Farm Parity Ratio Lowest In 15 Years
Washington INL reports the farm parity ratio fell to 80 from 81 as of December 15 1954 marking the lowest since September 1940. Prices for hogs cattle and cotton dropped while eggs fruit corn and tobacco rose. End of year figures show all farm commodities seven percent below a year earlier. Agriculture Secretary Benson urges a smaller 1956 spring pig crop to curb future hog glut.
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Washington
INL
Agriculture Department
Crop Reporting Board
Ezra Taft Benson
Benson
City approves payment for woman hurt by faulty curb
In Muskegon Michigan a city commission authorizes a $75 payment to a woman who broke her false teeth in a fall on a defective curb. The action compensates her for suffering and embarrassment.
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Muskegon, Mich
ULP
Oelwein Woman Recalls California Flood Crisis
Mrs. John Johnson of Oelwein described flood conditions in Yuba City California where her daughter’s home was surrounded by water five feet deep. She and the Donavans were moved by rescue trucks as water rose. the family expects at least a month before returning home to begin cleanup.
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Oelwein
Ins
John Johnson
Iowa
California
Johnson
Yuba City
Evans Attacks Hickenlooper Over Farm Politics
Evans of Arnolds Park, former Democratic agriculture official, accused Sen. Hickenlooper of authorship of 10 cent hog prices. He cited the administration price support bill and charged GOP leaders with harming Iowa farmers to boost corporate profits.
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Iowa
Evans
Woi-Tv
William Benz Dies at Oliver Plant Named Father of the Year
Charles City mourns William Benz 58 known as Father of the Year last June. He collapsed and died Friday while working at the Oliver Corporation plant. His wife died in 1949 leaving two daughters Donna Mae 20 who worked at the plant and Norman Jean 18 married living in California. Benz aided hundreds of local children in recent years.
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Charles City
William Benz
Oliver Corporation
Benz
Donna iMae
Oliver
Norman Jean
California
Younkers Sells Wichita Store to Macy’s
Younker Brothers department store in Des Moines announced the sale of its Wichita Kansas store to Macy’s of New York. The transfer takes effect January 31. Plans include opening new stores in Rock Island in 1956 and Oskaloosa in 1957, with Younkers expanding across Iowa and nearby states.
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Des Moines
Younker Brothers Department Store
Innes Company
Wichita
Kan
R. H. Macy & Company
New York
Kansas
Morey Sostrin
Younkers
Joseph F. Rosenfield
Rock Island
Oskaloosa
Omaha
Marshalltown
Ames
Mason City
Ottumwa
Fort Dodge
Iowa City
Younkers-Davidson
Sioux City
Rosenfield
Sostrin
Iowa
Iowa Ag License Fees Rise With Egg Law Changes
Iowa agriculture officials report 559 999 dollars in licenses and fees for the year, up 72 620 from last year. Most gains come from the egg grading law with license costs varying by volume from 12 50 to 50 dollars and new licenses for egg retailers graders and candlers. The department also seeks 37 000 dollars from the interim committee to cover enforcement costs of the new law.
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Des Moines
Iowa’ Agriculture Department
Legislative Interim Committee
Highwayman steals $920 from Des Moines man
Walter Thode, a 55 year old West Des Moines painting contractor, told Polk county deputies a masked gunman forced his car off Highway 60 near Saylorville. The thief took $920 from a wallet containing four $100 bills and twenty six $20 notes, but left several uncashed paychecks.
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Des Moines
Walter Thode
Polk County
Saylorville
Thode
West Des Moines
Iowa farmers harvest 30 540 acres of vegetables in 1955
Iowa farmers harvested an estimated 30 540 acres of vegetables for fresh market and processing in 1955. The total value of commercial vegetables grown in Iowa is about 3 492 000 dollars, four percent less than a year ago, per the Iowa Crops and Livestock Reporting Service. Jerimoth Hill is noted as Rhode Island’s highest point at 812 feet above sea level.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Iowa Crops and Livestock Reporting Service
Jerimoth
Rhode Island
Des Moines Man Fined $100 for Animal Cruelty
Des Moines man Cecil Fitzgerald 20 paid a 100 dollar fine after a 30 day jail sentence was suspended for cruelty to animals. Iowa Animal Rescue League director Max D. Finch reported two dead calves and other livestock in poor condition and said feed had likely been neglected for about a week.
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DES Moines
Cecil Fitzgerald
Max D. Finch
Iowa Animal Rescue League
Fitzgerald
Finch
Rock Island Railroad
Iowa Non-Farm Jobs Hit Record
DES MOINES UP Record numbers of Iowans now hold off the farm pay in employment. The Iowa Employment Security Commission said Friday that total non farm jobs rose to an all time high of 645,550 last month, about 1,000 above the prior peak. Average weekly earnings for manufacturing workers rose to 78.20 dollars in November, up 50 cents from the prior month.
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Des Moines
Laidlaw Resigns as Crop Insurance Chief
Charles S. Laidlaw resigned as manager of the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation after heading FCIC since May 1953. He cites urgent personal reasons and plans to return to his Minneapolis insurance business. Carl A. Fretts will serve as acting head.
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Washington
Llp
Charles S. Laidlaw
Agriculture Department
Federal Crop Insurance Corporation
Minneapolis
Laidlaw
FCIC
Carl A. Fretts
Mrs Leon Gaines Rites Sunday at Mt Vernon
Funeral services for Mrs. Leon Gaines 25 will be held Sunday at 2 30 p m at Baxter mortuary Mt Vernon following her death Thursday night in University hospital Iowa City after a brief illness She was the former Mary Evelyn Wadsworth daughter of Mr and Mrs Vernon Wadsworth of Viola Surviving include husband parents five children three brothers two sisters grandparents and a grandmother Mrs Mabel Wadsworth
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Lisbon
Baxter Mortuary
Mt. Vernon
Leon Gaines
University Hospitals
Iowa City
Gaines
Mary Evelyn Wadsworth
Vernon Wadsworth
Viola
Harry Fox
Orange, Calif
Mabel ‘Wadsworth
Levies for Fair Purposes Upheld
The Iowa Attorney General ruling says county or district fair societies may receive concurrently funds from two quarter mill levies for fair purposes. The opinion allows a second levy if the society owns or leases land used for fairgrounds and has buildings worth at least $8,000, and the funds must support grounds improvements or 4 H club work and agricultural and livestock premiums.
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Des Moines
Attorney General’s Office
George West
L. B. Cunningham
State Fair Board
County Boards of Supervisors
Slayer Released Against Mate's Wishes In Inquest
In St Louis, Kathryn Davis 29 testified at a coroner inquest that she was released from a sanitarium last February against her husband’s wishes. A physician said she had a schizophrenic reaction and was released at her mother and sister’s insistence. Davis killed her two sons John 9 and Kevin 21 months claiming others looked down on them. A homicide verdict was returned and a first degree murder warrant issued with no bond.
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ST. Louis
Kathryn Davis
Pat Birmes
Davis
John
Kevin
Billionth Dollar Loaned by Land Bank of Omaha
The Federal Land Bank of Omaha reached its billionth loan with a closing to Dennis J. Donovan a Garretson dairy farmer. Since 1917 it has made 167700 long term farm mortgage loans to farmers in Iowa Nebraska South Dakota and Wyoming totaling 492763000 in Iowa 297165000 in Nebraska 173406000 in South Dakota and 37675000 in Wyoming.
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Omaha
Federal Land Bank of Omaha
Dennis J. Donovan
Garretson
S. D
Iowa
Nebraska
South Dakota
Wyoming
Land Bank
H. A. Viergutz
Fort Dodge approves new gas rate ordinance
Fort Dodge city council passed a gas rate ordinance increasing charges by three tenths of a cent per 100 cubic feet with a temporary 57 hundredths of a cent refundable bump if the Federal Power Commission rejects Northern Natural Gas Company’s wholesale rate rise. Iowa Illinois Gas and Electric’s request for a 13 cent jump was previously trimmed. The ordinance takes effect January 1.
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Fort Dodge
INS
Federal Power Commission
Northern Natural Gas Company
Omaha
Northern Natural
Iowa-Illinois Gas and Electric Company
Iowa-Illinois
Harvey Uhlenhopp
Iowa- Illinois
Weather Outlook Sees Warmer West in January
The Weather Bureau reports a 30 day outlook for January with below normal temperatures in the eastern third of the nation and above normal warmth from the Mississippi to the Pacific, strongest in the southern Rockies. Precipitation expected near or above normal in the Southwest and along the West Coast, with below normal elsewhere. An annual meeting notice follows for the Peresp ual Bar and Loan Association with details of date, time, and agenda.
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Washington
Weather Bureau
Mississippi
Pacific
Rockies
Baines
Ackhelders
Peresp Ual
Notice of Dissolution for Mockholders Corporation
Notice states dissolution of Mockholders Corporation with a meeting of stockholders in Dee Rapids on a date in 1955. It notes stockholders by proxy and majority consent to dissolve the corporation, signed by the president and dated in 1955.
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K L
Notice of Probate Proceedings in Linn County Court
Notice filed in the District Court of Linn County Iowa concerning a decedent and related heirs. The document references an instrument purporting to be a will and directs proceedings at the Cedar Rapids area court with dates around late January.
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State of Iowa
Linn County
al Sien
Cedar
Lowa
Thur Azybar
Kk District Court
Ihainley
Notices of Will Probate in Cedar Rapids and Linn County
Fragmented public notices announce probate actions for wills in Cedar Rapids and Linn County Iowa. Dates list January and December deadlines with attorneys Mapids Lovereot, Silliman & Gray, and Kubicek Novek & Gare handling filings and court appearances.
Prosecution urged for Matusow and backers in Communist plot
Senate investigation urges government to prosecute Harvey Matusow and sponsors as conspirators in a Communist plot to obstruct justice. It calls for barring lawyers who refuse to swear they are not Communists and cites Matusow’s false claims, backers like Witt and Kahn, and a push for new trials for convicted Reds.
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Washington
INS
Senate
Harvey M. Matusow
Senate Internal Security
Matusow
Communist Party
New York
Nnone
Justice Department
Nathan) Witt
Albert E.) Kahn
Witt
Jencks
Kahn
Department of Justice
U. S
Estate of Joseph Noval Named in Probate Filing
In re the estate of Joseph Noval of Linn County Iowa the 1955 inventory and qualification are recorded. Creditors are urged to present their claims promptly to the undersigned executrix Audrey Deli bt Novak and attorneys Kubicek Novak Kubicek.
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Gember
Joseph Noval
Linnounty
Pnderi Ued
Gale Pate
Linn
Lowe
Audrey Deli Bt Novak
Notice of Probate Will in State of Iowa Court
Notice of probate proceedings appears in a garbled Iowa notice. It references a court, a date, and the filing of a will for Cedar Rapids area, with unspecified parties and duties. The legible elements point to a probate action with a court hearing or filing deadlines.
Notice of hearing on will probate in Cedar Rapids
Notice is hereby given that in the county an alleged last will and testament of Boyes, late of the county, will come on for hearing before the District Court at Cedar Rapids. The hearing is for probate of the will and appointment of a guardian, with action to vacate the prior order. Attorneys are listed as Hirsod’s.
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Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Fordar
Brgety
Dar Rapids
Inn County
Krebs
Amin Ing
Tadoo
Betty
Tows
AMES
Seaham
Said Corporation
Rita Ts St Corporation
Seamen Lng
Gtoe
Fald Coation c. Mmermut
Ant
Secre
Aireetors
P Habili- Aprtion Lass Company
Amore
Spal Albright, Lwood
George H. Oh
Sen. Hennings
D-Mo
Subcommittee
Matusow
el Paso
Lowa
Gorin
Cal
Boyes
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Jimmy Hatle
Fellas
Skinhead
Iowa Ag
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Iowan
Little
Ude M. Krebs
Gounell
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Tncorporation
Mate
Amos Barnaby Hoople
Owls Club
Kaffa
Land Bank of Omaha
Rochar
Aid County
Pew c
Kubicek, Novek & Gare
Am AE Ban Barnes
Wadeworth
Locher
Attorey
Ted
Eek
Disa Court
Silliman & Gray
Alvin Spivak
Veterans Administration
New Yorker
Roy M. Cohn
Elizabeth Bentley
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