Mooty Campaign Impresses Iowa Lawmakers As Speaker Pick
Des Moines reports describe the Mooty campaign for Iowa house speaker as exceptionally organized and coordinated. Mooty claimed 43 votes on a late caucus night, cleared to win on the first ballot, with key committee chair allocations anticipated after the house convenes.
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Robert Hogan
Towa Daily Press
Des Moines
W. L. Mooty
Iowa House of Representatives
Iowa
Meadey
M. Cau
Cuis
Snowamen
House
George
Paul
Brooklyn
House Appropriations Committee
Robert Carson
Independence
Mojority
Verne Lyle
Clarinda
Ways and Means
Dewey Goode
Bloomfield
Roads
Clark McNeal
Belmond
Mooty
Hanson
Two Girls Follow Jean Seberg as Polio Fighter
Newton reports two teen girls chosen as Teens Against Polio successors to Jean Seberg of Marshalltown. Nancy Taylor and Sue Breckenridge lead statewide teen efforts, organizing clubs, promoting Salk vaccine, and raising funds via peanut sales, doughnut arcs, blue crutch tags, and bake events.
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Iowa
Nancy Taylor
Mason City
Sue Breckenridge
Newton
March of Dimes
Jean Seberg
Marshalltown
St. Jean
Jean
Felio
Miss Seberg
Nancy
Ufe
Sue
Mnet
Decorah Receives 30 Acre Park Tract Donation
The city of Decorah is gifted a 30 acre tract along the Upper Iowa river from Twin Bridges downstream for park use. Interstate Power Company donated the land as a neighborhood playground site with play apparatus planned by the park commission.
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Vecukah
Decorah
Iowa River
Interstate Power Company
Park Commission
Mensing and Sersland Named to Policy Unit
In Des Moines, Rep. A. L. Mensing of Cedar county London replaces Rep. William D. Dilton of Columbus Junction on the policy committee, while Rep. Hillman H. Sersland of Decorah fills the seat of Rep. Robert B. Carson as majority floor leader, ahead of the new session.
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Epecia
Gazette
Des Moines
A. L. Mensing
London
Cedar County
William D. Dilton
Columbus Junction
Hillman H. Sersland
Decorah
Robert B. Carson
Legislators Rate Taxes Top Problem in Iowa 1957 Session
In Des Moines, 158 lawmakers say taxes are the leading issue for the 1957 Iowa legislature, with appropriations and schools following. Reapportionment ranked fourth, liquor regulation fifth. roads and high speed limits drew lower concern as the session approaches with polls predicting lively debate and public funding questions.
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Iby
Charles Mroute
Des Moines
Legislaars
Thera J
Iowa
United Press
Senate
House of Representatives
Eastern Iowa News Briefs Reflect Local Happenings and Honors
A batch of brief notices from towns like Cedar Rapids, Quasqueton, Strawberry Point, Manchester, Alburnett, Earlville, Walker, Postville, West Union, Calmar, Maynard, Decorah, Sigourney, Keota, Tipton, Manchester, Kalona, and West Union documents medical updates, club and lodge leadership changes, elections, and a few legal matters. Notable items include civic officers elected for the Civil League and Masonic lodges, hospital stays, and a first baby of 1957 born in Decorah.
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Quasqueton
Will Ronsittes
Jalder
Saskatchewan
Canada
Strawberry Point
Nell. Westfall
Delaware County Memorial, Hospital
Manchester
Alburnett
Hazel F. Anderson
Phoenix
N. J. Anderson
Earlville
Sydney Hunt
Willard Hospital
Edward Anderson
Luawm
Idolior
Maynard
Albert Kappmeyer
Masonic Lodge
Ben Sheldon
Harold Ensign
Floyd Gilley
Ed Wenzel
Floyd Henniges
Marvin Ingles
Verna Hucke
Chester Cumberland
Andrew Ganthein
Tyler
Decoran
Orville Gilbertson
Sigourney
Harold Sellers
Keokuk County Hospital
Kegta
Walter Fagan
Pete Fagan
Indiana
Tipton — Lewis
Leonard Dvorak Reele cted Winneshiek Chairman 1957
Leonard Dvorak was reelected chairman of the Winneshiek county board of supervisors for 1957. Other board members include Nanfred Sand Joseph Swehla Arnold Grindeland and Ernest Ask. The board named a new county social welfare unit with Katherine Jewell Edward Lund and Nanfred Land and designated official newspapers Decorah Public Opinion Decorah Journal and Ossian Bee. Committee chairs were Ask courthouse and jails Swehla county farm Sand road construction Grindeland road maintenance.
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Leonard Dvorak
Winneshiek
Decorah
Winneshiek County
Board of Supervisors
Dvorak
Embret Seland
Nanfred Sand
Joseph Swelila
Arnold Grindeland
Ernest Ask
Driver Daniel Thelan Killed in Bridge Crash
Elkhart Iowa police report Daniel Thelan Farrar, 42, died Tuesday night after his car struck a bridge five miles northeast of here. The crash occurred as he was traveling along the highway.
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Lowan
Elkhart
Daniel Thelan
Farrar
Here
Highway Patrol
Iowa Industrial Output Sets Record in 1956
Iowa's industrial output topped agriculture for the seventh straight year in 1956, reaching an estimated 4.05 billion dollars, with a 170 percent increase over the decade. Manufacturing employment and wages also rose to record highs, and officials predicted continued expansion in 1957.
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Iowa
Des Moines
Iawa
Sithe State
Iowa Development Commission
Bernard F. Nowack
Assterant
Commission
Manu
Nowack
Police Watching as Two Attempt Break in
Two men from Fort Madison Vince Whalen aged 53 and Martin O Con nor 45 were taken into custody Wednesday as police monitored a break in at WEST POINT. Authorities declined to release further details pending investigation.
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West Point
Vince Whalen
Martin O'Connor
Fort Madison
Wallace, Former Tipton Minister, Dies in Muskogee
Tipton learns of the death on January 4 of Rev. C. M. Wallace at his Muskogee Oklahoma home. He led Tipton First Presbyterian from 1918 to 1924 before moving to Muskogee and later Ames Iowa as director of Christian education for the Synod of Iowa. Born 1890 in Arkansas to a Confederate veteran.
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United States
Muskogee
Mr. Wallace
Arkansas
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