New Farming Frontiers Highlighted By Real Estate Forum
Realty leaders from Iowa Wisconsin Minnesota and Nebraska gather to discuss agribusiness driven growth. G I Huffman of Houston outlines soybeans oats and corn byproducts as new industrial materials and Ford uses soybean in gear parts and enamel. The convention notes emphasize farm engineering soil conservation and the need for updated appraisal and financing expertise.
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Glidden
Jerusalem
Supreme Court
Robert B. Whittaker
Kenosha
Wis
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Waukesha
Lee K. Hyder
Milwaukee
True D. Morse
Doane Agricultural Service
St. Louis
Harry Grant Atkinson
Chicago
American Institute of Real Estate Appraisers
Iowa
Nebraska
Wisconsin
Hugo Porth
National Mortgage Board
National Real Estate Boards Meet In Hotel Montrose Banquet
Walter W. Rose of Orlando is president of the National Association of Real Estate Boards and will deliver the principal address at the north central regional convention banquet at Hotel Montrose. G. E. Johnson of Cedar Rapids Real Estate Board will preside at the event.
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Orlando
Fla
National Association of Real Estate Boards
North Central
Montrose
G. E. Johnson
Cedar Rapids
Mason City Leads At Music Festival In Iowa
Mason City high school earned five superior and six excellent ratings to top the state festival with 160 competitors. Iowa City high school won the first large group event, its orchestra receiving a superior rating. the class AA contest was delayed when a Waterloobound car broke down, but no injuries occurred.
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Iowa City
Mason City
Cyclone Kills 100 at Arakan Coast Burma
A Reuters dispatch from Rangoon reports about 100 people killed when a cyclone struck the Arakan coast in Burma on Friday. The casualty figure could not be independently verified.
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INS
Arakan
Burma
Reuter
Rangoon
Tornado Causes Deadly Destruction Across Iowa Regions
A violent tornado slammed Terrace Park and surrounding areas injuring many and killing four. It leveled cottages and a dance hall, toppled a studio, and damaged farms from Estherville to Everly. Emergency crews, firemen, and the Milford CCC camp aided rescue and relief efforts amid widespread debris and power outages.
Iowa poised for farm land boom says realty expert
W D Davis of Sutter Farms Kansas City predicts midwest acreage will surge beyond postwar peaks. He cites 1912 to 1920 price gains and 1933 lows, asserts good farmland could reach $1000 an acre, with factors like AAA cuts, urban migration, and new uses driving a future land-price upturn.
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Midwest
W. D. Davis
Sutter Farms Company
Kansas City
National Association of Real Estate Boards
Davis
Tornado Strikes Iowa Town Shifting Trucks and Damming Homes
A fast moving Iowa tornado hurled Otis Woods's truck into a meadow, while a quick thinking school bus driver saved nineteen children. A Arnolds Park driver protected passengers by diving into a ditch as the storm passed. Four people near Rhodome Terrace Park nightclub escaped unharmed when the building was swept away. Mrs. Wiltsie and Verne Titterington along with two salesmen hid in a clubhouse basement as the wind toppled the water and a roof piece flew miles. Clarence Siercks and spouse sheltered in an old well as their farm home was demolished. Terrace Park’s H O Green, who planted over 3,000 trees, saw his work destroyed. The W H Thomas family found furniture stored at Mrs Ed Lighters home before their house collapsed.
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Cedar Rapids
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Fairmont
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Donald Kallendar
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Associated Press
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Arnolds Park
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H. A. Wiltsie
Verne Titterington
West Okoboji Lake
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Ed Lighter
Thomas
Cottage Lift at Terrace Park Traps 14 Year Old
A summer cottage at Terrace Park was lifted and smashed to the ground. Inside, Renee Jacobs, 14, was found unconscious in the wreckage.
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Renee Jacobs
Miners Agree To Hold Off Strike
New York AP report says led by Edward McGrady assistant secretary of labor anthracite operators and miners agreed Thursday night to an indefinite extension of the current contract to allow continued negotiations.
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Edward McGrady
Secretary of Labor
Counties Raise Tax Levies for Relief in Kansas
Thirty eight percent of Kansas counties increased tax levies this year for relief purposes.
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Kansas
Italian column pushes toward Addis Ababa in bold advance
The Italian northern army reports a mobile push toward the Ethiopian capital with guarded advances. Generals Frusci, Nasi, and Agostini move units, establish road spacing, and utilize air reconnaissance as storms hinder progress and a 10 ton bridge enables crossing the Fafan river.
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Urges Limitation on Real Estate Taxes
A speaker argues the real estate tax system endangers private property and the desire to own land. He says national groups seek broader school funding, noting real estate once bore over 96 percent of school expenses while comprising about a third of wealth. He calls for all wealth forms to support education.
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United States
Holmes
National Association
Local Man Found Guilty Of Drunk Driving At Vinton
Robert DeBont 51 of Cedar Rapids acted as his own attorney in district court and was found guilty Thursday night of driving a motor vehicle while intoxicated. The verdict followed about an hour of deliberation at 8 p.m. Judge Tankersley set ten days to file a motion for a new trial and raised bond from 1000 to 2000 dollars after DeBont had collided with a truck driven by Alva Schoppe of State Center on highway 30 on December 24. DeBont had two prior Benton county drunk driving convictions and had been out on bond since the latest arrest.
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Robert DeBont
Cedar Rapids
B. O. Tankersley
DeBont
Alva Schoppe
State Center
Schoppe
Benton County
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