Recruit 7 Highlanders Read at University of Iowa
Seventy-one women students at the University of Iowa have been accepted as candidates for the Scottish Highlanders, an all girl bagpipe band. Director Bill Adamson announced the tryouts drew over 300 applicants last Saturday and most new members will enter a training program. The 1955 debut will occur during pregame and halftime ceremonies of the Iowa-Kansas State football clash. Candidates include Suzanne Snyder Cedar Rapids and many other Iowa locations.
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University of Iowa
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Welfare Association To Meet at Decorah
More than 100 people from 33 northeast Iowa counties will gather in Decorah for the Iowa Welfare Association fall meeting at the First Lutheran church starting 9 a.m. State Rep. Andrew Frommelt of Dubuque will headline with Implications of Recent Social Legislation. Rep. Frommelt will lead a panel in the afternoon with Rep. Robert Carson of Independence among participants.
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Iowa Welfare Association
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Dubuque
Isadore Meyer
Boards of Supervisors
First Lutheran Church
Rep
Frommell
Robert Carson
Independence
Kading Named Iowa Court Statistician
Clarence A. Kading has been appointed statistician for the Iowa supreme court in a newly created post. He will analyze workload across judicial districts to determine if changes or more judges are needed. Salary is $8,000 yearly, up from $7,200 as first assistant attorney general.
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DES Moines
Clarence A. Kading
Iowa Supreme Court
Iowa
Kading
Job Unit Will Add 28 Field Representatives
Des Moines AP Twenty eight new field representatives will join the Iowa Employment Security Commission effective Nov 1 to handle existing workload and expected higher business after Jan 1 One will be assigned to Cedar Rapids Davenport Council Bluffs Ottumwa Fort Dodge Waterloo and Sioux City The rest will operate from Des Moines Commissioner Frank Engel said law changes require every employer with four or more workers to have unemployment insurance raising about 10000 employer accounts
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Iowa Employment Security Commission
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Davenport
Council Bluffs
Ottumwa
Fort Dodge
Waterloo
Sioux City
Frank Engel
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Fishbaugh Declines Insurance Commissioner Post
SHENANDOAH AP Former State Sen Earl C Fishbaugh Jr eliminated himself as a possible appointee to the vacant state insurance commissioner role He said he could not and would not accept the job even after Gov Leo Hoegh offered it remarks followed reports he might be named to the post.
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Shenandoah
Earl C. Fishbaugh, Jr
Fishbaugh
Leo Hoegh
Ihim
Governor Hoegh Drops Free Milk Dispensing Machine
In Des Moines the milk dispensing machine once popular in Governor Leo Hoegh's office has been removed as the school season begins. During the summer hundreds of children visited the state house and drank free milk, totaling 189 gallons. The Iowa Dairy Industry Commission provided the machine and its manager praised the governor for his milk selling efforts.
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DES Moines
Leo Hoegh
Statehouse
Hoegh
Iowa Dairy Industry Commission
Frank Barker
Ray Corcran Dies From Dysart Plant Accident
Ray Corcran 26 a Dysart disposal plant worker died Tuesday night in a Waterloo hospital from injuries after a fall into a pit at the plant Monday Fellow worker Dallas Hennessy tried to pull him out but fainted from fumes Corcran apparently lost his balance while working on a platform above the pit He is survived by his wife his parents Mr and Mrs Wilbur Corcran Dysart six brothers and four sisters The body was taken to Overton funeral home Dysart
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Riverside to get dial telephones by April
A W Sanders, vice president and general manager of the Iowa Illinois Telephone Company, announced Riverside will convert to dial service by next April. The project will be done by company personnel with 450 customers served at an estimated cost of 85 000 dollars, covering building, equipment, pole lines, and cable work.
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A. W. Sanders
Illinois Telephone Company
Riverside Telephone
Sanders
After 45 Years No Theater for Calmar
Special to The Gazette Calmar loses its long standing theater as owner Myrtle Svendsen moves to Keokuk with family. Shows discontinued leaving town without cinema for first time in over four decades. Building dates to 1915 and passed through four owners amid rumors of new management.
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Myrtle Svendsen
Decorah
Keokuk
Lightning Sets House Afire in Masonville
A lightning bolt struck the Bud Singer house in Masonville at about 3 a.m. Wednesday, starting a fire that was quickly extinguished by the Masonville fire department. Neighbors alerted Mr. and Mrs. Singer, who escaped unharmed as firefighters cut a hole in the roof to extinguish the blaze.
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Masonville
Bud Singer
Singer
Conference on State Travel Expense Allowance
Secretary of State Melvin Synhorst convenes a conference of travel fieldmen from many state departments to study the expense allowance. The meeting in Des Moines next Tuesday aims to find an economical, fair plan, with findings from surveys of firms and state inquiries to inform recommendations to the Iowa Executive Council.
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Melvin Synhorst
Senate
Statehouse
Synhorst
Iowa Executive Council
Leo Hoegh
Sunset Home Addition Dedication Planned
Calmar hosts open house and dedication of the new Sunset home addition on Sunday at 2 30 p m Dr Magnus Dahlen executive director of charities in the Evangelical Lutheran church will deliver the address The public is invited.
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Calmar
Lutheran Sunset
Magnus Dahlen
Evangelical Lutheran Church
Denman Sees City Tax Plans as Harmful
Rep. William Denman of Des Moines denounced proposed city taxes. He said he would fight moves to hand sales or income tax to cities. Denman criticized City Manager Leonard Howell for letting cities choose a higher sales tax or an income tax. He warned a city sales tax would push customers to suburbs and drain families from Des Moines.
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Des Moines
William Denman
Poll Takers of America to visit Fayette County
East Iowa briefs report Fayette county plans for a Poll Takers of America event in Oelwein Fourth ward on Sept 29. Other items include real estate sale in WAUKON, illness notes in THORNBURG, college enrollments, a $1,700 park bequest in MANCHESTER, and local elections and civic notices across several towns.
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Fayette
Tommy Oliver
Lee Oliver
Thornburg
Donovan Musgrove
Keith Geyer
Coe College
Manchester
City Park Board
George S. Banta
Legion Hall
Colesburg
Dundee
Civil Service Commission
Stanwood School Vote Set Friday
Stanwood voters will go to the polls Friday to decide a $200,000 school bond issue. The money would finance construction of a new school building between the current Stanwood structures, including a gymnasium auditorium six classrooms an industrial shop music rooms and a cafeteria. Polls open noon to 7 p.m. at the fire station.
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