State News highlights Iowa tax, roads, and officials
State Tax Commission chair Ray Johnson reports easy equalization of personal property tax assessments with only two counties revised. Webster county farm machinery assessments up 20 percent and Taylor county cattle assessments up 10 percent. Charles Fischer, longtime Iowa insurance commissioner and political adviser, dies. 49 cities with populations over 4,000 report no traffic fatalities in eight months, Le Mars records no fatality since 1940. Frank Berlin named Iowa aeronautics director, salary 5640 yearly, previously bomber group commander in WW II. Federal income tax receipts through July total 384,896,473, up from 381,952,225 last year. Contractors urge updating the 1848 20 year highway plan, backing Good Roads ideas and expanded highway research funding.
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Iowa
Ray Johnson
State Tax Commission
Webster County
Taylor County
Department of Public Safety
le Mars
Frank Berlin
Woodward
Iowa Aeronautics Commission
Norbert Locke
Des Moines
Berlin
Town
Internal Revenue Department
Associated General Contractors Organization
Iowa Tax Study Committee
Iowa Good Roads Association For
Highway Commission Engineering Organization
Golden wedding of Will Goodin noted in Volga
Gunder News reports Mr. and Mrs. Ludwig Anderson and Mrs. Ole Loftsgard attended the golden wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Will Goodin in Volga on Sunday. Dinner guests at various homes include the Otto Gisleson and Lloyd Reierson households with multiple local relatives.
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Ludwig Anderson
Ole Loftsgard
Will Goodin
Volga
Otto Gisleson
Lawrence Naylor
Orlando Loftsgard
Joe Reierson
Lloyd Reierson
Kenneth Anderson
Kenneth Mark
Hans Frederick
West Union
Mabel Gruver
Local Hosts and Guests Share Sunday Evenings
Cedar Rapids area families hosted visitors from Castalia Northwood Decorah Manchester and No Dak in a series of Sunday and midweek calls. Attendees included the Leath Reierson Gif feson Amundson Lofts gard Bilden Helgerson Kjosa and Mikkelsen families along with several relatives and neighbors.
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Inwood
Clarence Reierson
Walter Lantz
Lloyd Loftsgard
Joe Bilden
Northwood
N. D
Evelyn
Louise Bilden
Clermont
Hilder Bilden
Helga Bilden
Ruth
Elizabeth, Erling
Brenda Bilden
Bernard Hanson
Alvin Halverson
Kenneth Kjosa
Ernest Mikkleson
Henry Austen
Decorah
Marie Berg
Manuel
No. Dak
Marion Lind
Manchester
Sandra
Clarence Helgerson
Moody AFB driver wins second Roadeo title with broken arm
Staff Sergeant Gene A Anderson of Moody AFB 3550th M S Group returned from Scott AFB to win his second Roadeo event while driving with a broken arm. He placed in both meets despite the injury, performing parallel parking tasks and intricate maneuvers under safety clearance after rapid medical clearance. Anderson, a petroleum specialist from Elgin, married to Alice Selness of Hesper, previously served at Ellendorf AFB in Alaska before arriving at Moody in 1952.
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Gene A. Anderson
3550Th M & S Group
Moody Afb
Scott Afb
Air Training Command
Anderson
Sgt. Anderson
Roadeo
Scott
Elgin
Alice Selness
Hesper
Elmendorf Afb
Alaska
M & § Group
Re united mother and son meet after 28 years
Mrs. Mabel Washburn of Port Angeles Washington and her son Jesse Brown of Keokuk reunited at the home of her father in Glenwood after she lost track of him when he was placed in a Stanton children's home following her husband’s death.
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Glenwood
Mabel Washburn
Port Angeles
Wash
Jesse Brown
Keokuk
Stanton
Fayette County Beef Producers Assn Meeting Recap
About 123 attended the Fayette County Beef Producers Assn banquet in Oelwein on Monday evening September 12. Otis Rothlisberger opened the meeting, Max Jennings reported the nominating committee, and election results named Paul Harrison as chair and Ted Nus as vice chair. New officers and directors were announced with Dr Wise Burroughs and Kenneth Falk as speakers.
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Fayette County Beef Producers Assn
Oelwein
Otis Rothlisberger
Max Jennings
Paul Harrison
Maynard
Ted Nus
Arlington
Kenneth Baldwin
Wadena
Sec
Treas
Leo Meyer
West Union
J. A. Medberry
Elgin
Howard Shaffer
Kenneth James
Stanley
Ervin Barrack
Kenneth Falk
Iowa
Assa
Wise ‘Burroughs
Towa State College
Fayette County
Dairy Cattle and Production Contest Entries Listed
Cattle Congress entries include 11 Holstein and 1 Jersey owned by a group led by Robert and Charles Deering and others. State Production Contest entries include Lee Alshouse and George Lueder, with a Fayette county judging team of Raim, Alshouse, Lueder, and Rubens.
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Dairy Cattle Congress
Jersey
Robert
Charles Deering
Karen Schroeder
Duane Engelhardt
Lorence Raim
Lee Alshouse
George Malyen
August Pagel
John Garnier
Jerry Brown
Roger Decker
George Lueder
Fayette County
James Rubens
Local Dinner Hosts Honor Loren Frieden on Furlough
Elgin area families shared a Sunday meal to honor Loren Frieden's 20 day home furlough. Attendees included Frieden and Olson, Welda, Linda, Sheryl, and Joan Caudel from Dixbuque, plus the Kohls family hosting lunch. The Hugo Hackmanns of West Union visited the Hackmanns of Carl for a Sunday dinner.
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Willard Schroeder
Castalia
Loren Frieden
Levi
Raymond Frieden
Milo Olson
John Welda
Linda
Sheryl
Joan Caudel
Dixbuque
William Kohls
Hugo Hackmann
West Union
Carl Hackmann
Consolidated School District of Clermont Elgin Note
District records list one dollar part and a new car registration for Fred Friederich Jr of Elgin with a Dodge model. Also noted is Barrack Truck Lines of Arlington and a trailer registered in Kentucky.
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Rea
Marion Corbin
David Philip Stetson
Fayette Co. Lumber Co
Walter Rothlisberger
Bell Add
West Union
Clermont-Elgin
Linus Putz
QCD
Edwin Krueger
Consolidated School District of
Fred Friederich Jr
Elgin
Barrack Truck Lines
Arlington
Trailer Ky
Towa swine producers urged to watch for erysipelas signs
Farmers warned to monitor herds for first signs of swine erysipelas to prevent heavy losses. Advice notes that installing automatically heated waterers can help pigs gain faster during winter conditions.
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Towa
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West Enron
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