Auto Model Changeovers Threaten Detroit Jobs Since ’46
The Wall Street Journal dispatch details a nation wide auto industry slowdown as 1954 model changeovers prompt extended shutdowns. Chevrolet and Packard plan multi week layoffs, with 38% of Chrysler workers idle and Detroit area unemployment rising to 140000. Union leaders push for guaranteed wages amid anticipated plant closures from September into October.
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Utica
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Janesville
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Local 596
Fishee Body
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Buffalo
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Richmond
Chrysler Corps
Auto Bodies
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Edward Barnes
Local 49
DeSoto
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Local 51
D. A. Ringis
Los Angeles
Le Mars Country Club hosts lunch and bridge event
Hostesses welcome attendees at Le Mars Country Club on Thursday August 12 at one o clock for a pot luck luncheon and an afternoon of bridge.
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Between Selah and Bright Water Troubled Moor Tale
Chief Sharp Eye demands his daughter Bright Water from the Indian Agent on the Crow Feet Reservation. The agent hints Bright Water is outside with a helper who may be ill as Sharp Eye learns Water sits on a knee. A brief interlude follows with a subway encounter between two secretaries. A Scotsman winning a car laments buying two raffle tickets. Meanwhile Le Mars experiences brief power outages due to a faulty transformer near the Club Cafe.
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Crows-Feet
New Moor
Orange City and Sioux Center Christian Schools mark 50th anniversary
The Orange City and Sioux Center Christian Schools announce a joint 50th anniversary celebration on Tuesday evening August 17 at 8 in the Orange City Community Hall. Rev E Heerema will speak. a program includes special numbers as the two schools publish a commemorative 86 page book. The movement has grown from 96 schools in 1943 to 167 in 1953. Public invited.
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Christian Society
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Rural Iowa incidents with fatalities and reunions
At Eldora a coon entered Jake Bottema’s bed. Bottema wrestled it outside and bludgeoned it to death. Near Eagle Grove a 70 year old, Thory Johnson, demolished a silo. the falling silo killed him as he fled in the wrong direction. Blakesburg saw a reunion of Dale Bell, 63, and his brother David, 65, after sixty years apart. A Mason City man failed to net a fish but recovered the license number. a spawning wall eye tagged by the conservation commission in 1953. A fall from a ladder seriously injured 10 year old Bernard Mulder near Rock Valley after a pitchfork punctured his back.
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Jake Bottema
Cleveland
Clear Lake
H. W. Swanson
Mason City
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Conservation Commission
Bernard Mulder
Rock Valley
Grant Clover Clovers Meet At Verda Clumanns Home
The Grant Clover Clovers held a regular meeting at Verda Jean Clumanns home on August 3 with 15 members and 1 visitor. Plans were made for items to take to the Le Mars and Craig fairs and a bake sale at Craig. After the meeting the group sang from new music books, and a lunch was served by the hostess and her mother.
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Grant Clover Clovers
Verda Jean Clumanns
Craig Fair
JoAnn Janssen
The Highway Story on Iowa Motorist Traps
The piece notes an annual trapping season for motorists lasting until harvest. It describes simple setups at rural intersections using tall corn, high weeds, and low-hanging trees to blind drivers and block sight lines, detailing how traps form and operate.
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Bot Hullihan
Iowa
Meeting Notes From Local Homemakers Club Session
The meeting was called to order by Sherry Rees. Nine members and two visitors attended. Edythe McDossalt demonstrated using a vacuum cleaner. The Junior and Senior demonstration teams presented at the fair. A lunch was served by host Sally J. Sod to her mother.
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Shea Aill
Toged
Laary Nickohon
Sherry Rees
Sally J. Sod
Le Mars social notes highlight dances, picnics, and visits
Le Mars community scenes feature ten day hostesses at the Country Club Miss Josephine Arendt Mrs Earl Remner and Mrs George Koenig with high score won by Mrs R M Figg. Detroit visitors Mr and Mrs Morris Johnson and three children spent time with Emil Lee and the Johnsons, Ronny Johnson’s 12th birthday celebration, tours to Sioux City, and a planned coffee hour. Weekend guests include Miss Margaret Lichtenheld and Mrs William Martin with a Teen Dance planned at the Country Club. Ladies Aid at St Johns elected officers: Mrs Fred Utech secretary Mrs Frank Lauters vice president with president Mrs Herman Becker Sr and Treasurer Mrs E Moser. Master Vander ae listed among attendees.
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Josephine Arendt
Earl Remner
George Koenig
R. M. Figg
Morris Johnson
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Herman Johnson
Franklin Lee
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Oskaloosa
Towa
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Country Club
Kay Kramer
Lewis Neumayer
R. I. Fisch
Monte Cass Jr
John Vollmar
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Nherive
Selah As
Jock
Highlands
Club Cafe
Seid Civilsa
Grant
Luken
Cadac
Grady Motors
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