State Schools Get 146 458 Extra Funds
Des Moines AP The Iowa legislative interim committee allotted 146 458 in emergency funds to the state board of education to finance five institutions until January 1. The board sought 287 310 for five entities including Iowa State Teachers College and the State Schools for the Deaf and Blind. The panel cut nearly in half and urged a December 1 return if more is needed while noting rising costs and pending control board needs. The committee still holds about 935 000 of 2,000,000 allotted for emergencies.
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DES Moines
Iowa Legislative Interim Committee
State Board of Education
Iowa State Teachers College
State Schools For the Deaf and Blind
State Board of Control
Control Board
Boards of Education and Control
New Boys Town Head To Be Installed Sunday
Msgr. Nicholas H. Wegner will be installed Sunday as director of Boys Town in a ceremony conducted by Archbishop Gerald T. Bergan at Dowd Memorial chapel. Wegner succeeds the late founder Msgr. Edward J. Flanagan, creator of the famed "city of little men."
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Boys Town, Neb
Nicholas H. Wegner
Boys Town
Gerald T. Bergan
Omaha
Dowd Memorial Chapel
Msgr
Wegener
Edward J. Flanagan
Seven Severely Injured as Bus Rams Farm Truck
A Detroit bound Greyhound bus crashed into a farm truck on the Willow Run expressway injuring seven aboard. The driver William Kakish of Berwyn IL and six passengers were in serious condition at Wayne County General Hospital. Six others suffered lesser injuries. The truck was driven by Raymond Wentz of Wanatah Indiana. he was uninjured. Passengers were freed by sheriff deputies through an emergency door.
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Detroit
Willow Run
Wayne County
General Hospital
Greyhound
Chicago
Raymond Wentz
Wanatah
Ind
Wentz
Wayne County Sheriffs
William F. Kakish
Berwyn
Hearing on Des Moines River Floods Scheduled
A public hearing at 1 30 pm on October 14 in Camp Dodge reception hall addresses flood problems on the Des Moines River from Des Moines to downstream. Federal state county and municipal agencies along with commercial civic highway railroad and property owners attend. The session aims to complete a report for Congress by Army Engineers on the river main stem below Saylorville showing damages proposed control methods and effects of a dam near Saylorville.
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DES Moines
Camp Dodge
Army Engineers
Saylorville
High School Football Tonight on KCRG Area Games
KCRG broadcasts high school clash Wilson at Iowa City from Hill Park tonight at 7 45 with Bob Brooks on site for lineups. Tomorrow at 1 45 Iowa Hawkeyes open the 1948 season versus Marquette of Milwaukee. Also McKinley Decorah game tomorrow night and Sports Camera originate in Anamosa. Regular Marion Corn Festival programs appear 11 45 to 12 45 with Buck Hassett Jewel Box Pat Patterson Rex Conn Farm Roundup and Cowboy Dallas Turner. Czech Favorites airs Saturday mornings.
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Iowa City
Hill Park
Iowa
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Bob
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Marquette
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Wisconsin
Hawkeyes
Eddie Anderson
KCRE
Anamosa
Marion
Buzz Hassett
Pat Patterson
Rex Conn
Cowboy Dallas Turner
KXEL
ABC
Edwin C Hil
Jonery J
Gsih
Joe Reichman O
Taylor Lone Ranger
Fat
Will Harrington Peary
East Iowa
Magle
Iho Marine Band
Dallas
Tows
Marquette Am
Towa
Marquette Pigskin Parade Highlights Local News
The Gazette reports on a Marquette area pigskin parade and related town events featuring the Chore Gang and community groups. Voice of Iowa News covers the Family Party and county updates as part of the weekend page.
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Voice of Iowa News Family Party Family Party
Iowa-Marquette
KCRK Vor Static Interference Free Entertainment
Radio schedule fragment lists programs and times across a Saturday evening lineup. Entries include Sports Camera versus Henry J Taxslor, music acts, and news segments with hosts Paul Sparr and Henry Jerome. Audiences are guided to tune into MBS channel for baseball scores and True or False segments.
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Sports Camera
Henry J. Taxslor
MBS
Joe Reichman
O. Jowa
Wison
Jova City Sports
Henry Jerome
Mrs Miller fails to make Iowa secretary of state ballot
Des Moines officials refused to certify Mrs Earl G Miller of Des Moines as a candidate for Iowa secretary of state after her nominating papers arrived after the September 22 deadline. The Taxpayer League of Sioux City submitted her name. a postmark showed September 23, and the attorney general’s opinion found the filing too late.
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Des Moines
Earl G. Miller
Iowa
League
Miller
Secretary of State
Melvin Lynhorst
Orange City
Philip Shutt
Independence
Cruickshank
YMB Lagging in Membership Drive
The Young Men's Bureau trails the Civic bureau in a chamber of commerce membership drive. Netting 400 new members so far, the campaign ends next Thursday with a dinner at the Chamber. Winners dine on steaks, losers eat baked beans, with Rep. Tom Martin of Iowa City as speaker on Industrial Phase of National Security.
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Ymb-Civic Bureau
Chamber
Civic Bureau
Alden Morehouse
YMB
Ray Spielman
Voters Outside Cedar Rapids Not Required to Register
Linn county residents living outside Cedar Rapids need not register for the November elections. Cedar Rapids citizens must register only if never voted here before or if they have changed addresses. County residents may vote at their polling places on election day.
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Linn
Cedar Rapids
Maude Krebs
Coggan
Bertram
College
Switzer Focuses on Tax Reduction in Iowa Campaign
Democratic governor hopeful Carroll O Switzer told a Linn county Democratic picnic audience that the main state issue is tax reduction. He touted cutting the state sales tax and argued surplus funds could fund school aid and road building while lowering taxes. Switzer spoke at Cedar Rapids events and attended a CIO hall gathering after the picnic.
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Switzer
Carroll O. Switzer
Linn County
Cedar Rapids
Roosevelt Hotel
Bever Park
CIO
CIO Hall
Phil Shutt
Independence
Thomas Mullaney
Congress
Luther Fuhrmiester
Milo Sedlacek
Izaak Walton
Ed Kuba
Ethel Hart
Marion
Settlement Ends $34,597 Death Damage Suit
Out of court settlement of a $34,597 death damage suit against the Milwaukee railroad was reported. The case, brought by Dessie A. Owens of near Palo, was slated for jury trial in Cedar Rapids. Terms undisclosed. Judge Graven was notified attorneys arranged settlement. Owens widow of J. E. Owens killed March 1, 1946 at a Milwaukee crossing near Covington. The suit was the only jury matter scheduled for the fall term.
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Milwaukee Railroad
U. S. District Court
Cedar Rapids
Dessie A. Owens
Palo
Henry N. Graven
Owens
Two Women Pled Guilty To Charge of Larceny
Dorothy LaHache and Gladys Randall both of 1935 E avenue NW pled guilty to petty larceny. They were sentenced to 30 days in county jail, suspended on condition they return $20 taken from John Yoss on Sept. 1 at the Diana food shop on 101 Second avenue SE, with intoxication charges continued.
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Dorothy LaHache
Gladys Randall
E Avenue NW
H. R. Churchill
John Yoss
Diana
Second Avenue SE
Yoss
Mullaney Finds Out He Came to Wrong Meeting
Second district congressional candidate T. W. Mullaney from Waukon attended a Linn County Democratic picnic in Cedar Rapids. He meant to meet CIO leaders with Carroll Switzer but went to AFL meeting at the Labor Temple by mistake. He addressed both groups and supported fair labor management legislation. He traveled from Cresco after a joint Second-Third district meeting with H R Gross and Dan J Ryan. incumbent H O Talle was absent.
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T. W. Mullaney
Waukon
Cedar Rapids
Linn
Bever Park
CIO
Carroll O. Switzer
Des Moines
Mullaney
AFL
Waterloo
Dan J. P. Ryan
Parkersburg
Congress
H. O. Talle
Decorah
Two Cedar Rapids youths fined for disturbing the peace
Two Cedar Rapids youths Harry Roloff jr and Bill Williams 18 pled guilty to disturbing the peace by discharging firearms. Each was fined 10 dollars and costs in justice court Friday after being arrested the preceding Saturday on the railroad right of way south of Cedar Rapids. Officers said they were shooting insulators on power lines with .22 caliber rifles.
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Harry Roloff, Jr
First Street
Bill Williams
Williams Boulevard
Justice Court
Cedar Rapids
North Western Railroad
Don Cassidy
Smoker's Bonanza Discovered After Missing Cigarettes
Police investigated a smoker's throat case while seeking clues to the disappearance of 20 000 Chesterfield cigarettes. Two cases valued at 70 dollars each rolled off a Rock Island Motor Transport truck near Eighth Avenue and Second Street SE at about 8 30 AM. A motorist tried to flag the driver but failed, and by the time officers returned the cigarettes were gone.
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Rock Island
Eighth Avenue
Second Street
Housewives Plan Boycott of Milk and Butchers in Cedar Rapids
Forty five housewives and three men met in Cedar Rapids to plan a milk and meat boycott over rising prices. They approved a telephone campaign starting Monday, a business district parade next Wednesday, and handbills for industrial plants with slogans like Lets fast so we can feast.
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Cedar Rapids
CIO Hall
Quaker Oats
Parade committee named for Wednesday event
Mrs Myers noted the public is invited and lists committeemen and women to handle further moves including telephone campaign led by Mrs Arthur Nessett publicity by Mervin Myers Parade by Mrs Arthur Robertson Mrs Kopecky and Mrs Eveland handbills by Mrs Robert Dochterman Mrs Frank Schwartz Mrs Edgar Reimrodt and Mrs J C McClurg for the Wednesday parade plans.
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Mervin Myers
CIO
Wesley Kopecky
Herbert Eveland
Marion
Progressive Party
Linn County
Evert Kemp
Fifteenth Avenue
Kemp
Roy Ashley
N Street
Myers
Arthur Nessett
Arthur Robertson
Kopecky
Eveland
Robert Dochterman
Frank Schwartz
Edgar Reimrodt
J. C. McClurg
UAL To Inaugurate Commuter Ticket Plan
United Air Lines will launch a commuter ticket system by October 15, enabling travelers to save 15 percent on at least four trips within 30 days between the same two points. Cedar Rapids manager Richard V. Shrader was notified. The plan, filed with the Civil Aeronautics Board, stems from a tax ruling removing the federal transportation tax on commuter tickets. Special books will be issued containing four tickets or the equivalent of two round trips usable in a 30 day window.
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United Air Lines
Richard V. Shrader
Cedar Rapids
United
Civil Aeronautics Board
Washington
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Labor Federations Back Teamsters on Police Upset
Labor Federation and Teamsters align against a taxpayer funded police department investigation. J C Blodgett calls for business leaders to conduct any needed inquiry. FBI Chief Hoover states the bureau cannot perform Cedar Rapids police survey at the request of Safety Commissioner Hughes.
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Cedar Rapids
Teamster
FBI
Edgar Hoover
Bureau
Gordon Hughes
Birch at the Door Tonight at Franklin High School
Tickets will be sold at the door for the Birch magician and his company at Franklin High School tonight. Starting time is 8.
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Birch
Birch the Magician
Franklin High School
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