Summer Programs Start Monday At Marion Playgrounds
Marion’s summer playgrounds open Monday at 9 a.m. with Emerson school led by Jean Lawson and Lincoln and Irving run by Lillie Fuller and Pris cilla Tanner under David Rosenberg, YMCA Youth Center director, aided by Jim Wheeler and Jim Whitmore. Activities include crafts, folk dancing, ball and group games, with a story hour planned for younger children later, and rules set for children aged 5 and up.
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Marion
Jean Lawson
Emerson
Lillie Fuller
Lincoln
Priscilla Tanner
Irving
David Rosenberg
Alioe College
Marion Ymca
Jim Wheeler
Jim Whitmore
Rosenberg
Miss Lawson
Fuller
Iowa State Teachers College
Miss Tanner
Miss Balcom and G E Wallace Wed at Marion Church
Miss Shirley Joyce Balcom and Glenn E Wallace, both of Marion, married Saturday at Marion Methodist Church in a double ring ceremony. Rev James P Gable officiated. Guests included 175 relatives and friends at a reception in the church parlor. The couple plan a Houston trip after the ceremony.
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Shirley Joyce Balcom
C. R. Balcom
Glenn E. Wallace
Glenn ‘O. ‘Wallace
Marion
Marion Methodist Church
James P. Gable
Ruth Engstrom
Frances Ford
Rosamond Mills to Wed Byron Ross at Marion Church
Miss Rosamond Joy Mills daughter of Mr and Mrs Ralph R Mills of Marion will marry Byron Robert Ross of Iowa City son of Mr and Mrs Oppie Ross of Braddyville this afternoon at the Marion Christian church The Rev Roy P Fields Jr will perform the double ring ceremony Bride to wear white gabardine suit and white hat trimmed with pearls bouquet of ink and white carnations Maid of honor Mildred Lamm Cedar Rapids will wear white hat pink rayon crepe gown bouquet yellow and white carnations Best man Paul Ross Braddyville Ushers Bill Ross New Market and Robert Laflin Red Parents host reception in church basement Loretta Peters Atlantic presiding at refreshment table Bride attended Iowa State Teachers College University of Iowa graduate of Maryville State Teachers College
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Esther Reed
Donald L. Johnson
Marion
Rozetta Schermerhorn
Donald Suma
Cedar Rapids
Nick Williams
Lisbon
Mr. Wallace
Dwayne Kelley
Eugene Engelsking
Janet Frederick
Mary Grace Berlin
Rosamond Joy Mills
Ralph R. Mills
Byron Robert Ross
Iowa City
Oppie Ross
Braddyville
Marion Christian Church
Roy P. Fields, Jr
Loretta Peters
Atlantic
Iowa State Teachers Coloe
University of Iowa
Marion area notices and social briefs from local paper
Community items list weddings travel plans and visits in Marion Iowa including Maryville Missouri graduates in Pensacola and New Orleans, church picnics at Thomas Park, visits to relatives in Perry and Watertown, Dr H Bruce Phillips visiting, lawn mower sharpening, local real estate transfers, Legion and auxiliary meetings, memorial service for Iona Howe Logan, and church worship timing at Presbyterian Church.
Revivalist and cafe clash over noisy jukebox feud in Raleigh
In Raleigh North Carolina on Friday night a revival preacher and a drive in restaurant operator renewed their musical feud across the street. Sam Bell played music from amplifiers on his jukebox at the revival gathering, accusing Evangelist Douglas H Poole of violating a noise truce. The rivals traded hymns in a unsettled standoff amid a noisy confrontation.
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Raleigh
N.C
Sam Bell
Douglas H. Poole
Operation Bootstrap saves Herrin and sparks new industry
The 1944 Herrin plan, led by postmaster O W Lyerla, transforms a dying coal town after a citizens’ drive funds a factory site and a Borg-Warner plant, creating 1,673 jobs and diversifying the economy. Auburn Utica and Scranton stories mirror this revival, with communities raising funds, securing sites, and attracting firms to replace aging industries.
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Vas
Lyerla
Herrin
Art Hamilton
Chamber of Commerce
Borg-Warner
Borg- Warner
Midwest
L. R. Ardis
Auburn
N. Y
International Harvester
Memphis
Harvester
Karl A. Adams
Auburn Citizen-Advertiser
Utica
Chicago Pneumatic Tool Company
Wilkes - Barre- Hazelton
AP News
Public Enterprise
Ill
Allen Industries
Atstract
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Tom Merryman
Norman Hutton
Sixth Avenue
Dennis Joseph
Monticello
Hutton
Shirley Holmes
FE. E. Nietert
Richland Center
Wis
Clair Nietert
Maynard Manson
Nietert
Arthur Nietert
Harley McDowell
Cecil Albright
Cynthia Drexler
Elizabeth Anderson
Marion Theater
Missouri
J. J. Huntoon
Grove City
Rebekah Lodge No. 35
W. E. Bell
F Avenue NW
Harrison Booze
Denver
Dale Holst
Paul Holst
Holst
University of Denver
General Foods, Inc
Evansville
Ind
Korea
Announci i Whiteway
Adv
R. A. Hender
Robert
Springfield
Eric
J. H. Stanaway
Wells
Clifford Wells
Cornelius, Ore
Ralpheus
Cora Terrill
Pluma Terrill
Ernest Woolley
Women’s Relief Corps
Des Moines
Woolley
Miss Terrill
Terrill
Story City
Theodore Hermanson
Robert Mitchell
Memorial Hall
Miss Balcom
G.e.wallace
N. F. Sorg
Vernon Rammelsberg
Palo
Marilyn Wahl
Robert W. Burns
Robert Turner
Rachel
WSCS
Wallace
Marion High School
Collins Radio Company
Air Force
Mrs. Wallace
Houston
Texas
Rosamond Mills
Byron Ross
Maryville
University of Town
McGladrey, Hansen, Dunn and Company
Pensacola
New Orleans
Sorg Drug
Thomas Park
Presbyterian Church School
Vedette Jacobs
Maurice Jacobs
Perry
Melvin Eickleberry
Washington, D. C
Eickleberry
Bertha Barnes
H. B. Phillips
Eickleberrys
George Barnes
Watertown
S. D
Phillips
H. Bruce Phillips
Chicago
Mrs
Merle van Fossen
3Rd Ave
L. A. Franke
Milwaukee
James H.sass
Sages
Fidelis Circle
King’s Daughters
Harold M. Howe
Lee Voorhies
Howe
E. D. Holvenstor
E. C. Hamm
Edward Manson
Charles Swinney
A. R. McElwain
Jennie McCowan
Formosa
Ida Rose Schlotterback
Shirley Muse
Mary Luckeroth
Junior Landis
Oelwe
Augustine Tallman
Howard O. Backsen
Eighth Street
Brockman
McGowan
Norman J. "Waffle
Carrie Awbrey
Richard Awbrey
David
Larry
Davenport
American Legion
Auxiliary
Legion Hall
Earl Helbig
Carl J. Kassler
Gerald Shirk
Ralph Oxley
William Evans
Elizabeth Parker
Presbyterian Cornerstones
Fred Reimers
Edison’s
Logan
Iona Howe Logan
Fourteenth Street
Murdoch
Ellwood Beiber
Dallas
Judy
B. E. Beibers
Edmund Smith
Irene Sandholm
Dayton
John L. Gritzner
Helen Marshall
Minneapolis
Iona Logan
Cary Club
Willis Jordan
Bill D. Page
West Eighth Avenue
Rose Fisher
E. V. Carey
Presbyterian Church
Washington
Herrin, Ill
O. W. Lyerla
Laawine Taum
New York
General Electric
Richard Balch
Community Action Committee
Utica Rotary Club
Utica College
Guy J. Coffey
Chicago Pneumatic Tool
Iron Mountain
Mich
Michigan Peninsula
Ford Motor Company
Scranton
Wilkes- Barre
Hazelton
Ford Company
Tron Mountain
Wilmington
Del
Ford
Kingsford Corporation
Pennsylvania
Wilkes-Barre
Kratchmer
Relia 8Ei ' Furniture CO
Ag Walt Boy
Trip
Wrhon
Maxepattress
Ee le R Bie Furniture CO
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