Belle Bogard's Japan visit renews faith at Baiko Gakuin
Missionary Belle Bogard writes from Tokyo about Japan's Baiko Gakuin after WWII destruction. She describes student admissions, rebuilt facilities, a beautiful chapel, and new American teachers, plus meetings with former students and local educators.
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F. Belle Bogard
Japan
Tokyo
Christian Gore
Shimonoseki
Baiko To Gakuin
Sturges Seminary
Baiko
Franken
Mis
States
Marcella Poppen
Kyushu
Moore
Fukuoka
Kobe
Hyakumoto
Gakuin
Dr. Pieters
Miss Pieters
Batko
Belle Bogard P
Bob
Mrs. Hamilton
Bess
Stege
Pella to Host Ground Observer Post in Civil Defense
John Van Vliet Jr. is named Ground Observation Post supervisor for Pella, the first Marion County post. Earl D. Pohlmann appointed chief observer. post will be in Pella Golf and Country Club. About 24 volunteers will monitor aircraft, report to Des Moines filter center within 18 seconds, with one hour shifts around the clock. A state training team will teach identification and reporting procedures. Radar limits and possible equipment failure underscore need for observers linking to the Air Force system.
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State Office of Civil Defense
Des Moines
John van Vliet Jr
Pelle
C. E. Fowler
Civil Defense
van Vliet
Pella
Earl D. Pohlmannn
Pohlmann
Marion County
State Ground Observer Corps
Air Force Filter Center
van Vilet
U. S. Air Force
Cial Air Force
Fowler
List of recipients for a printed letter copy
Betty Afifie Dame Schencks Mrs Faber Mrs Warn shuis Mrs Jat George Chris Miss Taylor Miss Gustavel Jeane Nandal receive a copy of this letter.
Marion County Farmers Sign Up for PMA Farm Program 1952
In Marion County 1782 farmers have joined the 1952 PMA conservation program, about 71.8 percent of 2482 farms. Last year 1686 farms participated. Chairman Brown notes a gain of nearly 200 farms over 1951 and urges farmers to assess their fields for urgent conservation needs and use ACP facilities. The focus is on maximum conservation per dollar of public and private funds.
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Marion County
PMA
Paul
ACP
Nine Eagles Lake Dedication in Decatur County
The Nine Eagles artificial lake at Nine Eagles State Park, Decatur County, four miles southeast of Davia City, will be dedicated June 22. Governor Wm. Beardsley will be principal speaker, with Dr. C. D. Scoutt and E.G. Trost involved in the program. The 57 acre lake sits in a 1,200 acre park, reaches 30 feet deep, and is praised as a beautiful new water feature.
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Nine Eagles
Decatur County
Davia City
Beardsley
C. D. Scoutt
Leon
Nine Eagles Lake
E.G. Trost
Fort Dodge
Conservation Commission
Nine Eagles State Park
Five year old Ruby Dodson found in ice-box death
Derby residents searched the town after five year old Ruby Dodson failed to return home for supper. The child was discovered suffocated inside the ice-box’s ice compartment in an abandoned structure on the town’s west edge, prompting a community mourn.
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Ruby Dodson
Derby
Iowa University School of Religion Observing Its Twenty-fifth Year
Sunday ceremonies mark the 25th anniversary of the Iowa school of religion at the State University of Iowa with a vespers service and an inter religious dialogue on relic and education in our Arab tradition. Notable visitors include Clarence Shedd Rabbi Arthur J Lelyveld Judge William F Riley Bishop Brashares Rabbi Eugene Mannheimer Bishop Ralph L Hayes and Chancellor R H Fitzgerald. A luncheon featured the book Of Faith and Learning a history of the school’s first 25 years.
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Towa City
Iowa
Yale University
Clarence Shedd
State University of Iowa
School of Religion
United States
Shedd
Versary
Iowa School of Religion
Arthur J. Lelyveld
New York
William F. Riley
Charles W. Brashares
Eugene Mannheimer
Des Moines
Ralph L Hayes
Davenport
R. H. Fitzgerald
University of Pittsburgh
Marcus Bach
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Brown
Knoxville Journal
Kew
Iowa University School of Religion
Bach
History
Tysseling’s Shoe Store
White Way Auto Company
White Way Auto CO
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