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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1945
Page
5
Hog receipts 300 with few good hogs. local price ceiling 14.75 for barrows. Week overall steady. Cattle, calves scarce. yearlings steady. steers and heifers strong with highs near 17.90. Weaners up to 16.50. sheep receipts none. slaughter lambs weak with mixed western lambs 15.50 to 15.90. close at 15.65, lowest since Jan 18.
Corn prices show small gains with mixed bids across grades and maturities. Oats hold steady in thin trading as market participants note varied basis levels and limited demand.
The program started in 1939 after a canner reported pits appearing in a cherry pack and could not determine the cause.
Mrs Arthur Wiley hosted the Ruth Nichol Missionary Society of the United Presbyterian church with 13 members. Mrs Lloyd Walker led devotions on Crossing the Thresholds Sara Pollock reviewed the magazine with help from Mrs Floyd Hami and Mrs Neill Trotman. A short business meeting was led by President Mrs Cloyce Stewart. Refreshments were served by Mrs Wiley and Mrs Robert Wiley.
The schedule lists Tuesday 1:00 to 3:30 p m child health conference in office. Wednesday 1:00 to 3:30 p m child health conference at Ainsworth school house. Thursday 2:00 to 3:00 p m special mothers class in office.
Hazel Amlong at 1021 Adams was admitted as a surgical patient. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Weber, Keota, welcome a daughter weighing seven pounds two and a quarter ounces born at 6 54 this morning. Gomer Davis of Crawfordsville had a tonsillectomy. Mrs. A W Yard at 214 East Fifth Street admitted as a medical patient. Dismissals this afternoon include Mrs. Virgil Starr, 508 East Seventh Street, Mrs. John Kimmel, 323 North Fourth Avenue, and Mrs. Stanley Richards, 414 South Iowa Avenue.
The war report lists 1,302 naval casualties in the last week. Japanese airmen attacked American warships off Okinawa on Thursday night, damaging three light naval units. Forty enemy planes were shot down. American navy planes destroyed additional targets.
West Chester High reports a senior class play The Hob Goblin House was well performed to a large audience on May 4. Semester tests create nerves as the year winds down with events including a senior edition of Senior Echoes and a commencement address by Dr. Ralph H. Ojemann of the University of Iowa.
The report notes coastal raids and landings near Honshu and Macajalar bay as 4th division troops reach 47 miles inland. In Burma British forces push south of Prome toward Rangoon amid stubborn resistance east of Toungoo. Several service members, including George Gould, James Boyd Jr, Harold Boulton, Virgil Hall, Ensign Utter, and Eugene Bo Adams, are mentioned with furloughs, leave, and postings in California, Florida, Corpus Christi, and Africa.
Cpl Wayne D Buster of the Marines, brother of Mrs Leonard Frisk of Columbus Junction, spends a 30 day leave with relatives after eight months in the Pacific war zone. He served on the Marshalls and Saipan with a transport squadron and is a 1941 Grandview High School graduate. En route home he met Paul Stineman of Grandview in Ari.
Community Sale every Friday at Whittaker sale barn. Livestock sales every Wednesday at Midway Sales Company in Columbus Junction Iowa. May 12 Closing Out Sale of Household Goods in Ainsworth Iowa starts at 2 00. Estate of W O Freeland and Mrs E C West Brown and Lutty auctioneers PCTs.
July 1944 service details show training at Great Lakes and Gulfport with travels to Calcutta and Africa. Notes list soldiers and relatives visiting kin in Grandview, Temple, Denver, and Cedar Rapids, plus medical treatments in France and Temple. Selective service registrants from Louisa County are named with ages and hometowns. furloughs and field assignments are described in brief.
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