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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1946
Page
21
Governor Robert D. Blue outlined Iowa tax plans in a Tuesday night address, saying state policy avoids property taxes by substituting special tax revenue. He noted about 35 million dollars yearly in homestead credits aid schools local governments and old age assistance, offsetting a millage tax on real property.
A T Pleune of Cedar Rapids, a layman, was elected moderator of the Cedar Rapids Presbytery at a Monticello meeting attended by 32 churches. He is the first layman to hold the post and was named to the council for a three year term. Commissioners to the Atlantic City general assembly were named. The session honored the previous moderator's absence due to his wife’s death.
Glenwood AP reports Robert T. Melvold news editor of the Glenwood Opinion Tribune announced the purchase of the Maquoketa Community Press. He said he planned to assume possession on May 1.
MESERVEY IA AP Carl Hudson about 27 a former navy pilot and Lavern Ostendorf 21 the passenger were killed Tuesday when a two passenger plane crashed in a cornfield two and a half miles west of Meservey The engine was buried four feet in soft ground after the aircraft spun from about 1000 feet Kenneth Meyer of Thornton who was in the area said he saw the plane spin past him and dive toward the ground.
Eastern Iowans listed returning to United States ports include Cedar Rapids Washington Maquoketa Belle Plaine Iowa City Walker and city names along with ships the Santa Maria Pittston Victory and Sea Witch with estimated arrival dates in early April. An editor’s note warns arrivals are estimates and passenger lists may contain errors.
Fire believed caused by defective wiring damaged the farm home of Mr and Mrs John Gessner five miles southwest of Newhall on Tuesday. The attic and second floor of the 10 room house were destroyed while the first floor and contents suffered water damage before firemen from Newhall stopped the blaze. Loss was partly covered by insurance.
The nine state Chicago region including Iowa will receive an 18 000 increase in emergency housing units for veterans. Regional Director Orvil R Olmsted of the Federal Public Housing Authority announced the rise but did not provide a breakdown of allocations by state.
ALLERTON IA AP For rest P Hagan superintendent of schools here the last 13 years plans to resign May 20 to become assistant grand secretary of the Masonic lodge in Iowa Hagan will serve as assistant to Earl Delzell grand secretary with headquarters at Cedar Rapids.
Walter E. Gillette of Missouri Valley was named grand high priest at the Royal Arch Masons of Iowa ninth t convocation in Muscatine. Other officers chosen included Deputy high priest Lloyd Rime of Ottumwa, king George E. Sanders of Des Moines, scribe H. R. Smiley of Waterloo, treasurer C. W. Stevens of Cedar Rapids, and secretary Ross J. Camblin of Atlantic.
DES MOINES A single funeral service will be held at 3 p.m. Thursday for Mrs William Irwin and her three relatives John Henry and Mary A Irwin slain Monday with a pick axe. The killer William Irwin remains in a padded cell jail and may be moved to the ward for the criminally insane in Anamosa after grand jury indictment.
Iowa state board of control filed a preliminary request with the federal government to use the Schick hospital at Clinton and the Fort Des Moines army post as overflow quarters for state mental institutions. A board member said the step is to gauge need and feasibility, not a decision to relocate.
Luther College in Decorah announced five annual scholarships based on scholarship achievement character and potential life contribution. Three are limited to pre theological students while two are open to all. This year recipients include Sylvia Schey Waukon Georgianne Johnson Decorah Jerry Moe Chicago and Ruth Struxness Belgrade Minn.
Heirs in Jones county district court Tuesday sought to admit a carbon copy of the 1939 will of Stella Heitchen Snyder into probate. The document, if valid, would provide cash bequests totaling 33,000 with other property, and a share of 30,000 to three cousins in Laramie Wyoming plus 1,000 each to the Congress?
The document details land in Kansas and South Dakota left to Mrs Sylvia Hines of Cedar Rapids along with Mrs Snyder's home in town. Farm property in Jackson township goes to William and Ruth Yount of Anamosa. The remaining estate is placed in trust for Kenneth Rands of Anamosa.
Senator William D. Leahy will headline the Centen nial dinner of the Iowa State Society of Washington at the Roosevelt hotel. About 400 Iowans will attend with Rep. Martin introducing the guest, as the society marks the Iowa centennial in the capital ahead of the official fall date.
DES MOINES AP Five more Iowa junior colleges which closed before the war will reopen next fall. J P Street director of junior colleges in the state department of public instruction said Wednesday. These, with three reopened last fall, bring Iowa to 20 such institutions, after a wartime high of 27. Cities not yet applying for reopening include Albia Britt Chariton Independence Maquoketa Osceola and Tipton.
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