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The Ely miner., 1943-06-03
RATION CALENDAR

SUGAR Stamp No. 13 in book
good for 5 pounds until midnight on
August Is. Stamps No. Is and 16 are
each good for pounds Of canning
sugar No registration is necessary to
use them Additional canning sugar
may be secured by applying at the
rationing office, but stamps Is and 16
should be used first.
COFFEE Stamp No. a in book 1
effective for 1 pound until midnight
on June 80.
MEATS-Red stamps in book 2 let
tered good through June. Stamp z
is now valid. Effective dates for other
red stamps are: L, June 6; M, June 13;
N, June 90 Expiration dates, midnight
on June 80.
CANNED GOODS Blue stamps in
book lettered z, L and M valid until
July z.
Stamps C, H and good until June
z.
SHOES Stamp No. II in book one,
good for one pair until June Is.
FUEL Ou-Coupons No. S, currently
valid for II gallons each, good until
Sept. 80.
GASOLINE-For A drivers coupon
is good for four gallons until midnight
of July 81. B and c coupons usable
until date put on coupon books by ra-
ton boards.
Car owners may start making appI-
cation for new A books June %. Forms
viii be available at ration boards at
that time.
TIRE INSPECTION holders of
3 coupons must have second inspec-
ton by June go; A coupon holders, by
Sept. 80.
The Ely miner., 1943-06-03
Must Fill Out Book 3
Applications With Care

Elyites who are now mailing their
application blanks for ration book 8
are cautioned that the cards must be
completely filled out and properly
stamped.
The OPA has made no provision for
notifying househo1ders who have filled
out cards incorrectly. The probability
is that they will not know until the
ration books have been distributed.
No application card will be accepted
if it does not bear the signature of
the head of the family or the person
making the application.
Persons who did not obtain an ap-
plication form can obtain one at the
postoffice and not at the rationing
office. The stub at the top of the card
must be removed, for it is the identifi-
cation card for the family's ration
book 3.
The postoffice will not accept the
cards for mailing unless they bear a
3-cent stamp
Deadline for mailing applications is
June 10. The OPA will start mailing
out books June 20.
The Ely miner., 1943-06-03
RESERvISTS Are
CALLED TO DUTY
College Students to Report to
Navy, Army for Active
Military Service.

Several navy and army reservists
attending college have been notified to
report for active duty.
Navy reservists, who will report July
l, are: George Butorac, who will go to
Gustavus Adolphus for training, and
David Goulet and Roy Johnson, to the
University of Minnesota. Placid Gou-
let and Don Myntti expect to receive
their instructions within a few days.
All are junior college students Wayne
Bolitho, who has just completed his
sophomore year at the Missouri School
of Mines, Rollo, will report to the
University of Illinois.
Louis Bryant and Keith Brownell of
the army reserves will report June II
at Fort Smelling.
The Ely miner., 1943-06-03
FIRST JUNE CONTINGENT
TO DEPART WEDNESDAY

A contingent of selectees viii leave
here next Wednesday at 10 a. m. for
final physical examination at Fort
Smelling.
A second group viii be called up for
induction the latter part of the month.
Elmo Herranen has been transferred
here for induction and will leave with
Wednesdays unit.
James Peyla, Tower, has been added
to the group, replacing Reynold Kin
nunen, Embarrass, who was deferred
because of his status as a farmer.
Men who qualify as farm laborers
are either frozen to the farm on which
they are employed, or, if the war man.
power board determines that they are
surplus labor at their present place
of employment, must take farm work
elsewhere, or they will be inducted into
the armed forces.
The Ely miner., 1943-06-03

Pfc. Donald D. Debler of the army
quartermaster's corps is still missing
in action in the Philippines, the war
department has notified his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. William E. Debler.
"An official determination has been
made" the war department said,
continuing him on the records of the
department in missing status. You
will be Immediately notified if there
is any change. Far-flung operations,
the ebb and flow of combat over
great distances IN isolated areas, and
the characteristics of our enemy i'm
pose upon some of us this heavy bur-
den of uncertainty"
Private Debler was reported missing
upon the fall of Corregidor May 7,
1912.
The Ely miner., 1943-06-03
YAKICH GRADUATED
FROM NAVY SCHOOL

Ely's hero of last summers bomber
attacks against the Japs in the Aleu-
tians was graduated Monday from the
navy's pre-flight school at Athens, Ga,
and has been awarded the navy's air
medal.
He is Joseph j. Yakich, %, aviation
machinist mate, second class.
CThe navy department in Washing
ton reported the last week in March
that Yakich was to receive the air
medal and a citation from the Presi-
dent, and they have now apparently
been presented him at the Georgia
pre-flight school of the navy)
opt. c. E. Smith, commanding Of
ficer Of the school, presented the
medal and read the citation "for mer-
itorious achievement while participat-
ing in aerial flight during action
against enemy Japanese forces through
out the Aleutian islands campaign,
June to Is, 1942.
Under the most severe weather con-
ditions of high winds, snow, rain and
fog and in the face of persistent anti
aircraft fire from enemy ship and
shore batteries, Yakich, with con-
scientious devotion to duty, carried out
the tasks assigned him during patrol
missions and bombing attacks against
Japanese ships in Kiska harbor. His
fine courage throughout was in keep
ing with the highest traditions of the
United States naval service"
An identical citation and an air
medal was given to an aviation ma
chinist's mate from Davenport, Iowa,
who also was graduated from the pre-
flight school.
CWhile daily newspapers of this area
carried the above story. sent out by
the Associated Press, The Miner is
indebted to an Elyite who is employed
by the AP for complete information on
Yakich. He is E. L. Almen, in the
New York office of La Prensa Ascot
ada. the Latin-American division OF
the AP Almen says he hopes TO be
able to visit Ely this summer)
The Ely miner., 1943-06-03

BIueiackets From Last Weeks
Group to Leave Sunday,
Army Men, Saturday.

Fourteen members Of the contingent
which reported Friday at Fort Smelling
for final physical examination will en-
ter the navy. Nine are from Ely. and
they requested that they be assigned
to this branch of the service.
The others accepted for military
service will enter the army.
The army group will report Satur-
day at tbs a. m. for transportation to
Fort Smelling, where they will be as
signed to training camps.
Those entering the navy will leave
Sunday by bus or train, reporting for
service Monday morning at Min
neapolis. In past months most of the
Ely boys entering the navy have been
sent to the Farragut, Idaho, naval
training station for their boot train
ing.
The new Bluejackets include Joseph
j. Kulna, Enrico Mondati, Bernard
Donald Prola, Frank Louis Ule, John
F. Fink, Edward j. Grahek, Edwin
Richard Takkunen, John James Roz-
man and Cyril L Hallow, Ely; Allan
o. Karasti, winton; Byron H. Ander-
son, Tower; Kenneth Wargowsky, Sou
dan, and Wayne Pelt and Raymond
T. Pellinen, Embarrass.
Accepted for army service are:
Richard Gianotti, Samuel R. Tuom-
ala, RENO M Saari, Edward A. She
pei, Frank Edward Calm, Joseph Al
bin Majerle, John Mondati, Albert
Louis Kastelac, Albert F. Sheryak, An
ton j. Golobich, Frank E. Baltich, Jr.,
william A. Takavitz, Bernard L. Gra-
hex, Anton j. Kramar, Marvin A.
BouskaIa, Owen S. Childers, Loren j.
Pulls, Edward Enright Curnow, Rich
ard Simon Lindholm, Thomas Joseph
Devich, Rudolph j. Kosir, Joseph l..
Novak, Ely.
Frank Anton Oblak, Joseph Edward
Russ, Wallace F. Heikkinen, Jesse j.
Winters, Soudan. Lawrence L. Tru-
cano, Walter A. Aronson, Delbert R.
Burgess, Tower. Ernest Lamppa, VIII
no H. Maxi, Arthur j. Jarve, r. D.
Hendrickson, Embarrass.
The Ely miner., 1943-06-03
25& of Budget Should Go
for Road Improvement,
Alderman Declares.

The engineering department
was put in full charge of city
streets and alleys through for
NAL action taken by the council
Tuesday night.
An ordinance amendment
to control the burning of grass
and brush within the city was
given its first reading.
The amended dog ordinance,
giving police officers authority
to dispose of animals found
running at large during the
garden growing season, was
adopted and will take effect
June 13.
The action placing the engineering
department directly in charge of street
maintenance and repair was taken az
the request of Alderman Joseph Ko-
schak after he had condemned the
poor condition Of many city streets.
One city thoroughfare, he said, was
not fit for team of horses TO travel
over"
This road, he said, was the graveIed
one to the 26 location
Alderman KoSchak said he was
ashamed" of the city's s15,000 blum
nous surfacing program for this sum-
mer, and declared that the city should
spend "25 per cent of its budget" OF
s360,000 for street improvement. This
would be s9O,00O0
Mayor John Kapsch said that III
agree with you there" and added he
was also ashamed" OF the summers
street Improvement program
The burning ordinance would make
it unlawful to burn grass or brush
without first securing a permit from
the chief of the fire department 1t
is printed in full elsewhere In this
issue.
After the dog ordinance had been
given its final reading, Alderman VIII
liam R. Harri remarked that the po-
lice department had experienced con-
siderable difficulty finding the own
ers of stay dogs when time TO license
them arrived. He said that IN such
instances the provisions of the new or
dinance, permitting the shooting Of
animals without license tags, should
be enforced.
City Clerk A. o. KnutSon notified
the council that the federal govern
ment had approved the purchase Of
materials for the sewer project in Ia
verl's addition.
The city attorney was asked TO in
vestigate the claim of Louis Pechaver
for the expense Of a hernia operation
to which he had submitted. Pechaver
said he had sustained the hernia when
employed by the city.
Upon the suggestion Of Alderman J.
Emil Maxi, the city chemist was asked
to prepare rat poisoning and make il
available to those who wanted it. Al
derman Maxi said that there were
many reports of rats in the city.
Clerk Knutson reported the city had
s24,375 monthly to meet city expense
during the rest of the year. May ex-
penditures were S23, ,849.45.
Mayor Kapsch and Aldermen Ko-
shak, Harri and j. Emil Maxi composed
just a quorum for the meeting. with
Aldermen Tony Lenich, Joseph Klun,
Jr., and Edward E. Porthan absent.
The Ely miner., 1943-06-03
LAST OF BIGTLME LOGGING
Eastwood -Ft. Francis Drive On

"The last big-time lumber
ing We'll ever see."
This is how local woodsmen
describe the final phase of
operations conducted this win
ter on the Canadian side of
Bosswood lake-the floating
of five giant RATS of logs from
Eastwood to Fort Francis.
Several of the RATS, each
about two acres In size, are
out of Eastwood and have
started on their 125-mile trip
The Ely miner., 1943-06-03
School Teachers May
Take War Plant Work

School teachers may take summer
jobs in war plants, agriculture or
necessary civilian services without en-
dangering their regular positions and
may take higher pay for that work,
the war manpower commission says.
Such work can be accepted with no
danger of being frozen" in the jobs
and being prevented from returning to
school positiors, the commission says.
The Ely miner., 1943-06-03
SerUicen,en Coming Home
to Get Food Applications

A serviceman on leave or furlough
for at least three days will now be
provided with a complete application
form for obtaining rationed food be-
fore he leaves camp, according to the
OPA He will give the application to
the person providing his meals, who,
in turn, will submit it to the local ra-
tioning board for food certificates
within Is days after the furlough.
The Ely miner., 1943-06-03
Richards, Jones to Speak
at Nine Safety Meeting

B. S. Richards, superintendent Of
the Zenith mine, and william Jones.
safety inspector in Ely for the Oliver
Iron Mining company, are on the pro-
gram for the Goth annual meeting OF
the Lake Superior mining section mine
safety conference at the Hotel Duluth
June II and 18.
Frank S. Cash, supervising engineer
of the q. s. bureau of mines, Duluth,
and secretary Of the Lake Superior
mining section of the National Safety
Council, has sent out notices Of the
meeting.
The Ely miner., 1943-06-03
Car OlUners Must Post
Mileage Ration Stickers

Passenger car owners must have
their A, B or c stickers posted on the
windows or windshields of their cars
in order to purchase gasoline at serv-
ice stations, the local war price and
rationing office announces The sta
tions cannot service cars with gaso-
line which do not display the stickers.
Supplies of stickers, where they have
become detached or lost, are available
at the rationing office.
The Ely miner., 1943-06-03
A RECORD?
Three Elyite Together From
Camp to Australia.

Three Elyites who have been to-
gether from the time Of their induc-
ton are now stationed in the same
camp somewhere in Australia.
They are Pvts. George E Lahti,
Tony Stukel and John Ojala-
They probably have established a
record unequaled by any other group
Of local servicemen-
Pvt. Raphael j. Grahek, veteran Of
the New Guinea campaign, is also az
their camp.
I'VE see free movies every night.
can buy candy bars, Coca-Cola, and
one package of cigarets day" Private
Lahti says in telling about the Little
Ely" in Australia. They have been in
the army for year.
The Ely miner., 1943-06-03
St0nich Graduated From
Quurtermaster's School

Edward Stonich was graduated from
the quartermaster's school at Camp
Lee, Va, and was awarded a second
neutenant's commission. Lieutenant
Stonich is here this week on furlough
and will leave Friday for New Orleans,
La, where he will report to the army
air base there. He is being transferred
to the air corps.
The Ely miner., 1943-06-03
RatiOns Are Available for
Oil StOUes This Summer

It does not matter whether coal or
wood burning stoves are available
householders may use their oil cooking
stoves this summer, the OPA states.
Recognizing a shortage of all fuels,
the OPA has removed the restrictions
which denied fuel oil rations for do
mestic cooking and water heating if
Standby" equipment was at hand.
The Ely miner., 1943-06-03
PLAY PROGRAM TO
START ON JUNE IA

The recreation departments summer
playground program will start June IA,
Director Stanley Modin announces.
There viii be supervised Fairgrounds
at the Lincoln and Washington schools,
at Whiteside park and at Shagawa
beach in Semer's park.
The Ely miner., 1943-06-03

sluiced down the rapids to be caught
in another boom at the foot of the
falls. Several such operations must be
conducted before the logs are brought
to Fort Francis.
Local men who have inspected the
cutover area north of Eastwood say
that the operators were extremely
careful to preserve the rugged beauty
of lake shores and the principal canoe
routes. The timber was left uncut for
some distance along lakes and rivers.
The Ely miner., 1943-06-03
down the chain of border
lakes to the Ontario sawmills.

Tug-like boats about 80 feet in
length tow the RATS of logs. First the
boats, called ''alligators," go out into
the lake about 1,5OO feet from the raft
and drop a large anchor. Then they
back up to the raft, tie it fast to the
boat and wind up the anchor rope on
a large winch.
In the same manner, by fastening
the rope to tree, the boats, travelling
on skids fastened to the bottom, pull
themselves over land
When the RATS reach Eastwood falls,
the booms are broken and the logs
The Ely miner., 1943-06-03
EMBARRASS SOLDIER Is
WOUNDED IN NORTH AFRICA

Pvt. Laurie j. Salo, Embarras, was
wounded in action in North Africa
barrass, and was inducted through the
local draft district July 8, 1912.
The Ely miner., 1943-06-03
VIEW INDUCTS TWO.

opt. Lawrence Golobich, who is on
furlough here after being on overseas
duty, and George Childs, veteran Of
World War l, have been inducted into
the Ely post No. 2717, Veterans Of
Foreign Wars.
The Ely miner., 1943-06-03
FORMER ELYITE IN wAAC,s.

Miss jeanne Thompson, daughter of
DR.. and Mrs. John E. Thompson of
Columbus, Ohio, former Elyites, has
enlisted in the wAAC's and is sta
toned at Fort Ogelthorpe. Ga.
The Ely miner., 1943-06-03
WATSON TO SPEAK.

DR.. c. Gordon Watson of Soudan
viii speak at tonight's meeting of the
Kiwanis club. Dick Chinn is in charge
of the program.
The Ely miner., 1943-06-03
IN SOUTHWEST PACIFIC.

Anthony J. Markun, aviation ma
chinist's mate, second class, of the
navy, is on duty somewhere in the
southwest Pacific.
The Ely miner., 1943-06-03

PICNIC FOR SCOUT LEADERS.
The Girl Scout Council will entertain
leaders at a picnic Monday at Muir
phys cottage on White Iron lake.
The Ely miner., 1943-06-03
ENLISTS IN WAAC'S.

Miss Frances Spooner has been en-
Used lin the WAAC's and is now on
the reserve list awaiting call to duty.
The Ely miner., 1943-06-03
IN NORTH AFRICA.

Pvt. Kenneth A. Hegman is now
stationed in North Africa.
The Ely miner., 1943-06-03
This
Occasion
A Few Observations on Matters
Material and Immaterial by
the Editor.

And if our lines should form and break
Because of things you failed to make,
The extra tank, or ship, or plane,
For which we waited all in vain,
And the supplies that never came,
VIII you then come and take the
blame?
For We, not you, will pay the cost
Of battles, you, not We have lost.
"A y. S. Marine.
The Ely miner., 1943-06-03

Roofing" minors out of beer tav-
ernS is proposed by Alderman A. G..
BaStis, Minneapolis, as an important
step in meeting the challenge of inc
reased and serious juvenile delinq-
uency, says the Virginia Enterprise.
"Other plans have failed" he said,
1T looks as if we have to use strong
arm methods" Incidentally, his rem
edy is urged in the interest of the
lawful tavern keeper, on the theory
that sending the police in after the
kids" is better medicine than revoking
licenses after violations Of regulations
barring miners from saloons have oc-
CURED. Perhaps all communities fac
ing juvenile problem might give some
heed to the recommendations of a
wise and experienced Minneapolis
councilman
The Ely miner., 1943-06-03

There is too much stuff that ought
to be published for any country news
paper to take on, says the Coleraine
News. This paper gets calls and de-
mands from every side, when we have
not help enough to print community
happenings, which, after all, is the
mission Of a country paper To get
out country paper these days takes
a hardheaded practical editor with no
conscience when it comes to excluding
the many things that the reader ought
to know about. Another strange pee
uliarity about editing a newspaper is
that those subjects most vital to the
reader fail to interest him. The aver
age facts disclosed are as tedious as
statistics.
The Ely miner., 1943-06-03

Bill Higgins says that in one of the
buses that haul workers to one of the
war plants, there are eight ads for
alcoholic beverages, one for cemetery
markers. Any connection?
The Ely miner., 1943-06-03

During the past month, Chevrolet
dealers throughout the nation col
lected 4.324 tons of scrap materials or
a grand total of 1O3,151 tons for the
past nine months.
Evening star., 1943-09-16
Taxpayers Must File
Returns for ; Years
By Next March IS
By HAROLD b. ROGERS.

As tax declarations poured into
the Offices of collectors of internal
revenue throughout the country to-
day from those who met the dead
line by mailing before last midnight,
1t was pointed out that next March
taxpayers must file returns for three
different years on two different
forms.
One of these forms will be for an
accurate report on both incomes
and taxes for two years. 1912 and
l943 The second form will be SINH
lar to the one over which people
have just finished struggling. 1t
will be for the purpose of estimating
income and taxes for the calendar
year 1914, and arranging to pay.
Out of the calculations on three
different years on or before next
March Is, taxpayers may come to
one of several different conclusions.
They may find they are underpaid
or overpaid on the two years 1912
and 1943. And they may find their
withholding taxes are sufficient or
insufficient to meet their obligations
for 1914. 1t will be a job of balanc-
ing all three of these accounts. May
be the taxpayer will owe more to the
Government, In which case he paws.
If the taxpayer has overpaid the
Government he will be repaid by
check.
Tax Office Quiet.
Meanwhile, the local office of
deputy collector in the Revenue
Building, which has been the scene
OF lively activity for many days past,
was quiet this morning. Only a few
stragglers showed up 70 say they
were late, and to make out their
declaration. They faced penalties
for late filing and late payments-jf
they had to pay.
All mailed declarations and pay
ments postmarked by last midnight
will be accepted as meeting the
deadline, and will escape the pen
Evening star., 1943-09-16

atty. 1t will be some tire before
any accurate reports on the number
filing declarations can be obtained.
The taxpayers lines were shorter
than usual most of the day at the
local office yesterday, but because
the office stayed open until midnight
the number of callers mounted to
the record-breaking total of 5000
This brought the grand total of vis-
itors up to about $4,000 for the
period since September /, Thousands
are known to have filed their re-
turns by mail.
Small Returns Seen.
In Baltimore, A. Parks Rasin. act
ing internal revenue collector for
Maryland and the District of Co.
lumbia, estimated that only one
quarter or one-third of Maryland's
income taxpayers had filed since
many were not required to do so
under the law.
More would be received. he added,
when the extended deadline for
soldiers and sailors expired and as
farmers returns roll in between now
and December Is.
The anticipated last-minute rush
had not materialized last night at
the Baltimore Office, he said.
Papers Sent to New York.
Declarations made this week by
taxpayers will be forwarded to the
sorting section of the Revenue Bu-
reau in New York, now being en-
Evening star., 1943-09-16
Delays and Errors
Slowing Distribution
OF New Gas Books
Though new A gasoline books must

Though new A gasoline books must
be issued to about $4,000 District
motorists before the currently valid
No. 6 coupons expire, only 16,700
applications have been received so
far by local ration boards, the Dis
trict Office of Price Administrator
said today
Handicapped by receipt of numer-
Gus faulty applications and by lack
OF sufficient volunteer help, the
boards have mailed out only an
estimated $3.50 books, the OPA said.
Meanwhile, the American Auto
mobile Association today joined with
the OPA in pleading with motorists
here to use greater care in filling
out the APPLICATION forms. The present
"large-scale confusion" caused by
faulty applications has the ration
boards virtually swamped and may
result in large numbers of motorists
not getting their A books on time"
the AAA said in a statement.
The OPA pointed out that most
Evening star., 1943-09-16

larged to 500 persons. All papers
regarding each taxpayer will be
brought together for cross reference.
Ofhcials estimated the total of these
papers from taxpayers, their en-
ployers, and other persons who may
have paid the taxpayers, may mount
to 100000, 900.
On the next income tax date, De-
cember Is. many persons will have
to pay their last installment of
taxes for this year. Others will
have paid their complete obligation
by yesterday. Farmers who did not
file by yesterday must file their
declarations by December Is. Per-
sons. who find they have underesti-
mated their tax liability for this
year should file an amended" dec
laration by December Is, to avoid a
penalty. Each one, however, is al
lowed 20 per cent margin of error.
The question of simplifying the
income tax returns required of tax
payers Is to come up in the new ses-
sion of Congress, according to indi-
cations from leaders on Capitol Hill.
But unless the principal features of
the pay-as-you-go Revenue Act are
substantially altered, taxpayers will
face in March some of the most
complicated tax returns in the his
tory Of the country.