Pocahontas County Leads in War Bond Purchases
Pocahontas County tops Iowa in sixth war loan bonds with 177.6 percent of quota. Grundy and Audubon follow with 164 and 161 percent. Sixteen counties miss targets. bond sales reflect individual, not rail, bank, or corporate purchases.
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Iowa School Code Revision Should Be Adopted
The Iowa legislature faces a doubtful path to adopting the school code commission's recommended amendments. With schools currently funded largely by local property taxes and state aid meager, advocates urge restoring the state income tax and allocating part of the state sales tax to schools. They call for higher teacher salaries and retirement pensions, noting Iowa's high per pupil funding but low teacher pay.
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Iowa School Code Commission
Code Commission
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Army to call more young men as 18 25 group grows
Le Mars planes drastic policy shifts to draft more 18 to 25 year olds now deferred as farm workers. Officials aim to replace long serving troops with this group and potentially extend to other deferment lists before 1945 ends.
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le Mars Sentinel
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German People and War Crimes Outrage At Home
The column argues Americans forgive soldiers in battle but condemn deliberate killings of troops by German forces. It calls for a public rebuke of the German people and hints at reducing cigar production by laying off workers as a protest gesture. The piece contrasts wartime sentiments with postwar accountability.
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Sheldon Sun
State aid tax plan prompts call for levy and relief
Atlantic News-Telegraph argues in favor of state aid for schools but warns taxes and surplus may not cover the program beyond a year or two. It urges a direct levy funded by compensating real estate tax cuts in surplus counties to aid poorer counties and prevent new levies from adding to owners’ burden.
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Atlantic News-Telegraph
Amendments require board hearing before teacher contract refusals
The passage argues for adopting amendments and states funds are available or can be provided. It lauds the code commission, urges legislators to act, and criticizes the German master race theory, noting Russian forces advancing on the eastern front and asserting the master race is defined by military strength.
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Board of Education
Code Commission
Postwar surplus bargains lure buyers at airfields and farms
The liquidation of wartime goods continues with planes jeeps liferafts and more offered at bargains across 36 airfields plans warn to bring a mechanic for real bargains Jeeps limited due to retirement parts sold horses and mules sold to farmers A new law favors veterans in acquiring surplus goods The piece also quotes wartime notes from local papers and Yossed sayings about postwar life and jobs not dole guidance for planners emphasize jobs over relief
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Cherokee Daily Times
John LaCerda
Mechanix Ilustrated
Uncle Sam
Postwar economic urges and frontline editorials line up
The text urges industrial renewal after the war with government payments to wartime suppliers, factory machinery shifts, and job goals over dole. It notes Sibley Gazette editor Bill Miller ending Livermore Gazette after 63 years and his wife’s injury, plus assorted small-town items about weather, horse racing, and women smoking pipes.
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Humboldt Republican
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Boosting Hollywood Styles in Iowa Winter
A Hampton Chronicle note suggests parents in central west Iowa send girls to school in warm clothing including long stockings to save doctor bills. The item criticizes Hollywood styles as unsuitable for the Iowa winter climate.
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West Country
Iowa
Hampton Chronicle
OPA Quiz Details Wartime Rationing Changes
The Office of Price Administration issued questions and answers explaining tighter wartime food rationing. Key points cover which foods are affected, added canned vegetables, fruit stamp changes, butter point adjustments, meat rationing shifts, and sugar stamp status, with dates indicating transition times.
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Office of Price Administration
Wartime ration stamp cancellations explained
Public guidance details which stamps were canceled at 12:01 a.m. on December 26 and why. It notes that blue and red x stamps valid before December 1944 also expired, while red stamps Q5 to X5 remain valid for meats and dairy, and Sugar Stamp 34 stays usable with new stamps planned for February.
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OPA
Rationing Book Questions on Stamp Validity
In War Book 4 blue stamps Ag through 7g i Ab through W5 lose validity. Sugar stamps 30 through 93 and home canning Sugar Stamp 4q are not good. Outstanding home canning coupons remain for issuance by local war price and rationing boards.
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