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Newspaper
Reporter Boyden
Location
Boyden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1952
Page
7
The document lists less operating disbursements including losses by fire and lightning reinsurance cost net reinsurance losses paid adjusting expense and mileage inspection expense fire truck expense municipal firemen purchase fire prevention equipment total operating disbursements and gross operating receipts.
Iowa Highway Commission chief engineer Fred R. White reports ten million dollars in farm-to-market road contracts awarded in the last half of 1951. About 30 to 35 percent of work was finished before winter. spring work will start as equipment returns. A $400,000 river bridge in Wapello county is the largest steel-consuming project.
Des Moines reports twenty eight thousand more Iowans found gainful employment in 1951 than 1950. Average non farm employment reached six hundred thirty thousand eight hundred, with wages higher than ever. Figures come from the Iowa Employment Security Commission showing yearly totals and state job improvements. Every Saturday Free Merchandise drawing at Stegeman's Appliances in Boyden, Iowa.
In early 1952 Iowa will issue checks totaling 17 million dollars to 4,628 school districts. Farm taxpayers will receive five million dollars in state help on school taxes. Districts get 7 cents per elementary pupil and 20 cents per day of school held. Pro rated to 87.6 percent of basic claims, checks mailed mid January.
Iowa City experts explain heart disease is not one disease. Dr Lewis E January of the University of Iowa notes 21 distinct circulatory conditions exist, with rheumatic, coronary, and hypertensive diseases causing over 90 percent of deaths.
Winners of the Farmers Co op Oil Co jug guessing game tallied nails and prizes. Abe Van Roeke Rev H Bank Art E Miller Chester De Boer Wallace Winter John O Stegeman reported nails total 1438 and a photographer note accompanying the item.
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