Iowa Lawmakers Lean Toward State Speed Limits And Patrol Boost
Iowa legislators survey indicates broad support for day and night highway speed limits and for increasing State Patrol strength. Voters show interest in compulsory vehicle testing and tougher drunk driving penalties amid a record year for traffic fatalities nearing 700.
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Dwight McCormack
DES Moines
Iowa
Associated Press
State Highway Patrol
Clinton Moyer
State Safety Ig Yg
Iowa Supreme Court
Moyer
House
Senate
Fayette County Taxes Rise Across Levies
West Union sees higher next year taxes with the mill levy up from 60.625 to 65.389 driven by city government costs. School levy falls from 33.582 to 32.228 while county levy stays near, corporation costs rise from 15.575 to 21.426. Oelwein holds near 70.085, Clermont up nearly ten mills, Elgin up four, Fayette up three and Hawkeye down two. Figures list Levy changes across the county.
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West Union
Hazel Gehring
Oelwein
Clermont
Elgin’s
Fayette’s
Hawkeye's
Kalona Christmas Parade Set for Saturday Afternoon
Kalona will host a large Christmas parade Saturday at 1 30 p m featuring about 50 floats from community groups. Local merchants supply trucks and wagons while several choirs and bands perform. Santa will hand out a thousand candy sacks to children. The Kalona Community Club sponsors the event.
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Kalona
Santa Claus
Des Moines Board Approves Early Educational TV Plans
Des Moines school board moves to establish an educational TV station in the Tech high building. FCC grants use of Channel 11 for the non commercial station though the building will take about two years to be ready. The board may start with a school radio station sooner, funding for transmitter and equipment is not in the current budget, and students may help construct some gear. KGTV’s earlier bid to release Channel 11 for a commercial station was denied.
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Des Moines
Technical High School
Federal Communications Commission
Channel 11
Tech
James Shannahan
KGTV
FCC
Elizabeth Wherry of Anamosa Dies
Elizabeth C. Wherry 63 of Anamosa died Wednesday at University Hospitals Iowa City after surgery on December 1. A writer of farm columns she contributed to Wallace's Farmer Suc cessful Farming and Cedar Rapids Gazette. Survived by sons John Des Moines and Richard Kansas City. husband Don L. Wherry died 1948. brother Frank Cripliver Wichita Falls Texas. Services 1 p.m. Saturday at Goettsch funeral home Anamosa. Memorial Fund Iowa Heart Association.
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Gazette
Anamosa
Elizabeth C. Wherry
University Hospitals
Iowa City
Frank Cripliver
Wichita Falls
Texas
Wherry
Peiffer Hall
Cornell College
Mt. Vernon
Gamma Phi Beta Sorority
Goettsch Funeral
Iowa Heart Association
Hikes in Power and Water Rates in Vinton Expected
VINTON a city council action this week sets an ordinance to raise municipal utility rates effective around Jan 1. The minimum charge will rise from 75 cents to 1 dollar. Power rates will be 5 cents per kWh for the first 50 kWh, 4 cents for the next 100, and 2.5 cents for over 200 kWh, targeting a generator return of 32.50 per hour versus the current 26.
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Vinton
Wapello Voters Approve 390000 School Bond
Wapello Community district voters approved a 390000 bond for a 16 room elementary school on a 20 acre site. The tally was 645 in favor to 199 against. Superintendent K F Witt said construction would start next spring if bond sales proceed smoothly.
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Wapello (Ap
Wapello Community
K. F. Witt
Regents Seek End to Pre-Auditing Policy Change
Des Moines Iowa Regents ask a legislative interim committee to discontinue pre auditing of expenditures at state educational institutions under their control. They argue pre auditing gives the auditor final say over spending rather than administration, though a law requires pre audit before payment.
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Des Moines
INS
State Board of Regents
General Assembly
Iowan Under Fire by State Gets New Post
Walter R. Tworek who was fired from the Iowa Employment Service Davenport post has been named to President Eisenhower's committee for employment of the physically handicapped. He will move to Washington to begin duties. the Iowa commission says absences were due to disabilities.
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Des Moines
Walter R. Tworek
Veterans’ Service
Iowa Employment Service
Davenport
Eisenhower
Committee For Employment
Frank Engel
Iowa Employment Security Commission
Tworek
Washington, D. C
Engel
Kramer Presents Manuscripts to Library at SUI
Sigourney author Dale Kramer donated three manuscripts to the University of Iowa library for its Authors collection. The works include The Heart of O Henry about William Sydney Porter, Teen Age Gangs with an intro by Estes Kefauver, and Violent Streets. Two prior Kramer biographies of Heywood Broun and Harold Ross had already been added.
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Sigourney
Dale Kramer
University of Iowa Library
Iowa
Kramer
Col
O. Henry
William Sydney Porter
Rinehart and Company
New York City
Estes Kefauver
Heywood Broun
Harold Ross
New Yorker Magazine
Elsa Rose Named Superintendent at Palmer Memorial Hospital
Elsa Rose RN was appointed superintendent of Palmer Memorial Hospital in West Union and will assume duties Saturday. She succeeds William Hanson RN, who leaves to report for military service early in January.
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West Union
Felsa Rose
Palmer Memorial Hospital
William Hanson
Hospital Leadership Change Noted in Cedar Rapids Area
The text indicates discussions of hospital leadership, naming Mr. Hanson as hospital superintendent since May, and Rose described as a graduate of Luke's hospital school in Cedar Rapids, with seven years as superintendent at Spring Grove Minn.
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Hanson
Rose
Luke’s Hospital School of Rates
Cedar Rapids
Spring Grove
Minn
Elmer Bryant to Lead Korea Technical Program
Elmer C. Bryant, former Iowa CCC supervisor, will head the technical program in Korea for the International Cooperation Administration starting January. Bryant, 42, has led Red Cross disaster work in Iceland and the Pacific, directed welfare services in Iowa, and served with ICA missions in Trans-Jordan, Iran, and Chile.
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Elmer ¢. Bryant
IoWa
Korea
Bryant
Cook
Neb
Upper Iown.s University
University of Iowa
CCC
Newton
Fort Madison
Atlanta
Red Cross
Iceland
Pacific
League of Red Cross Societies
Trans-Jordan
Middle East
Iran
Chile
ICA
Eastern Iowa Briefs Highlight Local Hospital and Fire Chiefs
A roundup of town notices lists patients at St Luke s Cedar Rapids Mayo Clinic Rochester and Mercy Iowa City officials named to fire departments and Masonic lodges with Christmas events in several towns including Waubeek Traer Olin West Union Clarence and Sigourney plus a Santa Claus arrival at the Legion hall in Clarence.
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Delwein Hospital
Sigourney
Bethlehem
Jo Rae Hogendorn
Ottumwa Heights College
Carl Hogendorn
Earlville
Ted Hansel
James Diesch
Merle Smock
Waubeek
John Kula
Prairieburg
Mercy Hospital
Cedar Rapids
Waukon
M. Berry
Waukon Hospital
Calmar
Louis Humpal
Calimar
University Hospitals
Iowa City
Chamber of Commerce
Kiwanis Club
Groenenboom
John Reid
Traer
J. C
Wood
Masonic Lodge
Leland Owens
Erwin Tomlinson
John Wilson
Gordon Wood
Olin
Robert Sharon
Leo Weseman
Richard Graff
Dean Henderson
C. J. Brickley
West Union
Bethel Presbyterian Church
West Liberty
E. C. Kerr
Onslow
E. A. Helland
Clyde Taylor
Donald Bodkin
Howard Cruise
Lydia McFarlin
Otis Shaw
Central City Fire Department
Mixer Price
Ioof Lodge
Virgil Pratt
B. E. Wells
R. M. Brause
George Olesen
Clarence—Santa Claus
Legion Hall
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