Institution Fund Boosts Are Favored By Legislature
Des Moines AP reports three state supported higher education and mental health bodies may gain operating fund hikes in the 1955 session. Of 85 lawmakers, 49 favor increases, 10 oppose, 26 undecided. Board of Education seeks 8 14 percent boosts for UI, ISU, ISTC. Board of Control asks about 40 percent for 14 institutions plus 16.65 million salary and 4 million facilities for UI and ISU and ISTC.
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DES Moines
Associated Press
State Board of Education
State Board of Control
University of Iowa
Iowa State College
Iowa States Teachers College
SUI
Iowa State
ISTC
Teachers College
Board of Control
Waterloo transit seeks Sunday holiday service cut
The Waterloo Cedar Falls Transit Company asked the city council to end Sunday and holiday bus service and to end weekday service after 7 p.m. except for workers finishing midnight factory shifts. The firm claimed a loss of 16000 dollars since taking over the system a year ago.
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Waterloo
Cedar Falls
Boone man killed in car train crash in Story county
Clarence Russell Logsdon, 49, of Boone died after his car collided with a Rock Island Rocket diesel unit at a railroad crossing east of Cambridge in Story county. Deputy Sheriff John Stark cited possible dust storm visibility issues at the time of the collision.
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Nevada
Clarence Russell Logsdon
Boone
Cambridge
Story County
John Stark
Logsdon
Rock Island Rocket
Merger of Five Schools Sought
Petitions circulated call for a special election on merging Webster consolidated Thornburg consolidated Keswick Gibson and What Cheer districts. If enough signatures are gathered the petitions go to the county superintendent of schools.
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Webster
Webster Consolidated
Thornburg Consolidated
Keswick
Gibson
What Cheer
Soloists Named For Messiah at Cornell College
Cornell College will stage Handel s Messiah on Sunday December 12 at 3 pm in King Memorial chapel. The event features Cornell Oratorio Society and the college orchestra under Dr Paul Beckhelm with four soloists including Alan Beucher Ralph Nielsen Jean Hayden and Ruth Slater.
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MT. Vernon
Cornell College
King Memorial Chapel
Cornell
Oratorio Society
Paul Beckhelm
School
Conservatory of Music
Beckhelm
Alan Beucher
Postville
East
Beucher
Ralph Nielsen
Chicago
Soldier’s Field
Jean Hayden
Handel
Ruth Slater
Stolen Bonds Recovered After Missing Bag Incident
Ringsted reports $10,000 in Series E government bonds found near Jensen’s rooming house. A bag containing cash 150 dollars, naturalization papers, social security card, and bank book had been stolen last Thursday. A stranger who rented next door disappeared with the bag.
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Jensen
Speeder Fined $115 and License Suspended in Chase
Donald Ferguson aged 33 of Council Bluffs pled guilty in municipal court after a 100 mph chase last Friday. Judge Andrew J. Nielsen suspended his license for 90 days and fined $100 for reckless driving plus $15 on 11 stop-sign violations. Marcus Marcus, 25 of Omaha, received 15 days in jail after pleading guilty to disorderly conduct.
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Council Bluffs
Donald Ferguson
Ferguson
Andrew J. Nielsen
Earl Estes Marcus
Omaha
Fairmount Park
Marcus
Foreign Students at Iowa State Reach 183 From 53 Lands
Iowa State College reports 183 international students this fall, 100 graduates and 54 undergraduates among 153 men and 30 women. China leads with 17, India 15, Canada 13, and Columbia and Japan seven each. Funding comes from family, governments, ISU grants, UN scholarships, churches and foundations. Agriculture tops fields of study, then science, engineering, home economics and veterinary medicine.
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Ames
Iowa State College
Millard Kratochvil
China
India
Canada
Columbia
Japan
United States
United Nations
Osage Holiday Welcome For 40 Iowa Foreign Students
Forty international students from the University of Iowa will celebrate a fifth annual International Thanksgiving in Osage Iowa. They travel by bus from the SUI campus to Osage for a welcoming dinner and a three day stay with tours and an open forum on customs and homeland conditions. Wallace Maner directs the program under the International House and adviser to foreign students. The Osage hosts cover all expenses.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa
Osage
SUI
Wallace Maner
International House
Oskaloosa Man Sentenced in Dynamite Plot Case
William Musgrove of Oskaloosa, 44, was given five years in Fort Madison state prison after pleading guilty to assault with intent to commit manslaughter. The blast last August injured Musgrove, his wife Alberta, and Frank Luzadder, who lost a leg.
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Oskaloosa
William Musgrove
Fort Madison State Prison
Musgrove
Dist
Frank Bechly
Alberta
Frank Luzadder
Luzadder
Lions Club Plans Ice Skating Rink Project
Sigourney reports the Lions Club has announced plans for an ice skating rink as this year’s service project. The effort aims to provide a community recreational venue and fund local initiatives through volunteer work and events.
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Sigourney—The Lions Club
Hart and Lynes Are Next in Line For Governorship
Des Moines Iowa state Sen Stanley Hart is next in the line of succession to the governorship under a 1952 constitutional amendment. Hart president pro tem of the Senate. House Speaker William Lynes follows. If the governor lieutenant governor senate president pro tem and speaker are unable to serve the Iowa Supreme Court would call a special session to elect a governor and lieutenant governor. Hart was defeated for re election but remains in the Senate. Lynes failed to win the Republican nomination for governor and will leave the legislature in 1955.
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Des Moines
LLP
Stanley Hart
Keokuk
Hart
Senate
House
William Lynes
R-Waverly
Iowa Supreme Court
Lynes
Iowa
Four Named Research Professors at Iowa U
Four University of Iowa faculty members were named research professors for the second semester under a new SUI program. Wendell Johnson will finish processing data and draft a report on three years of stuttering research. Kenneth Spence will interpret ten years of SUI research in conditioning learning and motivation. O E Nybakken will study Greek and Latin in the origin of scientific terms and its impact on biology and medicine communication. M F Heiser will advance his eight year Poe satire study during the Jacksonian era.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa
Walter F. Loehwing
Iowa Graduate College
SUI
Wendell Johnson
Kenneth W. Spence
O. E. Nybakken
M. F. Heiser
Johnson
Spence
Nybakken
Heiser
Edgar Allan Poe
Veteran Minnesota County Agent Dies
F. L. Liebenstein 56 longtime Mower county agent for 34 years and a leading Minnesota agricultural figure died at home after a heart attack on November 5. His son Warren is the Rice county agent.
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Austin, Minn
F. L. Liebenstein
Mower
Minnesota
Warren
Rice
Harrington Resigns as Cedar County Engineer
William G. Harrington Cedar county engineer for two years resigned to the board of supervisors on Monday effective December 31 and did not reveal future plans. The board approved Frank Fey Massillon for a beer permit. A half mile of highway in Pioneer township was shifted west eight feet to improve culvert access.
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Tipton
William G. Harrington
Cedar County
Board of Supervisors
Frank Fey
Massillon
Pioneer Township
Contracts Set for Monticello School Totaling 22094
Contracts to total 220,934 for Monticello elementary school were awarded Tuesday. Gethmann Construction Company of Gladbrook was lowest bidder for general work at 159,363 dollars, Kruiger Brothers of Monticello for plumbing and heating at 51,451, and Martin Brothers of Tipton for electrical at 10,120. Construction to begin this fall, completion expected in about a year.
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Monticello
Gethmann Construction Company
Gladbrook
Kuriger Brothers
Martin Brothers
Tipton
Teacher Program At UIU Discussed
A Fayette meeting of Upper Iowa University education department officials superintendents and 21 teachers discussed expanding the teacher education program. Dr Herschel Hendrix noted UIU aims to graduate good teachers and grow the program while Prof Melvin Howards said the session defined needs for student practice teaching experiences.
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Upper Iowa University
Melvin Howards
Teen-Age Drivers Club Formed at Quasqueton
Quasqueton forms a teen age drivers club with 23 students joining an organization meeting at the high school. Principal Glenn Stevens serves as counselor. Officers named include Lucille Davis president Marvin Stark vice president Donald Brown secretary treasurer and Shari Van Etten reporter.
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Gazette
Glenn Stevens
Lucille Davis
Marvin Stark
Donald Brown
Shari van Etten
Center Point editor Mahuren 88 dies after illness
Andrew Mac Mahuren longtime Center Point newspaper man died Tuesday after a short illness. Born November 6 1866 in New Albany Indiana he married Cora Martin in 1891 and served as editor publisher of the Center Point News from 1907 until 1947 He was a longtime official sports scorer for 30 years Survivors include his wife two daughters a son and eight grandchildren Services Friday at Satchett Murdoch funeral home with burial in Center Point cemetery.
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Gazette
Center Point
Andrew “Mac” Mahuren
New Albany
Ind
Cora Martin
Mahuren
Hawkeye Scout Council Names Five Unit Chairmen
Five chairmen of subcommittees on the Hawkeye Area Boy Scout Council long range planning committee were named by Allin Dakin at the University of Iowa. Names include Norman Shaffer Iowa City. R H Ojemann Iowa City. Lynn Swayne Cedar Rapids. J W Markey Cedar Rapids. and Fred Payneer Cedar Rapids with assignments in trust fund public relations conferences sustaining memberships council headquarters and camp extension and development. The six county council is studying future needs amid rapid growth and a current membership above 4300 boys.
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Iowa City
Hawkeye
Cedar Rapids
Shotgun Accident Wounds Youth in Dubuque Home
A 19 year old Massey Station youth Paul Voelkert was hospitalized in Dubuque with shotgun wounds to the face after a 12 gauge gun reportedly owned by Rodger Sears Jr toppled from a wall and discharged. Sears, a 13 year old, had skipped school to go hunting.
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Dubuque
INS
Massey Station
Paul Voelkert
Rodger Sears, Jr
Sears
Voelkert
Healthful Cranberry Is Not Just Holiday Food
Nutrition notes tout cranberry as a year round smart food. It balances meat meals by producing alkaline ash, preserves vitamins A C and B complex, and supplies iron copper and pectin assisting digestion and blood health.
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Boston City Hospital
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