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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - May 6, 1943, Mount Pleasant, IowaVALID RATION STAMPS Sugar 12 - Expires May 30 (Each Stamp, Five pound*.) Gasoline 5 Ex pin- May 21 Fuel OH 5.....I ntll Sept. 30 THE MT PLEASANT NEWS VALID RATION STAMPS Coffee 23 - F.xpirrs >1 ijr ,'ii. E and F red stamps expire May 31 G red stamp May 9 to May 31. G-H-J blue stamps rxpi.e May 31 VOL. LXXI, No. 105TH I’RSI) AY, MAY 6, 1945 MT. PLE \SANT, IOWA General Offensive Launched In Tunisia THE by Paul Mallon (Distributed by King Features Hyn- ' dlcate, Inf , Reproduction In Full or t in Part Strictly Prohibited > Girl Killed at Middletown They’ll Do It Every l ime - - - WASHINGTON - \ SI BST ANTIAE N1 MBIR ot i' n •. : • i< ders took pens in hands and jabbed same into m* t r my col <mn publ shed April 23. criticizing Mr. Wendell Willkie’s fast- selling b 'k Ore World.*’ The amount of critical mail was as No Inquest Planned In Death of Donna Lou Page heavy a If test, against It whs the they h in dts a year. (ien* j all*., Willkif a dvr tion; mlv •r received in pro-irnn. ome saying >lumn with which a* t harply in many pointed out p ward a res ing of his the v, rid iluded tha nation <if kal lar ? v riving at i What r took to pr Tile bai principle that Mr wrcte the bo in: it; nam rearn* mi ha deluded also deluded good readers distant i thing to do w iiv»d next tit no but v, iP mei train x per ret in 49 t !! th- ould I Vi Mr. new no-rejy set furled account* s in Hying around iys, and he con-f had brought th* together—a physic! guide us in ar« W in Mr friend m *lus Mr 20 year have t. - but n friend tewn. o Labradi One n< more s\ tanc • id* t1 | living II i dcor f t and ba r me 9 VP You may neighbor a to one ■e to an Willks* inked, laments promts* when h* for wrlt-lon that Willkb obvrouslj r ol m) tad am- De Moines Iowa (INS; I> Moines county coroner R O. Giles raid to-da\ there would be no inquest following the accidental death late yes-teritiay of two-year old Donna Lou Page killed by a truck in Middlet .wn, Iowa. Deputy sheriff Edwin Millet said the driver of the truck A J Ellis of Mt. V* rnon, Illinois, did not know the machine had run ovrr the child unn. he was stopped after driving a considerable distance from the scene. The child was the daughter of Mr. and Mr Glen P-ge The father i.s an Iowa Ordnance Plant worker. Farmers Let Ready For ( urn Planting Planters In Operation In A Few Fields TwiS GOLD-BBICKER DIPS HIS BIG PAWS INTO EVERY BOX PROM HOME THAT COMES INTO THE SQUAD-ROOM OH, BOY! HOMEMADE COOKIES! HM-M-M-M! (CRUNCH - CRUNCH) -/ NOT BAD-BUT TELL \ VOUR MAW TO PUT ^ MORE RAISINS IN f||X THE NEXT TlMF. But-when his POLKS SENT HIM SOMETHING -YOU GUESSED IT — THEY’LL DO IT EVERY TIME, TWANXTO PVT RAV H MCCOLLUM, fc5T*C A (A A ) IN6LEW00D, CAUF GROUP GOES TO ( AMP DODGE Leaves Mere This Morning; Will lake Final Exams for and (her live m ilh >me id** o out of .something taniial than dis--itn similarity of a*, i m* t hods of Het oiii years. N* arlj plow or more th nesdav. pO It* , announ* for corr f-oun aim'i hairt in ting lurgf - team a in one observe icture s 2.000 .'aimers are is one grta’ unit plow-ng in preparation for it w»*k, getting ready rcrn acreage of recent SEABEE OFFICER WILL COME TO BURLINGTON f irm liH fid plow, yutflt. in I a t: actor and ome of them the field Wed- *thb In several e ih*r being pull* were being pulled distance awav on reported The c*>m-i as if omeorie had week all shall piow » fields harrows wer** »d behind plows or by units a fhort the fr*-hly turned A S' abf - officer will h' m ’lie Burl-ing*on off/r Tue day. May 11 Anyon< wi'hmg an intend* w may call there between 9 A M and 3 P M Much activity g reported m the XV AVE3 anJ SPARS. 'I he office at Burlington received notice last week that this district is leading the state in application's for enlistment in these divisions. ( apt. Shannon Is Plane Victim Milk Inspection Argued Before Citv C ouncil The question of whether or not Mt. Pleasant should take action to determine ii the milk upply is clean was d*b ,(d with fervor before the city council Wednesday evening. Fankhauser. Let them require that any producers whore nrlk is not up to standard, make it so, he advocated. IF also urged that 'ime be given for education re! tive to milk cleanliness A group of men left this morning to o to Camp Dodge for their final ex-tminanom under the Selective Serv-ire Those accepted will return to Camp Dodge * week later to go to thr.r new assignments. The group leaving fr m here: Albert L. Riepe, Leader Joseph John F*-ehan Lauren Frank Paisley William Arthur McTee .Jchn Willis Jones Leland Stanford Lite Dale Bernard Anderson Robert E Lc*e Harold Robert Stoner Aven Dee Coberly Harold Wayne Garmoe Charles Nelson Schubert Mile Rukcaber, Jr. John Taylor Hull Leonard Max Dotson Hector A. Magana Robert James Moyle James c Kauffman Stacc Edward Klopfenstein Leonard Leo Wagner Rex Miles Payne Harold E Cole Russel Hugo Johnson Donald Everett Marshall Thomas Calvin Clark John Miller Huston Paul Alger Mertens fTrans, from Omaha. Nebraska.) Cecil Ellis Enyard 'Colored* 'Trans, from Shelbina, Missouri.) Designed To Crush Two Axis Centers American and British Jo n in Drive i Chinese to you nd his way o happened to live next >u did not underlie the proximity [ le td you to b'-u (Happened to be or a person who way s life intim-come close friends h a basis of unity, only groups of peo-tighborhood, and al-We have lived many di tante from both would not In Pni friei But il y g fellow Chinese, knew the Chine'* ately. you miyht i. and m ght establisl NATIONS art c {le m a w '*rid ne whv> have beer; y» -trs an *-qual Mexico <o»d Canada. With Canada we share a valid t/md of friendship; with M'xio, we had our troubles, now happily ad justed Theft*fore. Mr. Willkie ha erred grievously in his primary idea. He is just plain wrong in his ini'ial assumption thd whereas this was many worlds before, the plane has made it one world If L the same old wori \ and. as distances have had nothing to do with th* establishment of cur International friendship of the past, they will have nothing to do with it in the future. We hke people who like us. who share our views hopes, and expectations. and we will always continue to lik* such people ,md dislike others, regardless of how fast a few can fly back and f rth, Mr. Willkie's error is grievous, because if we now base our hopes of peace on a false assumption we will not only be disillusioned sadly, but we are likely to have more international troubles as a direct result, perhaps even w )r. Only a thoroughly realistic peace can be a lasting peace. THE PLANE, to be sure, will bring new commercial and military factors mlc the post-war world. Some say it may b possible for a debutante to In a very few fi*lds corn planters were m action. Corn planting will not get in full swing wml n^xt week, how-ever, when hundreds of acres will b»* planted if weather and soil conditions aie favorable. Ray Dameron Dies Unexpectedly Former Local Farmer Had Moved to Missouri March 1 The demand that some actidn be and inspection. I ‘ tak'n was led by a committre of three, Mrs. Wettach explained that what ‘ Mr A. M Wettach. Mrs Howard the women want is to know that the | H V and Mrr Flov: Goodell. while nrlk is (lean You can get cleanliness I pi- ,*s that no one bf employed to gs any w’av you wjant. but we want th^ ; out and inspect ’he dairies at the milk clean. We feel a milk inspection pr* en< time was led by T Ralph is th*- best way, she said. Miner and G. L. Jobe and had the Mrs Geodell said they had no in- , support oi six or seven other milk j tention to jump upon anyone and in- Members of Three Junior High Groups In Program Tonight A lied Headquarters in North Africa INK)- American and British 'roops aid a foundation for the siege f 3 zertp tooav witn capture of noW( territory immediately surrounding 'he Meat Tunisian port At the stme tim-\ Britain's first army gained control of stiaiegic Djebel Bcu Aoukaz, th** last hiil barrier separating allied armies east **f Medez El Bab from the plains country before Tunis. The American army closing in on the naval base of Bizerte. simultane-cusly swept th*> Nazi forces cf Col. General Die'loff von Arnim frm part of "an important sector’—probably the Djebel Achkel—south or LaK.'-Achkel The second United States army corps i.s pushing forward in this area from Mateur against Ferryvilie, site of the power station supplying Bizerte Jap Base in Burma Blasted New Delhi, India —(INS)—The important Japanese base at Toung^o, Burma. 150 mites north rf R-ngoon. was plastered with 30 tons of bombs in a raid bv heavy United tates bombers, American headquaiters announced today. The personnel of the Junior high Washington V tn In Plane With pr durers presen* crease their cost, but were interested \ ird. the girls glee club and the boys (General Bishop • A< Wmes r<,mmcnts were sh -rp in milk cleanliness for the protection glee club which will appear in the pro- Word ha been received of the sudden d'ath of Ray Dameron of NeoshX,1 Mo, which occurred at 11:30 Wednesday m'rning. Mr and Mrs. Dameron moved from Mt Ple tsant to a tarm near Neosha. the iii-t of M&rch this year. Prior to coming to Ift. Pleasant. Mr. Danner-on lived in the Pleasant Lawn vicinity. He was an ex-service man of World war I. The remams will Ik- brought to Ml. Pleasant 6<|urday. Funeral service will be held at the Cookes funeral home at 2 p. m Sunday. Interment will b'1 in F rest Horn1 cemetery beside his lirst wife. Among the fourteen pers • - killed in Jan airplane crash it. Iceland was Capt. Robtrt Shannon, sen of Mr and. Mrs Ralph Shannon of Washington. Ia. Ralph Shannon, publisher of the j Washington Journal, has spoken here* and has mat \ friends in Mt Pleasant. Others in the plane crash and killed included Lieut Gen Frank M Andrews and Bidiop Adna W. Leonard of the MethodLst church. Shannon, who nad recently leceived the distinguished flying cress and the oak leaf cluster, had more than 300 combat hcurs to his credit He probably was enroute home on a lurlouch. j ;jnd weie fired back and forth between i the groups. The session was not one to feep in. Will Make Tests Here After ly&aring the discussion and asking questions the 'ounci! acted to of local children. Mrs Hills said that the talk of a delay untd after the busy season sound-like the same delay that the w:men have met each time on the question. Leo Kennedy, when questioned if he have a test made of milk in Mt. Pleas- would lose many producers as the re ant at the distributors to determine nme ot the things questioned. No bacterial count was made at the recent state inspection and thp Leal milk producers .is well as the women wanting ar inspection seemed to agree that a bacterial eount is desirable and satisfactory. W C. Smith, mfik inspector at Fairfield the last 18 years, told the coun cil and others present of the inspec-The plane crash resulted from ex-» .. . . . . ... , .. ... 1 I think- it is a good thing, admits that an suit of the inspection said that he didn't know- ot many, bu' favored a progiam of education. Question Al eut Equ pment O T Wilson expressed doubt that equipment could be secured by pi -ducers to meet the requirements of an ordinance and also expressed the opii ion that housewives are pretty good jnspectrrs of milk. He suggested the cost of installing the equipment giam this evening at the high school auditorium: Junl* r Band Personnel (51 members) CORNETS: Vmceqt Bacino, Jimmy Smith, Jane RF-kiy Vernon Shafer. Biliv White, Bob McKean. Richard Ro‘h. Doris Prickett. Marjorie Hobson. Paul Strohman, Bob Stahl. Kenneth Hoff, Freddy Dutton. CLARINETS Beverly Wright, Marsha Carrol, Virginia Smith, Margaret Smith. Joe Shaffner. Donald Craig, Dale Hazen. Lloyd Zink. Shirley Metcalf. Nancy Winter. Donnie Anderson. Lavonda Orr. FLUTES Donald Gissel. Ruth Strohman. Marihn Cruikshank. PICCOLO Donald GLssell Subs Effective Against Jap Shipping a South Pacific Base: '1NS>—South Pacific naval headquarters announced today that United States submarines are inflicting tremendous losses on panes# shipping. VETERINARIANS OF DISTRICT MEET oeedingly bad weather conditions, oflicial communique from the European theater of operations aid today. INS reported. i WILL DEMONSTRATE BANDAGE FOLDING th* ordmane* is not enforced to the letter, would be glad to do the w rk here in connection with his Fairfield woik Talks Given T Ralph Miner .spoke first on behalf probablv would be greater than some TROMBONES: David Long. Rollie Ris- estimates. He suggested also that n*| tine. MISS M0R0NY DIES IN CALIFORNIA Word has been received here of the death of Miss Morony. sister cf Dennis Moronv, at Lo.^ Angeles, Calif., on Wednesday night The body, which will arrive here P'riday nitrht, will be taken to the Crane funeral horn'- and the funeral will be held Saturday morning at ten c clock at the St. Alphonsus Catholic church. Cn Saturday afternoon and evening. May 8th, there will be a demon-stratien of the work of folding bandages in the window of the J. C Penny Storp - B'- sure to see it from 3 - 5 P. M. and 7 - 9 P. M Saturday. Spring fever - Spring eleaning-Spring gardens have all combined to make the attendance at the Surgical Dressing Workroom small dining the mcnth of April However 20.090 dressings were made during that month But the committee wishes to remind the women workers in Mt Pleasant 'hat their help is still needed. Please come when you can and work - Room-, open M me ay, Wednesday and Fri- EAR1TONES: Evelyon Holden. Mar ilyn Vance. SAXOPHONES: Martha Hayes. Har hn Bain ter. Patty Hill. ALTO HORNS: Joy Vermace, Thomas cf the local producers. He asked \hat have happened if the council had pass- j Estle. Arnold Brunk. because of the cost involved in car- an ordinance a year ago requiring BELL LYRES: Ramona Sodini, Kay iwng out the requirements of ;/n or- milk grading as demanded by the worn Cottrell. Ann Cottrell, dinance that the matter be delayed en at that time. Other towns having BASS DRUM: Juanita Smutz. until after the war. He objected to sucp an ordinance are experiencing SNARE DRUMS: Joe* Morgan. -nd others w-ere producing milk because it was needed and not because there was a profit in it. for there is very little. Mayor Shook questioned what would the creation of t new job when man- difficulty in getting - supply of milk power is needed for other things. He now. If an ordinance is passed now, quoted figures on the small margin wni we be short of milk? This Is a cf profit on which the milk producer serious prcblem. he pointed out. is now operating. He was questioned James O’Connor, councilman, be-and some of his statements were chal- Heved the two groups were close to- a mail order catalogue end pariy. Many people certainly will fly to F: gland in eight hours. A grpat many people will use th** plane for passenger service instead of boats, and it is possible commercial travel will eventually develop to an extent net known before. order a gown straight from Paris by lead to rivalry as oneness. Certainly qav afternoons from 1 for a week- if rivalry is to be avoided entirely, (jay evening from 7:30 - 9:30. the world politicians will have to re- _ t;:-'*>“i™"?/,11* ,PW Whd I would consider more im- r UK KEN I AL KE YIL W portant than Willkie's views is what ,— _ Stalin thinks about the future use lantlo, f in the Burlington De-of the plane and its political effect. fense-Renta’ Area have been granted And those of Mr. Churchill’s on» an additional 45 days in which to file From a military standpoint, it will British empire, applications for review cf denied pei- also be necessary, for our protection, A few readers accused me of try- it ions. Act;ng Area Rent Director C. tc acquire bases throughout the world ing to ’ smear” Willkie. I have never A. Gabeline announced today, fi rm which w e may intercept possible smeared anyone. Smear tactics have Previously such applied I ion ^ had *o air attacks on us. been so notoriously pursued in several be filed within 15 r ays of the denial of But these are not the things Mr. instances of late years that they a petition. This is now changed to 60 Willkie was talking about. He spoke should arouse the outraged mdigna- rays, of Dolitical unity as a primary as- tion of every man—regardless of Th's extension of the time limit > Pleasant go without an adequate milk whether the smeared one is right or was made, Mr. Gabeline stated, to supply which might occur if these wrong. give landlords ample tim- in s-hveh to farmers quit furnishing the milk. ' Democracy is a dejbate in which gather and furnish additional mater- Up To Dlstribntors false ideas should be snr ared-never ial to support a petition for adjust- He said the ques<ion was up to the THESE FACTORS are just as apt to the personal dignity of the individual, mcnt which has been denied. distributor-*, Mr. K|rinedy and Mr I Ned Russell. Jessica Weis, John Brown, Jr. Nels:n. Alan Ross. Jerry Linder, Nick Bacino. Girls Glee (Tub (56 Members) Kay Cottrell. Marilyn Cruikshank Lenora Marshall. Wanderer Austin, lenged by ihe women’s committee gether on the bacterial count question Roberta Logsdon. Marie Mitts, Mar-O. L. Jobe sp ke,on behalf of farmer? anc} that now i.s the time to act garet Hills. Doris Swailes, Juanita Who are producing milk for the local Responsibility? Vandersnick, Marth i Hayes. Virginia dairies and are doing so only as a Councilman John Myers asked: if Smith, Beverly Nihart, Nancy Seeley sideline. Mr. Jobe spoke diolcmatie- »he council passes an ordinance and i g.n a Garmoe. Marsha Carroll, lily, poured oil on the troubled waters a shortage of milk lesuits, who would Jessica Weis. Erma Smith, Mary Bond made the star talk of the evpning bC responsible, would you ladies be re- e Doris Prickett, jean Jeainbey, He praised the women of Mt. Pl-ae.- sponsible? I want clean milk, but Martha Vcllmer, Ramona Sodini, Joy 5 and Tups-! ;mt for thf ir in,prest in making Mt. think the groups should get together. Vr mace. Arline King. Mary Jacobs. ‘ Pleasant and surrounding territrry a This seemed to be the opinion of the Jane Rieke. LaVonda Orr. Juanita letter place in which to live, but he other councilmen also. White. Lois Pit>e?\ Ritfh Strohman. questioned the advisibility of starting The answer from :he women was Marilyn Adams, Barbara Crane, Mar-a farm-bv-farm inspection at thu that the council probably w'uld be ,aiet Smith. Shirley Metcalf, Edith time. He said the farmers are espe- regarded as responsible, cially busy now trying .to produce as the matter was finally concluded, mor and that they do net have time ||ayor Shook summarized it that ev-to spend with an inspector They will eryone w:*s -yrnting abou* the same resent it and in fact ten farmers have j hing if it could be worked out. Counfold him that they will quit selling j ■ Jman King offered the motion that The Southeastern Iowa Association of Veterinary Medicine met Tuesday night at the Brazelton Hotel for their regular business me* ting. At 6:30 a Fish dinner was enjoyed followed by talks. Dr. C. C. Franks, chief of the Division of Animal’ Industry, Des Moines, talked on Bangs Disease Control' and “Calf- foot vaccination.” Dr. L. A Dykstra of Galesburg showed some talkies on ’Production of Blood Banks” and “Me thods ot Giving Transfusions.” and talked on the Preservation of Plasma and B!ood Storage.’ The annual dec' ion wa s held with the following results: President, Dr. S. P. Holty, West Point; Vice-President. Dr W. L. Andrew v Milton; Sec-Treas, Dr. Tom J McCabe, Mt. Pleasant; Executive board, Dt G. A. White. Riverside. Dr T J McCabe. Mt. Pleas-ant;Dt C, M Collins, Ottumwa; Dr. J M. Wilson, Winfield, and Dr. C. E. Bossier of Ainsworth PROGRAM GIVEN AT FARMERS UNION nrlk if the Inspection ordinance is enacted. The profit difference between milk and selling butterfat is so small that they would turn to selling butterfat. H*' .-aid he wculd hate to see Mt. rumption. but the prospective use of the nl ne commercially and militarily does not itself justify such an assurance. nSpcction be made at fhe local deln ry centers and this me'ion w is passed. All agreed it w-as a start. Ther** was seme que tion regarding who should make the inspection. Mr \!ii*er suggested Mrs. Wettach. Others 1 ought Mr. Smith of FairfHd mould be employed fcr this first inspection. Eairvmen present in addition to those mentioned vverr g. C. Logsdon, Mark Liwrence, FI Rre real-* and one '.r two others. Ledger, Donna Holt. Evelyn Lampe, ? erothy Greenup, Marilyn Taylor. Oera’riine Miller. Marjorie Massey, Jo Ann Es’f . Joy Long. Marilyn Vance, Diar.e Dickson, Juanita Smutz, Vir-!’i Haviland. Betty Smith. Reva Greer, Patty Sanders, Ellen Cochran. arjot ie Danielson, Yvonne Myers, !" na Graff. Ruth Bartow, Evelyn IN . ok s. B- ys Glee (Tub < 14 members) H -rlan Bainter. Lee White. Errol tiJcKinley* Donald Gissell, Jack Shu- Tlie county meeting of Farmer.. Union at their hall Wednesday evening was fairJy w-ell attended and an interesting program was given. The piano/soles by Marie Timmerman and the reading by Mar ter Donald Timmerman, entitled ”The Lazy Farmer,” deserve special mention A long and interesting list of questions on agriculture were read by Mrs. C E. Carnahan and answered by the audience. The ladies of the union served refreshments whiU the group enjoyed another social evening Estimate Fire Loss at $130,00ft Dcs Mo rey lo*u UN3>—Loss in a dre th t yesterday afternoon razed he Rock Island Motor Transit Company’s mam office and garage in Des Moines trday v ■: v"Hmated at $13C,~ 000 Company officials said the f re start- maker, Gerry Shumaker. Billie White, ed when a welder was w orking on a Don Shanndli, Tommy Hildbrant. Roi- j truck in the garage The loss includ-.c Rist ne, John Miltenberger. Bobbie . ed tin freight lines niiin office rec-Tcambey, Carroll Papajohn, Billie ords. 8 tractors, 2 trucks and three Beattie. trailers, it was slated

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