Tulip Festival Opens in Pella Three Day Event
The annual Tulip festival began in Pella with daytime and evening programs through Saturday. Judy DeCook, 21, was crowned queen during the afternoon ceremony. Highlights include a variety show, queen and court, parade and dancers, plus the Saturday 7 p.m. dedication of Tulip Towers in Central Park as a veterans memorial.
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Pella
Judy DeCook
Tulip Towers
Central Park
Peter H. Kuyper
Open House at Waverly Air Station for Armed Forces Day
The 788th radar squadron at Waverly air station invites the public to an Armed Forces Day open house from 10 am to 3 pm on Saturday. Highlights include flyovers by F-102 and F-89 aircraft and a 3:30 pm mock war by the Iowa Army National Guard against Waverly security police, ending with a 4:30 pm retreat ceremony.
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Waverly
Waverly Air Station
WAFS
788Th
SAGE
Aerospace Defense Command
North American Air Defense Command
North American
30Th Air Division
Sioux City Air Base
NORAD
Cheyenne Mountain
Colorado
Sioux City
Midwest
Wisconsin Air National Guard
Truaxfield
Wis
Iowa Air National Guard
Des Moines
Iowa Army National Guard
Waterloo
Iowa City Firm Low Bidder on Riprap Rock
River Products Co of Iowa City submitted the apparent low bid of 33300 to the Rock Island district for 6000 tons of riprap rock. The rock will be placed by a Corps of Engineers maintenance crew along both banks of the discharge channel below the Coralville dam outlet works. Delivery begins around May 17 and ends by June 26.
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Rock Island — River Products Co
Iowa City
Rock Island
Corps of Engineers
Coralville Dam
Iowa River
Woman Killed in Davenport Area Collision
Elizabeth Moeller, 78, of Donahue died after a car and a truck collided at a county road intersection northwest of Davenport on Wednesday.
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Davenport
Elizabeth Moeller
Donahue
Here
Three Farm Buildings Destroyed by Fire Near Urbana
A barn, hog house, and cattle shed on Merle Folkers farm three miles south of Urbana burned about 6 p.m. Wednesday. Firefighters from Urbana, Shellsburg, and Vinton fought the blaze in high winds, keeping it from reaching the house. Folkers children spotted the fire and called neighbors and firemen. cause undetermined.
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Urbana
Merle Folkers
Folkers
Shellsburg
Vinton
Dental Careers Conference at Iowa City
Iowa high school students and counselors will attend the first annual careers conference sponsored by the University of Iowa College of Dentistry. The event aims to spark interest in dentistry as students visit the college, meet faculty and advisors, and register at 1 p.m. in room 117 of the Dentistry Building.
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Iowa City
Iowa
College of Dentistry
University of Iowa
Dental College
Dentistry
Living In The Nuclear Age course completes in Vinton
Twenty adults finished a 12 hour course in Vinton titled Living In The Nuclear Age. The program was sponsored by the state department of public instruction and awarded certificates to all participants.
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Vinton
State Department of Public Instruction
Orpheus in the Underworld staged at Iowa City
Eastern Iowans help present Offenbach Orpheus in the Underworld at Macbride auditorium University of Iowa in Iowa City Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. Local names include Linda Brewer Michael Sproston David Wilson Madra Robison Clarissa Parker Delbert Simon Jan Stark Ann Tarzier Lynne Rodden Luther Enstad. Also noted Binghamton says McHales Navy plot tidbit at 6 00 PM Thursday on KCRG TV channel 9.
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Iowa City
Farm Bureau challenges farm property valuations in Iowa
Des Moines Iowa Farm Bureau President Merrill Anderson says the group’s fight is not with Revenue Director William Forst but with county assessors valuing farmland purely on sale prices. The contention targets a 1967 law intended to equalize valuations and raises concerns over significant assessed increases.
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DES Moines
Iowa Farm Bureau
Iowa Revenue
William Forst
Farm Bureau
Merrill Anderson
Department of Revenue
Anderson
No blanket land tax cuts allowed by Cerro Gordo board
Des Moines AP says Town Director of Revenue William Forst says a county board of review must act on individual parcels and cannot grant blanket cuts to farm values. The issue arose after Cerro Gordo assessed farm values up about 35 percent under a 27 percent law, then reverted some values amid pressure from the Iowa Farm Bureau.
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Des Moines
William Forst
Forst
Cerro Gordo County
Department of Revenue
Howard Jackson
Jackson
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
County Board of Review
Ballard Tipton
Clayton Wornson
Iowa Farm Bureau
Tipton
Bodensteiner Award Presented at Luther College
Decorah Luther College announced the Helen Adams Bodensteiner excellence in theater award for outstanding creative theater artists and contributors. The inaugural prize went to Phil Mosbo, Rembrandt, a senior and student technical director who helped develop a flexible lighting system for the studio theater. The award honors Mrs. Bodensteiner, a Luther drama faculty member since 1964.
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Decorah
Helen Adams Bodensteiner
Luther College
Luther
Bodensteiner
Phil Mosbo
Rembrandt
Simpson College names Jane Templeman associate dean of students
Simpson College announced on Thursday that Jane Templeman a Simpson graduate has been named associate dean of students and dean of women at Simpson College.
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Indianola
UPI
Simpson College
Jane Templeman
Simpson
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