Des Moines Meat Plant Strike Ends
More than 1,000 Iowa Packing workers return to their jobs ending a strike by United Packinghouse Workers of America CIO. The walkout followed a protest over seniority rights for returning veterans. The union voted to seek immediate negotiations with Swift and Co. officials to resolve promotions and pay disputes from the workers’ absence.
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DES Moines
Iowa Packing Company
United Packinghouse Workers of America Cio
Edward Beltrame
Beltrame
Swift and Co
Chicago
Iowa
Manchester Couple Married Fifty Years
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Rissler of Manchester mark their golden wedding anniversary with a family dinner at their son Alfred Jr’s home. Married at Ryan, they lived near there before moving to Manchester 24 years ago. He worked for the state highway commission until retirement 15 years ago. They are parents of Everett Rissler of Manchester and Oscar Rissler of Moline, with eight grandchildren, three of whom served in World War II.
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the Gazette
Manchester
Alfred Rissler
Alfred, Jr
Ryan
Risslers
Rissler
State Highway Commission
Everett Rissler
Oscar Rissler
Moline
Man Takes Poisoned Drink in Waterloo Home
Ralph Caughron aged 39 ended his life by drinking carbolic acid Thursday at his divorced wife’s Waterloo home. Coroner Sidney D. Smith reported the death. He is survived by a daughter and two sons.
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Waterloo
Ralph Caughron
Sidney D. Smith
Marion Teachers Club Dinner Delights Local Crowd
The October Marion Teachers club dinner was held Thursday in K V cafe banquet room with 29 at table. Rev A R Osborne spoke of overseas service and Verle Breed performed with Irene Sipple singing. Community notices include local sales and arrivals such as work shirts at Adkins Feigh, beef specials at Tenth Street Meat Market, and family events from the Wente and Byse households.
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Marion Teachers Club
K. V. Cafe
A R. Osborne
Verle Breed
Irene Sipple
Mrs Grant Long Hosts Mixed Shower In Cedar Rapids
Mrs Glenn Thompson of Cedar Rapids compliments her sister in law Gwendolyn Long at a miscellaneous shower hosted by Mrs Grant Long at 363 Eighth Avenue. Also note Staff Sgt. Charles W Barkwill’s discharge after 20 months with the 20th Air Force in India and the Marianas.
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Clara Wilson
M. A. Baker
Inlaw
Glenn Thompson
Cedar Rapids
Grant Long
Eighth Avenue
Charles W Barkwill
C. E. Barkwills
20Th Air Force
India
Tinian
Marianas
Community notices and ads span local life topics
A mixed page fragment lists attendance contest remarks, hostesses as losers, church basement party, food prices from Syl's Grocery, a discharge and Purple Heart medal for Sgt. Richard Cayler, requests for a 4 room apartment, visits of Des Moines and Iowa City residents, a luncheon hosted by Mrs. Arthur E Granger, bridge at a social, fashion ads from M. L. Braska Co. and Adkins & Feigh, and various service and clothing items with local contact details.
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Arthur E Granger
Central Avenue
C. O. Ingersoll
Iowa City
Honor For 2 Cornell Girls
Two Cornell college seniors Naomi Williams and Betty June Hedges were elected to the Cornell chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. Williams, 21, of Waterloo, English major, won the $200 Madamosielle contest and wrote widely read editorials including The Paper Said 3,483. Hedges, Mt. Vernon native, studies history and political science, serves as Delphis president, and is active in campus affairs.
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MT. Vernon
Cornell College
Naomi Williams
Betty June Hedges
Cornell
Phi Beta Kappa
Honorary Scholastic Society
Miss Williams
Waterloo
Miss Hedges
The
Delphis
War Wives Plea For Housing In Iowa City
War wives at the University of Iowa circulate a petition to Attorney General Rankin urging action to ease housing for returning veterans and families. The Federal Public Housing Authority reports 1,378 trailers allocated to Midwest colleges including Madison Bloomington Columbia Fargo and others to aid families of servicemen.
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Iowa City
John M Rankin
University of Iowa
Rankin
Attorney General’s Office
Frank Seydel
Chicago
Federal Public Housing Authority
Midwest
Madison
University of Wisconsin
Bloomington
Indiana University
Columbia
University of Missour
North Dakota Agricultural College
Fargo
Planes to be stored at Ottumwa Navy base
Storage facilities at the navy preflight school will house about 356 planes. The fleet includes 76 Stearman aircraft moved from Bunker Hill Indiana, 58 Vultee trainers, and 206 newer Stearman models kept as a pool for primary stations when needed.
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Ottumwa
Navy
Naval Air Station
Stearman
Bunker Hill
Ind
Vultee
Upper Iowa Queen to be Crowned at Homecoming
Wilma Morgan was chosen homecoming queen by the Upper Iowa University student body and will be crowned Saturday afternoon during the Upper Iowa versus Wartburg football game. Morgan is a normal training student, daughter of Mr and Mrs W H Morgan of Stanley. Homecoming festivities began Friday night with the play Junior Miss.
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The
Gazette
Fayette
Wilma Morgan
Upper Iowa University
Upper Iowa
Eastern Iowans released at Jefferson Barracks center
The Army centered releases list includes Anamosa Sgt Elmer J Dirks Central City Cpl James J Crowley Center Point S/Sgt John D McDowell Cogson Cpl Kenneth L Pike Decorah Sgt Raymond D Ruffridge Harold J Gullickson Dyersville Pfe Robert O Specht Edgewood Pfe Lloyd D Easton T/4 Lyle J Romig Elkader Cpl Paul R Ransel Independence Sgt Leslie D Fry M/Sgt Howard P Vargason Iowa City Pfe Edward S Savarese Sgt Herman Snider Cpl Chester W Bell Jesup Pie Edwin J Dela gardelle Marengo T/Sgt Wayne K Stake Sgt Paul L Dietze T/4 Lewis R Schafbach S/Sgt Dale E Wilson Marion S/Sgt Marvin E Chisman T/4 Lavern C Staman S/Sgt Ralston C Barnhart T/4 Harlon S Chaffee Monticello Sgt Lester F Collins Pfc Jimmie R Starkey Norway M/Sgt Dean M Allen Oelwein S/Sgt John A Rie del Pfc Alvin M Taylor Oxford Sgt Donald M Mulvihill Postville S Sgt Robert L Martindale Sigourney T 5 Warren W Stull Toledo T 4 James R Locke Vinton T/Sgt Orville L Harris Waukon T1T 5 Michael E Onsager West Union T/Sgt Russell J Frey What Cheer Cpl William E Colbert Wyoming Sgt Donald A First Manchester Lawrence 3 and Dennis 2 sons of Mrs Helen Gaffney head injuries after cars collided near Rocky Ridge school house west of Manchester.
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Jefferson Barracks
Lewis R Schafbach
Dale E. Wilson Marion
Marvin E Chisman
Lavern C Staman
Ralston C. Barnhart
Harlon
Corn Monument at Iowa City Elevates Homecoming Symbol
The 1945 corn monument at the University of Iowa will rise 24 feet with a 9 foot football on top. Engineering students are assembling sections as construction continues. It is scheduled for erection next Wednesday and Thursday at a street intersection east of Old Capitol. The monument, covered with ears of corn, will feature a large revolving football and be illuminated.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa
Old Capitol
Galloway Receives Legion of Merit for Latin America Work
Col Clarke Galloway former managing editor of the Council Bluffs Nonpareil received the Legion of Merit in Washington for leading the Washington office of the American Intelligence Service. The citation credits him with advancing the good neighbor policy in Latin America. He is on military leave from the AP Washington bureau and has Chilean decoration for fostering U S Chile relations. Galloway previously worked for the Cedar Rapids Gazette and married Helen Lee of Cedar Rapids.
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Washington (Ap
Clarke Galloway
Council Bluffs
U. S
Two C R Women Named Officers of State O E S
Mrs Gladys Haycock of Des Moines was elected worthy grand matron at the Iowa Order of the Eastern Star session in Des Moines. W Russell Hayes of Prairie City was chosen worthy grand patron with other officers named including Mildred Harrington of Sioux City and Adair G Thompson of Cedar Rapids. Gertrude May of Shenandoah was named a five year Eastern Star Masonic home and board of relief member, and Jessie Wheeler of Waterloo was named for one year.
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Des Moines
Gladys Haycock
Order of the Eastern Star
Iowa
W. Russell Hayes
Prairie City
Mildred Harrington
Sioux City
Adair G. Thompson
Cedar Rapids
Esther Barker
Florence Goodwin
Waterloo
Ruth
Gertrude May
Shenandonah
Eastern Star Masonic Home and Board of Relief
Jessie Wheeler
Towans Cashing War Bonds to Buy Homes
Vernon Clark Iowa war bonds chairman says Towans cashed about as many bonds in September as anticipated. He has no exact figures yet but notes real estate transfers as people cash bonds.
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Des Moines
INS
Towans
Vernon Clark
Clark
Clarke
Bond values and redeeming urges highlighted in speech
Clark urged that bond redemptions are legitimate but warned that, except in emergencies, there has never been a time when holding bonds was more important for national stability. He stressed prudent ownership amid economic concerns.
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Clark
Capt Stahl of Lisbon Returns From China
Captain Benjamin A. Stahl of Lisbon has been released from the Kingwan prison camp in Shanghai after being held since October 7, 1943. He phoned his mother in San Francisco to say he is well and will stay a week before going to Mayo General Hospital in Galesburg Illinois for a final check up. He has been granted a 90 day leave.
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Gazette
Lisbon
Benjamin A. Stahl
Kingwan
Shanghai
China
United States
John Muller
San Francisco
Mayo General Hospital
Galesburg
Ill
Fayette County Bankers pick new president from Elgin
West Union Ben Baumgartner of Elgin is the new president of the Fayette County Bankers association. He succeeds Opal Luce of Arlington. Other officers include Vice-president Evelyn Eck of Oelwein and Secretary-treasurer Russell Schwartz of Fayette.
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West Union
Ben Baumgartner
Elgin
Fayette County Bankers Association
Opal Luce
Arlington
Evelyn Eck
Oelwein
Russell Schwartz
Fayette
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Marion News
Adkins & Feigh
Mack
G. H. Mack
Seaman
William Mack
Tsuken Jima
Buckner Bay
Okinawa
Tenth Street
Storm’s
Oscar E. Wente
Michael
John
Sacramento
Calif
McGowan
Arthur T. Hanson
Marton
John Byse
Osmond Berry
Harold McGowan
Byse
Addabelle McGowan
Frank McGowan
Huntington Park
Bailey’s
Bailey’s Dairy
Shower For Bride
Donahue
Boston
Adv
Earl Welsher
Newton
L. L. Kingery
Edison Pharmacy
Ladies Union of the Christian Church
Og Dickey’s
Monarch
Jack Sprat
Richelieu
Heinz
Jonathans
Willsburyi
Pillsbury
Marion
Culbert’s
Texson Grapefruit
del Monte NO. 214
Pascal Celery
White Grapes
Rosedale
Vienna
Nasivs Coffee
Syl’s Grocery
Richard Cayler Hame
Richard Cayler
Camp Grant
Cayler
Europe
Billie
Dickie
Verne
C. C. Caylers
Fifth Avenue
John Knapp, Jr
H. P Kline
Lee Beasley
E. E. Kline
Kline
Gordon Hatchery
M. L. Braska Co
F. W. Balcom
Winchester
Frank B. Cornelius
Third Avenue
Fred Belinberg
Inglewood, Calif
Fred M Blakeslee
War Wives Sound
Ottumwa Navy Base
Miss Morgan
Army
Lawrence
Dennis
Helen Gaffney
Masonville
Gaffney
Leslie Gibbs
Winthrop
Rocky Ridge
Armstrong's
United States Navy
Naval Air Force
Navy League of the
Mark Anderson
Galloway
Legion of Merit
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Helen Lee
C.R
O.E.S
Capt. Stahl
Armstrong
California
Hallowe’en
Junior
Sister
Cowboy
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