Miles Pledges Greater State Aid to Schools
Des Moines gubernatorial candidate Frank Miles urges the state pay one fourth of school costs. He vows to push a law for state support, better teacher pay, district reorganization, and funding for future school buildings. He criticizes lawmakers for underfunding education and cites past appropriations and current limits on building tax votes.
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Frank Miles
Des Moines
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Legislative Program Eldora Care Says Nye
Frank T. Nye associate editor of The Cedar Rapids Gazette spoke to the Young Men's Bureau of the Amana colonies at the Homestead hotel. He urged supporters to back a 1947 legislature program to improve care and facilities at state institutions. He listed veterans affairs liquor state institutions and state aid for public schools as top priorities.
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Cedar Rapids
Veterans’ Affairs
Bicycle Recovered After Fair Theft Ends in Bethany
A bicycle stolen from the state fair grounds last Friday was found abandoned on a Bethany street. Des Moines police traced ownership by the bicycle’s Des Moines license plate, aided by a sheriff who located the bike.
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Cothers to observe golden wedding anniversary
Mr and Mrs A H Cother will celebrate their golden wedding anniversary with an open house at their daughter’s home in Mechanicsville. Married in Ruthven Iowa, they lived in Spirit Lake and Lake Preston before moving to Mechanicsville. They have two daughters, a son, and five grandchildren.
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A. H Cother
Cothers
Ruthven
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Cother
Lucy Pease
Spirit Lake
Lake Preston
Nicoll
Leonard June
Marion
Elwynn
Taft College
Martin Tederson
Coralville
Pipe Organ Dedication At Stanwood Sunday
Stanwood St Pauls Lutheran church dedicates a new pipe organ with 628 pipes, eight and a half speaking stops, and 14 synthetics. Rev W A Pohl of Zanesville Ohio will preach and Prof A Beck of Chicago will perform at 8 pm recital. The church, repaired and redecorated, is led by Pastor E F Hempel.
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Muscatine Boy Crushed Under Wheels of Truck
Five year old Joseph Starkweather, son of Mr and Mrs William E Starkweather, was killed Tuesday when his head was crushed beneath a wheel of a loaded truck. Driver I J Brockett said the boy ran in front of a car and into the side of the truck. The accident occurred near an ice plant operated by the boy s father. Coroner C P Phillips said there would be no inquest.
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Iowa Car Dealers Lead Iowa Retail Sales Gain
The University of Iowa bureau of business research reports July gains in retail sales. Car dealers in Iowa posted a 166 percent gain, 104 points above June, when they were second. Home furnishings stores ranked second with 87 percent gains, dropping from June’s top spot.
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Des Moines Board Delays Action on Negro Teacher Protest
In Des Moines the board of education postponed any immediate action on a protest by about 20 residents against placing Harriette Curley, a Drake University graduate, as Perkins school’s first Negro kindergarten teacher. Supporters praised her qualifications while critics cited economic concerns about property values.
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Mrs Debra Burrows 71 Belle Plaine Resident Dies
Mrs Debra Burrows wife of O C Burrows former editor of the Belle Plaine Union died at home of a heart attack after about six weeks illness Born Oct 5 1874 Des Moines she studied nursing and married Feb 3 1898 in Knoxville Ia The couple lived in Pierre Little Rock Oklahoma City and St Louis before moving to Belle Plaine in 1919 Survived by husband three sons Robert John and Richard Burrows two sisters Lillian Bluhm Mason City and Maude Pratt El Monte Calif one brother Sam Walters Gardena Calif and seven grandchildren Services 2 p m Thursday at Peffers funeral home with Rev W G Warren interment Oak Hill cemetery
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Ark
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Richard W. Burrows
Lillian Bluhm
Mason City
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el Monte
Calif
Sam Walters
Gardena
Speed Law Favored by State Fair Visitors
Des Moines reports that 75 percent of Iowa Department of Public Safety booth visitors favored a state speed law, based on questionnaires completed at the state fair.
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Iowa
Center of Dispute Tipton School Opens With 822 Enrolled
Tipton Consolidated school opened Monday with an enrollment of 822 pupils. The kindergarten class has 80 students, the largest on record for the district.
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Schwob Resigns as Conservation Chief. Ziemer Named Successor
DES MOINES INS reports Fred T. Schwob resigns as director of the state conservation commission effective Sept 30 after years as a leading figure in conservation. G L Ziemer, his assistant, becomes director. Stiles of Des Moines rises to assistant director. Albert named chief of fish and game.
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Fred T. Schwob
State Conservation Commission
G. L. Ziemer
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Schwab
United States
Fish and Game
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Il Health
Wapello
Louisa County
Waltham, Minn
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Fineer
Bruce F. Stiles
Winterset Vet Killed In Cream Truck Train Crash
Raymond Cameron 28 Winterset war veteran died after a cream truck he drove collided with a Great Western train four miles south of Cummings Iowa Tuesday. He was fatally injured at the scene.
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Raymond Cameron
Great Western
Cummings
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