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Newspaper
Preston Citizen
Location
Preston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1944
Page
9
In Omaha J Ed Hoover, head of the FBI, urges truthful parenting as a character builder. He says if he had a son he would tell him the truth, avoid lies, reward honesty, and avoid enabling mischief. He would counsel churchgoing, scouting, and meeting leaders to understand his boy.
A wartime letter from Mike describes hardships in Italy including limited transport and long hours at a defense plant, expressing shared struggle with the boss and family. The piece also references a garbled patriotic song and a jumbled lyric novelty that critics fear may spread in popularity.
The Social Security Bureau faces criticism as Congress rejects the White House push for higher employer and employee rates. Officials note many seniors sixty five and over do not claim their pensions while labor shortages persist. Congress is urged to withhold premium increases until manpower conditions improve.
The War Food Administration announced a $12.50 per ton price support for sugar beets for 1944, with a $12.60 per ton top for beet growers. Minidoka County farmers with suitable beet land are likely to expand acreage as sugar shortages and rationing persist.
Typewriter ribbons are on sale for L. C Smith Corona Remington Royals Underwood and all portable machines at The Citizen store. Save on essential typing supplies for home and office use.
The Social Security Board urges extending coverage to all workers including farmers and self employed. The eighth annual report to Congress calls for a national system providing income and medical care when earnings stop due to illness or disability. Currently about 5 million farm operators and an equal number of self employed people are outside the system. The board argues self employment does not guarantee security and rural Americans need access to medical and hospital services.
Today readers can learn how WAC recruiting policies affect eligibility for special Army jobs and assignments across Air Ground and Service Forces. Visit the nearest Army Recruiting Station or write to The Adjutant General at the Munitions Building Washington DC for full details.
County Agent William Craner and Melvin Smith of the State Fish and Wildlife Service led a rat control campaign. Demonstrations drew fewer farmers than hoped, but school students cooperated. Rats found in Preston’s city sheds. red squill poison mixed with food fed in runways to hazards.
Idaho farmers' cooperatives drew 2,249,520 dollars in credit from the Spokane Bank for Cooperatives last year to finance processing handling and marketing of a larger wartime food and fiber output. In Idaho 2,012,059 went to operations and stored commodities and 237,461 to facilities. Across four Pacific Northwest states total bank advances reached 12,764,578 with most for operations and commodities. More than 90 percent of cooperatives using funds are engaged in processing handling or marketing essential war time foods and fibers.
A scattered humor page with anecdotes from nurses and soldiers, pranks, and puns. It blends tall tales about brains trains and looks books with jokes about elephants ears noses and beers. The bits feature lines about a secretary, a gate between Heaven and Hell, and a coal oil mix up culminating in a wedding weld joke.
In a wartime irony a draft board remarks that newlyweds stay welded as the process cools. The board worries that it has moved from individual assessment to tallying numbers, with eyes no longer inspected, only counted.
A Cleveland department store worker found a coded page and turned it to the FBI. Agents could not decode it until a woman expert in international coding revealed the message as knitting instructions. A classroom joke about Indians and squawkers closes the excerpt.
Sald ledgers journals binders cash books and time books offered at the Citizen's office supply counter with itemized sales notes all readable in the fragment.
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