House to take up six school code bills Monday
Des Moines AP The Fifty-first Iowa legislature will begin pushing school code measures in the house with six bills set as special orders of business. Rep Albert Steinberg says the bills include hearings on contract cancellations and an increase in minimum salaries, tuition ceilings, school closures, kindergarten mandates and vocational education tuition challenges. The senate has approved some measures and awaits action on others.
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DES Moines
House of Representatives
Iowa
Albert Steinberg
Rames
House Schools Committee
Senate
House
State Board of Public Instruction
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Des Moines Tavern Operators Burned by Missing Salesman
In Des Moines, at least six tavern operators say a traveling salesman collected about 1800 dollars for cigarets and nylon hose then vanished. He promised delivery by a set time, but left town on a Chicago-bound train, leaving buyers high and dry with prepaid orders.
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Des Moines
Polk County
Francis Kuble
Glass Bar Wrecked in Night Club Fire Fort Madison
Fort Madison AP reports the Glass Bar night club, famed for its all glass bar, was destroyed by a basement explosion and fire Thursday night. Owner George Rashid estimated losses at 12 000 to 14 000 and said he will reopen in a new building west of the current site within two weeks. The incident followed past attention after a Fort Madison woman and her daughter attacked the club with axes, smashing gambling devices.
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Fort Madison
George Rashid
Star of Hope Rebekah lodge marks 75th anniversary
Clinton AP notes the Star of Hope Rebekah lodge will observe its seventy fifth anniversary with a special program on March 2. The lodge was instituted in March.
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Clinton
Star of Hope Rebekah Lodge
Good Savory Smells Good Food Too For Pupils At Edgewood No 1
Louise Lux reports Edgewood school No 1 in Cedar Rapids runs a mothers club hot lunch program. Volunteers prepare a rotating menu including chili creamed chicken Spanish rice beef and noodles and vegetable casseroles. Seventy three pupils ordered lunch that day with sixty to ninety served seasonally.
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Edgewood No. 1
Edgewood School
Mothers Club
Edgewood School No. 1
Edgewood
Betty Korsmo
Rosemary Andrick
Bubbles Rowray
Betty Pratt
S. M. Pattee
Johnson Avenue NW
L. T. Swanson
Sebason Avenue NW
Henry Hanover
Henry
Edgewood Ta
Callanish
Edgewood School No
Gene Millard
Eroyle McQueen
Dean Keith
Anna Hootman
Gloria Korsmo
Donnie Ferris
Billy Korsmo
Women Should Be Permitted to Remain in Army Postwar
Mrs. Oswald B. Lord of New York, chair of the national civilian advisory committee to the Women’s Army corps, urged that women be allowed to serve in the standing army after the war. She noted the WAC’s role in peacetime plans and highlighted skills where trained women excel, including cryptography, communications, and administrative work. WAC medical technicians have strong hospital records and could assist civilian hospitals.
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Des Moines
Oswald B. Lord
New York
Women’s Army Corps
Lord
WAC
Congress
Wacs
Jarrett to Hang Friday at Sunrise
William Jasper Jarrett a 54 year old farmhand who walked eight miles in near zero weather to kill a farm couple is scheduled to die on the gallows at the state penitentiary at sunrise Friday for the crime He pled guilty to the Jan 11 1944 slaying of Everett Warden a Gowrie farmer whom Jarrett formerly worked for Warden was beaten with an iron plow hitch Jarrett said he also intended to kill Mrs Warden but his gun would not go off so he beat her She escaped and called authorities He will be the second murderer hanged at the prison within two months after Stanley M Kaster was executed Dec 29 for killing a Waverly utilities guard He observed his fifty fourth birthday Wednesday without any outside contact and had no mail or visitors He is in good spirits and eats sleeps well He has not sought spiritual solace and the body disposition is undecided
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Fort Madison
William Jasper Jarrett
State Penitentiary
Jarrett
Everett Warden
Gowrie
Warden
Stanley M. Kaster
Waverly Utilities
Iowa
Shipe defends Cedar Rapids retailers against stigma
Cedar Rapids retailers faced a price stigma after a December survey found 91 of 152 stores in compliance with ceiling prices. W. T. Shipe, Linn County Retail Food Dealers association secretary, released telegrams arguing no widespread overpricing and noting corrective steps by Des Moines officials.
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Cedar Rapids
Chester Bowles
W. T.shipe
Linn County Retail Food Dealers l Association
Shipe
Bowles
United States
OPA
Cedar” Rapids
Washington
Kline
Whittington
Des Moines
Walter D. Kline
Floyd L. Whittington
Linn County Price Panel
Shock Proves Fatal in Dubuque Woman's Death
Miss Ange line Rubesky died Friday hours after learning her brother James had died in New York City Thursday night. She had been in ill health and the shock worsened her condition.
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Dubuque
Angeline Rubesky
James
New York City
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