Hoover seeks restored Iowa voting rights amid letters request
Hoover, the Quaker challenger to Bourke Hickenlooper in Iowa, files a second clemency bid to restore voting rights after a 1949 selective service violation. He attacks Gov. Erbe over letters of recommendation from court officials, says some sources are unavailable or dead, and notes his constitutional eligibility to run for Senate. The attorney general has ruled Hoover’s name may appear on the June 4 primary ballot.
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Des Moines
UPI
Herbert F. Hoover
Iowa
Norman Erbe
Hoover Hoover
Sen. Bourke Hickenlooper
R-la
Erbe
Hoover
U.S. District Court
Victoria Darrell
Herbert C. Hoover
U.S
Atty
Evan Hultman
Dubuque Acts To Rejuvenate Industry With Offers And Plan
Dubuque moves to revive industry after Farley and Loetscher millwork plant closure. Caradco Inc and Fischer Inc offer options to buy the idle facility as the Dubuque Industrial Commission starts with a $12,000 chamber grant and an $18,000 downtown survey contract. The city pledges support via recruiting operation funds and a full-time industrial coordinator.
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Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors
Dubuque
Caradco, Inc
Fischer, Inc
Nicholas Proposes Boost In Homestead Tax Credit
Former Lt. Gov. William H. Nicholas of Clear Lake Cedar Rapids proposes raising the homestead tax credit from 62.50 to 100 and funding the boost with a 1 percent sales tax increase plus other measures. He says the plan would cost about 45 million for credits and 15 million for education aid, aiming to relieve property taxes and support schools.
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Nicholas
William H. Nicholas
Clear Lake
Cedar Rapids
State Highway Commission
the Gazette
Norman Erbe
Iowa
Students Send Principal on Hawaii Trip
Aquinas high school with 270 students presents Rev. Raymond Schwank an 11 day all expense paid vacation to Hawaii as a vacation for a priest who hadn t taken a break since the school opened in 1955 Students collected trading stamps for two and a half months to fund the trip and now await his vacation date.
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Fort Madison
UPI
Aquinas High School
Raymond Schwank
Hawaii
Father Schwank
John Doering
Highway 1 Reopens to Heavy Trucks After Embargo
The Iowa State Highway Commission lifted the spring embargo, restoring access to highway one east of here for vehicles over six tons. Maintenance Foreman LeRoy Nissley cited tractor-trailer traffic from the Quad-City area as a key focus of the ban.
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Iowa City
State Highway Commission
Highway One
LeRoy Nissley
Quad-City
Man Held on 2000 Dollar Bond in Buchanan Jail
Independence authorities report Richard Wardenburg 30 of New Oxford held in Buchanan county jail on a $2000 bond for receiving goods through false personation. Wardenburg had a suspended sentence May 8 on a bad check charge and is accused of taking a $30 check from the Arthur Putnam home where he stayed.
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Independence
Richard Wardenburg
New Oxford
Buchanan County
Wardenburg
Arthur Putnam
Iowa Judge Acquits Woman On Embezzlement Charge
In Guthrie Center, Judge S E Pratt directed a verdict of acquittal for Marlene Stotts Bullard, a Panora utilities clerk from 1952 to 1960, who faced a $16,900 embezzlement charge. The judge said the state failed to prove conversion or public employment and criticized the audit and Panora bookkeeping. The case followed indictments and a Supreme Court-ordered district court hearing.
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Guthrie Center
Panora Municipal Utilities
S. E. Pratt
Marlene Stotts Bullard
Panora
Pratt
Bullard
Panora Utilities
Des Moines
Decorah Farmer Granted $9000 in Route Suit
Decorah farmer Fred Olson who farms three miles south of Decorah on Highway 52 wins a $9000 district court award after a jury trial to review a condemnation board’s $5750 decision. The 10.4 acre parcel included an old barn.
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Gazette
Decorah
Fred Olson
Highway 52
Olson
Small Boat Harbor at Clinton Okayed
UPI reports Rock Island district engineers approved a survey recommending small boat harbors at Clinton Iowa and Savanna Illinois on the upper Mississippi. The Clinton harbor would fit 480 boats and Savanna 380. two thirds of costs covered by the federal government with cities paying the rest for docks roads and parking areas.
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Rock Island
UPI
U. S. Army Corps of Engineers
Clinton
Savanna
Inl
Mississippi River
Rock Island District Engineers
Mississippi
Waterloo Man Is Robbed of $2,000
Waterloo police reported a cafe operator was robbed of 2000 dollars by a bandit who hid in the rear of his station wagon. Charley Sergeant, who runs Sergeant's cafe near Bath Packing Co. plant, said the robber demanded money and took a package containing the cash from the front seat.
Grand Jury Called in Winneshiek County
Judge G B Richter convenes the Winneshiek county grand jury on June 27 at the request of County Attorney Paul Strand. Members listed include Charles J Andera Spillville Leonard Brown Decorah Ernest Folz Mabel Esther Fretheim Ridgeway Harold Groth Castalia Frank Herold Calmar Grace Kecker Ridgeway Eldo Draling Harmony Mabel Miller Ossian Howard Nelson Decorah Edna Quandahl Decorah Ralston Reisner Decorah.
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Decorah
G. B. Richter
Winneshiek County
Grand Jury
Paul Strand
Charles J. Andera
Spillville
Leonard Brown
Ernest Folz
Mabel
Esther Fretheim
Ridgeway
Harold Groth
Castalia
Frank Herold
Calmar
Grace Kecker
Eldo Draling
Harmony
Mabel Miller
Ossian
Howard Nelson
Edna Quandahl
Ralston Reisner
Top of Auto Sheared Off Iowan Dies in Crash
Woodrow J. Sawchyn of Council Bluffs Iowa 46 was killed and his wife seriously hurt when his car struck the rear of a semi trailer in South Omaha. Driver Marvin Lee Adams 27 of Emerson Louisiana was operating the truck. The impact sheared the car’s top.
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Omaha (Ap
Woodrow J. Sawchyn
Council Bluffs
South Omaha
James Perry
Sawchyn
Marvin Lee Adams
Emerson
Fire damages barn and buildings on Spragg farm near Oelwein
A fire near Oelwein damaged a barn and a scale house on the Guy Spragg farm and destroyed about a hundred bushels of corn. The Spraggs' son found the blaze and alerted the Oelwein and Hazleton fire departments.
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Wein
Guy Spragg
Oelwein
Spraggs
Hazleton
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Charles Dewey
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Sheridan
Caradco
Farley and Loetscher
Fischer
Louis Pfohl
New York
Pfohl
New Development Commission
By Frank Nye
Pirat Avenue
Highway 1
Buchanan
Alpha Tau Omega
University of Iowa
Carl Urban
Englewood
Colo
Steve Garver
City National Bank
Old Marion Road
42Nd Street
CLASK
Ellis Boulevard
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Hunt's
Cedar Hills
May's Drug
SUN Mart
Johnson Avenue
Mount Vernon Road
Third Avenue
Rockford Road, S.W
Center Point Rd
42Nd S., NE
Town and Country
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Sixteenth Avenue
2Nd Street
Younker
Second Avenue
Decorah Farmer
Waterloo
Winneshiek
Iowan
Marshall
Jim
Cowboy
Marshall Jim
Westside Saddle Club Parade
Deputy Slim
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Slim
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