Cedar Rapids Stockbuyer Oliphant Dies In Center Point Crash
Dale Oliphant 32 stock buyer and trucker from Cedar Rapids was killed when his car hit a service pole in Center Point Thursday at about 7 30 p m. No inquest was planned. He is survived by his wife Cora two sons a brother and three sisters. Services set for Sunday at 2 p m at the Christian church with burial in Oliphant cemetery.
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Dale Oliphant
Cedar Rapids
Fred W. Mulson
Linn County
Larry Condon
Oliphant
Satchett Funeral Home
Toddville
Elmer Oliphant
Cora
Third Street NW
Wendell Ray
Dale Eugene
Donovan Oliphant
Fae Beebe
Kansas City
Leon Klemish
Lloyd Newman
Iowa Livestock Exchange
Twelfth Avenue
Twelfth Street
Christian Church
Marion Baptist Church
Richard Awbrey
Bonnie Fowler
Janice McKee
Rodney Wahl
Milo Wenger
Benjamin H. Shaw
Kathryn Kassler
Helen Lagerquist
Elisabeth Ford, Author, Is Dead
Elisabet h Ford, Mt. Vernon author of two books and former Cedar Rapids and New York newspaper woman, died in a New York hospital. She wrote No Hour of History in 1940 and Amy Ferreby's Daughter in spring 1946. She was a Cornell College graduate and Columbia journalism master’s, survived by two cousins, burial planned in Mt. Vernon after cremation.
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MT. Vernon
Elisabeth Ford
Cedar Rapids
New York
Amy Ferreby
Cornell College
Columbia University
New York Evening Telegram
Andrew W. Ford
Charles Brackett
Hollywood
Edgar Brackett
Neff
Two Independence Soldiers Travel Home From War
An army ambulance plane carrying 30 casualties from Europe landed at East Boston Airport after forced landing conditions. Among the arrivals were Cpl. Thomas E. Clyde and Pvt. Arthur L. Strickell of Independence, Iowa. They and the other medical cases were taken to Cushing General Hospital in Framingham and all could walk.
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New York
Thomas E. Clyde
Arthur L. Strickell
Independence
Cushing General Hospital
Framingham
Army
Colesburg Man Dies Of Heart Attack At Baseball Game
Roy Prentice 53 of Colesburg Indiana died of a heart attack outside the park after leaving his seat during a state championship game between Colesburg and Davenport High. A portable mill operator, he is survived by his wife and one son S/Sgt Neil Prentice with an army ordnance outfit in New Guinea.
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Roy Prentice
Colesburg
Davenport High
Prentice
Neil Prentice
Army Ordnance
New Guinea
Ambulatory Transfer Planned for Framingham Center
Ambulances will move patients from the plane to a Framingham facility. Few patients are expected to stay long term at the Framingham center and will be sent to nearer hospitals once stable.
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Framingham
Framingham Center
Cedar Rapids Firm Gets Iowa City Pool Contract
Mayor Wilber Teeters of Iowa City won council approval to sign a contract with Howard R. Greene of Cedar Rapids to design and supervise the municipal swimming pool project.
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Iowa City Pool
Iowa City
INS
Wilber Teeters
Iowa City Council
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Ten Men Die as Bomber Crashes Near Anthon
A four motor bomber from the Sioux City air base crashed five miles southwest of Anthon in Woodbury County. All ten crew members were killed. their names will be released after next of kin notification. Everett Heuer of the Anthon Herald noted the crash occurred about 7:45 a.m. and the plane exploded nosediving into trees.
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Anthon
Woodbury County
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Col. Blakey
Clelland Yockey
Horn Place
Air Base
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Everett Heuer
The
Anthon Herald
Grove City hosts annual mother daughter banquet features
Marion area notices include grove city Rebekah lodge mother daughter banquet with 60 covers, spring flowers and musical and readings. School and church events plus memorial services, bids, and local sales fill the town page alongside visitors, service members, and local shop ads.
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Grove City
Rebekah Lodge
Bertha Barnes
Janet Wishniewski
Kathryn Kassler
Ernest Johnson
DROWNING AT DUBUQUE CAPSIZE CLAIMS MAN
Wilfred Weber aged 40 of Dubuque drowned Friday morning when the boat he rode capsized on the Illinois side of the Mississippi river. Walter Reardon, also 40, survived by clinging to an Illinois Central rail bridge boom section.
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Wilfred Weber
Illinois
Mississippi River
Walter Reardon
Illinois Central
East Iowa Communities Honor War Dead Observances
East Iowa communities plan Memorial day programs and church services to honor war dead. Readings and addresses will be given by local clergy and visiting speakers such as Col. Ralph Lancaster and Rev. Emery Wallace in Fairfax and South English. Events span towns from Fairfax to Manchester with parades, sermons, and cemetery rituals.
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Edgewood
A. H. Meyer
Methodist Church
Thomas H. Smith
Volga City
Clara Nelson
China
George M. Richter
Elkader
Methodist
Calmar
David Nelson
Luther College
Decorah
London
B. J. Maxwell
Tipton
Marion Ruprecht
F. J. Abele
A. L. Mensing
James Koch
Faith Strackbein
Dale Twachtmann
H. Maas
Toledo
Dwight Krumholtz
Cedar Rapids
Presbyterian Church
Thomas R. Hill
Rolfe A. Haatvedt
India
Congregational Church
Floyd H. Weed
Waukon
Courthouse Lawn
Thomas O’toole
St. Mary’s Church
Nancy
Herbert Groening
Memorial Hall
Anamosa
J. E. Heiser
High School
Robert Thompson
Jimmy Rife
Loretta Colligan Mayfield
Women’s Relief Corps
Riverside Cemetery
Monticello
Glenn McMichael
Oakwood Cemetery
Sacred Heart Cemetery
Arthur P. O’rourke
Monticello Legion
Fayette
N. W McGee
Anamosa Flyer Missing as War Department Reports Pilcher Missing
Staff Sgt. Donald F. Pilcher an Anamosa native and ball turret gunner on a B 17 in the 25th mission has been reported missing in action over Germany since May 7 his mother Mrs G B Kinser was notified by a war department message Pilcher who served since November 1942 and was based in England since 1943 had written May 5 I will either be home or else He had been believed possibly a prisoner in Germany based on a recent letter from a flight companion
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Donald F. Pilcher
Germany
G. B. Kinser
War Department
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Kinser
Anamosa Blue Raiders
England
Army Sgt James Gilchrist Killed in Texas Plane Crash
Center Point resident James Gilchrist 40, an air corps crew member, died in an El Campo Texas crash with four others. A Center Point High School graduate, he served nine years in the Army. His family plans to travel to El Campo for funeral services set May 31.
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James Gilchrist
el Campo
Texas
Gilchrist
Center Point High School
Air Corps
W. L. Morgan
Marion
Walker
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