Iowa Utility Valuations Trimmed by Tax Commission
Iowa tax records show net downward revisions totaling 1.76 million dollars in assessed valuations for 13 power and gas utilities. The revisions, aimed at equalizing values after an earlier boost, lower previously raised figures though most utilities remain above 1938 levels. several firms see large cuts while one firm gains.
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APF
Iowa Tax Commission
Tax Commission
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Maquoketa
Iowa
Eastern
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Council Bluffs
Omaha Council Bluffs
Sioux City
Iowa Public Service Company
Des Moines Electric Company
Iowa Southern Utilities
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Tax Board
Pierce
Frank Pierce
Marshalltown
League of Iowa Municipalities
Lowe Observes 6th Anniversary of 1929 Stock Market Crash
Des Moines readers mark a decade since the 1929 crash noting how crop control WPA insured bank deposits old age pensions and fed eral corn loans changed life. The piece lists farm prices from 1929 to 1933 and cites federal programs expanding relief and credit.
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Lowe
Des Moines
Iowa
Federal Agricultural Economics Bureau
AAA
New Deal
Works Projects Administration
NRA
Blue Eagle
Code Price
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
NYA
Rules County May Hire Private Audit
District Judge S A Clock ruled Boone county board of supervisors may hire a private auditing firm to check county auditor and public bidder records. The ruling overruled a demurrer by the town attorney general's office in a suit by Bemis and Ream of Des Moines seeking 8949 for a special audit.
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Boone (Ap
S. A. Clock
Boone County Board of Supervisors
Bemis and Ream
Des Moines
17 Events Mark Homecoming Card At Iowa University
Prof. George D. Haskell of the University of Iowa homecoming committee announced a 17 event schedule for the November 17 homecoming program. Highlights include the Minnesota Iowa football game, a mass meeting, club receptions, alumni luncheon, department open houses, demonstrations by PE and military departments, a homecoming party, and a buffet luncheon for football letter winners at the field house.
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Iowa City
George D. Haskell
University of Iowa
Memorial Union
Field House
Iowa City youths confess to filling station shooting
Two Iowa City youths Dean Lantz and Warren O Connor confessed to taking part in a filling station hold up and shooting in Muscatine Thursday morning. Frank Drake county attorney said the pair were admitted to a local hospital, with Charles Ball shot in the shoulder, after police traced a pistol purchase in Iowa City and linked them to a stolen car in Iowa City. They were arrested in Oskaloosa Friday and to be arraigned in district court Tuesday.
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Oskaloosa
Iowa City
Betty Knox Crowned Queen At Coe Homecoming
Betty Knox daughter of Dr and Mrs James M Knox was crowned homecoming queen at Coe college on Saturday Miss Knox Chi Omega sorority president at Coe is featured in the celebration presented by student council president John Prasch Betty Knox resides at 517 Knollwood drive SE.
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Coe College
Betty Knox
James M. Knox
Knollwood Drive
Miss Knox
Chi Omega
Coe
Driver Pleads Guilty in 12 Year Old’s Death Eight Years
Maurice Danielsen pled guilty to manslaughter before Judge S A Clock and received eight years in the Anamosa reformatory for the Sept. 30 auto crash in Hampton that fatally injured 12 year old Raymond Mellotte. The car struck three boys after shaving a telephone pole and sped away. Mellotte died a day later.
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S. A. Clock
Anamosa
Raymond Mellotte
Danielson
Hampton Street
Mellotte
Widow in 70s wins God's Acre corn contest at Blencoe
Mrs. W. D. Bassett a widow in her 70s won the God's Acre corn growing contest held to fund a new Catholic church. A hybrid seed donated for 33 acres saw each parishioner plant one acre and her plot produced 85.3 bushels. Pastor Rev. P. P. Gearen plans to store the money for later sale, with estimated total contributions around $2,000.
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Blencoe
W. D. Bassett
State saves 1 240 509 annually says Wilson
Gov George Wilson told The Gazette that Iowa state government reduced salaries and wages by 1 240 509 annually compared with the prior administration. He cited 363 fewer state house workers and 683 fewer highway employees plus cuts in travel hotel costs and liquor seal purchases.
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Iowa
George Wilson
The
Gazette
Cedar Rapids
Coe-Cornell
State House
Highway Commission
Parole Board
Audits Cut Costs in 29 Iowa Counties Says Akers
State Auditor Chett Akers reports 29 Iowa counties saved 14 563 over last year on audits and estimates total savings exceeding 45 000 for all 99 counties. He cites use of good business practices and promises no compromise on audit charges.
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Des Moines
INS
Iowa
Chett Akers
Charles W. Storms
George R. Hill
Clarion
T. E. DeHart
Polk County
Ase Benson
Delaware
van Buren
Duck Hunters Rules For Open Season In Town
The Town conservation commission announced the annual duck season opens today and runs through December 5. Shooting hours are 7 am to 4 pm. Daily bag limits set at ten ducks with no more than three canvasbacks redheads buffleheads or ruddy ducks, and four geese. Shotgun restrictions include no 10 gauge or larger weapons and no auto loaders or shotguns with more than a three-shell capacity. Prohibited items include live ducks or goose decoys and grain lures. Reciprocal agreements let Town hunters hunt Missouri and Mississippi river waters in Illinois and Nebraska but prohibit shooting from land across the river.
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State Conservation Commission
Illinois
Nebraska
Missouri
Mississippi River
Inauguration at Cornell College Magee to be sworn in
Dignitaries will attend a three day Magee inauguration at Cornell college Mount Vernon including a 10 15 a m procession Friday a Mutual network broadcast 11 11 30 a m address by Alfred M Landon and the charge to the president by Dr Arlo A Brown followed by Dr Magee A noon lunch and a 7 30 p m talk by John T Flynn Friday events open to the public Saturday features homecoming activities including Grinnell Cornell football at Ash park and a campus play with Nama Lathe art exhibit Sunday convocation at 10 45 a m with Dr Georgia Harkness speaking
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Mount Vernon
John B. Magee
Cornell College
Cornell
All Midwest
All Methodist
United States
Alfred M. Landon
Corneil Chapel
Arlo A. Brown
Drew University
Magee
Bowman Hall
George A. Wilson
John T. Flynn
America
New Republic
Baker House
Cc” Club
Ash Park
Methodist Church
Grinnell
Little Theater
Noel Hall
Stevens Hotel
Chicago
Nama Lathe
Georgia Harkness
Garrett Biblical Institute
Iowa Farmers Split On AAA Program For 1940
A Wallaces' Farmer survey found 23 percent of Iowa farmers favor dropping AAA production controls and loans in 1940 due to the European war. Fifty-eight percent want continuation, 19 percent undecided. Most support the Roosevelt administration's farm aid.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Roosevelt
London
Put Up Or Shut Up Demand Costs What Cheer Resident $50
Des Moines AP report says H. L. Doty of What Cheer paid $50 to a pair of men who challenged him to a coin matching contest. They inspected his purse and handed it back, but later he found a wad of paper where his cash had been.
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Des Moines
H. L. Doty
Doty
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