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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1943
Page
4
Local families from Humboldt Fort Dodge Algona Renwick and surrounding towns gathered for Thanksgiving meals and social visits. Relatives traveled to join celebrations at numerous homes including the Schipulls, the Brams, and the Baxters while others planned back home trips and hospital checkups.
A renowned Brown Swiss herd from Wee ley Iowa will be sold at Kanawha Sale Pavilion Kanawha next Thursday in December. Forty registered Swiss cattle will go to the highest bidder under the direction of W B Vee of Waukesha Wisconsin who has managed Swiss sales nationwide.
Humboldt county Boy Scouts plan a circus at Humboldt high school gym Tuesday night December 9 starting at Lordéck. All troops including Bode Livermore Ostosen Pioneer Brad gate Thor Humboldt and Renwick take part. Tickets from scouts or at the door.
Scrap paper drive organized by the Junior Class and Athletic Association invites donations. A caller will collect papers on Saturday December 4 at Renwick School.
Town Marshal Marx Schwyter will make his last trip for the season Monday morning, picking up items destined for the dump. Local notices about sales of P B Darcie Bears and Poland China boars appear, with Thanksgiving mentions and residents visiting relatives in Eagle Grove and Ames.
Renwick and Hardy churches plan Sunday School at 10 a m and 11 a m with worship at 22 a m and 10 a m, plus a 3 00 p m quarterly conference conducted by Dr F Earl Burgess. The joint meeting will report benevolences budget and church program for the year. Choir practice Saturday at 7 30 p m.
Emmanuel Evangelical Church in Florida led by Pastor Pieper invites members to attend Sunday services at 10:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. with Divine Worship at 3 p.m. and a Thursday midweek service plus choir rehearsal. Emphasizes spiritual welfare and salvation.
Sunday and Monday visits by Miss Lucille Earnhardt and her family. Donald Martin suffered a broken bone in the left leg after tripping in a corn elevator last Friday. Mrs Jobo Schipull stayed with J H Vanner in Webster City and joined family for Thanksgiving. Frank Ward traveled to Fort Dodge. Mrs Esie has two weeks of Mercy Hospital treatment. Dolores Blesie and Dorothy Besie spent Thanksgiving with their parents. Evangelical Ladies Aid met at Ed Luehsinger’s home with officer elections and an auction sale.
Dr Earl N Bressman on the Inter American Institute of Rubber Sciences says the Americas can sustain natural rubber against synthetic competition. He notes millions of young trees, disease resistant high yield strains, and potential 20 cents a pound production with mature plantations.
A 36 year old father of three requests immediate reclassification by the Polk county selective service board No 4 in Des Moines Iowa. He lives with his wife and children in Portland Oregon and earned $3000 a year in a war plant.
In Fort Oglethorpe Georgia Margaret Greens family has a five generation line of service in major wars from the American Revolution to World War I. No sixth generation man available for this conflict yet she defies the trend by volunteering Private Margaret Green of the WAC.
Brad ley Cleveland of Afton New York a soldier on leave returned home shoeless after dozing in a bus terminal. Police traced the theft to a nearby bar where a man confessed and received a six month jail sentence.
Dr. Colin Garfield Fink of Columbia University, in Science, urges radical research from American youth. He lists six problem areas: lighting efficiency, three to four times better automobile engines, rain and sunproof wood paint, fatigue resistant aluminum alloy, substitutes for copper or lead, and leather substitutes for shoes. He contrasts radical research with development work, citing plastic billiard balls as an example of fundamental discovery.
Cleveland report says Corporal Albert J. di Santo of Lakeland Florida flew to his Florida camp on a free ticket after volunteering to hold one of Miss ty’s twins on his lap during the hour plane trip Mrs Witty bought two tickets for the trip with one year old twins Maj Perle Willy stationed at Orlando Florida helped arrange the plan to enable di Santo to gain two extra days of furlough in Cleveland
Allied signals describe Mediterranean operations using a novel route to London. Troop movements depart North Africa aboard zigzag flagships, delivered on aluminum platforms marked for visibility, then refueled at sea before censorship and rapid transmission to world news centers.
CHICAGO. Two teenage boys Lee Bruner 12 and Frank Bader 17 were adrift five days in a powerless 28 foot sloop on Lake Michigan before rescue by coast guard. They had drifted after leaving South Chicago on Monday and survived partly on caramels. A naval plane spotted the marked deck with the word helo taped on life preservers, signaling for help.
London reports Staff Sergeant Donald W. Crossley of Wellsburg West Virginia received both the Distinguished Flying Cross and an oak leaf cluster for two DFCs. The highest scoring aerial gunner in the European theater, Crossley had 11 confirmed kills in 20 heavy bomber raids and already held an Air Medal with three clusters.
A 52 year old Newark man named Paul Ahrens, who arrived in 1927, asked Federal Judge Thomas F. Meaney to renounce American citizenship and become German. His petition was granted and he and his wife were interned at Ellis Island where she reportedly stated I hate the United States.
A slice of Times Square life with everyday pedestrians, entertainers, and travelers. Observations range from grandmothers’ jokes and fashion glimpses to soldiers and sailors, vaudeville talk, and taxi math musings, capturing Broadway bustle and urban oddities through affectionate, wry prose.
Cambridge Massachusetts reports a new comet found by Dr C Popovici of the National Observatory at Bucharest Romania. The discovery on September 10 by an astronomer named Diamaca places the object at eighth magnitude and unlikely to reach visible naked eye until it brightens to fifth magnitude per Harvard Observatory.
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