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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1944
Page
6
Certificates no longer needed to recap truck tires or purchase inner tubes and used farm tires. Vehicle inspection now required before replacing certain tires. Gasoline and fuel coupons issued with new validity dates and categories. Blue Stamps Book 4 and Red Stamps Book 4 now valid indefinitely for processed foods and meats. Shoes stamps also issued with indefinite validity. stamps must be removed at purchase.
A fragmented timetable listing No 430 daily runs and No 429 daily service with agent names Goodlander and C F Anderson. It shows West Bound No 8 Davenport to Kansas City departures and East Bound services to Davenport and Kansas City with various times and Sunday exceptions.
Westbound buses No 3 No 7 depart from Washington at 6 am and 7:45 pm for Omaha Chicago. Eastbound services No 2 No 6 No 10 depart Washington around 2:60 am 10:36 am and 8:50 pm bound for Chicago. Tickets at Bus Depot Wingas North Side Cafe.
Bus schedule listing multiple routes between Washington Iowa City Cedar Rapids Mt Pleasant Ft Madison Winfield Burlington Sigourney Oskaloosa and Oskaloosa with departures from Washington and arrivals at multiple cities. Tickets sold at local depot 107 W 2nd.
Grace Hill area reports multiple Thanksgiving meals with neighbors and relatives. Families including Engel, Downs, Woodford, Horton, Carris, Klopfenstein, Scott, Hayes, Johnson, Harvey, Deimerly, and Novak gathered at homes in Grace Hill, Brighton, and surrounding towns for holiday meals and a duck supper social event.
A new functional dress from the Federal Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics features a princess style with safety in mind. Sleeves are above the elbow to avoid panhandles, back belt ties, no front bows, neck trim minimized, a moderately wide skirt, and pockets at hand level to reduce snagging on doors.
American Liberty ship crewmen with British support salvaged cargo worth $1.5 million from the torpedoed Liberty Ship Thomas T. Masaryk off Algiers. The William M. Meredith later ferried salvage crews to extinguish flames, rescuing undamaged P-47 Thunderbolt planes and P-39 Airacobras, trucks, tires, weapons, and canned foods amid submarine and air attacks. The Masaryk was floated and towed to Port Said for repair.
Chicago reports only a few military toys will appear under the tree as toy makers curb wartime ordnance. Instead expect pull toys like duck on wheels, juvenile furniture, and educational boards. Shortages may limit metal, but department stores say they stocked 1944 orders last December to ease worries.
American troops in France increasingly use captured German weapons including 105 mm field pieces and machine guns. A division built a full German artillery battery and one company fired nine such weapons in a recent action. Units warn neighbors of the unfamiliar sounds to prevent friendly fire.
New measles preventative serum globulin, distributed by the Red Cross, is seen by Dr Louis I Dublin of Metropolitan Life as timely. He notes measles run in two to three year cycles and that widespread use should eradicate these cycles, despite 1944 being a high year for deaths.
A scientist said Germany used Colorado beetles as a forerunner to V-1 flying bombs. German planes reportedly dropped the beetles to damage Britain’s potato crop of millions of tons. Beetle specimens were found in southern England.
Hog cholera is a serious swine disease caused by a virus and costs swine producers millions. Symptoms include loss of appetite fever and wobbling movement. sick pigs die in six to ten days. Transmission occurs via sick or unvaccinated hogs, contaminated gear, manure, and discarded carcasses. Prevention relies on vaccination at six to seven weeks old using serum and virus from a reputable lab.
Dr. O R Sweeney at Iowa State College leads research into corn cob plastics using waste corn stalks and cobs. Plan to establish small mills nationwide to manufacture the material with a potential market of a billion tons yearly. transportation remains the key factor. A new drying and grinding plant requires four to five thousand tons of corn cobs within six to eight miles to justify a community drier and grinder.
Milkweed is being used in wartime for edible oil and as a rubber source in Canada. Leaves from one acre can produce 200 to 300 pounds of rubber gum. The floss may become a kapok substitute for life preservers and flying suit linings. harvest to occur early September before pods open.
Try scalloping oysters with corn. This dish is a favorite in the solid south.
Plans for wintering beet cows on southeast forest ranges show success with daily two pound supplemental feed per head of soybean or cottonseed meal. The feed boosts appetite and improves use of native forage. Meat feeds are scarce, but the required amount is small compared to beet production.
An average man who sits idle uses about 100 calories per hour, says nutrition expert H C Sherman.
Wellman residents heard A C Gingerich on the Puncho Readers Digest program on November 19, sharing Maplecrest company growth. Thanksgiving notes include local guests and war loan drive plans targeting Pearl Harbor day.
In Ainsworth the Red Cross rooms closed with 53 649 sponges made and 6 840 hours logged. List of workers with over 100 hours includes Irene Arthur Eva Blankenhorn Louise Roileau Mabel Gosling Iva Hemphill Edna Hunt Mae Lam Alba Lopshire Stella McCaleb Etta Marsh Effie McCreedy Olive Mikseh Ruth Norris Mary OConnor Edith Richards Robbins Maude Sands Ruth Shearer Lillian Simpson Vera Simpson Nora Speshard Olive Stewart Minnie Stewart Myrtle Thomas Mary Townsend Bather Trotter Alma Walker Carrie Wheeler Aileen White. Those with 50 hours or more include Vera OConnor Mabel Thompson Hazel Butterworth Audra Pearson Arline Jones Gaven Jones M F Hawkins. 25 hours and over include Iona Glass Ve ona Nordyke Trotter Gladys Lins Laura Lins Nellie Pfiefer Amy Shutt Alma OConnor Batterson Kate McFarland Busby Patty Stewart Madge Virsa Myrtle OConnor J Pressly Vera Powers Canett Audra OConnor Jean Jeffrey Mildred Edmondson Lucille Rees.
The name Salmon derives from a Roman adaptation of the Latin term for leaping. Romans adopted the word salmo from Latin roots meaning to leap, linking the fish to its famed jumps in waters.
Farmers sprayed hormone preparations on apple and pear trees to prevent pre harvest drop. More than 100000 acres received treatments across the year 1943.
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