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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1941
Page
3
A postal entry notes second class mail matter status at Clermont in Fayette County Iowa. The line indicates the mailing classification and the locality associated with the post office document.
The Iowa General Assembly opens with hundreds of bills in the hopper. Secretary Walter H. Beam recites the roll from memory as new members take seats. Speculation grows over banking superintendent post as Roscoe Thoms and State Treasurer W. G. C. Bagley are linked to the vacancy.
Lawmakers debate a Senate bill allowing shotgun shooting of mourning doves while restricting actions on public highways railroad rights of way and near power lines. The wording raises questions about who rests in the wires the bird or the hunter.
Washington Senator A. Claire Dewey, a noted conservationist, voices concern as a hunter lobby challenges wildlife protections. The dispute centers on hunting policy and habitat safeguards with debate intensifying amid Senate questions and public comments.
The draft notes a conflict over a dove shooting bill with Senator Dewey opposing Iowa becoming a licensed slaughter house for a song bird cited by Audubon Society as a song bird and symbol of peace. Separate items report Rep Wagner proposing to teach the Declaration of Independence in public schools with defined meanings. Other notes mention Irvin Schmidt crushed by a tractor and Helmer Hanson recalling his car license number 1300 with a $13 check dating January 14.
Mrs J Q Lauer of Waverly swallowed a large chicken bone end and it stuck in her throat. She credits modern science for a successful emergency procedure that saved her life, noting she would not have survived without such techniques.
Jerry Lee Hestness, a year old boy of Lake Mills, was shot in the right eye with a B B gun while Ke and his brother were playing. The seriousness of the case has not yet been fully determined. John Hegg near Decorah was relieved to find ice on his roof one night last week, preventing an over-heated pipe from causing a house fire.
San Francisco report notes the new six million dollar U S S Gudgeon is launched at Mare Island Navy yard as the third ship to leave the ways here in two months highlighting postwar naval buildup and Mare Island activity.
Washington D C photo shows British Ambassador as the new battleship King lt is described as the most powerfully armed and fast battleship in the world. President Roosevelt greeted Lord and Lady Halifax as their arrival sparked a new precedent during the Chesapeake Bay welcome.
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