Counties face red ink in Iowa care funds rising costs
Iowa counties brace for higher institutional care levies as per patient costs climb in state mental hospitals and sanatoriums. Budgets show funds exhausted, some counties drawing on general funds while others anticipate one-half mill increases authorized by the 1947 legislature.
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Gerald Bogan
Iowa Daily Press
Des Moines
Iowa
Ray Johnson
Adair
Wapello
Polk County
Institutional
Boards of Supervisors
Sixteen General Questions on Draft Registration Form
Des Moines AP notes new selective service rules require youths ages 18 to 25 to register Aug 30 to Sept 17. The form lists 16 questions covering name, residence, birth, occupation, employer, prior WWII service, marital status, military details, reserve status, and physical description.
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Des Moines
Selective Service
Traer to Celebrate Diamond Jubilee With Beard Contest
Traer marks 75 years with a four day Diamond Jubilee August 18 to 21. Whisker Club members stage a beard contest with prizes for various beard qualities and a humorous crop absence award. A kangaroo court will judge men lacking 4 F cards in the business district. Pioneer Day honors living 75 year residents with old time costumes.
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TRAER
Whisker Club
Leiland Whannel
Peter L. Wilson
Cecil P. Martin
Business District
Tracer
Counties Transfer Funds From General Fund In Emergency
Diverted funds to meet an immediate need, several counties used transfers from the general fund when the statute allowed such action if the other funds were insufficient to cover the present emergency.
Traer Diamond Jubilee plans big Aug 21 reunion
Exhibition at the Jubi lee Bowl on Aug 21 invites all Traer former residents. Elmer E. Taylor Jr. chairs the event with Hazel Morrow leading the homecoming committee in Traer Iowa. A mammoth open air union church service Aug 15 precedes Jubilee with over 150 singers and Rev. J Enos Windsor of Minneapolis as principal speaker.
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Traer
Elmer E. Taylor
Hazel Morrow
J. Enos Windsor
Minneapolis, Minn
Oversubscribed bonds halt tree-removal injunction in Os
Osceola residents protesting a street-widening project oversubscribed a $7500 bond required to continue an injunction. District Judge R Yoder set the bond and a Wednesday deadline. No hearing date yet on a permanent injunction. Highway officials say concrete work must start before freezing weather or be postponed a year.
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Oskaloosa
R. Yoder
Iowa Highway Commission
Highway Commission
Iowa appoints James C. Salinas game biologist
The Iowa Conservation Commission announced James C. Salinas of Great Falls Montana as its new game biologist. The appointment takes effect August 21 and carries a salary of 2880 dollars annually.
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Des Moines
Iowa Conservation Commission
James C. Salinas
Great Falls
Mont
State Tax Commission Raises Livestock Assessments Up to Twenty Percent
The State Tax Commission on Thursday raised some personal property assessments by up to 20 percent to equalize county totals. Wayne and Wapello counties saw the largest increases with others in Davis Polk and Webster. Officials cited uniform statewide assessments and noted potential future changes in several counties.
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Des Moines
Iowa Tax Commission
Commission
George E. Gill
John W. Barnes
County Board of Review
Tax Commission
Wayne County
Webster
Wapello
Davis
Polk
Barnes
Black Hawk
Tama
Muscatine
Humboldt
Wapello County
Davis County
Polk County
Webster County
Gill
Assistant to Herrick Named in Bath Trials
Waterloo attorney and former mayor Robert Buckmaster was appointed special assistant prosecutor to Allan Herrick for the Bath Packing Company violence cases. Twenty five workers face charges from the May strike, with trials set for the September term. Buckmaster replaces County Attorney Blair C. Wood due to routine case load after a grand jury investigation.
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Waterloo
Black Hawk County Board of Supervisors
Robert Buckmaster
Allan Herrick
Des Moines
Bath Packing Company
Buckmaster
Blair C. Wood
Jespersen Urges Thoughtfulness in Speed on Highway
Iowa traffic speeds up and so does the death toll according to Chief S N Jespersen of the state highway patrol He cites 22 fatalities in the first 11 days of the month up from 19 last year August's tolls reached 73 and 80 in 1941 the record. He warns that faster travel leads to more severe crashes and urges careful driving to reach destinations safely.
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DES Moines
Iowa
S. N. Jespersen
State Highway Patrol
Jespersen
Fishing License Sales Jump Over 1947 Totals in June
Iowa Conservation Commission reports June receipts from hunting fishing and combo licenses at 556 656 15 up from 434 829 75 last year an increase of 121 826 40. Fishing licenses rise from 107 073 to 161 072 while combo licenses are expected to level off in July and August with an overall rise in licensed hunters and fishermen from last year's 440 000.
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DES Moines
INS
Iowa Conservation Commission
Commission
Sutherland Approves Electrical Franchise
Sutherland voters approve a 16 year electrical franchise for Iowa Public Service Company by 324 to 105. The company had operated without a franchise since a 1939 defeat. The franchise expires in 1964 aligning with the gas franchise.
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Sutherland
Iowa Public Service Company
Legion Fight A Closed Case
Des Moines AP reports a street clash between Iowa Legionnaires and Des Moines youths is deemed closed. A 27 year old Legionaire from Missouri Valley injured in the disturbance says he will not press charges. three youths were questioned and released. An eyewitness recalls the incident began when Legionnaires halted a car containing three youths.
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DES Moines
Iowa
State fair extends entry deadline for baby health contest
Des Moines AP reports the state fair extended the baby health contest entry deadline to include Saturday evening. Officials announced the closing date now includes the extended period for nominations and late submissions.
Wieters to Quit Health Department
Des Moines AP Dr Walt ter L Bierring state health department commissioner announced the resignation of A H Wieters director of public health engineering and industrial hygiene after 22 years. He leaves Sept 1 to join President Tr umas regu corps of engineers in the U S Public Health Service for training and stream pollution control work on the upper Mississippi river basin with headquarters at St Louis.
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Des Moines
Waltter L. Bierring
State Health Department
A. H. Wiete
Department
Public Health
Industria Hygiene
Wieters
Trum
Regu Corps of Engineers
Uni States Public Health Service
Washington
Streas
Mississippi River
St Louis
Fischer Convalescing After Campaign Work
Charles R. Fischer, who ran the Beardsley campaign for the Iowa gubernatorial nomination, is convalescing at Mayo Clinic after entering on August 3 and being discharged from St Marys hospital in Rochester Minnesota.
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Rochester, Minn
Charles R. Fischer
W S. Beardsley
Iowa
Fischer
Mayo Clinic
St .Mary’s Hospital
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