Golden wedding duo honored in quiet Rocking Chair Brigade
The Nicholson couple celebrated their anniversary Tuesday at the Askea home with four daughters and families, two wedding cakes, and a family dinner. Relatives gathered despite illness keeping three sons away, while gifts included blankets and a handmade daily from granddaughter Patty Skinner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Nicholson
Albert Askea
Askea
Bryan
Zelma
Ed Nicholson
George Benson
R. H. Bradford
Patty Skinner
Levees repair plans begin after big Iowa flood
Oakville Iowa January 14 plans were under way to repair broken levees on the Iowa and Mississippi rivers. Ed Yotter levees commission chairman said flood waters will recede in days before damage assessment. Over 40 000 to 50 000 acres flooded. more than four farms underwater with damage estimated 5 to 7 million dollars. Red Cross head Mrs Luilie Fristoe in St Louis said relief will aid needy families and registrants must list assets and losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oakville
Iowa
Mississippi
Ed Yotter
Yotter
Luilie Fristoe
St. Louis
Red Cross
Record Airplane Output Surges in 1944
In 1944 the American aircraft industry produced 96,369 military airplanes, surpassing the total aircraft production of all types from 1903 to Pearl Harbor. Over 38 years before 1942 the industry had built about 85,000 airplanes of all types.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pearl Harbor
Injunction Granted Against CIO Local at Burlington Plant
A district court in Burlington Iowa restrained three CIO officers and the local union from interfering with railroad shipments to the J T Case plant. The rail line alleged union pickets blocked delivery and removal of supplies during the strike, naming Bernard Kraft George Flanten and Charles Fane and the local as respondents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burlington, Ta
United Automobile Workers (Cio
Burlington Railroad
J. Tl
E. O. Newell
Local Social Notes Include Reunions and Family Visits
A flurry of visits and travels fills the column as Mr and Mrs George Bartholo mew host friends near town. Des Moines hosts a Red Horsers reunion with banquet and dance, involving the 118th Cavalry veterans. Ottumwa visitors remain with M C Delong, while M A Wilson’s funeral in Rolfe notes a 33 year old’s passing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Bartholomew
Charles Schulty
Mersh Atkinson
Raymond Glasgow
Raymond Edwards
Don Bell
Dale Hyde
Don Duttweiler
Des Moines
Red Horsers
Hotel Kirkwood
118Th Cavalry
Pickets Withdrawn at Northwestern Bell Plant Des Moines
Pickets were withdrawn from the Northwestern Bell Telephone Co building in Des Moines today and service returned to normal at least temporarily. L. D. Peebler, president of Northwestern Union of Telephone Workers in Iowa, said a national federation strike affecting 3,000 operators in Iowa was postponed for 30 days under the Smith-Connally act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Northwestern Bell Telephone Co
J. H. Wilson
L. D. Peebler
Northwestern Union of Telephone Workers
Iowa
National Federation of Telephone Workers
Ankeny Ordnance Plant Goes to RFC as Surplus Property
The army’s 53 million dollar Ankeny ordnance plant, once a major wartime producer of ammunition, is turned over to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation as surplus property. RFC plans to offer the plant for sale to industry with 285 buildings, machinery, raw materials, supplies, and 4440 acres of land. No bidders have yet been reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Army
Ankeny
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
War Department
RFC
Army Ordnance
U.S. Rubber Company
Costs More To Pay Operating Expense In Smaller Cities Des Moines
Iowa taxpayers association reports 71 smaller cities in Iowa with populations under 5 000 spent 1 505 282 for the year ending March 31 1945 up 121 777 from the prior year cost per person averaged 6 89 with Audubon Bettendorf and Wa verly highest and Mystic Glenwood Madrid Colfax and Anamosi among the lowest costs cover general government public safety health sanitation streets parks and other items with capital improvements not included.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
Iowa Taxpayers Association
Audubon
Bettendorf
Waverly
Forest City
Sibley
Mystic
Glenwood
Madrid
Colfax
Anamosi
Judge heads Iowa committee on penal institutions
Des Moines citizens committee on Iowa penal and correctional institutions schedules next meeting for Saturday January 19. District Judge F H Cooney of Carroll named chairman of the six member panel authorized to study hiring an expert or agency to assist in the investigation of the state's five penal and correctional institutions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Citizens Committee
Iowa
F. H. Cooney
Carroll
Mary E Davis Weds Ralph C Hunt in California Ceremony
Mary Evaleene Davis of North Redondo Beach California marries Ralph Charles Hunt son of Mrs Sarah J Hunt also of North Redondo Beach in a candlelight double ring ceremony January 5 at 5 30 p m in the Church of the Flowers Glendale California Rev Joly Perry Jones reads vows. Bride wore white satin with lace and seed pearl embellishments. Attendants included Irene Morris maid of honor and Jack Oades best man. The couple plans a home at 2218 Huntington Lane North Redondo Beach. Both carried links to Crawfordsville and Des Moines backgrounds with Army service and bank employment noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Latimer Davis
Crawfordsvile
Mary Evaleene
North Redondo Beach
Calif
Ralph Charles Hunt
Sarah J. Hunt
Nort Redondo Beach
Church of the Flowers
Glendale
Joly Perry Jones
Salem Presbyterian Church
Crawfordsville
Thomas I. Morris
Irene Morris
Thomas Morris
Jack Oades
Huntington Lane
Carelessness Cited as Major Cause of Fires
A report notes that ninety percent of all fires stem from carelessness. It warns property owners and residents to adopt safer habits and adhere to fire prevention guidelines to reduce losses.
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Devil Dog
Leu
Claude McKee
J. O. Matthews
South Iawa Ave
Matthew
Scott Furniture Co
So. Ave
W. L
Col
Little
Washington Concrete Company
North 12Th
Dee & Er
G. N. Barclay
Washington State Bank
ATE Theatre
Stephen S. Wise
New York City
Anglo-American Palestine Committee
Frederick Morgan
Poland
Germany
Wise
International
CIO Union
Roy Caviness
Karen
Keith
Kenneth
Karla
Ottumwa
M. C. DeLong
Mr. Caviness
Leroy Luers
Moore's
Bud Mulcahy
Washington
Kalona
Duffus Cavern
Wwtth
ED Gardner
Charley Cantor
Eddie Greene
Ann Thomas
Victor Moore
Marjorie Reynolds
Barry Sullivan
Ankeny Ordnance Plant
New Post
Leslie L. Rood, JR
Linden, N. J
Truman
Board of Inquiry
Tit (International
Dixie Dugan
Ky McEvoy
Striebel
Hiland Palace
Les Hartman
TOWA
Mary E. Davis
R. C. Hunt
Wlew
Studebaker
Studebaker Engineering
COX Motor CO
W. Wash. St
Joe Palooka
Mistah Palooka
Count Boreman
Lady Dullington
Howell
Howell J
Joe
Ham Fisher
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