Investigators Probe Alleged Abuses At Annie Wittenmyer Home
AMESPORT AP Officials from the State Board of Control continued an inquiry into charges of mistreatment at the Annie Wittenmyer home in AMESPORT after 18 teenage girls ran away. Superintendent Leon Lyle said six girls were questioned and that no alarming findings were found. The runaways returned after overnight lodging at the Scott County Juvenile home. Authorities cited poor food during remodeling and a shortage of social workers as major issues while considering the need for corrective action.
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Robert C. Lappen
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Leon Lyle
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Elmer Dodge Dies in Farm Trimming Accident
Elmer L Dodge 75 was killed when a felled tree rolled onto him on his son in law Fred Aurer s farm where he had lived ten years He was born June 4 1877 in Hale and farmed near Wyoming Fairfax and Center Point Surviving are six married daughters a brother and three sisters The body is at Satchett Murdoch funeral home with funeral arrangements pending Also noted Davenport resident David Warren Hanks 102 died in a nursing home tracing a Lincoln family link to Nancy Hanks born July 23 1850 in Albany Illinois and voting records include Grant Eisenhower
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Aliee Menkens
Esther Niemeier
Marengo
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Center Junction
Dorothy Nissen
Waterloo
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Marguerite Puckhaber
Cedar Rapids
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San Francisco
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Davenport
David Warren Hanks
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Albany
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Iowa Traffic Deaths Seen as Encouraging Nine Months
DES MOINES AP The state department of public safety labeled its nine month traffic fatality total as the most encouraging in Iowa history with 395 deaths, 37 fewer than the same period in 1951. Pedestrian deaths fell 16, car-train crash deaths down 15, and collisions with fixed objects rose 6 while run off highway deaths increased 10. The period saw 563 million more miles driven, and officials warn November and December remain dangerous.
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Des Moines
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Margaret Grimm to quit Palmer Memorial hospital post
Margaret Grimm resigns as superintendent of Palmer Memorial hospital effective December 1 after serving since June 1961. Mrs. C. R. Kendrick is asked to take over, while both attend a Finley hospital meeting in Dubuque. The Good Samaritan Lutheran Society runs the hospital and Good Samaritan home with Rev. George Goeken as local chairman.
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Margaret Grimm
Palmer Memorial Hospital
C. R. Kendrick
Good Samaritan
Good Samaritan Lutheran Society
George Goeken
Eldorado
Good Samaritan Home
Good Samaritan Home Dedication at Waukon
The Good Samaritan home in Waukon will be dedicated Sunday with an open house from 1 30 to 4 30 p m A service at Zion Reformed church will be conducted by Rev E M Mueller Mason City superintendent of the Good Samaritan Society
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Wauken
Clayton School Will Keep Its Stone Exterior
The 92 year old Clayton stone school, said to be the oldest in use in Town, will remain with its native stone exterior after protests blocked a cement paint plan. Funds redirected to interior upgrades include a new floor and decorating. The two story river town building once overflowed during boom days and now serves 16 elementary pupils taught by Mrs. Mary Moser while high schoolers attend a consolidated Garnaville school by bus.
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River Town
Garnaville
Mary Moser
Sale Falls Flat Demonstration in Des Moines
AP report describes fire engine salesman Ray Brickman from Rock Island attempting a sale by driving a new truck to help extinguish a fire at a Des Moines farm. Firefighters Hoff and Brickman rushed to the blaze, ending with no sale and Hoff remarking that the demonstration was great but no deal was made.
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Des Moines
Ray Brickman
Bruckman
Rock Island
Ray Hoff
North Des
Iowa Briefs Summary of Local Notices
GARRISON Mrs John Hoke 79 is a patient at Allen Memorial hospital Waterloo. SIGOURNEY Bert Faidson fractured hip from a fall. hospitalized in Oskaloosa. MARTELLE Mr and Mrs Glen Richardson building a garage on recently purchased property from F Lembaugh. QUASQUETON Remus L Wallace honored as 5 year Masonic lodge member. VIOLA PTA meets Friday evening. kindergarten will furnish program. SIGOURNEY Visitors day at high school Friday 730 p m. EARLVILLE Garden club names Mrs Hare old Walters and Mrs Ray Bush as delegates to State Garden club convention Ames Nov 20. WEST UNION Janice Kleppe elected president Luther League Society with officers Joan Osmundson Audrey Peterson Eileen Wolfs Marjorie Larson. MARQUETTE Town of Marquette received federal check for 182 to repay restoration costs after last April Mississippi river flood.
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Earlville
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Hareold Walters
Ray Bush
State Garden Club
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Luther League Society
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Audrey Peterson
Eileen Wolfs
Marjorie Larson
Pocket Testament
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Butler Enters Race For House Speaker
DES MOINES Iowa state Rep. Guy Butler Rolfe Republican has entered the race for speaker of the Iowa house of representatives in the 1953 legislature. Rep. Arthur C Hanson Inwood Republican announced his candidacy. Several other members are expected to run before the legislature convenes next January. It was not known whether Rep. W S Lynes of Waverly the 1951 speaker would seek re election.
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INS
Guy Butler
Rolfe
Iowa
House of Representatives
Arthur C. Hanson
Inwood
House
W. 5S. Lynes
Waverly
Court Awards Custody of Grandfather in Iowa Case
DES MOINES AP District Judge Russell Jordan awarded custody of 20 month old Brian Pottoroff to his grandfather Paul Pottoroff 48 ruling in the best interests of the child The father Paul Jr 23 of Hamilton Indiana was said to have waived rights by not marrying the mother and failing to support or visit the child The child was born to Georgann Coffman in Portland Oregon in February 1951 and died in Sept from polio noted in court papers The elder Pottoroff had married Coffman in May after divorcing his wife last January and had previously been guardian named Irene Waganman
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Russell Jordan
Brian Pottoroff
Paul Pottoroff
Paul Potoroff, Jr
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Paul
Brian
Pattoroff
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Jordan
Wagaman
Georgann Coffman
Portland
Oregon
Young
Pottoroff
Paul, Jr
Miss Coffman
Potteroff
Committee To Report On Institutional Ties Iowa CPM
A five member University of Iowa group to study cooperation between UI hospitals and state mental health and correctional facilities has been formalized. Sidney G. Winter chairs the committee with Dr Wilbur Miller Walter Loehwing Elmer Joliffe and Gerhard Hartman as members. Originally a temporary fact finding panel, the group was made formal at Gov Beardsley's request.
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William A. Beardsley
Sidney G. Winter
College of Commerce
Wilbur Miller
Psychopathic
Walter Loehwing
Graduate College
Elmer Jolliffe
Gerhard Hartman
University Hospitals
Virgil M. Hancher
Charles C.graves
Board of Control
Heardsley
Fort Madison Loses Vote Bet to Keokuk
KEOKUK INS Carl Gupton Fort Madison Chamber of Commerce president will pay the town’s election bet by riding a bull down Keokuk Main Street. Keokuk Chamber president Will Davis arranged Champion animal Valley View Nugget for Gupton to ride as part of a get-out-the-vote contest tied to the November 4 election. Beckuk won with 77.6 percent turnout. Fort Madison’s turnout was 75.5 percent.
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Keokuk
INS
Carl Gupton
Fort Madison
Beckuk
State Officials Plan Salary Boosts To 8500 9300
Des Moines reports elective state officials besides the governor plan to seek raises to 8500 to 9300 dollars from current 6500. The target includes secretary of state, treasurer, auditor, agriculture secretary and superintendent of public instruction, with attorney general likely seeking a raise too. Governors’ salary would stay at 12000, unchanged since 1939, plus free residence in Des Moines.
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Des Moines
INS
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Talbot Named to New Conservation Post in Iowa
DES MOINES AP Talbot appointed conservation officer supervisor for district 2 based in Cedar Rapids. He previously served as the commission's airplane pilot and special law enforcement officer.
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Des Moines
Iowa Conservation Commission
John Talbot
Cedar Rapids
Commission
Loveless undecided about running again in 1954
Ottumwa mayor Herschel Loveless said he will likely not decide until after the new year whether to seek another term as mayor when his current term ends January 1, 1954. Loveless, a 1954 gubernatorial hopeful, was defeated by Republican Gov. Beardsley by about 45,000 votes. He has led Ottumwa since April 1, 1949.
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Ottumwa
Herschel Loveless
Didate
William
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Cadet Officers Return From Pershing Rifles Meet
Three cadet officers from the Second Regimental headquarters of the Pershing Rifles at the University of Iowa returned from a national assembly in Columbus Ohio. They were flown by C47 from the Iowa national guard. Officers named include Col Wilmer J Robison Cedar Rapids commanding officer Capt Thomas A Brown Osceola operations officer and First Lt Harold L Marquis Iowa City special staff officer. The Pershing Rifles is a military fraternity founded by General John J Pershing.
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Iowa City
Pershing Rifles
University of Iowa
Columbus
Ohio
Iowa National Guard
Wilmer J. Robison
Cedar Rapids
Thomas A. Brown
Osceola
Harold L. Marquis
The
General John J. Pershing
University of Nebraska
State dairy tax suit set for Nov 23 in Webster City
The State Dairy Industry Commission represented by Des Moines attorney Philip Cless filed a special appearance in Webster City to attack and remove the butterfat tax of one cent per pound as unconstitutional. The suit seeks to strike the tax in May and Junelevy periods and asks the state to refrain from enforcing the tax in farming operations. Read our classified ads.
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Philip Cless
Anj
Webster City
INS
Yoerg
Clarence Dodd
Webster
Aremeni
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