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Flooded Factories. High water on highways and railroads meant delay in production of many war materials, delay in shipping goods already produced. Logansport, Ind. has five plants with war contracts; all had to be shut down. Four war plants in the St. Louis area, including Atlas Powder Co.'s great TNT plant, were closed either because incoming raw materials did not arrive or because water entered the buildings. In Arkansas the Big Inch broke, reducing the East's oil supplies even more (see p. 18). At Dupo, Ill., near St. Louis, one of the nation's largest...
Writing and Restlessness. Ernie Pyle's first newspaper job was on the La Porte, Ind. Herald, whence he went in 1923 to the Washington Daily News (Scripps-Howard) as a reporter, later became a deskman. By 1932, after a brief fling at Manhattan news rooms, he had become the Washington Daily News's managing editor. Unhappy, in 1935 he asked for a roving assignment...
...there was time to praise heroes. Many were cited for gallantry last week, and the names of their home towns-Phoebus, Va., Quenemo, Kans., La Porte, Ind., Dabolt, Ky., Rector, Ark., Star City, W.Va.-were eloquent of the U.S. at war. Among those honored were: < Two Roosevelts, father and son, respectively son and grandson of the great Teddy. To Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr., assistant commanding general of the First Division, in which he won many a decoration during World War I, went an Oak Leaf Cluster for his Silver Star. The New Yorker this month reported from Tunisia...
HELEN H. PRESTON Anderson High School Anderson, Ind...
...Probably the biggest privately owned egg and poultry business in the U.S. is run by tall, large-boned, greying Hobart Creighton, 46, of Warsaw, Ind. Unable to raise hogs successfully, Eggman Creighton started with chickens 18 years ago. He owned 38 acres of land and some equipment. His brother Russell, 40, had $1,500 cash. They bought 1,200 hens. Today they have 60,000 pullets and hens, occupy 1,400 acres, employ 55 people, are capitalized at $250,000, produce 30,000 eggs a day, ten million eggs a year, get premium prices. Last year they grossed...