Legion Has 7 Point Legislative Program
The Iowa American Legion proposes a seven point plan on housing education and veteran welfare. Cedar Rapids chairman B D Silliman cites repealing an eight decade housing rule to ease prefab homes, expanding college facilities, boosting faculty salaries, extending orphaned veteran aid, limiting soldiers preference benefits to wartime veterans, designating VJ day August 14 as a state holiday, and increasing funds for state mental hospitals and capital projects.
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Des Moines
Iowa American Legion
B. D. Silliman
Cedar Rapids
Orphan’s Educational Aid Fund
Legion
Iowa
Silliman
Iowa Legion Presses for Higher University Funding
The American Legion urges adequate state funding for the University of Iowa and Iowa State colleges to attract top teachers. It cites veterans’ influence, calls for capital improvements at state mental hospitals, and supports better salaries for psychiatrists penologists and child welfare specialists, with possible changes to juvenile confinement laws.
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Veterans of
Iowa
United States
Legion
Mrs. John Hendryx, 84, Dies in Center Point
Mrs. John A. Hendryx, 84, died at her Center Point home after a brief illness. Born in Schuyler Falls New York she came to Iowa at eight. Surviving are five children and eight grandchildren. Services will be held at the Center Point Christian church at 2 p.m. Friday with burial in Lafayette cemetery.
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Center Point
John A. Hendryx
Schuyler Falls
N. Y
Iowa
Lafayette
George
Robert
Flora L. Houts
Walter D. Hendryx
Alburnett
Dick J. Hendryx
Vinton
Frank J
Judson M
Christian Church
Lafayette Cemetery
Estherville pilot flies with Marshall to Hawaii
Col. H. C. Minson of Estherville Iowa serves as Gen. George C. Marshall's personal pilot on the Nanking to United States flight. The plane landed here shortly after 4 a.m. CST Wednesday and is slated to reach Hawaii around 2:30 a.m. CST Friday.
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Guam
H. C. Minson
Estherville
George C. Marshall
Nanking
United States
Hawaii
Loss of $40,000 In Keokuk Fire
Keokuk fire destroyed St. Marys school Tuesday night with an estimated $40,000 in losses. A custodian’s home also burned. Fire Chief John Breheny cited rapid spread through auditorium top floor due to panel construction. Insurance reportedly covers the building but not new construction.
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Insurance
Iowa Methodists Map 1947 Stewardship Goals
Iowa Methodists from across the state met in Des Moines to set 1947 stewardship objectives. Goals include a 50 percent rise in attendance and offerings, new ministry recruits, broader life service, and a crusade for a new world order. Mrs. Mead criticized comfortable churchmen. Bishop Brashares urged lay participation, family altar restoration, and a push for action for a needy world.
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Des Moines
Iowa
New World Order
Charles W. Mead
Omaha
Charles W. Brashares
Fire Destroys Farm House on Mt Vernon Lisbon Highway
A farmhouse summer kitchen and roof burned Tuesday afternoon on the Mt. Vernon Lisbon highway. Occupied by the O. Thornton family and owned by John Kohl, the origin of the fire is undetermined. Lisbon and Franklin township fire crews fought the blaze but lacked adequate water.
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MT. Vernon
Mt. Vernon-Lisbon
O. Thornton
John Kohl
Lisbon
Franklin Township
Mayors Seek Higher Liquor Tax in Iowa
The League of Iowa Municipalities committee met with Governor Blue to push a 1 percent state liquor store sales tax to boost law enforcement revenue and consider a higher beer permit minimum. They also seek support for garbage fee collection, cost shifting from property owners, and tax exemptions for municipalities, counties, and schools.
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Des McInes
League of Iowa
Robert D. Blue Wednesday
League
Forrest Olson
Sioux City
H. G. Iverson
Odebolt
John MpecVicar
Des Moines
Y. B. Hull
Marshalltown
W. J. Teeters
Iowa City
Phil Miner
Council Bluffs
Horace Cloud
Red Oak
L. C. Burton
Fort Madison
Fred Miller
Ankeny
Earlville Civic Club Re-elects Officers and Plans Improvements
Earlville’s Civic Club, a major rural service group with 186 members, re elected President F S Otis and all officers. Receipts for 1946 totaled 4517 with over 4000 raised for a rural and town fire truck. The club funds school floodlights, supports a Boy Scout troop, and helped obtain a municipal swimming pool and band stand. Plans for this year include improvements in train mail telephone and electric service with active health conservation memorial and Americanism committees.
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Earlville
F. S. Otis
Earling
Otis
Lobbying Defended By Iowa Legion Head
Iowa City audience hears Jesse W. Halden of Newton defense of American Legion lobbying. He says honest lobbying tracks legislative work and urges prudent procedures, notes considerable pressure but asserts the Legion stays out of politics and supports no party or candidate.
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The
Gazette
Iowa City
American Legion
Congress
Jesse W. Halden
Newton
Iowa Legion
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Iowa State
the Legion
John Hendryx
Marshall
Keokuk
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Kuppenheimer
ADLER
Rochester
Alpagora
Marbury
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