Iverson Fights Move to Remove Braille School From Commission
Iverson, head of the Iowa braille and sight saving school at Vinton, testifies before the senate board of control about a bill to replace the superintendent as automatic member of the commission for the blind. He argues for defined roles and a five member board with mixed appointments to avoid duplication and save state funds.
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Des Moines
APS
Iowa
Senate Board of Control Committee
Lee A. Iverson
Iverson Iowa Braille and
Vinton
Iverson
Kenneth Jernigan
Commission For the Blind
Commission
W. L. Mooty
Senate
Board of Control
Jernigan
Board of Regents
State Board of Public Instruction
Fred Wright
Department of Public Instruction
Traer Forms New Junior Chamber of Commerce
A new Junior Chamber of Commerce is organized in Traer. Charter night banquet planned February 28. Officers include Win Watson president Melvin Reinig first vice president Donald Gates second vice president Kent Holst secretary Terry Martin treasurer Bob Podhajsky state director Jim Young Ron Karr Tom Paul directors. Dues set at 12 dollars per year or 1 dollar monthly for late joiners. Regular meetings tentatively set for the second Monday and fourth Tuesday.
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Chamber of Commerce
Traer
Win Watson
Melvin Reinig
Donald Gates
Kent Holst
Terry Martin
Bob Podhajsky
Jim Young
Ron Karr
Tom Paul
Land Buying for 80 in Johnson Is Completed
Iowa City report states Interstate 80 right of way in Johnson county is secured with condemnations started where needed. Appeals challenge sheriff jury awards on several Johnson county farms including Oxford area. Damages range from 5,500 to 45,000 with several farm parcels totaling acres described.
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Johnson
Iowa City
Highway Commission
Johnson County
District Court
Oxford
Joseph Collins
Generea ‘Collins
Stella Swanson
Dewey Swanson
Joe Kinney
Sylvia Kinney
W. J. Harney
H. L. Michel
Bertha Michel
Virgil Michel
Betty Michel
Maytag Notes Gains In Sales And Earnings In 1962
Maytag Co. reports preliminary figures showing moderate gains in sales and earnings for 1962. Net sales for the company and domestic subsidiaries reached 111,150,457 dollars, up 3.5 percent from 1961, while earnings totaled 12,721,516 dollars, up 5.3 percent. Last year earnings were 1.92 dollars per share.
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Newton
Maytag Co
Iowa Lawmaker Reintroduces Stamp Licking Night Bill
Rep Wayne Shaw of Charles City reintroduces a bill to require trading stamp companies to set a cash value and redeem stamps for cash on request. The measure, last passed 91 to 13 two years ago, aims to curb stamp losses and boost cash spending for merchants.
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Des Moines
UPI
Wayne Shaw
Rcharles City
Iowa House
Shaw
Senate
Mason City
Charles City
House
John Duffy
D-Dubuque
A. L. Mensing
R Lowden
Merle Hagedorn
R-Royal
Katherine Falvey
Albia
Frances Hakes
R-Laurens
Percie van Alstine
Gilmore City
Harold Fischer
R Wellsburg
Niels J. Nielsen
D-Ringsted
Elmer Vermeer
R-Pella
Fred L
Palo City Names Owens Deputy Marshal
Palo council on Monday named Ray mond Owens deputy marshal to replace Marvin Richardson whose contract expired.
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Palo
Raymond Owens
Marvin Richardson
Dysart Driver Hurt in Leap from Burning Car
Shirlene Yung a 19 year old bank employee suffered a skull fracture after leaping from a burning car south of Dysart on Highway 21 about 4 15 p m Monday She jumped from the moving vehicle as flames Issued from the dashboard and landed on the pavement Attendants at a nearby service station called the fire department and she was taken to a Waterloo hospital.
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Gazette Dysart
Shirlene Yung
Dysart State Bank
Dysart
Highway 21
Miss Yung
Waterloo
Heart Program At University Hospitals Sunday
IOWA CITY County heart fund workers in adjacent counties are invited to a program at University Hospitals cardiovascular laboratories Sunday at 2 p.m. The event features two movies, From Heart to Heart narrated by Dr. Robert Wilkins and Heart Surgery at the State University of Iowa narrated by Dr. J. L. Ehr endhaft.
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Iowa City
Five Months in France for Monticello Girl
Nancy Perkins daughter of Dr and Mrs Lyman Perkins Monticello leaves Thursday for Grenoble France to study French at the University of Grenoble for five months She just finished the first semester of her junior year at Cornell College Mt Vernon majoring in French She will live with a French family hosting four children and return to the U S in late June
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Monticello
Nancy Perkins
Lyman Perkins
Grenoble
France
University of
U.S
Quasqueton Telephone Elects Officers at Annual Meeting
Quasqueton New officers elected are Irwin Daubenberger president Ed Franck vice president Allen Neal secretary Martin Nielsen treasurer Mildred Carner rehired as phone operator starting her 13th year on the job.
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Gazette Quasqueton
Quasqueton Telephone Exchange
Irwin Daubenberger
Ed Franck
Allen Neal
Martin Nielsen
Mildred Carner
Decorah Meeting on tro tri county committee chair reb
A Decorah meeting of the Assn for Mentally Retarded Children will be held at the Thomas Roberts School Wednesday at 8 p.m. The event gathers committee chairs from the three counties to discuss advocacy and activities.
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Decorah
Assn
Thomas Roberts School
Booster Club appoints new officers in Quasqueton
Off icers named for the Booster club include Don Sauer as president Stewart Aldrich as vice president Mrs Glenn Queck as secretary Mrs Raymond Love as treasurer and Dale Kress as director at large in Quasqueton.
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Gazette Quasqueton
Booster Club
Don Sauer
Stewart Aldrich
Glenn Queck
Raymond Love
Dale Kress
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Vinton Braille School
George Brown
Mary Louise Smith
Eagle Grove
A. R. Winter
Fredericksburg
Clabre
BUICK
Arrowstraight
Wildcat
Ll Beautiful LeSabre
Solon
Owens
U. Hospitals
Quasqueton Telephone Co
NADA
California
Chain-De Liers Iin
Iowa Electric Power Company
Spright’s
Third Street SE
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