Globe-Gazette from Mason City, Iowa • Page 18

J6 20, 1945 Midwest Livestoc Book No. R5. S5, T5. OS. V5, W5 and Next series will be validated PROCESSED Book No.

4 blue stamps XS. Y5, 25, A2, B2, C2, D2. £2, F2 and G2 now valid, Next series will be validated Feb. I. No.

1, 2 and 3 on the sheet In Book 3. are eood Indefinitely. 34, labeled "Sugar" in BOOK 4, good for 5 pounds, is now vamt Next stamp becomes valid Feb. 1. 6 14A coupons eur good for 4 gallons each through Marca 21, The ISA coupons become valid March 22.

B5, Co, B6 and C6 good for 5 gallons B4 and C4 coupons no longer valid. and Red stamps In War book 4 worth. 10 points each. Bed tokens filven fn change for Red meat stamps. Certificates no longer needed Cor recapping truck tires.

Certificates no longer needed to purchase Inner tubes or to purchase used farm Implement tires. Commercial vehicle Inspections every 6 months or every 5.000 miles, whichever occurs sooner. The Mason City war price and ration- Ing office Is open from I to 3:30 Monday through Friday" and from 8:30 a. m. to 13:30 p.

m. on Saturday- Mason City Calendar Y. W. dinner at 6:30 at Jan, meeting ol Cerro Gotdb county chapter ot Red Cross at nigh school auditorium at 8 Jan. dinner meeting of Mason City branch of Lutheran Welfare society at Y.

C. room at 6:30 p. m. Febi court session starUBK" at 1:30 p. m.

Feb. Cross blood donor clinJc for'Cerro Gordo county at M. Ain Mason City. Ftb. enforcement conference In Mason: City, under FBI sponsorship.

Feb. by James leoor; by City Community concert association. Salvage Calendar County Ivan Barnes. Women's. Division, Mrs, B.

D. Al PAPER: Tie bundles securely. loose paper, in bags or boxes. Boy Scouts col- led first of 'February. Fhone ,200, 3 TIN Remove labels, clean, "cut both-ends-and-flatten.

Hold for future Phone Pendergratt, city chairman; 4489-J. Tor out of town collections call or write'Ivan A. Barnes. Foresters- flldg, Phiirie 1300 WASTE FATS: Deliver to your local market. Two red points ana tc per pound.

City-wide collection by Girl Scouts and Cubs, Feb. 3. RAGS; Collect clean rags and old cJoth- ing.of aJU kinds. Leave at courthouse IBON: Farm scrap badly needed. SeU to dealer or give to salvage committee.

CONTAJNEKSi Cardboard containers of alj, kinds naust.be saved. Grocers wfll be unable to furnish cartons or sacks as in the past your own container when HEREIN MASON CITY Farm loans tailored to four needs. C. Loan Investment Co. Am still selling J.

R. Watklns Prod. Mrs-Ford, 404 6 S.E.Ph.4379. The Gantry is now open from 6:30 a. m.

to 8 p. m. The Lutheran Brotherhood of the St. James Lutheran church will meet at the church Sunday evening at 8 o'clock. The Rev.

O. Mail will be in charge of serving. The magazine committee, with Dr. L. W.

Swanson as chairman, will have charge of the program at Rotary club Monday noon at the Hotel Hanford. A new color picture will be presented through the courtesy of the Industrial Safety Engineering class and the co-operation of'the Mason City, Cerro Gordo Safety council and the Mason City Fire Prevention committee 'of the Chamber of Commerce. Judge W. P. Butler and John D.

Vance will he in- dueled into the Ptwderene keeps rugs clean. Boomhower Hardware. For paint see Paynes, Ph. 245. Compare Shepherd's Paper Now.

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Jansen, 604 4th N. are the parents of a daughter weighing 6 pounds ounces, born Friday at Mercy pital. Shirt and troiiser hangers now in stock.

Boomhower Hardware. Painted Signs delivered almost before I get the copy. Phone 478 WHICH.IS Jerome Harrer, "Jerry" to most everybody in Mason City, home on the Twin Star Rocket Friday afternoon after completing his training as a naval pilot at Corpus.Christi, and receiving the gold wings of a navy flyer. Upon his arrival here, he was met at the Rock Island station by a family that included 2 young nephews whom Ensign Harrer had never seen before, Tommy'Harrer, '(right) son of Lt. 1 and Mrs.

Donald Grady and Bobby, (left) son Flight Officer and Mrs. tobert Harrer. In trying to determine which vas Bobby and which was Tommy, Ensign Harrer admitted him- a loser in that particular rariation of the radio game of 'which is which?" As for the oungsters, they were so intrigued the bright gold wings that it almost smacked of disloyalty since their daddies wear the silver vings of army flyers. Both Tommy and Bobby have a right to be proud Vith their young cousin, Jackie Vallace, son of Lt. and Mrs.

Jack Wallace of Denver, they San Juan-Marne Post No. 733 Veterans of Foreign Wars of U. S. 1315 4th Street S. IV.

Mason City, Iowa I am an overseas veteran. Please send me a membership application with the necessary instructions. Print in Full Rank and Serial Number Mailing AdifctM (Orvsnixatwn or APO or Fleet Station To PMCJUC of You cam enroll your at a fmll-fleigfi membtr. Wv trill tend him tiu jnemberzjtxp ttentiaU ms a gift you a gift kf xM chfrith forfttr. Write to the K.

F. -IT. Pott fbrrtr. for faO JetaSt. For AM Overs eas Veterans Two brand (SATURDAY'S lUnn.

Study 511.10 112.00 $12.40 113.15 SH.20 $14.40 £14.40 new MASON CITY GLOBE-GAZETTE H.I a Campaign Opens Here Uncle Jerry" members of the Flying Harrer elan inspect a brand new pair of Navy Wings jlobe-Gazette Diary Saturday, Jan. 20 ihare the distinction of not only laving daddies who are pilots, also having 4 uncles who are lyers. The 4th uncle is Lt. Henry Sislia, now stationed at Santa Vfanica, who, married their Aunt Katherine. But Grandmother Harrer, who shown holding the youngsters, there are enough aviators in he family right now and if these young sprouts don't realize it's to be a long time before allowed to think about lying, they're all wet.

Which they probably, are. (Lock photo, Kayenay engraving) MOVIE MENU Seconds Over Tokyo" ends r- 'The. Merry and Man's Eyes" end Tuesday, CantervLlle Ghost" ot Vengeance" end Saturday of and "The Hour Before the Dawn" atari Sunday. ot the Owhoys" "Xone Shall Escape" end Saturday "Heavenly Days and "Woman of the Town" start Sunday. of Old Santa Fe" and to Town" end Saturday.

"And Now Tomorrow" starts Sunday. ON 10 H. C. Krucger, Cerro Gordo county representative in the Iowa legislature, got 10 committee appointments in the lower house, it was announced Saturday. His committees are: Animal husbandry, appropriations, conservation of resources, irericy legislation, labor, liquor control, private corporations, social security, postwar development and agriculture.

The Mason City council granted he International Chemical and Mineral corporation a permit to onstruct a-commercial chemical ertilizer plant in this area. R. L- James, secretary of the lason City school board for the ast 35 years, died following a ong illness John P. Nelson, 63, 'as found dead in an abandoned iricfc Tile building west of the city. The disposition of the estate of he late Gertrude Decker, Maon City, was declared invalid and it was ruled that her mother, Augusta Decker, sola and only heir, was to receive of the es- ate.

Action had been brought by "ay E. Decker, guardian of the es- ate. Charles E. Cornwell, Mason City attorney, was elected president of 'he association for the Preserva- ion.of Clear Lake State Senator Herman 'M. Knudson ha: been appointed to serve on 8 committees at th'e state legislature.

Friends of Libraries rep or tec 3,923 records of Cerro Gordo county service men 'and warnen'rn compilation.at the library Gali E. Mason City, was promoted to lieutenant colonel with the 15th air force in Italy. The Globe-Gazette news staf. honored Don Wieder at a fareweL party. He leaves soon for Santa Barbara, where he will bi night editor on the Santa Barbara News-Press.

Miss Terry Tester Iowa 'City, is the new telegraph editor for the Globe-Gazette. The mobile blood donor uni from St. Paul was scheduled to bi in Mason City again, during Feb Donations To Canteen Announced A number of contributions to the Canteen, service men's center at 16 2nd N. were announced Saturday, as follows: United Service Women' of America, Freeman Ladies Aid, Barbers local No. 618, Plumbers and Steamfitters union, 52; Intel-national Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Sheet Metal Workers International 33, U.

S. Wrof America (Hanlontown,) $10; Women's auxiliary to the Central Labor union, Mason City Trades and Labor assembly, V. F. W-, 55; chapter of the D. A.

$2, and United Cement, Lime and Gypsum Workers local union No. 106, $11.81.. i-9 Cerro Gordo county dur- ng the 3 years of the war had bought more than million dollars worth of bonds, about million of them in bonds. Maj. Jack Cheyne, commander the Mason City Salvation Army post the past 18 months, is to be ansferred to the Fort Dodge post, effective Feb.

1. He will be here by Maj. Katherine Davis and Envoy Inez Ferrias, previously in charge of the post. Miss Nancy -Halsor and Uriin Whitman, formerly of KGLO, iave gone to the WTAD station at 3uincy, 111., a Lee Broadcasting Inc. station.

Mason City high school finished with 6 excellent and 2 very good ratings in 8 debates at an invitational tournament at West high Waterloo. Mason City's fire loss in 1D44 showed a decided drop from that of 1943 Outstanding report of the year for St. John's Episcopal church was the gift to the church of the residence adjoining it, by Mr. and Mrs. B.

C. Way for use as a rectory. Silver Beaver awards were presented to T. L. Connor of Mason City and Wartnaby of Sheffield at the annual meeting the Winnebago Scout Council here attended-by 275 persoiis.

The meeting was also a farewell to Earle K. Behrend, who is going to the regional office at Kansas City. Two war prisoners of the Japs, interned since the fall of Bataan and Corregidor, were heard from. They are Lt. Laurence E.

Hendrickson and Pfc. Thomas J. Boyle. The cards had been 6 months in transit. Both men stated they were well and hopeful.

C. HESSER. 81, SUCCUMBS Funeral Scheduled for Monday at Somers Charles William Hesser, 81, died Friday afternoon at 2:15 o'clock- in the hospital of the O. O. F.

homer after a 30-day illness. Funeral services wil! be held Monday at 2 o'clock at. Somers, with burial in Cedar cemetery Hesser, was born May 5, 1863, at Conesville. He entered the home h'ere on March 8, 1942, coming from Somers. He was a member Hose Masonic lodge 50.6,'A.

F. A. at Cowrie, and Cedar lodge 640, I. O. F.

Surviving are a. brother, H. Hesser of Somers and a nephew, J. H. Hesser.

of Manchester. The McAuley and Son funeral home is in charge of arrangements. BAIRD PUPPETS USED IN FILM Picture Shown at Roosevelt Junior HigH As part of the extensive program of visual education incorporated in the curriculum ol Roosevelt junior high school, the 7th grade social science classes were shown a movie Friday. This film, "Jerry Pulls the Strings," a -romance of the coffee industry; was given, in connection with the study of Latin America The film is unique because puppets are the medium used to illustrate many of the scenes and legends connected with the historical background of coffee. It is of special interest to the boys and girls of Mason City, because the puppets employed in the Kaldi sequence, which tells the fanciful story of the discovery coffee by the Arabian and his goats, were designed and manu factured by, Bil Baird, formerly of Mason City, and one of th foremost makers of animal mar ionettes in America.

Two other movies, issued by th co-ordinator of Inter-American Affairs, featuring the Pan Amer ican highway, and a technicolo showing Walt Disney hi group of artists on their good-wi. tour, have been shown previouslj TO RAISE FUNDS BY SUBSCRIPTION NCERROGORDO Chairman Schanke to Make Appeal on KGLO Monday Afternoon A. M. Schanke, chairman of the Cerro Gordd county-" chapter of he National Foundation for ln- antile Saturday announced the opening of the 1945 ampaign to funds wrth which to fight this dread disease. The campaign will be on a voluntary subscription basis, the ame as last year, Mr.

Schanke This plan, which took the place a birthday ball and the March Dimes program, brought in :3,500: last year, the largest mount ever raised in Cerro Gordo. county for battling infantile paralysis. Half the $3,500 remained for local use and half was ent Foundation help carry on the nationwide American Red Cross 3,000 More Workers tfr Duty With Troops Overseas Nearly 3,000 men and women are needed immediately for American Red Cross service overseas, T. L. Connor, chairman "of the Cerro Gordo county Hed Cross chapter, announced Saturday.

Club workers to operate American Red Cross overseas service clubs, hospital workers to to the classes. 7th grade social scienc City Briefs give comfort and aid hospitalized servicemen, field directors and assistants to accompany troops into battle zones and help them with personal problems, clubmo- bile girls to operate mobile units serving isolated troops are among the personnel needed, Mr. Connor said. "The army and navy have found Red Cross overseas service so valuable that increased demands for Red Cross personnel in the expanding theaters of war must be met immediately," the local chapter chairman stated. "Because" of the importance of individual personality and capability in these positions, persons of the highest qualifications are FOR BETTER HEATING RESULTS usa ORIENT COAL at the L.

A. PAGE LUMBER CO. 415 South Federal Phone 47 needed." Most Hed Cross overseas positions are open only to men between the ages of 20 and 50 and to women, between the ages of 25 and 45. Rigid physical examinations are given as overseas conditions require stamina and health. "The Cerro Gordo county Red Cross chapter has been advised by national headquarters that educational and professional background is not so important as individual ability and interest," Connor asserted.

"Civic and recreational leadership, therefore, are valuable assets for persons desiring to enter Red Cross service overseas." The local chapter, N. Federal, has information regarding the positions open and job requirements of each, he said. Application can be made locally to be forwarded to the Red Cross midwestern area headquarters in St. Louis for further consideration. Among Mason Cityans already engaged in Red Cross service, at home and overseas, are Odette Stoddard, Ellen Smith, Be a Lynch, Evelyn Karges, Dean S.

L. Rugland, Marion Thompson, Roy Harnack, Tommy Priest, Barbara dough and Mary Burretts. Lt. and Mrs. David Shipley ar the parents of a daughter weigh ing 6 pounds, ounces, born Saturday at 2:52 a.

m. at Merc hospital. The baby's father is sta tioned with the army air forces i England and Mrs. Shipley, th former Joyce Gregerson, is mak ing her home with her father, M. Gregerson, 423 9th N.

W. A. M. SCHANKE Chairman light against -infantile paralysis. A total, of 5,700 persons contributed in the 1914 campaign.

A total $1,427.46 was, spent last.year in Cerro Gordo county in connection with infantile paralysis cases. The surplus was placed in reserves to help built up a fund for future contingencies The -which sot un der way Saturday with MT Schanke as campaign chairman has its headquarters at 310 North Federal, in the. Hotel Hanford where funds may be brought 01 sent by mail. There will also be canvassers with subscription blanks. Mr.

Schanke will give a 15 minute broadcast on the important of the campaign over KGLO Mon day afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. Pointing out the need of con tinuing- the annual campaign which culminates on the birthday of President Roosevelt, Jan. 3( Chairman Schanke stated: "The 1944 epidemic infantil paralysis was the 2nd worst out break of the disease in its histor in the United States. Fortunate ly, we were on the alert and we: prepared to meet that attack i all parts of the nation. "Funds contributed by American people were spent your National Foundation for In fantile Paralysis to provide th best of modern care and treat ment for all victims of the' epi demic.

Since no one knows when or how hard, polio may strike i 1945, we must again be ready meet the. attack wherever it ma come. "Participation in the annual ap peal is our assurance that no vie tim of infantile paralysis will un cared for, regardless of age race, creed or color." BY I. A. N.

4 'Neat Noel" Mason who read the hicago Sun had occasion to ad- nire a large picture of a beautiful tollywood starlet in bathing at- re, which a recent issue carried. 3ut Mrs. H. W. Conover, 30 Oak rive, recognized the girl as a iece.

The picture, captioned, "Neat oel," was that of Noel Neill, aughter of Mrs. Conover's broth- David H. Neill, on the editorial taff of the Minneapolis Star Jour- l. Miss Neill, the Sun aid: "One of the newer, and need we say lovelier, Hollywood star- ets is red-headed Noel Neill. She's Iready appeared in pictures with Bing Crosby, -Betty Hutton and Sonny Tufts and is being, given more important parts.

She comes rom Minneapolis." Miss Neill's" name has nothing do with Christmas, according to Urs. Conover. She went- to Holly- vopd about 4 years ago when she inished.high school and worked er way into pictures through nging and dancing. She has been een here in Henry Aldrich pic- ures. She also has sung with Bob Crosby's band.

The latest word her was that she might go a USO tour abroad. A cousin of Miss Neill, Neill Bowlum, was in the movies and took part in a picture recently een here, although he was not een on the It will be recalled tliat in "A uy Named Joe." Irene Dunne akes off in a plane on a danger- lus mission. Neill Bowlum was the lilot of that plane. Neill Bowlum was among the irst group of flyers sent to Burma support Stilwcll there. Last ummer he came home and following his leave went to Florida, where he was later killed in an accident.

After an item appeared In the this week that wins were born to Mr. and Mrs Ernest L. Buss of Mason-City, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest VV.

Buss of Clear began receiving messages rom relatives and friends. "We've already fot 13 telephone calls and 4 cards," said Sir. Buss, vho is county AAA chairman and ormer president of the Farm Bureau. Showing Which Way the Wind Blows Hank Hook Back in the days when Lt 'Hank" was a part of our daily lives in the news room anc he KGLO studio, he and Glenwood O. "Butch" of- fice'manager of the Y.

M. C. A used to get in each other's hair their arguments about who was Jie better swimmer. Now Hank is "somewhere in Belgium," but the argument continues. This week "Butch" received this by mail: "Why.

should I waste my precious time in answering a guy who throws me a batch' of insults is hard to.explain. I must be hard up for correspondents. About the I ever tell you that while living in Detroit for nearly a year I sprinted through the neighboring pool every eve later, while at military government school, Yale univer sity, for 2 months, I used to spa with Alan Ford, the- collegiati champ, every now and "Coming across the big' last winter, I would sometimes jump ahead the ship for hours at a time to re connoiter for enemy subs. "If my boy should join the before I back, don't bothe about teaching him any lessons. I want him to learn frot an expert like myself.

"Things have been a littl rugged for us in this area. 1 move 4 times in one the! wasn't always able to keep (or behind) trouble. Didn't ge any, mail for 20 on Christmas pack so far. But I'm still alive and tougher than ever Moreover it was just announce that I've earned a special citatio for avoiding panic. Thanks for th news about the boys.

Happy Ne Year to you and Gillie. Keep th TT coming, for we'll be back on day and what a splash I'll mak in your pool!" Tin for War If everybody was as conseien cious about savin? and shippin salvage tin as Mrs, J. P. Johnso of Crystal Lake, the war prodnc tion board wouldn't have to worry about this critical material. Every time Mason City has i city wide collection for the ship pine of a car of tin, Mrs.

Johnso sends a box of neatly processee tin by parcel post to Mrs. H. Fendergraft, Mason City women salvage chairman. "I have saved some toward th spring- picknp," she wrote Mrs Fendergraft this week. In the Garden Stanley B.

Hanks, conductor an. he Rock Island here, strikes off little verse now and then. The ome town newspaper published ome of it occasionally. His proud- st moment came some time ago reading the Chicago Tribune found his poem, "In the Garen," heading the "Line o' Type Two" column. Here it is: Your garden is-a pretty Patterned like a bit of lace, rim and prudent little flowers Fret the honeysuckle bowers Vhere my eager feet should stray, They are ever in the way.

must try to walk just so. Trampling nothing as I go Cautiously upon my. toes, Down the narrow little rows. Vhy is this forget-me-not In the center of the Vnd your roses all are white- Do you visit them a-t night?" The FED has something like 0,000 members in (be United tates and Canada, most of them in the United States. Mrs.

Ira Stinson of Mason City, orresponding secretary for the owa state chapter, recently at- ended a convention of the organization in Toronto, Can. While there she heard people the question that has been asked repeatedly wherever there is a FEO chapter. "What do the letters FEO. stanfl or and who are they?" asked a lerk In a department store. Mrs.

Stinson beard someone give this answer: "They're an organization ol Canadian women I under? land they have a branch in the United States." Wounded in Foxhole! Sitting in a fox hole and so ab- orbed in news from home that he failed to hear an enemy shell omihg was Gerold (Babe) I Suter, recently wounded while! ighting on western front. "I had received a copy of thel Globe-Gazette and I was readings in my foxhole just before I wasf hit," wrote Sgt. Suter. "I guess fl was so interested in the paper II didn't hear the shell coming." Suter said nothing about us whereabouts in the letter, and seemed to take for thai he war department had alread; ent word of his having beei vounded, though such notificatio) las not been received here, it wa' stated. Suter said that he had beei lit 6 times when a shell from ar tillery exploded near his foxhole This is the 2nd time- Juter has been wounded in actior Je was back at the covering from injuries received Holland September, when had been hit by machine gun fire Suter wrote that it was thought us left arm was broken and said that bits of the shell exploding near him had grazed his But, he added, it was nothing tojjj et-excited about.

He said that he had not becn'i Setting any mail from home that the Globe-Gazette he reading was the first one he lad for some time. Mrs. Suter lives with her par-," aits at 401 6th S. E. Gerold is a brother of Coach Bud Suter.

The army uses face camouflage. EVEN TO THE and backs affected by infantile paralysis, this 8 months old baby received modem care and treatment at the Crippled Children's Guild, Buffalo, N. through the assistance of the Steu-. ben county chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. America's contributions to the March of Dimes, make this work possible.

THOMAS MACHINE CO. WE DO ALL KINDS OF MACHINE WORK ALL WORK GUARANTEED Phone 2503 303 2nd S. W. Mason City 27 In. Wilton Carpet We Hove Just Received 90 Yards Of One Pattern.

27 inch Figured Wilton Pre-War Quality Carpet This Quantity Will Take Care Of Entire Carpet Job For One Home. TYLER-RYAN'S F. H. A. REAL ESTATE LOANS i VI NATIONAL BANK MASON CITY! i.