Iowa to Test Basic Skills in Every Pupil Testing Program
Iowa City officials announce the Iowa Every Pupil Testing Program for January with tests from January 15 to 20. About 76,500 pupils in grades three through nine will take tests in reading, study methods, writing mechanics, and arithmetic to help teachers tailor instruction and allow administrators to evaluate overall educational offerings. Two test forms exist, with four to five period options, and results will be analyzed by the University of Iowa College of Education and shared with schools about a month after scores are returned.
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Towa
University of Towa
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College of Education
State to Test 70,000 Pupils in 85 Percent Systems
The program will issue a booklet of forms for pupil score interpretation and an individual cumulative form for each pupil not yet tested. It targets 70,000 town pupils in 85 percent school systems and 6,500 rural school pupils across 20 counties. A higher 1948 registration is noted, with aims to include public schools statewide while excluding private and parochial schools.
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Ring
Fine Herbs Enhance Good Meat Flavor
A home economist, Reba Stuns, notes renewed interest in herb seasoning as war days bring more foods to market. She advises starting with six familiar herbs and using one at a time to learn flavor profiles. A starter list pairs beef with basil marjoram savory thyme rosemary, veal with rosemary savory thyme sage, lamb with marjoram savory rosemary mint dill, pork with sage basil rosemary marjoram chives.
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Reba Stuns
Home Economist
Miss Stags
Towns with many fine colleges in Iowa history
Education powers democracy as 32,000,000 Americans return to school, with 2,750,000 in colleges. Iowa enrollments have nearly doubled since 1940, about 45,000 in three state schools and private colleges. Notable Iowa colleges like Drake, Grinnell, Coe, Cornell, Luther, Parsons, and others shaped culture, though some schools like Des Moines University and Lenox College have closed.
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John W. Studebak
U. S
Towa
Hawkeye State
University of Iowa
Iowa State College
Iowa State Teachers College
Drake and Grinnell
Coe
Cornell
Luther
Parsons
Dubuque’ University
Morningside
Loras
Towa Wesleyan
Iowa
Des Moines University
Des Moines
Tabor College
Tabor
Ellsworth College
Iowa Falls
Lenox College
Hopkinton
Wm. R. Ferguson
the Palimpsest
Cheese Ghetti with Bologna Cups Homemakers Delight
The article outlines a thrifty meal using durum spaghetti bologna slices shaped into cups filled with corn and cheese sauce. Fry bologna to form cups, fold in pickle and milk cheese, then mix with hot spaghetti and garnish with parsley. Yields five servings.
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Jack Spratt
World Unity Theme Highlights 1947 4-H Congress in Chicago
The 1947 National 4-H Club Congress met at Stevens Hotel Chicago from November 30 to December 5 with the theme Working Together for a Better World Community. About 1400 members from 46 states Canada Alaska and other nations attended tours to Field Museum Planetarium Art Institute and more. Dwight Mathes of Pella Iowa served as a delegate sharing insights about 4-H members worldwide and their ways of life.
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Stevens Hotel
Chicago
Canada
Alaska
Oup
Field Museum
Planetarium
Art Institute
Dwight Mathes
Pella
Lake Prairie
New Towboats Edge Towboats in Big Mississippi Tow
Late September inland readers watched sternwheel towboat Alexander MacKenzie push eighteen thousand three hundred tons upriver, the largest cargo ever ferried by a tow. The Central Barge Line pair Alexander MacKenzie and Herbert Hoover long rivaled, with the MacKenzie finally leading after pushing fourteen coal barges to St Paul and a fifteenth with rock phosphate.
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United States
Alexander MacKenzi
Alexander MacKenzie
Mississippi
Central Barge Line
Herbert Hoover
MacKenzie
St. Paul
Reading of the Christmas Story for Children
A call to keep Christmas meaningful by adults reading the Bible story to children Christmas Eve in a simple, brief ceremony. Children grasp the tale better than assumed, and a yearly family reading creates lasting religious memory per Iowa Child Welfare Research Station.
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Santa Claus
Memo
Iowa Child Welfare Research Station
University of Towa
Mourns Passing of Oyster Suppers
The Toledo Chronicle laments fading oyster suppers of old times as prices rise to around 80 cents a pint. It recalls hot creamy soup with butter, rich stew, and the aroma and taste that delighted locals, accompanied by oyster crackers and dill pickles.
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Yesteryears
Toledo
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