Weekend Iowa crash toll hits eight fatalities
Eight people died in weekend crashes across Iowa raising the state 1956 traffic death toll to 643, a record. Victims include Lindy Umbrell 29 Ruthven. Mary Huston 67 Dunlap. Mary Lythgoe 22 Sioux City. plus Karl Stefan widow and others from Nebraska and Iowa.
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Ruthven
Mary Lucille Huston
Dunlap
Mary Lou Lythgoe
Sioux City
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Dallas
Richard Hamner
Kahoka
Bob Siegler
Fort Madison
Karl Stefan
Norfolk
Richard Kausgard
Bellevue
West Union Farmer 74 Ends Life on Farm
Ray Mann 74 shot and killed himself with a rifle on his farm northwest of West Union. Sheriff Fred House said Mann had been despondent over ill health. Surviving are his wife and five grown children. Body at Burnham and Wood funeral home in West Union.
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Burnham and Wood Funeral Home
Harvest Home Service Held at Marshalltown
More than 700 people from Iowa and surrounding states attended the Midwest Educational Harvest Home service at the First Methodist church in Marshalltown. The Rev. Phillip Anderson presided, with invocations by the Rev. James Smith and the benediction by the host pastor the Rev. Park Anderson. A Christian Rural Overseas Program caravan from 19 Iowa counties carried banners and offered new ears of corn to symbolize gifts for the Iowa CROP campaign.
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Midwest
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Waterloo Girl Faces Delicate Eye Surgery
Gloria Weber, 10, of Waterloo, is set for potentially life changing eye surgery at the Mayo Clinic Rochester Minnesota. Doctors diagnose a blood tumor of the eye that could be cancerous and threaten her sight and possibly require removal of both eyes.
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Osage Boy Scout to Represent Iowa in Midwest Contest
Osage teen Harlan Hahn, 17, won a Des Moines selection to represent Iowa in a Midwestern contest to prepare a report on Scouting. He will travel December 2 to Kansas City Kansas for the area competition. Iowa alternate James W. Turner, 17, of Manchester also competed, both travelling with crutches. Hahn is a polio survivor since age six.
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Midwest
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Manchester
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Des Moines Editor Wins Bent Cane Award
Des Moines Register and Tribune editorial page editor Lauren Soth was named this year’s Bent Cane Award recipient by the Des Moines Press and Radio club for outstanding service to journalism. He will receive the honor at a November 29 dinner. The 1955 winner was David Archie of The Iowan magazine for proposing farm delegation exchanges with Soviet Russia.
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Soth
David Archie
Iowan
Russia
Strike Ends at Iowa Firestone Plant In Des Moines
Full production resumed at the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company plant in Des Moines after 1,700 Local 310 United Rubber Workers members ratified a new contract. The 18 day strike had idled 21,000 workers across eight U S plants.
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Des Moines
Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
United Rubber Workers
United States
Paul Cotton Iowa TV Critic Dies at 50
Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 3 p.m. for Paul Cotton, 50, television columnist for the Des Moines Register, who died of a heart attack Saturday night at his home. Cotton led Des Moines city desk 1931 to 1950 and joined the Register and Tribune in 1928. He authored widely reprinted 1949 articles on cortisone and ACTH. Survivors include wife Marjorie, mother Daisy Cotton, a brother John, and sister Marjorie Newsome.
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DES Moines
Paul Cotton
Des Moines Register
Cotton
Des Moines Tribune
Register and Tribune
John
Minneapolis Star
Marjorie Newsome
Brooklyn Phone Company Secures $292000 Loan
The Brooklyn Mutual Telephone Company of Brooklyn Iowa received a $292000 REA loan to improve and extend service in Poweshiek county. The plan covers 901 rural subscribers including 56 farm families now without phones, with a new dial central office, 36 miles of new lines, and rebuilding 93 miles of existing lines. Toll free service will continue between Brooklyn and Hartwick Malcom and Montezuma.
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Tipton Man Charged With Drunk Driving
Iowa briefs report Tipton resident Cas H Cox charged by the county attorney for drunk driving after a Nov 15 arrest by a highway patrolman who observed erratic truck tractor operation.
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Max Werling
Cox
West Union
Carol Peck
Fayette
Fayette County
American Cancer Society
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Clermont
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Oelwein
Fred Pownalls Honored At Testimonial Dinner
In Iowa City AP profile Prof. Fred Pownall and his wife Dorothy were honored at a surprise testimonial dinner. Many of Pownall's former University of Iowa students attended. He became the university's first head of the department of publication in 1927 after graduating from SUI in 1911 and earning a 1913 master's degree.
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Davenport Man Dies After Day of Hunting
Davenport hardware merchant Robert C. Pilcher, 45, died of a heart attack Sunday evening while eating supper at his brother in law's home a mile north of Victor after a day spent hunting. Survived by wife and son. Body taken to Davenport for services and burial.
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Harold Hennessy
Marengo
Davenport
Robert C. Pilcher
Charles Michalec
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Iowa
Davienport
Removal bid targets Iowa bureau chief Nebergall
Democrats in Des Moines plan to replace R. W. Doc Nebergall head of the Iowa bureau of investigation after an April inquiry by Governor Hoegh and sheriffs officials. Six months remain before retirement eligibility as changes were made in the state agency.
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Doc” Nebergall
Iowa Bureau of Investigation
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Humboldt Democrat Fred Hall Wins Iowa House Seat
Fred Hall of Humboldt was elected state representative this month, the first Democrat in 75 years from Humboldt county to win a seat in the Iowa house. He defeated Edward Oppedahl of Renwick, a Tax Study Committee member. Pierson is the GOP chairman in the home county.
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Fred Hall
Humboldt
Iowa
Humboldt County
Hall
Edward Oppedahl
Renwick
Iowa Tax Study Committee
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Box Pierson
G.O.P
Marshall County Election Marks Postwar First
Last week Marshall County held an election that marked the first postwar political shift after the Civil War, signaling a significant change in local governance and party influence in the region.
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Marshall County
Loveless Narrowly Beats Hoegh in County Vote
In a key county race Herschel Loveless edged incumbent Gov. Leo Hoegh by 102 votes. The margin contrasts Hoegh’s 610 vote win in the same county two years earlier.
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Inwood Leader A C Hanson Eyes Speaker Return
A C Hanson of Inwood, former house speaker, says he will not seek re election but remains willing to serve as speaker again if called upon. Legislators at the Iowa Taxpayers Association meeting note many candidates for top Republican posts in the next session. Vern Lisle is mentioned.
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A. C. Hanson
Inwood
Vern Lisle
Iowa House and Senate seek GOP leadership roles
In Clarinda a candidate for speaker is named along with three announced candidates Ernest Kosek of Cedar Rapids Henry Stevens of Jefferson and W L Mooty of Grundy Center. Robert Carson of Independence may seek the GOP floor leader role in the House, a job Dewey Goode held in 1955. On the Senate side Dewel of Algona D C Nolen and J T Dykhouse of Rock Rapids are considered for majority floor leader. Dewel, who held the post in 1955, has not announced intentions for the 57 session.
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Cedar Rapids
Henry Stevens
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Grundy Center
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Iowa City
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