Iowa Likely to Lose a U S House Seat After 1960
The piece explains that Iowa faces losing a congressman due to slower population growth compared with the nation, with the current total of 435 seats likely fixed. It details apportionment rules, mandatory redistricting by state legislatures, and federal provisions to elect through districts or at large if needed.
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Iowa
United States
House of Representatives
Henry O. Talle
House
435
Talle
Congress
Iown
U.S. House
Iowa highway widening debated for Cedar Rapids area
The Iowa Highway Commission denied Cedar Rapids 45-foot paving on highway 74 between Shellsburg and Cedar Rapids to a new junction with Avenue NW. The chief engineer argues widening benefits abutting property and city traffic, urging foresight to prevent bottlenecks on key routes like highways 30 and 6 and 64 feeding Des Moines and Cedar Rapids.
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Iowa Highway Commission
Cedar Rapids
Shellsburg
John Butter
Butter
Des Moines
Iowa
Get Braced For Tomatoes
A humorous column on booting tomato plants, bugs, and excess harvests. The writer jokes about gardening ambitions, the trials of pests, and the seasonal chaos of ripe fruit, noting a 1955 King Features Syndicate copyright and a dig at attorney general Mrs Brownell.
Rock Island workers quit Cedar Rapids shop force
The Rock Island Company Cedar Rapids shop closed as about 550 workers quit in a strike union spokesmen said the walkout followed the railroad’s failure to fire a foreman who allegedly earned 90 dollars a month instead of 41 cents an hour. Formal dedication was held for Immaculate Conception Church. Dr. J. W. Griffith announced Iowa free of foot and mouth disease except Linn and Buchanan counties. The State Board of Control inspected sites for a women’s reformatory in Cedar Rapids. Coe College presented a musical Just Georgia Ann by Dora Sailor Alleine Kelley students and sponsored by the senior class.
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Rock Island Company
Cedar Rapids
J. W. Griffith
Iowa
Linn
Buchanan
Board
Iowa State Board of Control
Georgia Ann
Dora Sailor
Alleine Kelley
Coe
Majestic Theater
Self-Pity as a Confining Disease
Norman Vincent Peale recounts helping a West man trapped by self-pity. A doctor notes the issue is mental not physical. Peale urges simple acts for others as a cure and highlights love one another as a practical Bible path to health and happiness.
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Norman Vincent Peale
Florida
West
They Cannot Do Nothing Says Consultant on Relaxation
Dr Nathan Kohn Jr a personnel consultant told wives at a convention that husbands face immense new pressures from complex work and need relaxation. He urged wives to arrange long weekends every month or two for doing nothing, a concept he calls beneficial but women are accused of being unable to organize.
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Nathan Kohn, Jr
Hubby
Detroit Free Press
Iowa Voted On Liquor From Territory to Statehood
The piece traces Iowa's liquor laws and four direct votes on prohibition from 1855 to 1933, noting the local option idea first proposed by Governor Robert Lucas. It recounts margins and outcomes of each vote and explains the evolution of liquor policy through territorial periods to statehood, leaving the score tied.
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Iowa
the Gazette
Robert Lucas
Territory of
Lucas
Iowa Journal of History and Politics
Old Northwest Territory
Old
Northwest Territory
Territory
Michigan
Michigan Territorial Legislative Council
Wisconsin
George C. Wright
William G. Woodward
Norman W. Isbell
Supreme Court
Nineteenth General Assembly
Plan to Cut Congressmen At Least 135 Seats From 435
Ithaca professor emeritus Walter F Willcox proposes reducing the house from 435 to 300 and adding one seat after each census until the target is reached. He also urges a new method of apportionment to equalize district populations among the 48 states.
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Ithaca
N. Y
Walter F. Willcox
Cornell University
Willcox
House of Representatives
U. S
Congress
W. Sterling Cole
R-N.y
House Committee On the Judiciary
New York
Michigan
New Jersey
Opinion on Big Four talks and future war
Citizens express divergent views on Russian conduct and the possibility of a Big Four conference. Burnett distrusts Russia and fears no lasting peace, Kalinsky hopes for progress but expects possible conflict, De Lancey predicts another war as economic strain and argues diplomacy failed.
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Tom Burnett
Russia
U. S
Burnett
Don DE Lancey
Will a Big Four meeting bring peace
Two readers share differing views on a possible Big Four meeting. C H Anderson of 816 N Street SW hopes such a gathering could ease tensions with Russia and avert a potential atomic war, while Ben McDonough of First Avenue SE doubts any meeting would yield peace and criticizes Russia for seeking dominance.
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C. H. Anderson
N Street
Russia
Ben McDonough
First Avenue
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