Word: iowa
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MARVIN C. REHBEIN Vail, Iowa...
...stormy night in 1946, the Mighty Mo got out of its bed in the Decatur loop, midway between Omaha and Sioux City, and settled in a new bed half a mile to the east. This confronted the civic fathers of Onawa, Iowa (pop. 3,498) and Decatur, Neb. (pop. 808) with an embarrassing problem. After 25 years of pleading, Congress had finally authorized a toll bridge spanning the mile-wide Missouri to connect the two towns. But should they build the bridge over the old or new bed? The Army engineers said to build over the old channel, since...
...Cleveland university conferred the degree on Sunday at the dedication of the new I. F. Freiberger Library. At the same time, Ralph E. Ellsworth, director of libraries at Iowa State, was awarded the Doctor of Laws degree...
...CORNING, IOWA, Jan. 27 (AP) -There's still a Peterson family on the farm that Dale E. Peterson left last month to take his family to California where he thought he might "do better." Dale's younger brother William, 25, his wife and their three boys have rented the. place on which Dale had his "quitting farming" sale, televised on the Murrow-Benson program last night . . . "We had a letter from [Dale] Thursday," said Mrs. Bill Peterson. "Dale has a job in a warehouse in Glendale ... He just sold out because he thought he could do better...
Police examined the two figures sprawled on the floor of the little frame house in Marshalltown. Iowa, and called the undertaker. Despite a low-burning oil heater, the 24-below-zero cold had crept into the house. Mrs. Fred Davis, 50, and her two-year-old granddaughter Vickie had apparently been lying there all night (victims of assault or accident, no one is yet sure which), and their bodies were frozen rigid. But the woman suddenly moaned softly, and police rushed her and the child to the hospital...