Supreme Court blocks intermunicipal utility franchises in Iowa
The Iowa Supreme Court ruled municipalities cannot grant electricity franchises to other towns, reversing a lower court ruling in the Randall Story City dispute. The decision clarifies that franchises may be issued only to individuals or private corporations, though municipalities may contract for electricity without a franchise. The court also upheld reinstatement and back pay rights for a World War II veteran state employee in a separate five to four decision.
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Des Moines
INS
Iowa Supreme Court
Story City
Randall
High Court
Hamilton County
H. E. Fry
Central States Electric Company
Electric Company
Frederic M. Miller
Supreme Court
State Highway Commission
William Paul McClinton
McClinton
Lou Ladd
Polk County
Bids Sought for New Toledo Juvenile Home Building
The state board of control will accept bids May 20 for a two story brick building at the Toledo juvenile home to house kitchen dining rooms bakery and meat storage with a second larger building planned as an administration gymnasium. About 200 000 is allocated with 53 000 already appropriated and 100 000 plus 35 000 for the second building. Plans call for occupancy of the first building by September 1 and construction expansion over the next 18 months.
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Toledo
State Board of Control
Oy R. B Clift
Forty-ninth General Assembly
Assembly
Maquoketa and Springville Wedding and Military Move
Maquoketa announces the marriage of Dorothy Ruth Bock and Robert Jones with ceremony on April 18 in Canton Missouri. The couple will reside in Maquoketa. Springville reports Major Charles Leedham and his wife have left Honolulu for Washington DC to join the U S medical corps, with plans to live here around June 1.
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Maquoketa
Dorothy Ruth Bock
Lew Bock
Baldwin
Robert Jones
Goldie Jones
Farmer
Methodist Church
Canton
Jones
Baldwin High School
Springville
G. W. Gearhart
Charles Leedham
Honolulu
United States
Leedham
Washington, D. C
Surgeon General's Office
U. S. Medical Corps
Dean Phillips Honored for Twenty Years at Iowa College of Commerce
In Iowa City the University of Iowa celebrated Dean Chester A. Phillips marking twenty years as dean of the college of commerce. President Virgil M. Hancher led tributes praising his leadership, economy of words, and the college’s growth. Alumni, faculty, and students spoke, with gifts of roses and a watch presented in gratitude.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa
College of Commerce
Chester A. Phillips
Virgil M. Hancher
Dean Phillips
Hancher
C. V. Shepherd
Cedar Rapids
University
Commerce College
Adelaide Balluff
Davenport
Elmer W. Hills
Helen Pyle
Marion
Robert O’meara
Commerce Club
O'Meara
Phillips
Dentists Deferred By Draft Officials In Iowa
Dr Sterling V Mead of Washington DC a national selective service board member told prospective dental students at the Iowa State Dental Society convention in Des Moines to enroll now and expect deferral until after graduation The army requires 2500 dentists yearly but only about 1500 will graduate this year risking calls from private practice unless college output rises
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Des Moines
INS
Sterling V. Mead
Washington, DC
National Selective Service Board
Iowa State Dental Society
Army
Fraternities Warned Tax Law Will Pour Iowa Frat Houses
University of Iowa fraternities and sororities face closure under the 60 percent tax assessment law passed in 1941. Dean W J Teeters told the city council that tax free fraternal lodges could be treated similarly and proposed state ownership of campus houses to keep them tax free. The new law increases property assessments from previous rates near 50 percent, now set at 60 percent of value.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa
W J Teeters
Pharmacy School
Cedar county court term opens with nine new cases
Tipton Cedar county district court begins the May term with Judge J E Heiserman presiding. Grand jurors ordered to report. no petit jury drawn yet. Docket lists nine new law and five equity cases for the term.
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Tipton
Cedar County
Moving Camp Site Change Delays Iowa Training Center
Lieut. Col. Duff told the Senate defense committee the army canceled the south-central Iowa site for a training center due to inadequate water facilities and moved the project to the Mark Twain forest near Rolla Missouri. He said Iowa would face about 1.25 million dollars in water costs and that total damages claimed by Iowa citizens would not exceed 2,500 dollars.
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Washington
Robinson E. Duff
Army
Construction and Real Estate Branch
Senate Defense Investigating Committee
Iowa
Mark Twain National Forest
Rolla
Duff
Missouri
How It Was Named Strawberry Point Story
AP notes the town of Straw berry Point in Clayton county earned its name from wild strawberries found by a lieutenant’s wife near the Dubuque Fort Atkinson road in 1840. The piece continues a series on how towns got their names with a second item about a Maynard wedding and Mrs Otto’s Burlington hospital work history.
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Strawberry Point
Dubuque
Fort Atkinson
Clayton County
Double silver weddings celebrated at Oxford Junction
Mr and Mrs George Leshe and Mr and Mrs Bert Jeffrey marked 25 years of marriage with 50 guests at the Leshe home in Oxford Mills. The ceremony reenactment featured Mrs James Rothnek and vocalists led by Lyle Jeffrey, tracing the couples’ 25 year union begun in Oxford Mills.
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Oxford Junction
George Leshe
Bert Jeffrey
Leshe
Oxford Mills
James Rothnek
Kotlineck
Marjorie Leslie
Lyle Jeffrey
Leslie
Jeffrey
Beulah
Lela Chapman
John Stupka
Mr Davis
Center Junction
Mr Jeffrey
Carl Osborne
Jefferson
Lula Wasoba
Trae
Lyle
Langworthy
Evelyn
Robert
Melvin
Viola
Jones County
Mildred
George Jr
Marjorie
Allen
Gertrude
Rollin
Mae Hunt 71 Funeral Held at Earlville Church
Funeral services for Mae Hunt 71 were held Saturday at the Earlville Congregational Church. The Rev George W Fairbanks officiated and burial followed in Fairview cemetery. Many relatives attended from afar. Pallbearers included six grandsons Frank Hunt Wilmar Robinson Clarence March Clyde Hunt Howard Schmidt and Welcome Hunt.
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Earlville
Earlville Congregational Church
Mae Hunt
George W Fairbanks
Fairview Cemetery
Frank Hunt
Wilmar Robinson
Clarence March
Clyde Hunt
Howard Schmidt
Welcome Hunt
Wapello Seniors to Present The Late Christopher Bean
Wapello high school seniors perform The Late Christopher Bean Tuesday evening in the high school auditorium. Cast includes Martin Hicklin Louise Chatter ton Donna Parsons Della Jean Dunlap Jean Smith Lloyd Cline Hal McGill Clifford Arthur Richard Morris with understudies and a full crew of assistants in prompter staging costume property publicity electricians and make up.
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Wapello
Wapello High School
Christopher Bean
Martin Hicklin
Louise Chatterton
Donna Parsons
Della Jean Dunlap
Jean Smith
Lloyd Cline
Hal McGill
Clifford Arthur
Richard Morris
Kenneth Blasi
Annette Pettis
Pauline Johnson
Barbara Small
Marilyn Albrecht
Earl Miller
Dean Deihl
Bob Stroup
Stanley Baird
Prompter
Wanda Smith
Raymond Staats
Don Glantz
Mabel Wykert
Melba Wykert
Marian Shellabarger
Dorothy Morris
Annabel Wiederrecht
Jaye Garrison
Bill Holmquist
Marjorie Gillette
Allen Gerst
Verna Small
Josephine Knight
June Brower
Raymond McCulley
Helen Milligan
Randalia High School Banquet Awards Senior Faculty Guests
Randalia high school seniors and faculty were entertained by juniors at Black's Tea Room Waterloo Saturday evening. Thirty two attendees included toastmaster George Cooley and speakers Daisy Earle Dorothy Salesbury Wendell Reich Carl Clemens Supt D D Palmer Winifred Chamberlain Ethyn Butters Arthur Perry.
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Randalia
Randalia High School
Black's
Waterloo
George Cooley
Daisy Earle
Dorothy Salesbury
Wendell Reich
Carl Clemens
Supt
D. D. Palmer
Winifred Chamberlain
Ethyn Butters
Arthur Perry
Stanwood Seniors In Play Friday at Stanwood High
Stanwood high school seniors present Ducks a three act comedy Friday at 8 p.m. Leading roles go to Evelyn Haesemeyer and Jack Dierk with a cast including Bill Pirie Evelyn Kintzel Evelyn Tenley Everette Kintzel Raymond Denkman Wilma Workman James Klahn and Darrel Stuar. Miss Ferne Alferts directs.
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Stanwood
Stanwood High School
Evelyn Haesemeyer
Jack Dierk
Bill Pirie
Evelyn Kintzel
Evelyn Tenley
Everette Kintzel
Raymond Denkman
Wilma Workman
James Klahn
Darrel Stuar
Des Moines Abduction Tale Declared Hoax
Iowa chief of investigations R W Nebergall called the Des Moines girls abduction claim a hoax after initial reports of a 16 year old being abducted and driven to Atlantic. The girl Darlene Harrison described a tall man and a car, but officials say further checks are needed. Harrison and her father David W Harrison dispute the ruling.
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Des Moines
R W Nebergall
Iowa Bureau of Investigation
Atlantic
Nebergall
Darlene Harrison
Atlante
Darlene
Lincoln High School
Butch
Nethergalls
David W Harrison
Woman Near Olin Commits Suicide
Mrs John Reiken of Olin committed suicide Monday afternoon by hanging herself in the woodshed at her home, occurring seven miles southwest of Olin. She had just returned from Montecello hospital where she had been confined two weeks. Survived by husband and daughter Helen Brier. Body at Harrington funeral home in Wyoming.
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Wyoming
Harry Eye
Chicago
Monticello
Carrie Eliza Page
Samuel G Gutensohn
Congregational Church
Miss Page
Mary and
Dexter Page
Frank Page
Addie McConnell
Oakwood Cemetery
George Hogeboom
Moline
Ill
Harrington
R. C. Scott
Methodist Church
Martha Loomis Hogeboom
Jones County
Methodist Church and Order of the Eastern Star
Woman's Relief Corps
Priscilla Club
John
Bakersfield
Calif
Jand Nial
Will Loomis
Wyoming Hopkinton
Hans Mohr
Cecelia
Loren Smith
Andy Smith
Buck Creek
St John's Lutheran Church
Hopkinton
J. A. Pannhuk
Delores Mohr
John Sill
Anderson Gearhart
Roy Porter
Gearhart
George
Princeton
Minn
Dubuque County
Paul
Lavern Oclske
Rochester
William Kern
Galena
Lea Klaren
Delhi
Tipton
Cedar County
J. M Blaze
Harold Nicoll
Mechanicsville
W. D Zimmerman
John Grant
Stanwood
E. C Gillam
Viola P. T. C
Alexander Taylor
Adna Hoge
Helen Petty
Delainey Butler
Dempsy Jones
Cedar Rapids
Viola
Viola High School
Delancey Butler
Secrist
Davenport
Sigourney
Keokuk County
Glen Redfern
Selective Service
Frank LeRoy Clevenger
Gerald Elam Grace
Delta
Harry Purkey
Randalia High School
Dorothy Salisbury
Betty Jellings
Lorraine Raatz
Evelyn Hof
Delmar Stewart
Arthur Perry
Robert McSweeny
Robert Owen
Lorraine Kitch
Lillian Hof
Bernadine Matrices
Carolyn Moore
Promper
Olin
John Reiken
Reiken
Helen Brier
Harrington Funeral Home
Stanwood Consolidated School Year Schedule
The Stanwood consolidated school calendar lists May 9 matinee senior class play May 12 baseball with Oxford Junction here May 13 senior class play 8 pm May 16 class night grade and exhibit manuals arts and home economics May 15 16 17 National music contest St Paul Minn May 18 Baccalaureate United Presbyterian church May 20 baseball Clarence here May 20 eighth grade promotion exercises 8 pm May 22 senior high commencement 8 pm May 23 school and community picnic baseball game.
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Stanwood
Stanwood Consolidated School
Oxford Junction
St. Paul
Minn
United Presbyterian Church
Clarence
Nazis Aggressive In South America Tour
New York report says a Nazi nucleus is growing in South America while most people back democracies. W Earl Hall of the Globe-Gazette led a Carnegie Foundation tour with 12 journalists from the United States through Panama Colombia Ecuador Peru Chile Argentina Brazil Uruguay and Trinidad meeting foreign ministers ambassadors and presidents. The group warned that a Hitler victory could empower the Nazis there.
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New York
INS
South America
W. Earl Hall
Mason City
Globe-Gazette
Hall
United States
Brazil
Carnegic Foundation For International Peace
Central America
Panama
Colombia
Ecuador
Peru
Chile
Andes
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Uruguay
Trinidad
Nicholas Murray Butler
William H Hessler
The
Cincinnati Enquirer
Clarence Poe
Raleigh
Roland H Sharp
Christian Science Mount Boston
Clarence Roberts
Farmer- Stockman
Oklahoma City
Graham Stuart Stanford
Harold R Benjamin
University of Marsland
Samuel DP Myres
Southern Methodist University
Donald D Brand
University of New Mexico
H L. Walster
North Dakota Agriculural College
Pheasant Brooder Moved From Waukon to Postville
Irvin Thompson of Postville president of the Alla makee Counts Wildlife association reports the pheasant brooder house formerly on the Counts farm north of Waukon has been moved to the Big Four fairgrounds. Members and other wildlife enthusiasts plan to prepare the breeder for a shipment of 500 pheasants to be received in June with other shipments for breeding this fall.
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Garveter
Edgewood Woman Is Reno Divorce Defendant
Charles E Beyer filed for divorce from Edith M Beyer of Edgewood in Reno Nevada. The couple wed in Edgewood on October 28, 1898 and had been separated for five years.
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Edgewood
Reno
Reno New
Charles E Beyer
Edith M Beyer
Edgewood Ta
New Hampton Student Questions Hitler in Class
In New Hampton AP report T W Sharples, a high school instructor, is surprised by a 17 year old pupil asking Who is Hitler. The girl then answers The governor of New York.
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New Hampton
T W. Sharples
Hitler
New York
Clayton County rural mail carriers fund iron lung
At a Clayton county rural mail carriers meeting in Elkader final action approved buying an iron lung from American Hospital Supply Corp Chicago. The unit will be kept at McGregor hospital for in hospital use or on call transport to other county points. Donations from farmers and residents funded most of the purchase with many gifts ranging from 20 to 25 cents and some $1 gifts. Credit was given to association officers Wilbur Wesant Helmuth Oolke and Merton Smith for organizing the drive.
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McGregor
Clayton County
Elkader
Clayton Counts
American Hospital Supply Corporation
Chicago
McGregor Hospital
Clayton County Rural Letter Carriers Association
Thowe
An Iron Jung
University Hospital
Towa City
East Iowans Elect Chiropractic Officers
Dr G T Lammers of Iowa Falls was reelected president of the Chiropractic Society of Iowa. Other officers reelected include Dr R A Hender Kalona as first vice president and Dr E R Wiphel Elkader as second vice president. New directors elected include Dr A Eisbach Dubuque for one year and two year terms for Pi W G Gingerich Manchester Dr Lyman Perkins Anamosa Dr R O Masters Manning Dr F J Becker Maquaket a and Dr Charles A Julander Des Moines.
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DFS Moines
G T. Lammers
Iowa Falls
Chiropractie Society of Iowa
R A Hender Kalona
E R. Wiphel
Elkader
C J Christensen
DeWitt
A Eisbach
Manchester
Lyman Perkins
Anamosa
R O Masters
Manning
F. J Becker
Maquoketa
Charles A Julander
Des Moines
Toledo choir to perform at United Brethren church
A choir from multiple towns led by Harvey Ablenhopp Paul Franzenbing Max Belz Charles Campbell and Dr R W Baird will give a free concert at the United Brethren church next Sunday. They will sing first at the state juvenile home at 7 pm and the church concert starts at 8 pm with offerings for local religious education.
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Toledo
United Brethren Church
Harvey Ablenhopp
Hampton
Paul Franzenbing
Conrad
Max Belz
Faultner
Charles Campbell
R W, Baird
Ackles
Janet Scoles and Harry Bradshaw Wed in Toledo Church
Miss Janet Scoles of Nashua and Harry Bradshaw of Belle Plaine married at the Presbyterian church in Toledo. The Rev Robert Stra officiated this Sunday ceremony.
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Toledo
Janet Scoles
Nashua
Harry Bradshaw
Belle Plaine
Presbyterian Church
Robert Stra
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