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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1944
Page
7
Market report from Chicago on May 18 lists hogs at 13 000 head with various weight classes and prices from 10.60 to 13.75 per cwt, cattle at 4 500 with feeders and top at 17.05 per cwt, calves and weaners around 14 to 16 1/2 per cwt, and sheep at 3 000 with lambs around 16.00 and 14.50 for shorn lambs. estimates project totals near 12 000 hogs and 2 000 sheep and cattle.
Eggs receipts total 31 471 cases with 14 percent dirties. Extra firsts 3142 and firsts 29. Current receipts 29. Checks 256. Poultry receipts show no cars and 18 trucks with market unchanged.
About 70 percent of vitamin A intake for hens comes from natural seeds such as corn alfalfa and green grasses highlighting feed composition and reliance on plant sources.
Sgt. Carl Adams son of Mr and Mrs Bert L Adams of 809 South Marion Washington Iowa has completed combat training at Mountain Home Army Air Field before overseas assignment He joined January 13 1948 trained at Harlingen Texas and Keesler Mississippi He attended Washington High School and was a farmer now 20 in the United States Army Transport railway units stationed in Great Britain Also mentions Norfolk Western Railway unit aiding a vast Army Services of Supply depot and Corporal Woodrow E Coon of Ainsworth Iowa
Sgt. Robert G. Crone of Washington receives the Air Medal for meritorious achievement on five combat missions over Europe while serving as top turret gunner on a B 17 Flying Fortress at a station in England. Crone, 21, graduated from Washington High in 1940 and worked in his father’s grocery before enlisting June 20, 1942.
Lt. William J. Walker of Washington Iowa a Fortress pilot with the 16th AAF has flown his 50th long range bombing mission in the Mediterranean theater. Since his first combat sortie on September 17 he has attacked strategic bridges and targeted sites across Italy southern France Germany Austria Hungary Romania Yugoslavia Bulgaria and Greece. He is a Monmouth College graduate and the son of Mr and Mrs H L Walker. He is married and his wife lives at 3215 Moore St Alvona Iowa.
Aviation Cadet William Joseph Barth son of Mr and Mrs W P Barth of Washington Iowa has graduated from the navy flight preparatory school at the University of South Carolina and enters the CAA WTS program at Auburn Alabama He will soon make his first solo flight as he advances toward wings of gold and an ensign commission in the U S Navy or a second lieutenant rank in the Marine Corps Reserve. He is a graduate of Washington High School.
At the San Antonio aviation cadet center future pilots bombardiers and navigators begin preflight courses. The ten week program starts as one group then divides for specialized training. The current class includes 88 cadets from Iowa and one from Washington. Donald S raul, 503 South 3rd Avenue, is named among them.
Amid the European Theater of Operations a curious shift in railroading culture unfolds as the traditional spirit of trains and transport takes on a new form. Locomotive lore blends with modern logistics shaping wartime movement and supply chains.
Lt. Robert E. Thomas of Washington Iowa completes final training as a bombardier with a Flying Fortress crew at the Wiéth combat crew training school in Pyote Texas, a station of the Second Army Air Force that trains heavy bombardment crews. He worked as a garage mechanic before entering service.
Pvt Bernard E Swift son of Mr and Mrs Bryan Swift of Tout One Washington Iowa is assigned to the army air forces Sioux Falls army air field training command radio school for a 20 week course as a radio operator mechanic. After training he will join a bomber crew. He previously worked as a farm hand for A C Larson.
A note records that the individual completed high school in Washington state in the year 1939.
Pvt. Donald M. Beranek of Kalona Iowa has joined the RAF Training Command Radio School at Sioux Falls Army Air Field South Dakota for training as a radio operator mechanic. He farmed with his father before enlisting and graduated from Kalona High School May 15 1941.
Readable numbers show wheat oats rye in Chicago trading with Sep and Dec positions. Prices swing in the high 160s for wheat, oats near 70s, rye around 115 to 122 with May activity noted.
Ravenous birds troubled Lewis and Clark and other early Northwest explorers who struggled to hide large game from condors that could devour enough meat in an hour to feed a man for a month. Hunters often aimed at the condor, while gold rush prospectors used hollow wing quills to carry gold dust, easing theft fears.
Plowing desirable soils where erosion cannot be controlled should not occur or should be protected. Where erosion is controllable soils should not be plowed more often than necessary. On heavy poorly aerated soils more frequent plowing may help as air supplies chemical oxygen to release stored nitrogen.
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