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Newspaper
Oelwein Daily Register
Location
Oelwein, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1943
Page
3
A chatty collage features quips on aging, insurance, war work, and daily life. The piece weaves playful lines about a 92 year old, a Navy date, gas company rhetoric, and cultural shorthand. It blends jokes, puns, and social scraps in a midcentury voice.
A wartime communication serialized from The Montclair Times laments wartime hardships and scarce comforts, with a neighborly letter from a son describing long hours, travel on foot, and restricted freedoms. It includes a Franklin Smith opinion arguing alcohol is not a stimulant and discusses health harms and societal views on liquor.
A dated editorial warns that alcohol abuse harms national effort and defense, urging clear minds in crisis. It suggests King Alcohol bears responsibility for some air disasters and frames drunkenness as a threat to aviation and security. The piece appeals to citizens to resist intoxication during critical times.
Des Moines reports Gov. Bourke B. Hickenlooper criticizes further gasoline ration cuts in the midwest while a 75 000 barrel per day shipment eases shortages. Petroleum Administrator Harald L. Ickes is due to testify at the committee meeting next Thursday. He argues rationing aims to prevent widespread shortages.
Rulers named include Rene Massigh and Gen Alphonse Georges with or without portfolio roles plus Henri Bonnet and Rene Ple vins. Others listed are Andrew Lix ier Rene Mayer Jean Abadie Maurice Couve de Murville and Andre Die thelm covering colonial affairs labor social affairs finance production and public health.
Miss Ruth Ulring daughter of Reverend and Mrs ER Ulring takes leave from duties as secretary at West Union High School office during a vacation period.
Casual, smart button front pattern No. 8320 offered in sizes 12 to 42 with short sleeves. Yardage listed for size 14 3% yards of 35 inch fabric and 1% yard edging. Include 5 cents pattern price plus 1 cent postage with name address pattern number and size to The Oelwein Register Pattern Dept Chicago HI. Also promotion for Fashion guide 25 cents per copy and war bond appeal.
Quotes from residents of Delaware and nearby states envision postwar air travel. Balendzka celebrates air troop transport and future commercial flights, while Gibb, Pearce, Drinky, Woolridge, Bleiberg, and others imagine vacations by air to Europe and Britain, or sightseeing in Slav regions after the war ends.
Prime Minister Churchill speaks of invasion plans on many fronts and notes heavy German losses in Tunisia. He recalls talks with Roosevelt in Washington and North Africa, stressing bright and solid allied prospects and a postwar world built on strong Anglo American ties.
War time rationing aims to maximize nutrition while limiting scarce foods. Consumers should co operate with government programs, minimize waste, and learn to stretch red food stamps by choosing low point, nutrient rich items and experimenting with unfamiliar meat cuts at the butcher.
The Boston Traveler reported a 54 year old Meredith New Hampshire spray painter C K Plancon invented a gasoline substitute two years ago. It works in motorboats and automobiles, is plentiful and cheap at about four cents a gallon. Plancon has not used it in his own vehicle. A boatman tested it and said it worked well, noting a 155 mile trip on eight and a half gallons.
In Los Angeles a large east side area was barred to service members after clashes with zoot suit wearers. Over 500 soldiers sailors and marines marched through downtown attacking theaters cafes bars and nightclubs. Dozens arrested over the weekend as officers struggle to curb violence.
Rep Joseph C Baldwin introduces a bill to grant each serviceman and merchant marine member an average 300 to 400 as a postwar bonus. The measure is the first to propose postwar benefits for veterans of the current war. The House and Senate conferees on anti strike law remain deadlocked over a 30 day notice and private ballot clause.
Marvin Snyder returns home on fur lough to visit parents Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Snyder after desert maneuvers in Southern California. Mrs. J. J. Tyrrel of Edgewood visited Mrs. Carrie Stable. Albert Opperman Jr. was home on furlough for his grandfather Henry Opperman’s funeral. he is from Hed Army Air Base at Great Falls, Ontario. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Nichols and son Monte of Davenport were visiting their family last weekend.
The record lists visits and family events including Albert Tucker's visit to his mother Mrs. W. W. Smith and Ce dar Rapids hospital for his wife’s operation. It notes Mrs. Delight Kingsley Meader visiting Cedar Rapids relatives, Milton Bowman and children from Hanover NL visiting relatives, a May 25 birth announcement for a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Louis Statford of Manchester, J S Knight and Mrs Angier celebrating her 71st birthday anniversary with refreshments, a W C T U meeting led by Mrs. Charles Blanchard, Miss Madge Porter’s indefinite visit from Norfolk to her Porter family, Cedar Rapids visitors L Ty Reid and H V Steward, Harald Linderwell, and Louie Gamm family members returning from Cedar Rapids after a week with his son.
Earl Gamm and relatives visit Cedar Rapids while updates include Harold Harwood and Mrs. Alderson travel, Mrs. Bush visits kin near Lamont, and Kenneth Homewood ships to Treasure Island for Naval Radio Technician training. Sunday meals in Maynard feature Homewood family, Minnie Whitman visits, Fridley serves in Farragut, Aikman family from Minneapolis visits, plus Boys State plans and local gossipy notes.
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