Clean Up Campaign Starts in Estherville Area
The Second Annual Clean Up Paint Up Paper Up Fix Up Plant Up and Modernize campaign begins Friday April 24 led by the Chamber of Commerce. A one week push aims to improve yards lots and streets and spur ongoing spring work. Estherville officials urge lasting results and broader community pride. The Fire Department backs the effort promoting safer, cleaner premises and urges checks of electric wiring. Interlaken Park in Fairmont announces roller skating rink and dance pavilion opening next Sunday April 19 with free picnic amenities and alcohol free policy. City Clerk WR Shadle recovering from heart illness as Mrs Linder of Sherburn is discharged from hospital. Ivan and Mrs Simmons of Spirit Lake welcome a baby girl born April 15.
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Chamber of Commerce
Estherville
Ehlers
Ierate
V.R
Interlaken Park
Fairman
Minn
Interlaken
War Production and Rationing Steps Halt Civilian Goods
The War Production Board and allies move to curb civilian durable goods within two months due to conversion bottlenecks like machine tool shortages. Measures include limiting construction, halting golf club production, stockpiling materials, and expanding sugar quotas. The Office of Price Administration extends rationing rules for typewriters and allows broader eligibility for new and used machines. Also notes Japanese advances on Bataan and Corregidor evacuations and continued bombardment.
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Nelson
Roosevelt
WBP
War, Navy
Treasury Departments
Maritime Commission
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Committee On Fair Employment Practice
Office of’ Price’ Administration
OPA
WPB
Army
Navy
FBI
Labor Department
New England
Bataan
Corregidor Island
Corregidor
Sugar trade to register for sugar rationing in April
Emmet County rationing officials announce April 28 and 29 as the trade sugar registration dates. High schools Dolliver Armstrong Ringsted Gruver Estherville will host registration with supervision by district superintendents and one registrar per sixteen registrations. Public civilian registration runs May 4 to 7 at designated elementary schools.
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J. B. Knipe Armstrong
Emmet
Em? Met
Estherville
Knipe
Dolliver
Armstrong
Ringsted
Gruver
Huntington
Waringford
Maple Hill
Emmet County Rationing Board
Wheat allotments and flax drives urged by county agr officials
Nels G. Christiansen, chairman of the Emmet County Agricultural Conservation Association, says wheat allotments for 1943 will be set soon and those new to wheat should contact the Estherville AAA committee promptly. He urges increasing flax acreage to boost linseed oil for war needs as imports fall and Far East oils are halted, stressing farmers must support defense with oil production and farm machinery paints.
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Nels G. Christiansen
Emmet County Agricultural Conservation Association
AAA
Estherville
United States
Far East
Atlantic naval losses rise from December to April
The report tallies Japanese losses by American forces from December 7 to April 11, listing 28 warships sunk, 19 possibly sunk, and 28 damaged, plus 58 noncombatant ships sunk, 14 possibly sunk and 28 damaged. It notes 15 more United Nations merchant ships sunk off the Atlantic.
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United Nations
Atlante
Estherville Band Concert Delights Local Schools
The Estherville high school band directed by Raymond Minkler performed for junior high, junior college, and high school students in Roosevelt auditorium. The program featured Sousa’s Washington Post March, Fauchet Symphony in B flat, Irving Berlin’s Any Bonds Today, The Bells of St Marys, Brahms Symphony No 3 excerpt, We Did It Before, Sequoia, and Skyliner. National Anthem closed the concert.
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Estherville High School
Raymond Minkler
Roosevelt Auditorium
Brahms
Washington Post
John Phillip
Sousa
Paul Fauchet
Irving Berlin
Deming Runs For Emmet County Sheriff Nomination
W E Bill Deming has filed nomination papers as a Republican candidate for sheriff of Emmet County. Elmer Rogers and Cliff Fredericksen also seek the post, with Fredericksen having ten years in office. Deming, a long-time Emmet resident, WWI veteran, and former Justice Department Motor Vehicle advertising manager, recently started a used furniture business. He is widowed with three children, the eldest an aviation cadet at Corpus Christi Naval Training Station.
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W. E
Bill) Deming
Emmet Co
Elmer Rogers
Cliff Fredericksen
Deming
Emmet County
Estherville
Business College
Department of Justice
Town
Vindicator
Republican
Naval Training Station
Corpus Christi
Texas
Welfare Report Details March County Aid Totals
The Iowa State Department of Social Welfare released March old age and aid to the blind totals for Emmet and neighboring counties. Emmet County assisted 246 old age recipients totaling $5,208.70 with an average $21.17 per person and aided seven blind individuals at $183.91. Dickinson County aided 227 old people totaling $5,084.30 and six blind recipients at $147.13. Clay County aided 279 old people totaling $6,008.60 and 10 blind recipients at $291.16. Kossuth County paid $8,204.60 for 879 old people and $64.45 for two blind people. Lyon County aided 186 old people totaling $8,787.60 and eight blind individuals at $77.28.
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Iowa
Clay County
Kossuth
Lyon County
Navy Secretary Knox cites stronger inshore patrol
Navy Secretary Knox stated the inshore patrol has been strengthened and projected that by May 1 any damage from enemy submarines in the Atlantic would be negligible.
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Navy
Knox
Atlantic
Appraise Airport Field Land
Estherville moves to condemn land owned by T. O. Thompson and Mrs. Bessie Greig for an airport. Sheriff chooses five commissioners to survey 160 acres and 40 acres, meeting April 24 to estimate value. Grading progresses amid wet ground. runways to be level. Future plans await the commissioners verdict.
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Estherville
T. O. Thompson
Bessie Greig
Fredrickson
Thompson
Mrs. Greig
O. F E. Morton
Arthur Pitcher
John Graff
Estherville FE
Institute Is Success In Emmet County Girls Institute
The Emmet County Girls Institute held sessions Monday and Tuesday in city hall and the Methodist church beginning at 9 30 A M with an organ processional. Entries numbered five to six thousand with blue Victory ribbons awarded. program included music, quizzes, and special features by local teachers and students.
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Emmet County Girls and WaysAnstitute
City Hall
Methodist Church
O. Manthe
G. E. Forsell
West Emmet
Wallingford
Denmark
Uncle Sam
Swan Lake
June Jones
Jewel
Doris Hall
June
Barbara Jones
Elworth
Chauncey Oleson
Jack Creek
Twelve Mile Lake
Verdene Zelinsky
Delores Thorpson
Herbert
Linda Mac Nielsen
Ellsworth
High Lake
Iowa Lake
Velda
Delores Wegner
Lillian Plath
Dorothy Hyer
Japan
Charles Christiansen
L. W. Loving
Ruth Willey
Palo Alto County Aids 387 Elderly With $7367 Payout
In Palo Alto County aid to 387 elderly persons totaled 7367.10 with an average of 21.86 per person. Aid to the blind totaled 194.45 supporting 7 individuals, averaging 27.78 each.
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Palo Alto County
Military roundup of transfers and enlistments across states
Sergeant Steve Barbas reports a transfer from San Antonio to an unknown Louisiana camp amid a wave of service moves. Russell Graves enlists at Fort Des Moines while brother Myron drives home. Minnie Hiles learns son John joined the Naval Reserve in San Diego and will be stationed there briefly before another transfer. Paul Groth receives a Marine commission and heads to San Diego after serving as a recruiting officer in Minneapolis. Various others, including John Meyers visiting, Willis Koenecke’s impending induction on April 22, and Pvt. First Class Robert Reed on furlough, populate this snapshot of wartime troop movements and assignments across Iowa and neighboring states.
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Minnie Hiles
Grover
John
San Diego
Calif
Paul Groth
Carl Groth
Estherville
Paul
Minneapolis
Minn
Robert Reed
A. J. Reed
Incognito at Estherville Junior College opens seniors night
The Estherville Junior College hosts the play Incognito this evening at 8 in Roosevelt auditorium for seniors from 23 surrounding high schools with a post show dance in the old high school gym. Friday the play opens to the public with a mystery plot aboard an American cruiser and a Nazi spy twist.
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Estherville Junior College
Roosevelt Auditorium
Mario Pagano
Erich Jagendorf
Ralph Miller
Capt. Mitchell
Lloyd Young
Fred Collins
Eugene Eike
von Stumm
Eldon Williamson
Stanley Anderson
Tex Campion
Beatrice Mabbe
Miss Peterson
Evelyn Ziemer
Gertrude Shields
Margie Johnson
Legion Auxiliary Honors Dead With Memorial Trees
In Loomis park Fort Dodge the American Legion Auxiliary planted 32 trees in a living memorial for deceased members. Relatives and friends assisted as more trees will be planted annually on Arbor Day until all departed members are represented. James I. Dolliver, past department commander, spoke and said the memorial will keep the women in their hearts forever.
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Loomis Park
Fort Dodge
American Legion Auxiliary
James I. Dolliver
Department
The
American Legion
Must Save All Rubber Must Save All Rubber
R O Rogers chairman of the County Salvage Committee reports War Production Board Order No M-150B detailing rubber waste restrictions. The order bans destruction of tires tubes belts and rubber products unless permitted and urges wide collection of miscellaneous rubber items to avert shortages. VLR W W Robinson of Maple Hill was hospitalized for burns from acetylene gas in his blacksmith shop.
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R. O. Rogers
County Salvage Committee
War Production Board
W. W. Robinson
Maple Hill
Burns
Local Figures Named in Varying Notices
Vernice Wee Harold Steinman Bob Pullen and Everett Hurse appear among names in a fragmented notice. The text lacks clear context or action but indicates personal identifiers associated with an unspecified event or record. Further readable content needed for precise summary.
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Vernice Wee
Harold Steinman
Bob Pullen
Everett Hurse
Rates Delay Keeps Local Increases in Limbo
Northwestern Bell withdraws the proposed local rate hike and keeps long distance changes in place as FCC jurisdiction remains unsettled. The focal exchange links with Minnesota stations near Spirit Lake and Sibley, with Spirit Lake area towns sharing similar setups across the border. One rural Minnesota line connects to a former Estherville line.
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Northwestern Bell
Towa
Federal Communication Commission
Federal Commission
Focal Exchange
Minnesota
Spirit Lake
Sibley
Estherville
Annual Spring Concert by Estherville High School Band
The Estherville High School band under Raymond Minkler presents its annual Spring Concert on Sunday April 19 at 4 PM in Roosevelt Auditorium. Admission is free. The program includes Washington Post March Sousa Symphony in B flat and The Stars and Stripes Forever among many pieces, with detailed student performers listed.
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Fire Dept
Fairmont
George Shadle
Ivan Simmons
Federal Housing Administration
FHA
Order
Leghorn
Cox
Seo Ave
Vega
Cape
Butchers Vene Geeearee
Social Welfare Report
Vlr
C. H. Ford
21St Street
Oklahoma City
Okla
Curtis Ave
Ames
Steve Barbas
Louis Barbas
San Antonio
Louisiana
Steve
Russell
Myron Graves
Des Moines
Fort Des Moines
John Meyers
Fareway Grocery Store
Naval Training School
Great Lakes
Tinos
Willis Koenecke
Thorvald Nielsen
Nels K. Nielsen
Raymond Griese
Camp Polk
Hiram Griese
Griese
38Ord Armored Regiment
3Rd Armored Division
Kenneth Hornby
Florence
S. Carolina
Army Air Corps, Syst
Hornby
R. G. Hornby
Lowell Jacobsen
Camp Riley
Kansas
John Larson
Elmer Oelkers
Vla
Marjorie Kampit
Woodley's
Montgomery Ward
Doris Knutson
Woodleys
Legion Auxiliary
Local Exchange
Fauchet
Evening Star
Tannhauser
la Paloma—Yradier
Milton Davis
Don Manthe
David Pannhuk
Bob Clare
Aubrey Cresap
Wilbur Sunde
St. Mary’s
Adams
Ard
Dancing Doll
Poldini
Tschaikowsky
Ruth Howard
Helen Beneke
Janet McDonald
Jean Cramer
Alford
Poxtraty
Finlandia
Sebelius
Country Gardens
Audrey Sorenson
Marold Steinman
la Cassey
Kathryn Ann Horton
Janet McDonalds
Audrey Espeset
Joyce Adams
Kathryn Ann Trorton
Tommie Maine
Hilda Sawyer
Virginia Twite
Phyllis
Lorraine Thorndyke
Eleanore Heinrich
Chester Oksner
Lucille Wogen
Deloris Andersen
Grant Jones
Jo Leen Foster
Bounie Bixby
Harriett Shultz
Dick Currell
Don Strube
Cornets
Willard Sawyer
Marjorie Kennedy
Donald Manthe
Marion F:xon
Eugene Knepper
Joyce Bringle
Verdae Sawyer
Lawrence Matlire
Toward Haywood
Donald Bixby
Helen Sawyer
John Mason
Bassoon
Dawn Hamilton
John Cramer
Rob Clare
Lois Schaper
Gail Norman
Norimats Rugtiv
Marvel Knatkon
Dean Beneke
Wilbur Sande
Marvin Mythire
Lloyd Nilson
Marvin Sorum
Walter Schildknecht
Verle la Rue
Maurita Thorndyke
Tinda Beck
Berkley Strong
Tarold Sawy
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