Government Plans Ground School Aviation Training in Iowa
NYA administrator Theodore P. Eslick announced ground school aviation training in five or six Iowa cities. Hundreds of youths ages 11 to 25 will enroll, with start in about 10 days. Washington will provide machinery and training equipment, plus army planes for centers. Sites include Muscatine Ames Town City Council Bluffs Des Moines Ottumwa as sixth site. training open to all regardless of age without cost or pay. Sixty NYA youths begin in Muscatine once civil aeronautics authority approves.
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Des Moines
Theodore P. Eslick
Iowa
NYA
Washington
Muscatine
Ames
Town City
Council Bluffs
Des ‘Moines
Ottumwa
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Iowa State pledges 508 new members from eastern Iowa
Special to The Gazette reports Iowa State College pledges totaled 508 new neophytes during rush week, with eight sororities and 29 fraternities generating the surge. Eastern Iowa offers a roster of pledges including Acadia, Alpha Chi Rho, Alpha Sigma Phi, Phi Delta Theta, Phi Gamma Delta, and more, with multiple names tied to Cedar Rapids, Grinnell, Vinton, and other towns.
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Gazette
Ames
Iowa State College
Iowa
Acadia
James Willmore
Dysart
Alpha Chi Rho
Fillmore Mellick
West Liberty
Roger Stringfellow
Rose Hill
Robert Spring
Grinnell
Alpha Sigma Phi
Frank Stoner
Vinton
Bob Pierce
Columbus Junction
Alpha Tau Omega
Jim Brooker
Delta Upsilon
Lewis Hill
Postville
PHI Delta Theta
Bill Bloomhall
Cedar Rapids
PHI Gamma Delta
Ted Paulsen
Oliver Wokoun
PHI Kappa Psi
Ray Cummings
Montezuma
PI Kappa Phi
Don Rowe
Sigma Alpha Epsilon
Stanley Maurer
Tipton
Bob Johnson
Sigma NI
Earl Morse
Marengo
Sigma Phi Epsilon
Kingston Brokaw
Sigma PI
Stanley Naurer
Tipton Theta XI
Arthur Donaldson
Waterloo
Darrell Paine
Wendell Lohmann
Wheatland
Edmund Clouder
Kappa Delta PI
Dorothy Swift
Manchester
PI Beta Phi
Shirley Ambrose
Nevada
Jean Miller
Shellsburg Couple To Celebrate 50th Date Of Wedding
Shellsburg Mr and Mrs B C Pickerill celebrate their fiftieth wedding anniversary Sept 24 with open house from 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 pm. They married Sept 15 1889 and have four children and six grandchildren. Both active in Oak Grove Church of Christ with Mr Pickerill as elder and Mrs Pickerill teaching the adult Sunday school class.
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Shellsburg
B. C. Pickerill
Oak Grove
Pickerill
Atkins
Andrew
Martha McClintock
Earl C
Gordon Hagan
Audrey
Dolores
Cedar Rapids
Everett
Janis Elaine
Eloise
Beverly Hagan
Tiffin Roadhouse Operators Indicted On Liquor Charge
John and Rose Agnew, operators of the Club 88 roadhouse at Tiffin, indicted on illegal liquor possession and gambling device charges. They are free on $1,000 bonds. The case cites maintaining a liquor nuisance amid a raid on 17 Johnson County taverns during a peace officers course on July 20.
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Iowa City
John
Rose Agnew
Tiffin
Johnson County
La Porte Jiggs Fest draws 10000 with food and games
More than 10,000 attended La Porte Citys annual Jigs day festival. Cabbage and corned beef stocked the feast alongside sugar coffee crackers and cream. Music by local bands plus out-of-town drum corps entertained. La Porte beat the Dixie colored Roamers 13 to 6 in a Thursday baseball game as 40 concessions operated across three city blocks.
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LA Porte City
la Porte and
Conrad
Waterloo
Independence
Quasqueton Church To Observe 21st Year
Quasqueton marks the twenty first anniversary of the Union Protestant church with a Sunday program. The article recalls 1918 when three Protestant congregations the Congregational the Methodist Episcopal and the Baptist merged to form the Union church. Clark M. Crowell was the first pastor.
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Quasqueton
Union Protestant Church of
Congregational
George E. Lair
Methodist Episcopal Church
Guy Rutherford
Baptist
Union
Lair
Rutherford
Clark M. Crowell
First Baptist Church
Cedar Falls
Union Church
Catholic Organ Opposes Neutrality Change in War Talk
The Witness the archdiocese organ in Dubuque charges big business interests seek to draw the nation into Europe’s conflict. It calls for opposing any neutrality-law change that could bring remote danger of war.
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Dubuque
Archdiocese of Dubuque
America
Iowa Unemployment Benefits Mixed by Gender
The Iowa unemployment compensation commission reports the average weekly benefit for men at 10.65 dollars and for women at 6.41 dollars. The figures come from an analysis of 9,597 claims paid in May and June.
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DES Moines
Iowa
Iowa Unemployment Compensation Commission
East Iowa Briefs: Marriages Divorces and Seniors Elected
Independence reports the marriage of James Hood to Virginia Ostrus in Davenport with Drake and California ties. two divorces granted in district court for cruel and inhuman treatment. local notes include church program, a Tracer business figure’s death, Clermont high school officers, Earlville falcon incident, Spencer’s Grove funeral, Bonaparte Legion delegates, memorial poppies planned, and Washington area notices on marriages and club conventions.
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Independence
James Hood
Mae Hood
Virginia Ostrus
Russell E. Ostrus
Des Moines
First Presbyterian Church
Davenport
Alfred Nichols
Drake University
University of California At
Los Angeles
State College of Veterinary Medicine
Ames
A. B. Lovejoy
Neva E. Higgins
Bernard M. Higgins
Henry Lee
Elizabeth Lee
Lowden
Charles Strackbein
World Missions
Lydia Circle
Zion Evangelical and Reformed Church
TRAER
John W. Hart
Tracer
la Crosse
Wis
Wisconsin
Grand Army of the Republic
Clermont
Mary K. Guritz
James Gilbert
Myra Olson
Bernard Schrader
Ressler
Leonard Olson
Harlan Rolfs
Helen Ramsey
Fern Buraas
Miss Evingson
Augusta Miller
Louis Schrader
Helen Stee
Arlene Amundson
Mr. Banning
Earl Aanes
Ray Hackett
Merle Harris
Helen Halverson
Morf. Earville
Louis Schaller
Earlville
Walker
Saint Mary's Catholic Church
Spencer's Grove
George Zieser
Anna Michael Zieser
Ralph
Leonard
Charley
Louis Nye
Washington
The
American Legion
Bonaparte
Fred S. Downing
J. W. McBurney
Charles Kennedy
George Birney
Paul Snakenberg
Ted Crone
A. E
Iowa City Bank Debt Protest Continues
A hearing in Johnson County District Court on the bank debt compromise was continued. Mrs Sarah Paine Hoffman objects to the $12 582 debt being settled for $3 000 and seeks accountability from state banking officials. Both sides favor the highest possible settlement for the bank creditors.
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Iowa City
Sarah Paine Hoffman
Johnson County Savings Bank
D. W. Bates
Ben Summerwill
Methodists At Clinton Vote To Unite With Northwest Conference
The Upper Iowa Methodist conference voted 96 to 77 to merge with the Northwest Iowa conference. The two units include about 400 pastors in the northeast and northwest Iowa regions. Final action hinges on Northwest Iowa’s vote at its Webster City meeting next week.
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Clinton
Iowa
Webster City
Four district sites to host Iowa high school music festival
The Iowa High School Music Association shifts the annual event from Iowa City to four district sites next spring. Local preliminaries will precede finals at four district festivals on April 25 26 and 27 with 20 000 dollars saved in transportation.
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Des Moines
INS
University of Iowa
L. E. Watters
Iowa High School Music Association
Watters
Iowa City
Carroll
Divorces Granted in Johnson County Court
Judge James P. Gaffney granted three divorces in Johnson County district court to Violet Gorman from Stephen Gorman Elizabeth Hampton from Robert Hampton and Amelia Mayme Randall from Joseph E. Randall all on grounds of cruel and inhuman treatment. Memorial events marked Max Mayer former Iowa City businessman and postmaster buried in Oakland cemetery after services Elks Lodge observed a Lodge of Sorrow noting his status as charter member and former officer.
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Gazette
Iowa City
Johnson County
James P. Gaffney
Williamsburg
Violet Gorman
Stephen Gorman
Robert Hampton
Elizabeth Hampton
Amelia Mayme Randall
Joseph E. Randall
Max Mayer
Des Moines
Oakland Cemetery
The
Elks Lodge
Lodge of Sorrow
Mayer
Elks
Farm Home Near La Porte City Destroyed by Fire
The six room farm home of Art Klein three miles northwest of La Porte City burned late Thursday afternoon. The rural fire truck arrived too late to stop the blaze. Mrs. Klein was in the yard. Art Klein was away. Cause unknown. loss partly insured. Home owned by Mrs Ed Waldros of La Porte.
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LA Orte
Art Klein
Here
Klein
Rising Temperature Expected Across Iowa This Weekend
Bright sun melted frost as Iowa experiences above normal temperatures. Federal weather observers forecast further rise in the east and south portions Friday night, with 39 degrees in Clarinda and 89 in Carroll. Clouds may increase by nightfall and into Saturday.
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Des Moines
INS
Iowa
Clarinda
Carroll
Iowa Auto Sales Show Gain Across State
Iowa automobile sales rose by 665000 last month from August 1938 per state tax commission data. August tax on new car sales totaled 84777.37 with Woodbury leading at 3883.07 and Linn County at 3429.82. overall sales estimated at 4238868.50. East counties list include Benton through Washington with multiple smaller receipts.
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Des Moines
Iowa
State Tax Commission
Woodbury County
Linn County
Benton
Buchanan
Cedar
Clayton
Delaware
Fayette
Jackson
Johnson
Jones
Poweshick
Tama
Wapello
Washington
Archie Carter Loses Rehearing Fight in Morals Case
DES MOINES Iowa supreme court overruled Archie Carters petition for a rehearing in a morals conviction upholding a district court sentence. The former Dubuque labor paper editor was sentenced to 10 years in Fort Madison penitentiary and has been free on appeal bond.
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Des Moines
Archie Carter
Dubuque
Iowa Supreme Court
Fort Madison
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