Serious Proposal Seeks Expanded Highway Patrol and Reorg
A bill HF 65 would raise patrol strength from 160 to 275 and shift the Highway Patrol to a new Traffic and Transportation department, with the Public Safety department dissolved. The commission urges restricting patrol duties to highway crimes, alarming readers that murder and rape could evade patrols. The piece notes higher costs and questions the plan, urging enforcement focus over speed checks.
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Highway Patrol
Reorganization Commission
Department of “Traffic and Transportation
Department of “Public Safety
Highway Department
Local tax cuts and the citizen’s stake in government
The piece argues that small cuts in local taxes yield meaningful savings for individuals, urging vigilance against government expansion. It asserts a need to monitor state and local spending to protect liberties and maintain control of government, stressing personal financial stakes in local fiscal decisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Iowa
Monticello Notes Venture From Vet Visit and Local News
A Monticello column recalls a vet visit to a farmer's cow, a dinner club gathering, and town notes. It mentions a Cedar Rapids Spike Jones show, weathering streets with sand, a deer rescued then turned over to state officials, and a wakeful morning joke. It also covers Valentine shopping, Monday night dances and events at Rotary, plus English visitor Chris Dumbell discussing politics and wartime leaders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monticello
Bob Savage
Bob
Clarence Hosford
Si Locher
Bill Coxsee
Hosford
Locher
Savage
Letters to the Editor from Fort Riley Soldiers
Pvt. Garriet A. Harris and Ret. Raymond E. Harms thank James Stadtmueller and the paper for home news. Harris notes morale from the Express while serving at Fort Hood Texas in 1951. Harms, in the 2nd Armor division, describes basic training, future furloughs, and Army Field Artillery assignment with mild weather and transport by truck.
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Coxsee
Monti
Express
K.P
Army
Garriet
A. Harris
Fort Hood
Texas
James Stadtmueller
James
2Nd Armor
Army Field Artillery
Raymond E. Harms
Onslow Polio Drive Receives $246 in 1951 Collections
The Onslow community raised 246 for the 1951 Jones County Polio Drive surpassing the 1950 total of 143.20 by 102.80. Of the amount, 52.93 came from basketball game collections and 193.07 from envelope donations from 151 families.
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Onslow
Jones County
Senator Gillette Responds With Cheaper Coffee Letter
Rev. O. Sandbach says Senator Guy Gillette sent a reply praising cheaper coffee after a misdirected mimeographed note. Sandbach, former Methodist pastor now in Sommers, notes Midwest voters oppose universal military training and six percent coffee price concerns as a path to peace.
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Guy M. Gillette
O. Sandbach
Sandbach
Sommers
the Express
Washington
Midwest
Guy Gillette
Foreign Affairs Committee
Gillette
Laura Feltes Graduates From St Mercy Hospital Nursing School
Miss Laura Mae Feltes daughter of Mr and Mrs John Feltes of Hopkinton received a diploma from the Most Rev Henry P Rohlman archbishop of Dubuque at graduation exercises of St Mercy Hospital School of Nursing on February 1. She will begin work February 19 at Xavier Hospital in Dubuque in the surgical department.
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Laura Mae Feltes
John Feltes
Hopkinton
Henry P. Rohlman
Dubuque
St. Mercy Hospital School of Nursing
Xavier Hospital
Illness Report From Mercy Hospital Cedar Rapids
Mrs. Maude Lightfoot has been reported seriously ill in Mercy hospital Cedar Rapids. She was taken there last Thursday. Mr. and Mrs Andrew Serbousek of Center Junction spent last weekend at the home of Mrs Eliza Serbousek. Pvt Donald A Miller and Alice left for Camp Carson Colorado but returned to Monticello after the sudden death of Miller's grandmother in Springville.
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Monticello
Maude Lightfoot
Mercy Hospital
Cedar Rapids
Andrew Serbousek
Center Junction
Eliza Serbousek
Pvt
Donald A. Miller
Alice
Camp Carson
Colo
Pvt. Miller
Springville
Nancy Deischer
Columbia, Mo
University
F. D. Deischer
Jeanne Cox
Dubuque
Phyllis Cox
Buck Creek
Ed Cox
Ted Rieniers
Doris
North Carolina
Chicago
Fort Sheridan
Ill
Guy Bonwell
Waterloo
E. E. Towne
R. J. Anderson
Billy
August Monks Set Open House to Mark 25th Anniversary
August and wife of Anamosa will celebrate their twenty fifth wedding anniversary with open house at their farm near Anamosa on Friday February 16. Hours are 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 PM with a family noon dinner. They have three children August Jr Langworthy Arlene and Geraldine. Miscellaneous local family visits and college sorority pledging notes follow.
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August Monk
Anamosa
Monk
August Jr
Langworthy
Arlene
Kenneth Boddicker
Cedar Rapids
Geraldine
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Commission
By the
Way
Spike Jones
Louis Lemke
Boone
Lemke
Rotary
Shriners
John Deere
England
Conservative Party
Chris Dumbell
Icans
Chris
Atlee
Truman
Roosevelt
Churchill
Acme Electric CO
West 1St Street
Lady Borden
Borden
Ticello Express
Monticello and
Monticello Express
I Iowa Press Association
National Editorial Association
Audit Bureau of Circulations
Newspaper Advertising Service, Inc
Iowa Press Advertising Service
Des Moines
Jones, Linn
Delaware
Jackson
Clinton
Cedar
The
Fort Riley, Kansas
Onslow Polio
UMT
Laura Feltes
School of Nursing
Howard Zirkelbach
Jack Naylor
Co-Operative
Chrysler
Plymouth
Parade
Joseph Motors
T. Lyle Joseph
Hopkinton, Iowa
Iowa State Teachers College
Marileigh Clark
Leigh Clark
Theta Gamma Nu
Teachers College
Dean Willworth
University of Iowa
Iowa City
Tobe T. Caspers
Robert Reuter
Honorine Husman
T. F. Tobiason
Atkins
Robert Parrott
Mount Vernon
Elwin Null
Laura Heims
Florence Heims
George C. Doxsee
University of Iowa School of Medicine
C. A. Doxsee
Community Conservation League
Ray Stumbaugh
Les Pike
State Conservation Commission
DeWitt Drug Store
Zimmerman’s Hardware
Gamble Store
G. M. Jones
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