Local Briefs update residents from Avoca to Atlantic
Local notes list visitors and travels across towns. Mr and Mrs Peters of Avoca and Mrs Linn of Weinut visited Mize Wiese Friday. Miss Welsh and Miss Meek from Omaha bomber plant spent the weekend with relatives. Robert Kay stationed at Barkedale Field Shreveport arrives tonight for furlough with his parents. Mrs Maworth returned to Minneapolis after visiting the Wallaces. Sgt Kenneth Jensen, medical student in Columbus Ohio, left on T-day furlough. Mr and Mrs Schoenthal heard their son Val is overseas with the China Burma India wing. Cass county supervisors meet Monday to adjust livestock levies and Tuesday for last week's primary election vote. Patrolmen Miller Denford and Klinkefus returning home from brief assignments.
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Pfe
Robert Kay
Barkedale Field
Shreveport
Harry Kay
East of Atlantic
Kenneth Jesen
Ohio Boete
Columbus
J. C. Jensen
West Ninth Wreet
Qverseens
L. C. Schoenthal
East Fifth Street
Cpl
Val Schoenthal
China-Burma-India
Elevansport Command
Beard
Cass County Supervisors
Board of Equalization
Jack Moore
Atlantic High School Grid
Sequoia Field
Cal
J. J. Moore
Poplar Street
Marian ‘Moore
Iowa Packing Company
Descheines
Reunion in the South Pacific and county notices
Reunion in the South Pacific shows Walter Steffens and Harold Morgan in a group photo of Iowans from a Red Cross party. Francis M. Haley of Greenfield also appears. Weight fines hit drivers George L. Kelley of Early and Milton W. Pedersen of Des Moines for overloads. The Sunset Amusement Co. opens a week at Cass County Fairgrounds under American Legion sponsorship with the Eli ferris wheel. Aviation Cadet Jack Moore visits family in Atlantic while sister Marian Moore works in Des Moines. Pfc Logan Grimstead writes from Stalag 2B Germany about mail and Red Cross aid. Showers and warmer readings forecast for western Iowa.
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Pacific
Mies Maxine Butler
Logan Grimstead
Atlantic
Stalag 2B
Germany
American Red Cross
Pfc
Grinstead
Faid Pass
North Africa
Rotary and church notices plus CAP enlistment in Atlantic
Rotary reports on Hawkeye Boys State camp and Legion camp plans at Grinnell with local club hospitality. Des Moines Catholic Women board meets at Hotel Whitney with Massena presiding followed by luncheon and deanery meetings. CAP talks offer 17 year olds a path to inactive Army Air Force service with college courses and multiple specialist tracks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rotary
Grinnell
Atlantic Rotarians
Hotel Whitney
State Legion
Tom ‘Magill
Robert Alexander
Frits Simpson
Jack Nygaserd
Elks Club
Lions Club
American Legion
de Moines
National Council of Catholic Women
Des Moines
Creston
Council Bluffs
Atlantic
Greenfield
Adair
Missouri Valley
Massena
Cumberland
James Anstey
Whitney
Stuart Deanery
F.P. Larkin
P. N. McDermott
F. T. Zuch
CAP
Army Air Force
Army Air Force Reserve
Court House
Five Hurt After Keokuk Crash Claims One Life
Beulah Wade Means of Keokuk died from injuries after a car overturned on highway 218 north of Keokuk. Driver Helen Harmon sustained a crushed chest. Three others suffered minor injuries in the accident reported by INS.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Keokuk
INS
Beulah Wade
Highway 218
Helen Harmon
ISTC Head Will Address Atlantic Branch Students
Dr. Malcolm Price, president of Iowa State Teachers College Cedar Falls, will address Atlantic branch summer school students at Tuesday morning assembly at 10 25. The public is invited. Price in his fourth year as chief administrator and is the fourth president, preceded by James Gilchrist Homer Seerley and O Latham. He was born July 6 1895 in Carroll and graduated from Newton High School in 1914. He earned a BA from Cornell College Mount Vernon and served as machine greiner in World War I. He later taught in Harrisburg South Dakota and was superintendent there for four years before moving to Iowa City for residence work and a doctorate in 1929.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Malcolm Price
Iowa State Teachers College
Cedar Falls
Atlantic Branch
Chicago
Harrisburg, S. D
University of Iowa
Iowa City
Detroit schools tribute to longtime personnel chief
Dr. Price served in Detroit Michigan as director of personnel overseeing the administration of more than 10 000 public schools employed and also led the school building program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Price
Detroit, Mich
Births and familles noted in Avoca and Atlantic regions
New son born to Sgt and Mrs Wilbur Cole at Moody Field Georgia named Denter Blake. Twin daughters Janet and Jean to Electricians Mate 3/c and Mrs Walter Suiter in Council Bluffs weigh 4 6 and 4 12 pounds. Father serves with Navy Seabees in California. Avoca couple Albert and Mrs Dorscher welcome daughter born Friday at Jennie Edmundson hospital in Council Bluffs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ronald Gladson
Sgt
Wilbur Cole
Moody Field
Denter Blake
Cole
Lassen Bros
Gladson Farms
Janet
Jean
Mate
Walter H. Suiter
Atlantic
Mercy Hospital
Council Bluffs
California
Navy Seabees
O. C. Suiter
Mulberry Street
Suiter
Charlotte Gillin
Avoca
Mee
Albert Dorscher
Jennie Edmundton Hospital
Boy for Burkes Born at Hafan Hospital
Anita and Ernest Burke welcomed their first son at 5 am in Hafan Hospital. The newborn weighs seven pounds and is described as a healthy male. Mesort Mrs Ray Burke is the mother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burkes
Anita
Ernest Burke
Ray Burke
Hafan Hospital
Launch of first new transport ship at Sparrows Point
The United States Navy hosted the launch of the first in a new series of auxiliary transport ships at Bethlehem Sparrows Point shipyard in Maryland. The vessel slid down the ways with Miss Carolyn Corway sponsoring, daughter of Capt. Granville Conway, deputy administrator of the War Shipping Administration.
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Sparrows Port
INS
U.S
Deaythe
Navy
Bethlehem-Sparrows Point
Carolyn
Betty”) Corway
Granville Conway
War Shipping
Cominstration
Doctor and Actor Charm Despite Normandy Beach Fire
The report recalls men landing at Normandy under heavy fire as mines exploded nearby. A doctor tended wounded amid blasts while a lieutenant and actor Sam Byrd survived with minor injuries. Lieutenant Paul and others faced continuous peril as shells struck close.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Normandy
Grect
Alvin P. Carpenter
Sanbigry
Northup to Spend Vacation with McGoverns
Wits deck Nera Beinge of Dee Moines, son of Mr and Mrs M L Northup, will spend a vacation with his grandmother Mrs J F McGovern and his uncle J J McGovern west of town.
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Wits
Deck Nera Beinge
Dee ‘Moines
M. L. Northup
J. F. McGovern
J. J. McGovern
Family Visitors From Omaha Spend Day Here
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Bartley and their children of Omaha visited here Wednesday with Mrs. H Bartley, Anita-iMr. and Mrs. Paul.
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Viele
Anita—iMr
Paul, Bartley
Omaha
H. Bartley
Also Mentioned on This Page
Iowa Farms
Iowa
Agricultural Adjustment Agency
Red Cross
Dee Moines Register
Shelby County
Cass County
Old Line
wWeiltem
Offic
Mere
X. C. Peters
Delbert Linn
Weinut
Mize Wiese
Peow Omeha
Geraldine Welsh
Jessie Meek
Hemne
A. C. Maworth
Lewis
Hee
Minneapolis
Mrs. Rosas Wallace
Chestnut
Ralph Miller
D. D. Denford
H. B. Klinkefus
Camp Dodge
Iowa Highway Patrol
Presbyterians
Catholica
Sunnyside Field
Zion and Dame
Methodists
Wayne Coker
Signal Corps
Panama
Ray Coker
Camp Pickett
Beatrice M. Lantis
I. R. Lantis
Griswold
Beatrice M. Gittins
Harriet Cook
Harry Cook
LaVista Place
Grinnell College
Marilynn Henningsen
Christian College
Columbia
St. Lewis
Harold Scott
Cass County Ration Board
St. Louis
Ammon Fierce
Stephens College
Scott
Californie
John Buckley
Los Angeles
Audubon County Auction Co
Audubon
E. Young
Mar
Earl Gereutte
John Tigges
Alce
John Klinkefus, Jr
Economy Shoe CO
Harold Paulsen
George L. Kelley
Early
Milton W. Pedersen
Lowa
Highway Commission
Davenport
Du‘buque
Inwood
Tea Grand Lodge
Ross Camblin
Cedar Rapids
Guette
Iowa Masonic Grand Lodge
Grand Lodge
Kelse Saedmisch
Virgil Moore
Earl Hensley
Frank Robinson
BeRoy Acker
Harlen Bellentine
Everett Rousman
Walnut
Marvin G. Teeters
Charles City
Red Oak
Home Service Division
Cass County Red Cross
Swift & Company
Teeters
Home Service Department
U. S. Signal Corps
International Soundphoto
ISTC
New Son
Bere
Paul Foren
Scarsdale
N. Y
Sam Byrd
Lester
New York
Olive
N. C
Tacadey
Oan Vrevers
Fair Grounds Atlantic
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