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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1942
Page
8
Milk bottles join the War Bonds effort with red white and blue messages urging Buy War Bonds. Treasury Department messenger Jane E. Austin demonstrates how vitamins tie into victory and support the drive.
The piece recalls Capt. William McCutcheon and his cannon in Central Park and the town memories tied to it. It highlights a Juanita Weidner party where five month old Ronnie Sorrel stole attention, cake decorations by Mrs. McCall and Mrs. Gray, a patriotic cake recreation by Mrs. Gray, and the transfer of Mrs. Mounts antique treasures to Alexandria for her comfort.
Aviation Cadet Warren Ellis Lins arrives at Corsicana Field after transfer from Kelly Field Texas. He is assigned to the Air Corps Training Detachment under Major Stanton T. Smith for primary flight training. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Willkins of Ainsworth Iowa.
Dr A W Clow D O announces dental services at a location two blocks south of State Theatre two houses east with phone contact 785.
The Record-Democrat reports Rev. Floyd A. Shaw is compiling The Washington Academy Its History and Service. The volume traces Washington Iowa 1874-1910, its school life, post Academy uses, YMCA history, and the Academy of Memory, highlighting alumni contributions and educational significance.
Talks on a labor peace training course in naval procedure precede active duty with the U S fleet or at a naval shore station. Men enter the navy under this program and are quartered in Camp Robert Smalls named for a Black leader who delivered a Confederate vessel to the U S Navy and later served in Congress.
Gene Turner, 34, of Washington Iowa, entered training at the U S naval training station this week as an apprentice seaman under the Navy's new program for enlisting men of the Negro race. He is undergoing an in training.
The American Legion auxiliary earned 156.38 at the amphitheater stand to fund war bonds. Also noted are travels of Mr. and Mrs. William Swailes and Mary Lou to Grand Island Nebraska, and the death of 98 year old Mrs. William Miles of Stuart with funeral Aug. 11.
Second Lieutenant Gilbert D. Wenger of Wayland Iowa reports to the Armored Force School wheeled vehicle department at Fort Knox Kentucky on orders from Maj. Gen. Jacob L. Devers. The eight week course trains officers and technicians for repairing fast moving armored vehicles including jeeps and armored scout cars under Brig. Gen. Henry and Lt. Col. Millice.
The text portrays Uruguay as a lovable land with pleasant hills valleys rivers and woods and a temperate climate. It notes its east-of-Rio de la Plata location formerly called Banda Oriental and that locals refer to themselves as Orientales.
One hundred acres of potatoes are estimated to produce food enough to maintain 418 persons for a year, whereas only half as many people could be maintained on wheat from the same acreage.
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