Monticello Writer Publishes Wartime Censorship Book
Theodore F. Koop of Monticello releases Weapons of Silence detailing the wartime civilian censorship effort. The Washington author explores letter-snoopers, OWI director Byron Price, and the volunteer fighters for secrecy, dedicating the work to his Monticello-area mother Mrs. Laura Koop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theodore F. Koop
Washington, D. C
Office of Censorship
America
OWI
Byron Price
Price
Monticello
Ted Koop
Worth of a wife sparks debate over dollars and love
A columnist critiques economists who valued the farm wife at 69000 dollars, arguing no survey can price marriage. The piece questions assigning a monetary value to companionship, love, security, and fidelity, insisting such a measure degrades a fundamental institution regardless of rural or urban status.
Reading and Writing Give Starling Farmer a Break
Opinion piece urging fair shares for young farmers and breaking patterns of overcharging kin. Includes calls for average values in farm transfers and notes on 1947 Iowa legislative outlook and labor laws. Quotes from Mauno Pekkala Trygve Lie and others on postwar issues. Mention of Vermont maple sugar price lifting as political gesture.
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Starling
Wallace
Vermont
Lifeline to a Promised Land and wartime rescues amid Nazi terror
Ira Hirschmann details efforts to save Balkan Jews during World War II including pressuring Germany to release 45,000 from camps and organizing temporary entry routes via Turkey. He cites promises to admit 5,000 children to Palestine, blocked by German refusal and submarine risks. The piece notes related Book of the Month Club selections and a grim Tokyo tale of famine and a Black Market coffin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S.S. Struma
Turkey
Ira Hirschmann
Ankara
Balkan
Romania
Hirschmann
Balkan States
Palestine
Labor leaders and employers duel over survival risks
Quote from Prof. E Wight Bakke of Yale U Labor and Management Center notes most employers and labor leaders seek not to destroy each other yet may threaten each other’s survival by pursuing self preservation strategies. He warns actions aimed at safeguarding own position can endanger the other side.
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Prof
E. Wight Bakke
Yale U.labor and Manaement Center
Man builds own seven room house amid doubts and delays
Jack Fraser a 26 year old veteran pre medical student living in Monticello travels 120 miles daily to Iowa City to build a seven room home at River and Lee streets Manville Heights with wife Janet and son John III He started last May with no experience investing about 5000 dollars in materials He plans brick veneer finish and custom furniture while learning through neighbors and a local architect The Fraser project aims to save rent costs and showcase self reliance with a hoped sale value of 25000 dollars
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John Fraser
Monticello
Janet
John III
Iowa City
River and
Lee Streets
Manville Heights
Fraser
Iowa State College
Ames
Grinnell College
Veterans Housing
Frasers
Town City
J. Bradley Rust
Rust
Mak
Real Estate Transfers Report From Anamosa Area
Real estate transfers listed include Joe N. Miller and Bonnie to Morris A. and Madelyn G. Miller Lane, joint tenants with road-use reserve, and Eliza Batchelder Brandt to Ray A. Hayes in Langworthy, with several other transfers including T R To biason to Elizabeth Freese and Mabel Hintz to John Edward and Jessie Hurt, detailing lot lines, parcels, and deeds in various townships and subdivisions. Limited readable specifics note block numbers, streets, and parcel boundaries across Anamosa area records.
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Joe N. Miller
Bonnie
Morris A
Madelyn G. Miller
Walworth
Anamosa
Grantor
Eliza Batchelder Brandt
William J
Ray A. Hayes
Langworthy
T. R. Tobiason
Anna
Elizabeth Freese
Monticello
Cedar Street
7Th Street
Mabel Hintz
John Edward
Jessie F. Hurt
Huber
LaVern L. Fulwider
Margaret M
P. E
Flossie Wolfe
Property Transfers and Vacations Recorded in Iowa Deeds
A series of land transfers and street vacation notices appear in Iowa deeds. Transfers include Earl R. Pulver trustee to P E Wolfe for 3000 dollars and L J Schlemme to Herman Hahn in Monticello with various lot descriptions. A Cedar street segment in Monticello is vacated between Warvel additions. Continuous parcel descriptions reference sections 17 and 20 in 84-4 west.
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Earl R. Pulver
Francis John William Payton
P. E. Wolfe
Fairview
Clifford Niles
L. J. Schlemme
Oral
Herman Hahn
Varvel
Monticello
Cedar Street
Iowa
Warvel
Guy Bonwell
James L. ‘Cruise
Oak Street
City of
Foxhole Use Recalled By Soldiers In Marianas
Pfc Rolland Eskov told his parents Mr and Mrs Hans Eskov of Kimballtown that during a recent hurricane soldiers sought foxhole shelter after barracks roofs were ripped off.
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Marianas
Pfc
Rolland Eskov
Hans Eskov
Kimballtown
Local Newspaper Notices Credit Information Glass
Published on Thursday and entered at the Monticello Iowa post office as second class mail matter by the Monticello Express. Member of Iowa Press Association and Credit Bureau of Circulations. Sole advertising representative Newspaper Advertising Service Inc Chicago Illinois.
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Monticello
Iowa
Monticello Express
Towa Press Association
National Editorial Association and Credit Bureau of Circulations
Newspaper Advertising Service
Tinc
Chicago
Thlinuts
Wyoming Opens Basketball Season
The 46 47 Panthers return four lettermen Seehusen Benson Messerli and Newton as coach Linn begins the season with a trip to Wyoming on November 22. Ten home games are planned in an eighteen game schedule including a December 3 matchup with the Coggon Five.
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Linn
Seehusen
Benson
Messerli
Newton
Panthers
Wyoming
Coggon
Tipton
Dubuque
Independence
Manchester
Maquoketa
Anamosa
University High
Marion
West Liberty
Mount Vernon
McKinley
West Branch
Roosevelt
Fourth and Fifth Graders Celebrate Parties At School
Marvin Schneider won best costume at the fifth and sixth grade Halloween party. Second grade studies trains and compares old and modern depictions. Fourth grade planned Halloween activities including Pin the Nose on the Donkey and Bingo. Neena Brokaw returned after four weeks away. John Fegan celebrated a birthday. Paul Bohlken treated classmates to Hershey bars. Harry Bauman is the seventh grade class president and loves football. He is twelve and has lived in town all his life. He says he likes it upstairs in junior high.
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Marvin Schneider
Hallowe'en
Alan Shelley Wallace Tuetken
Judy Podhaski
Linda Hartman
Hallowe’en
John Fegan
Neena Brokaw
Paul Bohlken
Harry Bauman
Harry
Father and Son Banquet Held by FFA
The Father and Son banquet is set for November 14 in the gymnasium. Committees cover food decoration seating with named members. Attendees include FFA boys and fathers, four honorary members, ten state farmers led by Larry Rieken and others, plus faculty Mr. Shannon Mr. Adams and Mr. Walker.
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F.F.A
George Schneiter
Galen Helgens
Rodney Reiken
Willis Harms
Bob Spahr
Glen Cass
Eugene Hanken
Garret Harms
Dale Mardoff
F.pf.a
Larry Rieken
Bob Buel
Dick Mardorf
Art Husmann
James Howie
David Walker
Gene Walker
Jack Heiken
Herman Welter Jr
Boyd Chatterton
Shannon
Adams
Walker
Eighth Grade Leaders Highlight Monticello Teens
Roy Dreibelbis, 15, freshman class president at Monticello, stands 5 6 1/2 with brown hair and blue eyes after transferring from Center Junction. Donald Martin, Monticello eighth grade president, a blue eyed blonde who moved here in fourth grade, active in band and sports, plans to try out for football next year.
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Roy Dreibelbis
Center Junction
Monti High
F.F.A
van Johnson
Donald Martin
Don
Monticello
Limerick Contest Winners Crown Dress Award at Stuhlers
Shirley Bartels and Monti Freshman won a Donna Dodson dress in a limerick contest sponsored by Stuhlers several weeks ago. Mr. Shannon has been in Des Moines this past week attending an educator's conference.
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Shirley Bartels
Monti
Donna Dodson
Stuhlers
Shannon
Des Moines
Two Bands Entertain At Armistice Day Game
During halftime of the Anamosa Monticello Armistice day football game the two marching bands performed for the largest home crowd of the year. They marched in formation spelling out initials and school loyalties while playing Notre Dame Victory March On Iowa and Iowa Corn Song.
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Notre Dame
Iowa
Anamosa
Monticello
Monti
Monti High
Monti Calendar December Holiday Schedule
November events include F F A Banquet on the 14th and Junior Class Play on the 19th. Go-to-School Night on the 21st, Them Initiation on the 28th and 29th, with Thanksgiving Vacation beginning December 6. Tipton will be here on December 13 and Independence on December 20. Two weeks Christmas vacation begins.
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F.F.A
Wyoming
Coggon
Tipton
Dubuque
Independence
Manchester
Maquoketa
Homemaking Party Leads to Local Constitution Draft
Claretta Hugman chaired the homemaking party at the school on Saturday night November 9. Jeanne Harms Roma Hoult Dorothy Griffith Ruth Kromminga and Ruth Ann Yossi served on the committee. Officers prepared a local constitution sent to national headquarters for approval. Club dues totaling thirty cents have been collected. A year long program is planned by a committee led by Marjory Hoffman with Laura Mae Feltes Betty Beebe Bertha Mae Plueger Martha Hayes and Marjory Luett.
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Claretta Hugman
Jeanne Harms
Roma Hoult
Dorothy Griffith
Ruth Kromminga
Ruth Ann Yossi
Marjory Hoffman
Laura Mae Feltes
Betty Beebe
Bertha ‘Mae Plueger
Martha Hayes
Marjory
Luett
Junior Thespians Plan Production for Tomorrow Evening
Junior thespians stage crew and Mrs Bess Greenley prepare the class play Old Doe with a lively cast including Bob Veitch as young Doc and Donna Beth Ritchison as Ma Brown. The production buzzes with rehearsed entrances and lighthearted mishaps as prompters and crews finalize stage details ahead of tomorrow night.
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Bess Greenley
Doe
Bob Veitch
Doc
Ma Brown
Donna Beth Ritchison
Hansen Announces Madrigal Personnel
Miriam Hansen lists thirteen singers for a madrigal group including Marjory Suett Patty Podhaski and Barbara Walker with sopranos altos and basses named among the cast. The group performed at Homecoming and includes several faculty and student vocalists.
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Miriam Hansen
Marjory Suett
Patty Podhaski
Marileigh Clark
Barbara Walker
Kathryn Bender
Donna Beth Aitchison
Donna McCurdy
Marjory Hoffman
Dave Hamilton
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Monticello Man
Farm Journal
Blue
Finland
Russia
Mauno Pekkala
United Nations
Trygve Lie
U. N
Dr. E. Case
Colgate U
Soviet Union
Red Navy
Admin Abankin
Lewis Carroll
Matsuo Liebe
Tokyo
Corps of Assistants
Jack Fraser
Paul DeCamp
Iowa City Press-Citizen
Monticello and
Jones County
Charles A. Doxsehr
Jones, Linn
Delaware
Philomonte
Husman
Junior Thespians
Bob
Mildred Rieniers
Bernice Schmidt
Joyce Slauson
Jean Hein
Vera Null
Elizbeth Wilson
Eugene Oltmann
Hansen
Madrigal
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