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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1955
Page
4
This notice states that the undersigned will not be responsible for any debts other than those contracted personally by themselves. It serves as a declaration of individual liability and exclusions of joint obligations.
The report details resistance to gas tax increases led by the Iowa Petroleum Industries Committee and the Iowa Farm Bureau while party platforms push highway modernization. It notes legislative immunity on traffic stops, with four legislators halted for violations. State property values total over 162 million, including 74 million for schools. An Iowa highway patrolman sues to contest retirement, and ex-senator Guy Gillette takes a special counsel post on the Senate committee.
Des Moines announces West named an assistant attorney general by Dayton Countryman. The move fills staff to nine assistants under Countryman. Republicans Roscoe Pollock and William Dillon push a House inquiry into the highway commission with a five member committee and report by April 4. Democrats seek a bipartisan nine member panel with public hearings and subpoenas, plus a $30,000 probe fund and a January 1, 1956 report deadline to the governor. At mid-session, no action taken.
Chris Detje, a Traer youth, carried a lead pencil for two years in his leg. A lump formed and surgery revealed the pencil. A playmate slipped it under him while he sat. A doctor earlier removed part of the pencil. An eight year old, Sharon Kay Richards of Anhea endured her 18th broken bone.
Calcium deficiency blamed for a youth’s many fractures. Towan Lawrence Kuriger assisted as co pilot on a twin engine Navy transport to move an expectant mother from Hawthorne Nevada to the Oakland California naval hospital. They arrived in time. Judging a man by his past is poor policy.
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