Kuester Directs Blast at Governor in Iowa Letter
Des Moines AP report records Iowa House Speaker G T Kuester sending a second letter to about 180 000 Republicans attacking Gov Robert D Blue for claiming credit for school aid and tax cuts He questions Blue s bid for a third term and argues for Beardsley to be nominated Beardsley campaign HQ notes mail lists from Farm Bureau used for distribution of the letters Kuester has clashed with Blue over state control and modernization efforts Also included are brief wartime veterans enlistments and a Marine recruit depots assignment from local notices.
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Des Moines
G. T. “Gus” Kuester
Iowa House of Representatives
Dander
Robert D. Blue
Beardsley
Kuester
Blue
Iowa
Iowa Farm Bureau
Farm Bureau
Des Moines Man Killed by Car On Dark Street Corner
Joseph Glas an 88 year old retired shoe maker was fatally struck by a car on a dark Des Moines street corner. William Elder 21 of Boone said he was blinded by headlights and could not stop in time. A utility fault left street lights out in the neighborhood. Elder was released after reporting the crash.
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DES Moines
Joseph Glas
William Elder
Boone
Glas
Iowa Power and Light Company
Elder
Six Eastern Iowans Sworn Into Army This Week
Richard D. Hapgood of Marion heads for the quartermaster school at Camp Lee after basic training at Fort Knox. He is among six eastern Iowans sworn in this week at Cedar Rapids, including John H. Melchers Anamosa, Robert L. Houstman Anamosa, Milford R. Bruns Toledo, Arsenius A. Hanson Dubuque, and Roger D. William.
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Richard D. Hapgood
Frank Hapgood
Marion
Camp Lee
Fort Knox
Hapgood
Arsenius A. Hanson
Dubuque
Roger D. William
Baby Fatally Injured In Automobile Crash Near Peru
Des Moines AP report states nine month old Bruce Dean Hart, son of Dean and Mrs Hart of Peru Iowa, died from a fractured skull after a car driven by Mrs Hart lost control and plunged into an embankment on a highway near Peru. Mrs Hart and two other women were injured.
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Des Moines
Bruce Dean Hart
Dean Hart
Peru
Hart
Farm Fire Destroys Klein Property Near Manchester
A blaze at the Frank Klein farm two miles northeast of Manchester caused over 10000 dollars in damage after a gasoline explosion in a tractor shed. The shed, a horse barn, machine shed, granary and corn crib burned. only the house and one barn remained. Three cattle were saved as two fire units battled the flames.
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the Gazette
Manchester
Frank Klein
Klein
Richard
Frank, Jr
Alpha Fear Chosen as Girls State Delegate
Miss Alpha Fear, daughter of Mrs. Bert H. Byers, selected by the Manchester American Legion Auxiliary to attend Hawkeye Girls State. She is active in the high school band mixed chorus Girls Athletic Association Pep club Pep band Girl Scouts Rainbow Girls and Thespian Society.
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Esteh Manchester
Miss Alpha Fear
Hawkeye Girls State
Manchester American Legion Auxiliary
Bert H. Byers
Girl Scouts
Order of Rainbow For Girls
The
Thespian Society
Educators Protest Mundt-Nix Bill at Iowa City Telegram
One hundred University of Iowa educators condemn Mundt-Nix legislation as a move toward a totalitarian state in a telegram to Senators Wilson and Hickenlooper. A signer calls the gesture spontaneous.
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Iowa City
Wilson and Hickenlooper
University of Iowa
Wilson Opposes Broad Military Aid Bill in Senate
Senator George A. Wilson argues a House passed bill authorizing dispatch of U S military missions worldwide could drag the nation into war. He says it gives the President too much power, bans combat troops narrowly, and could be used to supervise elections and help run waterways projects.
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Washington
State Department
Army
Navy
Wilson
House
Germany
Japan
Youth Plunges To His Death From Park Cliff
At Kitana Falls in Ledges State Park near Boone Iowa, 16 year old Clifford Ballenger fell from a cliff during a church outing. He landed in marshy ground at the base and died shortly after being pulled from mud by two fishermen. Ballenger was formerly from Omaha.
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Park Cliff
Boone
Clifford Ballenger
Kitana Falls
Ledges State Park
Here
Ing. Ballenger
Omaha
Ogden High Student Lived With Runyon Family on Farm
The text notes a student from Ogden who had been living with the James Runyon family on a farm near Ogden, identifying the student as an Ogden high school pupil.
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James Runyon
Ogden
Ogden High School
Arthur L. Fairbanks Dies at Monticello
Arthur L. Fairbanks 88, longtime Monticello resident, died of a heart attack on Monticello’s main street. Born January 15, 1860, he lived in the area most of his life, often on a farm near Monticello. Surviving: two sons Allen and Ray, and daughter Mrs. Bradley Davis. Services 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Goettsch funeral home, burial Oakwood cemetery.
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Gazett
Monticello
Arthur L. Fairbanks
Allen
Ray
Anamosa
Bradley Davis
Iowa City
Goettsch Funeral Home
Oakwood Cemetery
Rites Saturday At Elkader for Lt. T. B. Rogers
The body of First Lt. Thomas B. Rogers who died of polio in an army hospital in Calcutta India arrived in Elkader. Military services will be held at the Congregational church at 2 30 p m Saturday, with a Witt funeral chapel service at 2 p m. He was a 1939 Elkader High School graduate and 1943 Coe College president of his class.
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Elkader
Thomas B. Rogers
Calcutta
India
Congregational
Herbert Kelley
Witt
St. Rogers
Barrikpore
Eva Rogers
Elkader High School
Coe College
Coe
Early career of a Coe graduate and military officer
During his sophomore year he joined Scabbard and Blade and Tau Kappa Epsilon. He entered the army after graduating from Coe College and was commissioned a second lieutenant at Fort Benning OCS in July 1943. Surviving are his wife Mary Coy Rogers of Wilmette Illinois, his mother, and brothers Jack Rogers a Coe student, and William Rogers of Moberly Missouri.
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Scabbard and Blade
Tau Kappa Epsilon
Army
Coe
Fort Benning
Mary Coy Rogers
Wilmette, Ill
Jack Rogers
Coe College
William Rogers
Moberly
Hartley to Speak at Iowa Manufacturers Meeting
Congress man Fred A Hartley Jr of New Jersey, co author of the Taft Hartley law, is set to address the Iowa Manufacturers Association annual meeting in Des Moines next Friday.
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Des Moines
New Jersey
Iowa Manufacturers Association
American Legion Auxiliary Assembly Planned in Calmar
Auxiliary women from Allamakee Howard and Winneshiek counties meet June 11 in the Calmar high school auditorium Kay Hanson Decorah state department president will speak at the event hosted by the Calmar Legion post
Textile advertisement for blue chambray shirts
Classified line promotes blue chambray fabric, Sanforized and shrunk, available in sizes 14 to 17. Regular price listed as $1.79 a yard or unit.
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Gus Kuester
Griswold
William S. Beardsley
Bill Beardsley
State Health Department
State Conservation Commission
Son
Edward Williamson
Independence Milford
Transportation Corps
Hanson
Fourth Infantry Division
Fort Ord
Calif
Williamson
Robert M. Schmit
J. P. Schmit
Coggan
Marine Corps
Marine Corps Recruit Depot
San Diego
Clatie
Toffou
Life Beverage CO
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Leland Bradley
Traer
Leland
Elmer
Darrell Nelson
Garwin
Waterloo
Elmer Bradley
Nelson
Baby
Monona
Jerry Carroll
Gene Kleinpell i
Alpha Fear
Miss Fear
Bill Protested
INO Cap
Reynolds
Rainbow
Marilyn Duckett
Masonic Hall
Don D Duckett
T. B. Rogers
Rogers
Hartley
M. M. Strait
Republican
Poplin
Smart Ae
Athle Bric
First Avenue
Nainsook
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