Local news items from Washington area events
Mrs Emma Fetters visits Mercy hospital in Iowa City and friends may visit. Twin sons Dick and Bob Dodder return home to celebrate their 21st birthday. Judy Koehler joins Central College Choir touring to Brooklyn New York. Washington county hospital visits include Keota infant Mathew Eric Rains and others. Weekend visits and hospital calls feature multiple local residents and families.
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Emma Fetters
Iowa City
Mercy Hospital
Dick Dodder
University of Iowa
Bob Dodder
Iowa Wesleyan
H. M. Dodder
R. H. Gilbert
Des Moines
Edward Rains
Mathew Eric
Keota
Washington County Hospital
Family visits and hospital notes across towns
YWCA desk reports neighborhood hospital patients including Mrs Alvin Hesseltine and baby girl in Washington hospital. Visits cross many towns as relatives travel to East Moline Crawfordsville Cotter Fairfield Rock Island and Columbus Junction for family events and a sorority initiation. Pending legislation on a uniform building code is discussed.
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Alvin Hesseltine
Washington Hospital
Carol Meeker
Dorothy Moore
Rock Island
Fairfield
Keith Norton
Leggett Hotel
Catch-All Farm Bill Aims to Solve Potato Surplus
Congress sent President Truman a catch-all farm bill to address the potato surplus and ease hardship for cotton and peanut growers. The measure, through a conference committee, clears final hurdles with Senate 38 31 vote and House 196 156 passage. It bars potato price supports unless marketing agreements are adopted, and next year imposes rigid quotas. The bill expands cotton plantings by 1.2 million acres and peanut plantings by 100 thousand acres, and allows freight payments for donated potatoes to charities.
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Washington
Congress
Truman
Senate
House
Texas
Alabama
Agriculture Department
Mixer guest Alice McDaniel to discuss skin care at meeting
Alice McDaniel will speak on skin care and makeup at the Mixer meeting on Tuesday evening after the business session. She attends the 6:30 potluck supper and members should donate to the kitty to fund clothing for a Japanese school girl, with a chart to guide donations.
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Alice McDaniel
Miss McDaniel
United Presbyterian Church Merger Backed by Keokuk Presbytery
Representatives from United Presbyterian churches in Keokuk presbytery voted unanimously to approve the union with the Reformed Church in America during a Washington church meeting. Moderator Kenneth Anderson presided as Rev. Clifford Ramsdale served as clerk. The session highlighted a workshop by the board of Christian education and youth work officials, with notes on Estes Park convention and programs for Sunday school teachers and youth leaders.
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United Presbyterian Churches
Keokuk Presbytery
Washington
United Presbyterian Church In America
Reformed Church In America
Kenneth Anderson
Burlington
Clifford Ramsdale
le Claire
Iowa
F. R. van Nostrand
Board of Christian Education
The
United Presbyterian Church
Samuel Shane
Estes Park
Alfred Parsons
Columbus City
Hazel E. Anderson
Board of Christian Missions
R. W. Gibson
Church song book presented to United Presbyterian Home
Dr. Shane on behalf of the board delivered 50 copies of the new church song book to the United Presbyterian Home. Miss Anderson and Miss Burrows saved several selections and the books were used in a Home song service. After an inspection tour, the group proceeded to Milan Illinois for a conference with church leaders there.
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Ing
Shane
United Presbyterian Home
Olson to Speak at Junction Methodist Service
Union services planned at 7 30 p m Sunday March 26 at the Columbus Junction Methodist church Myron Olson of Iowa City will be the speaker The Columbus high school mixed chorus and boys quartet will perform
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Columbus Junction
Myron Olson
Iowa City
Columbus High School
Paris Utility Workers End 16 Day Walkout
Gas and electricity workers across France ended a 16 day strike for higher pay. The settlement halted a major break in the national strike front though a 24 hour port strike was ordered in all French and Algerian ports by a joint labor group in protest of police action against Marseille dock workers.
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Paris
France
General Confederation of Labor
Marseille
Government Offer Brings Settlement in Nationalized Plant Strike
Naval technicians kept most electricity plants operating during the strike. They will withdraw as strikers return. The settlement followed a government offer to add production bonuses of one to three percent to the flat wage increases of 4.9 percent already announced by management of the two nationalized industries.
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Allone
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