Drivers in 25 to 34 age group have worst fatality record
Iowa safety records show 26 percent of fatal crashes in the first quarter of 1955 involved drivers aged 25 to 34. The 35-44 and 20-24 groups followed, with 24.46 and 16.89 percent of all accidents respectively. Teenagers 16 to 20 showed lower fatality ratios but higher nonfatal crash involvement. Public safety campaigns focus on Memorial Day weekend and the Slow Down and Live effort.
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Des Moines
Iowa Department Ofublic Safety
Hogan
Iowa
State Senator Leads Tax Study on Iowa Structure
State Sen. X. T. Prentis of Mt. Ayr chairs the special tax study committee charged with evaluating the entire state tax system. The panel will submit its report to the governor in 18 months.
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X. T. Prentis
Mt. Ayr
Kurt to be Ordained as Priest in Cascade Church
Rev. Allen J. Kurt will be ordained to the Catholic priesthood at St. Mary's church Cascade this Saturday. He will celebrate his first mass there at 10 a.m. the following day. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. George Kurt of Cascade and the church’s fifteenth priest and first in 34 years to be ordained in his home parish.
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Cascade
Allen J. Kurt
St. Mary’s Church
Peraed
St.Mary's Church
George Kurt
Casseade
Farmer Dies of Heart Attack While Swimming
Everett Carroll a 37 year old farmer 1 1/2 miles southeast of Blanchard died Sunday while swimming in a pond on his farm. The coroner said he apparently suffered a heart attack. Carroll went into the water after his son 11 and friend Dick Graham. The boys saw him collapse and they drew him to shore. Clarynda fire department tried to revive him with no success.
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Blanchard
Everett Carroll
Here
Carroll
Jimmie
Dick Graham
Clarinda
Rites for C. E. Godfrey Held in Albia
Funeral services for C. E. Godfrey 69 longtime State Board of Parole member were held in Albia Monday afternoon. He died in a local hospital Saturday night. a native of Mahaska county he ran an ice and coal company for 47 years until 1947. Survivors include three daughters and 12 grandchildren. his wife died last February.
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ALBIA
C. E. Godfrey
State Board of Parole
Mahaska County
Multiple High School Honors Across Towns
In Aurora James Murray and Solon Ruby Cochran share valedictorian honors while Barbara Cowell and Marie Mottet are salutatorians. In Oxford Junction Ann Homan and Carolee Benhart lead classes with Benhart also earning the Tabor Memorial award. Citizenship citations go to Charles Jenks Ken Erickson and Carolee Benhart.
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Aurora
James Murray
Ralph Payne
Barbara Cowell
Cowell
Iowa State Bar Association
Charles Jenks
Glen Jenks
Oxford Junction
Ann Homan
L. J. Homan
Carolee Benhart
Ed Benhart
Miss Homan
Tabor
LaVern Koranda
Ken Erickson
Merlin Latare
American Legion Post
Miss Sauer to Teach At Yarmouth School
Quasqueton announces Patti Sauer will graduate from Cornell College on June 13 and teach home economics English and music at Yarmouth Iowa for the next school year.
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Quasqueton
Patti Sauer
Cornell College
Yarmouth
Friday Bank Robberies Plague Iowa On Fridays
Iowa lawmen report four bank holdups in 1949 occurred on Fridays with two on consecutive Fridays. FBI notes Fridays and Wednesdays are popular for robberies. Nebergall recalls quick confessions in three of four Iowa cases and details four incidents including Lamont, Afton, and a March heist.
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Des Moines
Iowa
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Nethergall
R. W. Nebergall
State Bureau of Criminal Investigation
Nebergall
Karpis
Kelly
John Dillinger
Lamont
Independence
Farmers State’ Savings Bank of Independence
Jone Gunman
Afton
Creston
Commercial State Bank
Eugene W. Buff
Rob
Robberies in Iowa and Missouri Net Major Recovered Loot
In two separate incidents, a man released from Nebraska prison after 15 years for armed robbery robbed a bank in Land Junction eight miles east of Jefferson. He and another suspect were captured within a day, with nearly all money recovered. A second heist near Boyden yielded 1877 dollars. Paul Willard Dean, a Storm Lake dealer, admitted using a 19 cent cap gun. Both suspects were arrested within about a day and a half, with the loot recovered.
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Bbery
Buff
Nebraska
Missouri
Land Junction
Jefferson—Peoples Trust and Savings Bank
Jone Man
Arvid Reiman
Arcadia
Carroll
Reiman
Boyden
Orange City
Farmers Savings Bank
Paul Willard Dean
Storm Lake
ISU Professor Ellen Pennell Dies at Ames
Ellen Pennell associate professor of journalism at Iowa State College Ames died Sunday in the college hospital. She joined the staff in 1950 and led home economics journalism.
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Ames
Ellen Pennell
Iowa State College
Sale records Earl V Schumacher buys Ramsey house at auction
Earl V. Schumacher purchased the Grant Ramsey house for six thousand five hundred dollars at an auction sale.
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Sigourney
Earl V. Schumacher
Grant Ramsey House
Eleven Injured In Two Crashes In Vinton Area
Special to The Gasette reports eleven people were hospitalized in Vinton area crashes. Five injured in a two car collision near Garrison. names include Carl Vogt and Eileen Sturtz both 25 and 15 from Vinton. Six from Waterloo injured in a separate rollover on highway 218 near Winston. Roosevelt Roby 28 charged with drunk driving.
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Vinton
Garrison
Suney
Carl Vogt
Eileen Sturtz
Phil Barkdoll
Anne Meyer
Cedar Rapids
Theron Gordon
Sixe
Waterloo
Winston
Roosevelt Roby
Justice of the Peace Court
Roby
Amanda Peeples
John Webbs
Edward Flowers
Railey Roosevelt
Fred Redding
Edward L Kimm 69 Dies Sud Service Tuesday Norway
Edward L Kimm 69 died suddenly Saturday at Norway. Services set for Tuesday 9 a.m. at St Michael's Church with burial in St Michael's Cemetery. He was born Feb 20 1886 near Norway and married Theresa Spelterberg in 1911 who died in 1920. Survived by two sons Wallace and Lyle both of Norway seven grandchildren a brother William of Independence and two sisters Anna Smith Waterloo and Louise Nelson Cincinnati. Body at Wallace Kimm home.
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Norway
Edward L. Kimm
St. Michael's Church
St. Michael's Cemetery
Kimm
Silas Kimm
Theresa Spelterberg
Wallace
Lyle
William
Independence
Anna Smith
Waterloo
Louise Nelson
Cincinnati
Wallace Kimm
Burglar Strikes Iowa City Church During Service
The First English Lutheran church in Iowa City was burglarized during late morning services. A theft of about $200 from the early offering, plus clothing valued at $40 and $22.77 in cash from purses in the choir room, was reported.
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Iowa City
INS
First
Cherokee Couple Die In Minnesota Crash
Two Iowans were killed in a Minnesota auto crash near Rochester. The victims were Mr and Mrs Co W Tilton of Cherokee ages 56 and 57. Also killed was Duane Bale 22 of Byron Minnesota, a occupant of the other car in the two car collision.
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Associated Press
Minnesota
Co. W. Tilton
Cherokee
Tilton
Rochester
Duane Bale
Byron
Minn
Council Bluffs Publisher Robert R. O'Brien Dies
Robert R. O'Brien, 68, publisher of the Council Bluffs Nonpareil, died Monday in Jennie Edmundson Hospital after a long illness. He became business manager in 1920 and publisher in 1930, was born in Denver, and graduated from the University of Colorado. He previously worked in Chicago Daily News advertising and led Cedar Rapids Republican ads 1916–18. He also served as a past president of the Iowa Daily Press Association.
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Council Bluffs
Robert R. O’brien
Jennie Edmondison
O’brien
the Pope
Denver
University of Colorado
Chicago Daily News
Cedar Rapids Republican
Brien
Iowa Daily Press Association
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Fred Cochran
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Dwight McCormack
Smulekoff
C. M. Stanley
Muscatine
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the Divine Savior
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Colfax
Roy Asman
Grand Council of
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W. A. McCullough
Earle Britton
Atlantic
Dickinson
F. B. Dickinson
F. B. Dickinson and Company
John T. Petersen
John D. Miller
St. Paul
Dandruff
Baker’s
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Silas Sevatson
Maine
Sevatson
Ossian Bank
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Dows
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