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Globe-Gazette from Mason City, Iowa • 10

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Globe-Gazettei
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Mason City, Iowa
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10
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10 July 30. 1946 Mn City Globe-Guette, Meson City, I. Skywriter Coming to Mason City and Nearby Communities mployes Salaries tipped $5 City Mason City Calendar AUG. 1, i ana 4 Governor' days at Clear Lake AUG. 8 and 4 Stat American Legion junior baseball tournament in Mason City.

AUG. 80-SEPT. 8 North Iowa fair and NEW ORDINANCE ADVISES DDT FOR FLY CONTROL TO Pilot Is James Gregg, 4-Year AAF Ace, Now With Pepsi-Cola Firm Skywriter James M. Gregg, war hero and pilot, who now has a peacetime job skywriting for the Pepsi-Cola Bottling company, is expected to fly over Mason City 4-H achievement show. OCT.

Z0-t5 Doctor E. Stanley Jon ON BANK NIGHTS world' best known missionary evan gelist, to give a lecture series Mason City. HAS 1ST READING PREVENT POLIO and tne surrounding territory some time this week, according to I i 7 1 Saskatchewan Manitoba BRACKEN DAM WATCH! BAY DAM the: SASKATCHEWAN PJCTORX QX I river CARRYING A MtNfWW Cf; i) I (SO MiLLfON TONS Of WATR PER DAY FROM' foN. TO Vl Z'cTrTc t-1 NTARl i MOVIE MENU CECIL "Cluny Brown" now PALACE "The Dark Corner'' and "Colorado Serenade" now showing through Wednesday. STRAND "Spellbound" and "Flaming Bullets" end Tuesday.

"Abilene Town" and "Dangerous Partners" start announcement by J. A. Morgan of the Northern Iowa Bottling company here. Council Proposes to Limit Screen Ads to 2 Minutes Per Show City Health Director States Only 2 Cases Reported This Summer Use of DDT for fly control as a possible preventive of an epidemic of infantile paralysis in Mason Gregg's coming to Mason City is part of an extensive skywriting campaign which the parent company is carrying on all over the STATE "Over 21" and "Crime Doctor's Mason City's council granted a Courage" end Tuesday. "Ten Cents a i 'l 1 I blanket increase of $5 a month Dance" and "Frontier Law" start Wed nesday.

to all city employes and depart' country. In the stunt, upon reaching 12,000 feet from the ground he will leave a "calling card" from LAKE "Bacfman't Territory" and "Ding ment heads alike to meet rising costs of living, when the members Dong Williams" end Tuesday. "Blithe Spirit" and "The Gentleman Misbe City was advocated Tuesday oy Dr. James W. Lannon, city health I VNUxi ft, I haves" start Wednesday.

met a regular adjourned meet ing Monday night at the city hall. director. The rise in wages will be for all UV vi Ml Pepsi-Cola measuring a mile high and 10 or 12 miles long, visible within a radius of 20 miles, Mr. Morgan states. The specially equipped planes used by Pepsi-Cola's skywriters give off a smoke compound of a Mason City has had only 2 employes, except any on proba rases of nolio reported this sum mer, one of them very mild, the HERE IN MASON CITY Time Tested Paints at Paynes.

O'Brien Paints at Shepherds. tionary period or those who have had adjustments in wages since the first of the year of $5 or more health director said. Botn occurred during July and were hospitalized secret formula of oil, chemicals and a month. The grant was made gas which is heavy enough to keep the Pepsi-Cola message intact for retroactive to July 1. at Des Moines ana iowa ue reported.

"It has been shown by experi Legionnaires: Last roundup on Because of recent increases in baseball tickets. Send check now 30 minutes unless there is a strong wind. Skywriting is eenerallv done JAMES M. GREGG labor costs in Mason City, the v- 1 mental and research work that Rent our floor sander. Boom- council also approved a request to with the aid of exact diagrams laid flies can have a part in the spread hower Hardware.

out according to the message to be and incidence of infantile paralysis." the health director stated PlSgt. and Mrs. Earl S. Car add these increases to the original contract let to Sivert Rive-dal for sidewalk in Mason City this year. Action was taken so written, but some of the men observe they have written "Pepsi- Lit Vl penter returned Monday from a 2 weeks' visit with Sgt.

Carpenter's parents at East Norwalk, "Consequently, I recommend xo all residents, particularly those with children, that they spray all screens, areas in which garbage as not to hold up the sidewalk re kan missions, and 27 domestic deliveries to his credit. He was also an instructor at the airline school in Homestead, where his commanding officer was Col. Samuel C. Dunlap, III, under whom 2 other skywriters, Elwood Keim and Gus Ficken, also served. Conn.

Carpenter is one of the ma pair program already under way. Cola" so many times that they could write it with their eyes shut. Twenty-five year old Pilot Gregg comes to skywriting by way of 4 years in the army air corps. rine recruiting officers at the The council also passed an or postoffice building. cans are placed and other areas where fly breeding might take place." dinance on its first reading regulating licenses, for moving picture Insurancewise.

Let George do 't 624 Foresters, Phone 321. DDT preparations are avanaDie 1 1 un where, with the rank of captain, he saw service in Africa, India, South America, England and Alaska, with 10 overseas and 2 Alas- in a numDer oi iocai siures, nc A python, 30 feet long, has 600 ribs. Knit shorts and underwear shirts now available at theaters, outlawing bank nights, prizes and giving away of merchandise and limiting advertising on the screen to a period of 2 minutes for each show. One mem Dointed out. The health depart Abel Son, Inc.

ment recommended a per ceni solution of DDT be employed for the spraying. Dean O. Skovlin, 1c 22 Adams N. and Ervin B. Sen-esky, SKD 3c, 229 Crescent drive, ber of the council said he would vote for the ordinance if it would eliminate all advertising on the screen.

A fly control program already is in effect under health depart were named among Iowans dis charged from naval service at -J. 1 i ment supervision for dairies and milk distributors supplying Mason Licenses will be required for all Great Lakes, 111. ii showings of motion pictures in Mason City except by churches. Available again sleeping shorts $1.50 mail orders City. Reverse War Bride Story schools, or community projects PROPOSED IOWA-SASKATCHEWAN DUCK FACTORY filled Abel Son Inc.

Dayton, Ohio, (U.R) The famil We have one rack of 40 Fur DUCKS Um.lWTCB TO CONSTRUCTED 8Y such as the Y. M. C. A. and Y.

W. C. A. and other organizations of public interest: Licenses will be for theaters of 600 seats or less, one week $5, one month, $10, one iar war bride story took a new twist in Dayton recently. Char- Coats specially priced from $100 to $150 every coat is of out Fresh Daily Mrs, Johnson9 Moinm Bailed Foods DOUGHNUTS PASTRIES 217 No.

Federal Phone 887 rROM IOWA SPORTSMEN i lene Mayne of Dayton left here standing quality and style. Mar 1 shall Swift, Inc. recently for England to Decome the bride of an RAF sergeant who year, $50; theaters of 600 or more seats, $10 for one week, $20 one LAND i SCALES IN MILES. right ruRNisHeo cratis SIV 8ASKATCWEWAM spent 2 of the war years in Day month; $100 one year. Mr.

and Mrs. Paul L. Scott, 239 8th S. E. are spending a vacation with Mr.

Scott's sister at Colorado LARGE MAP Bids on the sewer proiect for ton. i KEY MAP 1946 in Mason City were opened Springs, Colo. CO.0AATON BY CANADIAN AND CITIZENS 1 and the contract for the program was awarded to H. H. Frankamp, Notice: Members of Unity Chap ter No.

58, Order of the Eastern I NOV. tO, 1945. OV- 4.0, I94S. Mankato, Minn. His bid was the lowest of 3 submitted and was Star.

Picnic for Star members and $18,415. families, East Park, Thurs. eve, 6:30. Pisase bring sandwiches, 1 Carl Patchen reported on the covered dish and table service No. 8 well which was being drilled FOR LAKE IOWA DUCK FACTORY Wilson Abel, state chairman of Ducks Unlimited, an Ruth Koser, Worthy Matron.

at the Mason City waterworks nounces the receipt of $3,000 from the Fort Dodge chapter to be used for the construction of Lake Iowa in Saskatchewan, Canada. Development of this lake in the area shown in the plant, stating that work will be abandoned and the well will be bove map is already under way, following surveys last winter. The Saskatchewan govern sealed off at 1,380 feet. Tests verified that the well would not pro ment has closed this area to settlement and is assisting" in the development program that duce more man iso cubic feet a may be expected to make this one' second. ARMY STATION SENDS 1 8 MEN Reports 8 Enlisted, 10 to Take Exams A fi of the most productive of such A strata of hard granite made mercury sank Tuesday as low as areas, a number of which have al it impossible to reach the St.

Peter 60. Forest City .82, Decorah .56, Mar-shalltown .20, Charles City .01, Fort Dodge and Ames, trace. sands at this point and the local ready been established through the efforts of Ducks Unlimited. Iowa Falls reported the heaviest waterworks department will have rain of the season with an inch falling in 7 minutes Monday to rely on the Jordan sands at present for the water supply for Mason City. The No.

8 well also showed that the deeper water is Waste paper Is urgently needed. Don't throw it away. The Boy Scouts will call for it each month. The Mason City army recruiting station reports 8 men enlisted in Other precipitation reports: not available at the present site of the regular army and 10 more sent The map shows the relationship of Lake Iowa to the general routes of flight taken by ducks over this area. The Fort Dodge contribution, which came from the chapter's 2 co-chairmen, Joe Kautzky, and J.

A. Brechwald, co-chairman, will join those made by other communities to finance this big project. the waterworks. Future drilling for water in to Fort Snelhng, for exam, ination prior to enlistment, as fol lows: Mason City will probably be near the south fire station, according Enlisted: Donald E. Mullaney, 316 7th N.

Gerald A. Coyle, 535 4th S. John A. Casey, 402 to Mr. Patchen.

What water was obtained from the lower strata of shale was exceptionally soft and 5th S. and Leo F. Steiner, all of Mason City: also Gordon full of mineral content. E. VAN NOTE ine council approved recom mendations for changes and ap Thompson, Charles City; Walter R.

Sunday, Decorah, Norbert J. pointment of new men on the fire Zweibohmer, Ossian, and Donald department made by Chief James SERVICES HELD N. Burrows, Seneca Falls, N. Y. Reporting for examination: Phil Kelley.

Vera Sweeney was taken The Blind Man Can See To All Your Venetian Blind Problems FOR HOME OR OFFICE WE Call for and deliver. Clean slats to renewed luster. Launder tapes and cords without Replace tapes and cords when needed. Repaint to match new color schemes. Estimates gladly given and all work guaranteed.

Phone 64 If Out of Town, Write 320 3rd S. W. Venetian Blind Laundry SALES AND SERVICE Mason City, Iowa ip Benson, Donald Cosgriff, Jerry D. Harvey and Gene Huling, all of Rites Conducted at Local Funeral Home from the pension list and restored to his former position as captain on the fire department Roy D. Waller was granted a raise of $10 a month as secretary (IN VALUE!) Britf, Philip H.

Huber, Virgil A. Hove, both of Northwood; Julian S. Usgaard, Mabel, Melvin Funeral services for J. E. Van of Chief Kelly and Fred E.

Moore was advanced to lieutenant. John Note, 78, who died at his farm Hoy, LeRoy C. Kapping, both of Charles City, and Richard Green of Forest City. Holt and Dwaine McDougle were home northwest of Mason City Fri appointed to the department as day, following a short illness, were probationary firemen. Action on the repairing of Ma held at the Major Memorial chapel Monday afternoon, with the Rev.

George O. Marsh, pastor of the First Christian church, officiating. son City's stop and go lights was Mrs. Harold Wolfe sang "City CHOOSE THEM NOW FOR NEXT WINTER -PENNEY'S LAY-AWAY PLAN! It'll be nlnter before you know it and youc1 young'un will need a snow suit! Right NOW we have values you can't afford to misslj postponed until the next meeting. It is estimated the repair of these lights will cost approximately $2,135, Mayor H.

E. Bruce told the councilmen. Foursquare" and "Abide With Me." Mrs. Roy Servison accompanied. Veterans Discharged Board 1 Robert D.

Campbell, Gerald L. Booth, Ira G. Bromley, William F. Irons. Board 2 Sigfrid H.

Heinz, Alexander He-gal, Kenneth A. Davies, Archie C. Mosiman. Pallbearers were B. R.

Dunn, Carl Final reading of the restaurant AX ordinance and amendments was Parker, C. E. Weaver, E. R. Steinberg, Dr.

G. M. Crabb and Frank passed by the council and the or dinance will go into effect on Aug. i Montgomery. Interment was at Elmwood cemetery.

The Major funeral home in charge. 15. Badges will be provided for the 2 new Mason City sanitation inspectors. IX I it 31 The council also granted the A Choose one, we'll save it and, come winter, you're ready! a Tnnmrm rmriRCTTT. at t.

1.6 INCH RAIN purchase of metal arches for bridges in Frank Pearce's new ad END OF nOtlTI! Luther Koons Rites to Be Wednesday at Local Funeral Home dition west of Mason City. The council went on record as IN MASON CITY being opposed to the abandonment sought by the Winnebago Bus Lines of the route to Forest City WOOL SNOW SUITS It's snugly cuffed at wrists and ankles and fully lined with warm flannelette in gay baby blue or copen blue. Sizes 1 to 3. 6.59 Hat to match 98c REDUCTION OF 25 TO 50 TO INSURE QUICK DISPOSAL Funeral services for Luther T. Mason City farmers were as Koons, 69, who was found dead at via Manly, Hanlontown and Fer tile.

his home in Rockwell Monday sured of ample moisture for their corn crop with a 1.6 inch rain Monday afternoon. The rain brought cooler temperature with a Lot 5 in block 2 and lots 23 and morning, will be held Wednesday at 2 p. m. at the Patterson funeral home, with the Rev. Paul Peterson, 24 block 3 Fairview were ap proved for tax sale of $50 each.

76 reported Tuesday noon. The auditor's detailed report was accepted. The zoning commis ueneraiiy lair weather was pastor of the Wesley Methodist church officiating. Burial will be at the 4 mile grove cemetery near Geneva. The Patterson funeral forecast for Tuesday night and Wednesday with little change in temperatures.

Monday's high sion recommendation to accept the Adams plat was approved. A resolution was approved for the FOR A GROWN-UP MISS WHO SKIS, sleds or skates, this smart battle-jacket ski-suit is just right. It's smart as can be and warm, too! Fully lined with flannelette, in two-color combinations. Sizes 7 to 14. 12.50 home in charge.

Play Suits Play Short! Values to $8.39 Values 1 to $2.98 reading in the state was 94 de payment oi lor an easement from Roy D. Lyman on one grees at Sioux City, while the Diamonds get their luster from $5.00 $1.00 $3.00 of his lots for drainage. their ability to break up light. Twenty-four picnic tables were purchased for $269.80 from Armstrong. The cancellation of the rtMfc Pedal Poslier American Well company order Values to $5.39 was approved.

A Estherville Firm Files VATER PROOF WATCHES 29'75 115co HOW WARM THIS IS, WITH ITS LAMB COLLAR! How smart, too! The jacket is tan, zipped up the front, slash pockets; the pants re brown. There's a gnome-like helmet to match the jacket, at 49c. Sizes 7, 8, 10, 12. 10.90 Skirts Values to 4.35 1W Incorporation Articles Des Moin-s, (JP) The Esther Children's Sun Suits $1.00 ville Concrete Products company UK A oi tstnervine, capitalized at filed articles of incorporation Sixes 1 to 6 witn the secretary of state Tues day. This firm has F.

E. Rosendahl Shop For Current Values Regularly Estherville, as president; W. I HERE'S A SNOW MAN STYLE, for fair! In sizes 4 to 10. warm as a hot chocolate. Smartly boy-styled, with both flap and slash pockets! It has roat leather knee reenforcements and trimming-, and a matching helmet at 69c.

4 to 10. 10.90 CASH OR CREDIT (GOODMAN'S JEWELERS 19 SOUTH FEDERAL Weir, Humboldt, as vice president and W. K. Wilson, Estherville, as Be Smart secretary-treasurer. With Look Shop Waste paper Is urgently needed.

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