Veterans protest rents for Iowa State students
Two student veterans from Iowa State College in Ames filed 175 complaints on high rents with state OPA director Walter D. Kline. They report monthly rents rising from 43 to 50 dollars and claims of $35 basement rooms with no services. most veteran students favor rent control, but fear eviction if they complain.
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Des Moines
Iowa State College
Ames
Walter D. Kline
OPA
Feldman
Coeds Take To Flight On Campus Amid Postwar Fever
On many campuses girls and returning veterans pursue flying, buying time in the air with aid from government-funded programs. At the University of Iowa twenty pilots train through Paul B. Shaw Aircraft Company, eleven women, all self‑financed, with veterans seeking subsidies to add flying to their subsidized studies.
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Gazette
Shaw Airport
Iowa City
Robert Earl Rinehart
North Liberty
Kibitzer
G.I
John Stuhler
Monticello
University of Iowa
Henry Schaum
Shaw
Paul B. Shaw Aircraft Company
Inheritance Tax Takes Big Early War-Time Bite in Iowa
DES MOINES AP wartime estates boosted Iowa inheritance tax receipts to 671 884.66 dollars in under three months. State tax commissioner W D Cochrane notes rising business and larger estates, with February 209 444.29, March 274 488.86, and up to last Tuesday 185 951.51 collected. The largest single payment since Feb 1 was 35 000 dollars from Martha McClure’s Mt Pleasant estate.
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Des Moines
W. D. Cochrane
State Tax Commission
Cochrane
Martha McClure
Mt. Pleasant
Cedar Rapids Vets Start Ground School Under GI Bill
Veterans trained under the GI Bill enroll in aviation courses via Hunter Flying Service and Coe College. Dr A W Meyer leads ground instruction at Coe while air work occurs at Hunter airport. Nineteen thirty Saturday night classes draw 29 ex GIs meeting Tuesday through Thursday at 7 30 p m in Science hall. One former Coe student aims for aviation law and practical aviation background.
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G.i.’S
G.I
Hunter Flying Service
Coe College
G.ls
Hunter
A. W. Meyer
Coe
Gazette
35000 at Classic in Cornfield
An estimated 35000 people from towns, farms and families flocked to the Hanne man Hensing farm seven miles north for a National Clean Plowing contest aimed at corn borer control. Robert Bowery of Milo won $500, with Howard Knupp, Curt Rave, Wilford Lindeman and Cecil Frimms earning prizes.
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John Reynolds
Gazette
Newhall
Hanneman-Hensing Farm
Here
Iowa
Benton County Farm Bureau
WMT
Cedar Rapids
Waterloo
Robert Bowery
Milo
Warren County
Howard Knupp
Vinton
Curt Rave
Luzerne
Wilford Lindeman
Dysart
Cecil Frimms
Atkins
Linneman
Private flying gains government aid proposed by aviation study
A National Planning Association committee urges federal support for private aviation and inter-community air services. The plan envisions subsidies for local experiments, training for civilian pilots, export licensing reforms, and air mail carriage. It forecasts 300,000 to over 1,000,000 private planes within a decade, with cost estimates for a nationwide network of 3,400 stops.
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Washington
National Planning Association
William A. M. Burden
Commerce
Air
National Research Foundation
Civil Aeronautics Administration
CIO
United Auto Workers Union
George F. Addes
Richard T. Frankensteen
R. J. Thomas
Divorce Decree Divides Oil Goods and Property
Sylvia Noonen obtains an oil barrel cook stove empty fruit jars a white bed spread and half the full jars. Charles Noonen receives a cemetery lot deed his union card income tax papers an oil store and the other half of the full fruit jars.
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Council Bluffs
Sylvia Noonen
Charles Noonen
McBride seeks higher price ceiling for Iowa homes
Des Moines AP H R McBride FHA director for Iowa asked Washington to raise the ceiling from 5500 to 6500 for half of new homes built in Iowa for sale. He wonders if the lot is included and expects a reply in about ten days. FHA said local revisions may be needed in unsatisfactory areas. He notes a two bedroom Iowa home cannot be built and sold for 5500. A new housing order requires half of new homes for sale under the ceiling and a quarter for rent.
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Iowa
Robert D. Blue
Blue
Des Moines
H. R. McBride
Federal Housing Administration
Washington
FHA
McBride
Cornell Students Raise Overseas Relief Fund
Cornell college students launched a campaign to aid abroad and raised 628 dollars in three days from students faculty clubs and departments. An additional 185 dollars from Garden Day proceeds will be added and collections led by Betty Christensen Davenport will continue for several weeks.
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MT. Vernon
Cornell College
Betty Christensen
Davenport
Invalid is Rescued From Burning House
Delores Good, 17, an invalid girl, was rescued from the second floor of her father Lester Good’s farm home in Ogden Iowa before a fire driven by strong winds destroyed the house. Lester and his father C. G. Good are noted Belgian horse breeders.
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Ogden, Ia
Delores Good
Lester Good
Lester
C. G. Good
Infant Mortality Rate At New Low in 1945
Iowa health department reports 1945 infant mortality at 30.1 deaths per 1000 live births, a record low from 33.5 in 1944 and 53.9 in 1930. Hospital births accounted for 88.7 percent of all births last year.
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Des Moines
Iowa
State Health Department
Clark Bound Over Maquoreta Clayton Clark Held for Grand Jury
Clayton Clark 42 a former charged with second degree murder in his father Richard D. Clarks death on April 17 was bound over to the grand jury after a preliminary hearing. He was released on a ten thousand dollar bond.
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Maquoreta
INS
Clayton Clark
Richard D. Clark
Drake Coed Swims Across River to Escape Attack
An 18 year old Drake University coed told deputies she swam the Des Moines River Friday night to escape two men who had given her and another freshman coed a ride while hitchhiking to Ottumwa. The second girl, found in Des Moines, reported a criminal assault by one of the men. A farmer who heard screams helped the first girl, and a countywide search for the men continued. The car they rode in was found stuck in a muddy sideroad near the river.
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Des Moines
Drake University
Moines River
Hes
Ottumwa
Polk County
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