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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1947
Page
1
Iowa holds its inaugural event scheduled for Thursday January 16 at the Capitol. Officials plan a brief ceremony and public attendance is expected in the morning session.
Des Moines reports the Iowa 1947 inaugural events with Lt Gov Kenneth Evans and Gov Robert Pine to take oaths in a joint session. Bishop Chadluntsy Brashares and Rev Albert Kilbourn prepare readings as Governor Blue delivers the address. Public reception and ball follow at the statehouse with musical selections by a University of Iowa ensemble. Local notices include family updates and holiday travel as residents share family news.
Des Moines reports bitter cold with readings from 29 below zero at Decorah to 5 above in Texas. Ames and Waterloo logged 21 and 20 below, while a sweeping cold wave chilled states coast to coast, disrupting travel and delaying shipments.
Senator Taft outlines a broad Republican plan to reshape the economy and government. He calls to end wartime and New Deal rubble, trim federal powers, cut personal taxes, revise labor and housing laws, and pursue constitutional amendments on poll taxes and presidential terms. He backs federal aid for health and education and seeks unification of the armed forces.
Rush Foster county home economist announces January Family Living meetings to help rural homemakers choose electrical appliances. Sessions cover laundry refrigeration cleaning equipment and small appliances with questions invited and equipment on display at Cedar township Prairie Flower Church January 7 English River January 8 Mrs Clarence Hostetler English River and Seventy-Six township events follow with details to be announced.
Attorneys Wilson Baldrige represent S W Korf and Charles Cannon in a Rock Island railroad condemnation suit asking for January trial with jury. Case involves damages for land taken for right of way beyond earlier condemnation. Judge Beehly said he plans to be in Washington next Monday around ten o'clock.
A series of meetings scheduled for late January list tea events at 1:30 p.m. with hosts Mrs. John Skubal in Walnut and Sandihook on Tuesday January 28 with Mrs. Hloab Farrier. Oregon event set for Thursday January 24 with Mrs. Wm. McGinnis.
The National Labor Relations Board found Fisher Governor Co. did not violate the Wagner act with a vice president's anti union speech but discriminated in firing two union members Leroy Schwecel and Howard Milburn. The board ordered reinstatement and back pay.
Mr and Mrs Donald Whitlow celebrate their third birthday in business in Washington a Spokane transplant native from Muscatine. The firm recently incorporated with Donald Whitlow president C L Panghorn vice president and Ione Whitlow secretary and treasurer offering tire recapping and repair along with new tires.
A sitting judge who had planned to appear this week was unable to travel to the venue. The absence leaves pending matters unsettled and local observers await future schedule updates.
The schedule includes a Thursday 1:30 to 4:00 PM child health conference in the Ainsworth high school's laboratory room and a Friday 1:00 to 4:00 PM X ray clinic in Dr Boice's office.
In Chicago on January 4 a defamation suit filed by Leonard Cowan for Clifford L. Niles of Anamosa Iowa and his wife seeks 2,000,000 from Bristol Myers Co and NBC. The suit says the radio program Mr District Attorney on December 30 1946 damaged their reputation by portraying characters bearing their name.
County board reappointed Ww. Rawn as county engineer for the year with Russell Knott as assistant. Will Sickles remains courthouse custodian. Mr. and Mrs. S. G. Bell continue as steward and matron of the county home. Howard McBride named superintendent of equipment at county yards with E. a Rudolph as assistant.
The negro population of the United States including full blood and half blood numbers more than 12.4 million. Their growth since the end of the slave trade has outpaced all other original American groups.
Carlton C Wilson and others seek a new trial and set aside verdict in the Rock Island railroad damage case. Attorney Rich ard A Stewart of Washington and Gamble Read How land Rosenfield of Des Moines represent plaintiffs. Plaintiffs claim the $24 683 15 land damages and $2 600 tenant damages were grossly excessive and allege trial errors including improper evidence and jury instructions. The suit concerns land taken for railroad right of way near the Wilson estate farm southeast of town.
Des Moines reports show cigarette tax receipts up 15,394 to 252,024 in December while beet tax fell 7,081. Beer tax brought in 122,606 with 3,500 in permit fees. November and December 1945 figures are noted for comparison.
The Skybuddies Washington flying club will hold a meeting at 7:80 o clock Monday evenings at Legion hall. After the business meeting, actual aerial combat films will be shown.
In a wartime agreement publicized in Washington on January 4, the Roosevelt Churchill plan transferred 414 American merchant ships to Britain to be crewed under their flag. Later 120 went to the Soviet Union and 7 to other allies. Since 1945 about 200 remaining ships are chartered to Britain.
Cherokee voters will decide January 14 in a special election on a building tax not to exceed 21 mills for ten years, supplementing a $207,000 bond to fund a new high school. The tax would raise over $10,000 annually for a building program.
The Senate faces a protracted fight as Republicans block the oath for Mississippi’s Bilbo ally while Democrats and Bilbo supporters use continuous session and possible cloture to delay Truman’s message. Taft backs united GOP effort to break the filibuster as delays extend into possible Sunday sessions.
Kingsley Iowa wins a bequest of fifteen thousand to eighteen thousand dollars for a new hospital from the late George Loring. A California court had blocked an out of state town from benefiting from a California will, but the state supreme court reversed, clearing the way for Kingsley to receive the funds.
The Washington County PP Keepers association will meet next Wednesday afternoon January 5 at two oclock at the Farm Bureau office. The speaker will be H Dadant of Hamilton. HI AL members are urged to attend.
Walter Hefty lock er plant in Laverne Iowa was destroyed by fire early today. Residents Kenneth Sorenson and his wife discovered the blaze from an apartment above the plant. Fire crews faced low water pressure and substandard roads, hampering efforts to battle the flames.
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