Iowa Welfare Budget Hard To Determine
Iowa board of social welfare struggles to estimate the biennial budget ending June 30 1947 for old age pensioners the needy blind dependent children and emergency relief. Chairman King R Palmer notes postwar plans and rehabilitation programs will affect general assistance and that past experience is unreliable due to varying recipient counts and payments. The board contemplates a 10 500 000 annual old age appropriation with 150 000 for blind 120 000 for child welfare and 375 000 for dependent children and explains funding via state sales and income taxes with federal and county matches.
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Iowa Board of Social Welfare
Des Moines
Iowa
King R. Palmer
West Union
the Gazette
Social Welfare Department
Turn Pin Money Into War Bonds
Des Moines reports the Sixth war loan campaign will use pin money bonds and stamps from Iowa housewives to meet county quotas. A special pin money bond drive targets Iowa women in every county with 90 percent member participation cited for organizations. Linn County quota is set at 352000 dollars.
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Des Moines
State War Finance Committee
Iowa
War Finance Committee
Treasury
Linn
Upper Iowa University Sees Successful Year
Fayette residents report Upper Iowa University nearing full registration as enrollment and faculty qualifications promise another strong year. Renovations include renovated campus buildings, redecorated offices and classrooms, a new hood in the chemistry lab, added pianos for the music department, and redecorated girls dormitory. The college prepares to serve returning war veterans and other students after the war.
Babies Eligible for Adoption Scarce in Iowa
DES MOINES Iowa social worker Margaret Bock of the Town Children’s Home society said wartime prosperity kept more unmarried mothers with their babies. The agency, Iowa’s oldest, reported 400 parents on a waiting list and estimates of at least 20 families per available infant, meaning some will wait up to two years before adoption. Buy war bonds.
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Des Moines
INS
Iowa
Children’s Home Society
Margaret Bock
Bequests to 93 Kin Included in Fort Atkinson Man's Will
Francis Schleier of Fort Atkinson leaves 93 relatives amounts from 50 to 2000 dollars plus 100 to St Johns cemetery and 300 to Father Flanagan's Boys Town. Peter G. Smith of Festina named executor. Will dated January 6 1943 witnessed by L J Greenman and J W Neuzil. Estate value sufficient to meet all bequests.
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Decorah
Francis Schleier
Fort Atkinson
Winneshiek County
St. John’s Cemetery
Father Flanagan
Boys Town
Peter G. Smith
Festina
L. J. Greenman
J. W. Neuzil
Neuzil
Veteran of Five Wars Buried at Des Moines
Funeral services were held for Dr. Hans Penney Nielson 67 a retired physician who died Tuesday of a rare heart ailment. A veteran of five wars Boer Afghan Spanish American Mexican and World War I he served with the British foreign service merchant marine and was a staff doctor in a Japan leper colony. He lived in Des Moines 11 years and was a field representative of the state tax commission. He is survived by his wife.
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Des Moines
Hans Penney Nielson
British Foreign Service
Merchant Marine
Japan
State Tax Commission
Nielson
University of Iowa requests 4.1 million for capital programs
The University of Iowa filed a legislative budget request totaling 4,100,000 for capital improvements in the 1945-47 biennium. Salaries, support and maintenance are slated at 2,505,000, with repairs and alterations at 192,000 annually. Readily usable funds include 1,100,000 for the university hospital and 116,000 for the psychopathic hospital.
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DES Moines
Iowa
University of Iowa
University
University Hospital
Psychopathic Hospital
Bacteriological l and Hygienic Laboratory
Postwar Rehabilitation Commission Opens Three Day Session
Des Moines AP The state postwar rehabilitation commission began a three day session at the state house to shape a comprehensive program from committee recommendations. The plan could require about 100 million dollars in expenditures and aims to address postwar jobs for veterans and new social legislation before presenting a bill to the legislature next winter. Don Berry of Indianola chairs the 25 member panel.
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Des Moines
State
Statehouse
Don Berry
Indianola
This Man Radda Is Real Expert for Growing Tall Corn
Don Radda of Washington Iowa rose from a Arkansas taunt to a national tall corn winner. Since 1938 he has dominated a Des Moines contest tradition, growing stalks that reach 28 feet 5.25 inches this year and leaving no rivals.
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Radda
Washington, Ia
Arkansas
Des Moines
Iowa
Don Radda
Washington County
Washington Evening Journal
Tallest corn stalks in Washington contests
Report discusses Radda's record stalks as the tallest in Washington history. It notes his seed stock developed via inbreeding and brass breeding, compares to hybrid corn, and mentions agrarian tricks like hanging wet burlap sacks to speed growth by increasing humidity and shading leaves.
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Washington
Radda
American air freighter crewman aids Eindhoven Arnhem corridor
Sgt. Kenneth Allers of Keystone Indiana served on a jeep hauling transport packing supplies to the Eindhoven Arnhem corridor as American air freighters moved Tuesday to aid beleaguered forces in Holland.
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Holland
Kenneth Allers
Keystone
Eindhoven-Arnhem
Barbers Strike Hits Sioux City Shops
Sioux City barber shop workers belonging to the Master Barbers association walked off in protest of contract negotiations. The incident disrupted service across the city as talks continued.
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Sioux City
Master Barbers Association
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