Farm Outlook Meeting Highlights Slightly Lower Cattle Profit
Washington county farmers heard Dean Huston and Bill Zmolek note stable 1955 finances, similar feed costs, and higher livestock production. Spring pig and fall crop gains were forecast, swine prices may rise to 20 to 21 dollars later this year, while cattle feeders face narrower profits.
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Dean Huston
Bill Zmolek
Extension Service
Washington County
Washington Ymca
County Extension Service Feed Situation
Huston
Zmolek
Iowa State College
Pure Food and Drug Administration
Indicted Creston Mayor and Fire Chief Face Embezzlement Charges
A Union County grand jury indicted Creston mayor Arnold Cook and former Fire Chief John Mulford on irregularities in city affairs. Cook allegedly sold the city a Home Insurance Co policy and collected a 294 dollar premium. Mulford allegedly took 35 dollars in water hauling fees that belonged to the city during his tenure from 1952 to last January.
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Creston
Iowa
Union County
Arnold Cook
John Mulford
Cook
Mulford
The
Home Insurance Co
Suspended Sentences For Boys at Keokuk
Three Keokuk senior high school students received five year suspended sentences in Keokuk juvenile court on larceny charges. They were arrested after entering Bruce 88 Service Station Ralphs Service Station and Meadow Gold Ice Cream Store and stealing trading stamps tires and money. The youths pleaded guilty before Judge G L Norman and were paroled on good behavior from the Anamosa Men's Reformatory.
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Keokuk
Meadow Gold
G.L. Norman
Anamosa Men's Reformatory
Red Feather Drive Opens Oct 18 YWCA Community Chest impact
Donor gifts to the Washington Community Chest will fund twelve groups including the YWCA. The article details how funds support building rent, expanded swimming, youth clubs, crafts, service projects, leadership development, and staff salaries shaping youth programs and community involvement in Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Community Chest
Young Women’s Christian Association of Washington
Community Chest
YWCA
Washington
Iowa
Yw-Wives
YMCA
YMCA Olympic Day Registration Reminder for Boys
Grade school boys are reminded to register at the Y by Friday for the YMCA Olympic Day events. All eligible boys can participate.
Hickenlooper Leads GOP Women District Meeting in Crawfordsville
Senator Bourke B. Hickenlooper was the featured speaker as Republican women of the first district gathered at Crawfordsville Federated Church. Anna Lomas and Fred Schwengel attended with local officials and students from Crawfordsville High School. The event opened with registration and coffee, included a luncheon, vocal trio performances, and a closing prayer once used by President Eisenhower.
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Bourke B. Hickenlooper
Crawfordsville
Women’s Guild of
The
Federated Church
Herbert Rich
Arvid Anderson
Kenneth Rhea
Ernest Smith
T. H. Huston
Republican Party
GOP
Iown
Crawfordsville High School
Schwengel
Senator Hickenlooper
Eisenhower
Vetter to Preside At Church Men's Program
Keith Vetter will preside at the United Church Men's rally program to be held Friday evening in the Methodist church. Men of all churches will attend the dinner and program. Dinner reservations should be made through the individual churches. Representatives of a number of the churches will appear as speakers on the program.
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Keith Vetter
United Church
Americans Watch Moscow Peace Moves Across World
UPI reports American diplomats monitor Soviet peace gestures from Europe to Asia and the United Nations. They suspect Moscow may use soft talk to gain strategic goals, repeating patterns from Stalin era and aiming to curb West German rearmament, influence Japan, and destabilize U.S. alliances.
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Washington
Moscow
Europe
Asia
United Nations
Berlin
Russia
Germany
V. M. Molotov
United States
East Germany
Far East
Port Arthur
Japan
Manchurian
China
Korean Republic
Formosa
Southeast Asia
Free World
Local Residents To Be Heard on Station WHO
Washington residents will be interviewed on WHO this week. At 9 30 p m Wednesday Del Donahoe will interview Gifford Morrison chairman of the Kiwanis tall corn contest Bill Bos hart Chamber of Commerce president and Artemas Brown YMCA secretary on the Hawkeye Celebration program. Saturday morning from 8 15 to 8 45 a m on the Home Town feature program over WHO Dave Livingston will be interviewed.
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Washington
WHO
del Donahoe
Gifford Morrison
Bill Boshart
Chamber of Commerce
Artemas Brown
YMCA
Dave Livingston
Body of Ben Stout To Be Transferred To Home
The body of Benjamin Franklin Stout will be moved from Sherman's funeral home to the family residence early Friday morning. Friends may call at Sherman's through Thursday evening. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday in the family home.
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Benjamin Franklin Stout
Sherman
Mr Stout
Granville Farmer Dies When Car Overturns
Granville Iowa authorities report 78 year old Mike Goergen a Granville farmer was killed when his car overturned on a road southwest of town He was returning home from a business trip to Hospers when a tire blew out on a sharp object causing loss of control.
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Granville
Iowa
Mike Goergen
Granville Farmer
Here
Goergen
Hospers
Washington Y's Men Guests in Ottumwa
Twenty Washington Y's Men visited Ottumwa to mark the Ottumwa Y's Men's club 30th anniversary. President Logan Heisman of Washington presented an inscribed gavel to the Ottumwa club as a gift. Milo Sorden led singing and John Yousling played piano for the banquet with guests from Oskaloosa.
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Washington Y's
Ottumwa
Ottumwa Y's
Washington Y
Ottumwa Club
Logan Heisman
Washington
Washington Group
Milo Sorden
John Yousling
Oskaloosa
Seek New Curbs On Manipulation of Coffee Price
Washington UPI report on Senate Banking sub committee hearings where Agriculture Department officials urged regulating the New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange under the Commodity Exchange Authority to curb price manipulation. Beall said Congress should extend CEA authority. Bagnell noted trading privileges could be denied for manipulation. Senate hearings closed. officials attributed price rises to frost impacts in Brazil in 1953.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
New York Coffee Exchange
J. Glenn Beall
Senate Banking Subcommittee
Congress
Commodity Exchange Authority
CEA
Douglas B. Bagnell
Bagnell
New York Coffee
Sugar Exchange
Federal Trade Commission
Senate
Beall
Coffee Exchange
Brazil
New Thunderstorms To Reach State Tonight
Storms move in from the Rockies with scattered showers across Iowa. Showers spread westward by tonight with rain in north central and southern areas. skies clear Thursday night with cooler temperatures and frost likely in the north. Temperatures drop to 40s in the west and 45 50 in the east, then reach 60s Thursday.
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Iowa
Rockies
Weather Bureau
Des Moines
Spencer
Alaska Voters Give Margin to Democrats in Territorial Election
Unofficial returns from 72 of 262 precincts show Democrats sweeping Alaska's general election. Incumbent delegate E. L. Bartlett leads over Barbara Dimock 5692 to 2531. Divisions 1 through 4 indicate broad Democratic gains in the Legislature and Senate across the territory.
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Anchorage
Alaska
Congress
E.L. Bartlett
Bartlett
Barbara Dimock
House
Senate
Fairbanks
Red Feather Group Window Displays Planned Around Square
Red Feather organizations plan window displays around the square to promote services. Displays go up Friday before the Community Chest Feather drive opens Monday October 18. Sponsors include McDaniel Drug Army Atchison's Shoe Store Explorer Scouts Brody's YMCA Duncan's YWCA Witting Shoe Lake Darling Youth Center Connelly Hardware Sister Kenney Klein Klothing Boy Scouts Fern Bakery Camp Fire Girls J C Penney Cub Scouts Salvation
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Red Feather
McDaniel Drug Army
Atchison
Explorer Scouts
Brody's
Duncan's
Boy Scouts
Fern Bakery
Camp Fire Girls
J.C. Penney
Cub Scouts
Hurricane Hazel Slams Haiti Then Bahamian Islands
Hurricane Hazel devastated western Haiti with reports of at least 200 dead or injured and 800 homeless in Aux Cayes. The storm crossed Haiti’s peaks reducing winds to 75–90 mph before striking the Bahamas and threatening renewed intensity over open water.
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Miami
Hazel
Bahamas
Haiti
Miami Weather Bureau
Great Inagua
Ilayaguana
Aux Cayes
Nassau
U.S. Weather Bureau
U.S. Naval Base
Guantanamo Bay
Cuba
Windward Strait
Unusual August Letter Sent to Bridgeport Postmaster
Postmaster Russell F. Neary in Bridgeport receives an odd letter addressed to North Pole. It reads Dear Santa Claus I want tracks town oil car station, reflecting a childlike request during a chilly spell.
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Bridgeport
Conn
Russell F. Neary
North Pole
Santa Claus
Khrushchev Emerges as Co Leader in Soviet Kremlin
United Press outlines Khrushchev rising to power as first secretary of the Russian Communist party and de facto co leader with Malenkov. It notes his rapid ascent since 1953, his role in Peiping talks, and the potential for future supremacy within the Kremlin.
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Khrushchev
Communist Party
Peiping
Isef Stalin
Kremlin
Georgi M. Malenkov
Stalin
Malenkov
Russia
Nist
Malenkayo
Red Russia
Ukhraine
Russian Communist Party
Stratton Seeks Wilson Talk Cancelation At GOP Dinner
Governor William Stratton and GOP sponsors clash over Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson as the dinner speaker. Stratton calls Wilsons Detroit remark unfortunate and seeks cancellation, while Edward L. Ryerson and Fred M. Gillies push for Wilsons appearance and a cordial reception. Stratton denies plans to skip if Wilson attends, though his Springfield office questions the earlier non attendance statement. Wilsons Detroit remarks tied to unemployment and defense work in distressed areas fuel the dispute.
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Chicago
William G. Stratton
Charles E. Wilson
Stratton
Wilson
Edward L. Ryerson
Republican Citizens Finance
Fred M. Gillies
Stratta
Springfield
Auto
William W. Downey
Isenhower
Stratten
Detroit
Knight criticizes Argentina press crackdown at Inter-American meeting
John Knight publisher of Knight Newspapers denounces Peron era censorship in Argentina saying the police state throttled freedom of expression and undermined courts. He praises Alberto Gainza Paz and notes hope for a return to liberty as inter-American press leaders confer in Rio de Janeiro.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
John
Knight
Knight Newspapers
Juan D. Peron
Argentina
Inter-American Press Association
Alberto Gainza Paz
Gainza Paz
la Prensa
Buenos Aires
Gainza
Peron
Washington Women at Presbyterial Meeting
Washington's Presbyterian church was well represented at the Iowa City presbyterial meeting held Tuesday in Montezuma. Mrs. William J. Grossheim of Washington is president of the presbyterial. Attending from the local church were numerous members including Mrs. Claude Rhodebeck, Mrs. Calvin Wolf, Margaret Cowden, Mrs. Glenn Wilson, Mrs. Johnson, Mrs. Harvey ante ieee, Mrs. Earnest Jones, Mrs. Charles Wiley, Mrs. T. J. Gerdes, Mrs. Sam Petratz, Mrs. Logan Heilman, Mrs. Milton Flickinger, Mrs. N. J. Davis, Mrs. Sam Munson, Mrs. Elizabeth Clark, Mrs. Ed Letts, Mrs. Carl Roberts, Ella Mrs. John Martin, Della Hum, Mrs. R. J. Dawson, Mrs. Schiebel, Mrs. Val Fuhr and Mrs. Grossheim.
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Washington
Iowa City
Weather Forecast From United Press Iowa
Mostly cloudy with scattered showers in the north and central, cooler tonight. North frost likely after clearing Thursday night. Thursday partly cloudy and cooler in the south with highs in the 60s. Increasing clouds and continued cool Friday with frost possible in the north.
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United Press
Iowa
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U. S. Army Engineers
Red Feather Drive
United Way
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L. M. Eicher
Washington County Republican Women's Group
Vetter
World
Sation
Ben Stout
Washington Y's Men
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State
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Dubuque
Charles M. McCann
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Chou En-Lai
Red Peiping
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