Two Bandits Rob Dubuque Theater of 65 Dollars
Two youths about 23 or 24 robbed the Varsity Theater in Dubuque after buying tickets at 9:20 p.m. They returned to the lobby, produced a gun, and demanded cash, escaping with $65 in a green late model car. Witnesses described the vehicle and license plates as Polk county. The State Patrol linked the car to a Des Moines theft on June 1.
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Dubuque
Phyllis Manternach
Richard Manternach
Varsity Theater
Miss Manternach
Marilyn Fuller
Polk County
State Highway Patrol
Des Moines
Army OKs Allamakee Flood Control Project
The Army engineers board approved an Upper Iowa river flood control plan in Allamakee County Iowa. The proposal calls for deepening and widening a four mile channel above the river mouth with no dams. Estimated cost is 987200 dollars with local funds about 70000 dollars. Annual flood damage is placed at 100000 dollars mainly to farm land.
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Washington
Iowa River
Iowa
Army Engineers Board
Allamakee County
Services Friday for Peter Peterson 91
Funeral services for Peter Edwin Peterson 91 will be held at 2 p.m. Friday in the Oelwein Methodist church. A retired barber who lived many years in West Union died at 10 30 a.m. Tuesday at his home. Survived by daughter Mildred of Oelwein and son Chris of West Union he was a member of the West Union Odd Fellows lodge.
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Oelwein
Peter Edwin Peterson
Oelwein Methodist Church
Peterson
West Union
Mildred
Chris
West Union Odd Fellows Lodge
New Laws Cut Young Drivers Access In Iowa
Des Moines AP reports new laws effective July 4 limit school driving permits for youths. After 6 p.m. drivers must be with a licensed adult except for direct routes to school. Permits require school board affidavits for new applicants and non nearby students face stricter limits. Duplicate violations revoke permits and delay licensing until sixteenth birthday plus one year.
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Des Moines
State Safety Department
Wood Center alumni persist after school sale
Alumni of the Wood Center school near Edgewood met at the property as the building will be sold and the yard returned to farm land. They planned a picnic for next year, with Harold Bissell elected president and Mrs. Roy Culbertson named secretary treasurer.
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Edgewood
Wood Center School
Wood Center Society
Nellie Bissell
Wood School
Harold Bissell
Roy Culbertson
Commission Promises Safer 9 13 Junction
Iowa Highway Commission pledges safety upgrades at the U S 9 and 33 junction north of Sibley. Chief Engineer E F Koch says plans include red stop signs and warning signs away from the intersection. Delegation seeks an overpass after a California man died there Saturday night, the fourth death in three years.
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Ames
INS
Iowa Highway Commission
Sibley
E. F. Koch
California
Koch
Radiation Researchers Elect Society Officers
The Radiation Research Society held its first independent national meeting in Iowa City with visits to University of Iowa facilities and the Veterans Hospital isotope lab. G Failla of Columbia University was elected president, H J Curtis of Brookhaven named vice president, Abraham Edelmann of Brookhaven as secretary, and Harvey Patt of Argonne as treasurer.
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Iowa City
Radiation Research Society
University of Iowa
Veterans Hospital
G. Failla
Columbia University
New York
H. J. Curtis
Blaze Damages New Home in Tipton Garage Fire
A blaze heavily damaged a new dwelling owned by Roger M. Bolton in Tipton. The fire started in the garage and spread through the west part of the house to the attic before Tipton Fire Department crews extinguished it.
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Tipton
Roger M. Bolton
Liquor Warehouse Site Bought in Des Moines
The Iowa Liquor Warehouse committee approved purchasing a 10.7 acre site at Delaware and Guthrie avenues in northeast Des Moines for 12,500 dollars to house the new warehouse. Melvin D. Synhorst dissented, questioning the committee's land purchase authority.
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Des Moines
Iowa Liquor Warehouse Committee
Delaware and
Guthrie Avenue
Melvin D. Synhorst
State
Atty
Leo Hoegh
Iowa Liquor Control Commission
Iowa Executive Council
Iowa Auto Dealers Having a Good Year
Iowa sales of new motor vehicles and trailers rose about 20 percent from May 1952, according to the State Tax Commission. Total use tax receipts exceeded 27 million dollars, reflecting stronger activity in Iowa auto dealerships.
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Des Moines
Iowa
State Tax Commission
Postwar motor vehicle registrations hit new annual records
Reports show a continuing rise in motor vehicle registrations and license fee collections after World War II. Use tax receipts from the sale of new motor vehicles and trailers last month reached 552 270 dollars, up from 460 322 dollars in May 1952.
Girl 3 Drowns in Creek Near Dubuque
Debbie Steng, 3, daughter of Wisconsin farmers, drowned while playing with siblings at a farm home a mile south of the Wisconsin bridge across the Mississippi near Dubuque. Authorities recovered the body near the Iowa river toll house after an inhalator squad failed to revive her.
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Dubuque
Debbie Steng
Steng
Wisconsin
Mississippi River
Iowa
Upper Iowa Adds Two Courses to Curricula
Upper Iowa university will add art and physical education for women to its regular curricula for the 1953 54 school year. The new course will be taught by Miss Roberta Glenn of Ellinwood Kansas, previously at Northwest Missouri State College. Miss Frances Heusinkveld of Hull will teach piano and theory, succeeding Miss Joyce Aydelotte who resigned.
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Fayette
Upper Iowa University
Roberta Glenn
Ellinwood
Kan
Glenn
Northwest Missouri State College
Maryville
Upper Iowa
Frances Heusinkveld
Hull
Joyce Aydelotte
Harry W. Cave Dies Native of Fayette
Harry W. Cave, 63, dean emeritus of the Oklahoma A and M college dairy department, died Tuesday. Born in Fayette Iowa, he attended Ames high school and graduated from Iowa State College in 1914. He was a past president of the American Dairy Science Association and known at Iowa dairy shows as a judge and for the judging streams he trained.
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Stillwater
Okla
Harry W. Cave
Oklahoma A. and M. College
Cave
Fayette
Ames High School
Iowa State College
American Dairy Science Association
Iowa
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