Iowa Board Outlines Sweeping School Consolidation Plan
The Iowa Board of Public Instruction proposed consolidating hundreds of small districts to create districts with at least 600 students and a high school. It urged lawmakers to set aside 11 million dollars in extra aid and to require all districts in a proposed consolidation to be bound by the majority vote. The plan aims to improve efficiency, curriculum, and administration while preserving some scattered town schools.
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Iowa Board of Public Instruction
Iowa
Harry M. Reed
DES Moin
Sitler Electric Opens New Home Lighting Department
Sitler Electric introduces a new department for home lighting fixtures with a modern display room for customers to preview how options will look in homes. Purchases must go through local dealers or contractors. the display room is in Sitler's building on North Iowa Avenue.
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Sitler’s Electric Supply
Bill Sitler
Sitlers
Sitler
Iowa Avenue
New Year's Eve Candlelight Communion at Methodist Church
The annual New Year's Eve candlelight communion will be held at the Methodist Church beginning at 11 15 p m Dr Reed's message is Old Year Wisdom For New Year Living Mrs A S Smith will be the organist The public is invited to close the old year and begin the New Year in this service of worship.
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Methodist Church
Reed
A. S. Smith
Iowan loses appeal over army oath refusal
The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St Louis affirmed the 18 month prison sentence given to Donald Jackson De Moss 21 Cylinder Iowa for violating the Selective Service Act by refusing to take the oath at Des Moines in July 1953. He contended he was a Jehovahs Witness minister and a conscientious objector.
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ST. Louis
Circuit Court of Appeals
Donald Jackson de Moss
Cylinder
Iowa
de Moss
Des Moines
Humboldt
Polio Cases Totals Reported in Washington County
Washington County March of Dimes reveals 24 polio cases in 1954 with 17 from rural areas. Treasurer Fileen Jeffrey notes a $2895.87 county treasury balance, vulnerable to a single 1955 case. Hospital costs run about $500 per patient monthly. seven families received $3519.97 in aid to date.
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Washington County
March of Dimes
Fileen Jeffrey
Wellman Telephone Co change proposal defeated
The Wellman Co operative Telephone Association held a special meeting December 29 and voted down the proposal to sell shares in the rural lines by 140 to 107.
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Wellman
Wellman Cooperative Telephone Association
United Presbyterians Plan New Year Dinner
The United Presbyterian church will serve its annual New Year dinner at noon Saturday with cooperative meal sharing. Members bring baskets and afterward a business meeting will elect trustees and officers with reports read.
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United Presbyterian Church
Born Here in 1862 Dies in California
Obituary notes Miss Kate Hamilton born in Washington Iowa in 1862. She moved to Pasadena in 1889 and taught in Pasadena public schools for 26 years. She was a Congregational church member, P E O sisterhood and the D A R. Survived by sisters Lada Hamilton and Mrs Myrtle Owens plus a niece and two nephews.
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Kate Hamilton
Laguna Beach
Calif
Pasadena
California
Washington
Iowa
Miss Hamilton
A. L. Hamilton
Many Men Help With New Christmas Music System Washington
Washington shoppers enjoyed a centralized Christmas music program in the business district aided by the city ministerial association. Organist John Yousling provided recordings from Sorden Music and Christian church organ, with volunteers from multiple churches coordinating daily record changes. Local contributors included Dr. W J Grossheim, James Pumroy, Dr E L Haney, George Masson Sr., Robert Brewer, Rev Earl Longfellow, Floyd Murdock, Rev H E Wakelin, L B Trask, Dr C R Reed, Rev Harley C Gelhaus, Artemas Brown, Harold Mangold, Bernard Payne, Milo Steele Sr, and others who supplied equipment and expertise.
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Washington
John Yousling
Sorden Music Company
The
Christian Church
City Ministerial Association
Wlse
W. J. Grossheim
James Pumroy
Presbyterian Church
E. L. Haney
George Masson Sr
Robert Brewer
United Presbyterian Church
Earl Longfellow
Floyd Murdock
Baptist Church
H. E. Wakelin
L. B. Trask
C. R. Reed
Methodist Church
Harley C. Gelhaus
Evangelical & Reformed Church
Artemas Brown
YMCA
Harold Mangold
Bernard Payne
Milo Steele Sr
Plan Pokrantz Rites At Wellman Saturday
WELLMAN August Pokrantz 91 died Thursday at his Keota home after five years of declining health. Funeral at 2 p m Saturday at St John’s Lutheran Wellman with Rev Walter Johannes. burial Pleasant Hill Cemetery Wellman. Survivors: widow four daughters two sons two brothers. six grandchildren four great grandchildren.
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Wellman
August Pokrantz
Keota
Alberta Kreuger Pokrantz
What Cheer
Iowa
Anna Emde
Ellis Schuessler
West Liberty
Sam Staufer
Brooklyn
Emma Marner
Freida Miller
Gus Pokrantz
Little Falls
Minn
Prominent Southern California figure honored in funeral rites
Funeral services were held in Memorial Chapel with interment at Mountain View mausoleum, marking a prominent local figure’s final rites in Southern California.
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Southern
California
Memorial Chapel
Mountain View Mausoleum
Eisenhower Expected to Seek 90 Cent Minimum Wage
President Eisenhower will urge Congress in the January State of the Union to raise the federal minimum wage from 75 to 90 cents per hour. Press Secretary James Hagerty said the exact request may be 15 cents, calling it a substantial and fair increase tied to major economic discussions. The move follows economic talks with the Council of Economic Advisers and departments, with earlier suggestions of a $1 wage from Sen. Morse.
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Augusta
Eisenhower
Congress
James C. Hagerty
Hagerty
White House
West Germany
Richard M. Nixon
Central America
Caribbean
Council of Economic Advisers
Labor Department
Commerce Department
Wayne Morse
Ind.-Ore
Nation's Traffic Toll 1 800 Fewer in 1954
The National Safety Council reports 1954 ends with 36 500 traffic deaths, the lowest since 1950, despite over 20 percent more vehicle mileage. 1953 toll was 38 300. November was the only month above the prior year.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
Sioux Falls
S.D
Aurora
Ill
la Crosse
Wis
Los Angeles
Detroit
Philadelphia
German Rearmament To Bring Bigger Red Satellite Armies
The report warns of a larger Soviet bloc force tied to German rearmament. Storms snow and ice cripple highways from Wisconsin to Texas amid a predicted 240 traffic deaths during New Year weekend. Police urge sober driving as slijsh roads prompt safety campaigns and tough enforcement.
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Wisconsin
Kansas
Texas
Oklahoma
National Safety Council
Midwest
Racine
Wis
Ft. Scott
Kan
Chicago
Indiana
Michigan
New England
Upper
Vermont
New Hampshire
Maine
Urges Good Attendance At Legion Meeting
Harold Jarvis post commander urged all veterans to attend the Leon Beatty American Legion meeting on Tuesday January 4 at 8 p m. The gathering aims to finalize plans for the county wide meeting set for January 18 and will feature a free oyster stew for attendees.
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Leon Beatty American Legion Post
Harold Jarvis
Jarvis
Methodists Launch Attendance Crusade for New Year
The Methodist Attendance Crusade begins in all churches Sunday January 2 and runs through Easter with the theme God Is Our Strength. Members are urged to renew loyalty to Christ by attending worship each Sunday, starting with the first service of the year locally.
Christmas Trees Wanted by Washington Jaycees
Washington Jaycees collect old Christmas trees on Monday January 3. Residents place trees at the nearest block corner for pickup by Jaycee trucks touring the city and hauling them to the city dump. The effort cites fire hazard and bulk obstructing standard trash collection.
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Jaycees
Washington
Jaycee
Aycees
Peiping Reopens Spying Charges Against America
Peiping Radio today reopened espionage claims by quoting alleged messages from China to Japan. The broadcast cited Friday articles in the Peking Peoples Daily about U S air dropped spies in the Down-Fecteau case. It described coded exchanges involving the Atsuki espionage group and noted hunger and dwindling supplies.
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Tokyo
Peiping Radio Today
America
China
Japan
Peiping Radio
Peiping Peoples Daily
U.S
Peking Peoples Daily
John Thomas Downey
Kirin
Morse Predicts Farm Income Rise Amid Flexible Support Plan
Washington, UP. Under secretary Morse forecast some improvement in farm prices as the Eisenhower administration prepares a flexible price support program. The plan lets federal price supports fall from parity for five crops when surpluses grow, taking effect Saturday after a 2% price drop reported by the Agriculture Department.
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Washington
D. Morse
Eisenhower
Agriculture Department
Morse
Agriculture
Ezra T Benson
Congres
Congress
Most Offices and Stores Close Saturday for New Year
Federal and state offices and most Washington stores will be closed Saturday January 1 for New Year’s Day. Other businesses will follow usual holiday hours. The Evening Journal will publish at noon on the holiday.
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Federal
Washington
The
Evening Journal
UN Secretary Hammarskjold Arrives in London for Red China Mission
Dag Hammarskjold landed in London aboard a U.S. Air Force jet to begin his bid to win freedom for 11 Americans and 2,850 other U.N. personnel held by Red China. He greeted Huang Hsiang, the charge d affaires, at the airport and gave a brief arrival statement. He declined to answer questions, saying only that he would do his best.
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London
United Nations
Dag Hammarskjold
Peiping
Britain
Huang Hsiang
Red China
Hammarskjold
U.N. General Assembly
U.N
Reds
U.S. Air Force
U.S
Walton W. Butterworth
Winthrop W. Aldrich
Huang
Day
New York
Chou En-Lai
Communists Denounce French Vote On Germany Rearmament
Communist East Germany Poland and Czechoslovakia said they would increase armed forces and pursue a European collective security pact after France ratified the Paris accords to rearm Germany. Moscow warned the act worsens the danger of war and urged Western nations to respond.
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London
East Germany
Poland
Czechoslovakia
West Germany
Prague
Moscow
Western
Germany
France
Radio Prague
General Assembly
Pierre Mendes-France
Mendes - France
Soviet Union
Dr. C. H. Darbyshire Dies at 70 in Ottumwa
Dr. C. H. Darbyshire 70 of 223 West Fifth Ottumwa died after a long illness. He was a Washington County native educated in local schools and Palmer School of Chiropractic Davenport. Survived by wife Harriet Scranton and two sons C. R. Darbyshire Cedar Rapids and P. V. Darbyshire Miami. Burial Elm Grove Cemetery.
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C. H. Darbyshire
West Fifth Street
Ottumwa
Washington County
Washington Academy
Palmer School of Chiropractic
Davenport
Harriet Scranton
Glenn Mace
Washington
Jay
Elm Grove
Dr. Darbyshire
Hulbert
Elizabeth Darbyshire
Methodist Church
Masonic Lodge
American Legion
C. R. Darbyshire
Cedar Rapids
P. V. Darbyshire
Miami
Fla
Winners of Holiday Events at Y Named
Gary Miller won the grade school boys checker and chess tournaments at Washington YMCA holiday schedule. The junior high basketball tournament was won by the team of Jim Sheetz Phil Brown Louis Jones Dick Stalder Duane Chance Karl Blatter Ira Leffler.
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Gary Miller
Washington
YMCA
Jim Sheetz
Phil Brown
Louis Jones
Dick Stalder
Duane Chance
Karl Blatter
Ira Leffler
Gloria Denies Rumored Romance with Sinatra
Gloria Van derbilt Stokowski announced she left her conductor husband and attended a Broadway opening with Frank Sinatra. She denied a romance with Sinatra, stating no affair caused her nine year marriage breakup. Sinatra said nothing as Ava Gardner’s status was noted.
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New York
Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowski
Stokowski
Frank Sinatra
Sinatra
Tramasa Capote
Ava Gardner
Iowa five day outlook hints at above normal temps
The forecast notes partly cloudy and not very cold tonight with a Saturday of mostly cloudy skies and a turn to colder conditions with light snow flurries by afternoon. It projects temperatures about 2-3 degrees above normal through Wednesday with normal highs ranging from 35 in the south to cooler north and lows from 16 to higher south.
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United Press
Iowa
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