Iowa considers night speed limits to curb highway deaths
Des Moines based Pearl W. McMurry says the public safety department is interested in a night speed limit for Iowa highways due to rising traffic deaths this year. He notes fewer accidents but more fatalities, and backs education and patrols while declining a daytime limit unless backed by more enforcement.
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John Halbert
Des Moines
Pearl W. McMurry
Commissioner of Public Safety
Iowa
McCurry
McMurry
Highway Patrol
The
Partment
Davenport
INS
Scott
Clinton
Muscatine
Iowa Highway Patrol
State Bureau of Investigation
State
Safety Education Division
Eastern Iowans Named to Posts At Girls State
Georgia Gaskill of Corwith elected governor of the 1954 Hawkeye Girls State defeating Dixie Davenport 212 to 86. Jean Lee Mathey of Earlville chosen lieutenant governor. Key Simmons of Manchester named secretary of state. Other officers include Dorotha Stoughton auditor and Ann Homan superintendent. county officers listed for Macrae and Carr counties with several state representatives.
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Cedar Falls
Georgia
Anne Gaskill
Corwith
Hawkeye
Miss Gaskill
Dixie Davenport
Anamosa
Jean Lee Mathey
Earlville
Iowa State Teachers College
Key Simmons
Manchester
Beardsley
Carmen Chapman
Des Moines
Dorotha Stoughton
Iowa City
Ann Homan
Oxford Junction
Macrae
Jeannice Kopecky
Toledo
Mary Sick
Blairstown
County Officials Hear Salary Boost Proposals
DES MOINES IOWA county officials met for the Iowa State Association of County Officers convention with much discussion focused on proposed increases for county official salaries. The 1955 legislature was set to consider boosts. past action approved $800 annual raises for all elected officers except attorneys, with no effort in 1953.
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Des Moines
INS
Iowa
Iowa State Association of County Officers
General Assembly
New Water System Planned for Tama Indian School
Construction will start soon on a $20,000 water system at Tama Indian School for drinking use. It will include a 10,000 gallon storage tank, filters, pumps, and drainage runoff capture from a hillside, with water pumped from the ground into the tank. E. B. Spencer Company of Waterloo holds the contract for the project.
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Iar Touzette
AM A' Ng
Tama Indian School
E. B. Spencer Company of
Waterloo
Keota Man Elected Iowa Odd Fellows Grand Master
Unofficial returns indicate A. I. FitzSimMons of Keota has been elected grand master of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows for Iowa. Other officers winning include Thomas Stimpson Anamosa deputy grand master Dee Galvin Knoxville grand warden Lynn J Irwin Des Moines grand secretary C D Evans Ottumwa grand treasurer and Harry Larson Forest City representative to the sovereign grand lodge for a one year term.
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Des Moines
A. I. FitzSimmons
Keota
Independent Order of Odd_ Fellows
Iowa
Thomas Stimpson
Anamosa
Dee Galvin
Knoxville
Lynn J. Irwin
C. D. Evans
Ottumwa
Harry Larson
Forest City
Soverign Grand Lodge
Board of Elections
Labor urged to trust press and public in disputes
Walter Steigleman of the University of Iowa urged 35 Iowa Labor Short Course members to have faith in fair press coverage and public judgment. He advised presenting labor’s side early, avoiding name calling, and supplying ready facts to help reporters tell a complete, constructive story.
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Iowa City
Walter Steigleman
University of Iowa
Iowa
Amana
Steigleman
Stengleman
West Liberty Principal Resigns to Take Teaching Job
West Liberty high school principal Anton Toft resigns to join Franklin Park AI as a teacher. He served six years at the school, four as a math instructor and the last two as principal and math teacher.
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West Liberty
Anton Toft
Franklin Park
Toft
Mt Vernon Sets July 21 Bond Election
Mt. Vernon school board reschedules a $350,000 bond vote to Monday July 21, moving it from the original July 7 date. The panel cites scheduling considerations for the two week delay.
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Mt. Vernon
Centra City Man James Spinler Dies After Long Illness
James Spinler 83 longtime Central City resident died Thursday after a long illness. Services Saturday at 2 p.m. in Federated Church. Burial Mt. Clark Cemetery. Passmore Funeral Home in charge. Born in Czechoslovakia came to the U S at 15. Married Mary McCann December 22 1903 golden wedding last year. Survivors include wife three sons Charles Manchester Marvin Coggan Raymond Central City daughters Eunice Wilcox Springville Joe Mysak, 21 grandchildren 24 great grandchildren.
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Gazette
Central City
James Spinler
Federated Church
Mt. Clark
Passmore Funeral Home
Czechoslovakia
Spinler
Linn County
Mary McCann
Fargo
N.D
Charles
Manchester
Marvin
Coggan
Raymond
Eunice Wilcox
Joe Mysak
Springville
Iowa News Roundup From Des Moines To Audubon
A Des Moines pair learn a lesson after being caught swimming unsupervised and writing lines. Otto F. Walter of Missouri Valley dies after falling from a coal car. Ottumwa band wins state parade honors in Colorado Springs. Davenport school wins an injunction against AFL painters over project contracts. Des Moines woman sustains burns lighting a charcoal burner. Evangelical Lutheran delegates back social security inclusion for ministers at the national convention in Audubon with voluntary participation.
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Des Moines
Otto F. Walter
Missouri Valley
Ottumwa
National Junior Chamber of Commerce
Colorado Springs
Helen Blake
National Convention of Evangelical Lutheran Church
Audubon
Forty Iowans To Appear at U N Parley
Des Moines iceland hearings plan to hear about revising the United Nations Charter. Iowa witnesses will present varied views in a 9 30 a m session at the Savery hotel. Senators Gillette and Hickenlooper attend with Wilson and Mansfield. the panel will hear from 40 speakers, each limited to five minutes. The subcommittee has held prior hearings in Akron Milwaukee Greensboro and Louisville.
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Des Moines
Senate Foreign Relations
Congress
Guy M. Gillette
D-Ia
U.N. General Assembly
Gillette
Iowa
Savery Hotel
Bourke B. Hickenlooper
Wiley
R-Wis
Sen
Mansfield
D-Mont
Hickenlooper
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Akron
Milwaukee
Greensboro
Louisville
John Foster Dulles
U.N
Citizens Committee On
U.N. Revision
Senate
Skin cell test may reveal a person's true sex
Dr Warren O Nelson of the University of Iowa described at the Endocrine Society meeting in San Francisco a microscopic study of skin cells that can distinguish male from female. He said the method could resolve sex in babies with ambiguous development and prevent later distress, though surgery might still be needed in some cases.
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San Francisco
University of Iowa
Endocrine Society
Warren O. Nelson
University’s College of Medicine
SUI
Nelson
Mrs Coffey Dies at 73 Former Editor of Wellman Advance
Mrs E I Coffey 73 Iowa Mother of the Year 1944 died Wednesday at her son’s hospital in Fairfax Missouri while visiting relatives. She edited the Wellman Advance for 36 years retiring 1939 and is survived by nine children including Max farm editor at Omaha World Herald and Dr James Coffey of Fairfax Missouri. Funeral services set for Sunday at 2 p.m. in Wellman Methodist Church with Powell funeral home in charge.
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Gazette
Wellman
E. I. Coffey
Iowa
Fairfax
E. D. Morrison, Jr
Washington
James Coffey
Missouri
Green Township
Iowa County
Iowa Wesleyan College
Coffeey
Wellman Adence
American Mothers Committee
Golden Rule Foundation
Max
Omaha World Herald
W. R. Morgan
Syracuse
N.Y
Dan Polk
Fairbanks
Alaska
Morrison
Hubert
Berkeley
Calif
Jean
Los Angeles
Francis
Tucson
Francis Halda
Richmond
Injuries Fatal for Marshalltown Woman
Mrs. Denver Cross 32 of Marshalltown died at a hospital from injuries after a car crash ten miles west of Marshalltown last Monday. She was thrown from her car when it hit a pickup driven by Harold Nichol Jr 16 of Melbourne. Nichol and the two children in the car suffered minor injuries. Services set for Saturday afternoon.
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Marshalltown
Denver Cross
Here
Cross
Harold Nichol, Jr
Melbourne
Nichol
Delegations Set for Demo Convention
Democratic state headquarters announced the allocation of delegates among counties for the party state primaries and conventions. Polk leads with 240 delegates, followed by Linn 112, Scott 111, Black Hawk 91, Woodbury 90, and others. Delegates are chosen by county conventions July 2, with $1 per delegate. State convention in Des Moines July 27. judicial convention Aug 7. Larry Plummer will be temporary chairman of the state convention.
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Des Moines
Democratic
Polk County
Linn
Scott
Black Hawk
Woodbury
Polk
Wapello County
Webster
Pottawattamie
Herschel C. Loveless
Des Moines Speakers Highlight Iowa State Democratic Convention
U S Sen Gillette seeks re election and County Attorney Clyde E Her r ing of Des Moines will be keynote speakers at the state convention aiming to rally party support for governor nominee.
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U. S
Gillette
Clyde E. Herring
Des Moines
Hamburg Man Killed In Car Truck Crash
A 50 year old Hamburg man Carl Smith died when his car hit a truck near Hamburg on Thursday. Passenger Gordon Anderson 14 of Dunning Nebraska was hospitalized with a broken leg. Truck driver Elmer Adcock 47 of Peru Nebraska escaped injury.
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Hamburg
INS
Carl Smith
Smith
Gordon Anderson
Dunning
Neb
Elmer Adcock
Peru
Iowa Practical Nurses Open Clarinda Meeting
The fourth annual state convention of Licensed Practical Nurses met in Clarinda with about 150 attending the opening sessions led by Lydia Bailey of Iowa City, the state president. Hilda Torrop, executive director of the National Association for Practical Nurse Education, was slated to speak Friday and officers were to be elected.
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Clarinda
INS
Lydia Bailey
Iowa City
National Association For Practical Nurse Education
Hilda Torrop
State Won't Survey Municipal Streets
State Highway Commissioner John Butter said it is out of the question for the commission to survey street improvements in Iowa's 800 cities and towns. A city delegation led by Waterloo mayor Lawrence Touchae asked for a survey, but Butter offered a questionnaire to be sent to all municipalities with results compiled by the League of Iowa Municipalities to identify needed improvements.
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Ames
John Butter
Iowa
Lawrence Touchae
Waterloo
Imayor
Butter
League of Iowa
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