Linn Second In Savings Bond Sales
DES MOINES Six Iowa counties posted more than six million dollars in savings bonds in 1946 led by Polk Linn Woodbury Scott Dubuque and Black Hawk state director Roger F Warin reported total state sales reached seventy percent of 1945 figures and Linn County alone sold 9 637 553 with Johnson Iowa Clayton and other counties also posting sizable totals public notice of county by county breakdowns and remarks on postwar sales persistence.
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Gazette
Des Moines
Iowa
U. S
Roger F. Warin
Treasury Department
Savings
Polk
Linn
Woodbury
Scott
Dubuque
Black Hawk
Warin
Delaware
Fayette
Jackson
Johnson
Jones
Poweshiek
Tama
Winneshiek
Lutherans Plea for More Social Workers in Iowa
At the Southeast Iowa Lutheran Welfare Society meeting in Iowa City delegates from 18 counties heard Rev. LeRoy F. Weihe urge more trained social workers to aid welfare efforts for children. Officers elected: President Rev. Russell W. Johnson, Burlington. Vice President Rev. Hans Sandrock, Lost Nation. Secretary Rev. Ralph Krueger, Iowa City. Treasurer A. R. Drews, Iowa City.
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Iowa City
Southeast
Iowa Lutheran Welfare Society
LeRoy F. Weihe
Lutheran Children’s Home
Nachusa, Ill
Iowa
First English Lutheran Church
Russell W. Johnson
Burlington
Hans Sandrock
Lost Nation
Ralph Krueger
A. R. Drews
Iowa Marriages Trimmed In Early 1930s Record
Clarence Wulff daughter of Ernest Wulff wed LeRoy Hansen son of George Hansen January 1931 at St John’s Evangelical and Reformed Church in West Union. Helen Lines from Waterloo married Robert Kohler son of Carl Kohler in West Union on Wednesday.
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Clarence—Verna Wulff
Ernest Wulff
LeRoy Hansen
George Hansen
St. John’s Evangelical and Reformed Parsonage
West Union
Helen Lines
Waterloo
Robert Kohler
Carl Kohler
Iowa Woman Escapes From Burning Trailer
DES MOINES Iowa Mrs Glenn Crawford wife of a Des Moines detective escaped injury when trapped in her burning trailer late Tuesday She fought flames and smoke to reach a door after oil from a leaky heater ignited Andrew Larsen living next door narrowly escaped being wounded when a box of bullets in the Crawford trailer exploded and riddled the front of his trailer Loss was estimated at 2000 with 500 covered by insurance
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Des Moines
INS
Glenn Crawford
Andrew Larsen
Crawfords
Crawford
Maurice Ricker Trial At Iowa City Feb 17
Maurice Ricker a Frytown machinist faces district court in Iowa City on February 17 for assault with intent to murder Irene Venzki. He pled not guilty at a 1945 arraignment. Previously he was ordered to Mount Pleasant state hospital for the insane, a ruling later reversed by the Iowa Supreme Court directing a district trial.
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Iowa City
Maurice Ricker
Frytown
Ricker
Irene Venzki
State Psychopathic Hospital
Edward L. O'Connor
Swisher
State Hospital For
Mount Pleasant
Iowa
Anamosa man jailed for selling estrayed property
Clarence Rickels, 40, was sentenced to six months in jail in district court after pleading guilty to selling estrayed property before legal title was invested in him. Two charges of larceny and false pretense were dismissed.
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Anamosa
Clarence Rickels
Fort Des Moines housing shelter counts veterans and Drake ties
AP reports the Fort Des Moines emergency housing project houses over 2,200 people including 618 veterans families and 100 single veterans attending Drake university. About 100 veteran family heads are also Drake students.
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Fort Des Moines
Fort Des Moines Emergency Housing Project
Drake University
Drake
Iowa s hospital building plan aims to speed construction
A proposed enabling act in Iowa would set up a state health department division to coordinate federal funds for $20 million in new hospitals and clinics over five years. The plan requires a hospital advisory council, with state officials, administrators, doctors and civic leaders, paid only for expenses.
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Des Moines
Iowa
House
Congress
State Health Department
Iowa U Provides Housing for Centennial Guests
Iowa City June centennial events include housing for about 400 off campus guests. Prof. F G Higbee, centennial chair, says alumni and friends will stay in Hillcrest dormitory Currier Hall and cottages June 5 to 8, with ceremonies June 7. Requests due May 15 to Old Capitol. Visitors may eat at Quadrangle, Iowa Union cafeterias, and Currier dining room.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa
F. G. Higbee
Hillcrest
Currier
Higbee
Centennial Committee
Old Capitol
Quadrangle
Iowa Union
Travels 1300 Miles To See First Snow
Mrs. H. B. Cowart of Baton Rouge Louisiana traveled 1300 miles to see snow for the first time. She met Mrs. E. L. Shugart of Fort Dodge at a Miami Beach convention last fall. Shugart had promised to notify Cowart when Iowa had a real snowstorm and Cowart arrived 48 hours after the blizzard hit.
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Fort Dodge
H. B. Cowart
Baton Rouge
E. L. Shugart
Miami Beach
Fla
Iowa City River Safety Meeting Set With City County and Uni Officials
Iowa City will host a joint meeting of city county and University of Iowa officials to plan river safety for summer as canoeing and boating rise and concerns grow over families with small children living in riverbank trailers. Mayor Teeters notes previous drownings and that a special safety report from a joint committee has not been delivered.
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Iowa City
Iowa
University of Iowa
Wilber J. Teeters
John Rothlisberger
Teeters
State College Music Groups To Make Tours
Iowa State College music groups plan spring tours with the symphony orchestra band and glee clubs touring 24 counties. Prof Tolbert MacRae announced the groups will visit Algona Emmetsburg Spencer Storm Lake Sac City and Fort Dodge on March 2 and 3 as the orchestra tours first under Prof Alvin R Edgar. The band begins a 17-concert run March 23 in Iowa and Illinois, directed by Edgar, while the glee club heads west and south into Missouri beginning March 24 under MacRae.
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Ames
Iowa
Iowa State College
Tolbert MacRae
Department of Music
Symphony Orchestra
Alvin R. Edgar
Algona
Emmetsburg
Spencer
Storm Lake
Sac City
Fort Dodge
Edgar
Ilinois
Glee Club
MacRae
Missouri
University Band to Tour Iowa Cities in Spring
The University of Iowa concert band under Prof. Charles B. Righter will tour Iowa cities the week of March 24 29 marking the first spring tour since 1941. Musicians travel by bus and a prior 1942 schedule was canceled ten days before opening due to a wartime bus charter ban.
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the Gazette
Iowa City
University of Iowa
Iowa Cities
Charles B. Righter
Fire Causes $40,000 Damage at Shenandoah
A one story brick storehouse housing the Revell Transfer and Storage Company and the May Seed Company was destroyed in a blaze that required over four hours of effort by Essex Red Oak and Shenandoah firemen. Guests at the Delmonico hotel nearby were evacuated as smoke spread into the hotel. The loss covered furniture and a large stock of garden seeds.
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Shenandoah, Ia
Ins
Delmonico Hotel
Revell Transfer and Storage Company
May Seed Company
Essex
Red Oak
Shenandoah
Clair Limbeck Rites Held at Guttenberg
Services for Clair Limbeck 59 president and general manager of the Iowa Food Products Corp were held in the Lutheran church here Wednesday. A native of Ossian Limbeck died Sunday in a Dubuque hospital. His wife and mother survive.
Predicts 2000 New Prefab Homes in Iowa
DES MOINES AP Report says about 2000 prefabricated homes will be erected in Iowa this year. Harry H. Cutler of the Prefabricated Home Manufacturers Institute told the Iowa Mortgage Bankers Association convention in Des Moines that construction plans and market prospects were favorable.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Iowa Mortgage Bankers Association
Harry H. Cutler
Washington, D. C
Cedar Rapids Gazette item from February 5 1947
Local news brief from Cedar Rapids Gazette dated February 5 1947 notes community events and notices typical of mid-century city reporting. Details are partially legible, highlighting civic happenings and public interest items relevant to residents.
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Cedar Rapids
National Housing Authority approves four Iowa prefab firms
Four Iowa house prefab firms in Waterloo Dubuque Clinton and Boone won approval by the National Housing Authority in 1946, stated Cutler a former Des Moines resident.
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Iowa House
Waterloo
Dubuque
Clin
Ton and
Boone
National Housing Authority
Cutler
Des Moines
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