginning for Hillsboro. Bort Leo is chairman thai anyone wants to go back to, as at, Salem. Frank Walz is chairman far as I have been able to observe. for Lowell as well as Baltimore town- The course must always be ahead, ship. Brooks Mellecker, Winfield But in plotting that course, idealism chairman plans to get his campaign THEY WOULD CERTAINLY NOT ' will serve us only if it lf constructive, actively under way in the immediate NOD then- heads, but rise in righteous I and I think the practical idealism of future. O P. Boshart is chairman for indignation if Buddha sent mission-! the average man in getting along with Wayland again this year. aries to the United States to convert J the people around * “ rrh'1 farr" n,pHcp ™mnn,L the'r flock half-way to Buddhism. Therefore, I think the foundation of ample, the current argument is all wrong their respective territories. him in his daily The farm pledge campaign has rap- Mt. Union. la. - All teachers of the Mt. Union schools were re-elected at the rrgani3|vion moating of the beard. A general raise of 141'v in salaries was set. One teacher will be dropped from the high school, with some of the money saved being used to raise the ochers. Jane Waugh was not a candidate At the request of a sufficient number of farmers County Extension Agent Goodell has scheduled Dr. S ou-der for March 31 at 9:00 A. M Dr. Stouder will conduct a hog cholera vaccination school for those farmer who are vitally interested in preventing livestock loss by disease There i > room, however, for a few additional farmers. Leave your name at the County Extension Director’s offic*\ City water users who may have noticed a slight pecularity in the ‘tasL’ of the water the last day or two med not be alarmed. City workmen haw j!ilve two a week for each individual, although "it will depen i pie,tty much on what cuts ycu buy." Six Points A Pound “If a *onsinner were to take straight carcass meat - - shanks, bony breasts, steaks, etc - he ought to ecme out with an average point value of fix po’nts per pound,” O'Learv said, 'Thfcs would permit purchase of two pounds rf in at weekly and leave four point for 'he other rationed (pc rn modi ties include: in the program.” With butter “s* Ping” at eight pc:nts per pound, the consumer will points to “spend” for a just completed, a thorough cleaning qu?'ter-pound "stick" of butter; anend overhauling of filtration equip- point fot lard and one for cheese men* in the water system and in do- or crane*) fish. OPA regards the Jat- irg so gave the tanks a treatment with proper chemicals. The differed •taste’ comes from this and will soon not, be noticeable. BOYD ACREAGE Ow W. WASHINGTON SOLD Divorce Granted A divorce was granted Frances D. Veljacsik from Paul Veljacsik by _________ Judge E. O. Newell in district court Hild real estate reports the sale o: here Tuesday. The couple was mar- located on | Tied in 1930 and lived together until arri january, 1942. Cruet and for reelection, and Lucille Harris has the Ralph Boyd acreage , . . , The *■ ftr life will serve the nations a gocd ex- idly neared completion although many, accepted a ponton rn the Mt. Pleas- West. Washington street, to Mr. and ^Mg'd Mn Velw’k di-rt-g Apr.! Any stronger idealism woulr rf Hie Minute Men still have several t ant school for next year. Mrs. Theodore Menko of near Si Pull. treatm > ’ ' ' ____ nct haye a solid basis in huffian in- individuals to see in order to complete j Clifford Ca risen was selected as the The Menke ta mily will move here with was mar c cue. > o . c rn not The impression has been built up that .tinct. '' 'esbective territories. : new president of the school board. in the next few weeks. t*r r . substitutes for meat, however. B:own a'd OPA could not guarantee thai rationing would immediately bon out ma 1-d is n but ion cf supplies a cl st lot meat flowing into shortage ava-. For the first few c’avs Californians ard New Yorkers may find 'here i still net enough meat o cover the rat’cned demand, ©cmtuners wend lese cut, if there s rot enough rn- at to provide heir fu’l latten the first week or so 64 potn’s will bo good all Ma*** ii ‘JI’— Stamp** bearing lett'C Jon tinned on mise two*

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