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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1954
Page
1
A young man in a quiet town drives at high speed to leave a mark before moving away. He boasts he can outrun the police and reaches seventy to eighty five miles an hour before skidding off into a curb and striking a driveway, leaving a barked tree as a grim marker of the fatal accident in town.
The article explains tuberculosis symptoms may include fatigue appetite loss and weight loss. It urges early detection via chest X ray or tuberculin test and recommends annual chest X rays to improve cure chances. It notes spread by coughing kissing or contaminated objects and warns the disease kills about 55 000 people annually in the United States.
A discussion on how children learn self control and why early practice matters. It explains freedom as the ability to regulate personal desires for harmonious social interaction, with parenting approach shaping behavior from infancy. By age two routines reduce temper and cooperation rises, avoiding punishment driven fights.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago reports softer finished goods prices amid intensified competition across industries. Discounts arrive via freight absorption and quality gains at the same price, with TV, appliances, furniture, and dairy benefiting. Studebaker trims 1955 models by 100 dollars as overall demand remains weak while capacity climbs. Factory output per man-hour rises 5 percent driven by ample materials, smoother capital equipment use, and a leaner workforce.
Iowa editorials mix support for toll roads with calls to widen existing routes and fix bridges. Votes favor state funds for road upgrades while urging focus on local roads, rubbish control, and overall modernization of Iowa’s extensive highway system.
Two couples and relatives journeyed through the Ozarks in Missouri and Arkansas. They visited Pelsor and Mountain Home, saw the Bagnall and Norfolk dams, then stopped in Harrison and stayed with Ada Jenkins. Mrs Minnie Orr traveled to Des Moines for the Iowa Farmers tour of Europe.
The DHIA held a picnic at Harold Wilson's home with 65 attendees. Reelected president Harold Wilson and secretary-treasurer Bill Welter were announced at the gathering in Buck Creek.
Sutton reports Jack Moran is due to arrive in San Francisco on Sept 9 to complete four years in the air corps. Mr. and Mrs. James Moran await his discharge as his family shares in a large picnic at the Maquoketa caves with relatives from Dubuque Davenport and beyond.
Marine Pvt Delbert D Wright of Route 3 Monticello Iowa took part in a joint Marine Army amphibious and airborne exercise on Okinawa on August 6 1950. The 4th Marine Regimental Combat Team struck Kinma Saki beach while the Army 187th Airborne jumped onto Kin airfield. Ashore by the Army 36th Tank and Amphibious Tractor Battalion and supported by Marine Fighter Squadron 224 the assault moved inland to link with the parachutists. The Marine unit was reinforced by 3rd Marine Division tanks artillery engineers and service troops.
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