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Newspaper
Oelwein Daily Register
Location
Oelwein, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1946
Page
8
The Flying Farmers expand across Fayette Buchanan and Clayton counties with headquartering planned at the Oelwein municipal airport. A large GI training program soon available offers up to 600 worth of instruction for about 100 returning veterans pending port approval from CA A A, drive speed of activity at the airport.
SAE delegates at French Lick Indiana concluded streamlining plans are impractical. They warned rising manufacturing costs may push passenger cars toward high operating costs and urged aero dynamic improvements and fuel research to cut wind resistance and boost efficiency. Observers fear plans mirror veteran European designs, perceived as crude wheelbarrows.
The Register outlines a building program to modernize Oelwein with a Fi-Turification of Lake Oelwein II aims at beautification and maintenance of parks. It calls for pool construction and extension of Second Ave SE. Columnists opinions not necessarily reflecting the newspaper stance.
A memo notes Open Forum letters are welcome but must be signed or at least attributed to the writer. It bans anonymous submissions and enforces a 300 word limit, ensuring the paper knows the author even if a name is withheld.
A fragmented column recalls past events with mentions of Reichs Fuehrer Adolf Hitler congratulating Max Schmeling, visits by Mrs Kemp and daughters, weddings in Chicago, county party conventions, showers, quilting bees, births, and travels. Also notes youths visiting Decorah, families touring Festina, and local routine like police patrolling for firecrackers before July 4, alongside revisits to Pasadena entertainers and gatherings in Oelwein.
The piece argues Stalin prussianizes the Red Army to prepare for war while US forces suffer from antiwar propaganda. It criticizes Soviet despotism and warns of weak American morale as editorials discuss Gromyko’s UN stance, weapons policy, and a peace train song campaign.
Theda Bara stars in The Eternal Sapko a Vitagraph photo drama of the soul shown today. J F Corder and son John Hugh left for Cincinnati Iowa to visit friends and relatives. Hanson family left for a motor trip through Nebraska and Dakota. National Protective Association organized in Oelwein to discourage auto thieves and aid car recovery with 1 dollar yearly membership. Eugene Boie remained in Minnesota with sister during parents absence. Mrs Georgia Boyer spent weekend with brother near Sumner and attended Leela Jones first communion. Wayne Munson Belva Granneman and George Palmer work at Oliver Tractor plant in Charles City. Wayne and Belva visited weekend with parents then traveled to Charles City. Mrs D E Moore Council Bluffs visited here with her mother.
Hawkeye Correspondents report Mrs. Mate Palmer and Mrs. G L Belschner attending Shirley Wilbur’s wedding to Edwin Miller in Chamberlain South Carolina. Delbert Belschner arrives stateside from Ft Sheridan after overseas service begun July 1944 with basic at Camp Wolters Texas. Joel Ludvicck also due home from Germany after similar service. Local attendees include Lloyd LaLone Mildred Lallone Louise Mill and others at Reisner Beunzon wedding in West Union.
Across clues list and down clues list for a crossword puzzle with numbered entries. The grid details, theme notes, and exact answers are not provided in readable form. The page compiles typical crossword entries such as short legged stocky horse pony, Norse god Thor, and many others across and down, implying a standard puzzle from a newspaper.
A Californian writer enjoys New York nightlife noting inexpensive clubs with a two dollar fifty cent minimum for beer or a smell of Scotch, complains of table luck at gatherings, yet thrives on the city’s sunlit scene and theater district after-dinner chatter. He longs for a California climate and a sea breeze, hinting at LA chamber of commerce expansion talk.
Louise Mill stays with sister in law Mildred LaLone. Clay Ferrill Joyce return to Moberly Missouri after three weeks visiting Lillian Parker relatives. Evelyn Bruening named seventh and eighth grade teacher for coming term. George Thelman Miranda Kollman to Muscatine school. Kollman attends Iowa State Teachers College Cedar Falls. Billy Kollman stays with grandparents at Westgate. Mallon Linesin spent days with friends at Delhi. Carl Leader family Fayette visited Herman Belschner.
Hyde Park readers discuss persistent price inflation and the case for continued price controls. A 1946 Office of Price Administration bulletin notes that from 1939 to 1946 consumer prices rose, with most increases before controls. Since VJ Day, inflation remains tame, yet noncontrolled sectors show jumps, including raw cotton up 23 percent and real estate up 57 to 76 percent. Sugar policy and subsidies are debated, weighing wartime needs against postwar costs.
A package from Omaha to Japan and return in four months arrived in perfect condition. Mrs. Dwaine Brawnell sent the rail cake and cookies for her brother, former M Sgt Vernon T Canaday, stationed in Japan. He was sent home before arrival, but the package brought him back to Omaha. Unrelated depth note on Great Lakes depths mentions Lake Superior regions and nets.
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