Senate Committee Seeks 1.5 Million More for Old Age Pensions
Iowa Senate appropriations panel proposed 1.45 million dollars in additional annual funding for old age pensions aligning with Gov. Wilson's plan. The measure would raise the state share from 7.9 million to 6.5 million? and include related budget adjustments. Also advanced were funds reallocations from liquor, road, and motor vehicle taxes to cover clerical and agency costs.
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Des Moinesins
Cro George
Industrial Commissioner
Berg
South Side Grade School At Oelwein To Be Built
A new South Side grade school in Oelwein will replace an old building. Thirty workers clear the site as Charles B Zalesky Cedar Rapids architect designs the structure with a kindergarten and classrooms for 35 pupils per room. Construction financed by a bond issue with WPA assistance, ready for next fall.
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Decer
Jon
Prine Pats
WPA
Charles B Zaleski
Cedar Rapids
Edward F White
Eldora
Charles B. Zalesky
New South Side
Oelwein
Des Moines School Blaze Injures Four and Destroys Wing
A fire at Washington school in Des Moines after classes ended injured four firefighters including A A Wovell William Crawford and Fred Cook. One sustained severe bruising and others suffered shock from smoke. A smoldering roof section collapsed during firefighting. The remodeled building valued at about 68000 with 51300 covered by insurance and 5600 for contents.
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Clases
Orice
Washington
Coronih
Red
A Wovell
William Crawford
Fred Cook
Max O'Brien
Lundy Proposes Plan for Fewer Better Beer Parlors in Iowa
Iowa State Senator Hugh Lundy proposed a bill to reduce tavern numbers and raise permit fees. The plan would limit taverns to one per thousand residents, abolish class C permits, and raise city state permit costs to fund better supervision.
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Des Moines
Hugh Lundy
Albia
Iowa
Lundy
Iowa Mine Accused of Violating Coal Act
The bituminous coal division ordered Dunreath Coal Company in Knoxville Tennessee to stop alleged Coal Act violations. Officials said the action followed a complaint by the Bituminous Coal Producers Board in Des Moines alleging underpricing and improper selling to Central Fiber Products in Tama Indiana, with 3160 tons sold at 0.75 dollars below the minimum price.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Bituminous Coal Division
Dunreath Coal Company
Knoxville
Bituminous Coal Producers Board
Des Moines
Central Fiber Products Company
Tama
Honor Mother and Son For Reporting Broken Rail
Mrs Mike Sweet and her son James were honored at a Chamber of Commerce meeting in CENTRAL CITY after James reported a broken rail near the Illinois Central track. The act prompted authorities and a repair crew, with several railroad officials in attendance.
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Gazette
Central City
Mike Sweet
James
Chamber of Commerce
J EL Fanning
Towers Central Railroad
Sweet
Gr. Adams
Mre Sweet
Irnois Central Railroad
George H Sorenson
J R Warthow
John Carson
CF. Dugan
G. L. Adame
Iowans To Get Full Consideration For Shell Plant Guards
Washington AP The War Department assures Senator Gillette that all qualified Iowans will receive full consideration for guard positions at the Burlington shell loading plant. He cites plans to hire about 600 guards when operational. Illinois applicants were said to be hired but justified as former state police due to administration changes.
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Washington
War Department
Guy M. Gillette
Iowa
Tao
Illinois
Iowa names 20 students for advanced flight training
University of Iowa officials announced 20 students eligible for second semester secondary pilot training. Seventeen began with the university’s primary program. the group will complete 126 hours of ground instruction and about 40 to 59 hours of flying in open cockpit biplanes. Named participants include Joe P Betts Davenport James Coleman Davenport Robert G Dalin Ottumwa Robert C Demaree Richland Jack W Firth Davenport Roger L Jenkinson Iowa City Dwight F Johnson Des Moines Robert L Jones Marshalltown George N Kirk Moline Rex Olesen Cedar Falls Gene Anderson Des Moines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Towa City
University of Iowa
Don
Joe P Betts Davenport
James Coleman
Davenport
Robert G Dalin
Ottumwa
Robert C Demaree
Richland
Jack W. Firth
Roger L. Jenkinson
Iowa City
Dwight F. Johnson
Des Moinnes
Robert L. Jones
Marshalltown
George N. Kirk
Moline
Rex Olesnn
Cedar Falls
Gene 10 Anderson
Des Moines
James H. Evans 91 to be buried in Paris Sunday
Funeral services for James H. Evans 91 will be held at the Paris Methodist church at 2 p m Sunday with burial in Blodgett cemetery. Evans born March 17 1849 in Indiana came to Iowa as an infant and lived in Paris 60 years. Surviving are brother Minor Evans Dows and sister Sabrina Brandis Alexandria.
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Gazette Central City
James H. Evans
Paris
Blodgett
Mr. Evans
Indiana
Turner
Nancy Fleming Evans
Iown
Methodist Church
D. P. Long
Minor Evans
Dows
Sabrina Brandis
Alexandria
Jury Panel Chosen For 1941 Winneshiek Court Term
NECORAH The first 1941 term of Winneshiek county district court will convene February 24 with Judge W L Eichendorf presiding. A panel of 35 trial jurors reports March 3 including Frank Reid Earl Nerling Will Lange Burr Oak township Will Keefe Bluffton Fred Denver C W Vine Canoe and others from Decorah Calmar and Springfield. The grand jury also summoned to February 24 includes Elmer McCauley Bluffton Colonel Bentley Burr Oak Barney Gehling Calmar and others.
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Necorah
Winneshiek County
W. L. Eichendorf
McGregor
Frank Reid
Earl Nerling
Will Lange
Burr Oak Township
Will Keefe
Bluffton
Fred Denver
C. W . Vine
Canoe
Carl
Oscar Flaskerud
Christian Loesch
Roman Wagner
Calmar
Joe Brien
Decorah
Fridolph Peterson
George A Willams
John Mullanes
Everett Gross
Anne Kaster
Ida Tsler
Robert V. Walsh
Ed K Kreuger
Fremont
F. J. Sobolik
James Kacher
Jackson
Alma Howden
Lincoln
Nettie Holder
Vine Barthelme
Evelyn Bernatz
Military
Matt Drilling
Orleans
Knut Sinen
Andrew E. Gayle
Pleasant
John Neuzel
Jerome Ira
Sumner
Peter Hamre
Willard Torgrim
al Ettledorf
Springfield
Alois Elsbernd
Hugo Thuente
Washington
Elmer McCauley
Colonel Bentley
Burr Oak
Barney Gehling
Tom Rowan
Martin Pederson
Arthur Brandt
Franksville
Jo J . Hugos
Highland
Adolph Verba
Fred Anderson
Clarence Gayle
Madison
N O. Aschem
George C. J. Jevne
Jury Awards 8500 to Veterinarian in Iowa Slander Case
In Mason City Iowa a district court jury awarded Dr G W Cady veterinarian 8500 damages in a slander suit against Dr W Kinney Cerro Gordo County and a Canadian ranch owner The verdict followed Cady counterclaim to Kinney 27907 in damages for hog deaths blamed on improper vaccination Kinneys claim was dismissed for insufficient proof.
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Mason City
G. W. Cady
W . Kinney
Cerro Gordon County
Cady
Dr. Cady
Dr. Kinney
Dr Kinney
M H Kepler
Former Iowa Youth Executed for Killing
Dewitt Clinton Cook, 21, once of Waterloo Iowa, was executed in San Quentin’s gas chamber for the murder of San Francisco dancer Anya Sosoyeva. The killing occurred in the city of San Francisco and led to his conviction and death sentence.
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Iowa
San Quentin Prison
Calif
Dewitt Clinton Cook
Waterloo
Anya Sosoyeva
San Francisco
How Far Can A Tall Fellow Wade Before He Needs To Swim
A wartime column by Arthur Bugs Rafr notes Willkie’s London air raid image inspires jokes about gas masks and wartime finance. It jokes that Franklin D. Roosevelt may expand powers and criticizes profiteering while comparing wartime stance to fishing through ice and a thaw ahead.
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Willkie
London
Young Republican Head Calls Unity as Convention Opens
DES MOINES AP Donald W. Hornbeck of Cleveland chair man of the Young Republican National federation says the group has attained unity and cannot regress on past bickering. He spoke on The Last Two Years at the opening session after Iowa Governor George A. Wilson welcomed attendees. He urged unity and sacrifice for America’s youth and praised the federation’s leadership and work.
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Des Moines
Donald W. Hornbeck
Cleveland
Young Republican National Federation
Hornbeck
Federation
George A. Wilson
Iowa
America
United States
Philadelphia
Gordon Allott
Denver
Cole
Iowa Teachers Salaries Rise Sharply in 1940 41
Cedar Falls Iowa report shows Iowa school teachers near pre depression levels with salaries up 10 percent in 1940 41. Hart notes gains across most classes with supervisors and special teachers leading the increase while elementary pay stays largely unchanged.
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Cedar Falls
Iowa
Irving H. Hart
Iowa State Teachers College
Iowa Department of Public Instruction
Hart
Annual Conference for Newsmen at Upper Iowa U
Northeastern Iowa newspapermen attended the third annual invitational conference at Upper Iowa University. The event featured a radio broadcast on WOI with W Farr of Mason City, a round table led by Don Reid, and a typography clinic by Prof. Earl English. Leon Barnes spoke on budgets for local publications and Prof. George Dobry led an open forum. A dinner followed with Dr. John Dorman, then newsmen attended the Upper Iowa versus St Ambrose basketball game.
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Gazette
Fayette
Iowa
Upper Iowa University
Old Chapel
WOI
W. Farr
Hall of
Mason City
Don Reid
Iowa Press Association
Des Moines
Earl English
School of Journalism
University of Iowa
Leon Barnes
Northwood
George Dobry
Upper Iown University
John Dorman
Upper Iowa
Upper Iowa-St. Ambrose
Anniversary celebrates Hackbarth pair in Earlville
One hundred fifty invitations were issued for the golden wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs Fred Hackbarth, married at the Hartman farm south of Earlville. He, 74, a West Prussia native born July 6, 1866, and she, 71, born Sept. 26, 1869 in Pommern, Germany, have farmed near Earlville on 300 acres and are parents of five children and eleven grandchildren.
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Gavetta
Manchester
Fred Mackbarth
Earlville
Hartman Farm
Hackbarth
West Prussia
Germany
United States
Minnie Hartman
Pommern
Carl Hartman
Mr. Hackbarth
Rhomberg
Lutheran Church
Erna Taylor
Arthur
Walter Hackbarth
Floyd Hansel
Iowa Retailers See Five Percent Sales Rise in 1940
Independent Iowa retailers outside department stores posted a five per cent sales gain for the year ending 1940, with December stores averaging a four per cent rise over December 1939. Department stores up two per cent in December and four per cent for the year. Major December gains included motor vehicles twelve per cent and liquor stores eleven per cent, while several lines showed declines such as general stores with foods three per cent and hardware stores six per cent.
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Washington
Iowa
Census Bureau
Airport renovation advances amid heavy snows in Iowa City
At Iowa City airport a $180,000 improvement project progresses with over 50 workers laying drainage tiles near a large concrete runway. Plans include extension of a second runway, possible construction of a third, funded as a national defense effort by the WPA.
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Iowa City
WPA
Dan C Dutcher
Johnson County
America
Iowa Conservation Head M. L. Hutton Seriously Injured
M. L. Hutton 56 state conservation director remained in serious condition after a collision on Highway 65 north of Des Moines. Police said icy pavement caused the crash with R C Norman a Des Moines salesman. Hutton had possible skull and rib fractures and possible internal injuries. Norman sustained minor injuries.
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Des Moines
Mil
Hutton
Towa
R C. Norman
Norman
A. A. Harvey Funeral Scheduled in Toledo
Funeral services for A. A. Harvey Tama county recorder who died suddenly Wednesday night will be held Saturday afternoon in Toledo at the Methodist church. Rev F. O Hilman will lead with burial at Maple Hill cemetery in Montour.
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Toledo
Methodist
A. A. Harvey
Tama County
F. O Hilman
Maple Hill Cemetery
Montour
Movement to raise ceiling on Iowa primary road fund
In Des Moines lawmakers consider lifting the 16 million dollar annual ceiling on the states primary road expenditures to recover potential federal matching money and prevent diverting 3 to 4 million dollars to farm to market projects. Backers say current cap could cost Iowa up to a million dollars in annual federal grants. The fund derives revenue from automobile license fees and gasoline taxes.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Medical College At S U I Gets 44050 In Research Grants
The University of Iowa medical college reports total research grants of 44050. Major gifts include 8500 from the National Foundation of Infantile Paralysis and 8500 from the Irradiated Evaporated Milk Institute for vitamin research. Other gifts include 6500 from John and Mary Markle for pathology and 4400 for ocular disease work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Medical College
Iowa City
University of Iowa Medical College
National Foundation of
Paralysis Foundation
John and Mary Markle Foundation
Emerson Drug Company
Baxter Laboratories, Inc
Lever Brothers
Parke, Davis Company
Iowa Artists Sweep Top Honors In Midwest Exhibition
Iowa City entrants led the Midwest artists show in Kansas City with Don Anderson winning oil painting and Dorothy Westaby taking first in watercolor and pastel. Judges included Lawrence Adams of Missouri, Raymond Eastwood of Kansas, and Fletcher Martin of Iowa.
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Kansas City
Keith Martin
Lawrence Adams
University of Missouri
Raymond Eastwood
University of Kansas
Fletcher Martin
University of Iowa
Don Anderson
Iowa City
Dorothy
Westaby
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