Decorah Notables Listed In Who's Who Record
The 1952-53 Who's Who in America lists five Decorah men: Rev Oscar Engebretson, Orlando Warran Qualley, Henry Oscar Talle, Oscar Adolph Tinglestad, and Johannes Wilhelm Ylvisaker. The column notes Decorah’s high per capita representation and adds tidbits about local rail encounters, oil lease hopes, and curfew enforcement in Central City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decorah
America
Oscar Engebretson
Washington Prairie Lutheran Church
Orlando Warran -Qualley
Luther College
Henry Oscar Talle
Oscar Adolph Tinglestad
Johannes Wilhelm Ylvisaker
Servicemen Wounded and Serving Across Korea News
Pfc Lloyd Reichman reported seriously wounded by a land mine on patrol duty at Heart Break Ridge Korea. The roundup lists many servicemen and women stationed in Korea and across the United States including Eldon Vine at Decorah and Robert Farmer and Dale Martin aboard USS Iowa. Several others are stationed at Fort Knox Quantico Camp Gordon and various bases with furloughs and transfers noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central City
Lloyd Reihman
Korea
Albert Reihman
Reichman
Heart Break Ridge
Decorah
Eldon C. Vine
Theodore Vine
Anamosa
Robert G. Farmer
Cecil R. Farmer
Dale H. Martin
William Martin
Iowa
Belle Plaine
Lyle Smith
Wilma Smith
Los Angeles
California
Hopkinton
Roman Welter
H. J. Welter
Army
Russell J. Darrow
USN
Elizabeth M. Darrow
Fleet Air Wings
Far East
William Murray, Jr
William Murray
Quantico
Mercy Hospital
Cedar Rapids
Solon
Charles Greazel
Fort Knox
George Chaloupka
Fort Custer
Mich
Joe Chaloupka
Martelle — Roger Gordon
Leonard Gordon
Naval School
Memphis
Tenn
San Diego
Columbus Junction
Robert Greene
Germany
Martelle—Robert McConaughy
Src
Long Beach
Calif
Walker
Szgt
Ralph O’connell
Fort Rich
Farm Family Of Six Keen For Hobbies On Masonville Farm
Clarence Cox profiles the Hanson family of six in Masonville as they pursue varied hobbies alongside farming a 290 acre operation. Leo collects 700 advertising pencils and miniature tractors. wife a parakeet breeder with 100 birds and 40 cream pitchers from multiple countries. sons raise 120 guinea pigs and Dwayne has 1500 matchbooks. Sharron collects 100 Catholic medals. Joyce helps with parakeets. farm runs 35 cattle and 160 hogs with Mrs Hanson driving a tractor from sunup to sundown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Masonville
Leo Hanson
Dwayne
Keith
Sharron
Joyce
Hanson
Germany
Japan
Czechoslovakia
Bavaria
England
Hansons
Military Leave and Transfers Report from Iowa Cities
Soldiers and airmen from Iowa towns like Bennett Bennett Ulm and Quasqueton return home on furlough or transfer to new posts including Camp Chaffee Fort Carson Fairbanks Seattle Camp Pendleton and Fort Knox. Listed are Pvt Willis Ches more Pvt Howard A Zieser Lt Donald Brandt Cpl Dean Degner Pvt Donald C Paul and Pvt Robert Starkey among others visiting families or awaiting overseas assignments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sen
Harry Siemsen
Bennett
110Th Infantry Regiment
Ulm
Germany
Quasqueton
Willis Chesmore
Oor
Camp Chaffee
Ark
Iowa City
Arch K. Morford, Jr
Arch K. Morford
Fairbanks
Alaska
Walker
Howard A. Zieser
Joe Zieser
Seattle
Camp Carson
Colo
Victor
Donald Brandt
Denver
L. H. Brandt
Buckingham
Earl D. Russell
John Russell
New Jersey
Middie Amana
Paul Schmidt
Japan
Marquette
Donald Schott
B. R. Schott
Sheppard Air Base
Texas
McGregor
William Klotzbach, Jr
Hawaii
Navy
Maynard
Donald C. Paul
Everett Paul
3Rd
Korea
Tracr
Leonard Ruzicka
Camp Polk
Rudolph Ruzicka
Traer—Marine Cpl
Dean Degner
Walter Degner
Dysart
Herbert Kahler
Traer
Cpl
Degner
Camp Pendleton
Calif
Marlo Merritt McMillen
Kenneth McMillen
San Diego
Robert Starkey
Bessie Starkey
Fort Knox
Education Conference At ISTC In Cedar Falls
L Thomas Hopkins from Columbia University will headline the fall elementary education conference at Iowa State Teachers College on Saturday September 27. He will discuss Where Are We Going in Education and serve as a consultant. The one day event includes classroom observations workshops lectures exhibits and discussion groups for teachers supervisors and administrators across Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Falls
L. Thomas Hopkins
Columbia _ university
Teachers College
Iowa State Teachers College
Hopkins
Iowa
Iowa Briefs roundup from various towns
Local notes report Lowden appoints Fred C. Wiebel as First Act chairman in Cedar county. Helen Smith sails from Los Angeles to Bangkok for a geography course in Siam with Fulbright support. Billy Rothmeyer fractures both left arm bones while hauling corn stalks. Joyce Miller attends national Methodist Student Movement meeting at Purdue. Lt Cmdr H E Miller’s wife recovering from polio at Great Lakes hospital. Ellen Nowadsky Doyle sells her Quasqueton home to George Wilson and moves to Winthrop. Matt Eckermann sues Cosgrove consolidated SD and bus driver Earle Sheetz for damages from 1950 collision. Lowden consolidated school opens with 221 students. Trinity Lutheran adds 57. Eva Timberlake named English teacher. Tobe Poppe sues Otto Oberbroeckling for 300 damages over property. Mt Vernon school lunch program starts with Mary Campbell. Postville night school begins Sept 17 with nine classes. McGregor independents file for Clayton county supervisor. Iowa City drafts thirteen Johnson county men for September.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ossian
Billy Rothmeyer
Freddie Scheidel
Roth Smeyer
Joyce Miller
L. A. Miller
National Methodist Student Commission
Purdue University
Lafayette
Ind
Elmer Miller
H. E. Miller
Great Lakes Naval Station
Ellen Nowadsky Doyle
George Wilson
Johnson County
Matt Eckermann
Oxford
Cosgrove
Kathleen Morrissey
Nchester
Tobe Poppe
Otto Oberbroeckling
Ryan
MT. Vernon
Mary Campbell
Postville
McGregor
Clayton County
Roy Wessel
Otto Gull
Iowa City
Iowa PTA Congress Set For University of Iowa Campus
About 400 elected delegates of the Iowa Congress of Parents and Teachers will meet at the University of Iowa campus for a two day conference starting Friday. Four major addresses will frame a discussion oriented program with guest speakers from national and state groups. Five discussion groups with consultant aides will spotlight Saturday’s schedule and Friday’s officer elections occur in the library with installation at Currier hall luncheon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa City
Iowa Congress of Parents and Teachers
University of Iowa
Ruth Gagliardo
Reading and Library Service
National Congress of Parents and Teachers
Boyd R. McCandless
Iowa Child Welfare Research Station
University
Lloyd White
Kansas City
Irene Rowland
Illinois Congress of Parents and Teachers
Congress
University Library
Currier Hall
Prof Barnes Named Head Of Radio Journalism Unit
Prof Arthur M Barnes longtime head of the radio journalism sequence at the University of Iowa School of Journalism was named chairman of the Council on Radio Journalism for the Association for Education in Journalism. He was also re elected to the council for a three year term.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bednasek
Balluff
University of Iowa
Gazette
New York
Arthur M. Barnes
University of Iowa School of Journalism
Council On Radio Journalism
The
Association For Education In Journalism
Association
Barnes
Cabin Burned on Kallastad Farm Near Decorah
A one room cabin on the John Kallastad farm, nine miles east of Decorah, was destroyed by a fire of undetermined origin Wednesday morning. The blaze caused complete loss with no injuries reported. Fire crews from nearby districts battled the flames but could not save the structure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decorah
John Kallastad
Ground donated for American Legion hall site
Iowa Briets GREELEY-Claire Taylor donated ground west of the Masonic Temple for a new American Legion hall. Work has started. Clermont public schools opened with 276 students and St Peter's Catholic school with 46. Amana area notes include summer worker Arif Mukhtar from Lahore and new houses being built in Homestead and Amana. West Union notes 23 local Scouts earned awards at a court of honor. Labor Day closures affect Waukon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greeley
Claire Taylor
Masonic Temple
The
American Legion
Legion Hall
Clermont
St. Peter’s Catholic
Amana
Arif Mukhtar
Lahore
Pakistan
Henry Heinze
Eddie Fritsches
George Trimpes
Walter Seiferts
Louis Unglenk
John Wetten
Jack Zimpleman
George Mittleback
Emil Ceynor
South Amana
West Union
Donald Malek
E. C. Malek
Fayette
Faysette Troop
Waukon
St. Patrick’s School
Maynard
Theodore Miehe
Walter Sellers
A. L. Evans
Henry Kuper
Kuper
Fred Schwarz. Traer
Kenneth Gates
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City of Denver
Tom Bergmann
Tom
Mr. Vernon Hawkeye
Clinton
Volga
J. R. Schulte
Tulsa
Okla
Schulte
Verne O. Phelps
Fort Madison
Alluff
George J
Richard Benischek
Olin
Benischeks
Forest Rangers
Benischek
Ardson
John O’connell
Fort Sheridan
Ill
Harold J. Hartman
28Th
William Moore
Fort Belvoir
L. C. Fleming
Sgt
Fleming
Azure Islands
Earlville
Merlin Hall
White Sands
N.M. Greeley
Danny Bochenstedt
Camp Atterbury
Art Bochenstedt
Edgewood
Calvin Phelps
Lillian Phelps
el Paso
Allen K. Tope
Edna Tope
7Th Infantry
Sigourney
Richard O. Wright
Newport
R. L
Frank L. Wright
Wright
U.S.S
Charles H. Roan
Keswick
Dale Ackley
Aitkin
Minn
Harold R. Wessels
George Wessels
Army Engineer School
Fort Leonard Wood
Martelle—Albert Walton
James Walton
Bainsbridge
Curtis Powell
Camp Pickett
John Tegler
R. E. McMahon
Quasqueton — Marine Pvt
Francis S. Morris
Glenn L.mccombs
Ralph McCombs
Martelle—Albert E. Walton
Bainbridge
Victor — Robert DeDecker
Fred de- Decker
Pansacola
Fla. Tipton
Pfc
Harlen H. Siem
Clarence Cox
Leo Hansen
Mrs. Hanson
ISTC
Iowa Briefs
Lowden
Fred C. Wiebel
Cedar County
Manchester
Helen Smith
Oscar O. Smith
Bangkok
Siam
American University
Wheaton College
Illinois
PTA Congress
Sui
Prof. Barnes
Messinger
United States
Waterloo
Edgar Haugen
Glenwood Township
Board of Supervisors
Arnie Ask
Philip L. Fijelstad
Decorah High School
St. Olaf College
Red Cross Bloodmobile
Bobby Hansen
Federal District Court
Dubuque
Norway
Alice Gaul
Winneshiek
Boards of Supervisors
State of
Wyoming
Paul Levien
E. E. Kleineck
Dick Stoltz
Associated Press
Herbert Lang
Carlisle
Mildred
Barbara
Lang
Des Moines
Second
DIAL
Wards New Sale
Montgomery Wards
Montgomery Ward
Wards
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