Registered Draftees May Still Volunteer for Duty
Des Moines Iowa Selective Service director General Charles H Grahl says registrants including single non father non veterans ages 25 through 19 may enlist before orders to report for pre induction. Local boards classify in steps and may grant dependency deferments for wives or children or hardship. Inductions for single non father non veterans start mid October with physical exams.
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Des Moines
INS
Charles H. Grahl
Selective Service For
Iowa
Grahl
Secretary of Defense
Army
Air Force College Training
Navy
Marine Corps
Coast Guard
Military
Naval Academies
Iowa Eight Induction Stations Open in Statewide Draft
The eight induction stations in Des Moines Davenport Ottumwa Cedar Rapids Waterloo Mason City Fort Dodge and Sioux City operate for the November draft. Men from southwestern Iowa will go to Omaha for the physical. Inductions will begin in November with about 175 accepted at the examination, though manyMore will be sent for reexamination to account for rejections.
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Iowa
Des Moines
Davenport
Ottumwa
Cedar Rapids
Waterloo
Mason City
Fort Dodge
Sioux City
Omaha
Grahl
Taxpayers Assn Pushes Direct Property Tax Credit Plan
The Iowa Taxpayers Association urged a direct property tax credit funded by excess state general fund money as of June 30. Using a $40 million example, the plan would distribute funds to counties for deduction from levies, not as income for budgets, with allocations by county, city and school districts. It notes 1940 census population figures and current tax totals, outlining per person and per pupil distributions.
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DES Moines
INS
Iowa Taxpayers Association
State ‘General Fund
Towa
Association
Stunting Exhibition Accident At Audubon Races
Hubert Porter, 22 of Atlantic, suffered a fractured leg and injuries when he fell from his motorcycle during a Stunting exhibition at Audubon races Sunday afternoon. He was taken to Atlantic hospital.
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Audubon (Ins
Hubert Porter
Atlantic
Audubon Motorcycle Races
Sixty five Fayette County residents drawn for jury duty
Fifty residents from areas including West Union Oelwein Fayette Fort Atkinson Sumner and Randalia are listed for the October term of district court jury duty. Names include Kenneth Anderson Maude Adams Mabel Beckner Jennie Brickman Hazel Jensen Ruth Finch Emma Fridley Mary Verna Gleim Rosa Huber and William Meyer among others.
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Fayette County
West Union
District Court
Kenneth Anderson
Mary Boyer
Maude Brink
Adrian Helgerson
Charles Jacobson
Hazel Jensen
Doran Meyer
Wesley Schreiner
Marian Springer
S. B. Tope
Anna Walsh
Bernyl Wells
Vern Paul
Elgin
Inez Brackin
C. O. Christ
Frieda Crider
Joe Frieden
Bertina Halverson
Robert Kohler
Lyle Light
Dorothy Muehlethaler
Maynard
Viera Cushion
Florence Fuller
W. C. Garnier
Leona Seegers
Fort Atkinson
Leo Franzen
Arlington
Mary Verna Gleim
Roy Peeper
Bertha Ward
Hawkeye
Anna Holmes
Rosa Huber
Herman Smith
Sumner
Martin Lang
Dave Niedert
Wadena
Dorothy Mattocks
Blanche Walters
Randalia
William Meyer
Clermont
Susie Miller
Lewis Wolfs
Stanley
George Morgan
Body of Waterloo Man Found Near Mt. Auburn
The body of Wilse Harry Bell 50 of Waterloo was found Sunday between Waterloo and Mt. Auburn near the Rock Island tracks at Stoneycut. Deputy Sheriff Ed Thompson said the body appeared to have been there about six weeks and Bell may have fallen from a train. Authorities said he was last heard from leaving for Traer centennial celebration.
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Vinton
Wilse Harry Bell
Waterloo
Here
Mt. Auburn
William Young
la Porte City
Rock Island
Stoneycut
Ed Thompson
Bell
Traer
Baxter Farmer Sues for 30000 Over Fatal Crash
Alden Routh of Baxter files a 30000 damage suit in Jasper county district court Newton alleging negligence by Christensen brothers contractors from Sioux City in a jeep crash that killed his 19 year old son Glen last April on a highway relocation project north of Newton. The suit claims an uncovered culvert lacked a barricade.
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Newton
INS
Jasper County
Alden Routh
Baxter
Christensen
Daack Family Makes College A Family Affair At Carthage
The Daack family from State Center Iowa enrolls at Carthage College with Mrs Daack and son Jim as freshmen and Aloys as a junior. She majors in home economics and pursues culinary studies while he trains pre med for medical school. They rent a nearby house to address housing needs.
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Carthage
INS
Carthage College
Daack
State Center
Jim
Marine
Aloys
Linn May Get G O P Post in Washington
Des Moines reports say Republican circles consider Harry Linn to be offered an undersecretary of agriculture post if the GOP wins. Linn, Iowa secretary of agriculture since 1943, would face cabinet salary and potential party interest in Dewey’s campaign.
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Des Moines
IDPA
Harry Linn
Washington
Jowan
al Loveland
Linn
Tom Dewey
G.O.P
Dewey
New York
Denver
Hope
Chet Dumond
Portland
Ore
National Association of Secretaries, Commissioners and Directors of Agriculture
Clifford Hope
Kansas
Dumond
Albany
Cabinet Post
New York State
Iowa
Funeral set Tuesday for Dr H B Treman Rockwell City
Funeral services will be Tuesday afternoon for Dr H B Treman 72 retired veterinarian who died at his home in Rockwell City Sunday He practiced 42 years Survived by wife a daughter Mildred Treman city librarian at Council Bluffs and a son Dr Claire Treman owner and publisher of the Rockwell City Advocate.
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H. B. Treman
Rockwell City
INS
Mildred Treman
Council Bluffs
Claire Treman
Grinnell Fire Causes $50,000 In Damage At Store
A fire at the A and P grocery store and the Eagles lodge rooms in Grinnell caused about $50,000 in damage. The blaze started in the grocery warehouse around 5:05 a m, with $15,000 worth of meat destroyed. Fireman Kenneth Shockley suffered hand cuts and was treated at a hospital as firefighters battled the blaze for two hours.
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Grinnell
INS
A.and P
Eagles Lodge
Kenneth Shockley
IHSPA Convention Sets Oct 22 At Iowa State College
More than 400 high school students and teachers are expected for the Iowa High School Press Association convention at Iowa State College October 22 and 23. The program includes discussions contests and entertainment. Officers will be elected. The department of technical journalism at Iowa State College leads the effort.
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IHSPA
Ames
Iowa High School Press _ Association
Iowa State College
Iowa State College Department of Technical Journalism
Polio Death of Leon Boy at Iowa Lutheran Hospital
Willey Harper 12 son of Mr and Mrs Grover Harper of Leon died of polio at Iowa Lutheran hospital Sunday He had been admitted September 13 at the hospital local obituary notes state the youth was a resident of Leon and the family awaits funeral arrangements.
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Des Moines
Willey Harper
Grover Harper
Leon
Iowa Lutheran Hospital
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