Ration Dates Begin December for Tire Recapping
Officials announce ration dates starting December 1 with no certificates required for recapping truck tires. The Class A ration covers the third inspection period through March 31, 1944.
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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1943
Page
6
Officials announce ration dates starting December 1 with no certificates required for recapping truck tires. The Class A ration covers the third inspection period through March 31, 1944.
The document lists Class B and C ration periods through February 28 1944 and various coupons for gas fuel oils sugar meats and stamps. It also notes late applicants for War Ration Book 4 and a sequence of public sales in Keota Iowa and surrounding areas with dates and locations.
West Bound No 3 Davenport Kansas City local departs 9 58 a m No 25 Southwest Limited departs East Bound No 8 Kansas City Davenport local departs 5 14 p m No 26 Southwest Limited operates daily except Sunday Schedule compiled by W C Bell agent
Bus timetable from Washington to Iowa City Mt Pleasant and back with departure and arrival times. Westbound service from Washington to Knoxville and return listed, depot at Congress Hotel.
Washington to Iowa Ordnance Plant and intermediate points timetable shows a departure at 6:16 a m and transfers through 4:40 B We 9:35 BD me with incomplete data. The readable items indicate a route from Washington to an ordnance plant via intermediate stops.
An auction notice announces a public sale on December 11 featuring blacksmith heavy hardware and equipment listed for bidding in Keota. Local officials supervise, with terms and item catalog to be provided at the sale site.
Merrimac notes show multiple visits during the weekend as Earl Smith Minnie Crile Frank Smith Ruth Smith and Merlin Anderson host and join gatherings. The piece mentions Thelma Thelma Thelma and The Mayo Clinic trip to Rochester Minnesota for a seriously ill father. John P Crile of Fairfield called on Earl Smith Saturday. Willis Bain and children of Mt Pleasant spent Thursday evening with Merlin Anderson.
Mrs Sam Longwell visited Des Moines over the weekend. Several Dublin families hosted supper gatherings including Wayne Mangold, Roxana Altenbernd and Edward Engle households. John Soukup moved cattle to Chicago and Riverside. Lawrence Miksch returned home on furlough. Arthur Gorsh of Williamsburg also mentioned.
The fragment notes a weekend spent with parents Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Gorsh. No further details or context are provided about the occasion or location.
Guidance advises laundering fabrics to remove sizing or finishing material, then storing them in darkness at the lowest practical temperature to slow deterioration.
In Des Moines federal court Judge Charles A. Dewey sentenced three Jehovah’s Witness ministers to four years in penitentiary and $500 fines each for failure to report for induction. Herman Maurice Ralders, 25, and Leroy Cox, 47, pleaded guilty to reports. Willard Wiley Bridgman, (Marshalltown) pleaded guilty to failure to report for work of national importance at an objector’s camp. Rex Eugene Blott, 29, Fort Madison, was freed after serving one year.
A Reno Oklahoma man was indicted a second time after reclassification by the draft board. He argues the second indictment constitutes double jeopardy in the federal reform story.
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