Iowa Centennial Fair Sets Attendance Benchmark At Half Million
Des Moines AP Iowa's Centennial State Fair surpassed 500000 in total attendance, reaching about 514876 with 453000 customers on grounds Friday. Record Thursday crowd 69497 and Sunday 89295 marked the largest single-day totals in fair history. Children admitted free under 15 and elevated admission taxes aided revenue as exhibitors prepared to dismantle stalls Saturday.
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DES Moines
Iowa
Fair Board
Uncle Sam
Treble Clef Club
Hampton
Mt. Vernon
Doolittle flyer Deshazer weds Florence Matheny in Oregon
Jacob D. Deshazer, 33, a Doolittle raid veteran from Madras Oregon, married Florence Matheny 25 of Toddville Indiana in Gresham Oregon. The ceremony was led by Rev J K French of the Free Methodist denomination. The couple plan to accompany the mission to Japan after two more years of study.
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Gresham
Ore
Jacob D. Deshaze
Madras
Tokyo
Florence Matheny
Toddville
Japan
J. K. French
Free Methodist
Seattle College
Deshazer
Grahl Receives Distinguished Service Medal for SSS Role
Brig. Gen. Charles H. Grahl of Des Moines is awarded the Distinguished Service Medal. The town director of selective service was honored for his wartime duties, with the War Department making the announcement on Friday.
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Washington (Ap
Charles H. Grahl
Des Moines
War Department
30 Polio Patients in Isolation at UI Hospital
Iowa City AP reports 30 infantile paralysis patients are in isolation at the University of Iowa hospital. Four new admissions were added Thursday, as attendants noted on Friday.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa Hospital
Vets on the Job Training Cut Replaces Length and Benefits
Des Moines report states that Iowa on the job training periods for thousands of veterans will be halved under new federal amendments. The changes cap monthly income at 175 to 200 dollars, end most subsistence payments for many veterans, and require training to run from three months to two years. Overpayments may be charged back, with corrections starting October 1.
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Des Moines
Linton Hainer
State Department of Public Instruction
Iowa
Hainer
Veterans Administration
Nature
Ottawa riders walk as Ottumwa buses idle in strike
Ottumwa residents walked to work on Friday while city buses remained idle after drivers from Local 199 of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Workers AF of L struck at 2 a.m. over the alleged discharge of union president Les ter D. Parcel during sick leave.
Sales Tax Sets New Iowa Quarter Record
DES MOINES AP Iowa state sales tax collections reached 8,269,000 for April May and June as the books close Sept 30. The previous quarterly high was 7,858,870 in Oct Nov and Dec 1945. Officials expect 8,500,000 by Sept 30 and potential annual receipts near 34,000,000 if momentum continues.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Tax Commission
Linn County Board approves settlement and budget actions
Linn County Iowa Board of Supervisors approves settlement of Rex A Powell claim for 600 00 and releases liens upon payment plus budget estimates for 1946. The minutes detail prior actions including tax deed sale authorization and various fund transfers and claims allowed for county operations and public aid, with notices published in local newspapers and hearings held August 13 1946.
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Rex A. Powell
Greene
College
Cedar Rapids
Beeson
Petty
Board OF Supervisors
State of Iowa
Linn County
Iowa
Towi
Prairie-Burgh
Boulder Township
Prairieburs
Leo Bebee
Zlmer M. Seevell
Teopehee
Elmer M. Seevell
Prairieburgh
Prairieburg
Independence
State Institution Ledger
Cora M. Powell
Harold Hansford
Seevell
Wesley Waterhouse
Spring Grove Township
Chas, Tichy, Sr
Putnam Township
Towa
Schuette
John
Marion
Arizona
Otto F. Hanzlik
County Fund
Northwestern Bell Tel Co
Hse Tel
Central City News
Ie Onofc
Killian Co
Stamats Pub Co
Fragmented Data Row From Report
The line presents a sequence of coordinate-like numbers and decimals 28.23 88,12 64 94 6.87 repeated with variations 2.9 2.1. No clear event names or entities emerge from the readable fragment.
Veterans to be sworn into Iowa patrol at Camp Dodge
Thirty six Iowa war veterans will be sworn in as members of the state highway patrol after a four week training at Camp Dodge. Commissioner Fred Wilkins says the force will reach about 163, with new patrolmen assigned across districts and some temporary housing noted. Names listed include John J. Beckman and Maurice F. Jacobs among others.
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Des Moines
Camp Dodge
Fred Wilkins
Wilkins
John J. Beckman
Dyersville
Veil Davisson
Wellman
Maurice F. Jacobs
Marion
John W Knight
West Union
Harry Willis Lown
North English
Dean Lewis
Iowa City
George F Ponsford
la Porte City
Walter L
Housing Crunch Faces 4300 UI Students This Fall
IOWA CITY 4300 prospective University of Iowa students must secure housing or forego attendance. Registrar Paul Blommers says 9000 applications received, many contingent on housing. Imelda Murphy notes about 4700 students will be assigned university housing this week, filling capacity.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa
Paul Blommers
Imelda Murphy
Blommers
Albert Gienapp Dies. Manchester Leader and Civic Figure
Albert C. Gienapp 58 longtime Manchester civic leader and secretary of the Town Independent Oil Jobbers association died Thursday night in a Waterloo hospital after two weeks of illness. He served as past president of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce and helped lead bond drives. He is survived by his second wife Meta Otto a son and two daughters from his first marriage and several step relatives. A prayer service will be held Saturday at his Gienapp home followed by Lutheran church services in Delaware and burial at Pine View cemetery north of Delaware.
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Manchester
Albert C. Gienapp
Independent Oil Jobbers Association
Waterloo
Manchester Chamber of Commerce
Delhi
Edna Voss
Delaware
Meta L. Otto
Robert C. Gienapp
Raymond Drees
Linus Wulfekuhle
Earlville
Robert G. Otto
California
Charles Gienapp
Fort Dodge
Rose Kulow
Erna Beddow
Dubuque
Esther Brodbeck
Oslow
Mich
Gienapp
Lutheran Church At
Pine View Cemetery
Sweet Corn Queen Named at Vinton in County Contest
Donna Raye Harmon of Vinton will reign as queen of the Sweet Corn festival here Monday. Her attendants are Patricia Rieke Van Horne Elsie De Klotz Newhall Barbara Clang Florence Campbell Vinton. Selection was made through a county wide popularity contest.
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Vinton
Donna Raye Harmon
R. E. Harmon
Patricia Rieke
van Horne
Elsie de Klotz
Newhall
Barbara Clang
Florence Campbell
Ninety Nine Degrees Conferred at Ames Commencement
Ames commencement exercises for the 1945 46 summer term conferred ninety nine degrees led by President Charles E Finley. Degrees awarded include 75 bachelor of science 17 master of science six doctor of philosophy and one doctor of veterinary medicine. Eastern Town graduates by counties listed include Allamakee Raymond Glynn Waterville with bachelor of science in industrial education Linn Robert Diserens Cedar Rapids bachelor of science in civil engineering Thomas Wright Cedar Rapids bachelor of science in zoology Caroline Fuhrmeister Ely bachelor of science in zoology.
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Ames
Iowa State College
Charles E. Finley
Allamakee
Raymond Glynn
Waterville
Linn
Robert Diserens
Cedar Rapids
Thomas
Soil Conservation Answer To Iowa Fishing Problem
Iowa's conservation commission wants to buy 500000 acres for reforestation and urge planting an additional million acres. The program aims to boost woodlands, improve fishing and hunting, reduce erosion, and cut pollution with soil and water conservation.
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Iowa
Des Moines
State Conservation Commission
Commission
Fred Schwab
Public notice on watchmaking registration in Iowa
Unlawful for any partnership association or corporation to engage in watchmaking without a Certificate of Registration from the Town Board of Examiners in Watchmaking. The certificate must be displayed at the business or employments site. Watchmaking includes repairing replacing rebuilding reconditioning cleaning or regulating mechanical parts of watches and estimating repair costs. G Y Swartzendruber Secretary Treasurer Horological Association of Iowa Cedar Rapids Iowa Affiliate No 37 of the U H A of A Cedar Rapids Iowa.
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Town Board of Examiners
G. Y. Swartzendruber
Sec'y-Treas
Horological Association OF Iowa
U.H.A
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Girl Killed in Horse Accident Near Waterloo
Naomi Jane Boyd, 16, daughter of Mrs. Frank Boyd, was killed Thursday night when the horse she rode fell near her Waterloo home.
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Waterloo
Naomi Jane Boyd
Frank Boyd
Five New Polio Cases Reported in Iowa
Des Moines AP reports the state health department tallies five new polio cases, increasing the year to date total since January 1 to 268 nationwide in Iowa.
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Des Moines
State Health Department
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Linn Co Abstract Co
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