Services Held At Plover Sunday For Ward Sharp
Funeral services for Ward Sharp were held Sunday at the Sharp home and at 3:00 pm at the Methodist church in Plover. Rev. G F Butler led the service with Rev. R A Grigsby assisting. Music by a quartet featured songs including When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder. Pallbearers were George Majorowicz Ward Van Alstine A L Fikins Arthur Thompson Marion Ham and Casper Grant. Interment followed in Rolfe cemetery. Sharp, born May 18 1898 in Humboldt county Iowa, died December 28 1944 in Plover at age 51. He married Hazel Henderson Aug 28 1918. six children survive and a broad circle of relatives attended.
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Plover
Ward Arp
Sharp
Methodist Church
G. FF. Butler
Presbyterian Church
R. A. Grigsby
Lawrence Hilton
F. Butler
Guy Barker
B. D. Baker
Flory
Ann Seaman
Rolfe
William Ward Sharp
Humboldt County
Iowa
Milan Sharp
Hazel Henderson
Raymond Wolfe
Brooks ‘Keminger
Warnest Langfitt
Charles Sharp
Philippines
Donna Lea Sharp
Vernon Sharp
Fort Ge
Frank Herald
Fort Dodge
Galen Sharp
Frank Jolliffe
Anna Blake
Clark Jolliffe
Humboldt
Frank Fitzgerald
Jessie Fitzgerald
Anna Pollock
Lula Iseminger
Stuart Seeley
A. W. Hess
Dorothy M. Timmons Weds C. E. Peterson
Miss Dorothy Maxine Timmons and Clarence lmew cere ee eee wed Wednesday at 7 00 p m by Mayor G G fee in Rolfe Hinks Bank building. Attendees included Mr and Mrs Melvin Heller. Bride is a Rolfe high school 10th grade student. groom known as Duff and employed at Hunte Produce station. The couple will reside in Helmet aiser house in the southeast park town.
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Dorothy Maxine Timmons
Clarence
Cere
G. G. Fee
Rolfe Hinks Bank
Melvin Heller
Rolfe High
As “Duff
Hunte Produce Station
Helmet Aiser
Sydia Jacobson
Veterans exempt from 20 percent payment rule on VA funded home loans
Veterans buying homes with funds guaranteed by the Veterans Administration need not meet the 20 percent of purchase price payment rule before eviction certification under OPA rent regulations. The amendment excludes loaned funds from the 20 percent test to prevent veterans from losing possession due to rent rules. War bonds urged to support national defense.
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Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs
OPA
Office of Price Administration
Sacred Heart Eagles top Rolfe 40 to 31 in Pocahontas
Sacred Heart Eagles defeated the Rolfe high school team 40 to 31 before a large crowd. Eike led Sacred Heart with 16 points and Mackavets added 14, while Rolfe’s Cornwell scored 10 and Murray 8. Sacred Heart reserves beat Rolfe 30 to 19.
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Rolfe
Sacred Heart Eagles
Pocahontas
Eagles
Eike
Mackavets
Rolfe Cornwell
Murray
Sacred Heart
Anderson
Sandvig
Wiegman
Cox
Fisher
Sundvig
Used Car Prices Unchanged by OPA Across Markets
The Office of Price Administration announced that prevailing prices for used automobiles and trucks will remain unchanged. Plans to adjust ceilings in January were cancelled to keep inventories high, and buyers and sellers are urged to consult local war price and rationing boards for ceiling prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Family Dinner Honors Donald Green Homecoming
The family of Mrs. Mary Green gathered Sunday at Fort Dodge in a birthday dinner for her son Donald Green returning from the South Pacific and granddaughter Mary Torkelson of Bede. Attending were Sea man and Mrs. Donald Green and relatives from Fort Dodge Bode Havelock West Bend and Bode.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Green
Edward Green
Fort Dodge
Donald Green
South Pacific
Mary Torkelson
Bede
Seaman
T. B. Torkelson
Bode
Annette Green
West Bend
Sadie Goodchild
Ned Goodchild
Havelock
T. B
Edward C Fisher Ends First Year Overseas
Pfc Edward C Fisher of Algona daughter household, son of Mr and Mrs E C Fisher, completed one year overseas with the Field Artillery. A Rolfe high school class of 1942 graduate, he served in the Hollandia operation and helped bring Gen MacArthur's forces closer to Tokyo. His brother serves in the navy in Europe.
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Netherlands East Indies
C. Fisher
Field Artillery
E. C. Fisher
Algona
Rolfe High School
Fisher
B. & I. Sales Corp
Fort Dodge
Army
Hollandia
Douglas MacArthur
Tokyo
Europe
James E MacVey Wins Air Medal in Italy
James E. MacVey, 22, of Rolfe Iowa, a right waist gunner on a B 17 Flying Fortress with the 15th AAF in Italy, receives the Air Medal for meritorious aerial achievement. He has four months overseas and first flew combat against an enemy airfield at Pardubice in August 1944. He is a 1940 Plover High School graduate, trained at Lowry Field and Kingman Arizona, and enlisted September 10 1942 after farming.
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15Th Aaf
Italy
James Sh. MacVey
Czechoslovakia
Set. MacVey
Lowery Field
Colorado
Kingman
Arizona
AAF
Patton Commends 90th Division for Moselle bridgehead
S/Sgt. Virgil W. Cook of the 90th division sent his parents a copy of The Sniper, the division mimeo sheet. The issue carries General Patton’s commendation praising the capture and development of the bridgehead over the Moselle near Koenigsmacher as one of history’s epic river crossings. Cook also sent a Christmas telegram to his parents.
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Virgil W. Cook
90Th
Patton
Walter Cook
90Th Division
Moselle
Koenigsmacher
Stamps Extended to March 1 As OPA Issues Statement
The Office of Price Administration announced red and blue food ration stamps remain valid through March 1. No termination date is set for December validated stamps and they will not be invalidated in January or February.
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Office of Price Administration
Red Cross Seeks 50 Servicemen’s Kits
Local Red Cross unit asks volunteers to assemble 50 service kits urgently. If you can spare a few hours, report to the Chevrolet garage and receive materials from Gladys Larsen. Return finished kits promptly for the front line troops.
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RED Cross
The
Chevrolet
Gladys Larsen
Raymond Nelson Wounded in Action in France
Lt Raymond Nelson slighted wounded in action December 17 while serving with an Engineers Battalion of Patton's Third Army in France. The War Department message reached his parents on December 29 with no further word at this time.
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Raymond Nelson
War Department
Fred Nelson
Raymond
France
Patton
Third Army
Need Cooperation Of All County Citizens
R. L. Hudson urges every resident to strictly follow rationing rules as wartime controls tighten. He notes extended European conflict raises costs and stresses, but vows OPA programs will continue to allocate fair shares and protect against inflation and deflation.
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R. L. Hudson
War Price and Rationing Board
OPA
Cottontail Rabbits Abundant But Popularity And Limits Debate
State conservation director F. T. Schwab says cottontails are abundant across Iowa, near peak population this year after a 1939 low. Rabbit fever, Tularemia, has declined with only one case so far this year. Rabbits may be sold. daily bag limit is 10 with no possession cap, and cold storage permits allowed until March 10. Season closes March 1.
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United States
Towa
F. T. Schwab
State Conservation Commission
Iowa
Social visitors from Albion stay with Barton Moffet kin
Mrs Clyde Richards and Mrs Robert Johnson visited from Thursday to Tuesday at Albion in the home of Capt Richard's mother Mrs Barton Moffet.
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Clyde Richards
Robert Johnson
Capt
Richard
Barton Moffet
Albion
Lola Beth Green Weds Staff Sergeant Martin in Denver Chapel
Miss Lola Beth Green daughter of Mary Green Rolfe marries Staff Sergeant Max A Martin in a Lowry Field ceremony Denver Colorado Captain James Andrews officiates. Attendants were Curtis E H O Nealo and Arnold Mikkelson overseas wound buddies. Martin a B 24 gunner with Air Corps earned Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters Distinguished Flying Cross and Presidential Citation. He is now at Fort Logan convalescent hospital Denver.
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Lola Beth Green
Mary Green of
Rolfe
Max A. Martin
Denver, Colo
Lowry Field No. 2
James Andrews
Curtis EH. O’neal
Arnold Mikkelson
U. S. Army Air Corps
Martin
Rolfe High School
Abbott’s Laboratories
North
Chicago
Ill
Sergeant Martin
Dessie Martin
Yukon
Oklo
England
Berlin
North Sea
United States
Air Corps
Fort Logan
Colo
Denver
Saw Action On Anzio Beachhead
Forrest Ives, home on leave until January 26, reports service in the US Navy on LST 3885. He fought at Tunisia, Sicily, Salerno, and Anzio, was later in England and Normandy invasion flotillas, calling Anzio the worst landing due to bombs and damaged boats. He traveled with William Baade to Manson, met by Fred C. Baade.
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Forrest Ives
Boston
Mass
United States Navy
LST
Tunisia
Sicily
Salerno
Anzio
England
Normandy
William Baade
Manson
Fred C. Baade
Tutt family finds work in Rockford during war effort
J. E. Tutt, a Rolfe shoe repairman employed at Attwood Machine Co in Rockford Ill writes from Rockford NL that he will stay for some time. He praises the job and wages as he aids the war effort. His daughter Rachel also works for the Imperial Die Casting Works in Rockford.
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Rockford, Ill
J. E. Tutt
Rolfe
Rockford
Attwood Machine Co
Tutts
Rachel
Imperial Die Casting Works
Ration changes foreseen as supplies tighten in 1945
The Office of Price Administration explains why civilian supplies will shrink and lists actions to restore balance. Butter stocks are critically low, meat availability drops in early 1945, and sugar is scarce. Expanded rationing and stamp cancellation aim to spread limited foods fairly, reflecting war weariness and demand shifts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OPA
Also Mentioned on This Page
Ward Sharp
Dorothy M. Timmons
C. E. Peterson
Butler
U. S. War Department
Bureau of Public Relations
Southwest Pacific
Leyte
Pawing
P Schott
Lai Ape
Mackovets
Ike
Hallman
Stelpflug
Cornwell
Sinek
Brinkman
Smith
Mae Ee
Edward C. Fisher
James E. MacVey
Ray Nelson
Sgt
Army Chaplain In Post Chapel
Lowry Field, Colo
Anzio Beachhead
Chester Bowles
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