Hick Enlists in Drive to End OPA After June Deadline
Len B. Hickenlooper joins Republican push to abolish the OPA before its June 30 expiration proposing January liquidation with rent controls kept by federal housing officials. Senators Taft Wiley and Capehart join, with Taft suggesting April 1 as the timing. Hickenlooper says fall experiences will push Congress to end OPA to restore normal economy.
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Washington
Len Rourke B. Hickenlooper
R-Ia
Congress
Robert A Taft
Ohio
Alexander M Wiley
R-Wis
Homer Capehart
Hickenlooper
OPA
Statewide drive planned to place disabled workers
Iowa launches a statewide campaign during October 6 12 to find jobs for physically handicapped people. The effort coordinates business labor veterans groups and government offices with radio programs talks and movies. Iowa has 3700 unemployed disabled veterans. 4245 World War II veterans were placed in August through U S Employment Service offices including 482 disabled veterans.
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Des Moines
INS
U.S. Employment Service
Iowa
Frank L. Davey
U.S.E.S
John H. Quigley
VA in Iowa Seeks 60 Training Officers
Des Moines AP Iowa regional VA office seeks 60 new training officers to supervise educational and on the job programs. L G Mason reports 7158 veterans enrolled in educational training with 23000 expected by month end. 13493 participated in on the job training as of Aug 31. Officers would need experience in vocational education or supervisory work. pay is 3400 dollars annually with possible promotion to 4100.
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DES Moines
Iowa
Waukon Youth Injured In Auto Truck Accident
Lee Sheridan 16, son of A E Sheridan Waukon attorney, suffered a compound fracture of the left arm and an elbow injury in an auto accident on Town Line road. He was taken by ambulance to a Rochester hospital. The car, traveling north, sideswiped a southbound truck driven by Robert Crawford of Mabel Minnesota. Crawford and passenger Paul Schneider were uninjured.
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Waukon
Lee Sheridan
A. E. Sheridan
Daven port to host 5000 Shriners at Iowa Centennial Shrine
Davenport will entertain more than five thousand Shriners at the Iowa Centennial Shrine ceremony Friday. Shrine temples from Iowa Illinois Wisconsin and Minnesota will be represented.
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Davenport
Iowa
Illinois
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Marriages and engagements across Iowa towns
Waukon Mary Lou Link and Dallas Jones wed in Chicago on Sept 7. Luzerne doubles' ceremony unites Margaret Maeder and Walter Baack near Oxford. Fort Atkinson couple announce Arthur Rausch and Marie Florentine married in Castiglioncello Italy on Aug 14. Fayette Eleanor Finch and Robert Wix wed. plan Bozeman residence and college attendance. Anamosa Winifred Whalen and Donald Micks marry in LaGrange Illinois with Father Norbett officiating. Decorah Iona Rocksvold and Leonard Crawford marry. honeymoon in California, farm life to follow. Anamosa Ruth Stanersen engaged to Lawrence Jessen. wedding Sept 28 Joliet. Vinton Mary Bruch and Paul Turner marry Sept 14 at Bruch home. to reside in Garrison.
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Arthur
Marie .G. Florentine
Eugene Fiorentine
Castiglioncello
Italy
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Decorah
Iona Rocksvold
Peter Rocksvold
Leonard Crawford
Lynn Crawford
Frankville
First Lutheran Church
California
Peterson Boy Stricken by Polio in Onslow
Three year old Johnnie Peterson, son of Mr and Mrs John Peterson of Onslow, is being treated in University hospital, Iowa City, for polio. He became ill Sunday. Doctors say he apparently has a mild form of the disease.
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Onslow
Johnnie Peterson
John Peterson
University Hospital
Iowa City
Mrs Roy Wessel Dies Colesburg Funeral Services
Funeral services for Mrs Roy Wessel 53 wife of the Clayton county board chair were held Thursday in Colesburg. She died in a Cedar Rapids hospital after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage a week earlier. Survived by husband two sons Roland and Virgil of Colesbury and a daughter Mrs Howard Stalnaker of Edgewood.
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Roy Wessel
Clayton County Board of Supervisors
Colesburg
Wessel
Cedar Rapids
Roland
Virgil
Colesbury
Howard Stalnaker
Edgewood
OPA Boosts Sheepskin Prices Widening Apparel Costs
Washington based UP reports OPA raised ceiling on sheepskin leather by 26 percent. The move paves the way for retail price hikes on shoes leather jackets and other items using this leather.
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Washington
Reward Posted by Ehrecke's Wife
Mrs Bernice Ehrecke, widow of Edward Ehrecke, offered a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of her husband killer or killers. Ehrecke, a Tipton farm implement dealer, was found dead in his car trunk on a Scott county road after a carbon monoxide gas method ruled by a coroner's jury.
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Davenport
Bernice Ehrecke
Edward Ehrecke
Maysville
Ehrecke
Tipton
Scott County
Fourth of Iowans Own Permits To Hunt and Fish
DES MOINES AP Approximately one in four Iowans bought a hunting or fishing license in the 1945 46 fiscal year ending July 1 1946. Iowa sold 614 751 licenses, up 193 865 from 1940 41. Hunting licenses 298 784, up 73 856. fishing licenses 315 966, up 91 223.
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Des Moines
Luther College Opens Sept 26 After Housing Delay
Decorah reports Luther College will open September 26 after a two week housing shortage. Freshmen register Monday, upperclassmen Tuesday and Wednesday. About 675 students expected this fall with 340 veterans and roughly 300 freshmen. Men outnumber women nearly two to one.
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Decorah
Luther College
Local hunter nets $24 bounty for 48 rattlesnakes
Decorah resident Ernie Good of Bluffton township collected a 24 dollar bounty Tuesday by shooting 48 rattlesnakes in a Winneshiek county den. He told County Auditor Mel Sattre the reptiles are so abundant in a rocky county area that travel on foot or unarmed is unsafe.
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Decorah
Ernie Good
Bluffton Township
Winneshiek County
Mel Sattre
Five soldiers fined for taking dogs from service
CAMP KILMER New Jersey AP Five soldiers who brought pet dogs from Mediterranean service pled guilty to charges of moving pets on troop transports. Each was fined $20 and sent to army separation centers for discharge. The soldiers were Pfc John J Waldron Elmhurst NY Staff Sgt Ralph J Marone Hartford Conn Staff Sgt David A Barr Sidney Ohio Sgt Lawrence Weiskrantz Philadelphia and Staff Sgt William E Lee Shreveport La Weiskrantz mother lives in Iowa City IA Four dogs went home with owners. Pete the white mongrel survived Naples bombing and accompanied Lee to shipment.
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Camp Kilmer
N. J
John J. Waldron
Elmhurst
N.Y
Ralph J. Marone
Hartford
Lee
Pete
Naples
Shreveport
Decline in Old Age Help Offsets by Other Programs
DES MOINES AP The state department of social welfare reports a fall in old age assistance cases this month from September last year but a rise in two other programs offsets the loss. Old age cases total 48,331, down 547. aid to dependent children up 641 to 3,668. aid to the blind up 7 to 1,231. Costs rise across all three programs with old age pensions at 1,674,551, up 102,995. dependent children 123,614, up 27,781. blind 49,384, up 5,961.
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DES Moines
State Department of Social Welfare
Irish Visitor Reports U.S. Prices Moderate in Iowa
Elizabeth McRobert of Belfast hospital supervision travels from North Ireland to Eastern Iowa visiting Rowley relatives Thomas and Mary McCormick. She notes peaches at 2 dollars and grapes at 7 dollars per pound in Belfast and aims to obtain American obstetrical equipment such as adjustable beds. In Cedar Rapids she visits Mary J. Bell.
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Helizabeth McRobert
Belfast
North Ireland
America
Iowa
Thomas McCormick
Cedar Rapids
Miss McRobert
Mary J. Bell
D Avenue NE
Parnell Boy Perishes in Silo Gas Tragedy
Special to The Gazette. Larry Gingerich six year old son of Mr and Mrs Truman Gingerich Parnell was suffocated Wednesday morning in a gas filled silo on his parents farm. He climbed into a half filled silo and was overcome by silage fumes. A younger brother found him unconscious and notified his mother. Mrs Gingerich attempted rescue and neighbors helped extract him. Artificial respiration failed. Larry leaves his parents and two younger brothers.
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Parnell
Larry Gingerich
Truman Gingerich
Larry
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