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Newspaper
Reporter Boyden
Location
Boyden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1944
Page
1
A 1944 1945 Boyden program series details monthly meetings by the Women’s Citizenship Club. Topics include The Nucleon of Racism, The Japanese and American Democracy, The Jews' Contribution to Civilization, The American Negro, and Uncle Sam’s Stepchild ren the Indian. Local social notes mention John Scholten’s eye injury from an acid battery incident and community visits.
Blanks go to filling stations around the county around Sept 1. Complete the form with full car description and sign the back cover of your old book. Mail to War Price and Rationing Board No. 6384-1 Orange City, Iowa, or to Hawarden for several townships. Motorcycle D books renewals start Nov 12. Fourth Quarter Transport Rations for trucks available Sept 12.
The District No. One Christian Endeavor Union holds its fall rally at the Reformed Church of Hospers on Friday night September 1. The program includes an eight o'clock address by Rev. Jesse Graber on Christian Youth on the Offensive for Christ, with long services led by Sebena Meyer and Harriet Muyskens. A quartet from George will provide music and a social hour with refreshments ends the evening.
Mrs John Rensinck Jr hosted the Bridge Club at her home on Wednesday afternoon. Mr and Mrs Wesley Keizerjov of Le Mars spent the weekend at Elidora Heitritter's. Neil returned after summer with his grandmother. Tommy Bollman came home Sunday after a week with grandma Heitritter. Mrs Arthur Miller and daughter Mrs Rufus Ralston visited Freese home Melvin on Thursday. Bob Wargowsky of Mariette Minnesota arrived Friday to visit local friends. Ava Dykstra of Orange City was Tuesday guest of Mr and Mrs John Rensink Sr.
Mrs. Mabel Eberly of Sheldon is hired to fill the last vacancy. She is near a master’s degree after post graduate work at the University of South Dakota and Minnesota. She has 13.5 years of teaching, including 7 in Omaha. She will teach general science, commercial geography, guidance and possibly speech.
Sioux County schools begin August 28 and September 4 welcoming about 5000 pupils. Teachers face numerous challenges guiding mental physical and moral growth in a changing educational landscape. Mrs George Horn and daughter Ruthie returned Sunday from a visit with Mrs Wallace Lutyens.
AAA urges farmers to harvest seed for profit with 3.50 per acre government payment and 3 cents per pound of clean seed. Conservation practices for 1945 include seeding, mowing, weed control, contouring, and erosion control. Acting Price Administrator James G. Rogers Jr notes corn hog balance with no near term price rise. Vagts family mentions residence visits during the week.
The August report shows 25 herds tested with 321 cows in milk and 57 dry cows, totaling 8378 cows tested. Average production per cow including dry cows was 719 pounds of milk and 24.8 pounds of butterfat. 803 day lactation records completed. The text notes pasture nutrient shortages and flies as factors, and mentions 475 cows on test yielding 9,582 pounds of milk and 331.8 pounds of butterfat per cow year. Supervisor P. F. Pesch plans to test in Washington and thanks members for two years of work.
A soldier recalls shellfire driving him into a roadside ditch as German artillery and machine gun fire raked orchards and houses. He notes fellow troops from a neighboring division and a misfit front line, then joins a bulldozer crew clearing the road while litter bearers trudge across a damaged town. A wounded German soldier is found in a farm house as medics check for hidden injuries.
Two shock cases stagger toward us not wounded but broken. They cling to each other like frightened children as a doctor orders them to wait for a ride. They falter, speak little, eyes blank, mouths agape. They show war’s toll on the human spirit.
A simple method describes discarding lace tips by dipping the end in melted paraffin or bees wax and shaving to a point before the wax hardens, creating a neat, quick seal.
The article notes international law does not require states to compensate foreign civilians for deaths or damages caused by armed forces. It cites U S practice of paying for accidents not during battle, totaling over $2 1 million to about 18 000 claimants per Collier s. It explains a North African Arab’s accidental death costs $200 while his mule is valued at $250.
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