Iowa and regional leaders named in varied 1930s notices
Dewey and Warren lead GOP officials in California and Iowa. Lila Mae Pullen elected supreme treasurer of the United Commercial Travelers auxiliary in Waterloo. Elbert Read named assistant moderator of Congregational Christian churches. Dr. Ernest E. Irons named president elect of the American Medical Association. Luther Youngdale to discuss government morality at Iowa City lecture. Remias Rehfeldt elected councilman by Nazarene youth convention. Darlene Franklin, 3, dies from gasoline burn injuries in LeMars. Rural Electrification loan supports Creston steam plant and lines serving Adams County Cooperative Electric Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. C. T. Oppicial
Columbus
Lila Mae Pullen
Waterloo
United Commercial Travelers of America
Washington
Rural Electrification Administration
Southwestern Federated Power Cooperative
Creston
Adams County Cooperative Electric Co
Corning
Cass County Abstracting Co Incorporation Filed
Articles filed with the secretary of state list Judge R Kent Martin as president and set capital stock at 50 000. Officers include L O Schoenthal vice president Charles E Walker Anita secretary and C D Emmert treasurer. The firm consolidates Savery & Co and the late D C Herbert’s abstracts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cass County Abstracting Company, Inc
R. Kent Martin
L. O. Schoenthal
Charles E. Walker
Anita
C. D. Emmert
Savery & Company
D. C. Herbert
Decorah cafes protest chamber charges over alleged unsanitary conditions
Decorah tavern and restaurant operators filed a petition demanding an impartial committee to probe Chamber Secretary John Johnson’s role in charges of unsanitary conditions. M H Wambaugh praised Decorah restaurants as unusually clean. Also notes the return of Mr and Mrs Jack Kelso to Marshalltown after a week with relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decorah Cafe
Decorah
Decorah Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
John Johnson
M. H. Wambaugh
Jack Kelso
Marshalltown
William Kelso
Walnut
Weather outlook for tonight and Saturday
Patchy clouds with continued warmth. Tonight remains mild with scattered showers or thunder showers possible into Saturday.
Four Power Plan for Unified Germany Proposed by Allies
A Warsaw communique issued after a two day conference urged a provisional democratic all German government formed by the Big Four. It calls for demilitarization, Ruhr control, a unified eastern western state as a step toward a peace treaty and troop withdrawal within a year. The plan includes reparations and protections against future aggression.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warsaw
Russia
Whlanow Palace
Eir
Here
Moscow
London
Tass
Hig-Four
Max Reimann
Communist Party of the
United States
Germany
Frankfurt
Vv. M. Molotov
Albania
Bulgaria
Czechslovakia
Hungary
Poland
Romania
Yugoslavia
Great Britain
France
Belgium
Netherlands
Luxembourg
U. S
Britain
Ruhr
Two More Polio Cases Reported in Southwest Iowa
Two more persons are admitted to Mercy hospital for treatment of polio, bringing total cases in southwest Iowa to 38 this year. New patients are Gary Oloff, 18, Portsmouth, and Janice Fitzpatrick, 7, Little Sioux, with 19 polio patients now under treatment at Mercy hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Council Bluffs
Mercy Hospital
Iowa
Gary Oloff
Portamouth
Janice Fitzpatrick
Little Sioux
Hospital wedding for coed driver union in Sterling
Jeanne Brooks 19 and Oamund Byrnie 19 will marry Sunday night at Sterling Public Hospital after Byrnie’s truck overturn left him seriously injured. The couple refused to change their planned June 27 ceremony due to bad luck. Brooks is a Cornell College freshman from Mt. Vernon Iowa. Byrnie is from Rock Falls Illinois, formerly Des Moines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sterling, N
Sterling Public Hospital
Jeanne Brooks
Cornell College
Mt. Vernon
Oamund Byrnie
Rock Falls
Ill
Des Moines
Byrnie
Stassen Delivers Quiet Break With Party Unity Moment
At the Republican convention Philadelphia, Harold E. Stassen rose from the back of the hall to urge Dewey supporters to back him and Dewey in the campaign, signaling a pivotal moment as he faced the crowd with a calm, defining gesture while other candidates spoke and withdrew.
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Philadelphia
Thomas E. Dewey
Harold E. Stassen
Stassen
Dewey
Atlantic utilities board hikes commercial power rates
Commercial light and power rates rise July 1 with bills payable Aug 1 and residential and rural met rates unchanged though bill computation changes. Residential water heating climbs to 2 dollars per KWH initial and one cent per KWH thereafter, with a 2 dollar minimum. Commercial lighting and power increases range 10 to 40 percent based on usage as costs rise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic Utilities Board of Trustees
Ray Dwyer
Dwyer
Atlantic
Bluff County Recount Hearing Postponed To Monday
A hearing on a temporary injunction to halt the recount of votes in Bluff-KP Potta Wattamie County Republican primary is postponed to Monday. The action was filed by Andrew J. Nielsen, who claims the nomination for county attorney. County Attorney Don Jackson and Supervisor John Scott had sought the recount. The postponement came by mutual agreement.
Wiota Grads Win Graham Scholarships
Two 1948 Wiota Consolidated School graduates Duane Acker and Ralph Keller were named Cass county Graham scholarship winners. Each four year award is about 500 dollars yearly, with two more for Pottawattamie county. Acker ranked first and Keller second on exams overseen by Miss Georgia Byrne. Third place went to Willa Charlene DeWitt of Griswold. Seventeen candidates sat exams graded at the University of Iowa with blind papers.
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Wiota
Duane Acker
Ralph Keller
Georgia Byrne
Cass County
Alice Graham
Lewis
Pottawattamie County
Graham
Acker
Clayton Acker
Northeast of
Atlantic
University of Iowa
Jack Brown
Richard Bishop
Dwight Conklin
William M. Tompkin
Elaine Jensen
Anella Knoke
Kenneth Daugaard
JoAnn Ruhr
Ramona Porter
Geneva Porter
Jeanne Hardie
Dan Young
Mack McDermott
Don Henningsen
Decorah Names Queen for Midsummer Festival
Decorah selects Pretty Kay Herwig as queen of the midsummer festival in a pre centennial celebration. The event ends tomorrow with an address by Hans Olav a Norwegian embassy councilor in Washington and Rollo Bergeson Iowa secretary of state spoke during the festival. Visitors Mr and Mrs Russell Shaeffer of Los Angeles are in town with friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decorah
Water supply crisis as fire destroys multiple Lews businesses
A major blaze gutted six structures on a Lews block including Park cafe Mickey Quinn recreation parlor Hancock insurance Ava Jones drug store and Quinn repair shop. The fire started around 10 45 last night and intensified when a wall collapsed and the city water pressure failed. Fire departments fought flames with cisterns and wall breaches, saving the Crow grocery but damaging several adjacent buildings.
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Lewis
Park Square
Ethel Mundorf
Park Cafe
Mickey Quinn
Clarence Hancock
Ava Jones
Quinn Coin Machine
Amvets
Quinn
M. W. A. Hall
Claude Casady
Atlantic
Lews
Griswold
Opetre
Casady
Quinn Recreation
Hancock Insurance Office
Crow Grocery
Ben Cranston
Griswold Department
Warren Picked By Dewey for 1948 Ticket
Dewey selects California's Earl Warren as running mate after a late-night conference. Warren's nomination was confirmed by acclamation with Arizona withdrawing its Stassen bid. The all-governor ticket drew praise from backers and rivals, while Stassen supporters vowed support for Warren.
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Jack Bell
Philadelphia
Thomas E. Dewey
California
Earl Warren
Dewey
Warren
Dewey Backed by Ball for President in 1948 Reform
Senator Ball of Minnesota said he will support Governor Dewey for president. Walter Hallanan of West Virginia is talked up as a possible GOP national committee chair. Herbert Brownell Jr. and J Russell Sprague were also mentioned in planning the campaign.
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Arizona
Harold E. Stassen
Joseph Martin
Warren
New York
Dewey
Dewey-Warree Combina Lamar
Toose
Portland
Ore
Irving Ives
Novambees
Arisona
Stasseen
Martin
Ena
No. & Gop
Supreme Court
Leverett Saltonstall
Massachusetts
Raymond Baldwin
Connecticut
Arthur Vandenberg
Michigan
Alfred E. Driscoll
New Jersey
Herbert Brownell, Jr
G. Mason. Ousett
Pennsylvania
J. Russell Spragle
Nw York
Sprague
Washington
Ball
R-Minn
Thomas E. Dewey
Franklin D. Roosevelt
GOP
Philadelphia
Walter
Hallanan
West Virginia
Carroll Reece
Tennessee
Herbert Brownell Jr
J. Russell Sprague
McCarthy Honors MacArthur At Republican Convention
Senator Joe McCarthy urged gratitude for MacArthur at the Wisconsin Republican convention. He introduced a resolution expressing appreciation for the general's heroic role. The measure passed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Joe McCarthy
Wisconsin
MacArthur
Look at My Tom Dewey Wins Nods From Crowd
Mrs. Thomas E. Dewey stood on a Convention Hall platform beside her husband as he won the republican presidential nomination. She wore a black hat and pearls and flashed a look of pride and support that spoke volumes as Governor Dewey raised his hand to the cheering crowd.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Thomas E. Dewey
Dewey
Tom
Nichols relatives visit during Chicago medical meet trip
Mr and Mrs Gregory B Nichols of Portland Oregon and his uncle T E Nichols were in town early this week while returning from a medical meeting in Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gregory B. Nichols
Portland
Ore
T. E. Nichols
Chicago
Queen Crowned at Holidays Celebration in Parkersburg
Des Moines Sally Ann Jaon of Parkersburg was crowned queen of the age Holidays celebration last night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des
Moines
Sally Ann Jaon
Parkersburg
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The
Associated Press
Shenandoahan Obertin
Ohio
Elbert A. Read
Shenandoah, Ia
General Council of Congregational Christian Churches
IOWAN
Ernest E. Irons
American Medical Association
Irons
County Blaffa
Iowa City
Luther Youngdahl
Minnesota
M. Willard Lampe
Nazarenes
St. Louis
Remias Rehfeldt
National
Young People’s Convention
Church of the Nazarene
Burns
LeMars
Darlene Franklin
Emergon Franklin
Merrill
Yaaterday
Thomas E
John
Tom, Jr
Judge Martin
IRUSS
Reich
Lewis Business
Harold Stassen
Bluffs
Wiota Grads
Queen OF
Atlantic and Lewis
Quinn Shen
Vey
Joe Martin
Honor MacArthur
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