Walnut Grove district meeting draws 65 in Iowa
Sixty five Walnut Grove sales service representatives from southwestern Iowa attended a quarterly meeting at Hotel Whitney to receive updates on the swine feeding program and a new fly control program. Recognitions went to Gregory Rains Leo Pratl Lester Rhodes and Harper Bunnett of Atlantic. Key organizers included J J OConnell Clair Becker LeRoy Nelson Jack Bergstrom and Mack Bell.
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Walnut Grove
Iowa
Hotel Whitney
Griswold
Southwestern Towa
Aves Mekva
Gardena trio guests of Exira residents
Mrs. Mary Banks of Gardena California and her grandsons John and Larry Banks visited Rev. and Mrs. SR Wall in Exira. Mrs. Wall left Friday for Denver Colorado to teach this week and next in the Christian church laboratory school.
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Exira
Mary Banks
Gardena
Calif
John
Simpson College
Larry
SR. Wall
Wall
Denver
Colo
Christian Church Laboratory School
Tie In Marcus Slaying And Fund Shortage
Chicago outlines a direct tie between banker Leon Marcus murder and a Cook County fund shortage. State's Attorney Benjamin Adamowski says a $600000 gap links to Marcus and a $3654 and a $7408 fake county check cashed at Southmoor Bank tied to Marcus and gambler Lionel Ives. Investigators probe who benefited.
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Marcus
Chicago
Cook County
Benjamin Adamowski
Adamowski
Leon Marcus
Ives
Florida
Southmoor
Edward A. Morin
Treasury
Railroad Conductor Wage Pact Signed by Major Carriers
The nation's leading railroads and 20 000 member Conductors Union reached a three year wage agreement totaling a 26 cent cumulative hourly raise. Immediate 12 cent increase was retroactive to Nov 1 1958 with two additional 7 cent raises on Nov 1 1957 and Nov 1 1958, plus a cost of living escalator clause.
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Chicago
National (Railway) Mediation Board
Leverett Edwards
Amateur Rodeo Returns Near Cumberland This Sunday
An amateur rodeo resumes at the George McCurdy farm six miles south and two miles west of Cumberland Sunday at 2 PM. Sponsored by the McCurdy family and Bill Petty, the event invites entrants. Note advised to avoid driving after drinking.
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George McCurdy
Cumberland
McCurdy
Bill Petty
Radeo
Peggy Hopkins Joyce dies of throat cancer at 64
Peggy Hopkins Joyce former Ziegfeld Follies star and socialite died of throat cancer at Memorial Center for Cancer and Allied Diseases She was about 64 and surrounded by her sixth husband Andrew C Meyer A retired banker Details note her marriages including a multimillionaire third husband and her career as a writer and columnist
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New York
Peggy Hopkins
Joyce
Miss Joyce
Memorial Center For Cancer and Allied Diseases
Andrew C. Meyer
Woodbury
French Riviera
Ruth Snyder
Henry Judd Gray
Arson Suspected in Duncombe Furniture Warehouse Fire
Des Moines reports state fire marshal investigates a Duncombe warehouse fire that destroyed the Furniture Retail Outlet Co. building near Fort Dodge. Officials say no injuries, no loss estimate, and a car seen near the rear prior to an explosion. Deputies cite arson with possible flammable liquid near a rear door.
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Des Moines
Ed J. Herron
Furniture Retail Outlet Co
Fort Dodge
Duncombe
Herron
Don Hutchison
Storm Lake
John Hanna
Cedar Rapids
Church News Audubon First Methodist picks new chair
The First Methodist church board elects Leslie Conklin as chairman for the year ending next May and Russell Herbert as secretary. The WSCS met at the church with officers installed and new MYF officers named. Vacation Bible school ends with 146 attendees from three churches.
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Audubon
First Methodist Church
Leslie Conklin
Russell Herbert
Elliott
WSCS
Jess Mathis
J. E.mercer
Neil Barr
M.Y.F
Lynn Putman
Billy Templeton
Paula Gammell
Treas
Booby Jones
Laura Landis
Vacation Bible
Christian Church
Methodist
Pilot Grove
Christian
Loveless predicts 1960 Democratic presidential win
Iowa Governor Herschel Loveless told a Seattle Jefferson-Jackson Day audience that Dwight Eisenhower is a failure as president and forecast a Democratic victory in 1960. He also predicted Iowa would elect a Democrat to the U.S. Senate and four more Democratic congressmen next year, urging a forward looking program.
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Seattle
Herschel Loveless
Iowa
Dwight Eisenhower
U. S
Tom Martin
Loveless
Eisenhower
Albert D. Rosellini
Washington
National Conference of Governors
Williamsburg
Rosellini
Births New Son for Olsen and Petersen Families
Mr and Mrs Wayne Olsen Rt 3 welcomed a son weighing 7 pounds 11% ounces born at 10 20 this morning at Atlantic Memorial hospital. Mr and Mrs Darwin Petersen Irwin welcomed their second son born at 8 45 this morning at Harlan hospital weighing 6 pounds 8 ounces. Grandparents are Mr and Mrs Milt Blohn Atlantic and Mr and Mrs Ezra Petersen Elk Horn. Start sooner drive slower tve longer.
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Wayne Olsen
Rt. 3
Atlantic Memorial Hospital
Darwin Petersen
Irwin
Harlan Hospital
Milt Blohn
Atlantic
Ezra Petersen
Elk Horn
Miner’s Body Found After 36 Hour Cave-In
In Shamokin Pennsylvania a 19 year old miner trapped under 30 tons of shale for 36 hours was found dead. Frank Punnock’s burial ended a long search hampered by sliding rock and shored walls. His mother Elizabeth waited by the shaft as friends and his teenage girlfriend Jean Kershner collapsed nearby.
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Shamokin
Pa Uw
Hope
Frank Punnock
Elizabeth Punnock
Jean Kershner
Miss Kershner
Zion Vacation Bible School closes with 115 enrolled
Closing exercises for Zion Lutheran vacation Bible school are set for Friday at 11 15 AM at the Jackson school. The program will feature a beginner class singing and pledges to the cross and the flag. A total of 115 children were enrolled with many teachers and aides named.
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Zion Lutheran Vacation Bible School
Jackson School
Norval Petersen
Leslie Knop
Jerome Kuster
R. G. Dohrmann
Otto Aldag
Earl Wiechmann
David Ronning
Hubert Porter
Albert Huss
Porter Family Thanks After Loss of Ezra Porter
In gratitude for cards flowers food and calls during the loss of dear husband and father Ezra Porter special thanks are given to friends neighbors relatives and the Daisy Garden Club. The message comes from the Porter family in 1913.
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Daisy Garden Club
Ezra Porter
Card of Thanks for Bereavement Loss
We thank friends neighbors and relatives for floral offerings sympathy notes and kind gestures after the loss of our husband and father. Thanks to the ladies who prepared and served the funeral meal. Mrs H C Wohlenhaus Mrs Herbert Martens Mrs Leo Malone.
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Herbert
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Mona Freeman
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Matinee Saf
Miner
Zion
Neth Bock
Her‘man Turner
Marlo Meyer
Byron King
Margaret Brahms
Karen Proehl
David Dohrmann
Karen Dohrmann
Richard Turner
Sherryl Knop
Robert Anderson
Ladies Aid
Oscar Niles
E. C. Alpers
Touuu
H. C. Wohlenhaus
Herbert Martens
Leo Malone
Ge — Jeweler
California
van Camp
del Monte
Stokely's
KIST
Graham Crackers
Curtister Marshmallows
Maine
Cudahy
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