WPA Aide urges delaying Des Moines office building
Ray Murray Iowa WPA assistant Wednesday urged delaying the $1.5 million state office building project until after the war. He called it a postwar construction reservoir to ease peacetime downsizing and noted the Des Moines ordnance plant may absorb central Iowa slack for some time. Murray warned against repeating 1930s emergency measures and said future public works programs should preplan to handle economic stress.
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DES Moines
Ray Murray
Iowa
WPA
Ankeny
Murray
Time Extended For Starting Work On Guttenberg Bridge
The President signed a bill extending to July 14 1942 the time for Cassville Wisconsin to begin constructing a toll bridge across the Mississippi to Guttenberg Iowa near the river.
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Guttenberg Bridge
Washington
White Horse
Cassville
Wis
Mississippi River
Guttenberg
Executive Council OKs Four Gas Inspectors Hiring
Iowa Executive Council approved hiring four additional gasoline inspectors at 1800 dollars yearly each, with four cars to be purchased. The move comes as the department reports higher revenues despite fewer inspectors, amid industry complaints of tax-free gasoline influx. The council also authorized 500000 in U.S. bonds, approved laundry equipment purchases for the Anamosa reformatory and Davenport soldiers orphans home, and named D W Harris as special counsel in the Goode Produce versus Thornburg case arising from a challenge to the state cream grading law.
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Des Moines
Iowa Executive Council
W. G. C. Bagley
Bagley
United States
Anamosa Reformatory
Davenport
D. W.harris
Bloomfield
Davis County
L. E. Goode Produce Company
Mark G. Thornburg
Goode Company
Dewey Goode
Iowa City Bans Airplanes Flying Under 100 Feet
Iowa City council approved an ordinance banning plane flights within 100 feet of the ground. Stunt flying risky to onlookers is forbidden with fines from 1 to 100 dollars for violations.
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Iowa City
The
Gazette
Baby interrupts Iowa Union concert by guest conductor
In Iowa City a baby’s cry from the audience interrupted a University of Iowa fine arts festival concert led by Guest Conductor Thompson Stone. Stone spent over five minutes quieting the hall and restoring mood as the show, broadcast, continued.
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University Theater
University of Iowa
Florence Healy
Cedar Rapids
Perdita
Miss Healy
Dorothea Carlson
Iowa City
Iowa
Thompson Stone
Iowa Union
Fossilized Man Possibly Found Near Sedan Iowa
Moulton attorney J R Barkley disclosed the discovery of what may be a fossilized man from a small coal mine near Sedan in Apanoose county. The specimen was found just above the slate beneath cap rock and miners stored several samples on a slag dump awaiting expert analysis by A C Trowbridge of the Iowa state geological survey. If confirmed it could rival famed dinosaur egg finds.
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Moulton
J. R. Barkley
Sedan
Appanoose
Barkley
A. C. Trowbridge
Iowa State Geological Survey
Fossilized man report alarms Iowa geology expert
Prof A C Trowbridge of the University of Iowa geology department cautioned that reports of a fossilized man near Moulton would be one of geology history’s greatest finds if confirmed but noted the rock strata are about a million years older than man and odds are against authenticity.
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Iowa City
A. C. Trowbridge
University of Iowa Geology Department
Moulton
Trowbridge
Town Geological Survey
Doctor Carroll Speaks to Oelwein Rotary Club
Dr. R. C. Carroll of Aruba Netherlands West Indies addressed the Oelwein Rotary Club at Monday noon. He is vacationing here with relatives.
Mills elected president of Iowa letter carriers
M. K. Mills of Muscatine was chosen president of the Iowa division, National Association of Letter Carriers, at the end of the annual convention. Other officers include A. B. Taylor as vice president, Vincent B Schebler as secretary, B. V. Ferguson as treasurer, and J. Earl King named as national convention delegate.
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Calif
Schebler
Hazel Day
Des Moines
Marvel C. van Meter
Council Bluffs
Earl van Meter
Elmer Gates
Charles City
John C. Gilmer
Fairfield
B. A. Watts
Sioux City
F. E. Grier
Jefferson
C T
Ruth Suckow Urges Writers to Write Not Propagandize
Iowa City Ruth Suckow novelist and author of The Folks told the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop writers against turning to oratory and propaganda. She urged maintaining craft with optimism, noting culture survives crises if writers stay true to their craft.
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Ruth Suckow
the Gazette
Iowa City
Iowa
Writers’ Workshop
University of Iowa
Select Two Men For S. U. S. Psychiatric Hospital Positions
Iowa City AP reports University of Iowa officials named two interim leaders for the psychopathic hospital. Robert E. Neff remains administrator of the general hospital and takes on the psychiatric post. Dr Wilbur R Miller becomes acting medical director during the search for a permanent head.
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Iowa City
Robert E. Neff
University of Iowa Psychopathic Hospital
General Hospital
Virgil M. Hancher
Wilbur R. Miller
Psychopathic Hospital
Hancher
Andrew H. Woods
Neff
American Hospital Association
University Hospitals
Dr. Miller
Nature Study School To Have Women's Club Day
McGREGOR August 6 is Women s Club day at the nature study school now in its twenty third annual session on McGregor Heights August 3. Mrs Addison Parker of Des Moines a conservation commission member will讲 speak on historical restoration in Iowa. The event is sponsored by the Federated Women s clubs of the Fourth district and Clayton county through their conservation committees with district and local committee members listed.
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Mcgregor
Nature Study School
McGregor Heights
Glenn F. McMichael
Addison Parker
Des Moines
Iowa Conservation Commission
Iowa
Federated Women's Clubs
Fourth District
Clayton County
J. P. Donlon
Elkader
Elmer Fye
Cresco
Edward Huntting
Clear Lake
Federated Club
W. A. Myers
Wayne Martin
J. F. Walter
Alburnett couple wed in KahokaMo Methodist parsonage
Clarence Gemberling of Alburnett and Verlyn Beasmore of Lisbon were married at the Kahoka Missouri Methodist parsonage with Rev. J M Monroe officiating. Attendants were the bride’s brother and sister in law Robert Beasmore of Lisbon and the couple will reside in Alburnett.
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Alburnett
Clarence Gemberling
Verlyn Beasmore
Lisbon
Kahoka
J. M. Monroe
Robert Beasmore
Coast To Coast And Springville Merchants Back Up Softball Wins
Coast to Coast defeated Ping's Score Board 8 to 4 in seven innings as Hess reached on an error then Rinderknecht hit a center field home run. Springville Merchants beat Milwaukee Service Club 8 to 4 with eight runs in the first inning aided by two walks and hits off Hanna. The Mid-Eastern Softball tournament proceeds Wednesday evening with elimination play set for Friday and Thursday pairings announced.
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Merion Softball Association
la Plant- Choate Company
Ping’s
D-L Grill
Iowa City
Armstrong Clothing Company
Art's Grocery
Dubuque
Federal Discount Corporation
Link Belt Speeder Corporation
Open House Hosts Visit by Fernow Family in Cedar Rapids
Owen Fernow and his daughter Miss Alice Fernow hosted an open house at 3218 C avenue NE Cedar Rapids on Tuesday. Guests included C E Gordon Miss Edyth Gordon Mr and Mrs O M Carson Mr and Mrs Kenneth Hillerage and numerous friends from Marion Cedar Rapids and Long Beach California.
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Marion
C Avenue
Cedar Rapids
Alice Fernow
C E. Gordon
Edyth Gordon
O. M Carson
Kenneth Hillerage
Annie Brotemarkle
Martha Gillespie
Rose Keenan
Marvin Oxley
Norman J. Waffle
Rosa Reiter
Nevah Prior
Clinton Shattuck
Long Beach
Calif
Ed Reed's Arm Fracture From Tank Car Fall Reported
Ed Reed suffered a fracture of his left arm Sunday after a fall from a tank car while employed by the Milwaukee railroad. The Reeds' 15 month old son Ronald Joseph also fractured his left arm a week earlier while climbing onto a chair. Various local residents and families are noted for visits, hospital stays, and community events including nursing, picnics, and Legion auxiliary gatherings.
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Ed Reed
Milwaukee Railroad
Reeds
Ronald Joseph
State Institutions Caring For 14 547 Across Iowa
Iowa's 15 state institutions housed 14 547 people on July 1, per the state board of control. The figure shows a slight rise from last year but continues a long decline since 1936, with county care, economic factors, and fewer breakthroughs cited as influences. The Eldora boys' school rose to 659 inmates, while Fort Madison and Anamosa saw declines. Woodward epileptics and feebleminded residents reached 1,542.
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Des Moines
Iowa
State Board of Control
Board of Control
P F. Hopkins
Hopkins
Fort Madison Penitentiary
Anamosa Reformatory
Eldora Boys’ Training School
Woodward Institution For
Mutual Insurance Company Official Receives Sentence
Onawa Iowa AP Judge Miles W Newby sentenced Sanford A Wallace 46 to five years in the state penitentiary after Wallace pled guilty to embezzlement from the Monona County Farmers Mutual Fire and Lightning Insurance association state insurance auditor Leon G Greenberg reported 14085 missing Wallace also faces a forgery charge bound over to the grand jury as former Logan policeman and secretary of the Monona County Fair association
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Onawa
Miles W Newby
Sanford A. Wallace
Monona County
Farmers’ Mutual Fire and Lightning Insurance Association
Wallace
Leon G. Greenberg
Monona County Fair Association
Logan
Iowa to Provide 1 060 Selectees in August
Des Moines dispatch reports Lt. Col. Robert Fulton announced Iowa must furnish 1 022 white selectees and 28 Negroes in August. The quota brings total Iowa draftees to just over 9,000. Of August draftees, 914 whites and all 28 Negroes join at Fort Des Moines reception center, while 108 whites go to Fort Crook Nebraska.
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Des Moines
INS
Robert Fulton
State Selective Service Headquarters
Iowa
Fayette Birth Rate Nearly Matches 1920 Level
Fayette county totals show 146 male births from Oct 16 1940 to July 1 1941, within seven of the number registered for the draft on July 1. Births may be under recorded, making current rates nearly identical to those of 21 years ago.
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West Union
Fayette County
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