Editorial letters from the Missouri voyage at sea
A reporter aboard the Missouri chronicles naval cruise details from Norfolk to Panama. The diary covers routes near Cuba, gunnery drills, jet planes, drone target practice, and weather shifts as midshipmen gain sea duty aboard the battleship Missouri and eight destroyers.
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Missouri
Atlantic Sea
Panama Canal
Norfolk
Virginia
Washington, D. GC
Annapolis
Uo Boston
Narragansett Bay
New York
U.S
Cuba
Panama
Guantanamo
Iowa Constitution Adopted In 1857 After Long Battle
The Iowa constitution was signed by 86 delegates led by Francis Springer in Iowa City on March 5 1857 after a long, contentious path from 1844. The document established a state with a strong religious preamble and provided for amendments with eleven elections to date, including 1868 and 1942. The original pact banned banking, required male white voting, and evolved with suffrage and temperance changes through 1904.
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Iowa
Lowa
Washington Journal
David Bunker
Washington County
D. P. Palmer
Palmer
Francis Springer
Louisa County
Iowa City
State of
Towa
The
United States
Ilona
Voter Reform Moves Amid Highway Funding Amendment
The article notes constitutional changes on annual elections and a 1942 motor vehicle funds amendment directing registration fees and fuel taxes to highway construction and bond payments. Clerk Edward B. Bushek filed expense records showing only $5.59 spent on newspaper notices. expense filing period closed yesterday.
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Corder
Edward B. Bushek
Mr. Bushek
Candidates Top Spending in June 5 Republican Primary
Expense reports show Gifford Morrison spent 89.63 with 40 on travel ads and cards while Harold Boyd used 42.74 for newspaper publicity. Edward Squire and Lloyd Turnipseed also itemized their campaign costs. most Democratic candidates filed no expenses.
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Gifford Morrison
Harold Boyd
Edward Squire
Lloyd
Gas Service Promoted for Home Comfort and Convenience
A local notice promotes natural gas for cooking refrigeration automatic hot water service garbage disposal and clothes drying for washday freedom highlighting modern home utilities and efficiency.
Board approves bids and permits at County Supervisors meeting
The Board of Supervisors met with Chairman and Supervisors Welte Fulton and Morrow present. Bids opened for a cattle barn at the County Farm filed by Eclipse Lumber Co of Washington for 16 05.07. No contract awarded. Cigarette permits granted to Conrad & Johnson Richmond Leota Perrin Daytonville Clyde Ro Carlin Jews Township Donald Hotchkiss Seventy Six Township Lawrence I Moore Oregon Township Jesse.
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Board of Supervisors
Super- Vicors Welte, Fulton and
Morrow Presen
Eclipse Lumber Company
Washington
Conrad & Johnson
Richmond
Leota Perrin
Daytonville
Clyde Ro Carlin
Jews
Donald Hotchkiss
Seventy-Six
Lawrence I. Moore
Oregon
Jesse
Washington Iowa to vote on 16000 bond for Sunset Park and Central Park work
Voters in Washington Iowa face a July 31 1950 special election. The city council approved bonds up to 16000 for shelter and toilet facilities at Sunset Park and improvements to Central Park fountain. A further tax levy of 14 mills for park purposes over three years is proposed. Polls open 8 AM to 8 PM at City Hall.
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Iowa
Sunset Park
Central Park
Wash'neton
Towa
Washington, Iowa
KK. Lowash
City of
Washington, Towa
Killer Shark at Fox theater shows on coast fishing plot
A Monogram production Killer Shark stars Roddy McDowell and Laurette Suez with a supporting cast including Roland Winters Edward Norris Rick Vallin Doug las Fowley and others. The film follows a college youth vacationing with his shark fishing father in Mexican waters where the son causes financial loss and a crew member is badly bitten by sharks.
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Mexican
Monogram
Lindsley Parsons
Roddy McDowel
Fox Theatre
Laurette Suez
Roland Winters
Edward Norris
Rick Vallin
Douglas Fowley
Ralf Harolde
Naeho Galindo
Dick Moore
Ted Hecht
MacDowall
Eddy Arnold Sings Four Tunes in Hoedown at Fox Theatre
Eddy Arnold, the Tennessee Plowboy, delivers four knockout numbers in Columbia’s Hoedown now showing at the Fox Theatre. He performs Just a Little Lovin Will Go a Long Long Way, I’m Throwing Rice at the Girl I Love, I Betcha I Getcha, and Bouquet of Roses while The Pied Pipers join in Tennessee Saturday Night.
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Eddy Arnold
Crooking
Tennessee Plowboy
Columbia
Fox Theatre
The
Pied Pipers
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