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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1955
Page
4
Iowa Tax Study Committee winds up formal hearings after collecting about half a million words of recommendations and testimony. It plans grassroots district meetings in November to hear public input before its September 1 deadline for recommendations and possible special legislative session.
The Iowa City school board set an Oct 31 election on a 195000 bond issue to finance six room additions at Herbert Hoover and Mark Twain elementary schools. Petitions by 945 residents prompted the vote. Additions will add two sections per grade from kindergarten through sixth.
Earl Foss named to head the Citizens ticket as mayoral candidate at a caucus held last week in Maynard. Other ticket members include Paul Harrison for treasurer Charles Barnholt Walter Ehlers Lester Foss John McKeon and Arthur Thompson for councilmen Francis Smith and Walter Warnke for park commissioners. Another ticket is expected but no date has been set for another caucus.
A Chicago and North Western streamliner named Kate Shelley to operate between Boone and Chicago sparks renewed interest as the 15 year old heroine of railroading history is recalled. Born to a railroad foreman, she helped run the Shelley farm and saved two trainmen after a bridge failed during a flood. The tale ends with her lantern and quick action guiding a passenger train to safety.
Iowa public school districts will receive 97.5 cents on the dollar in general state aid for the current biennium, up from 80.7 cents last year. The state comptroller will prorate 14.698 million dollars in valid claims against an appropriation of 14.355 million, with about 3,500 districts affected. Supplemental and transportation aid allocations are pending. supplemental aid rose to four million dollars annually while transportation aid remains three million.
Iowa official C B Akers was chosen president of the National Association of State Auditors comptrollers and treasurers at the group’s four day convention in Los Angeles California during its final session.
Des Moines Iowa Democratic Chairman Jake More congratulated E Howard Hill Iowa Farm Bureau president for being unavailable for appointment to a federal agriculture post Hill had been rumored as a candidate to replace James McConnell who offered to resign Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson denied the reports and Hill said he would not accept any appointment More charged Hill turned down the invitation to join a Republican administration in wrecking what is best of the farm program
A new Iowa Advisory Committee for the Blind has been formed in Winton. The 12 member group includes four from the Iowa Association for the Blind, four from the Iowa Commission for the Blind, and four from the Braille and Sight Saving school faculty. Eight members are blind. Dorothy Petrucci, a teacher at the school, serves as publicity chairman and the committee plans a public relations program and focus on blind employment.
Iowa colleges face crowded campuses as enrollments spike beyond projections. At Iowa State College 9140 students compared with 8200 last year alarm President Hilton who warns of housing and space shortages. The University of Iowa reports 9127 students, about 600 more than expected, while Ames and other state schools push classrooms to peak usage with early morning and late evening classes.
High school seniors from Allamakee County will stage mock trials in the courthouse on Tuesday and Wednesday marking the 200th anniversary of John Marshall birth. Judge G B Richter presides as plaintiff John Marshall and defendant William Blackstone are portrayed by local attorneys with student juries drawn from area schools.
Iowa Employment Security Commission reports mid August non farm employment up 4450 from July and 635,850 people held non agricultural jobs in August. Manufacturing added about 3650 jobs from July. Average hourly earnings in manufacturing reached 1.85 dollars with a 76.39 weekly wage.
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