Iowa City Hosts Five Day Methodist Centennial Meet
Iowa Methodists gather in Iowa City for the centennial of the church’s Iowa introduction. The Road to Faith pageant, by Marcus Bach, opens the session with Bishop J R Magee presiding. About 300 pastors and laymen expected. ordinations wrap the five day event.
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Methodist Church
L. L. Dunnington
Heil D. Bollinger
Ruopp
The
Central Church of
Earl Harper
Cedar Rapids Gazette 1983 edition header and pricing notice
The page fragment shows the Cedar Rapids Gazette branding and state-wide delivery rates and circulation details. It includes mentions of the Associated Press and United Press International News Service, press classifications, and post office notices as a standard 1873 act-era publication, plus carrier subscription pricing for various editions and durations.
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Ard Ave
Ar Rapids
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Cedar Rapids
Ted Press
United Press International News Service
Associated Press
Alise Creder
Bs New Center
Retroit of Media Records
ANPA
Officers Chosen By Iowa Better Education Group
DES MOINES AP W J L Griffith radio director at Iowa State College Ames was reelected president of the Iowa Council for Better Education Tuesday. Mrs M H Brinker Jefferson was reelected vice president. New officers on the executive committee are Mrs Nellie Kenison Madrid Mrs Joseph W Smith Des Moines Mrs Raymond Sayre Ackworth and Mrs Thomas M Clark Elkhart Don Berry Indianola Ia chair of the state postwar rehabilitation committee urged reassessment of farm versus city labor values after the war. Mrs Kenison
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Des Moines
W.jl Griffith
Iowa State College
Ames
Iowa Council For Better Education
M. H. Brinker
Jefferson
Nellie Kenison
Madrid
Joseph W. Smith
Raymond Sayre
Ackworth
Thomas M. Clark
Elkhart
Don Berry
Indianola
Cross Bound to Jury On Dog Poison Charge
Urbana reporter notes Charles Cross, a retired farmer, waived preliminary hearing and posted $1000 bond. Bound over to the diary on testimony that 14 dogs died of poison in the last month and about 25 in the last year, with the charge brought by Mrs Ida Mounce.
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Urbana
Charles Cross
Justice Court
Benton County
Ida Mounce
Cross
Diet Effects on Teeth To Be Studied at Iowa
Iowa City report says dental health study will examine how diet affects children's teeth with focus on sugar. Julian D. Boyd leads the University of Iowa project funded by a $1,500 Sugar Research Foundation grant through January 1, with potential for up to $20,000 more from the Pose foundation.
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Iowa
Iowa City
INS
University of Iowa
Julian D. Boyd
Sugar Research Foundation of
New York
Pose Foundation
Boyd
Decomposed Body Found in Sedan Near Farmington
Farmington reports indicate an unidentified man was found dead in the locked trunk of a Ford sedan parked along a road for about five days. Missouri-registered car, Sheriff Brannon and Coroner Burnett present. Clues include a work jacket and a hat. throat-cutting evidence not elaborated.
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Farmington
van Buren County
Here
Aeres
Missouri
Joe Brannon
H. A. Burnett
Fourteen Iowa Soldiers Killed in Action in the Mediterranean
Washington reports the war department released the names of fourteen Iowa soldiers killed in action in the Mediterranean region. The list includes Pvt. Howard C. Spielhagen of Fort Madison and Sgt. Claude W. Wolford of Conesville, with family references noted.
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Washington
Iowa
War Department
Mediterranean
Vee Oo Augustson
Rew Augustson
Garrison
John L. Duffy
Wyoming
Howard C. Spielhagen
Marie B. Spielhagen
Fort Madison
Claude W. Wolford
Bertha M. Wolford
Conesville
Annual Meeting of Presbyterian Synod to Be Held at Ames
The Iowa synod of the Presbyterian church will hold its sixty third annual meeting June 19 to 22 in the Memorial Union at Iowa State College. Election of a new moderator to succeed Rev. William J. Grossheim will occur Monday night. Eight outside speakers will address the meeting including Rev. Park Hays Miller and Rev. George A. Buttrick. Women’s conferences run Tuesday through Thursday morning and Westminster fellowship for youth follows Tuesday and Wednesday. Collegiate Presbyterian church of Ames hosts with Rev. Walter Barrow as pastor-host.
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Walter Barrow
Ames
Lt. Wilke Killed in Sicily in World War II
Special to The Gazette Lt Erwin Wilke long missing since July 31 1943 was killed in action in Sicily wife Mrs Rita Gentz Wilke received word. Memorial services planned at Clayton Center Tuesday afternoon.
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Luana
Erwin Wilke
Sicily
Rita Gentz Wilke
Clayton Center
Liberty Ship Named for Iowa Congressman Harrington
The maritime commission announced a Liberty ship will be named for Vincent Harrington of Sioux City. Harrington served as Iowa's congressman from 1937 to 1941 and died while serving as an army major in England.
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Maritime Commission
Vincent Harrington
Sioux City
Congress
Iowa
England
Summer Theater at Cornell College Opens Thursday
The Cornell Summer theater enters its eleventh season with a Thursday opening at Armstrong Hall presenting the comedy Confusion Unlimited. Albert Franklin Johnson directs with Bertha French. Cast includes Ev Snyder Rutland Vi Hillman Les Johnson Des Moines and Claire Distelhorst Dubuque. Betty Bogue Hoover from Green Mountain Junior College directs alongside Jack Fletch er Davenport Civic Players and Gerry Fleming Ryan from Wisconsin.
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Cornell Summer Theater
Armstrong Hall
Confusion Unlimited
Albert Franklin Johnson
Mr. Johnson
Bertha French
Ev Snyder
Rutland, Vi
Fi Hillman
Les Johnson
Dar Rapids
Doug Mandelson
Des Moines
Claire Distelhorst
Dubuque
Betty Bogue Hoover
Green Mountain Junior College
Vermont
Jack Flietcher
Civic Players of
Davenport
Gerry Fleming Ryan
University of Wisconsin
Iowa U. Men in Armed Forces Top 26,381
IOWA CITY AP From Pearl Harbor to June 1, 1944 the University of Iowa contributed 26,381 men to the armed forces. Alumni and former students 7,910 Navy Preflight school 15,399 V-12 in medicine 103 V-12 in dentistry 51 war training service 507 AST P 2,411.
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Iowa City
Pearl Harbor
University of Iowa
Virgil M. Hancher
Navy
Father Runs Over Son in Backing Car
Four year old Kenneth Ray Walling was injured in Council Bluffs when his father David H. Walling backed over him at their home. The left rear wheel passed over the boy's abdomen, leaving him in a local hospital with serious injuries.
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Council Bluffs
INS
Kenneth Ray Walling
David H. Walling
Walling
Missouri River Dike Breaks Near Plattsmouth Flooding Iowa Farmland
A Missouri river dike on the Iowa side across from Plattsmouth Nebraska broke early Tuesday, releasing flood waters onto hundreds of acres of rich Iowa farmland. A new warning was issued for lowland residents along the stream as U S Meteorologist M V Roth moves down the Missouri and anticipates flood stage readings.
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Missouri
Iowa
Plattsmouth
Neb
U. S
M. V. Roth
Sutekofer Marriage Linked To North Atlantic Service
Mayor and Mrs. F M Sutekofer announce the marriage of their son Ensign Charles F Sutekofer to Miss Lucille Viasek of Montgomery Minnesota. The ceremony was held June 3 in Minneapolis. Ensign Sutekofer, a Iowa State college graduate, returned recently after eight months service in the North Atlantic.
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F. M. Sutekofer
Ensign Charles F. Sutekofer
Lucille Viasek
Montgomery
Minn
Minneapolis
Ensign Sutekofer
Iowa State College
North Atlantic
Burlington Man Held in Fatal Stabbing Fight
In Burlington a 31 year old man, L. Stratton, was arrested after a fatal stabbing following an argument over a car at a tavern. Stratton reportedly admitted the stabbing saying he would do it again if the other man survived. The victim, Preach Owen, is survived by a widow and two children. Stratton is married with four children and works as an assistant line foreman at a farm implement company.
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ae L. _ Stratton
Beng Nal
Owen
Rene
Stratton
Preach Owen
Escaped Germans Believed in Iowa
Des Moines AP reports two German war prisoners escaped from a Salt Lake City camp and were believed riding a flat car through Council Bluffs toward Youngstown Ohio. Suspects Herman Langeheine, 37, and Edmund Fischer, 27, cannot speak English though Fischer understands it. Federal agent E Kuhnel led the alert.
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Des Moines
Council Elsa
Youngstown
Ohio
Kuhnel
Donald Fred Pilcher Now German Prisoner
Mrs. G B Kinser received word from the war department on Saturday that her son Sgt Donald Fred Pilcher is a prisoner of war of the Germans. Pilcher, known as Fred Kinser, was a ball turret gunner on a B 17 bomber and had been missing in action since May 7.
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G. B. Kinser
Jaff
Donald Fred Pilcher
Pilcher
Fred Kinser
Iowa Airports to Join National Defense Program
Washington announces new emergency landing fields at Waterloo and Dubuque Iowa as part of 41 airports under the national defense emergency program. Construction work will begin immediately, officials said.
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Washington
INS
Waterloo
Dubuque
Winds whip Alburnett as trees topple across town
Severe winds uprooted trees from four miles south to three miles north of Alburnett damaging government granaries and displacing an elevator yard unit blown across a road. A tree collapsed roofs at Bill Anderson and Benny Roddicker homes, and Bill Wilt’s corn crib toppled scattering corn widely. The rebuilding elevator, rebuilt after last year’s fire, blew down minutes after workers left. Many trees were uprooted and chimneys toppled. No injuries reported.
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Bill Anderson
Benny Roddicker
Bill Wilt
Cpl Floyd Sackett Killed in England Plane Crash
Arlington resident Cpl Floyd L. Sackett Jr turret gunner and small bomber crewman was killed in a plane crash in England on March 29 according to a war department notice received here Saturday. He entered service in 1942 and served with distinction until his death.
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Cpl
Floyd Sackett
England
Arlington
Floyd L. Sackett, Jr
Sackett son trains in multiple cities and flies overseas
He received training in Des Moines California Sioux Falls South Dakota and Salt Lake City Utah. He flew overseas in April. He is the son of Floyd L Sackett Sr of Vorhees and Mrs Effie Sackett of Fayette.
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Des Moines
California
Sioux Falls
S. Dak
Salt Lake City
Utah
Floyd L. Sackett, Sr
Vorhees
Effie Sackett
Fayette
Six Girls and Sailors Arrested in Des Moines Hotel
In Des Moines a group of six girls aged 15 to 18 and six sailors from Ames, Iowa were arrested Monday afternoon in a city hotel by detective R. Dale Squires. The girls are held for juvenile bureau investigation while the sailors were turned over to the navy shore patrol.
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Des Moines
R. Dale Squires
Juvenile Bureau
Ames
Navy
New NELORE Psoriasis Relief Promises Quick Comfort
A new preparation called NELORE offers relief from psoriasis ex ternal symptoms by removing scales arresting itching and reducing infection. A $1.50 jar is available today at May's Drug Stores Schillig Drug Stores Liggett's and drug stores everywhere with a money back guarantee if not delighted.
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Schillig Drug Stores
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