Cornell College Graduates 89 Seniors Despite Tax Plan
Eighty nine Mount Vernon area seniors receive bachelor degrees at Cornell College commencement. President Burgstahler to confer honorary degrees on Mrs. Thomas Nicholson Bishop Duane Hunt and others. Alumni luncheon names Wyam Branden as president and outlines executive council.
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Mount Vernon
Cornell College
Burgstahler
Thomas Nicholson
Duane Hunt
Salt Lake City
Arthur Deamer
Cedar Rapids
Russell Cole
Boston
Otis Moore
Tipton
Paul Johnson
Morningside College
Iowas
J. T. Moffit
Lavonne Albright
Grundy Center
Donald Anderson
Wilmette
Ill
Emil Anderson
Stanley Anderson
Stratford
Albert Baker
Mt. Morris
Robert Baker
Gordon Biehl
Hinckley
Jeanne Boecklen
Oak Park
Ralph Bowman
Ethel Brown
Geraldine Bryant
Harold Calkins
Barrington
Edith Carver
Washta
Thomas Caywood
Lake Park
Edith Chambers
Catherine Coon
Van
Kathrine Gorman
Mitchell
S. D
Vernona Harrison
Teeds Grove
Robert Hartung
Marvin Heath
Rochelle
Loren Helberg
Newton
Phyllis Hoffman
Freeport
Charles Hokonson
Geneva
Til
Gertrude Ann Holmgren
Davenport
Helen Hunt
Kirkwood
Elizabeth Isaac
Gillespie, Ill
Howard Johnson
Chicago
Mildred Kernahan
Washington, D. C
Margaret Keyes
Raymond Knudson
Donald Lawson
Downers Grove
Bethany Ann Lehrman
Mechanicsville
Floyd Leinbaugh
Lisbon
Irene Livengood
Milledgeville
Clark McNeal
Clarion
Jeanette MacDonald
Hinsdale
George Mann
Olin
Jeanne Merrihew
Lois Mills
Richard Moore
Walter Morris
Clinton
Raymond Morrow
Hopkinton
Betty Mount
Warrenville
Tfl
William Owen
Osage
Robert Paul
Anamosa
John Pauley
Mason City
Evelyn Perry
Frances Porter
Jane Post
Glen Ellyn
Gwendolyn Putnam
Evanston
Cornell honors three leaders with portrait unveiling banquet
Cornell on its Mount Vernon campus honored H. J. Burgstahler retiring president Dr. Frank Cole retiring financial secretary and Dr. William H. Norton professor emeritus with portraits at a Bowman hall banquet attended by 220. A. L. Killian presided as W. R. Boyd Elmer Johnson Leo Paulger unveiled portraits with artist Christian Abrahamson in attendance.
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Cornell
College
Bowman Hall
Mount Vernon
H. J. Burgstahler
Frank Cole
William H. Norton
Burgstahler and Cole
Dr. Norton
A. L. Killian
Cedar Rapids
W. R. Boyd
Cole
Elmer Johnson
Burgstahler
Leo Paulger
Washington, D. C
Federal Reserve System
Norton
Christian Abrahamson
Chicago
Forty Members Of 89 Class Honored At Iowa Luncheon
About 40 University of Iowa alumni from the 1899 class were honored at Alumni Day as 1,200 graduates gathered. Each recipient received a gold medal from President Eugene Gilmore. The medical class of 1879 supplied the oldest attendee, Dr G C Moorehead of Ida Grove. Virgil M Hancher presided and announced new alumni president Benjamin Butler of Waterloo.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa
Eugene A. Gilmore
College of Medicine
Iowa Memorial Union
G. C. Moorehead
Ida Grove
Virgil M. Hancher
Chicago
Benjamin Butler
Waterloo
Gilmore
Virgil Hancher
Iowa Sales Tax Receipts Expected to Beat Last Year
Iowa tax officials expect the fiscal year ending June 30 to show higher sales tax receipts than 1937-38. Through January 1, receipts total $14,222,633 since July 1, near last year, with winter quarter at $3,128,228 and one month remaining. If trends hold, the final 1938 figure should exceed $14,389,000, signaling a retail volume over $711,000,000.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Young Farmers And Business Men Plan First 1939 Session
Des Moines coordination council of Iowa youth farmers and business leaders schedules its 1939 meeting for June 13 to discuss the 1939 40 program linking agriculture and business through joint meetings and projects. Members include Byron Jeffrey R J Coverdale Ralph Bailey Richard Clarey Marion Shugart Harold Kinsinger Roy Nichols George Strayer H T Hall Robert Clark Al Farber Bob Sucher Hugh Curtis and others.
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Des Moines
Coordinating Council of
Young Iowa Farmers and Business Men
Iowa Rural Young People’s Assemblies
Iowa Junior Chambers of Commerce
Byron Jeffrey
Burlington
State Junior Chamber of Commerce
R. J. Coverdale
Storm Lake
Buena Vista
Ralph Bailey
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Richard Clarey
Waterloo
Marion Shugart
Council Bluffs
Harold Kinsinger
Ottumwa
Farmer
Roy Nichols
Clemens
George Strayer
Hudson
Iowa Rural Young Peoples Assemblies
H._T. Hall
Brain Derby Set for University of Iowa Monday
Iowa City The eleventh annual state scholarship contest begins Monday at the University of Iowa with 885 high school students as qualifiers from last month’s every pupil tests. Tests start in the afternoon after commencement ceremonies for the university. Only individual honors in 16 events will be announced at Tuesday’s contestants’ dinner.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa
E. F. Lindquist
Iowa
Conservation Board Plans Dredging Storm Lake
Des Moines reports the state conservation commission issued bids for dredging Storm Lake using remaining funds from the 1937 conservation appropriation about 19 000 dollars. The board also accepted Harold W Groth resignation as chief of land and waters division effective June 30 and named five park naturalists to serve as summer guides.
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Des Moines
State Conservation Commission
Storm Lake
Harold W. Groth
Land and Waters Division
Grothe
Chicago
Conservation Commission
Richard F. Trump
Keokuk
D. W. Augustine
Oskaloosa
Lowell Swenson
Iowa City
M. L. Jones
Pomeroy
Emmet Polderboer
Ames
Ledges State Park
B. P. Holst
Boone
M. L. Hutton
International Association of Game, Fish and Conservation Commissioners
San Francisco
Brown’s Lake
Woodbury County
Executive Council
Lake Manawa
Pottawattamie County
Prosecutors Weds in Muscatine Union
Independence attorney J A Cherney married Muscatine native and Buchanan County prosecutor Reeves daughter at her parents home. Bride a longtime kindergarten teacher. groom a University of Iowa graduate and Beta Theta Pi member.
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Independence
Madeline Reeves
Muscatine
Harry Reeves
J. A. Cherney
Buchanan County
J. L. Cherney
Iowa State Teachers College
Cherney
University of Iowa
Beta Theta Pi
Boy Hockey Cop Arbitration Ends Parent Strife
A Des Moines police lieutenant mediated a dispute after Floren Di Paglia skipped school to see a wild west film. The 12 year old and his father, Larry Di Paglia, agreed to put the matter behind them as officers helped calm the situation. The boy pledged to quit playing hockey, and both left the station with a renewed mood.
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Des Moines
Floren di Paglia
John R. McClelland
Floren
McClelland
Larry di Paglia
Delaware County Children Plan Chicago Visits
Delaware County families anticipate annual visits this summer from children sent out by the United Charities of Chicago. The plan, adopted here nine years ago, has shown progress each year.
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Manchester
Delaware County
United Charities of Chicago
Union Agent Held For Grand Jury On Charge Of Assault
Frank Cronin business agent for the A F of L drivers union Waterloo was bound over to the grand jury on a charge of assault with intent to inflict great bodily injury in the Mason City milk route driver beating May 19. Wallskog testified Cronin’s car was used by the attackers and Cronin was driving Cronin denied being in Mason City that morning.
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Mason City
Frank Cronin
A. F. of L. Drivers’ Union
Waterloo
Grand Jury
Morris Laird
Cronin
Albert Wallskog
Schemerhorn
Wallskog
Fort Dodge Hosts Elks of Iowa in Four Day Convention
Fort Dodge hosts the Iowa Elks at a four day state convention with several hundred attendees and expected attendance around 1000. Featured events include a parade golf tournament and trap shoot with business sessions scheduled for Monday and Tuesday. Dr Edward J McCormick grand exalted ruler will fly in Monday from Aberdeen South Dakota to attend.
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Fort Dodge
Iowa
Iowa Liquor Profits Boost State Budget Support
Des Moines AP Iowa's liquor control commission has contributed an additional 400000 to the general fund as of June 1, lifting total transfers to 2100000 since last July 1. Officials expect further transfers before June 30, possibly totaling another 400000.
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Des Moines
C. Fred Porter
Iowa Liquor Control Commission
Iowa General Fund
Liquor Commission
Porter
General Assembly
G.O.P
Commission
General Fund
Liquor Agency
Iowa Boards Approve Fifty Million Cigaret Stamp Purchase
The printing board authorized buying 50,000,000 stamps for distributors to apply to cigarets after July 1 under a new tax law. Stamps from Meyercord Co of Chicago at 1834 cents per thousand range from one half to five cents and feature an outline of Iowa. Distributors, not retailers, must stamp all cigarets. machines may be provided but gummed stamps are also allowed. Manual stamping will cover various package sizes. The aim is to curb untaxed bootlegging and boost state revenue by an estimated 200,000 to 800,000 dollars.
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Des Moines
State Printing Board
Meyercord Company
Chicago
State Tax Commission
Iowa
Rock, Williamsburg furniture dealer, dies at 76
Davenport AP Frank C. Rock 76 retired furniture dealer and funeral director of Williamsburg died late Friday in a Davenport hospital after two years of ill health. The body was taken to Williamsburg Saturday with funeral services scheduled there Monday.
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Davenport
Frank C. Rock
Williamsburg
J. E. Rock
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Iowa U
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Paul Pridey
Fred Wendel
F. Boyland
Gerald Stimson
E. E. Campbell
Ralph Rizer
Edgewood
John Robinson
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