Kehoe Sees Toll Roads and Public Roads as Separate
Louis J Kehoe argues for a dual approach to Iowa transportation. He urges private finance for a cross state toll road with limited state involvement and tax concessions to attract investment while preserving public roads funded by existing systems. He calls for clear separation of toll and public road programs and fairness for taxpayers.
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Louis J. Kehoe
Iowa
Washington County
Iowa Good Roads Association
Iowa to Seek Control of Insurance Advertising
Iowa Insurance Commissioner Charles R. Fischer said he will ask the 1955 legislature for authority to regulate advertising by health hospital accident and other insurance firms saying some ads appear misleading. He noted FTC actions against 17 firms but preferred state commissions police advertising. he previously sought similar authority in 1953 without success.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Charles R. Fischer
Fischer
Federal Trade Commission
FTC
Iowa Insurance Department
Woman Gets 10 Year Term for Auto Theft
Shirley Zimmerman was sentenced to 10 years in the women's reformatory at Rockwell City after pleading guilty to larceny of a motor vehicle. She admitted stealing and wrecking a car belonging to Richard Wright Sunday night, escaping serious injury when the vehicle left the road and struck a stump.
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Anamosa
Shirley Zimmerman
Women’s Reformatory
Rockwell City
Miss Zimmerman
Richard Wright
Lowan Shoots Brother Charged with Mayhem
Audubon records Joel Basham, 49, charged with mayhem after wounding his brother James 46 in their home. James suffered a severe leg injury requiring below the knee amputation and was treated by authorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lowan
Audubon
Joel Basham
Justice Court
James
Glenn McLaughlin
Thompson Named First Chairman Of Missouri Basin Council
C Woody Thompson director of the University of Iowa bureau of business and economic research is named the first chairman of the newly created Missouri Basin Research and Development council. The 10 state area includes Iowa Missouri Minnesota Kansas Nebraska South Dakota North Dakota Colorado Wyoming and Montana. The council aims to aid community development through projects with chambers of commerce and other agencies. A 1955 conference on tools and techniques of community development is planned for September in Rapid City South Dakota Thompson says.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa City
C. Woody Thompson
University of Iowa Bureau of Business and Economic Research
Missouri Basin Research and Development Council
Lincoln
Neb
Federal Reserve Bank
Departments of Labor and Commerce
Chambers of Commerce
Iowa
Missouri
Minnesota
Kansas
Nebraska
South Dakota
North Dakota
Colorado
Wyoming
Trial set for FHA loan violation case in Des Moines
Federal District Judge William F. Riley scheduled the trial for November 15 of seven defendants and a bank tied to FHA home improvement loan laws. The indictments name First Federal State Bank of Des Moines, former bank officials Mulder and Hankinson, Glenn H. Smith Inc., Fred F. Parkhurst, Eldon Neal, and Thomas J. Watson. Hankinson faces a separate November 8 trial on charges of receiving commissions for FHA loan approvals.
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Des Moines
INS
Féderal Housing Administration
William F. Riley
First Federal State Bank of
Raymond B. Mulder
William F. Hankinson
Bank
Glenn H. Smith, Inc
Mid-Town Motors, Inc
Fred F. Parkhurst
Mason City
Mid-Town Motors
Eldon Neal
The
Auto Company
Thomas J. Watson
Mulder Mortgage Company
Oskaloosa Man Denies Wiring Dynamite to Car
William Musgrove of Oskaloosa pled innocent to assault with intent to murder after a dynamite wired in his car exploded. Witnesses included his wife Alberta and Frank Luzadder who lost a leg. Musgrove and Alberta were seriously injured and he posted $10,000 bond.
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Oskaloosa
William Musgrove
Musgrove
Alberta
Frank Luzadder
Luzadder
Chicago Police Head Is Pen Pal Of Iowa Boy
A 9-year-old Iowa boy bedridden for months with romantic fever and St Vitus dance has a new pen pal in Chicago Police Commissioner Timothy OConnor. Joe Kamish sent the letter for his brother Richard, who asks readers to mail him, and Mayor Kennedy plans to write. The Kamish family lives in Manly Iowa Box 273.
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Chicago
Iowa
Timothy O’connor
O Connor
Richard Kamish
Joe
Richard
O'Connor
Martin H. Kennedy
Manly
General Dasher Inspects Iowa Reserve Units Tour
Major General Charles L Dasher Jr deputy commander of the Fifth Army visits Iowa on a tour of army reserve units. He arrives in Des Moines joins Col John N Green and views 34th Infantry Division and 103rd Infantry Division HQs before planned inspections at Iowa State College Ames and University of Iowa Iowa City.
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Des Moines
INS
Charles L. Dasher, Jr
Fifth Army
Iowa
Charles C. Bragg
Everett Robertson
Merwin C. Young
Dasher
John N. Green
Iowa Military District
34Th Infantry Division
103Rd Infantry Division
Iowa State College
Ames
University of Iowa At
Iowa City
Methodists at Tipton mark 50th church anniversary
In Tipton the First Methodist church observed the fiftieth anniversary of the present building with a morning service and a potluck dinner for about 200. The congregation, established in 1846 after Cedar county arrival in 1837 by Rev. Barton H. Cartwright, saw the 1904 erection of the current church during Rev. R. D. Parsons’s pastorate and modernization including an organ with carillon chimes.
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Tipton
First Methodist Church
Methodist Church
Cedar County
Barton H. Cartwright
R. D. Parsons
G O P Wins Mt Vernon Lions Straw Poll
In Mt Vernon the Mt Vernon Lions Club straw poll favored Republicans. Martin led the senate race 19 to 13 over Gillette. Leo Hoegh beat Clyde Herring 21 to 11 for governor. Henry O Talle won 21 to 8 over Ruben Austin in the second district race. Three voters were undecided.
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Gazette
MT. Vernon
Lions Club
Holiday House
Martin
Sen
Gillette
Leo Hoegh
Clyde Herring
Henry O. Talle
Ruben Austin
Evanston Firm Buys Brown Camp Hardware
Des Moines AP report says Hibbard Spencer Bartlett and Company of Evanston Illinois has acquired Brown Camp Hardware Company including its outstanding common and preferred stock. Brown Camp will keep operating in Des Moines under the same name and staff. Hibbard Spencer is a major wholesale dealer in hardware and allied lines in the United States.
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DES Moines
Brown-Camp Hardware Company
Iowa
Hibbard, Spencer, Ot and Company
Evanston, Ill
Fred Green
Brown-Camp
Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett and Company
United States
Labor Legislation Discussed At SUI Session
Iowa City program at the University of Iowa will examine labor law strengths and weaknesses from labor industry and public perspectives. Participants include Ray Mills and Arthur Goldberg with other union management and public interest representatives from CIO United Steel Workers and Solar Aircraft.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa Center For
Labor-Management Relations
Ray Mills
Iowa State Federation of Labor
Des Moines
William F. Price
Chicago
Carl R. Schedler
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
Washington, D. C
Arthur Goldberg
CIO
Pat Greathouse
United Automotive Workers
Cecil Clifton
United Steel Workers
East Chicago
Ind
Iowa
Earl J. Baum
Edris Owens
K. W. Holland
Industrial Association of Machinists
Burlington
Owen Fairweather
Donald L
Fimmen
Silas Mason Company
Howard Siever
Solar Aircraft Corporation
George J. Markov
Maytag Company
Newton
Byron Sifford
Sioux City
Schedler
J. Noble Braden
Sidney Braufman
American Arbitration Association
William White
Truck tire blowout kills Council Bluffs man on Highway 2
Gerald Peterson, 35, of Council Bluffs died Monday after a tire failed on his truck, sending the vehicle into a ditch along Highway 2 just east of Shenandoah. State police at Shenandoah reported the fatality.
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Shenandoah
Gerald Peterson
Council Bluffs
Highway 2
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Methodists
Donald E. Johnson
West Branch
Crusade For Freedom
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Radio Free Europe
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G.O.P. Winson
Mt. Vernon Lions
Evanston
Brown-Camp Hardware
R. LeRoy Faidley
Agency
8Th Ave. SE
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