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Page Two THE MOUNT VERNON, IO1VA, HA1VKEYE-RECORD AND TIlE LISBON HERALD Thursday, September 4,
THE HAWKEYE-RECORD
aud TIlE L|Sllt)N HE1L kLi)
I04 2nd Ave North, Mount Vernon, Iowa
Official Newspaper Mount Vernon bud
Linn County
Lloyd MeCutcheon Estate, Propriator
James W. McCutcheon, Editor (Editor's note" The National
Published at Mount Vernon ann Ltsbou, Editorial association and the Unit-
in Linn County, Iowa, every.Thursday, ed States government are CO-oper-
--THE-MOUNT-VERIN0-N HA-~:KEYE--ating to supply readers of the
Fonnded in 1969 by S. H. Bauman Hawkeye-Record with a brief
weekly summary of the progress
Founded tn 1893 by Minard Lozler of the national defense program.
THE-LlSBON--HERA-LD~-- The purpose of this column is to
Founded in 1894 by W. F. Stahl enable the reader to easily follow
the week-by-week development of
D E F E N S E ]school, physically able; they will
!be selected by local public health
: : : : : : : : : : : : : : z ~ : : : : : : e e I and nursing groups and serve as
assistants to graduate nurses in
hospitals without pay after 80
hours of intensive training over a
sewm-week period.
~ELECTIVE SERVICE
Headquarters directed local draft
boards to speed arrangements for
aiding in the re-employment of
soldiers the Army is planning to
release beginning September 1 by
8ub~rtption Rail the great defense undertaking.)
getting in touch with former era-
One year. in Linn and adjoining ploycrs or finding other jobs for
counties, per year $1.50
One year, outside Linn and adjoining The President created by Execu- the soldiers. In the ~rst case of
counties, but within the state, tire Order a seven-member Supply, its kind, a discharged selectee from
per year $1.75 Priorities and Allocation Board, New York was returned to bis
One year, out~ide the stats $2.00 with Vies President Wallace asformer job after the local U. S. at-
Entered as second class matl matter a~ ]Chairman and Donald M. Nelson, torney requested his firm to take
the post office of Mount Vernon, Iowa, and formerly OPM Purchases Director, him back for at least one year al-
Lisbon, Iowa. [aS Executive Director. The Board though the firm said his job had
will fix priorities and allocate sup-Ibeen abolished while he was gone
Better Management Is ply of materials, fuel, power, and OIL, GASOLINE
Needed At Washington other commodities of all kinds to I President Roosevelt told his
meet the demands of the Army and i press conference the launching of
As this editorial is written the Navy, the defense-aid program, I many 0il tankers already on the
Iw
smell emanating from Hatchet lthe policies of economic warfare' ays and the operation of two
and the needs of the civilian popu- I pipelines from the Southwest to
man Ickes eastern gasoline short-
age is getting worse daily and it
isn't the gasoline that you smell.
The pessimistic oil outlook was
jolted by a statement in the au-
thoritative London Economist.
questioning whether England needs
any more U. S. tankers.
VVith a private gasoline pump on
his Maryland estate, Ickes is free
to harass other gasoline users and
the oil companies.
This situation seems to be han-
dled with the complete lack of
common sensa that, marks too
much of the defense program.
In recent weeks the writer has
talked to paper salesmen, con-
tractors, manufacturers and busi-
ness men in regard to the great
dislocation of normal business
which is taking place.
Manufacturers say that steel is
piled up at steel plants, back of
barricades marked, "Reserved for
the navy in 1943," and that there
is plenty of steel in the country.
A contractor said that he under-
stood the government wanted all of
the steel for the immense ordnance
plant north of Des Moines right
now. This. in spite of the fact
that they didn't know whether the
steel would fit where it would be
used and some of it would not be
needed until after the first of the
year.
A paper salesman told of a large
order given to the head of a paper
mill who had been called to Wash-
ington, D.C. He was told the
order would have to 'be billed thru
a dealer. A wholesale house was
notified that the mill would bill
them for the paper and they would
1)ill the government. The margin
on the order was as Inueh or more
than the mill would ordinarily ex-
pect on an order of that size. BUT
the mill has had to stop work on
all private orders and will operate
for several months on the govern-
ment order.
The salesman said, "It looks like
they are buying a ten year's sup-
ply."
We have been told recently that
the Navy ordered a five years sup-
ply of typewriter ribbons.
We cannot vouch for the as-
curacy of those statements, 'but
they were made by people we be-
lieve to be honest.
If they are any indication of the
gross mismanagement of the de-
fense program in interferring with
ordinary business to a far greater
extent than is necessary, some of
the congressmen should start an
investigation.
Plants are daily shutting down
and men are going out of work be-
phony gas shortage and the seem-
ingly unnecessary moves to upset
normal l)usiness are made to get
people excited and into a war
frenzy. If that is the case the re-
sult in the middlewest is more like-
ly to be the opposite.
lotion. Membcrs of the Board are the Eastern seaboard will material-
OPM Directors Knudsen and Hill- ly relieve the gasoline shortage in
man, War and Navy Secretaries the East by next spring. Price Ad-
Stimson and Knox, Price Adminis-
trator Henderson, and Lend-Lease
Supervisor Hopkins.
Under the Order, the Office of
Price Administration and Civilian
Supply becomes the Office of Price
i Administration and a Civilian Sup-
ministrator. The Order also trans-
ferred Edward R. Stettinius from the following new plants: pig iron, [
his post as OPM Priorities Direr- Cleveland, Youngstown, Warren,
I tor to that of Lend-Lease Admin- Ohio, and Birmingham, Ala $58,-
istrator and appointed Mr Nelson~312,000 ordnance facilities, Chat-
~" l~riorities Director ' " tanooza Tenn and St. Ix)uis, Me
AII) TO BRITAIN " 1535,965,999: airplanes and spare
'CHINA, RUSSIA parts, Buffalo, N.Y $75,218.384.
The President announced a mill-/l/NEMPLOY~IENT ]pROM
tary mission will go to China to iSHORTAGES
study the need for China for equip-
ment and materials and expedite
lend-lease aid. State Secretary Hull
stated the U.S. will maintain the
policy of freedom of the seas in
shipping supplies to Russia via the
Pacific. The President told his
conference an organized campaign
of rumors, distortions, half-truths
and falsehood regarding misuses of
lend-lease funds had been launch-
ed to sabotage the program of aid
to opponents of the Axis.
AGRICUI/rURE
OPM gave priority to deliveries
of materials necessary for the pro-
duction of parts for the repair and
maintenance of existing farm
equipment and manufacture of new
farm equipment. The president ve-
toed a bill to withhold from the
normal channels of trade Govern-
ment owned cotton and wheat, be-
cause "in times such as these no
one can foresee how soon these
/ / 171/ii;;ii; 7i ;
iiT! !i;~i ; :! : i:!] :~ ~:!
IIawkcye-Record Photo
This attractive Cape Cod tylm house has recently been built by IV.
C. Colby on the farm south west of 3[<~'hanicsville operated hy era Hey.
The house has six regals, a furnace, water and lights. It is insulated.
Hatcher Bros. had the contract to build it and used local labor.
The house has si xrooms, a furnace, water and lights. It is insulated.
ministrator Henderson issued a
table of fair maximum retail pric-
es for "regular" gasoline in 40
major cities, and the Senate began
an investigation of the shortage.
Acting Oil Corordinator Davies !
said "sinister and planned" sabo-[
tags may lie behind the "multi-I
plicity of misinformation" that 1
there is really no shortage.
NEW PLANTS AND FACILITIE.~
The Government contracted for1!
OPM Labor Division began sur-
veys of 20 communities in 10 States
in which consumer-goods plants
are threatened with curtailment of
supplies because of defense needs.
Defense contracts will be awarded
where necessary to alleviate laborI
dislocations. The first such con-
tract was awarded to a Manitowoc,
Wis company, with 4,000 em-
ployees facing shutdown because
of aluminum priorities.
AERIAL ARTISTS
Items of Interest in ] Iount Vernon
And Lisbon 10, 20, 30 Years Ago
TEN ~'EARS AGO
September 3, 1931
Mrs. D. L. Stearns and Miss Opal
Stearns narrowly escaped serious
accident on Tuesday afternoon
near the Luther Plattenberger
Erma Hearers and boys wiU present two raised acts using sp~lal
rigging which will be a hilarious aerial trav~ty complete with Comedy,
during the free vaudeville acts on the pro~mm for Sauerkraut Day
at Lisbon, September 18th.
age system is now covered and
the entire work might be finished
in the specified time.
enlisted men to accept Navy tom- CharlesMrS" DorothYarrived lastHigbieThursdayand andS n TOWNSHIP BUREAU
missions when the Navy so desires, are located in the Hedges apart-
AIR
Artemus L. Gates of New York, Vernonment" MrS.for Higbiethe purposeC mes oft Mount I MEETINGSfilling WILL BE
World War Navy flier, was ap- the position as head librarian at
pointed Assistant Secretary of the Cornell library.
Navy for Aeronautics. Twenty I Willard Crain, who has been a HELD EARLIER
eight new Army Air Corps unitSlmember of the Linn county main-
were formed, including 26 school
squadrons of 200 men each. The tenanee crew in district 2, is mop-
Army Air Forces began tests of ins to Springville this week and Township Farm Bureau meet-
will assist William Ro~s of Wau- ins will be held in local townships
the P-40F, latest of a series "giv- beck in the north end of the dis- durir~ September according to an
ins excellent performances a- trier. This will leave Kenneth announcement made at the County
broad," and sent Maj. Gem Brett, Graver, Frank Graver, Lester Cara- Bureau office this week. The meet-
Chief of Air, To Africa and the
cause they can't get material. A preliminary report of the rots-
The people of this nation are sion sent to England by the Office fairs, the Anamosa and Ttpton.
willing and ready to do anything ]of Civilian Defense recommended Tll~EN'rY---
n ' ~. r YEAII.~ AGO
that is necessary for the defe se fingerprinting of every U. S. eitiz- Au-ust 31 19""
of this nation but they are grow- en for identification of casualties s ' ~
ins sick and tired of the way land that necessary civilian defense Mrs. Marion VIogle suffered set-
things are being run. personnel: including police . and ious cuts.and bruises, b.'r!day, when
One explanation that has been Inremen' ~e exempt from military l~ne r~ogm rora ran ]n~o ano~ner
service, car that was parked along the
I road without lights.
offered is that the aluminum drive,edOCDincompleteDirect rreturnsLa Gurdiaon therep rt'alu- I Silo filling Is extremely hard this
minum collection campaign showed iYear because the corn is so very
14,000,000 pounds of scrap, yield-i tall and heavy, Much of it is
ing 10,500,000 pounds of aluminum !around ten feet tall. It will make
THE SENATORSHIP
STACKS liP THIS WAY
,Gov. Wilson has definitely an-
nounced that he will not be a can-
didate for governor in the primar-
ies next spring. His friends are
urging him to run for United 'States
Senator and he will permit his
name to bc placed on the ballot.
And here ts the situation. In these
days of fancy, wierd, flea-flicker-
circus financing. Iowa stands out
as a haven of sanity in a nation
gone crazy. With the country
plunging into debt with the speed
of light, Iowa cuts out useless
spending, saves money, REDUCES
TAXES. And taxes will again be
reduced next year. But this is not
all. While actual tax reduction
has been experienced in Iowa, the
state has been saving money--sav-
ing to the extent that we can build
and pay for a three million dollar
office building, build a library for
the state university and a new
agricultural building at Iowa State
and other needed buildings and
improvements on state-owned pro-
perty WITHOUT A CENT OF AD-
DITIONAL TAXATION,
What a refreshing and encour-
aging picture! And what a de-
lightful contrast with the Federal
government's Bacchanalian extra-
vagance and financial debauchery.
Reduction of expenses, eliminat-
ing extravagance and cutting pay-
rolls was the MUST feature of Gov-
ernor Wilson's program. The
gratifying succe~ of that program
is a matter of public record, right
down in the comptroller's office in
or enough for 2,800 fighting planes,
has been collected.
PRICES
A~ociate Price Administrator
Elliott suggested women can help
check price rises by writing the
Price Administration's consumer
division in Washington of unrea-
sonable advances in costs of liv-
ing; by consulting city and county
officials to see whether increases
are justified; buying this winter's
coal now; reporting rapid rises In
rents to state and local housing
agencies; buying defense bonds in-
stead of new cars, refrlgerators,
washing machines or other house-
' hold appliances. The Office of
Price Administration set ceiling
prices on animal hair used in mat-
tresses, rayon grey goods, dimities,
voile and combed broadcloth--thus
covering almost all textiles requir-
ed for women's dresses, men's
shirts, underwear, coat and suit
linings, handkerchiefs, sheeting
and other items of cotton and
rayon.
CONSERVATION DIP
MATERIALS
OPM requested bicycle and fur-
niture manufacturers to conserve
materials by simplifying models
on consumption of tires, gas and
oil and offered a check-list to aid in
co~;ervation. W:PA inaugurated
a program to salvage steel from
abandoned publicly-owned street
car rails. The War Department
i splendid silage.
IMrs. M. W. Hill, wife of Dr. Hill,
is very low in the hospital at Ce-
dar Rapids.
Miss Ethic Burgs, daughter of
J. R. Burgs, is now head Dietitian
of United Public Health hospitals
at Arrow Head Springs, Calif and
is enjoying her work.
Miss Eva Needles and Clair Lah-
man are to be married today. They!
will live in Akron, Ohio.
William Boxwell, Linn county
pioneer, died at bis home in Mar-
tells, August 18. He was 91 years
of age.
Mrs. Lucinda Harmon Jordan
passed her 85th birthday, Tuesday,
August 30. Several friends paid
her a surprise visit to help her
celebrate, arriving about six o'clock
with picnic baskets.
Fifth avenue, going north from
main street at the Record corner,
was widened several feet last week,
and the turn from main street cut
back.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
September 5, 1911
Mrs. Rose Herring and her
young daughter Ado were bitten
by their shepherd dog last Friday,
and in order to prevent a ~ossible
development of hydrophobia were
taken to the hospital in Iowa City
for treatment.
Mrs. Naomi Woodcox, one of the
oldest settlers in this community,
died at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. John Garrett, near Martelle,
Thursday.
Charles Carley, who is recogniz-I
ed as the champion lima bean l
, grower, marketed seven bushels '
i of that vegetable in Cedar Rapids!
last week.
Des Moines.
Just imagine our national situa-
tion with a senate made up of a
majority of men like Governor Wil-
son! Iowa can make a start in
leading the nation back to sanity
by sending Governor Wilson to the
reported it had found recapped The restaurant stand occupied
and retreaded auto tires gave 80 for the past eight years by H. F.
per cent of the service of new Byers was opened up today by
tires and cost 60 per cent less. i George Woods, of Lisbon.
I)OCTOYtS, DENTISTS, NURSES . George Burgs fared well at the
Federal Security Administrator i state fair. He brought home fifteen
MeNutt announced an agency will ribbons.
be set up to mobilize physicians l Mort Snyder died suddenly
,and dentists to meet special de-Thursday evening at his home in
U. S. senate, and in promoting mands for medical care arising iBertram, after he had helped with
Lieut. Gov. Hickenlooper to the i from the defense program. Plans ~ the threshing all day.
governorship and by electing!will take into account distribution l The highest price paid at the
Robert 1). Blue lieutenant Soy- ! of doctors and dentists in rela- i Wolfe horse sale Saturday was $850
ernor, because these men and other ~l tion to population, training and ] for Gold Coin. Several Percheron
legislative leaders were responsible ~ experience and their availability i mares, with colts at their side,
for the governor's program becom- i for service. Red Cross Headquart- i brought over $500, and others
ins an actuality.--Ward Barnes in~ era and the OCD announced plans !smaller amounts.
Eagle Grove Eagle. Ito train 100,000 volunteers asi The septic tank for the sewer-
will be ready for the annual con-
vention of the American Farm
Bureau Federation in Chicago early
in December. Local schedule is as
follows:
Putnam township, Sept. 10.
Franklin township, Sept. 16.
Linn township, Sept. 17.
Brown township, Sept. 22. I
Bertram township, Sept. 23.
N. & S. Marion, Sept. 25. I,
At the annual township Bureau!
meetings, members will elect a i
township chairman who will be !
placed in nomination as directors
at the county annual meeting, and
a secretary of the township organi- U~l
zation. The township home pro-
ject chairman serves as vice-chair-
man of the organizations. Mem-
bers will also discuss activities and
accomplishments and prepare rec-
ommendations for consideration at
the county meeting. Educational
projects to be conducted during the
coming year will also be planned
;at the township meetings.
Because of the importance of
the Farm Bureau annual meetings,
extensive plans are being made to
assure a good attendance of mem-
bers. Places where the meetings
will be held will be announced as
arrangements are completed.
Cieanvat Industrial City
Tammerfors, Finland's third Sit3
in size, is said to be )he cleanest
Industrial city In the world. As
there Is no coal in Finland all pew.
er Is water generated and from burn.
tag wood.
READ THE ADS
I I I Ill I I I
I I
UNCLE SAM'S SAILORS GO MARKETING ]
"When Uncle Sam's sailors go
marks'Ant, they alv:ays return
ce "
I with a full market ba~, says Dr.
~Iary de Garmo Bryan (pictured
in insert). Dr. Bryan should know
fer zhe is chairman of a committee
of more than twenty of the coun-
r ~ *
t y s outstanding focd experts who
have been appointed to create a
n=w o~cial Navy cook book.
Dr. Bryan's committae has spent
more than six months testing
rezil~cS for Uncle Sam's Navymen
on large groups of civilian athletes
and a~ures us that the United
States bluejackets are already the
best-fed sailors in the world.
Recruits in both the Navy and
Lhe Naval Reserve also are offered
,>~)1= ~r:unifies to receive free train-
ins to become expert cooks and
bakers. "There is always a demand
for good Navy-trained cooks and
bakers in civilian life," said Dr.
Bryan. "In New York City, for
example, the usual wage for an
expert cook or baker is $40 to $50
a week and $75 is the average
weekly salary for chefs at the bet-
ter hotels and restaurants. In ad-
dition to training in cooking and
baking, the U. S. Navy and Naval
Reserve offer training opportuni-
ties in nearly fifty other different
sldlled trades and vocations. Any~
patriotic and ambitious young man
who wants to serve his country and
build his future should look into
the opportunities offered for serv-
ice in our new "Two-0cean" Navy~
I i
' SELECTIVE SEIlVlCE" i bergh he referred to Lindy's (he's
[never called that any more) fol-
Do you know what Uncle Sam lowers thus "Lindberghers--I,im-
ought to do with the strikers whO ithey l)oth smell the same." Now,
are tying up our factories and ham- isn't that eleww, and nasty. ~,Ve
stringing the defense program ? He suggcst Mr. Ickcs check up on his
should put every mau back of them own B. 0.--Vail Observer.
in the army at $21 per month, i
Countless thousands of these ! Save a me. lit,member, the law
strikers are earning from $45 re!gives pedestrians the right of way.
$70 per week, but still they are Slow down until you're sure what
not satisfied and do not hesitate to ~ the pedestrian is going to do.
wreck factories, destroy machin- I
cry and assault the police and] The Community Clearing House
troops sent to protect the plants.--Hawkeye- Record and Lisbon
Put them in the army and let them Herald Want Ad Section.
see how $21 a month looks to them.
IThey won't work or let anybody else
'work, so they should be turned FILMS DEVELOPE'D
over to the drill sergeant and put
to peeling potatoes and cleaning
out latrines.
If our government had the guts
given a Toulouse gander that is
precisely what would be done with
these aliens and desparadoes who
are now running the show and
making a monkey out of Uncle Sam.
--Manchester Press.
AND PRINTED
FREE with
One Enlargemen
Each Roll
HEASTY DRUG STORE
N A.~PY ICKES
Secretary Iekes is rightly called
the "hatchet-man" for the New
Reliable
and
Reuaonable
];"11 n f'ral
Mount
and
Deal. Personally we'd like to
bury the hatchet with Mr. Iekes,
right in his spiteful topknot. Talk
about venom and vitrol and spite
and poison; the stuff that oozes
out of the secretary. In a recent
speech attacking Charles Lind-
your son or daughter has a musical instrU"
nlent or watch which is out of order, bring it to
Ginzberg's for free examination.
TUNE
OUT THE
ALKA-
SELTZER
ANXOUNCEMEN~
) -THAT THE MOST
IMPORTANT THING
YOU'LL ),R TONIGHT
ep. Pens, S~,75 up.
Pencils, $1.00 up.
I Send them back to school
equipped to win--with THE
tools they'll use every single
day through school, through-
out life--SHEAFFER'S, the
ONLY LIFETIME FEATHERT UCH
Pens (Identified by theWhite
Dot) and the new FINELINE
Pencils !
SHEAFFE
Opposite Paramotmt Theatre
Cedar Rapids
of Colds Morning After' and Muscular Fatigue be~u~. **~
have heard--and belleved--Alka-Seltzer radio announceme~ ~ ~
To these millions, the relief obtained by the use of A1ka-~et~
worth far more than the genuine enjoyment they get from ,~
broadcasts. ~
The most important parts of our radio program, both to yOUtr~
t9 us, a~e the commercial announcements. -Once you have
~lka-Seltzer we believe you will agree with us. med~"
.But try A1ka-Seltzer because it is an unusually effective
cme not because you enjoy the radio programs.
WHY ALKA-SELTZER IS SO EFFECTlYE
The pain-relleving analgesic in Alka-Seltzer is in complete ~O ~u:
Uon, ready to ease the distress as soon as you swallow it. "~
palnrelieving action is made more effective by alkaline bt~.et~.~h
The alkalising eteaumts in Alka-Seltzer reduce exce~
acidity.
Get Alka-Selt~r the next ttn~
l~m a drug store.
Large ~aekage
Small package 30t
Try a glass of Alka-Seltzer at y0er
Drug Store Soda Fountain.
t
THRILLING adventures in "a new way to
cook" await you[ With a West/nghouS~
automatic electric Roaster.Oven you s/reply
pop in the meat, vegetable~ and potatoea. set
the d/al and forget your cook/ng until mealt/we
~vhen delicious food is ready to serve.
A West/nghouse Roaster-0ven is remarkably
economical. Average meals are prepared for
little as 2c worth of electric/ty.
T~ue-Temp heat control, genuine fibergl~
insulation, and selLbast/ng aluminum I/d are
few of the many features of the West/nghouS~-
Reddy Kilowatt says, "For carefree cooker~
buy Westinghouse." Co~verdent terms ava/l~
ble.
)
NEW PRICE SAVES YOU SS.00
With few minor changes, this is the ~me EIectri~
Roaster that last year
cost ~z4.9~. :h~ow it iS
yours for just ~z9.9~, complete with dish Sef.
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Mount Vernon Office Dial 3012 Lisbon Office Phone 202
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