Webster City Youth Guilty of Second Degree Murder
A district court jury in Webster City found 15 year old Robert Fischer guilty of second degree murder in the April shooting death of his father Al Fischer 42 a school superintendent. Sentencing set near March 29 by District Judge John M Schaupp with a minimum term of 10 years or life possible.
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Webster City
Robert Fischer
al Fischer
Jewell
Jude
John M. Schaupp
Robert
Mildred Fischer
Young Fischer
Hamilton County
Senate approves reforms to purge tax service
Treasury Secretary John W. Snyder reacts to a Senate vote backing a plan to reorganize the Scandal-ridden internal revenue bureau. Internal Revenue Commissioner John J. Dunlap and President Truman join in optimism as reforms promise a sound administration of tax laws amid fears of patronage influence. The House already approved the shakeup with a joint press conference planned to detail reforms.
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Washington
Secretary of Treasury
John W. Snyder
Tax Service
Senate
Snyder
Internal Revenue Bureau
House
Internal Revenue
John J. Dunlap
Truman
Bureau
Dunlap
Cecil R. King
D-Cal
A House Ways Ana
Rural workers report Red Cross drive totals in county
Thirty-one solicitors in Washington county reported at noon today to county drive chairman Walter Farrell. They totaled 1 00243 dollars in contributions led by Sam Munson as first reporter followed by Mrs Don Applegate and Raymond Coon. The list names many township solicitors across Brighton Cedar Clay Crawford Dutch Creek English River Franklin Highland Iowa Jackson Lime Creek Marion Oregon Seventy Six and Washington townships with numerous residents volunteering.
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Red Cross
Washington County
Walter Farrell
Sam Munson
Don Applegate
Raymond Coon
Brighton Township
D. W . Tucker
Carl Jarvis
Harold Lynn
Eeverett Lewis
Cedar Township
Harold Sechulty
Kurl Smith
Glenn Knouysp
CC C Reeves
James Patterson
Theodore Meyer
Clay Township
Wilbur BB. Davy
Otto Walton
Keith Barnes
Elmer Moore
Clifford Leeper
Lins
Caroll Steinbeck
Crawford
Farrell A. Young
Joe Jones
Lyle Lowe
Frank E. Gault
Hayden Thomas
Lee Lease
J. W Evans
Richard Stephens
Dutch Creek
Leland Sheetz
Orville Griggs
Ferald R. Felts
Eugene Engel
Royal Robertson
Dean Luers
A. A. Richardson
C. K R. Reighard
Raymond Gillasmie
English River
Dan Glick
Clair Grout
Art Beranek
Linus Patterson
Mark Koenig
William Logan
Oran Birkey
Franklin
Walter Neff
Richard Schiebel
Frank B. Kleese
Aye Hayes
Highland Township
Donald Wolrab
Sam Boyd
Lloyd Augustine
Norman Tucker
Delbert Grecian
Lewis Weber
Iowa
Lester Thomann
John Wieland
Edward Schneider
Charles Skubal
August Schmidt
Richard Schnoeblen
Bernice Snyder
John R. Negey
Jackson Township
Mark Campbell Jr
Lloyd Marek
Harold Strum
Donald Brown
George Zeck
John H. Wheelan
Donald Stout
Hubert Beranek
L. F. Dunn
Lime Creek
Gerald Iraf
Stanley Bush
James Murphy
R. H. Yoder
Marvin Bohr
John Stotlszfus
Glen Blumenstein
Carmi Crossett
Henry Berger
Wayne K. Norman
Verlin Nickell
Ivan L. Yoder
J. F. Litwiller
Royal Gabriel
Ivan Enfield
Marion
Glen Imhoff
Russell Davison
Ralph E. Schoonover
Elmer Stadler
Clark Wagner
Pat H. Swift
Arthur Boshare
Leonard Liechty
Albert Graber
Oregon
Willard Palmer
Lloyd Edwards
Roger Colthurst
William McGinnis Jr
Everette Roperts
Robert Miksch
Roy Woon
Peter Koehler
Clement KE. Griffith
Clayton Funston
William Henderson
Lloyd Phillips
Albert Orlinger
Cloyce Will. Merlin’ Nomoser
John D. Durst
Clarence Alter
Washington Township
James Brooks
Don Marwell
Robert McAvoy
Maurice L. Meyer
Claud Rhodebeck
Walter Bruty
Howard Caldwell
Glenn Pratt
Earl Galloway
L. M. Eicher
Brighton
Clay
Franklin Center
West Chester
Cedar
Richmond
Highland
Jackson
Nira
Wellman
Kalona
Washington City
H. T. Carris
Ralph Kleese
Will Sweetz
Vupuis
L. M. Bicner
T. B. Bailey
Harry Wentworth
Evert Dennison
Warren Morgan
Magnus Ahmling
von Applegate
Irvin Co
United Nations Disarmament Commission Opens Work
The 12 nation panel began its inaugural session in New York as U.S. envoy Benjamin V. Cohen urged a practical plan to halt the global arms race. He warned leaders not to rely on propaganda and pressed for a feasible house of peace amid East West tensions.
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United Nations Disarmament Commission
United States
Benjamin V. Cohen
Russia
Roosevelt
House of Peace and Security
Jacob A. Malik
Paris
General Assembly
Commission
U.N
Sherman Fox Dies. Rites Planned at Riverside
Sherman Grant Fox 57 died 10:30 a.m. Thursday at his home seven miles south of Riverside after a long illness. Funeral services set for 2 p.m. Saturday at Trinity Methodist Church Riverside with burial in Riverside Cemetery. Military honors will be provided. Survivors include widow Elsie Jarrard Fox four sons Vernon Burton Donald and Lyle seven grandchildren one brother Irving Fox Chicago and a sister Rosa Bergen WaPello. The body lies at the family home for viewing.
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Riverside
Sherman Grant Fox
Trinity Methodist Church
Lawrence Jones
Sorden and Adams
Riverside Cemetery
Mr. Fox
Gladwin
Margaret Warnick
George Fox
Elsie Jarrard
Muscatine
Vernon
Burton
Donald
Washington
Lyle
Ainsworth
Irving Fox
Chicago
Rosa Bergen
Pello
Junior High Parents To See Film Monday
A mental health film titled The Feeling of Hostility will be shown at the junior high school parent and teachers group meeting Monday evening March 17 at 8 o'clock. The gathering will be in the junior high building with refreshments served in the library after the meeting.
Help Sought to Locate TV Interference Source in Washington
Larry Foster, a Washington television and radio dealer, appeals for help finding the cause of channel four interference around the business square. The disturbance operates on a weekly Thursday to Friday schedule, affecting nearby residents, with Foster inviting calls at 214 if anyone operates machinery on that timing.
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Larry Foster
Washington
Channel Four
Business Square
Foster
Rev Milo Phillippi to Speak at Lent Service
Rev Milo J Phillipi pastor of St Pauls Evangelical and Re formed church will speak at the Sunday evening service. He will discuss The Meaning of Lent and the United Presbyterian church will host with other ministers assisting and the United Presbyterian choir providing special music.
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Milo J. Phillipi
St. Paul's Evangelical
Brighton Hosts Top of Pythias Essay Contest
The seventh district Knights of Pythias essay contest will be held in the school gym Monday evening March 24. High school students from southeast Iowa are invited to write on What Is My Aim in Life. Winners from local lodges advance to district competition with prizes awarded.
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Brighton
Knights of Pythias
Iowa
House committee trims seven hundred million from budget
The House Appropriations Committee slashed about 728 million from President Truman’s 7 billion federal budget. Rev Albert Thomas said other cuts could save up to 33 percent of the independent office funds. The panel’s total proposed appropriation stood at 6,272,138,548, a 727,661,652 cut.
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Washington
House
Truman
Albert Thomas
D-Tex
Thomas
Appropriations Committee
Housing and Home Finance Agency
Camp Fire Girls Plan Birthday Week Observance
Camp Fire Girls will observe birthday week from March 16 to 24 with Go to Church Sunday on March 18. Meeting at 10:30 a.m. at the east door of First Baptist Church, then proceed downstairs. all girls urged to wear Camp Fire uniforms.
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First Baptist Church
Local youth enlists in air force heads to San Antonio
Richard Koenig son of Mr and Mrs. Erwin Koenig of Washington left Thursday for Des Moines then to San Antonio Texas for air force training after enlisting last week. Mrs Horace E K Pike former Mary Louise Harwood leaves for El Paso to make her home there after her husband died recently in El Paso. Mr and Mrs Pike had been in Europe for two years.
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Richard Koenig
Erwin Koenig
Washington
Des Moines
San Antonio
Texas
Richard
Air Force
Horace EK. Pike
Mary Louise Harwood
el Paso
William Smart Named Washington County GOP Chairman
Washington business man William Smart was elected chairman of the Washington county Republican central committee at the county GOP convention. He succeeds retiring chairman Dave Lavingston as the party presses on with its local organizational leadership.
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William Smart
Washington
Washington County
Republican Central Committee
Smart
Dave Laveingston
GOP
GOP Delegates Today Elects Livingston as Chairman
At the Washington county Republican convention held in the county courthouse at 10 15 a m Dave Livingston was named permanent chairman and Keith Norton as permanent secretary Hill Smart was elected committee chairman to serve until the primaries in Jane Livingston resigned during the meeting A large turnout with 125 delegates or alternates of 149 appointed were present across 19 of 22 precincts Delegates named to the state convention included Dave Livingston Mrs Wm Sitler Keith Norton Mrs L M Richer Marty Wentworth Wayne Norman and many others.
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Dave Livingston
Keith Norton
Washington County
Republican Committee
Hill Smart
Jane
Wm. Sitler
L. M. Richer
Marty Wentworth
Wayne Norman
Livingston
Hal Huston
Warren Morgan
Max Waterhouse
Marion Augustine
Ernest Wagner
Richard Stephens
Arthur Wuensing
Lloyd Walker
Roger Sherman
W. B. Dupuis
Charles Hotle
J. A. Michels
Ted Bailey
A. Ke Baldrige
Bob Reed
Ruth Young
Bob Arthur
Jay Miller
Carl ‘. Anderson
RK. K. Shannon
Kk. D. Morrison Jr
Mae Davis
Walter Jungbluth
Dick McCleery
County GOP Resolutions Adopted at Washington County Convention
The Washington County Republican convention appointed a resolutions committee that drafted eleven resolutions on political social and economic issues for delegates. The body endorsed a presidential preference primary and urged the party to balance the budget curb deficit spending promote more business in government and limit government intrusion.
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Washington County
Republican Party
Weather Summary for Des Moines Iowa
Partly cloudy east and mostly cloudy west this afternoon with highs 32 to 38. Tonight and Saturday expect little temperature change with some light snow in western areas near the southern border. Lows around 20 northeast to 32 southwest, Saturday highs 35 to 40. The five day outlook calls for temperatures two to five degrees below normal and mainly fair to partly cloudy conditions.
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Des Moines
Iowa
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