Air-Age Education Council to Promote Iowa Teachers’ Aviation
Des Moines reports the Air Age Education Council plans to boost aviation education in public schools. Frank Berlin of the Iowa Aeronautics Commission notes a $1500 fund funds 14 scholarships for teachers to attend a six week Drake University course. The program aims to expand to colleges and universities with education courses and adds a full time air education officer and state lectures and an air age library.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Frank Berlin
Iowa Aeronautics Commission
Iowa Department of Public Instruction
Drake University
Berlin
Commission
Iowa Executive Council
Department of Public Instruction
Drake
Clinton Hikes City Worker Pay To Raise Taxes
The Clinton city council approved raises for police, firemen, street department workers, and office staff. A $12.50 monthly raise for police and fire personnel and a seven cent hourly increase for street crews plus office staff will add about $15,000 to next year’s city costs, necessitating a one half mill tax increase.
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Clinton
Box Factory To Be Located at Clinton
A one story plant will be built in Clinton to produce folding boxes and printed labels. Lord Baltimore Press Inc of Baltimore Md announces the project which will employ 80 workers at first and rise to 200 by 1958. President Hugo Dalshiemer leads the company and projects completion in 1958.
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Clinton
Hugo Dalshiemer
Lord Baltimore Press, Inc
Baltimore
Dalshiemer
Jowan, 101, Dies in Crawford County
Manilla aged 101, W J Mc Cracken, Crawford county's oldest resident, died late Wednesday. obituary notes long local ties and public service.
Postville Boy Scout Gary Cook Earns Eagle Rank
Gary Cook son of the Postville School Superintendent received the Eagle Scout award at a court of honor this week. He began in Scouting as a Cub and became a Boy Scout in 1950. He attended Camp Chickagami Adventure Island and earned the Order of the Arrow. He received the God and Country award near June 24. He is the second Postville Scout to reach Eagle.
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Postville
Gary Cook
K. T. ‘Cook
Chicka
Gami
Adventure Island
Order of the Arrow
Rites To Be Saturday For Amy De Groff 96
Funeral services for Amy De Groff 96 of near Fredericksburg will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Little Brown Church near Nashua with burial at New Hampton She died Thursday in a Webster City hospital after traveling to Iowa in an ox drawn covered wagon at age seven She had been living with her son in law and daughter the Rev Mr and Mrs T M Walton
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Nashua
Ins
Amy de Groff
Fredericksburg
Little Brown
Burlial
New Hampton
de Groff
Iowa
Webster City
T. M. Walton
Women Join Police Department at Bluffs
Virginia Corbaley of Glendale Acres and Theresa Burke of Council Bluffs joined the city police department. Chosen from a large field of applicants they will handle the city's parking meters freeing two officers for traffic duty.
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Police Department
Bluffs
Council Bluffs
Virginia Corbaley
Glendale Acres
Theresa Burke
Winger
Center Point Iowa adopts loitering and building permit ordinances
Ordinance 67 prohibits loitering on streets or around businesses after hours and requires good reason to be out after closing. Violators face up to 30 days in jail or fines plus costs. The measure repeals conflicting ordinances and takes effect after passage and publication. A second ordinance requires building permits for construction, with penalties for violations and repeal of conflicting provisions. Clarence H. Bailey and Leonard R. Woods attest.
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Center Point
Iowa
Clarence H. Bailey
Leonard R. W
Vila
Noassase
Ion
Aly
Iibon
Clarence H. Cle
Leonard R Woods
Trading Stamps Seen as Threat to Small Business
Des Moines reports Ed Wimmer of Cincinnati, VP for the National Federation of Independent Business, says trading stamps total a billion dollar rack to ruin bankrupt small firms and intellectual bankruptcy for consumers. He criticizes big chains and urges enforcement of anti monopoly acts and protection for small business.
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Des Moines
Ed Wimmer
Cincinnati
National Federation of Independent Business, Inc
Immer
Wimmer
Alpha Iota Sorority
Phi Theta Pi Fraternity
Forward America Publishing Guild, Inc
Center Point Couple Injured in Car Crash
Independence reports a Center Point couple injured in a one car crash on highway 150 ten miles south of town. Jens Pederson 29 and his wife Leota 27 were driving east when the car left the road into a field. Pederson treated for facial cuts and released. Leota hospitalized with a fractured arm cuts and possible back injury.
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Independence
Highway 150
Here
Jens Pederson
Leota
Pederson
Independence man named Iowa publicity director for 1957 agents meeting
Jay Part ridge of Independence Buchanan county extension director is appointed Iowa publicity director for the National Association of County Agricultural Agents annual convention set for October 13 to 17 in Boston.
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Independence
Jay Partridge
Buchanan County
Iowa
National Association of County Agricultural Agents
Boston
Billy Graham's New York Crusade on Channel 9
Be sure and see Billy Graham's New York Crusade at 9:00 Saturday on Channel 9.
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Billy Graham
Channel 9
One Iowa Holiday Traffic Death, Two Drownings Reported
Iowa marked Independence Day with one highway death and two drownings near West Okoboji lake and Lake Ahquabi. Victims included Robbie Hisey, 7, of Sioux City, and Richard Lewis, 23, of Des Moines, who drowned after falls from boats or off docks during a holiday outing. At Royal, 17-year-old Henry Krominga died in a two-car collision. four others injured. Services set for Frank Bessman, 67, of Alden, who died from injuries June 23.
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Henry Krominga
Royal
West Okoboji Lake
Des Moines
Lake Ahquabi
Indianola
Robbie Hisey
Bob Hisey
Sioux City
Manhattan Beach
Robbie
Iowa Falls
Frank Bessman
Alden
Two Iowa Native Newspaper Men Die in Texas and D.C.
Two native Iowans active in journalism died Thursday night. Cc E Palmer, 80, owner of newspapers and radio stations in Texas and Arkansas and philanthropist focused on character education, died at Texarkana. he was from Spirit Lake. Charles C Boysen, 61, longtime business manager and secretary of the Washington Post Company, died in Washington, D.C.. he was a Cedar Falls native.
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Associated Press
Cc. E. Palmer
Texas
Arkansas
Texarkana
Spirit Lake
Charles C. Boysen
Washington Post Company
Washington, D.C
Boysen
Cedar Falls
Clinton Man Charged After Fatal Illinois Crash
Roy A. Dobson of Clinton Indiana was released on bond on an involuntary manslaughter charge after a crash at the intersection of highways 65 and 59 in Wheaton Illinois. Helen Van Meter a 61 year old Springfield public health nurse died when a bear in which she rode collided with a Western Transportation Company truck driven by Dobson.
Phony tip in Bacher slaying probe dismissed
Davenport police dismissed as phony an anonymous call that revived hope for solving the 1955 death of Mrs. Henry Bacher, a Davenport druggist's wife. Captain John Brennan said investigators knew the caller and had received a similar call last year. The mother of the victim received the latest tip at her Burlington home.
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Davenport
Henry Bacher
John Brennan
Bacher
Burlington
Kansas City
Brennan
Sen
Postville Scouts to Attend National Jamboree this Month
Four Postville boys Gary Cook Monte Cook David Kresau and Alan Tinker will travel to Valley Forge for the national Boy Scout jamboree this month.
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Postville
Valley Forge
Gary Cook
Monte Cook
David Kresau
Alan Tinker
Postville Awards Water Pump Contract to Local Firm
The Postville town council awarded the water pump contract for the new well to Whitney Pump Service of Calder Rapids. The bid totaled 6729.50 dollars for a Fairbanks Morse lubricated submersible turbine with a 40 horsepower motor.
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Postville
Whitney Pump Service
Calder Rapids
Fairbanks-Morse
One Prisoner Returned To Pen Another Flees Fort Madison
One state penitentiary inmate was returned to the prison at Fort Madison, while another fled Thursday. Fritz Gronau of Des Moines, serving a term for breaking and entering, was captured by police at Quincy and returned to the Fort Madison facility.
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Fort Madison
INS
State Penitentiary
Fritz Gronau
Des Moines
Quincy
Gronau
Prisoner Escapes from County Prison Farm Sunday
Johnny Van Weel den, 27, under sentence from Jas per county for auto theft, walked away from a prison farm while working as a trusty. He had less than three years left on a ten year term.
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Penitentiary
Power House
Johnny van Weelden
Jasper County
van Weelden
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Richard Lewis
Theresa
Gerda Laursen
Peterson
Spencer Hospital
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Vaunita
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Fairfax, IA
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