Recommendations for Cutting Iowa School Costs
Dr. Frank P. Bachman urges reducing teachers, reorganizing rural districts, and creating a state department of education to direct all schools. He calls for consolidating elementary schools, multi-subject teaching, and higher pupil loads, plus streamlined high school programs to save money without harming quality.
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DES Moines
Iowa
State Department of Education
Frank P. Bachman
Bachman
George Peabody Teachers College
Nashville
Tenn
Legislative Tax Reduction Committee
Department of Education
Iowa State Teachers' Association
Ninety University of Iowa Grads Admitted to State Bar
Ninety applicants passed the Iowa state bar examinations with two to spare. seventy seven from the University of Iowa 1932 law class. Bar work ran from Monday to Wednesday noon with many named admittees from Iowa City Davenport Elkader Cedar Rapids and Town City.
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Iowa City
Iowa
State Examining Board
University of Iowa
State University
George Balluf
James ©. Carroll
Davenport
Burton Bowman
Herbert Clark
Basil Byrne
John Dorgan
Leroy Erhardt
Elkader
Edwin C Davis
Hilmer Harbeck
Louis Davis
Gilbert Mains
Cedar Rapids
Ken Gell Davis
Lloyd Roberts
James van Horn
Don Young
John Whitney
Leroy Zeman
Waldo Wissler
Brown Re-nomination Bid Falls in Polk County
DES MOINES Iowa Ed R Brown secretary of the legislative committee on the reduction of governmental expenditures failed to win re nomination as state representative from Polk county. Official canvass by the board of supervisors shows Elliott leading Brown by 103 votes after a slim initial edge for Brown in unofficial results.
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Des Moines
Ed R Brown
Legislative Committee On
Polk County
Board of Supervisors
Brown
E A Elliott
Elliott
Independence Slashes Residential Electricity Rates
The Independence city council approved a new ordinance reducing heating and cooking electricity to 30 cents per kilowatt with the first sixty kilowatts free and a $2 minimum monthly charge. They also sought to transfer $3,000 from the light and water fund to the general fund amid a near exhaustion of that fund, noting the city has no debt and ongoing improvements funded.
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Independence
Independence City Council
Light and Water Fund
Jolas Recital Set for Friday at College Chapel
Mount Vernon reports Jacques Jolas will present a second Cornell summer recital Friday at 8 pm in the college chapel with Haydn and Mozart works. The program follows last Friday’s Beethoven performance and lists twelve Jolas students from various cities and states. Also noted are Tipton picnic events by local church Sunday schools at Weed’s Park.
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Cornell
Mount Vernon
Jacques Jolas
College Chapel
Haydn
Mozart
Jolas
C. L. Robbins
Jane Robbins
Iowa City
Marjorie Monroe Anamosa
Grant Perrin
Cedar Rapids
Winifred Wherry
Wyoming
Henry van Pelt
Harrisburg
Lela Niles
Ames
Priscilla Keeler
Claude Rose
Newton
Emily Gibson
Fort Leavenworth
Kan
Harold W. Baltz
Sean Ailechette
Innocente
Speed Trap Markers to Erect at Hazleton City Limits
Iowa Highway Commission will place speed trap markers at the Hazleton north and south city limits on Highway No. 11. Auto Department Inspector John Pazour announced after reviewing Hazleton fines from May 16 to June 13, totaling 96 speeding tickets and $730.80 in town receipts.
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Independence
Iowa Highway Commission
Hazleton
Auto Department
John Pazour
D. N. King
Funeral Held Thursday For Orville Current
Orville Current 83 died Tuesday after a short illness. Funeral services were Thursday at Smithtown church with Rev. E Mastin officiating. Born February 20 1849 in Maquoketa he married Nancy Mee Anich in 1869 and farmed in Clinton County before retiring to Baldwin. Survived by widow nine children two sisters a half sister four half brothers thirty four grandchildren forty four great grandchildren and three great great grandchildren.
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G. SP Aldy
Orville Current
Smithtown
E. Mastin
Mr Current
Jackson County
Maquoketa
Nancy Mee Anich
Clinton County
Baldwin
Thomas
Orpheus
Freeman
Ira
Mary Francks
Jennie Fields
Etta Hills
West Liberty
Earl Carey
Buckhorn
Eugene
Mary Allard
Jennie Johnson
Clarence Burleson
Milo
Orpheus Barnes
Masons Elect New Iowa Grand Officers in 89th Convention
Delegates to the eightyninth Iowa state Masonic convention elected Fred H. Hansen of Clinton as grand worshipful master succeeding Charles Percival. New officers include Harry Searle Bristow senior grand warden Ralph Porter Knoxville junior grand warden Ralph Bunce Iowa City grand treasurer and C C Hunt Cedar Rapids grand secretary who was reelected Cedar Rapids will host the 1933 convention retiring officers are Tom B Throckmorton Des Moines A J Walsmith Oskaloosa and Charles C Palmer Clear Lake.
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Sioux City
Fred H. Hansen
Clinton
Hansen
Charles 8. Percival
Bonaparate
Harry Searle
Bristow
Ralph Porter
Knoxville
Ralph Bunce
Iowa City
C. C. Hunt
Cedar Rapids
Hunt
Tom B. Throckmorton
Des Moines
A. J. Walsmith
Oskaloosa
Charles C. Palmeter
Clear Lake
Five Des Moines Truckers Fined $110 At Grinnell
Five Des Moines truck drivers were fined a total of $110 by Justice F. P. Marvin in Grinnell. Leonard Pehrs was fined for speeding while John Ewing Frank Young and Paul Staedel were fined for overloading. Earl A. Hoyle was fined for driving a truck no feet long and paid a $50 fine. Inspectors picked up the drivers.
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Gazette
Justice F. P. Marvin
Des Moines
Leonard Pehrs
John Ewing
Frank Young
Paul Staedel
Earl A. Hoyle
Hoyle
Alligator Invades Beach At Grinnell
An alligator two feet long was found Wednesday night on a bathing beach near the city units. Beach employees captured the reptile using grappling hooks. The sighting, far from its native haunts, remains unexplained.
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Grinnell
INS
Mount Vernon Public School Faculty Named for Next Year
Mount Vernon officials complete the faculty list for next year with names including Opal Munger as high school principal and staff from Mount Vernon Fridolf Lundholm Braham Minn Burton OConnor Newton Marie Yaryan Diagonal Margaret Wilcox Fort Dodge Luella Jensen Harlan Maude Singer Newton. Salaries reduced to save about 4000 annually.
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Mount Vernon
Opal Munger
Bertha West
Geraldine Hughes
Dorothy Ann Flint
Jessie Coleman
Edna and
Mary Kepler
Elizabeth Wallis
Dorothy Neal
Fridolf Lundholm
Braham
Minn
Burton O'Connor
Newton
Marie .Yaryan
Diagonal
Margaret Wilcox
Fort Dodge
Luella Jensen
Harlan
Maude Singer
Physical Education Meet At Iowa University
Three out of state speakers will lead a University of Iowa conference on physical education in Iowa City on June 23 and 24. Directors include Eu gene Howe of Wellesley College Mabel Lee of the University of Nebraska and Strong Hin man of Wichita Kansas.
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Iowa City
E. H. Lauer
University of Iowa
Eugene Howe
Wellesley College
Northampton
Mass
Strong Hinman
Wichita
Kan
Mabel Lee
University of Nebraska
Baker to Run for Governor as Independent
Norman Baker of Muscatine former hospital operator and AMA damages plaintiff will seek Iowa governor as an independent candidate next November. He announced by letter from Nuevo Laredo Mexico that he will use a 150000 watt radio station there for campaign broadcasting and promises a clean administration based on sound business principles with lower taxes.
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DES Moines
Norman Baker
Muscatine
American Medical Association
Nover Baker
Nuevo Laredo
Mexico
Metho dist Episcopal Conference Held in Mount Vernon
Special to The Gazette reports from Mount Vernon describe the fourth quarterly meeting of the M E church with presentations on church affairs. The finance committee includes Evans Colton E R Ristine and George Franks.
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Mount Vernon
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Evans Colton
E. R. Ristine
George Franks
Ladies Aid reports donations and activities
Miss Ida Jordan reports the Ladies Aid raised 750 for Cornell college and 9500 for the church. The group completed 1500 member calls and sponsored various social activities, with additional notes from Rev. E. T. Gough and other church leaders on Sunday school, Epworth league, and missionary societies.
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C. E. Hedges
Frank Cole
Foreign Missionary Society
Lloyd Mesnrehert
Elizabeth Pearson
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Iowa State Teachers College
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Beatrice J. Geiger
Madison, Wis
Anna L. Leggett
Polk Co
Meara
Second Ave
Jolas Recital
Tipton
Weed's Park
Methodist
Presbyterian
Orville
U. of Iowa
Baker
M. E. Church
W. R. Harmon
Granby
Killian
Sale of Chicago Merchandise Mart
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