Housing growth expands in Shueyville and Western Iowa
In a Cedar Rapids area survey, Shueyville reports eight new houses in ten years with two to three more planned, plus an $18,000 school addition and a $50,000 church project slated for spring 1956. Shueyville high school students will attend Cedar Rapids Wilson High. Western shows seven houses built since World War II, with two under construction and more planned, plus rural construction in the area.
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Shueyville
Paeet
Cedar Rapids
Wilson Igh
EUB
New Shueyville House
Roman Volesky
Local Iowa Brief Roundup From Oxford Junction to Tipton
Reports from multiple towns note births at Jackson County hospital Maquoketa and Mercy hospital Oelwein. Knights of Pythias officers named led by Mond Griswold. various moves and sales including Olga Schroeder, John F McAreavey daughter births in Coggin and Clermont. theft at Petersen's Auto Parts. nurses aide pin awarded. residents moving to Oelwein Cedar Rapids and Lawton Oklahoma. hospital patient and police activity noted in Atalissa Kalona and Clermont. master of Masonic lodge elected. janitor appointed at Atalissa school.
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Oxford Junction
Will Hansen
Jackson County Hospital
Maquoketa
Ray Wink
Cedar Rapids
Raymond Griswold
Knights of Pythias
George McCalmant
Robert Fowler
Peter Moeller
J. F. Cram
Harry Fowler
A. C. Catlet
Richard Wink
H. H. Lightfoot
Olga Schroeder
Lee Stowers
Robert Werndt
Coggon
John F. McAreavey
Muscatine
McAreavey
Ruth Hynes
Tipton
Glenn Lygaard
Maynard
Walter Sellers
Vier T. Cushion
Oelwein
Kalona
Milton Horak
Art Cooling
Lawton
Okla
Cooling
Esther DeWoody
Clermont
Ralph Kneeland
Atallissa
Harvey Hines
Hines
Margaret Coiner
George Allen, Jr
VA Hospital
Iowa City
Delbert Kehrli
Masonic Lodge
Dwight LeClerc
Robert LeClerc
Roy Crosby
Robert Henderson
George Ellsworth
Atalissa
George Morrison
Leo Aye
Rochester, Minn
Blood of Newborn Infant Replaced in Iowa Operation
Special to The Gazette WEST UNION an infant at Palmer Memorial hospital was given a good chance of survival after a delicate birth. David Eiick born Dec 21 to Mr and Mrs Norbert Eiick of Fort Atkinson, Rh positive infant treated with 500 cc Rh negative blood, 200 cc at a time, about 90 percent of blood renewed. First such operation at the hospital. The Ericks have two other children with normal blood types.
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the Gazette
West Union
Palmer Memorial Hospital
David
Norbert Eiick
Fort Atkinson
Ericks
Iowa Population Grows to 2,665,276 as Farm Decline Slows
DES MOINES Iowa population as of July 1 reached 2,665,276, up 17,500 in the last year. The state figure trails the federal census by 25,000, with the July 1 federal estimate at 2,690,000. Chancellor notes farm-population decline continues while out-migration slows due to more industrial work.
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Des Moines
INS
L. E. Chancellor
State Vital Statistics Division
Iowa
Federal Census Bureau
Chancellor
Manchester Residents Mail Yule Cards Early
Postmaster Paul J. Kehoe notes heavy Dec 19 workload with 24 000 pieces as the rush ends. He thanks residents for mailing early and says the peak eased by the Tuesday before Christmas.
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Manchester
Gazette
Paul J. Kehoe
Kehoe
Plane Lands on Iowa Road with Aid of Car Light
Three Des Moines men escaped injury when a light plane was forced to land on a blacktop road two miles north of Maxwell Iowa. John Oxley driving heard the circling craft and stopped on a hill. R J Daniels used car headlights to guide the landing. The men, Bernard C Sherwood and Jack Byers of Des Moines, were returning from Sigourney in a Boyt Harness owned plane. The craft sustained a damaged wing on a road sign.
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Maxwell
Des Moines
Here
John Oxley
R. J. Daniels
Oxley
Nevada
Daniels
Boyt Harness Company
Bernard C. Sherwood
Jack Byers
Sigourney
SUI To Take Bids On Turbo Generator
Bids for the construction of a turbo generator in the power plant at the University of Iowa will be accepted in Iowa City. The project aims to upgrade capacity and reliability at the campus facility, inviting bids from qualified suppliers and contractors for equipment installation and related work.
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SUI
Iowa City
University of Iowa
Public bid opening set for January 19 at 2 p.m.
Bids for the project in the office of George L. Horner, SUI superintendent of planning and construction, may be obtained there. Plans and specifications are available for review, with bids to be publicly opened and read at 2 p.m. January 19.
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George L. Horner
SUI
Horner
Notice of Appointment of Administrator Iowa 1955
State Iowa Linn County notice that on December 28 1955 administrator of the estate of Anna Lyman deceased has been duly appointed. All debts should be paid to the administrator and any claims filed with the Linn County District Court Clerk via attorneys Dr Fishel Jordan and Pence.
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Iowa
Linn County
Anna Lyman
Linn Coun
Fishel
Jordan, Jordan & Pence
Iowa Tax Offices To Provide Help On U S Returns
Des Moines AP reports Iowa Internal Revenue Director Frank Halpin said state offices will offer minimal aid for tax form prep while following IRS policy to provide required advice. Taxpayer assistance days remain Mondays and Fridays from Jan 3 to Apr 16, with added city services Tue Thu Feb 15 and Apr 2 to 16.
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DES Moines
Frank M. Halpin
Iowa
Internal Revenue
Crash Fatal for Nashua Woman in Iowa Collision
Mrs. William Nicholson about 70 of Nashua died in a hospital at Charles City after a two car crash two miles southwest of Colwell. Her husband and James Harace of Elma, driver of the other car, were hospitalized. Injuries not believed serious. The wreck happened at a hill crest on a gravel road.
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Charles City
William Nicholson
Nashua
Colwell
James Harace
Elma
Kathryn Wright Dies Former Elkader Resident
ELKADER word reached Thursday of the death of Kathryn Wright 67 a former Elkader resident. She died in a Phoenix hospital Tuesday after surgery two weeks earlier. The body will be taken to Louis Magnis residence at Ryan Saturday. Services set for Monday at 9:30 a.m. in St Patrick Church Ryan. Burial in Calvary cemetery Ryan. She was daughter of late Mr and Mrs Thomas Phelan pioneer Elkader residents born and raised there. She moved to Buckeye Arizona 13 years ago. Survivors include a son Donald of Chula Vista California and a sister Anna of Buckeye.
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Garvie
Elkader
Kathryn Wright
Thomas Phelan
Buckeye
Ariz
Donald
Chulla Vista
Calif
Anna
Wellman Youth Rebuild Vienna School Volunteers
Eleven American conscientious objectors including 21 year old Arlen Miller of Wellman Iowa helped rebuild a bombed Protestant schoolhouse in Vienna. They received army permission for two years of civil voluntary work abroad. The project began in 1954 with eight hour days, aimed at restoring the school ruined in 1945 as Russian forces advanced.
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Vienna
Austria
Arlen Miller
Wellman
United States Army
Vienina
Church of the Brothers
Mennonites
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