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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1942
Page
4
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The War Production Board orders discontinuation of production of farm machinery and equipment requiring rubber tires after April 30, except for combine harvester threshers. A sugar allotment of five pounds per person per year for home canning is issued to War Ration Book holders, with application to local rationing boards.
The War Manpower Commission launches a drive to recruit 16 000 physicians and 3 000 dentists for the armed forces by year end 1942 while preserving civil medical services. The nation currently has 186 000 licensed physicians 71 000 dentists and 12 000 veterinarians.
Amid iron and steel scarcity the government urges homeowners to clean and preserve heating equipment to prevent rust and waste coal. Replacements will be hard to obtain and rail traffic limits coal supply. citizens are advised to buy next winter’s coal and fuel now.
America can be thankful for having more doctors per thousand of population than any nation. Some 18,000 doctors are in the military now, with 10,000 more to be called this year, shifting responsibility to home practitioners for about 90 million potential patients.
Robots relay warning sounds instantly to the human watchman or to a central guard station, enabling 24 hour fence surveillance. The system reduces need for continuous human coverage along long fences and can detect disturbances across blocks or miles, with the fence acting as the robot's ears.
Giovanni Battista Rubini a renowned Italian tenor born April 7 1795 in Romano near Bergamo sang in Naples Paris and England then toured with Liszt through Holland and Germany. He settled near Romano in St Petersburg where he died March 2 1854 leaving a large operatic fortune.
A stalled car at a red light was pushed to the curb by a driver who helped. Two small boys rode on the outside of pedestrian traffic as the plan to issue courtesy citations gains interest. Authorities hope windshield stickers could mark careful behavior.
The castor bean plant has grown in the United States for over a century but became a major crop mainly in 1860 to 1900 in Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, and Illinois. Since then the industry has declined due to lower prices from cheap imports from India, China, and Brazil.
Army Registration No. 17 561 linked to a light sedan of the 508th Parachute Battalion at Fort Benning Georgia recalls the car used by Gen John J Pershing in France as commander of the AEF. The historic Locomobile limousine is now in the Holabird museum depot with a long history from 1922 Washington to Holabird and back.
Gall, the logician, believed he could distinguish men by skulls. In a prison visit, some of the worst criminals were dressed as warders. He failed to learn from their bumps the trick that had been played on him.
The Office of Price Administration outlines registration for sugar ration books to occur May 4 5 6 7. One family member applies for all relatives. detailed lists of family members and physical descriptions are required. sugar allotment per person capped at two pounds with stamp deductions if over. only one registrant per family travels to the nearest elementary school. single people register themselves.
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