Echo office offers two free Elmer Pinney tickets
Found at the Echo office two free tickets for Elmer Pinney a doctor to Kim showing at Ava ton theater on April 22 and 23. Also notes Fayette County Breeding Assn cooperative services and ads for Clinton Seed Oats and used cultivator. Senate passes loyalty oath civil defense bill preparing for national emergency.
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Harold Bennett
Echo Office
Ava
Elmer Pinney
To “Kim
Avaton Theater
Avalon Theater
Oscar Hangartner
White Yhelowa
Senate
House
Whith
Iowa Legislature Nears Adjournment On Taxes Welfare
The 54th General Assembly nears history with a 100 to 2 Iowa House vote to keep the income tax at 15 percent. The Senate was expected to follow. If not acted, the tax would revert to 100 percent next year. Welfare funds are set at 17.21 million annually, boosting old age assistance to 14.5 million and aid to dependent children to 2.175 million.
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Iowa House
Senate
House
Billy
Iowa
William
Beardsley
Salary increases for county officials recommended
A senate house conference committee report on salary increases for county officials was adopted by the house. The proposal would give county attorneys in counties over 60,000 population the same 800 dollar yearly raise as auditors, recorders, treasurers, clerks and sheriffs. The senate must act next. Frank M. Halpin of Des Moines named assistant collector of internal revenue for Iowa, succeeding G. T. McKibben. Halpin had been acting collector after E. Birmingham's death and after Bert Jeck was appointed by the President.
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Senate-House Conference Committee
House of Representatives
Senate
Frank M. Halpin
Des Moines
Iowa legislature sends four truck overloading bills to governor
The legislature has sent to Gov. Beardsley four bills aimed at curbing illegal overloading of commercial trucks on Iowa highways with support from the Iowa Motor.
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Beardsley
Iowa
Iowa Motor
Farrowings on Iowa Farms Reach Near Record Levels
Iowa sow farrowings for March 1951 are estimated at 573000 head, the second highest on record for March and 9 percent below March 1950. December-March farrowings total about 780000, comprising 32.6 percent of the expected spring total of 2301000 sows. The ten year March average is 457000, with a 25 percent rise over that average.
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Iowa
Marth
Towa
Nis
Wadena News Last Week’s Letter Recaps Local Socials
Wadena notices report a lively week with winners in an April Showers and May Flowers theme. Residents mingle at home gatherings, hospital visits, and travel to Cedar Rapids and Sumner. A Wonder Workers club paper drive is scheduled for April 20 after school. Richard Scheidel welcomes a son, and several families visit relatives across Iowa.
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Ole Tohnson
Romeo Pritchard
Lester Gehring
Luan ‘Whitchet
Mabel Johnson
Clyde Bond
Charles Gehring
Floyd Duffy
Sumner
Tipton
Lard, Bien
Bernadette Corf
Ermela Corkery
Mra
Earl Cooley
Jayes Probert
New Hampton
Gladys Feller
Marie Dwyer
Matt
McGregor
Tom Baldwin
Richard Corkery
Arlington
Dwain Ray
Wm. Corbitt
Ella McLavey
Greene
Wadena Wonder Workers
Lune Herriman
Guy Gould
Martha Measserll
Genevieve Gould
Beverly Cline
Francise Moore
Mary Messerli
Sheilah Messerli
San Diego
Calif
Mildred DeWald
Janet
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Falk & Sons Garage
Lyle Krueger
Elgin
Clermont
Employers Mutual Casualty Co
R. P. Strauch
Dial
Ajax
Reuben Metzger
Elgin Echo
Echo
Raymond Gantz
Waukon
West Union
Town
J. M. Gehring
Estella “Feller
McCormick
Little’ Wonder
John Deere
Robert “Hanson
Elgin Produce
C. J. Mulford & Son
O'Neill Drug
Coop
McMillan Farm
John McMillan
Woodrow Reed
Falb & Light
Fayette County Breeding Assn
Fayette Cooperative 166
Clermont 59
Bent
Earl Headington
Decorah
Clinton
Jon
Evan Lien
Lorenz Leath
Far & Light
Mutual Casualty Co
FR. FP
Strauch
Dial 3711
Noel Brockway West Union
Joe Kjosa
A. Myers
Iowa City
Wadena
G. W. Alderson
Kenneth Baldwin
Orvin Thompson
Urvin_Thompson
54Th General Assembly
Chevrolet
Ben Berlin
Esitimore
W. E. Fish
Berlin
Wadena News
BPS
Meinhard
Leon
Ruth Grether
2. C. Jerdee
Chrysler
Milo A. Olson
Plymouth
Max Medberry
Louis L. Lehman
George Metzger
Raith Packing Co
Waterloo
Mihm
Stide
Biker ‘Sedan
John
Betty
American Legion
Europe
Holland
Cooperative Berry, Mer
Elgin, Iowa
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