Compromise Sought as Sioux City City Manager Row Persists
Sioux City council members remain split over City Manager Conny Bodine and Mayor George W. Young. Councilman J. L. Torgerson urged a late meeting to craft a compromise while Bodine demands a new mayor not serving with Young. Finances viewed as strong, with Bodine praised for ongoing projects amid a 2-2 vote split.
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Sioux City
Conny Bodine
George W. Young
Bodine
J. L. Torgerson
Torgerson
Young
Marie D. White
Fights Extradition To Face Iowa City Charge
William Bolds, 62, a former convict, fights extradition to Johnson county Iowa on bad check charges. Illinois Governor Otto Kerner weighs release after county attorney Ralph Neuzil argued Bolds was arrested on a Johnson county warrant, with the Illinois defense hoping for trial there. Bolds is jailed in Rockford Illinois while the issue is decided.
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Iowa City
Illinois
Otto Kerner
William Bolds
Johnson County
Ralph Neuzil
Jack Afeld
Bolds
Neuzil
Rockford
Ill
No Grain Shortage At Dolliver Elevator
Des Moines AP reports no grain shortage found at the Dolliver elevator run by William Chester Stow 50 after his suicide Tuesday. Emmett county authorities say he was despondent due to ill health.
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Des Moines
William Chester Stow
Dolliver
Emmett
Stow
Grinnell elects Grant Lauer reappointed as chair
Grant Lauer of West Union has been reelected chairman of the board of the Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Co at the meeting held here.
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Grinnell
Grant Lauer
West Union
The
Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Co
Federal Agents Stage Bluffs Gambling Raid in Council Bluffs
Three IRS teams raided The Cornhusker, Friendly Tavern and Frank's Drive-In in Council Bluffs, seizing horse race betting slips and more than $3,000. Iowa investigators joined the operation, with no arrests reported. evidence will be sent to the U.S. attorney.
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Council Bluffs
Internal Revenue Service
Charles Weston
Iowa
Cornhusker
Paul A. Peterson
Friendly Tavern
Jack Connelly
Frank
Parade in Lowden Sponsored by Amvets Auxiliary
The annual kid dies parade sponsored by the Amvets auxiliary will be held July 12 at 7 30 p m in Memorial park before the Stan wood Lowden baseball game Prizes will be awarded in live classes Gazette want ads are the modern Aladdins lamp EM 2 1121
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Amvets Auxiliary
Memorial Park
Gazette
Religion School Not Affected by Court Hanche r
Iowa City AP Virgil Hancher president of the University of Iowa says the university’s school of religion will not be affected by the New York court ruling. He notes the program teaches subjects not prayer and doubts it would bar university commencements or similar invocations. The school teaches diverse beliefs and enrolls about 1500 yearly with director Rev Robert Michaelsen praising the decision but expecting no impact on chaplains or legislative prayers.
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Iowa City
School of Religion
University of Iowa
Supreme Court
New York
SUI
Virgil Hancher
Hancher
New York State
Robert Michaelsen
Services Friday for Mrs. Harry Koons 75
Funeral services will be held Friday at 2 p m at Gill funeral home Manchester for Kathryn Sarah Koons 75 formerly of Cedar Rapids who died Wednesday at Oneida nursing home where she had been five years She was born in Middletown Pa July 1 1886 and married to Harry Koons Survivors include her husband three daughters Mrs A E Schmidt Mrs E M Lynch and Mrs J H Boots all Cedar Rapids one son John F Koons Cedar Rapids and one brother Samuel Brown Elkhart Ind
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Gazette
Manchester
Gill Funeral Home
Kathryn Sarah Koons
Cedar Rapids
Oneida
Middletown
Harry Koons
A. E. Schmidt
E. M. Lynch
J. H. Boots
John F. Koons
Samuel Brown
Elkhart
Ind
Fire Hits Clinton Photo Studio. Downtown Shops Damaged
A fire at the Clinton downtown Ankeny building damaged the two story camera shop owned by Robert Merritt and caused smoke and water damage to a gift shop cigar store two jewelers a candy shop and a shoe shop on Fifth Street South and Second Street. Fire started at the rear of the studio and investigators considered defective wiring as a possibility. No total damage estimate given. The blaze began about 1240 am when a night policeman saw smoke.
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Clinton
Ankeny
Robert Merritt
Fifth Street
Second Street
Oliver Cooper
Iowa Man 69 Killed in Crash Near Wesley
Lauritz Christian Strand 69 died two hours after a crash on a county road near Wesley Iowa. State patrol reported the car likely went out of control and crossed a gravel road during the incident hours after sunset.
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Wesley
UPI
Here
Lauritz Christian Strand
Iowa Highway Patrol
Strand
Waukon Farmer Injured by Barn Elevator Collapse
William Dickson, 55, a Waukon farmer, was injured while stacking hay bales in a barn when the farm elevator toppled. He is listed in fair condition at Waukon Hospital with lacerations to the shoulder forehead and other injuries.
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Waukon
William Dickson
Wau Kon Hospital
Legion Installs New Officers in Earlville
New Legion officers are Claude Hunt commander Henry Roling vice commander James Spersflage sergeant at arms Gerald Faust finance officer Howard Schmitz historian Harlan Rohwedder service officer James Klaus adjutant the Rev Alfred McKeith chaplain.
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Legion
Earlville
The
Claude Hunt
Henry Roling
James Spersflage
Gerald Faust
Howard Schmitz
Harlan Rohwedder
James Klaus
Alfred McKeith
Johnson Grading Project Let to Iowa City Firm
Barker Construction Co. of Iowa City bid 24 402 to grade 5.07 miles of Johnson county roads, under the county supervisors. The project is part of a six road program including Washington and Newport townships, with plans for 5.43 miles of mar onecite for farm to market roads to bid in Ames.
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Omaha
Ak-Sar-Ben
Iowa Bureau For Criminal Investigation
Johnson
Iowa City
Barker Construction Co
Johnson County
Board of Supervisors
Ray Justen
Washington,Sharon
Newport
Graham, Jefferson and
Cedar Townships
Justen
State Highway Commission
Ames
Solon
Morse
Two Boys Injured in Pellet Gun Mishaps
Two northeast Iowa boys were injured Wednesday afternoon during pellet gun incidents. Ricky Leiran, 11, of Waukon, remained in good condition at the Waukon hospital after a pellet pierced his forehead on a farm building. David Atkinson, 15, of Edgewood, had a pellet go through his cheek and lodge in his neck, removed by a Cedar Rapids doctor.
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Iowa
Ricky Leiran
Edwin Leirans
Waukon
Waukon Hospital
David Atkinson
Edgewood
Francis Atkinsons
Dubuque Development Chairmen Named for Fund Drive
Dubuque industrial bureau named two co chairmen for a $42,000 campaign to promote industrial development. William Clemens Jr of Trausch Baking Co and Robert Halleck of J F Stampfer Co will lead the effort as the bureau screens applicants for an industrial coordinator.
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API
Cochairmen
William Clemens, Jr
Trausch Baking Co
Robert Halleck
J. F. Stampfer Co
Dubuque Industrial Bureau
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John Bowen
Sue Clark
Alice Bender
Linda Furman
Sandy Boland
Julie Shellady
Lauer
Rrant
Frank Heistand
Internal Revenue
U. S
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Connelly
Lowden
Dubuque Development
Broderick's Outlet
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