Musical Burlesques Vets Life on Iowa Campus Delights Crowd
Louise Johnston reports on the University of Iowa musical burlesque The Dove and the Duck a three night campus run at Macbride auditorium. student written music by Larry Barrett Herb Kanzell and others led by Dan Schuffman with a student band and Panacea committee. old capitol and Iowa Memorial Union settings feature veterans’ themes and campus romance in lively original tunes and comic sketches.
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Power Company Files Injunction Suit at Waukon
Interstate Power Company of Dubuque seeks a court injunction to stop Waukon from building a municipal light plant and distribution system. Hearing set April 8 at 10 a.m. in district court. A $300,000 bond issue for the plant was approved at a special election on June 10, 1946.
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Poor Farm Closes as Grun dy County Finds Housing
Grundy county closes its county poor farm after residents fall to three. Two residents move to Hardin County Home and one to Cedar Falls.
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City council awards bids for project under 300000
Bids totaling just over 297000 were approved by the city council on March 17, with original bids above 300000 but trimmed to under 300000. Interstate Power Company sues, claiming contractors cut parts of original plans when reducing bids. Interstate Power now supplies light and power to Waukon.
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University of Iowa set April 1 deadline for medical and dental applications
Registrar Paul J. Blommers announced the filing deadline for admission to the September class in the university’s colleges of medicine and dentistry. The cut off date is April 1 and applies to all applicant materials submitted to the registrar's office in Iowa City.
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Disappointed Suitor Turns To Gunplay in Jefferson Iowa
Robert Hiatt of Pocahontas 28 was described as an unsuccessful suitor after he entered Delmar Van Horn Jr's home in Jefferson Sunday night and fired a revolver wounding Van Horn in the arm. Mrs Dorothy Van Horn, Hiatt's former Iowa student sweetheart, had earlier rejected him and married Van Horn. Hiatt, unconscious from an apparent sleeping-pill overdose, was found by officers after tear gas at a local hotel. Both men are ex servicemen.
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Two Iowans Receive Soviet Decorations
The War Department said two Iowa officers received Soviet honors for service in shuttle bombing and delivering materials to Russia. Lt. Paul L. Reed of Ottumwa earned the Order of the Patriotic War and Capt. Bassel Blake of Chariton received the Order of the Red Star.
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Roy W Bixler Named Registrar at Drake University
Dr Roy W Bixler of Washington DC is appointed registrar and director of admissions at Drake University. He will begin his duties April 20 at the Des Moines campus.
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Iowa Electric gets $100,000 expansion approval in DeWitt
Des Moines AP reports the Civilian Production Administration approved a $100,000 expansion program for the Iowa Electric Company in DeWitt. The project aims to boost local electrical capacity and modernize facilities.
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Iowa Educator Lands $6000 Oregon Superintendents Post
Louis Armstrong, aged 39 and currently Maquoketa superintendent, was named to succeed Austin Landreth as Pendleton Oregon school chief. Armstrong will earn $6000 annually and brings prior roles as coach, principal, and district leader in Villisca and Maquoketa, plus degrees from Iowa State Teachers College and Columbia University.
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Tama County Estates Revealed in Toledo Court
Preliminary inventories filed in Tama county district court detail five estates totaling 84,336. Listed values include Peter DeJaeger 26522 Emil J Schroeder 25519 Joseph Homolar 16424 M W Van Horn 10270 and David R Louthan 5600.
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Aged Couple Overcome By Gas In Dubuque
In Dubuque an elderly man, John Smith, 80, died from accidental gas inhalation after a partly open gas jet on the kitchen stove. His wife remained critically ill in hospital after being found unconscious by a stepson in their three room apartment. The coroner labeled the death an accident.
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