Ration Dates Schedule Furnished to Journal by County Board
County rationing board provides schedule of ration dates for tires and related items. Certificates no longer needed for recapping trucks or buying inner tubes or used farm implement tires.
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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1944
Page
6
County rationing board provides schedule of ration dates for tires and related items. Certificates no longer needed for recapping trucks or buying inner tubes or used farm implement tires.
The notice states tire inspection is no longer required periodically but owners must keep inspection records. It covers when inspection is needed to issue ration certificates for various tire types and lists coupon validity windows and issue dates for A, B, C, Bp R-1 and non highway gasoline coupons with specific gallon amounts and dates for redemption.
D Morrison Jr and W Ms Aa Ow Yard secretary attend the easimeeth gathering on the first Friday, with details recorded in the local notes.
Listing of westbound and eastbound train numbers with arrival times, stops and destinations. Includes agent names L Goodlander and C M and ST P R R CO, mixed trains Nos. 23 and 22, Burlington rail details, and bus routes Nos. 3 6 2 10 with departure times from Washington plus note on ticket purchase at local depot and at North Side Square.
The notice lists ration coupons for sugar and processed foods with validity dates and book numbers. It explains first and second period canning sugar applications, Spare Stamp 37 requirements, and which Book 4 Blue and Red stamps remain valid indefinitely. It also notes indefinite validity for certain shoe and airplane stamp items and outlines eligibility windows for extra canning sugar per person.
Milk cows rely on forage and pastures for 76 percent of their feed. Other cattle obtain 79.9 percent from forage. Horses and mules get 67.1 percent from forage and pasture. Sheep derive 95.6 percent from forage.
The report notes that milking machines save labor compared with hand milking, averaging about 21 hours per day of use and an annual labor saving exceeding 700 man hours.
Transit notices outline Bee Line buses from Washington to Iowa City Cedar Rapids Mt Pleasant Ft Madison and Winfield with departure and arrival times for each route. Details include various daily morning and evening departures and connections to Sigourney Oskaloosa Knoxy and Westbound routes with depot sale notes.
Lt Marvin Gingerich returns home on leave with wife and son after completing 31 missions as co-pilot on a Liberator in the European theater. He wears the Air Medal and oak leaf clusters. News also notes sons of J L Fry arriving overseas with Lt Fry earning the Purple Heart, an appendectomy at Washington Hospital, and the birth of a son to Mr and Mrs Richard Stutsman at Mercy Hospital Iowa City.
Wilma Lee Herdlicka is guest of honor at a Friday afternoon party with neighborhood children and relatives in Snowball. The celebration featured games, cake, and ice cream, with numerous local families and friends attending.
Mrs Cave visited relatives in Moline and returned home. Mary Ardith Jarrard opened a school in Franklin township on Monday. Mr and Mrs Gerald Graf and their daughters had Sunday dinner with the Ed Hottel family near Keota. Mrs Dale Herdlicka learned of her husband’s transfer from Rome to southern France.
Flight Officer Clyde Griggs returned to the west on a nine day furlough visiting his parents in Williamsfield and Chandler before heading to Yuma. Mrs. Griggs and sister in law Mrs Ede Schertz join visits. Pvt Leland Griges returns from Geneva with Mrs Griggs. Lee Craig recovers from a arm injury. Home Art Club meets with memories of the first day of school.
T 4 James W Sands is improving from injuries to his right hand and shoulder in an army hospital in England. A meeting of the Women’s Missionary society at the Presbyterian church will feature Mrs H Hall of Davenport, president of the Iowa City presbyterial, as speaker on Thursday Sept 14 after noon with a potluck luncheon at noon. Other items note Pvt Bin S Delell moved from Camp Roberts to Camp Atterbury, Noah Wilson bought the Eva Campbell house in Fredonia, the Ketchel Careyani family relocated from Muscatine to the Alonzo Diller property, and Leland Love of the Merchant Marines returned to California.
At the close of the meeting, delicious refreshments were served by the hostess assisted by her daughter, Mrs. Joe Kelly. Mrs. Kelly has recently returned from New Jersey where her husband is in training.
Ensign Betty Rexroth, daughter of Mrs. Nellie Rexroth of Grandview, is stationed at the naval hospital in St. Albans New York after nursing at St Luke's in Cedar Rapids. Pvt John J McGrath of Newton and brother of Mrs Griffin visited the Griffin home last week and has been transferred from Camp Stewart Georgia to Fort Sheridan Illinois. Dr William Blender and granddaughter from Peoria visited J Don Carroll. Mildred Orr, formerly at Monmouth College, has enrolled at Iowa State Teachers College Cedar Falls.
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