Silver Bell Rings Again At Rock Island Arsenal Clock Tower
The U S Army clock tower at Rock Island Arsenal resumes striking hours after 12 years of silence. The 1867 bell is four inches thick and four feet wide at the base, 150 pound striking apparatus, and its nearly 30 foot pendulum cycles 20 times a minute. Engineers replace hands shafts and oiling mechanism as the tower clock regains operation.
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Rock Island
U.S Army
Rock Island Arsenal
Wall Street
Trinity Church
New York City
United States
U. S. Army
Arsenal
Luther College Ala Norwegian Exchange Visit
Decorah Haakon Lie of the Norwegian legation in Washington visited Luther College on August 1 to discuss postwar student exchanges between Luther and Norwegian schools and colleges.
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Decorah—Haakon Lie
Washington, D.C
Luther College
Luther
Cooperation in Cedar Rapids War Manpower Drive
A “flying squadron” of interviewers gathered in Cedar Rapids to recruit for war industry jobs amid a manpower shortage. About 50 local business leaders pledged to promote employment opportunities, while 200 people were approached and roughly 40 directed to the U S Employment Service office. Boy Scouts distributed pamphlets to passersby.
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Missouri
Cedar Rapids
United States Employment Service Office
Alice Frazier
Sioux City
Flying Squadron
State to Revise High School Curriculum by Committee
Des Moines AP report notes the first major overhaul of Iowa high school curriculum since World War I. A year of research will precede another year of report preparation. Committee members include university and school officials from Des Moines Fort Dodge Tipton Council Bluffs and Ames with department staff and teachers.
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Des Moines
Jessie Parker
L. A. van Dyke
State University of Iowa
W. H. McFarland
State Department of Public Instruction
Barton Morgan
Iowa State College
J. B. Paul
Iowa State Teachers College
J. L. Gettys
Harlan, Ja
C. T Feelhaver
Fort Dodge
Edwin Thompson
Tipton
Clara Strickland
Thomas Jefferson
Council Bluffs
J. P. Street
State Department
Pfc Charles Neighbor Receives Purple Heart
Center Point Mrs. Charles Neighbor has been awarded the Purple Heart for her husband Pfc. Charles Neighbor wounded in France. He has been overseas since February and took part in the invasion. The former Cedar Rapids J C Penney employee is the son of Mr. and Mrs. E D Neighbor of Center Point. His wife and daughter Patricia Lynne live with her parents.
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Center Point
Charles Neighbor
France
Pfc. Neighbor
Cedar Rapids
J. C. Penney Company
E. D. Neighbor
Patricia Lynne
John Willer
W C T U Elects Officers in Earlville
The Earlville WCTU has elected new officers led by president Mrs Bessie Hunt and vice president Mrs Clara Otis. Clarence Orcutt serves as secretary and Anna Ede as treasurer.
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Earlville
W.C.T.U
Bessie Hunt
Clara Otis
Clarence Orcutt
Anna Ede
Rural Iowa schools face year of closures due to teacher shortage
DES MOINES IA The state department of public instruction predicts a historic wave of rural school closures as the teacher shortage worsens. Crawford Wayne Ida Clayton counties report dozens of unfilled posts while districts seek options such as consolidating districts and increasing transportation to town schools.
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Des Moines
State Department of Public Instruction
Iowa
Paul Norr
State Department
Norris
Crawford County
Wayne County
Ida County
Clayton County
Iowa T B Rate Third Lowest
Iowa recorded the third lowest tuberculosis death rate in 1943 with 16.4 deaths per 100000. Des Moines ranked fourth among the 92 largest cities at 22.7 per 100000. Clarence W. Kammerer credited the low rate to less industrialization and fewer at risk racial groups in the state.
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Des Moines
U. S. Public Health Service
National Tuberculosis Association
Iowa
Clarence W. Kammerer
Iowa Tuberculosis Association
Six to Graduate From Upper Iowa
Graduation exercises for the summer session at Upper Iowa University will be in College Hall Monday at 10 30 a m. Dr W T Smith president will deliver the commencement address on The Challenge of Youth. Barbara Jean Rankin will play the processional and recessional and Wanda Brause will sing two vocal selections. Degrees go to Arthur Bray Fayette Mrs Donald Runyan Cedar Rapids and Betty Cass Fayette. Two year normal diploma recipients are Mary Ganske Sumner Bertha Riemath Strawberry Point and Ruth Barnette Greene. Wartime conditions have reduced the number who would graduate normally.
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Fayette
Upper Iowa University
College Hall
W. T. Smith
Barbara Jean Rankin
Upper Iowa
Wanda Brause
Arthur Bray
Donald Runyan
Cedar Rapids
Betty Cass
Poyneer Re-elected Chairman Of State Conservation Commission
Fred J. Poyneer of Cedar Rapids is unanimously re-elected chairman and Mrs Addison M. Parker of Des Moines re-elected vice-chairman for one year on the Iowa state conservation commission.
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Des Moines
Fred J. Poyneer
Cedar Rapids
State Conservation Commission
Addison M. Parker
Whit acre reunion at West Liberty fairgrounds
The Whit acre reunion was held Sunday at the West Liberty fairgrounds with forty three members present. Marjorie Paulus a teacher gave a talk on Alaska.
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West Branch
Whitacre
West Liberty Fairgrounds
Alaska
Marjorie Paulus
Edgewood Couple Wed in Waterloo July 27
Miss Mee Hines daughter of Willard Hines Edgewood and Pvt Glen Price son of Mr and Mrs Frank Price Waterloo were married in Waterloo July 27 Price on furlough after two years service in North Africa Sicily and Italy where he was wounded twice
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Edgewood
Mee Hines
Willard Hines
Pvt
Glen Price
Frank Price
Waterloo
Price
North Africa
Sicily
Italy
More Than 250 Iowa U Graduates To Receive Degrees
University of Iowa holds ninth wartime summer convocation awarding degrees and certificates to 250 plus graduates. President Hancher presides at 8 p.m. in Iowa Union with visiting musician Thomas Jones of Boston. Women outnumber men for first time. graduates include numerous arts sciences and professional degrees from counties across Iowa and beyond.
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Iowa U
Iowa City
University of Iowa
Iowa
Obituaries: Iowa deaths acrossMultiple towns
A string of death notices from Maquoketa Mt. Vernon Decorah Tipton Belle Plaine and Decorah announce services and survivors for D S Welch Nettie Bassett Anna Lomen Nora Atkins Flossie Barber Cronin Sever Stadt and others. Survivors include spouses children and siblings with service dates to follow in local churches and funeral homes.
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Mt. Vernon
Nettie Bassett
Harry Bassett
Mary Kepler
Lewis Chapman
Vernon
Methodist Church
Decorah
Anna Lomen
Lomen
Hardanger
Norway
America
Frank Rehbehn
California
George
Muscatine
Henning
Alabama
Elly
Tipton
Rosanna Batchelor
Virginia
Belle Plaine
Flossie Barber Cronin
Kosta
George Cronin
Iowa Bank Resources Top One Billion Dollars
Iowa chartered banks passed a historic milestone on June 30 1944 with total resources at 1 101 397 000. Time deposits reached 1 250 895 000 aided by reduced rates while capital funds rose 5 255 000 to 62 568 000 according to the state banking department.
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Des Moines
I Iowa
State Banking Department
Navy Wounded Return to United States After Invasion
One hundred twenty nine Navy officers and men, among the first large group to be wounded and evacuated, prepare for reassignment after treatment at Bethesda Naval Medical Center. Twelve men spoke at a news conference about their roles on the invasion, including Donald Mboitzfield, a Brooklyn creamery worker and Navy cook, wounded when a landing ship was hit. Lt. Sam H. Bryan, a resident of Jacumba, California, described seeing bodies and the tense shift as troops moved forward, after receiving shrapnel in his left thigh from a Nazi air attack.
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Washington
Ins
United States
Bethesda
Naval Medical Center
England
Donald Mboitzfield
Brooklyn, In
Sam H. Bryan
Jacumba
Calif
Bryan
Gordon Allee Killed in French Battle at Age 23
Gordon Allee 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ora Allee of Belle Plaine, was killed in action in France July 10. A Belle Plaine High School graduate, he worked for Omaha Transfer before enlisting two years ago and fought in North Africa and Sicily. Surviving are his parents five brothers and a sister.
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Belle Plaine
Gordon Anna
Ora
Pond
Belle Plaine High School
Omaha Transfer Company
North Africa
Sicily
Robert
Leo
Clair
Clell
Glen
Olive
Garrett Keynoter Leads Democratic Judicial Convention
Harry F. Garrett of Corydon will serve as temporary chairman and deliver the keynote at the Democratic state judicial convention in Des Moines on Saturday. The Des Moines meeting was announced by the Democratic state headquarters.
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Des Moines
INS
Harry F. Garrett
Corydon
Trucker Hugh R. Wilson Found Dead Near Rock Island Tracks
Des Moines man Hugh R. Wilson, 44, was found dead Wednesday near the Rock Island tracks after an apparent collision with an eastbound freight engine or a fall between cars. Police described the death as an industrial accident pending investigation.
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Des Moines
Hugh R. Wilson
Rock Island
Linn Tops State In Paper Drive
Linn county led Iowa in waste paper collection during the first six months of 1944 with 6,879,540 pounds, more than any other county. Polk county was second with 6,001,282 pounds, while Dubuque reached 261.5 percent of its quota with five million pounds. Elmer Wickham chairs Linn county salvage.
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Linn County
Iowa
Herbert C. Plagman
The
War Production Board
General Salvage Branch
Polk County
Iinn
Dubuque County
Elmer Wickham
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Ior
Teese Ees
Pfc
Purple Heart
Iowa T.B
Poyneer
Energy Coal
Hamilton Seed & Coal CO
Oakland Avenue
Virgil M. Hancher
Iowa Union
Aker
Thomson Jone
Boston
Benton
LaVon L. Hameister
Blairstown
Gay W. Argo
Walford
Buchanan
Beatrice A. Frye
Independence
Lawrence M. Hahn
Lamont
Cedar
Esther A. Reinking
Clarence
Beverly V. Burgess
Guy K. Dice
Clayton
John J. Broderick
McGregor
Delaware
Grace H. Laxson
Donald S. Johnston
Hopkinton
Kathryn B. Hinsenbrook
West Union
Donald B. Meyers
Arlington
John C. Scott
Marengo
Eleanor J. Allanson
Williamsburg
Phyllis Ann Peterson
Jackson
Donald M. Kehn
Maquoketa
Edna C. Carstensen
Preston
Johnson
Dorothy I. Anderson
Betty Jean Berr
Max H. Christie
Kathryn Ann Cole
Mary P. Couch
George W. de Schweinitz
Prudence C. Hamilton
Roger J.hargrave
John E. Radloff
Ralph R. Randall
Leo J. Reyna
Madeline S. Riffey
George Schulz-Behrend
Donald M. Showers
Maurice P. Smith
Robert J. L. Sundberg
Joan W. Swift
Jarvis A. Thurston
John S. Wahl
Ann V. Whitworth
Donald B. Youel
Sherman E. Conrad
Jones
James M. Peet
Anamosa
Helen M. Schatz
Monticello
Lowell K. Ahrendsen
Oxford Junction
Keokuk
Edwin J. Fisch
Sigourney
Cornelia Springer
Wapello
Mary J. McElhinney
Morning Sun
Ian W. Currens
Traer
Maureen M. Medberry
Mapa Pri Water
Oxfords
Lhal Td
Cedar Rapids’ Bargain Shoe Center
Second Avenue
D. S. Welch
Metropolitan Supply Company
South Pacific
Donald
Audra Carson
Gordon Allee
Garrett
Linn
Wilson
Easant
Vee-Mor
McCready Health Foods
Second Avenue SE
Old Federal Building
Sixteenth Avenue
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