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VOLUME XXVIII
Reservists Will
Report Saturday
At Fort Snelling
New Selectees to Report
Same Day for Final Phys-
ical Examination.
Forty Pine county reservists will
report Saturday to the Pine County
Local board pursuant to being trans
ported to Fort Snelling where they
will go through their final prepara
tions and assignments to active serv
ice.
Forty registrants will also report
this same day to be transported to
Fort Snelling for their final physical
examinations, and where, if quali
fied, they will be taken into the en
listed reserve and if they desire, be
given a 14-day release.
To Leave Saturday.
Following is the list of the 40 re
servists who will report Saturday:
Edward F. Kroschel, Gordon A.
Palmer, Clovis Glasson, Hilmer N.
Anderson, Martin A. Jessen, George
W. Schletty, Russell D. Jensen, Vir
gil E. Anderson, Stanley Poslusny,
Edward C. Peterson, Eric H. Lar
son, Lloyd E. Purdy, Allen G. Lu
oma, Warren D. Purdy, Paul E. Holt,
Joseph C. Robar, Kenneth M. Riehm,
Gerald J. Von Rueden, Clifford R.
Severson, Henry H. Horns.
Raule J. LaPage, Raymond F. Kerr,
Robert W. Moe, Thomas Zipoy, Alton
W. Gjertsen, Glenn A. Haug, Victor
A. Clementson, Clifford N. Storebo,
Marvin E. Olson, Paul M. Severson,
Edward G. Frederiksen, Albert F.
Zaudtke, Ernest H. Anderson, Emil
E. Peitso, Walter Krogh, Eugene E.
Bassett, Lawrence F. Anderson, Arn
old J. Niedorf, Richard H. Yanke,
Henry V. Deßocker.
Will Report.
The selectees who have received
their notices to report are as follows:
Askov—Ansgar Edmund Clausen,
Christian Richard Jorgensen, John
William Filtz.
Cloverton —Sidney Matson.
Danbury, Wis. —George Garbow.
Finlayson—John Albert Carlson,
Urho Wald emar Hannu, Alvin Sever
Korpi, Edward Paul Studnek, Fran
cis Carl Youngquist.
Hinckley—Virgil Charles Roberts,
Edward Graves, George Fara, Harold
Milton Hamm, Eldridge Curtis Geb
hart, Joseph Louis Irlbeck, Maurice
Raymond Whited, John Robert Eddy.
Kerrick Jacob Lawrence Earl
Klein.
Pine City—John Paul Berg, Ray
mond Lester Erickson, Robert Wick
strom Buirge, Leslie Woodrow Raud
abaugh, Richard Warren Jewell,
Thomas Bennett Mack.
Sandstone—James Martin Trester,
Fred W. Voeltz, Francis Maurice
Lager, Lloyd E. Young, Hilton Frank
Cowing, Leo Kenneth Lund.
Sturgeon Lake Andrew Paul
Thennis, Ridmond Adolph Brink, Ir
vin Earl Keller, Walter James Meger.
Willow River —Darwin Arnold Slo
cum, Daniel Ellroy Hoffman, Kenneth
Leroy Satran, Louis Jacobovitz, Ben
nie Novak.
Must Have Permits.
The Pine County Local board also
wishes to announce that registrants
desiring permits to leave the United
States to accept employment on de
fense projects must appear before the
board at its scheduled meetings on
Thursday of each week and person
ally request a permit.
The chief clerk does not have
authority to issue permits without
the approval of the board. Requests
for permits should also be accom
panied by official documents exe
cuted by the company for which they
are to be employed.
Exchange Vows In
Blomkest Church
Wedding vows were spoken by Mr.
John McLevis, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Jos. McLevis of Sturgeon Lake, and
Miss Margaret Hagen, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Hagen of Blom
kest, in the Baptist church at the lat
ter place.
Miss Evelyn Lindquist was maid
of honor and the best man was Oliver
Hagen, brother of the bride. Other
attendants were Mr. and Mrs. How
ard Stanton, brother-in-law and sis
ter of the groom. Following the
ceremony a reception was held in
the church basement.
Out-of-town guests at the wedding
were Mr. and Mrs. Jos. McLevis
and daughter Tillie and Mrs. Ralph
Block.
The newlyweds have left for Cali
fornia where the groom is stationed
at Ford Ord. They have the con
gratulations and well wishes of their
friends.
Rites Are Held For
Groningen Woman
Death came Wednesday evening of
last week for Mrs. Paul Rudolph of
the Groningen community who passed
away at the Pokegama sanatorium
at the age of 75.
The deceased was bom in Germany
on January 28, 1867, and came to
the United States in 1885. She was
united in marriage to John Gornman
and to this union three children, John,
Anna and Vern were born. Only the
latter is still alive and Mr. Gorn
man died in 1912. Mrs. Gornman
was united in marriage to Paul
Rudolph several years later, the fam
ily coming to Pine county in 1918,
settling on a farm near Groningen.
The deceased is survived by her
husband, son, Vern, of St. Paul, a
brother in Proctor and five grand
children.
Funeral services were held Satur
day afternoon at 2 o’clock from the
Larson Funeral Home in Sandstone
with Rev. Theo. Goehle officiating.
The pallbearers were Carl Meidlinger,
Charles Lawrence, Nels Olson, Cecil
Johnson, Ben Nelson and John
Postma.
Skilled Workers
Needed In Navy
Openings for Men From
All Phases of General
Construction Trades.
Skilled workers in all phases of
general construction trades are ur
gently needed by the U. S. Naval
Reserve “Seabees,” the navy’s con
struction regiment. Any man be
tween the ages of 17 and 50, married
or single, who has had considerable
experience in any of the various
building trades is elgiible for enlist
ment. Such trades include me
chanics, carpenters, steelworkers,
labor foremen, welders, electricians,
drillers and 28 other lines.
Ratings are given according to the
qualifications and amount of exper
ience in a particular trade. These
range from seaman, 2nd class with
a base pay of $54 to chief petty of
ficer, base pay $126 per month. In
addition to this, substantial allow
ances for dependents are given, and
food, clothing, medical and dental
care, and lodging are provided by
the navy.
Some Military Training.
The primary job of these men is
to serve as construction workers in
the naval service. They will, how
ever, be given some training in mili
tary tactics in order to engage in
combat if such an emergency should
arise.
All applicants for these ratings
should be employed by or have been
closely identified with the building
or construction trades. When apply
ing, a man should have at least two
letters of recommendation covering
his last five years of employment as
well as his birth certificate or other
evidence of the date and place of his
birth.
Anyone interested is urged to apply
at or write the Duluth Navy Recruit
ing Station, Room 217, Post Office
Bldg, for further information. The
office is open from 8 a. m. to 10
p. m. every week day, and on Sun
days from 8 a. m. to 1 p. m. Those
from Askov and vicinity interested
may contact any one of the follow
ing: Hans Mosbaek, A. G. Danielson,
Edwin Sorensen, Wilford Olesen or
Ray C. Jensen.
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ASKOV, PINE COUNTY, MINNESOTA, THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1942
Therrien To Rim
For House; Maim
Files For Senate
Oscar W. Anderson, Stur
geon Lake, to Oppose
Harry Gebhardt.
With the political pot simmering
slowly the past two weeks on the
primary campaign front, there has
been but little action by candidates
for state and county offices. Recent
filings, all for different offices, were
Joseph E. Therrien, Pine City, for
state representative; C. G. Mann,
Hinckley, for state senator; and Oscar
W. Anderson of Sturgeon Lake for
county auditor.
No Opponent for Therrien.
Therrien, Pine county auditor since
1934, has served before as repre
sentative from Pine county in the
state legislature. During the twen
ties he had been elected several terms
to that office but was defeated in
the 1930 campaign by Hjalmar Peter
sen. In 1934 he was victorious in
the race for county auditor and was
re-elected in 1938. No opponent has
as yet filed against him 'in the cur
rent campaign.
In filing for state senator from the
56th district, comprising Pine and
Chisago counties, C. G. Mann will
relinquish the legislative post he has
held the past four terms. The Hinck
ley News editor was first elected in
1934 and was re-elected in 1936,
1938 and 1940. He is 44 years old
and was in the A.E.F. of World War
1. The office he now seeks is at
present held by Senator C. Elmer
Johnson of Almelund, Chisago coun
ty, who had not filed at this writing.
There may be one or more other fil
ings for this office before the closing
date, July 30. Johnson has served
since 1934.
Anderson Files for Auditor.
Oscar W. Anderson of Sturgeon
Lake is a newcomer in the county
arena, but has had many years of
experience in local and other official
capacities. He has served as clerk
of Sturgeon Lake township 10 years,
was secretary and treasurer of the
Denham Farmers Cooperative cream
ery eight years, is at present secre
tary-treasurer of the Pine County
Township Officers’ Association, and
was a member of the first board of
directors of the Pine County Dairy
Breeders Association. He was hon
ored this spring by being picked for
the senior honor roll at the Northeast
Experimental station at Duluth.
The only other filing to date for
the county auditorship post is that
of Harry Gebhardt of Markville, now
representing the Fifth district on the
Pine county board of commissioners.
He was elected to the office two years
ago but had served in the same capa
city in other years, so is a veteran
on the board.
To Open Bids On
. Highway 23 Work
Bids for work on 12.8 miles of
road on the north end of highway
23 will be opened August 7, accord
ing to M. J. Hoffman, commissioner
of highways.
The job calls for stabilized aggre
gate base and aggregate base between
two miles west of Holyoke and one
half mile west of Barker, and be
tween two miles east of Wrenshall
and the St. Louis river, comprising
96,800 tons of gravel and 3,200 cubic
yards of binder soil.
Finlayson Youth
Makes Own Car
Fifty-eight miles to the gallon and
a 440-mile trip on $1.45 worth of
gasoline. A top speed of forty miles
per hour and only three tires to wear
out.
That’s the record of a home-made
“Scooter” built by Fritzie Holstein
of Muscatine, lowa, here last week
with Mrs. Holstein for a visit with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hol
stein, and sister, Marie, at Finlayson.
Employed by the Carver Pump
Company, young Holstein made the
“Scooter” in his spare time. It has
three wheels, the single one in front
being guided by a tiller. The frame
is of tubular steel, with two old auto
seats for the passengers, but there is
no protection from wind and weath
er. Motive power is furnished by a
five horse power Wisconsin air
cooled motor used on some types of
the Carver pumps. Wheels on the
craft are rubber-tired, 4 by 12 inches,
and Mr. Holstein also carries a spare.
Needless to state the “Scooter”
was the center of attraction while
here, many enjoying a thrilling ride
in it. The inventor inherits his
mechanical ability from his father
who has designed and manufactured
various electrical tools and appli
ances, many of which he sells.
Three Hurt When
Car Leaves Road
Three Finlayson people were in
jured more or less severely about 6
o’clock last Friday morning when the
car in which they were riding left
the road at the Pine river bridge ap
proach. They are Albert Olean, his
daughter Blanche and Miss Astrid
Ahlbom.
Mr. Olean was oq his way to work
and the two girls were to leave for
Duluth that morning, Miss Olean to
secure employment. According to re
ports, the steering apparatus of the
car broke, the auto leaving the road,
going down the embankment, stop
ping just short of the river.
Mr. Olean received a broken wrist,
head and chest injuries, Miss Olean
a broken shoulder u*id Miss Ahlbom
severe bruises and cuts. They were
taken to Sandstone for X-rays, Miss
Olean then being rushed to the Uni
versity hospital in Minneapolis.
Inflation Would
Hurt All Classes
Increased Buying Power,
Less Goods Dangerous,
Warns Economist.
This article, the second in a
series of five by Dr. O. B. Jesness,
eminent University of Minnesota
agricultural economist, is recom
mended to readers of this news
paper by County Agent Max Mc-
Millin. The Jesness articles on
the importance of heading off in
flation are a part of the county
wide campaign of the Extension
Service and other local organiza
tions to promote wider under
standing of this grave problem.
Too little goods on merchant’s
shelves to match the money in con
sumers’ pockets—that explains the
inflation which has boosted living
costs 20 per cent or more in recent
months and which threatens to con
tinue until it brings hardship and
ruin. All people, and especially
farmers, will suffer if this inflation
ary trend is not headed off.
Flood of Money.
This vast war production program
is turning a flood of money into con
sumers pockets in the form of wages,
profits and government purchases of
all kinds. At the same time, there
are less goods for consumers to buy
because factories are producing
planes, tanks and guns instead of
the things for which consumers nor
mally spend their money. In 1942,
it is estimated that there will be
86 billion dollars available for con
sumer spending over and above
normal savings and tax payments,
while the supply of goods and serv
ices available for consumption will
total only 69 billion, leaving an ex
cess of consumer spending power
of about 17 billion dollars. Unless
measures are applied to bring the
spending and the supply of goods
more nearly into balance at present
price levels, prices will rise decidedly
and rapidly. Consumers will not get
any more goods, but they will pay
a lot more for them.
Only Beginning.
This initial price rise, however, is
only the beginning, for when prices
go up, the cost of living rises and
wage earners immediately want high-
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Minnesota State
Fair Plans Huge
War-Time Effort
Now Engaged in Fourth
Food Producing Exposi
tion in Time of Strife.
The Minnesota state fair has
marched shoulder to shoulder with
American troops through three wars
and is now engaged in a fourth war
time food producing exposition,
August 29 through September 7.
The state fair has served the na
tion through the Civil, Spanish and
First World wars. Now in its 83rd
year, the program is geared to stim
ulate the greatest food production
in history to aid the United Nations
in the present conflict.
When food supplies became meager
during the Civil war, the Minnesota
state fair heeded the urgent appeals
of President Lincoln to preserve the
Union through greater food produc
tion. With one-seventh of its popu
lation serving with the armed forces,
Minnesota answered with its great
food producing fairs of ’63, ’64 and ’65.
Horace Greeley Speaks.
The first wartime venture at Fort
Snelling resembled an army com
missary. Blue clad troops mingled
with the pioneers exhibiting their
wheat, cattle, corn and sheep. The
Civil war fairs were brought to a
victorious conclusion when Horace
Greeley was the honored orator at
the 1865 exposition in Minneapolis.
When Admiral Dewey unfurled the
Stars and Stripes over Manila bay
in 1898 and Colonel “Teddy” Roose
velt led his roughriders up San Juan
Hill, Minnesota’s present fair grounds
became headquarters for the 12th,
13th, 14th and 15th Minnesota regi
ments. The fair’s program that year
stimulated the production of more
food for America’s long supply lines
to the Philippines and Cuba.
Accepts Challenge.
In 1917 and 1918 when the Amer
ican doughboys led the first expedi
tionary force to Europe, food for the
troops and the starving peoples of
Belgium, France, Armenia and other
nations was an acute need. The state
fair accepted the challenge of Presi
dent Wilson and became a food
mobilization center. The northwest
came through gallantly and provided
tremendous supplies for Herbert
Hoover’s food administration.
Today the Minnesota state fair is
enlisting the “fighting farmers” on
the home front in a great campaign
to once again increase food produc
tion. This is in keeping with Amer
ica’s program, as outlined by Presi
dent Roosevelt, to provide food for
the United Nations to insure victory
and secure the peace. As an added
stimulus in this all out agricultural
effort the fair management is offer
ing a premium subsidy of more than
$150,000 —an all time record.
In peace, or in war, the Minnesota
state fair marches on!
Extra Sugar For
Harvest Hands
Farmers whp are feeding thresh
ing crews, harvest hands, viners, or
similar temporary employes, may
make application to their local board
for special sugar allowance for this
purpose. The application must show
the following information:
Number of meals to be furnished
to such temporary employes.
The number of meals so arrived at
shall be divided by 50 to determine
the number of pounds of sugar which
may be alloted to feed such tem
porary employes.
Willow Company
Improves Service
The Willow River Telephone Com
pany has just completed installation
of new central office equipment in
its local office, same being put into
service Monday evening following a
week’s work by the installer.
E. Stepan, local manager, states
that it was necessary to change the
equipment in order to render a more
dependable and efficient service to
the subscribers of the community and
the outlying districts served. He
expects to continue the work of plac
ing the entire plant in excellent
shape. Business has been showing
a steady increase and the demand
for more service will be met if pos
sible.
The office is open for public in
spection, Mr. Stepan states in asking
anyone interested to call at the office
and look over the new equipment.
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County Townsenc
Clubs To Picnic
A county-wide picnic for the com
bined Townsend clubs of Pine county
will be held at the Jamison picnic
grounds at Grindstone lake Sunday,
July 26. Dinner will be served at
12 o’clock noon, cafeteria style and
there will be free coffee for all.
Those planning to attend are asked
by the committee to bring dinner and
join in a real old time picnic. z
John A. Johnson, Minneapolis, state
representative of the Townsend plan,
will be the chief speaker of the day.
The committee invites the young peo
ple to also attend the gathering Sun
day and learn more of the Town
send plan, stating that Mr. Johnson
himself is a young man so the picnic
is not just for the old folks.
The occasion also marks the second
birthday of the Hinckley club with
two years of progressive Townsend
work in Pine county and the Sixth
district.
Besides the speaking program there
will also be singing, racing and games
will be played. All are cordially
invited to attend.
Rites Today For
Victor Marihart
Former Bruno Resident
Dies in Minneapolis Mon
day Night.
The Bruno community was sad
dened early this week when it be
came known that Victor Marihart,
formerly of that village, passed away
Monday night at the Swedish hos
pital in Minneapolis after an illness
of several weeks. He had resided in
Minneapolis for some time, moving
there with his wife and children sev
eral years ago.
The deceased was born at Revere,
this state, in 1902, coming with his
parents to Bruno the following year.
Leaves Widow, Five Children.
Surviving Mr. Marihart are his
widow, the former Evelyn Jackson,
four sons and a daughter; his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Marihart,
four brothers, Sylvester and Elmer
of Los Angeles, Calif., and William
and Ludvig of Bruno; four sisters,
Mrs. John Lindstrom of Minneapolis,
Mrs. Lawrence Kercher of New York
Mills and Mildred and Leona of Los
Angeles.
Funeral services are being held this
morning and interment made in the
Vilstad cemetery.
The sympathy of friends of the be
reaved relatives are extended in the
loss of a loved one.
International News Review
By GEORG STRANDVOLD
Occasionally, word comes from
Russia, from Egypt and from China
to the effect that the Russian, the
British and the Chinese forces have
scored a victory—or, at least for the
time being, stopped the progress of
the enemy. There is no reason to
doubt the correctness of such state
ments, but when they are read in
relation to the general bulk of war
news, they are in themselves not so
very significant, and the net result
of all the dispatches from the three
major fronts just now is that the
United Nations are not marching
ahead.
This does not necessarily mean
that such a condition will con
tinue to exist; it simply is a new
illustration of the fact that in
order to get up, you have to go
down. And, as far as the United
Nations are concerned, the up
ward grade is certain to come.
It may, however, take time.
But it is easy to become discour
aged, for a while. At this moment
there is gloom in most places.
Nazi Triumphs.
Russia, the most conspicuous of
the fronts today, is in bad shape.
With the exception of somewhat suc
cessful resistance at Voronezh, the
Russians are losing all along the Don
river front, the Nazis, correspond
ingly, gaining new territory and—
what is still more important—closer
proximity to their goal, Caucasus and
its oil fields.
As these lines are being written,
the Nazi armies are moving ever
closer and closer to Rostov on the
Don and to Stalingrad on the Volga
river, and if they carry out their
plans here, it will mean, plainly put,
that they are in position to stretch
a forbidding fence all the way across,
stopping all communication between
Russia proper and the Caucasian oil
flow.
HISTORICAL
Shop Training Is
Offered Youth In
New NYA Center
Machine Shop, Welding
and Forge Work Among
Courses Being Given.
Training courses in machine shop,,
welding and forge work are now
being offered to youth from Chisago,
Isanti and Pine counties at a NYA
resident center at St. Croix Falls,
Wisconsin. This cooperative arrange
ment with the state of Minnesota
was made possible because of the
general geographic territory sur
rounding St. Croix Falls.
These courses, open to young men
between the ages of 17 and 24, are
set up for a period of 10 to 12 weeks
and include blueprint reading, shop
mathematics and use of various shop
instruments. The schedule calls for
a minimum of 160 hours each month,
part of which time is spent in shop,
work and the balance in project work
at the center site six days a week,
Monday through Saturday. All youth
who complete the courses satisfac
torily, are listed with the United
States Employment service and
placed in war production industries.
Paid While Learning.
Each youth receives S3O per month
for his work from which is deducted
the cost of subsistence at the rate
of 60 cents a day. This leaves a net
amount of about sl2 in cash for per
sonal expenditures.
The center is housed in nine build
ings. There are two dormitories
accommodating 30 youths each. A
third building between the two dorm
itories is equipped with toilet facil
ities and hot and cold water for
showers. The dining room, kitchen,
recreation and reading room are un
der one roof. The food is excellent
and well prepared. The youths sleep
in double-deck bunks and may store
their personal belongings in metal
or built-in lockers.
Youths, who are interested in en
rolling to take advantage of this
opportunity to train for a trade, may
write for further information to the
youth personnel representative, Mrs.
Adah I. O’Brien, National Youth Ad
ministration, St. Croix Falls, Wis.
SLOWER SPEED SAVES LIVES
The month of June shows a 30
per cent decrease in traffic deaths
over the same month in 1941. Be
fore the 40-mile an hour speed limit
was put into effect the records
showed an approximate 7% per cent
increase in fatalities during the first
five months of 1942, as compared to
the same period of 1941.
It is under depressing circum
stances such as these that the
Soviets are renewing their appeal
for the establishment of a Sec
ond Front, for the beginning of
the United Nations’ general of
fensive against Hitler. It is, re
luctantly, conceded in Moscow
that unless help comes, in one
form or another, Russia may col
lapse, and should that calamity
happen, it will be bad for her
brethren-in-arms.
There is as yet not one single in
dication—in London, Washington, or
elsewhere, that the Second Front will
open in the near future. But, on the
other hand, there are plenty of in
dications that should Russia ap
proach her tragic climax, Japan may
take advantage of such a moment
to attack her from the Pacific, the
Asiatic, side.
Egyptian Front.
Uncertainty as to the further de
velopments of the war is illustrated
by the events in North Africa. Here,
it will be remembered, German and
Italian forces under the command of
General Field Marshal Erwin Rom
mel have gone very far into Egypt
in an effort to capture Alexandria,
Cairo and the Suez canal. But at
El Alamein, about seventy miles west
of Alexandria, the British stopped
the enemy and forced him to retreat
about ten miles.
The disquieting fact about this
particular front is that while
Rommel has not been able to
make any renewed progress, he
has not been driven farther back.
And, in the meantime, he is re
ceiving strong reinforcements aH
the time.
The British, too, are being rein
forced, but in spite of that fact they
have not been able to compel Rom
mel to start any further retreat, and
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NUMBER 46.