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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1943
Page
2
A flood of brief items lists residents returning home, military service, travel, and community happenings around Pella including hospital visits, birthdays, school and college ties, and farm and family movements. Several names appear with sightings of kin, weddings, and illness, reflecting a bustling midwestern town page.
A public safety message urged careful planning for a safe and sane Independence Day celebration. It stressed preventing accidents to preserve manpower and materials vital to history and called on individuals to be careful workers and drivers for a safer holiday.
Town residents anticipate higher hog prices as market projections suggest an uptick by July. Local farmers expect improved income as supply and demand factors align, with forecasts calling for a modest advance in rates ahead of the mid-summer season.
Marion County farmers keep corn in bins and sell little of their reserve as rumors of high prices and government subsidies spread. Chairman J H Hooper of the AAA says farmers would surplus for industry needs but the Commodity Credit Corp has ordered 125000 bushels sold from storage in Marion County. Prices to farmers remain 50 cents per bushel, with no local price change anticipated.
Karl Kettering of the college economics faculty this week led a panel for the W Labor Relations Board in Water loo. He chaired the board with Tahar and 1 as fellow members, hearing a case involving employes of the Water Company of Dubuque and related firms. He will send recommendations to Kansas City for final action by the Regional National War Labor Board. He notes the proceedings were amicable, hopes for postwar action, and cites the Anti-Strike Bill as helpful while fearing new strikes may emerge despite conciliation efforts. The report also touches on broader wartime labor policy and related industrial concerns.
Washington reports say the Red Rock dam and mains river improvement lack progress in Congress and are unlikely to move this session unless World War ends. Hearings on flood control for various areas, including the Des Moines river project, yielded few results beyond clarifying altered plans. The Army Corps of Engineers and USS Rivers and T Marchers Hoard prepared the AV report on Red Rock, which committee will send to the Federal Power Commission for power production considerations.
A garbled ruin of a wartime page shows a colored soldier warning others to recount their children after a cord is pulled. the phrase shouts in rough phonetics, creating a puzzling, charged image of a tense event on a Stars and Stripes page.
The Home for the Aged records a series of visits and remembered dates. Residents and friends from Oska tow a Peoria and London are noted visiting or sending regards, including Mrs Dirk Van On and Mr Peter Senhorst with several local names in attendance.
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