The Highway Story and Iowa Towns Program Aids
A feature recalls Jay a larger than life traveling salesman and his hard day with a fatal fatigue moment. It then outlines Iowa State College Program Aids for 1956 guiding rural leaders, population trends in small towns, and how to build tomorrow’s communities. Also noted is Sixteen Tons mining shifts toward mechanization and rising energy demands, plus advice asserting the home as an educational setting for thinking with practical prompts for parents and children.
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Jay
Iowa
W. H. Stavy
Iowa State College
Stacy
Towa
America
Car rolls into creek injuring Clarinda family
Mrs. Kenneth Jones and her two young daughters were hospitalized after their car skidded and rolled down a 20 foot embankment into a creek. A tractor operator is credited with saving one daughter who was underwater at the scene.
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Kenneth Jones
Clarinda
Postman Passed By and Power Preferences Rise
Special privilege is disliked yet intrinsic to socialized federal electric power operations. The sale rules favor publicly owned distributing agencies first under preference clauses, with leftovers offered to other agencies.
Preference clauses in socialized power blamed as unfair
A Western power company denounces preference clauses that let public systems benefit most while private users bear taxes. It notes last year taxes paid per dollar taken were higher for private firms, while federal projects paid nothing. The piece argues power should be sold on equal terms to all and jokes about absurd parallels. The text also mentions vaccination for breeding stock against erysipelas.
Polk City man dies in bottle gas heater blast
Earl Pletcher of Polk City was killed instantly when a bottle gas heater exploded while he was aiding a neighbor. The blast blew out two tile walls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl Pletcher
Polk City
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Sally Snickers
Horace Elmo
Sally
Mabel
Veendow
Harry
MR. Kantsitsei
Kerry Drake
Eustace
Strops
Bops
Dude
Drake
Mary Worth
Miss Kimball
Tin Hammeller
Bobby Ladid Spragman
Jar. Sheridan
Kimball
By McFeathers
Pelham
By d
Alessio
Butchie
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