Housing committee lists suggestions for municipal housing
Des Moines AP state housing committee prepares a list of proposals for cities facing housing and material shortages. Included are a sample housing survey questionnaire, a municipal housing project plan, and a program for a city housing committee. Proposals cover revising codes for trailers, using municipal land, and free advisory services from architects and contractors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Schuyler S. Hunter
Federal Public Housing Authority
Former Mt. Ayr mayor Grant DeHart dies at 82
Grant DeHart, 82, a retired farmer who served two terms as mayor of Mt. Ayr, Iowa, died Friday from a heart attack. He was married 53 years this month and is survived by his wife and four children.
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MT. Ayr
Grant DeHart
Funeral services for gas victims in Newhall
Fred Husted 30 a Newhall blacksmith and veteran and Joy Roseberry 21 assistant at Newhall telephone exchange were found dead from carbon monoxide in a parked car Thursday. Husted’s services are Saturday at 3 30 p.m. at the Presbyterian church with burial in Raeiz cemetery. Roseberry’s services are at her parents home Sunday at 1 30 p.m. and church at 2 with burial in Linwood cemetery. Coroner John R. Burrows says the deaths were accidental due to a defective muffler and no inquest will be held.
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Newhall
Fred Husted
Joy Roseberry
Airborne Jalopy Widens Students Dating Horizons
Iowa City columns describe an airworthy jalopy dating plan at the University of Iowa. Roger Ray, a Iowa State student on terminal leave and former Ninth Air Force major, will fly Lynn Johnson of Sigma Upsilon sorority from Iowa City to Ames for dinner and the Interfraternity dance Saturday, after meeting her at the airport. Lynn, a journalism senior from Rock Island, expresses excitement about the date.
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The
Gazette
Iowa City
University of Iowa
Roger Ray
Iowa State College
Lynn Johnson
S. U
Ray
Ninth Air Force
Lynn
Rock Island
Moravetz Receives Legion of Merit for Cartography Work
Maj. Robert L. Moravetz of Ogden Utah received the Legion of Merit for his service as chief of the cartographic division at the army map service from 1943 to 1945. He directed the entire cartography effort for field operations and supervised the production of more than 15,000 maps.
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Washington
War Department
Legion of Merit
Robert L. Moravetz
Ogden
Engineers
al Cartographic Division
Army Map Service
Auditor Urges Cautions Loans Across State
Des Moines AP reports State Auditor Chet Bakers plans a tour of building and loan associations to urge restraint on lending for inflated home values. He warns against obligating GI home buyers for life, aiming to curb inflationary trends and avoid boom and bust cycles seen in farmland after the last war. George T. Carson will accompany on the tour.
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DES Moines
Chet Bakers
G. I's
Akers
George T. Carson
Grants Aid S U S Research At Iowa City Medical College
Grants totaling 204500 support varied research at the University of Iowa College of Medicine. Kellogg foundation provides 120000 for post graduate education and clinic operation, Lakeside Laboratory contributes 500, and vitamin D research is funded by Wisconsin alumni foundation, E I du Pont de Nemours, and Winthrop Chemical. A 30000 grant from the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis funds a five year physiology program.
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Iowa City
University of Iown College of Medicine
Kellogg Foundation
Lakeside Laboratory, Inc
Milwaukee
Kellogg
Wisconsin Alumni Foundation
E. I. du Pont de Nemours Co
Winthrop Chemical Company
National Foundation For
Tall Corn Boy Scouts Get P-38 from Army
A combat-tested P-38 fighter-bomber becomes property of the Tall Corn council Boy Scouts purchased for 150 from the army. The plane, ferried from Walnut Ridge Arkansas by Richard B Ravitts, will serve air scouts at Camp Mitigwa near Madrid Iowa.
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Des Moines
Boy Scouts of
Tall Corn Council
Council
Army
Air Scouts
Walnut Ridge
Ark
Richard B. Ravitts
Royal Air Force
Army Transport Command
Mitigwi
Madrid
150 More Housing Units For Iowa State College
Special to The Gazette Ames Delivery on the second list of 150 dwellings for veterans at Iowa State College will begin March 21. B H Platt business manager announced today contracts for 50 trailers and 50 two family quonset huts have been delivered to the college. Forty trailers will be standard and the rest expansible. There will be two toilet trailers and a laundry unit. Each quonset hut will hold two three room apartments with baths. The new units will be west of Pommel court between the court and the college golf course.
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Ames
Iowa State College
B. H Platt
Platt
Pommel Court
College Golf Course
Confiscated Furs Auction Planned at State Fairgrounds
DES MOINES UP reports the annual sale of furs seized by conservation officers will be held in the Fish and Game building at the state fairgrounds on March 14. About 400 pelts valued at roughly $6000 will be sold to the highest bidders. All licensed fur dealers may bid, per the conservation commission.
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Des Moines
Fish and Game
Conservation Commission
Federal Apartments To Ease Ottumwa Shortage
Federal Public Housing authority will deliver twenty two government buildings to Ottumwa about April 1 to house 66 veterans. Each building has three apartments with four rooms and a private bath, rented to veterans only. Mayor David A Nevin was notified on Thursday.
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Ottumwa
Federal Public Housing Authority
Chicago
David A Nevin
Marion Woman Dies After Long Illness in 1883 Birth
Susie Cramer Young, 62, widow of Ace C Young, died Thursday after a long illness. Born April 23, 1883 in Bagley Iowa, she moved to Marion 16 years ago from Anamosa. Survived by two sons and six daughters, 26 grandchildren, and a great grandchild. Services Sunday at 2:30 p.m. at Yocom chapel with burial in Oak Shade cemetery.
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Susie C. Young
Ace C. Young
Bagley
Youngs
Marion
Anamosa
Young
Marion Methodist Church
Women’s Society of the Church
Clifford
Harold A .Young
Cedar Rapids
Ethel Kidwell
Bonnie Meade
Ruby Aldrich
Monticello
Lillian Karal
Fairfax
Eva Burns
Dorothy Price
la Brother
Chester Cramer
Des Moines
Yocom Chapel
James P Gable
Oak Shade Cemetery
Local social notes from Cedar Rapids and nearby homes
The column records visiting relatives and guests including Oxley and his parents Mr. and Mrs. George C. Oxley newly arriving from the west coast after Oxley’s air force discharge. It lists Mrs. Robert Van Horne of Council Bluffs and her daughter Colleen visiting relatives, Miss Laura Bunting of Chicago staying with Mrs. John W. Bunting, and Wave Seaman Betty Hazewinkel and her mother attending a dinner at the Jacob Kray home in Cedar Rapids.
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Ernest Decious
Sixth Street
June
Robert and
Shirley Batchelder
Central City
Nancy Wickham
Toddville
Oxley
George C Oxley
West Coast
Air Forces
Robert van Horne
Council Bluffs
Colleen
van Horne
Ben C. Cummins
Laura Bunting
Chicago
John W Bunting
Wave Seaman
Betty Hazewinkel
H. J. Hazewinkel
Jacob Kray
Cedar Rapids
Police raid Legion Club at Fort Madison
Fort Madison police raided the American Legion club on a member’s complaint that minors were allowed entry. Officers found whisky and several slot machines. The manager paid a $100 fine and costs for possessing gambling devices and was to appear in district court the next day to answer a charge of violating the Iowa liquor law.
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Fort Madison
American Legion Club
Iowa
Local Cedar Rapids firms finalize business transfers
Onslow reports Mr and Mrs A L Fuchs of Cedar Rapids have bought Clover Farm grocery from Harold Johnson. William Dunlap sells his tavern and barber shop to Marvin Null, with Dillon Hall taking over the barber shop operations.
Four Cent Gas Tax Ruling Appealed in Iowa
L. V. Carlton of Iowa City appeals a district court ruling upholding the 1945 four cent gasoline tax increase. Judge Harold D Evans earlier found the tax constitutional after Carlton challenged multiple subjects and a post passage title alteration.
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Des Moines
Iowa
State Supreme Court
L. V. Carlton
Iowa City
Carlton
House
Senate
Harold D Evans
Decorai-A Beauty Shop Change of Ownership in 1925
Mrs Marion Tom Binson established Decorai-A beauty shop in 1925 and has sold it to Miss Evelyn Seegmiller who has taken possession.
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Decorai
Marion Tombinson
Evelyn Seegmiller
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