Iowa Highway Tales and Local Echoes In Summer
A meandering Iowa column recalls roadside wells and heat hazes on Route 65, a Kalona Amish buggy, and a Palisades hotel veteran. It notes a Gilman basketball star’s fatal crash, a centennial edition, a rabbit complicating a suitcase exit, and a Des Moines TV chief meeting an Indian chief. It ends with Iowa Highway Commission edge-rut repair aims to preserve shoulders and curb erosion on aging pavements.
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Iowa
Highway 65
Iowa Falls
Kalona
Upper Palisades Hotel
Adolph Biderman
Washington
Muscatine
Auto Insurance Association
OWA Highway Commission
Commission
Attorney First To Announce Candidacy for State Office
Rep. Wendell Pendleton announces his bid for lieutenant governor in the 1956 Iowa race becoming the first to enter statewide politics. GOP speculation centers on possible rivals from Sen. Prenitis Duane Dewel and Rep. Ernest Kosek while Leo Elthon contemplates governor plans and Dayton Countryman weighs re election.
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Des Moines
Wendell Pendleton
Storm Lake
Iowa
Pendleton
Iowa House of Representatives
Leo Elthon
Fertile
Elthan
X. T. Prentis
Mt. Ayr
Duane Dewel
Algona
Ernest Kosek
Cedar Rapids
Elthon
Leo Hoegh
G.O.P
Hoegh
Atty. En
Dayton
Countryman
Nevada
U.S
Aldrichs Attend Funeral in Mullinsville Kan
Mr and Mrs Stewart Aldrich and their daughter Dixie traveled to Mullinsville Kansas on Thursday to attend the funeral of Mrs Louise Hart the grandmother of Mrs Aldrich They also note Traer Miss David Currell is a polio patient in Scholtz hospital Waterloo She is Traers only polio victim so far this year.
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Quasqueton
Stewart Aldrich
Dixie
Mullinsville
Kan
Aldrich
Louise Hart
TRAER
David Currell
Scholtz Hospital
Waterloo
100000th visitor at Effigy Mounds. mother of ranger involved
Effigy Mounds National Monument surpassed 100,000 visitors since its 1949 opening with Martha Gunderson of Cresco as the milestone guest. Ranger Floyd Gunderson’s mother registered at the 100,000th mark and joined a monument tour as archaeologist Wilfred Logan noted a larger turnout than last year’s 37,074 visitors.
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McGregor
Effigy Mounds National Monument
Martha Gunderson
Cresco
Floyd Gunderson
Gunderson
Arlington
National Park Service
Mesa Verde National Park
Grand Teton National Park
Wilfred D. Logan
Monument
Threats Firearm Break-In Target Former Girlfriend
Art Limbrecht, 26, jailed after breaking into Florence Hagen home at 1 30 a m and threatening her with a .22 pistol. He fired once into the floor to show it was loaded and warned, You'd better keep going with me or else. Bond set at 2000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Limbrecht
Miss Hagen
Bruner
Iowa Development Commission Moves to New Offices
Des Moines officials report the Iowa Development Commission will relocate to a new building at 200 Bus 50 in Des Moines, with the move planned for the night shift. The event underscores state efforts to consolidate offices in the capital.
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DES Moines
Iowa Development Commission
Walker W. W. Reece 87 Dies. Rites Monday at Spring Grove
Walker W. W. Reece a lifelong Linn county farmer died Saturday morning at age 87. Funeral services are set for Monday at 2 p.m. at Spring Grove Methodist Church with burial in Spring Grove Cemetery. He is survived by his wife Bessie E. Shaffer a daughter Mrs. Ernest Nietert of Marion four sons Perry and Harlan Cedar Rapids Dale of Marion and Carl of Iowa City ten grandchildren twenty one great grandchildren four great great grandchildren and he was a Mason member at Coggon.
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Gazette
Walker
W. W. Reece
Linn Bounty
Spring Grove Methodist Church
Spring Grove
Sorenson-Murdoch
Reece
Bessie E. Shaffer
Ernest Nietert
Marion
Perry
Harlan
Cedar Rapids
Dale
Carl
Iowa City
Masonic Lodge
Coggon
Iowa Notes critique of Hoegh administration and taxes
Jake More, Iowa Democratic chairman, argues Governor Hoegh spawns an ineffective Aeronautics Commission while blaming Republicans for farm price declines. He attacks tax increases, liquor by the drink, and departmental feuding, urging modernization, reapportionment, and party change in 1956.
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Iowa
Frye
Ee Ae
King Leo
Committee Named for Parley on Education
Manchester roles include Norris Gould of the Iowa State Junior Chamber of Commerce and Joseph P. Lambert of the Manchester public schools as part of a steering group for the governor’s county conference on education. Other members span Veterans of Foreign Wars, American Legion, Iowa Chamber of Commerce executives, Farm Bureau, Federation of Business and Professional Women, State Education Association, State Grange, Rotary, Lions, and local parent teacher groups. Additional appointees come from Hopkinton and Delhi with representatives from the Iowa Association of School Boards and the federation of women’s organizations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester
Governor’s County
Donald B. Potter
Robert E. Hall
Norris Gould
Iowa State Junior Chamber of Commerce
Charles H. Faber
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Thomas H. Tracey
American Legion
Donald C. MacCormac
Iowa Chamber of Commerce
Floyd Ryan
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
Paul Allyn
Iowa Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs
Joseph P. Lambert
Iowa State Education Association
Dale Paris
State Grange
Lyle Shoot
Rotary Club
Howard T. Shelly
Lions Club
Hopkinton
William Lux
Iowa Association of School Boards
Delhi
B. G. Rees
Iowa Congress of Parents and Teachers
Earlville
W. R. Gibbs
Federation of Women
Man 75 Averages 70 Miles Daily On Bicycle
Neulin Smith, 75, of Yakima Washington rode through Fort Dodge on U S 20 toward Chicago. He left Yakima August 2 and has averaged about 70 miles per day on his trip.
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Fort Dodge
Neulin Smith
Yakima
Wash
U. S
Chicago
Smith
Children progress under new mental hospital program
The report shows 18 children in the program with several moving to foster care or family settings. Some were transferred to Waverly or the school for the deaf, while others returned to their families or to training schools once deemed ready for society.
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Eldora
Navy
Waverly
School For the
Independence Hospital
Eyer
ISC Students Learn Knacks Of Surveying
Ames fifty Iowa State College civil engineering students attend a six week summer surveying camp at Wirt Minnesota. R J Lubsen directs the program with W T Hosmer and Jack Mickle assisting. students rotate through axe man to chief of party positions and work on preliminary survey land survey plane table and precise level crews within an eight mile radius of the camp.
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Bernard Main
Walker
Iowa State College
Ames
Wirt
Minn
Chippewa National Forest
Minnesota North Woods
Richard H. Jensen
Parvin Jensen
Eleventh Street
Cedar Rapids
Richard Main
Rainy River
R. J. Lubsen
W. T. Hosmer
Jack Mickle
Department of
Civil Engineering
McAuliffe
Montana School of Mines
Lubsen
Mr. Rudd
Iowa State College Civil Engineering
Committee members assist children in group program
The article lists committee members including Dr Julius Pietrzak acting clinical director Robert Boyer chief of social services Lawrence Schneider business manager James Ferguson psychodramatist Mrs Ferguson instructor of student nurses and Mrs Bernita Kay director of nurses. Staff members take turns with the children to learn each one personally to follow individual cases. Miss Kyer says the staff workload is a strain but worthwhile due to the children’s positive response.
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Kyers
Julius Pietrzak
Robert Boyer
Lawrence Schneider
James Ferguson
Ferguson
Bernita Kay
Miss Kyer
Des Moines Man Charged After Ladder Entry Disturbance
Vern H. Graves of Des Moines faced a disturbing the peace charge after police say he used an extension ladder to reach a second story window of an apartment where two women were present. He pled not guilty and posted bond for trial on September 12. Graves is married with one child.
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Des Moines
Vern H. Graves
Graves
Burglars Hit Two Parkersburg Firms Early Saturday
Burglars stole over 100 dollars in cash and merchandise from two Parkersburg locations, including a cafe and a service station. The cafe lost 65 dollars in cash cigarets beer and other items. a cafe had cigarets beer and merchandise stolen and two tires plus 35 dollars were taken from another site.
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Parkersburg
Oskaloosa Restaurant Damaged by Basement Fire
A Saturday blaze caused smoke damage to the Canary Cottage restaurant in Oskaloosa and also damaged the Kemble Floral Company and Wilcox Garland Furniture Company. The fire was confined to the restaurant basement due to defective wiring.
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Oskaloosa
INS
Canary Cottage
Kemble Floral Company
Wilcox Garland Furniture Company
Nichols rites for Iowa Odd Fellows leader held
Services for Ray F. Nichols aged 72 Grand Chief Patriarch of Iowa Odd Fellows were held Saturday in Carroll. He led the fraternal order in the state and was a longtime community figure.
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Carroll
Ray F. Nichols
Iowa
Odd Fellows
Injunction Sought To Stop Union Interference In Rail Work
Des Moines and Central Iowa Railway asks district court to bar United Auto Workers Local from blocking freight to Western Tool and Stamping Co. Pickets on a spur halted a loaded car. Judge Murrow set a Monday hearing on a possible temporary injunction. The plant employs about 200 workers and has faced its first strike in 18 years over dues deductions.
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DES Moines
Des Moines and Central Iowa Railroad Company
District Court
United Auto Workers Union
Western Tool and Stamping Company
CIO
Tom Murrow
Tool and Stamping Company
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