Weather recorder notes for Oelwein station
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Newspaper
Oelwein Daily Register
Location
Oelwein, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1944
Page
3
Readable fragments show yesterday's high and today's minimum reported around 2 06 pm local time. The text is damaged and lacks complete values or dates.
Mrs Hey Ander learns son Earl Henning 2/c U.S. Coast Guard now stationed in Ketchikan Alaska. Ray Masters and Mrs Sophia Tait took Mrs R Masters to University Hospital Iowa City for treatment. Tom Munn sails for Des Moines for U.S. Navy physical. Numerous local notices of births visits travel and hospital stays throughout the city.
At Mercy Hospital several patients are listed including Herbert Thies of Oelwein, Fairbank resident, Simpson of Oelwein, Lory Pirtha and Paul Berger with uncertain spellings and towns. The report notes Red Cross knitters helping the Army, led by Mrs J C at 112 ist Way, while Red Cross rooms remain closed for a week due to closure.
Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts will mobilize Friday 1 p m to collect waste paper in Oelwein. Den Mothers and Keith Kelly Cub Master chaired final planning as scouts canvass assigned parts, urge housewives to place magazines and cardboard boxes on curbs for afternoon pickup to fund scout activities. Remember get waste paper on curb by Friday noon.
Dudley Hale president of the Gelvein Chamber of Commerce named a legislative committee to review all state legislature proposals. Willer Davis serves as chairman with J A Courtright and C 75 Chambers as members to keep chamber and members informed on acts of the legislature.
Seabees mark their third anniversary December 26 with 230000 officers and men of the United States Naval Construction Battalions in the Pacific. Born after Pearl Harbor they earned glory at Guadalcanal and with assault troops in major amphibious operations. They helped push back the Axis across Africa, Sicily, Italy and Normandy beaches. Most battalions are overseas or on second tours. 76 percent are abroad. The Seabees’ chief quote says there aren’t enough of them. Also notices for Boy Scouts troop 23 meeting and New Year party at Legion Hall.
The S C Sprague family and H E VanDenover family express gratitude to the O F D the D A V and all friends and neighbors for kindness and help during and after a recent fire.
Robert E. Olson son of Mr and Mrs Eugene Olson of 40 First Avenue SE graduated from the Army Air Forces Flexible Gunner School at Laredo Army Field Texas and is qualified to join bomber combat crew He is a Sacred Heart High School class of 1944 vice president and entered service soon after graduation He has since been stationed in Texas
Funeral services for Mrs. Fon da Miller who died yesterday in Mercy hospital will be held Saturday afternoon at 2:06 p.m. at the Hin Funeral Home officiated by Smoke Epps. Interment will follow in Otsego Cemetery southeast of this city.
Navy manpower officials invite skilled and unskilled civilians to interview at the Local U.S. Employment Service office January 23 through 27 for positions at Pearl Harbor and nearby yards to repair battle damaged ships including mention of the Maryland rapid repair. A separate call bids donations of truckload waste paper for a Box Scout Waste Paper drive to be delivered to Jake Levin by 1 p.m.
Avery resists government seizure orders affecting Chicago properties used for a mail order and retail store firm. His earlier refusal led to immediate occupation by soldiers who posted signs declaring the plant under U S government control. The army’s action marked a swift transfer of management while Avery remained in a closed office.
Two army officers stood in the lobby of the home office as seizure of the firm’s stores near Detroit drew cheers from pickets at strike-pound plants. The picket captain shouted Hurray, here comes Uncle Sam at last. After the seizure, employees are to be paid back wages due to wage increases ordered by the WLB.
Battle details recount the siege of Bastogne with American resolve. Commanders face pressure from German forces as artillery and air power hammer surrounding buildings. A platoon reports destroying seven enemy tanks in quick bursts, highlighting gritty combat and heroic endurance amid shattered defenses.
Continued from Page One) describes ELAS demands for 40 to 50 percent representation in the new government. It calls for interior justice ministries and undersecretaries of war and foreign affairs to be filled by leftists, dissolution of the gendarmerie, and removal of its members. It also mentions isolation of the mountain brigade sacred battalion and the newly formed national guard battalion. A plebiscite on the monarchy is planned for the first Sunday in February, with elections for a constituent assembly in April.
Aliss Grace Stabaker of War and relatives spent Christmas at the Stabaker and Stohr households with extended family visiting from Oelwein and Waterloo. Christmas dinners included Mrs. Lee Coleman and the Lea Coleman family, and Clifford Meier with Janice attended in the Frede rer home in Oelwein while BR L McCue hosted Sunday dinner with Darlyn Netley and others.
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