Efforts to Build Iowa Museum of Natural History Proceed
Des Moines AP report describes a push to create a state museum with support from the Conservation Commission and Historical Department. Director Jack Musgrove notes field traps for collecting specimens, listing native Iowa fauna and past hunting history, while stressing space limits and research as the museum’s backbone.
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Trinidad envoy touts local spirit and world ties in U S visit
Louis J. Williams, a Trinidad commission agent, speaks from Cedar Rapids about Caribbean life. He notes Trinidad remains loyal to Britain, praises education and freedom, and contrasts island diversity with Midwestern isolation while detailing travel plans across the United States.
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Cedar Rapids
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Venezuela
Middle West
Gordon Fennell Company
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Child, 4, Dies in Farm Blaze at Titonka Farm
At the Schwietert farm near Titonka Gary Dean Schwietert four died in a house fire that also burned Merle Schwietert his father to third degree and left his wife Shirley Jean with foot injuries after she saved their one year old daughter. An heater explosion is suspected to have started the blaze.
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Algona Hospital
Iowans Commissioned as Naval Reserve Officers
Des Moines office of the navy department announces three Iowa residents commissioned as officers in the naval reserve. Dr Ralph M Laughlin of Tipton is made senior grade lieutenant and will report to the U S naval hospital in San Diego. Robert S Hughes of Louisville Kentucky and Blair Eugene Hunter of Cleveland are commissioned as ensigns.
Mt Pleasant alert a false alarm after whistle fault
Mt Pleasant triggered a two minute air raid alert Monday afternoon that turned out to be an accident. City Manager Lee Speaker told wardens and messengers at civilian defense headquarters that a broken spring in the town warning whistle set it off unintentionally.
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Hoyt v Nanke damage suit settled in Cedar county
Jurors for the March term Cedar county district court were dismissed after Clair Hoyt’s damage action against Stamwood farmer Emil Nanke was settled and dismissed. Hoyt claimed $10,000 for injuries from his hand caught in a hay fork rope during haying at the Nanke farm north of Stanwood.
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Cedar County
Army Students Begin Iowa Training Program
The first contingent of army specialized training program students arrived at the University of Iowa to start a 36 week course. Among them are 216 students from the University of Wyoming with another similar group expected from the University of Nebraska. They will be housed in the former university library and eight leased fraternity houses will be ready soon. Faculty will teach basics in sciences, mathematics, history, English, engineering, drawing and geography.
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Fire in Central City Threatens Butler Store
Fire in a storeroom above the C. E. Butler and Son store in Central City was extinguished by the city fire company before gaining headway. Discovered by the night watchman, the fire threatened flour sugar and tobacco storage in the Union block. Cause undetermined.
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Theatre Fire Destroys Dunlap Building With Heavy Loss
The Dunlap theater was destroyed by fire Tuesday with losses estimated at over $15,000. The Woodbine fire department helped confine the blaze to the two story brick structure.
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Heaven Can Wait mathes ElKader High School Play
ElKader High School and junior college students present Heaven Can Wait at 8 p m Friday May 14 in the high school theater. Cast members are directed by Dorothy Dittmer and Kenneth Smith. The film Here Comes a Jordan was based on this play.
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Water from Red Sea reaches Estherville church
Estherville Presbyterian church members cherish a bottle of water from the Red Sea sent by former pastor Rev. Claude Fausnaugh now serving as an Army chaplain. He brought the water from the Moses crossing site in New York City after his second overseas transport duty. It will be used for baptismal purposes.
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Monticello High School Commencement Schedule
Monticello high school outlines its May activities starting with the junior senior banquet on Thursday. The senior class play June Mad is set for May 14, followed by baccalaureate on May 16 at St Matthew's Lutheran with Rev H L Adix. Senior picnic on May 17, class day on May 18, graduation May 19 with Jessie M Parker state superintendent as speaker, and alumni banquet May 20.
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State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Victor Couple Observe Their Golden Wedding
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Timmerman celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary Sunday at their Victor home. They lived on a farm near Deep River until 1938 when they retired and moved to Victor. Guests came from Willi River Washington Maines Dubuque Marengo State Center Brooklyn Gibson and Victor.
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Albia Bans Music in Local Taverns
Albia city council approved an ordinance prohibiting music in beer parlors including jukeboxes. Seven establishments are affected by the new rule as of Monday night.
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Farmer Killed While Blasting Near West Union
Lorin M. Fordyce aged 71 died Monday afternoon while blasting stumps on his rural farm three miles south of West Union. Neighbor Albert Hare found the body. Survived by wife, three sons Vernon Virgil and Lyle and daughter Mrs Art Shepard. Funeral delayed awaiting word from Lyle Fordyce.
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Two Prison Farm Escapees Captured Near Osceola
OSCEOLA AP Two men who escaped Fort Madison prison farm on April 26 were arrested near Osceola Monday. J D Dixon state highway patrolman identified Tony Siebold 33 of Sioux City and Clarence Leroy Taylor 24 of Muscatine. They admitted taking a car at Bethany Missouri and abandoning it near Leon Saturday night and entering a home in Osceola Saturday night to exchange clothing for prison garb.
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Cattle and Barn Burn at Edgar Graf Farm
A barn fire eight miles south of Fayette destroyed the Edgar Graf farm and killed forty cattle along with fifty pigs. Other losses included forty tons of baled hay 160 bushels of oats a new tractor and a rubber tired wagon. Vearle Burco has been the tenant since March 1. Graf had recently sold to E F Connell of Oelwein with partial insurance coverage.
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April tax receipts rise for cigaret and beer in Iowa
Iowa tax data show cigaret receipts for April at 197 783 dollars up from March and April 1942 figures. Beer receipts reached 117 028 dollars, higher than March 82 675 dollars and April 1942 at 101 619 dollars. A Keystone couple, Helen Lorraine Thiessen and Donald Driscoll, wed in Cedar Rapids with family attendances and a breakfast and dinner following.
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U S Tax Evasion Brings $2000 Fine
Federal Judge Charles A. Deweyon fined Herman M. Brown of Des Moines 2000 dollars after he pleaded guilty to one count of income tax evasion for 1937 misreporting 14889 while receiving 39005. The second count was dismissed. Campbell noted additional penalties of 50 percent plus six percent interest.
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Two Tipton Drivers Fined by Linville
District Judge G P Linville sentenced Lewis Werling of Tipton to a 400 dollar fine and costs for drunken driving after denying a new trial motion. Paul Kautz of Tipton received a 150 dollar fine and costs for leaving the scene of an accident with half the fine suspended pending good behavior.
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Funeral Services For Educator Held in Shellsburg
Shellsburg held services for Earl Dickinson age 53 a former superintendent of schools in Montour Shellsburg Mediapolis and Lone Tree He was a World War I sergeant and a member of the American Legion the Methodist church and the Masonic fraternity
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Almost One Third Of Iowa's Dentists Are In Service
Iowa dentists at home are lengthening office hours to cope with wartime demand. Dr. L. M. FitzGerald of Dubuque, president of the Iowa Dental Society, said about 30 percent of Iowa dentists are now in the armed forces. The state aims to keep one dentist per 2,500 civilians versus the military goal of one per 500 men.
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Army Adopts New Venereal Control Plan
Army shifts policy on draft deferrals for venereal disease. Draftees with gonorrhea or syphilis are treated at induction centers and may enter service after treatment, aiming to curb disease spread and draft dodging. Iowa reports rising syphilis cases in early 1943 with public health urges stronger control measures.
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Fess Foss to Visit Preflight School at Iowa City
Capt. Joe Foss, renowned fighter pilot with at least 26 confirmed Jap planes, will visit the navy Preflight school at Iowa City on Sunday. The tour kicks off a nationwide swing visiting navy and marine bases and aircraft factories while Foss stays this week with his mother near Sioux Falls.
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