Iowa City Considers Water Plant Purchase Plan
The Iowa City council reviewed an engineering report on the waterworks. Boston firm Metcalf and Eddy valuates at 1.55 million for a possible purchase, below the 1.826 million asking price, with a 1.67 million bond and a 1.6 percent rate hike proposed to finance improvements. A unified plant with the University could cut costs and avoid the rate increase.
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Soercist
Iowa City
Thelma Lewis
Iowa Water Service Co
University of Iowa
Services Thursday For Alfred Drexler
Alfred Drexler 77 a lifelong Troy Mills resident and farmer died Tuesday night. Born April 2 1884 at Prairieburg he married Edith Kratzer June 30 1926 in Cedar Rapids. Surviving are his wife three stepsons a brother and two sisters. Services Thursday 2 pm Troy Mills Methodist Church burial in Coggon cemetery. Memorials to Troy Mills Methodist Church encouraged.
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Troy Mills
Alfred Drexler
Linn County
Prairieburg
Edith Kratzer
Cedar Rapids
Lloyd Kratzer
Reinbeck
Lee Roy Kratzer
Coggon
Clarence Ray Kratzer
Henry Drexler
Central City
Dela Hill
Ella Plumly
Springville
Troy Mills Methodist Church
Coggon Cemetery
Murdoch
Two Men Injured in Cedar County Crash
Tipton resident John Pieper 80 was listed in critical condition at University hospital Iowa City with multiple fractures after a two car crash Tuesday near the Cedar River bridge on highway 1. The other driver Rev. Omar Pettersen 28 of Bennett suffered facial lacerations and was treated at Mercy hospital Iowa City.
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Tipton
John Pieper
University Hospital
Iowa City
Pieper
Omar Pettersen
Bennett
Cedar River Bridge
Highway 1
Pettersen
Mercy Hospital
High Court Upholds Road Access Ruling in Iowa
The Iowa Supreme Court affirmed a Johnson County district court ruling that the State Highway Commission need not compensate business property owners for temporary loss of access. The suit by Mrs James Blank and Rick Bruwmer drive in operators and E R Christie service station owner on Riverside Drive arose after access was cut during Highway 6 and 218 widening last year.
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Gazette
Iowa City
Iowa Supreme Court
Clair Hamilton
Johnson County
State Highway Commission
High Court
Hamilton
James Blank
Rick Bruwmer
E. R. Christie
South Riverside Drive
Henry Brendes 58 Lowden businessman dies in Cedar Rapids
Henry W Brendes 58 longtime Lowden merchant owner of H and L store dies in Cedar Rapids after four weeks hospitalized for a heart attack Born August 10 1902 he led the Commercial club school board church council and fire department Survivors include wife two daughters three brothers two sisters and one grandchild Services set for Friday at 3 pm at Zion Evangelical and Reformed Church Body at Chapman funeral home Clarence
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Lowden
Henry W. Brendes
Cedar Rapids
H and L
Commercial
Zion Evangelical and Reformed Church Council
Bethel Mae Burford
Don Kash
Iowa City
Otto
Walter
London
Elmer
Tipton
Paul Bushing
Fred Gold- Smith
Clarence
Zion Evangelical and Reformed Church
Chapman Funeral Home
West Liberty Youth Fined on Check Count
Richard L. Perrin of West Liberty faced arraignment on false drawing and uttering of a small check. Police stated Perrin had about $200 in worthless checks outstanding. He was fined 96 dollars plus costs and released to restitution.
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Iowa City
Richard L. Perrin
West Liberty i
Jay Honahan
Perrin
Sleuth on Fugitive's Trail on Hawaiian Eye
TV listing notes an 8:00 p.m. air time for Sleuth on fugitive's trail on Hawaiian Eye. The program airs Wednesday on iKCRG TV 9.
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Hawaiian Eye
Ikcrg-Tv
Selection of 1961 62 Old Gold Singers Named
University of Iowa announces the Old Gold Singers for 1961 62 directed by Marvin Genuchi after auditions. Thirteen women and 15 men are chosen from Eastern Iowa colleges and towns including Cedar Rapids Cresco Deep River Iowa City Oxford Sigourney South English and additional applicants.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa
Marvin C. Genuchi
Sui
Eastern Iowa
Old Gold
Janice Gordon
St. NW
Cedar Rapids
Malinda Baker
Kenneth Erickson
Cresco
Shirley Burggraaf
R.R
Deep River
Nancy Glenn
Stephen Mosher
Ellen Stockman
Oxford
Carmen Slater
Sigourney
Mary i Grove
South English
Mrs. Daniels Dies in Brooklyn At 80
Arda Daniels formerly Arda White 80 long time Cedar Rapids resident and widow of Linn county contractor T. J. Daniels died Tuesday in Brooklyn. Born September 17, 1880 she married Daniels October 4, 1898 and moved to Cedar Rapids in 1907 where he worked as builder for 45 years. She later lived with sister Ida Bigelow of Brooklyn after his death in 1952. She was survived by four sisters and a twin brother. Services will be Friday at 10 at Bramer's.
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The
Gazette
Brooklyn
Arda Daniels
Cedar Rapids
Linn County
Arda White
T. J. Daniels
Daniels
Bramer’s
Hazleton Disregards Oelwein School Bid
Hazleton school board rejects a 250 signature petition to send high school students to Oelwein on tuition basis this fall. Trustees cite an upcoming merger vote as delaying action while preserving plans to keep Hazleton High open through 1962. state aid ends after that year.
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Hazleton
Oelwein
Iowa City Awards Paving Bid for 24 Streets
The Irving Iensen Construction Co. of Sioux City won the paving contract for 24 Iowa City streets with a bid of 351,961 dollars, the lowest of four bids. Midry Construction Co. of Cedar Rapids followed at 357,320 dollars. The council called the successful bid 10,000 dollars over estimates, with total program cost estimated at 392,000 dollars.
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Iowa City
Irving Iensen
Midry Construction Co
Cedar Rapids
SUI Selects Sketch for 1961 Homecoming Monument
Howard Gustafson, a Stanley senior, won for a parabolic radio antenna sketch titled Searching for Knowledge through Education. He will receive $20 as the winning idea, announced by William Ashton, 1961 Homecoming monument chairman. The monument is built by SUI engineering students and burned if Iowa loses the Homecoming game against Wisconsin on October 21.
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Iowa City
Howard Gustafson
Stanley
University of Iowa
Gustafson
William Ashton
Davenport
SUI Engineering
Iowa
Wisconsin
Settlement in Sigourney Gas Blast Suit Told
A $125000 damage suit from Hulda Follman of Sigourney against Phillips Petroleum Co and six others was settled out of Keokuk county district court. The suit, dismissed with prejudice, claimed a defective pump caused a gas leak and an explosion that badly burned Follman and damaged her home May 15 last year. The settlement amount was not disclosed.
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Sigourney
Keokuk County
Hulda Follman
Phillips Petroleum Co
John Mattlin
Franklin Beall
Red Jacket Manufacturing Co
W. C. Conner
Conner Bros. Construction Co
Seibel Hardware Co
Mrs. Lowell Named Postville Postmaster
Mrs. Frank Lowell named acting postmaster at Postville after Leon Casten resigns Casten had replaced Keith Gray upon retirement Lowell to serve until a vacancy filled by examination
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Postville
Frank Lowell
Leon Casten
Casten
Keith Gray
Lowell
High School Students Enter Iowa Summer Session
Sixty seven East Iowa high school students began college level courses in the University of Iowa summer session. John P. Hyde of Elkader and Daniel J. Duffy of Tama were named to the program from more than 500 applicants.
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Iowa City
East Iowa
University of Iowa
John P. Hyde
Elkader
Daniel J. Duffy
Tama
Boy Tommy Smith Suffers Fractured Wrist in Fall
Tommy Smith eight year old son of Mr and Mrs Richard Smith sustained a fractured wrist Tuesday after a fall while at play.
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Waubeek
Tommy Smith
Richard Smith
Iowa high school journalists attend ninth annual workshop
Some 160 students including 99 with newspaper scholarships participate in the Iowa High School Publications Workshop at the University of Iowa. Eastern Iowa attendees listed include Kerry Etzel Mary Roshar Alburnett Sandra Courtney Susan Stultz Cedar Rapids Pam ela Emerson Marjorie Running Decorah Susan Appleton Edge wood Salley Hall Iowa City Marla Lantz Lone Tree Mary Hutchison Margaret McCann Manchester Karen Mitchell Sandra Thurn Marion Ann Levi son Karla Lyon Olin Nancy Ross Susan Votroubek Solon Marla Jo Ann Heit man Van Horne Lynn Eaton Waukon Curtis Cox Junean Goschke Wellman Jane Little Kay Maher Sue Thompson West Branch Beverly Meyer West Liberty Cindy Evans Stephanie Schatz West Union Gregory Misbach Williamsburg Sandra Gaffney Judy Halford Winthrop. Sponsored by the school of journalism the workshop features instruction for newspaper and yearbook personnel.
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Iowa City
Iowa
University of Iowa School of Journalism
Wellman
Jane Little
Kay Maher
Sue Thompson
West ‘Branch
Beverly Meyer
West Liberty
Cindy Evans l
Stephanie Schatz
West ‘Union
Gregory Misbach
Williamburg
Sandra Gaffney
Judy Halford
Winthrop
School of Journalism
Suffers Heart Attack While Driving Auto
WEST LIBERTY C W Heath 48 a farmer from near here died en route to University hospitals in Iowa City after his car ran off highway 6 three miles west of West Liberty He apparently suffered a heart attack while driving the vehicle entered a ditch and halted at a fence line Heath lived with his parents on a nearby farm Funeral services are set for Friday at 2 pm at Snider's funeral home.
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West Liberty
C. W. Heath
University Hospitals
Iowa City
Heath
Highway 6
Here
Snider
Iowa City Taverns Praise for Self Policing Minor Drinking
City Manager Peter Roan commended the Iowa City Tavern Owners Association for an outstanding effort to curb minor beer drinking. He noted recent heavy fines on minors and called drinking by underage patrons virtually non existent as tavern owners police themselves and the city can focus police resources elsewhere.
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Gazette
Iowa City
Peter Roan
Roan
Lost and Found Wanted Ad From Ga
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Ia Singing Group
Tare
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Dad
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Zenith
Baturin
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Jenna
Armstrong Home Entertainment Center
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Glen Albaugh
Mechanicsville
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Morgan Funeral Home
Lisbon
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