Wellman Church Hails Bishop Brashere Broadcast at Service
Wellman Methodist church joined other congregations in hearing Bishop Brashere's inaugural sermon via the WHO broadcast. The church reception went smoothly thanks to a Pinnell radio installed by Rev. Pinnell and Mrs. Leo Brown. Local social notes include guests at the Donald Fleming home and Esteft relatives visiting McAllenTexas. The community also reports medical updates from Iowa City and Farragut Idaho training news, plus Holstein herd inspections ranking high for Gingerich and Bash and Gingerich farms north of Wellman.
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C. F. Mayer
Wellman
Wellman Methodist Church
WHO
Bishop Brashere
Pinnell Radio
Pinnell
Leo Brown
Connie Jo
Donald Fleming
Vella Maplethorpe
Dan Steiners
H. W. Durian
Lyle Rugg
Chicago
Eli Haberstroh
University Hospital
Iowa City
Roy Polson
Mercy Hospital
O’brien
Bill Kraft
H. P. Wilson
Ned Morrow
G. Beil
Edward Ed. Rayburn
Washington
Benj. Coppock
Washington County
Iowa
Hi’ Wilson
Evening Journal
Kalona News
Wellman Advance
Walter L. Kiesey
Board of Supervisors
K. S. Rudolph
W. W. Schroeder
County Board Proceedings Notes and Approvals
County supervisors approve numerous bills including road work fuel and machinery parts plus mileage and hauling costs. They set budget hearings for 1945, adopt wage adjustments for 1944, and appoint Edward Rayburn to a city judge vacancy pending approval. Public notices and welfare actions are recorded with various departmental endorsements.
New Rice Milling Method Preserves Vitamins At Texas Plant
The article describes a wet cutting process that preserves vitamins by preventing loss when hulls are removed. Steam transfers vitamins into kernels, followed by vacuum drying and hull removal. A Texas plant using the system yields 900 barrels of rice daily.
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Texas
OPA Checks March 1942 Price Filings Across Local Shops
The price panel is finishing a review of March 1942 maximum price lists filed by service establishments including shoe repair, clothing, auto, home goods, and farm machinery services. The effort seeks full compliance with federal price rules, with authority to set prices if filings are missing. Also noted are limits on sale prices for mounted mowers and farm implements sold as units.
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OPA
Iowa Nears Sixty Million Feet Timber Output in 1944
Ames reports Iowa lumber production moves toward the 1944 goal of 60 million feet despite spring floods and labor shortages. Farm owners shut mills for crop season. officials urge protecting wood lots and boosting output when farm labor returns. Local price parity discussions for wartime wood and ceiling prices are noted.
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Ames
Iowa
G. B. MacDonald
MacDonald
Victory Garden Gas Ration Discontinuation Announced
The Office of Price Administration says special gasoline rations for travel to victory gardens will end August 15, 1944. Existing rations may be used if valid. The move, approved by the Department of Agriculture, follows an April 5 amendment authorizing boards to provide up to 1300 miles for summer garden assistance in rural or suburban areas.
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Victory Gardens
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Department of Agriculture
Victory
Farm Machinery Price Controls Narrowed to 16 Used Items
An article lists price controls on farm equipment sold by dealers and specific 16 used items under farmer or auctioneers sales. It identifies combines corn binders corn pickers and several tractor and hay equipment categories as subject to regulation with exceptions for track-type tractors and certain max prices.
OPA Announces Feed Price Ceilings for Oats and Corn
The Office of Price Administration sets a five cent per bushel ceiling cut on oats and imposes ceiling prices on Argentine corn. The oats ceiling was frozen at November 1943 levels to curb rising costs until further action by OPA.
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OPA
Argentina
Apple varieties and their days to maturity
The note explains that summer apples require only days from bloom to maturity while Rhode Island Greening, a winter variety, needs about 135 days to reach harvest.
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Rhode Island
Also Mentioned on This Page
FOX
Martha Manners
Kodak Films
Gary Toto
Paramount Presents
Ray Mill
Ruth Hussey
Gail Russell
Wellman News
Pele
Gildy, Uppy
Mortimer
Ginny
Ray
Gorgeous Girl Guides
Wito Fais
Gildersleeve
Harold Peary
Ginny Simms
Bill Thompson
Gale Gordon
Isabel Randolph
Mortimer Snerd
Ray Noble
Allan
Paul Gerard Smith
Joe Bigetow
Jones& Phillips
Jones & Phillips
Mildred Kephart
Lechner
Lyle Lowe
Boo Martin-Roasa Tractor & Equip. Co
Midway Oil) Co
McNall Machinery & Supply Go Parte
Marius Olsen
W. A. Orris
Don C. Paul
Gas & Oil
Harry Pearson
Picken’s Tire Shop
Willis Richards
Hoo E
Rudolph
D. Schlatter
Louie Schroeder
Shell Ol Co
Ed Shepperd
Skelly Oil Co
R. E. Snavely
Rain Oenee von 21
Standard Ol Co
Roy Steele
Stout
Albert Stransky
Bs Co
R. J. Thornton
Tucker Chevrolet Co
Uiln
D-X
Washington Sor. & Fuel Co
Washington Oil Co
M. C. DeLong, P. M
A County Home Co
John Shields & Sons
Thomas M'Guire
Ridgewood
N. J
Southwest Pacific
McGuire
Richard J. Bong
Poplar
Wis
U. 8
Hart, Schaffner & Marx and
Clothcraft
Panama
Klein Klothing Kompany
South Side Square
Local War Price and Rationing Board
F.o.b
John J. McLaughlin
Winterset
AAA
H. Laurel Dietrich
Brooklyn
Victory Garden
Chen YU
USA
Phillips
Hebner
Cedar Falls
George Lawrence
IDPA
Llomer Stephens
Iaving
Westphal
Gruen Watches
Priscilla Diamonds
Cambridge Glassware
Roseville Pottery
Sincerely, Owen Grecian
Grecian’s Jewelry Store
Westphal’s
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