City Council Considers Street Carnival And Sewer Line
City council votes to discuss street carnival further and to commission Leo Daly to study an auxiliary sewer line from the VFW building to Second and Elm. They review alley resurfacing costs, library board appointment, state meeting expenses, and withholding several bill payments pending detailed statements.
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Richardson
Don Smiley
Burton Carl
Floyd Spies
Wes Morgan
Leo Daly
V.F.W
Second
Elm Streets
Elm Street
Walnut
Elm
Helen Arwell
Library Board
H. M. Boorman
An & A
E. C. Henningsen Company
Vivian Equipment Company
Clay County National Bank
Henningsen
Vivian
Clay County Bank
Sixth
Chestnut
Gratitude for support during illness from Barthson community
Thank you to friends and neighbors for visits during hospital stay and to nurses and Dr Needies for good care. Appreciation for Rev Hubler and neighbors who cared for the farm while sick. See Barthson Try News Telegraph Want Ads.
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Rev. Hubler
Barthson
Four family members injured in Randall gas blast
Four members of a farm family were critically burned in a basement gas explosion near Randall Friday night. Robert Weltha and wife Donna Mae, plus their two young children, were transported to Mary Greeley Hospital with extensive burns. The blast followed a malfunctioning water heater and prompted a hospital blood appeal.
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Story City
Randall
Mary Greeley Hospital
Robert C. Weltha
Donna Mae
Joel
Diane
Harold Holm
Weltha
State Highway Patrol
Lutheran Hospital
Des Moines
Two Killed Five Hurt In Wreck Near Perry
A Des Moines couple died and five others were injured when their car left Highway 169 north of Perry after what appeared to be a tire blowout. Victims were Gladys Wright 58 and Jane Edge 84. Injured were George Wright 60 and others, including three children. The crash occurred while en route to Boone for a funeral. four deaths with eight miles of Perry Saturday included two Perry men.
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Bernice Williams
Perry Hospital
Wright
Perry
Richard Dickerson
Kenneth L. Retman
Highway 169
Minburn
Mrs. McCarrel Heads PEO Sisterhood in Iowa
Ames AP Mrs. Ted McCarrel, Iowa City, is elected president of the Iowa chapter of the PEO Sisterhood. Officers named include E Korfmacher of Grinnell and F S Davis of Mason City as vice presidents, M O Chewell of Indianola as organizer, G A Paschal of Webster City as recording secretary, Ernest Rasmussen of Davenport as corresponding secretary, and O S Knudsen of Ames as treasurer.
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O.S. Knudsen
Ames
Audubon Notes A Café Redesign and Local Happenings
Audubon updates include The Dinner Bell cafe remodeled by Mr and Mrs Otis Gregensen and the Ben Franklin store redecorating nearing completion. W H Griffin and Leo Hagsen fishing in northern Minnesota. Summer band concerts start June 24 in city park. Robert Meyers hired as special policeman and street department worker. Mr and Mrs Louis Railsback of Denver Cal former Audubon residents buy a motel in Brighton Calo.
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Audubon
Otis Gregensen
Ben Franklin
W. H. Griffin
Leo Hagsen
Minnesota
Robert Meyers
Louis Railsback
Denver
Calo
Brighton
Local News Briefs From Atlantic Iowa and Nearby
A roundup of local items includes fines in Atlantic and Lewis for speeding and control violations, fishing trip returns from Winnipeg River, Rotary Club program by Iowa safety commission, 50 year Masonic medal for Dr L C Allender and anniversary, top Omaha market lambs and hogs, postponed Zion Lutheran Baptist softball game, marriage license actions, funeral attendees from afar, top Iowa high school performances, a correction on a brakes incident, Nebraska University graduates, juvenile court detention, and obituaries for Mrs Etta Carlson and Lee Werley, plus MetLife staff at the Iowa farm study group meeting in Ames.
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Rotary Club
Hotel Whitney
Iowa Safety Commission
Ivan Cappel
32nd Soil Management and Land Valuation Short Course Friday
A fragment notes the 32nd soil management and land valuation short course slated for Friday. The item lacks detail on location or speakers but marks the ongoing series in agricultural education.
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Soil Management and Land Valuation
Adair Ledger Highlights Local Visits and Funeral Trips
Residents from Elk Horn and surrounding towns spend time with relatives and attend services. W D Werth family travels to Fairfax Missouri for funeral of John W Pope. Kelsey family hosts and hosts travel updates include a granddaughter Mary Ann Kelsey in New York. A large grain storage building project on Highway 6 nears completion with Farmers' Grain.
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Adair
Lee Sparling
Elk Horn
W. D. Werth
Robert Kelsey
Cheyenne
Wyo
Arthur Kelsey
J. L. Parker
John
Keith Noland
H. T. Kroeger
Linen
Neb
Bill McDonald
Lonnie Hargis
Long Beach
Calif
Mary Ann Kelsey
Idlewild
New York
Moscow
Russia
Highway 6
Longest-term prisoner eyed for transfer to Missouri facility
Noms Stroud, 69, one of the nation’s longest-serving inmates, could be moved from Als traz to the federal medical center in Springfield Missouri. Stroud has spent 51 years in prison and gained 1989 notoriety for publishing a S6J-pue bard book.
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Alstraz
Federal Medical Center
Springfield
Ray Johnson a veteran of Iowa state service
Ray E. Johnson, a lifelong Republican, has held more key state government posts in Iowa than any other Iowan. Beginning in 1908 as deputy Muscatine County treasurer, he later served five terms as county treasurer, secretary of the state executive council, state treasurer from 1924 to 1933, and held roles including state auditor examiner deputy secretary of state and state comptroller. He later joined the state tax commission, serving as chairman three times and returning in 1957 as assistant director of the property tax division, reflecting a long career across taxation and administration under multiple governors.
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Des Moines
IDPA
Ray E. Johnson
Johnson
Muscatine County
Muscatine
State Executive Council
Executive Council
State Board of Assessment and Review
Tax Commission
State Tax Commission
Iowa
Board of Control
Board of Education
Board of Regents
Noblesville Canning Company
Noblesville
Ind
Towa
State Auditor’s
Jessie Parker
William S. Beardsley
Harding
Kendall
Hammill
Turner
Wilson
Hickenlooper
Blue
Beardsley
Hoegh
Russians to See Themselves in Color on RCA TV Studio
Russians will be filmed in color this summer at the American National Exhibition in Moscow. RCA sets up a color TV studio for the July event and will select Russians to appear on camera. Filmed programs will be carried via closed circuit to 16 sets in Sokulniki Park at the fairgrounds. Mt. Vesuvius stands 3,891 feet high.
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Radio Corp. of America
Moscow
Sokulniki Park
Mt. Vesuvius
Italy
Warm Humid Weather Grips Rockies and Southwest
A warm humid air mass blankets much of the central and western U.S. with rain patches in parts. Texas Panhandle and eastern New Mexico see cooling after a Friday night storm bringing hail and wind. Corpus Christi reports three inches of rain in six hours, while Willis Creek floods Brownwood area as winds reach 75 mph.
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Associated Press
Rockies
Texas Panhandle
New Mexico
Great Lakes
Corpus Christi
Texas Gulf Coast
Texas
Big Springs
Junction City
Brownwood
Willis Creek
Wickett
Tex
Pacific Northwest
Pendleton
Ore
Walla Walla
Wash
Southwest
Needles
California
Arizona
Mercury
Draft Lost In Drug Store Sign Mystery
A $300 bank draft carried by Mrs. Lewis A. Denison was blown into a drug store display sign in Lockport New York and remains inaccessible, authorities say the sign would have to be dismantled to retrieve it. The text also notes the first National League baseball game on April 22, 1876 in Philadelphia with Boston defeating the Phils 6 to 5.
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Lockport
Lewis A. Denison
Philadelphia
Boston
Phils
Ex GI recalls Normandy invasion on 15th anniversary
Edward Green of Elizabeth City N C recalls landing at 8 30 a m as a combat engineer on D Day at Omaha Beach. Veterans visit the invasion coast amid ruins and memorial services marking the 15th anniversary of the Allied assault with about 10 724 casualties including 2 132 dead.
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Europe
France
Normandy
Eisenhower
Omaha Beach
Edward Green
Elizabeth City
N.C
Green
U.S
Omaha
Utah
Asault
Germany
Card of Thanks from Lucy Vick
Lucy Vick expresses gratitude to all who sent cards flowers and messages during her hospital stay and thanks the doctor and nurses for helping her recovery.
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Lucy Vick
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