Iowans Spend More on Food and Cars in Sales Tax Report
Des Moines AP reports Iowa tax data showing food and motor vehicle maintenance surpassed general merchandise in sales tax receipts for 1951-52, with 2 percent use tax totals at 7.94 million and city figures including Des Moines 6,434,399 and Sioux City 2,371,549.
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Des Moines
Down
Totel
Waterloo
Mason City
Clinton
Burlington
Dubuque
Charles City
Town City
Fort Madison
Keokuk
Cedar Rapids
Sioux City
Sheriff Emmet Twite Faces Drunk Driving Charge
Emmet County Sheriff Emmet Twite is charged with drunk driving. A preliminary hearing is set for 10 am Friday in Estherville justice court.
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Emmet County
Emmet Twite
Estherville
Iowa Farmer Dan Dunn Killed in Two-Car Crash
Dan Dunn 45, a McCallsburg farmer, died after a two car collision at a county road intersection near Nevada Iowa. The intersection was obscured by tall corn. The other driver John Crosby of near Nevada had minor injuries. Crosby was taking Fred Weave of near Nevada to a doctor for a hand injury. Weave suffered a possible broken jaw and was hospitalized.
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Nevada
INS
McCallsburg
Iowa
Dan Dunn
Dunn
John Crosby
Crosby
Fred Weave
Weave
Republicans praise highway upgrades and attack Truman tactics
In Carroll and Maynard Iowa on Wednesday night GOP speakers urged support for a pay as you go highway plan and criticized President Truman. Senator Richard B. Hickenlooper attacked Truman for aiding Adlai Stevenson and touted long range farm programs. Fire in Muscatine damages offices after a cigarette sparked blaze.
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Des Moines
Leo Elthon
Fertile
G.O.P
Maynard
Elthon
Iowa
State Highway Commission
America
G.O.P. S
Packing Company Appeals Ruling On Jobless Pay
Cudahy Packing Company of Sioux City filed a district court appeal against an Iowa Employment Security Commission decision granting unemployment benefits to Shirley Weinreich who left to join her serviceman husband. The commission reported September jobless payments nearly doubled August with an average weekly check of 23 dollars.
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Des Moines
Cuidahy Packing Company
Sioux City
Iowa Employment Security Commission
Shirley Weinreich
Cudahy
Santa Ana
Calif
Weinreich
Newspaper Men To Meet at SUI Road Program Gains In Fayette County
Four University of Iowa student journalists will speak at the fall conference of Iowa newspaper men on the campus. The principal address will be by Do. W. Brown of The Oconomowoc Enterprise. A library of fine printing will be presented by Frank P. Leslie. Panels feature editors and publishers from several Iowa towns. Fayette county road work report shows 933,263 spent on farm to market projects with 92 percent all weather surfaced.
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Fayette County
Iowa City
Iowa
Joseph Meyer
Mane
Daily Iowan
Edwin Hunting
Council Bluffs
Leonard Hippehen
San Antonio
Billy Jenner
Wilton Junction
The
Iowan
John Burrows, Jr
Belle, Plaine
Don Wallace
Venetia
Hawkeye
Do. W. Brown
Oconomowoc
Wis
Oconomowoc Enterprise
National Editorial Association
Iowa Memorial Union
Frank P. Leslie
John Leslie Paper Company
Minneapolis
School of Journalism
Lew Warren
Oelwein
Stewart Bell
Lone Tree
M. E. Messersmith
Monticello
Robert Meivold
Maquoketa
H. M. Jones
Independence
Bruce Eye
Holstein
Westerfield
West Union
Leslie E. Hull
Waylon
George Langdon
Tipton
M. G. Crabbe
Eagle Grove
Iowa Highway Commission
Republicans Organize Junior Ike Clubs In Iowa
Iowa Republicans launch Junior Ike groups to boost support for Ike. Clubs ages 13 to 14 pledge to ensure eligible adults vote, babysit for voting, and distribute campaign literature across Page Story Webster counties. Statewide 27 clubs exist in four states led by Mrs. Martin Fritz of Ames.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Ike
Martin Fritz
Ames
Page
Buchanan
Webster
Story
Republican Party
Republican National Committee
California
Indiana
Texas
Class Plays Morley There Goes the Groom
The junior class presents There Goes the Groom in the school gymnasium Friday night with jat and pam listed among participants.
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Morley
Groom
Young Bride Killed In Tractor Accident
Mrs. Kenneth Tolander 21 a newlywed was killed on a farm near Swedesburg when a tractor she was driving overturned and pinned her to the ground.
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MT. Pleasant
Kenneth Tolander
Swedesburg
Loveless Assails Iowa Pension System Reform
Democratic candidate for Iowa governor Loveless assailed the Iowa old age and survivors insurance system as inequitable unsound and unfair at a Tama forum. He said liabilities exceeded assets by 240 million dollars at end of 1951 and urged incorporating the system into federal social security with a separate state fund for affected employees.
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TAMA
INS
Herschel Loveless
Iowa
Webster City Pastor Named Conference President
The Rev. Macnathan Nielsen of Webster City was elected Wednesday as president of the Town Baptist Pastors Conference at the state Baptist convention in Boone. Централь vice presidents include the Rev. T. J. Reese of Jefferson and the Rev. Arthur Peters of West Chester with S. C. Blumhagen of Burnside renominated as western vice-president.
Conference reelects officers as delegates exceed seven hundred
Olive E. Enerson of Hampton was renominated secretary treasurer and The Rev Mr Nielsen succeeded Burge Hammond of Lake City as conference president. The convention attracted more than 750 delegates and concluded Thursday.
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Olive E. Enerson
Hampton
Mr. Nielsen
Burge Hammond
Lake City
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