Iowa University president choice discussed by board
A state education board sub committee spent a day in confidential talks with faculty and four students on the next University of Iowa president. While no decision emerged, May 1 was seen as the earliest possible announcement date and Dean Herbert Jackson was mentioned as a potential candidate.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa
State Board of Education
Franklin Roosevelt
Gilmore
Herbert Jackson
Leland Stanford University
California
Jackson
College of Commerce
Patricia Sleezer
Freeport
George Willoughby
Des Moines
Roland Christensen
Merle Miller
Marshalltown
H. C. Shall
Sioux City
George T. Baker
Davenport
W. Earl Hall
Mason City
T. W. Keenan
Shenandoah
Richard Plock
Burlington
Anna Lawther
Dubuque
Mr. Baker
Coralville dam project stirs Iowa political backing
Fronted as a federal funded $6 million dam on the Iowa River Johnson and Iowa counties faces state hurdles. The attorney general allows federal construction with no state action needed though the conservation commission would have to approve. The commission has rejected it over backwash risk to Lake Macbride. Labor groups back the dam for jobs while backers push an undercover push for Col Hanford MacNider as a presidential candidate. Iowa WPA chief Keller endorses the MacNider bid and Gov Wilson has not committed.
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Frank Nye
ES Moines
IDPA
Coralville
Iowa River
Johnson
Iowa
State Conservation Commission
Lake
Macbride
Iowa Wpa
George J. Keller
University of Iowa
College of Engineering
Col
Hanford MacNider
Mason City
George A. Wilson
MacNider
Waterworks plans spark Iowa City water quality debate
Administrator Keller argues a proposed dam would improve Iowa City water from the Iowa River by a sediment settling lake for purer supply. Iowa City residents face private water bills from the Iowa Water Service Company led by George J. Keller. The piece also notes Republican politics and traffic studies around the University of Iowa games.
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Keller
Iowa City
Iowa River
Iowa Citians
Iowa Water Service Company
Earl G. Miller
George J. Keller
Tipton Ends Through Train Service Abandons Main Line
Tipton will become a terminal for Rock Island and North Western spur lines after the last Rock Island Cedar Rapids to Clinton freight passes. Track between Elmira and Tipton and between Bennett and Clinton is abandoned. Plato, Buchanan, New Liberty, McCausland and Dixon workers face reassignment as section crews lose jobs. March 26, Mrs. H J Dane, county chairman, disclosed. Scouts celebrate American Scouting’s 30th birthday with events in Iowa City February 7 to 14 and an ice carnival at Melrose lake featuring performers from multiple cities. Local officials note Tipton’s railroad history marked by repeated proposals and eventual abandonment.
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Tipton
Rock Island Way
Cedar Rapids
Clinton
Rock Island
Elmira
Bennett
Stockton
Stanwood
Iowa City
Enterprise
Muscatine
H. J. Dane
Boy Scouts of
America
Owen B. Thiel
WSUI
H. Clay Harshbarger
University of Iowa
Melrose Lake
Waterloo
Tri-Cities
Gusti Grayston
Dorothy Keppler
Jim McGreevy
Norma Leeney
Vito Lopin
Ray Consamus
Jack Perdue
Harold Simmen
Eunice McLaughlin
Tom Mahan
H. C. Houghton
Red Oak
Iowa State Board of Education
University Hospital
Houghton
I Iowa
Fayette county D A R candidate chosen for Washington trip
Eastern Iowa notes show Fayette county selects Oelwein senior Marian Eck as its D A R candidate for a Washington trip based on dependability patriotism and citizenship. Selection aided by West Union superintendent D R Roberts Dr C C Hall and Rev Paul Zoschke. state competition to follow soon.
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West Union
Marian Eck
Oelwein
Fayette County
D.A.R
Washington, D. C
D. R. Roberts
C. C. Hall
Maynard
Paul Zos
MacNider faults budget politics in Scottish society speech
Colonel MacNider told a Sioux City Scottish society meeting on January 27 that there is a crying need for Scots in Washington to balance the budget. He commented that any Scot could do it and joked about the Scottish name.
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Topeka
Kan
MacNider
Scottish Society
Sioux City
Washington
Twelve County I. O. O. F. Convention Set for West Union
West Union hosts the twelve county grand lodge school and convention on February 12 with M O Fouts and a committee listing leaders from Independence Hawkeye Des Moines Keokuk Cedar Falls Massena and others. The Mount Auburn degree team performs the initiatory degree at the evening session.
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West Union
M. O. Fouts
Independence
10.O.F. Lodge
Iowa
Grand Lodge
Mr. Fouts
Dayton H. Winter
Independence Lodge
R. C. Pixler
H. P. Olesen
Walter H. Barnes
Hawkeye
H. W. Hardy
Hampton
W. A. Merriam
Des Moines
Ethel Miller
Keokuk
Rebekah Assembly
Yell Crawford
Cedar Falls
P. D. Griffith
Massena
A. D
Mrs Laura Kohl Rites Held In Mechanicsville
Funeral services for Laura Jane Kohl 82 longtime Mechanicsville resident were held at the Methodist church with burial in the local cemetery. Born October 14 1857 in Jones county she married Duane Kohl in 1874 and lived on a farm north of Mechanicsville before moving to town. Surviving are three sons Joseph Tom Alvin a daughter Mary Staab nine grandchildren nine great grandchildren three brothers two sisters and several relatives. Preceded in death were a son a brother and three sisters.
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Mechanicsville
Laura Jane Kohl
Joseph
Margaret Scott
Jones County
Duane Kohl
Kohl
Tom
Alvin
Dallas
Tex
Mary Staab
George
Frank
Tom Scott
Mary Pfeiffer
Johnstown
Neb
Iowa City News Briefs Highlights Local Elections and Events
Iowa City residents John von Lackum Jr Tom D Horn and Everett E Shaefer join state historical society members along with nine others from Davenport Fayette Des Moines Doud Sioux City Clarion Treynor Forest City and Atkins A building trades council collects over 3000 signatures urging a six million dollar Coralville dam Governor Wilson to receive petitions next week funeral services set for Mary Cuker 86 near Oxford born in Czechoslovakia and survived by four daughters and a son Associated Women of Johnson County Farm Bureau to sponsor County Achievement Day in Iowa City.
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Iowa City
Iowa
O. P. Morton
Clarion
H. W. van Doren
Atkins
Robert Wagner
Treynor
Dudley Weibl
Forest City
Iowa City Building Trades Council
Johnson County
Coralville
Lawrence Stoewer
George A. Wilson
Mary Cuker
Oxford
Four Iowa law seniors chosen to argue before state Supreme Court
Dean Mason Ladd of the University of Iowa College of Law named four senior students who will argue before the Iowa Supreme Court on Supreme Court Day. The honorees are John Hyland of Traer C Davison Metz Burlington Paul F Kriethe Burt and John Donahey Panora. Supreme Court Day is set for April 4 under Arthur O Leff's direction.
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Iowa City
Mason Ladd
College of Law
University of Iowa
Iowa Supreme Court
Supreme Court
John Hyland
Traer
C. Davison Metz
Burlington
Paul F. Kriethe
Burt
John Donahey
Panora
Arthur O. Leff
Law College
State Cars Cut Costs by 95558 in 1939 Des Moines
Savings of 95558 were achieved in operating the state's fleet last year as 60 machines were removed from 20 departments while the remainder ran at reduced cost. The dispatcher's summary covered 260 cars in daily use on highways, excluding boards and commissions. December totals show 260 autos traveling 576789 miles for 15177.10 dollars, about two cents per mile. The highway patrol fleet of 114 autos totaled 302887 miles for 8704 dollars. State trucks numbered 52, with 44 by the conservation commission, covered 42273 miles for 837 dollars.
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Des Moines
INS
George W
Board of Education
Board of Control
Highway Commission
Hesalroad
Highway Patrol and Drivers License Division
The
Conservation Commission
Mechanicsville Girl Weds Anamosa Man
Louise Ione Simpson of Mechanicsville married Max Wortman Jr. of Anamosa at the Simpson home in Mechanicsville with Rev. J K Delahooke officiating. Attendants were Phyllis Lister of Anamosa and Glenn Koppenhaver of Anamosa. The couple will reside in Anamosa after a wedding trip.
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Mechanicsville
Anamosa
Ray R. Simpson
Louise Ione
Max Wortman, Jr
J. K. Delahooke
Methodist
Phyllis Lister
Glenn Koppenhaver
Iowa County Grand Jurors Indict Two
A Grand jury in Iowa County returned indictments this week. Burl Johnson 28 inmate of Anamosa reform school charged with breaking and entering the office of County Treasurer R W Zuber on February 27. Johnson was sent to the reform school from Fayette county after a similar conviction. James Hawley indicted for false uttering of a $30 check. Hawley’s whereabouts are unknown.
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Marengo
Burl Johnson
Anamosa Reformatory
R. W. Zuber
Johnson
Reformatory
Fayette County
James Hawley
Iowa
Hawley
Lifelong Keokuk County Resident Dies at 77
Henry Voltmer 77 a lifelong Keokuk county resident died Wednesday after a weeklong illness He is survived by his brother Dave Voltmer Funeral services will be Saturday at 2 pm at Nimmers chapel led by Rev Roy A Wilson Burial will be in West Cemetery
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Sigourney
Henry Voltmer
Keokuk County
Dave Voltmer
Nimmers Chapel
Roy A. Wilson
West Cemetery
Separate Accidents Take Lives Of 3 In Day At Sioux City
AP reports three traffic deaths in Sioux City area. Leroy Hagerdon, 35, of near Smithland, dies from injuries from a Jan. 24 collision on Highway 141. Earlier, 7-year-old Leroy Gardner crushed under a coal truck and Christina Brown, 73, dies after being struck near a Seventh Day Adventist church.
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Sioux City
Leroy Hagerdon
Smithland
Leroy Gardner
Albert Gardner
Christina Brown
J. W. Haugan
Seventh Day Adventist Church
Four Nomination Papers Filed By Four Iowa Republicans
DES MOINES AP Four men asked for nomination papers in Iowa races. Rep Dewey Goode of Bloomfield seeks the state senate seat from Davis and Appanoose counties. Karl LeCompte of Corydon seeks Fifth District congressman. Sanford Zeigler Jr of Fairfield seeks the Jefferson and Van Buren senate seat. W C Axmear of Keswick seeks Keokuk county state representative.
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Des Moines
Dewey Goode
Bloomfield
Iowa
Davis
Karl M. le Compte
Corydon
Sanford Zeigler, Jr
Fairfield
Jefferson
van Buren
W. C. Axmear
Keswick
Keokuk County
Death of Mrs. Sarah M. Kelly in Waukon
Sarah M. Kelly, born November 21, 1863 in Wabasha County Minnesota, died Tuesday at her sister Mrs. Thomas Lee home after a paralytic stroke a week earlier. She moved to Waukon in 1908 and worked as a general store clerk. She married John H. Kelly in Bancroft in 1908. he died in 1926. Survived by brothers Matt Kennedy New Hampton and J. E. Kennedy Hutchinson and sister Mrs. Lee Waukon. Funeral services were held Thursday at St Patrick Church and burial was in Mount Olivet Cemetery.
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Willis Koepp
F. Koepp
Calmar
Peter F. Kjerlaug
St. John’s Lutheran Church
Waukon
Fred Wendt
Henry
Will
Emma Wendt
Toledo
J. F. Paulsen
Newhall
St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church
van Horne
Ullerich
St. John’s Cemetery
Belle Blaine
Royal Neighbor Lodge
Oracle
Clara McGrew
Pearl Grey
Velma Vaughn
Sadie England
Hazel Beem
Sadie Erwin
Minnie Shirley
Margaret Huron
Inner Sentinel
Loma Brown
Outer Sentinel
Mary Taylor
Ada Hoffman
Katherine Haloupek
Alice Burns
Dorothy Haloupek
Faith
Sarah Mansfield
St. Patrick’s Church
Mount Olivet Cemetery
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Douglas Miller
Wilson
John Denosin
Iowa Labor Defense League
Iowa Students’ League
Denison
Victor Pomerantz
ISL
John Gilotti
Paul Bates
Sam Karchomsky
Council Bluffs
Leah Orlicht
New York City
Iowa News
Dewitt
Fred Holcomb
Garden Plain
Ill
Elmwood Cemetery
Janesville
Wis
Mary Parrish
Clyde Parker
Morrison, Ill
Charles Leavens
Albany
Nil
Mary Holcomb
Buffalo
N. Y
Andrew
Frederick
John
Robert
Edward
Herbert
Elbert Haney
Leora Garbaugh
J. Garbaugh
Maurice McMahon
M. F. McMahon
St. Joseph's Catholic Church
John Moriarty
Bernadine McMahon
LaVerne Garbaugh
Mrs. McMahon
Decorah
Eddie Anderson
Nile Kinnick
Henry David Thornberry
Fijelstul Chapel
O. Glesne
Mr. Thornberry
Decorah Hospital
Pendleton County
Daniel Thornberry
Thornberry
Cedar County
Virgil Hill
Hill
W. W. Christian
Helen Sersland
John Sersland
Near
Columbus Junction
Columbus High School
Dean Jacobs
Charles Bloomquist
James Merritt
Bud Lynn
Roger Hill
Dale Drinkall
Norman Gentzler
Donald Story
Robert Greene
Russell Greene
Earlville
Earlville Methodist Church
Edgar Talmadge
Chicago
H. H. Palmer
Fairview
Jessie Sheppy
Orren Talmadge
Hopkinton
B. W. Wesche
Marathon
Great Western Railroad
Talmadge
Great Western Road
C. M. Gould
Maquoketa
H. D. Keeley
Jackson County Bar Association
E. L. Schoenthaler
John Schwirtz
Bellevue
Owen Seamonds
John Jargo
Jackson County Medical Society
R. E. Dwyer
Preston
O. L. Frank
E. V. Andrew
William Lowder
John W. Jordan
Board of Censors
G. C. Ryan
E. A. Hanske
Woman's Auxiliary
Dwyer
E. L. Lampe
Hanske
State Woman's Auxiliary
Laura Kohl
Thur Tay
Mason
P. L. Hazy“ney
Consus
Reams
C. V. Shephen Agency
Bereenal
Life Ensurance
Montpelier
Vermont
Dows
Tra
Ade
ATG
Frong
Riversides
Montgomery
Second St. SE
Dial
Port Oxford
Winter King
Montgomery Ward
National Hybrid Corn Company
M. Wortman. Jr
Iowa County
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