Witnesses Plan Lacona Meeting Despite Sheriff Blockade
Jehovah's Witnesses say they may hold another Lacona meeting after a Sept. 8 clash left about 30 with minor injuries. Sheriff Lewis Johnson and 150 deputies blocked a motorcade last Sunday to prevent a public gathering. Spokesman Charles Sellers defended assembly rights and warned of possible federal action if meetings are blocked again.
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DES Moines
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Lacona
Lewis Johnson
Charles Sellers
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Sellers
Lacona Park Permission Question Baffles Local Authorities
A terse statement labels the Lacona matter as a local authorities issue with park access in doubt. The brief note centers on whether the city may grant or deny permission, highlighting ambiguity over rights to public space use.
Fort Dodge cafes close in protest price rollback
In Fort Dodge Iowa nearly all 25 000 residents face restaurant shutdown after a 60 cafe owners meeting votes 4 to 1 to close in protest of the Office of Price Administration meat price rollback plan. Cafes will remain closed through Thursday at 9 a.m. with further action to follow.
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Fort Dodge
Office of Price Administration
Lyle Schrader
Citizens Group Supports Negro Teacher Hire in Des Moines
About 35 residents gathered before the Des Moines school board to back the continued assignment of Miss Harriette Curley, a Negro kindergarten teacher. The protest had followed earlier opposition from district residents to her hiring, but supporters praised the board’s stand.
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Des Moines
INS
Harriette Curley
Curley
Iowa Campus Overcrowded as Freshmen No Sleepers Fill Lounges
About 2,400 new students arrive at the University of Iowa amid housing shortages. Barracks for 950 men were to be completed Monday but remain unfinished. Around 750 men are housed in Hillcrest and unfinished huts. 224 upperclass women are in Currier hall area. Open rush policy for fraternities with a 1 semester C average sorority rule. pledges may be limited due to housing shortages. President Virgil M. Hancher to meet with deans and officials.
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Iowa City
INL
University of Iowa
C. Weeder Uaeemneen
Seni
Shiee Beate
Hillcrest
Currier Hall
Clay Harshbarger
Virgil M. Hancher
Interfraternity Council
Court Affirms Critelli Term in Liquor Conspiracy Case
The Iowa supreme court upholds the three year sentence of Johnny Critelli Des Moines night club operator on a liquor conspiracy charge. Justice Oscar Hale wrote a 16 page opinion rejecting claims of trial error including illness of an assistant county attorney and dismissal of 10 jurors.
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Des Moines
INS
Iowa Supreme Court
Johnny Critelli
Polk County
Supreme Court
Critelli
Oscar Hale
Lou Ladd
Jurists Again Weigh Bisignano Arguments
Des Moines AP reports Al Babe Carnera Bisignano sought a rehearing from the Iowa Supreme Court on his six month jail sentence and $500 fine for contempt of court after an April altercation with a municipal judge at the Y M C A. Court attaches expect a decision this week.
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DES Moines
Babe Carnera
Bisignano
Iowa Supreme Court
High Court
Harry B. Grund
Des Moines Y.m.ca
Iowa Named Seventh Safest Midwest State
Des Moines report says Iowa ranks seventh in the Midwest for safety based on Red Cross figures. The rating combines fatal accidents per 100000 people with Iowa’s trained and qualified Red Cross safety course participants. Figures are population adjusted.
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Des Moines
American Red Cross
Iowa
Midwest
Red Cross
St. Mary’s Annual Fall Festival Draws Over 1000
More than 1 000 people attended St Marys annual fall festival here Sunday drawing families visitors and locals for a day of games food and entertainment at the parish grounds.
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St. Mary's
Carl Steinmetz Services Held at Homestead church
Special to The Gazette Homestead services were held Tuesday at St. John's church for Carl Steinmetz 26 of Cheyenne Wyoming killed in a car truck collision near Rapid City South Dakota Saturday morning He had served three years in the army including two years in India and was a farmer Surviving parents two brothers two sisters and several nieces and nephews were named
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St. John’s Church
Carl Steinmetz
Cheyenne
Wyo
Rapid City
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Gottfried Steinmetz
Carl
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Victor
Gottfried, Jr
John Stohlman
Ladora
Carl Heinze
Paul Kitterer
East Side Cemetery
Billy
R. C. Lemka
Elkader
Navy
Iowa Marriages and Engagements Note Local Weddings
Rowley family announces Norma Edna Rowley to Herbert J. Arnold with October 3 ceremony at First Baptist church in Independence. Elinor Knutson to Kenneth Hamilton wed at Trinity Lutheran in Vinton. couple to live in Belle Plaine. Lillian Dvorak of Vining to Edward Webeter wed Sept. 10 at Holy Trinity. couple to reside on a farm near Toledo.
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Rowley
Harry Jensen
Norma Edna
Herbert J. Arnold
Jacob Arnold
Walker
First Baptist Church
Independence
Vinton
Elinor M. Knutson
Karl Knutson
Kenneth Hamilton
Foster
Des Moines
Trinity Lutheran Church
Belle Plaine
Vining
Lillian Dvorak
Frank Dvorak
Edward Webeter
Webeter
Holy Trinity Church
Joseph Badura
Toledo
Iowa City Soldier Held for Bringing Dog to America
Sgt. Lawrence Weiskrantz of Iowa City and four comrades face court martial at Camp Kilmer New Jersey for bringing a dog into the United States on troop transport. The men returned from the Mediterranean theater to be discharged.
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Iowa City
America
Sam Shulman
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Lawrence Weiskrantz
Camp Kilmer
N. J
Shulman
Casablanca
Weiskrantz
Philadelphia
V.F.W
Washington
Mediterranean
Doctor's $3.50 truss trial offers for rupture relief
Kansas City doctor promotes a no cost trial of a reducible rupture truss, without leg straps or belts, inviting readers to test it for 30 days and keep a $3.50 truss if satisfied. Send requests to Physician's Appliance Co. Koch Building, 2906 Main St.
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Kansas City
Physician's Appliance Co
Koch Bldg
Main St
Deer provides meat for Fayette county farm after brush with barbed wire
A 170 pound deer, injured by a barbed wire fence on Sid Moore farm, was found by Wayne Nicola and Lester Wilder and skinned for the Fayette county farm church. Conservation Officer Claude Alexander and Charles Wilder helped prepare the meat for distribution. Burial was in East Side cemetery.
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West Union
Fayette County
Sid Moore
Lima
Wayne Nicola
Lester Wilder
Fayette
Claude Alexander
Charles Wilder
Services at Elkader for Boy Killed in Collision
Funeral services for Billy Lemka 19 of Oak Park Illinois are held in Elkader following a head on collision near Rockford Illinois that killed him and another boy Saturday.
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Billy Lemka
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Rockford
Highlanders to Play at Purdue Iowa Game
The all girl Scottish Highlanders from the University of Iowa will make their first full public appearance in the Purdue Iowa football game on September 28, said William Adamson, director of the drum and bagpipe band.
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Iowa City
INS
Scottish Highlanders
University of Iowa
Purdue-Iowa
William Adamson
Civilian Production Office Approves 18 Projects
Des Moines AP reports the Iowa district office approved eighteen commercial construction projects valued at 133,058 dollars last week. Ten projects were rejected totaling 152,467 dollars.
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Des Moines
Lowa
Civilian Production Administration
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