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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1945
Page
6
Ration dates schedule furnished to tires states certificates are not required for used farm implement tires used passenger car tires and all inner tubes. Certificates remain required for new tires and used truck tires with inspection to obtain them. Regular commercial vehicle inspection occurs every six months or five thousand miles whichever comes first. Gasoline A Coupons No. 154 Gals.
A listing of westbound and eastbound trains with numbers names and departure times from Davenport and Kansas City routes. Includes Golden State Limited Southwest Express and local services with daily and Sunday exceptions and note numbers.
A district notice lists multiple food and fuel coupons with new expiration dates through June 1945 and August 1945. It details gasoline, sugar, processed foods, meats, and shoe stamps, with specific book and stamp numbers and periods, plus notes on indefinitive airplane shoe stamps.
Washington Lodge No. 26 A F and A M holds regular meetings on the first Friday of each month. Victor Blattner serves as W M with A W Yard as secretary.
Timetables show multiple bus routes from Washington to Omaha Chicago Cedar Rapids Mt. Pleasant Fort Madison and Winfield Burlington and other locales with departures from early morning to evening. Tickets available at the 107 W 2nd depot and from North Side Cafe. promotions note coast to coast travel.
Farm Bureau members attended a Victory party at the armory last Friday. Several neighborhood families hosted and visited, noting gatherings at Mission Circle and various homes. Local youths and relatives, including Jerry turning four, shared meals and outings across Eldon Harper Keota and Burlington area locales.
Highland Center reports include visits by Richland residents B a Fitch and Margaret Crone plus Kathryn to Sidney Coon and others at Melvin Soukup and Hart Steele homes. Albaugh and Highland Center schools closed May 11 with potluck and picnic gatherings for families and students.
Kathryn Maxine Cupp and Robert John Houseal were married May 11 1945 at St Marys Catholic Church Keota in a single ring ceremony. Coast Guard groom wore uniform. reception for 47 at the bride’s home. Honeymoon in eastern Iowa before reassignment to Miami Florida.
Technical Sergeant Marion Rk Turnipseed of the Eighth Air Force, an aerial engineer on the LB-24 Liberator The Phantom, has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for extraordinary achievement on missions over occupied Europe. He has flown 36 combat missions over targets including Paris airfields Munich and Hamburg, and trained at Keesler, Harlingen, Tucson, and Pueblo. His mother, Mrs. Faye M. Turnipseed, resides in Washington.
Staff Sergeant Delbert L Hesseltine of Brighton Iowa earns a third Oak Leaf Cluster to the Air Medal for meritorious achievement with the 490th Bomb Group B 17 Flying Fortress unit during Highth Air Force bombing missions in Nazi territory. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Merlin Hesseltine Route No 2 Brighton and former Brighton high school student.
The article notes the establishment of the first kindergarten in Blankenburg, Germany, marking an early milestone in formal early childhood education and social reform.
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