Five Iowans Graduate West Point in June
Five Iowans are among the cadets graduating from the U S Military Academy at West Point on June 3 and will receive commissions as second lieutenants in the regular army. Named are Wells B Lange Du buque infantry Arnold Yates Davenport armored cavalry Carl B Russell Fairfield infantry Robert T Curtis Field artillery and Warren R Gossett Sioux City armored cavalry. Curtis Yates Russell Lange Gossett are noted for prior education and varsity participation. Curtis served in the army air forces before West Point and held cadet lieutenant rank. Yates studied at Iowa and Cornell prep and led lacrosse teams. Russell attended Iowa and Lafayette and played football. Lange attended Harvard and participated in lacrosse track and gymnastics. Gossett studied at Nebraska and joined hockey and company athletic activities.
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West Point
N. Y
U.S. Military Academy
Regular Army
Wells B. Lange
Dubuque
Infantry
Arnold Yates
Davenport
Armored Cavalry
Carl B. Russell
Fairfield
Robert T. Curtis
Field Artillery
Warren R. Gossett
Sioux City
Curtis
Creighton University
Lafayette College
Army Air Forces
Corps of Cadets
Yates
University of Iowa
Cornell University
Army
la Crosse
Russell
Footall
Lange
Harvard College
Gossett
University of Nebraska
First Statewide Safety Check Set for June 4
DES MOINES AP The state highway patrol will conduct its first Statewide safety check of Iowa automobiles the night of June 4. Locations will remain unannounced. Checks will cover brakes lights windshield wipers and similar items with summonses issued where necessary according to a spokesman.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Bergeson Urges Iowa for Peace After War
In a Memorial Day address in Norway Iowa Searvetary of State Bergeson urges Iowans to promote world peace. He urges a global perspective, shared duties, and renewed national sacrifice, stressing that peace requires active effort beyond Washington and concrete steps from Benton county and Iowa.
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Bergeson
Rollo Bergeson
Benton County
Norway
Dr Clyde Tull to leave Cornell College after 30 years
AP reports 66 year old Dr Clyde Tull English professor at Cornell College will depart next month after three decades of service He has edited The Husk literary magazine and will teach at the College of Idaho summer session in Boise Idaho MT Vernon appears in dateline
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Mt, Vernon
Clyde Tull
Cornell College
Tull
Husk
College of Idaho
New Iowa Radio Station to Broadcast Sunday
Council Bluffs AP KSWI the first radio station to broadcast here since KOIL moved to Omaha in the mid thirties will begin operations at 6 am Sunday. Operated by Nonpareil Broadcasting Company it will be a daytime station only with a 500 watt transmitter on highway 275 east of South Omaha bridge. Studios are in the Strand theater building downtown. Juanita Hall formerly of WCPO Cincinnati will be program director Stanley Dixon formerly of KRNT Des Moines is news director and Mac McNamy of Council Bluffs is farm editor.
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Council Bluffs
KSWI
KOIL
Omaha
Nonpareil Broadcasting Company
William E. Ware
Austin
Texas
Chicago
Highway 275
South Omaha
Strand Theater
Juanita Hall
WCPO
Cincinnati
Stanley Dixon
KRNT
Des Moines
Mac McNamy
Cedar Masonic Lodge To Celebrate 100th Anniversary
Cedar Masonic lodge marks its charter centennial with a banquet at the Masonic temple Monday evening. A post banquet program in the Methodist church will feature speakers Grand Secretary Earl B. Delzell Judge Floyd Philbrick senior grand warden H J Thornton and H E Martin worshipful master of Cedar lodge from Cedar Rapids Iowa City and Cedar lodge respectively.
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Tipton
Cedar
Iowa Marriages and Engagements Highlights
Marriages and engagements announced across Iowa list Irene Schutterle engaged to Orlean Koeppen daughter of Keystone. Rob ert Lockwood and Jack O'Brien wed in Oelwein Sacred Heart church. Maxine Rauch wed George Boland in Elkader St. Joseph's church. Patricia Boise and Harry Swartzbaugh married in St Marys Catholic church. Rose Johnson and William Beem wed May 25 at Bethany Evangelical church in Belle Plaine.
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Mary Rauch
Marion
George T Boland
T. E. Boland
Elkader
St. Joseph’s
Vinton
Patricia Boise
S. P. Boise
Harry Swartzbaugh
Clifford Swartzbaugh
St. Mary’s Catholic Church
Belle Plaine
Rose Marie Johnson
Irve Johnson
Elberon
William J. Beem
Hazel Beem
Bethany Evangelical Church
Site for New School Purchased at Vinton
VINTON The board of education has purchased about five acres in south Vinton for 7600 dollars as the first part of a site for a new consolidated high school building and athletic field. The board expects to buy an additional 23 adjoining acres, though no options have been taken yet.
Olin's Candidate For Band Queen At Eastern Iowa Festival
Donna Lea Switzer of Olin is the queen candidate for the Eastern Iowa Band Festival to be held in Cedar Rapids. Seventeen year old Donna Lea plays clarinet since age nine, has been in band and choir, and serves as drum majorette baton twirler and pianist. She is also a cheerleader and basketball letter winner. The festival crowns a Miss Eastern Iowa of 1947 with a scholarship to Coe College. The queen will be crowned at Hill Park after an all day program with 24 bands. Special bleachers and a half hour concert precede the show, with five Cedar Rapids marching groups not competing. Ed Mund and Hal Shirk head the festival committee.
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Donna Lea Switzer
Olin Consolidated School
Cedar Rapids
Donna Lea
Olin
Queen
Eastern Iowa
Coe College
Hill Park
Young Men’s and Retail Merchants Bureau
Chamber of Commerce
Ed Mund
Hal
Bruce Hambright Rites in Tipton Saturday at 2
Services for Bruce Herbert Hambright 69 Cedar county farmer who died Wednesday in an Iowa City hospital will be at Wilson funeral home Tipton at 2 p.m. Saturday. Burial will be in Tipton Masonic Cemetery. Born September 21, 1877 in Scotland Pennsylvania he came to Cedar county in 1895 and farmed near Tipton until retirement four years ago. He served as president of the Cedar county Farm Bureau and Cedar county Fair Association for two years and was a director of the Fair Association. Surviving are his wife two sons Paul and Harold and a daughter Mrs Edna Hamilton. The Rev Roscoe B Sires will conduct the services.
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Tipton
Bruce Herbert
Hambright
Cedar County
Iowa City
Wilson
Tipton Masonic Cemetery
Scotland
Cedar County Farm Bureau
Cedar County Fair Association
The
Fair Association
Paul
Bennett
Harold
Washington, D. C
Edna Hamilton
Roscoe B. Sires
Methodist Church
Jesse Halden Speaks At Little Arlington Keokuk
KEOKUK AP Special Memorial day events were held at Iowa's only national cemetery in Keokuk established in 1861. Jesse Halden of Newton, state commander of the American Legion, spoke. Over 1,200 service members are buried there, many unidentified, with bodies moved from other sites for burial on the government reservation. The government allocated $22,000 for improvements and the city donated extra ground.
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Keokuk
Iowa
Jesse Halden
Newton
American Legion
Fort Des Moines
Little
Arlington
State Employees Given General Boost in Pay
Approximately 1,500 state employees received pay increases in checks issued Thursday for the last half of the month. Most raises were 10 to 15 dollars a month, with some as low as 5 or as high as 50 dollars. Included were 686 employees of the liquor control commission and 370 others.
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Des Moines
The
Liquor Control Commission
Marengo Girl Burned In Oil Stove Explosion
Eight year old Alice Lynn daughter of Mr and Mrs Walter Lynn was seriously burned Thursday when an oil stove she was lighting exploded. She was taken to University hospital Iowa City.
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Marengo
Alice Lynn
Walter Lynn
University Hospital
Iowa City
Scout Camporee in Red Oak Park Saturday
Cedar district Boy Scouts plan a Camporee at Red Oak Park this Saturday with Carl Mitzner in charge. The event gathers scouts from Tipton Cedar district for outdoor activities and group demonstrations.
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Tipton
Cedar District
Red Oak Park
Carl Mitzner
State Workers Get First General Raise Since 1945
Employees of the tax commission and public safety department along with custodial and non professional health workers receive the first general pay increase for state staff since 1945. The raise marks a milestone in statewide compensation policy and affects multiple agencies.
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Tax Commission
Public Safety Department
Health Department
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