Des Moines Tribune from Des Moines, Iowa • 19

i 'i Mr. Tneedr Honor Cedar Rapids More Corn Set Hearing Might Rule OnPetitions By Friday Corporation Counsel Wade McTigue to Talk 'To Cancer Unit Frank B. McTigue of Fort Dodge will speak at a kick-off meeting Tuesday for the rural Polk County campaign in the American Cancer Society annual drive, Tuesday through Apr. 16. The program will follow registration at 1:30 p.

m. and will be in the Marquis-ville Evangelical United Brethren Church, E. Fourteenth street and Pinehill drive. McTigue has served on the national board of the cancer society and is a former president of the Iowa division and fotmer state drive chairman. Solar Gives $782 Fire Department CEDAR RAPIDS, IA The National Fire Protection As sociation has awarded a cer tificate of merit to the Cedar Rapids fire department for ranking high, both nationally and in Iowa, in educational activities during Fire Prevention Week of 1955.

Cedar Rapids is listed first in Iowa among cities of all sizes, second in the nation among approximately 86 cities in its population class and fourteenth in the country among all cities regardless of size. Services at Perry For Frank Shannon (The Tribune'e Iowa Newi service.) PERRY, IA. Services will be held at 11 a. m. Fridav at the Workman Funeral Home here with burial in Peoples Cemetery for Frank Shannon, oo, wno aiea luesaay in Omaha, Neb.

He was a long time resident of the Bouton and Minburn communities. He is survived by two daughters, four grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. COHEN SUPER MKT. 1101 S.E. SCOTT SEE A-G AD ON PAGE! 21 FOR MORE SPECIALS R0CKW00D CHOCOLATE PKG, CINCH CAKE MIX 4 Pkgs.

89C SLICED BACON ENDS 5 49c HILLS BROS. 49 2 Lb. Can ffnc In Tax Suit The Iowa Supreme Court Thursday set a hearing for Apr. 6 on a request by the Iowa tax commission and 26 county auditors and treasurers to consider rulings on three motions made in a tax assessment case involving the Iowa Power and Light Co, of Des Moines. Iowa Power and Light last October asked the dib-trict court here to reduce a 1955 property valuation of $46,078,817 placed on it by the tax commission to 30 million dollars.

A few weeks later it filed a second suit against' the commission and the auditors and treasurers in 26 counties in which it has property. The utility firm in the sec ond asked the original assess ment be declared "null and and that the auditors and treasurers be prohibited from enterir; the assessments on their books. Asks It also asked that the commission be ordered to the assessment with that of other taxable property within the state and certify these "equalized" assessments to the auditors and treasurers. Motions to dismiss the second suit were filed by the commission, the auditor and treasurer of Polk County separately, and the remaining auditors and treasurers jointly, but District Judge Ray C. Fountain overruled all three Mar; 16.

The commission and county officials asked the supreme court to rule on the "correctness" of Judge Fountain's orders. They contend the legal questions raised by the motions affect the entire tax ing machinery and taxing procedures" of the commission and counties. They said a delay in a supreme court review might result in "great and irreparable injury and damage if the trial (district) court is in error." Decide on Review. Chief Justice Norman R. Hays set the hearing date to determine whether the su preme court will review the rulings on "the motion prior to completion'.

of the case in district, court. He ordered that the district court proceedings be halted until after the Apr. 6 hearing. P. Clarke said Thursday that a city legal department opin ion as to legality of petitions for recall of City Councilmen Rcbert E.

Conley and Frank W. McGowan might be writ ten by Friday. The city legal chief added that the opinion definitely would be ready by Monday, when the council will meet. Petitions which John Paul Jones, an attorney, said bore 16,723 signatures calling for an election on whether Con-ley and McGowan should be removed were filed Monday with City Clerk Walter Brick. Asked Ruling.

The clerk, whose office would have the responsibility of checking the. signatures against the roll of registered voters, later asked the legal department for an opinion. State law on the commission plan of municipal, government, such as Des Moines formerly had, specifically provides for the forcing by petition of an election on recall of elective officials. No Provision. The chapter on the council- manager plan, which now prevails here, does not provide specifically for such an elec tion.

Jones had said, however. before the petitions were filed, that the recall provision could be considered applicable to tne manager form of govern ment. Grant for Research On Wild Violets GRINNELL, Nation al Science Foundation grant of $3,100 has been made to Dr. Norman H. Russellt of the Grinnell College biology department to support for about two years his continued research on wild violets.

This research on the violets. which are amona the. most difficult of all groups of plants for the botanist to understand, was started bv Dr. Russell eight years ago and has re sulted in 10 research publica tions. NEAR SOUTH POLE.

Cape 'AguIhas is 33 miles nearer the South Pole than the Cape of Good Hope. fVi Page 20 Mr, 195 43 Inducted By Services Forty-three more Iowans have been inducted into the armed forces at the joint examining station here. Twenty-eight went into the navy and will report to the Great Lakes, naval training station. Fifteen entered the army and are to go to Camp Chaffee, Ark. Polk County board 131 sent three men to the navy and one tc the army.

The navy in ductees are Hermon E. Lash of Route 6, Des Moines; Donald E. Smith of 2406 S. E. Eighth and Neal E.

War ren of Carlisle. The army inductee is John A. Williams of Polk City. Polk board 132 sent two men into the navy. They are Robert L.

Yeates cf 1808 Forty-second sL, and Edward D. Pritchard of 2831 Rutland ave. The Warren County board sent a registrant now living in Des Moines into the navy He is Robert L. Anthony of 3214 Fifth ave. Others inducted into the navy and the boards from which they were sent: COl'NTT.

Rlrkland DonsM Lon WEBSTER tOt'M. L-hlth Walter n. Murray Fort Uodrr Thomas P. jacobson. Badr-i Duani I III Ml.

Erdahl Richard Alviir H.IPH.IO taTl. OUm Kennnh Pilcher. Gar? Joins, Jack Form Carr. Joha C. 'isart tart orii M.

Stodfell. rrlnretni William W. Williamf. Varsaw. III.

Jack G. Ewint. Daveaimrt Roland W. Meier, Erwln I Rldrera' Rajmond G. novey, tion-Id Hnvev.

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Carliele riarence Thompson. IkTORV CfvO'TV. Roland Kay R. Kilstolftt, John P. Others inducted into the army and the boards from which they were sent: Rivf.r.oLP rnrvri.

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CbVUd, ATttn n. ToAV Parade for Homes Show at Npwton Tht Triniin'i Iowa Ntwi Service.) NEWTON, 1A. Approximately, 60 units representing all types of Newton service firms will parade Saturday morning through the business district here as a forerunner to the Newton Homes Show to be held Apr. 5 and 6 at the Y. M.

C. A. building, according to Neal Hammer, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, sponsor of the show. Seventy firms will have disnlay booths. Marcia Docken, 17, Newton High School senior, recently named Iowa's Home-maker of Tomorrow and awarded a $1,500 scholarship, will be crowned queen or tne snow at a ceremony scheduled for the first eve mng program.

During the parade Saturday, an airplane will drop certificates redeem able in merchandise. 3. Former D. M. Teacher Dies Services for Nettie Nyle Donovan, 72, a retired Roosevelt High School mathematics teacher, who died Wednesday at Fairfield, will be at 2 p.

m. Saturday at the Weston Beh- ner Funeral Home in Fairfield Burial will be in Hillcrest cemetery at Brighton. Miss Donovan died early Wednesday at the Jeffer-' son County Hospital after an Illness of three months. A member of the Roosevelt High faculty fer more than 25 vears. Miss Donovan re tired in 1949 and moved to Fairfield.

She previously taught at Ida Grove. Born at Brighton, she attended public school there and was graduated from Parsons College in 1909. She was a member of First Presbyterian Church at Fairfield. Shortage of Easter Eggs After Crash? ARLINGTON, TEX. If the Easter bunny runs short on eggs this year, he can blame a Texas traffic mishap.

When a truck driven by Virgil German, 19, Bryan, overturned near here Wednesday night, an estimated 23,000 of the 70,000 Rgs the truct was carrying were broken. Newton Teachers Get Salary Raises NEWTON, IA. An annual increase of $200, in addition to yearly increments in the salary schedule, has been granted teachers in the school system here by the Newton board of education. The raises, along with pro vision for an, additional 10 teachers next year, will add more than $80,000 to the school budget for the coming school year. Two Egg Hunts TAMA, IA.

The second annual Easter egg. hunt for children will be at 10 a. m. Saturday at city park in the north part of Tama. Sixty-three dozen colored eggs will be hidden in the park.

An egg hunt for the children of the Tama Indian settlement will be held at 2 p. m. Sunday at the pow wow grounds. For Suggestions Suggestion award checks presented by Solar Aircraft Thursday, brought to $19,160 the amount paid employees for ideas and improvements since the plan began. Winners in the winter quarter contest received $782, In checks ranging from $10 to $100.

Top award went to Kermit Flanagan, tool and die maker, of 6302 S. W. Twelfth Flanagan designed an escape hole to prevent slugs from jamming in a metal-piercing machine. Will Deport 4 Mexicans (Th Tribune a Iowa News Service.) OSCEOLA, IA. Four Mex ican nationals agreed to de portation instead of prosecution on larceny charges here Wednesday and a fifth Mexican who said he now is a citizen of the United States was held on a vagrancy charge.

After the five visited a store here Tuesday they were stopped and Julio Louis Lopez, who said he was a naturalized American and resident of Los Angeles, was fined $10 for operating a car with an expired driving license. The group agreed to leave town. A farmer miles north of here saw the three men and two women tear-' Ing tags off of new clothing, and called the sheriff's office. Highway patrolmen who arrested the group said there were nine new men's suits in the car. Immigration authorities were called.

They found that Berta I D. Leonel, Manuela Rodriguez, Paulino J. Lopez and Pedro Ortega had no proof of being in this country legally. Inquiry revealed that mem bers of the group had been fined $200 in Kearney, last week on a charge of larceny, and that Lopez was under bond in Topeka, on a larceny charge. Officials there were notified he will be here 15 days, serving a vagrancy sentence.

Only One. Only 19 of America's 100 largest cities depend on wells for a public water supply. "the best you ever thaw!" Hefp Yourself 8ex MRS. GLORIA HEARSHMAN OlOS frontii. Dm MoIdm, low doit ADEIfXOUS CHOdOCUf icikand Nujffx Under Props Iowa farmers are placing an increased amount- of last year's corn under government price supports while the large quantities or 1955 oats and soybeans previously placed under support have declined.

More than 97.2 million bushels of last year's corn had been placed under price support in Iowa by Mar. 15, Chairman Dwight W. Meyer of the state agricultural stabilization and conservation i tee said Thursday. This is an increase of nearly 8 million bushels in the last, month. Meyer estimated about 125 million bushels will be under support in Iowa when the application period expires May 31.

There was S.2 million bushels of 1954 corn under support a year ago. The state ASC chairman said favorable market prices have been responsible for an increase in recent weeks in the repayment of price support loans on oats, soybeans and flaxseed. Approximately 3'2 million of the 8.8 million bushels of soybeans under support have been redeemed, as have nearly 1'4 million of the 7.4 million bushels of oats. A Memorial Gift For Twin Brother IThe Tnbune'i Iowa Newa Service.) CEDAR RAPIDS, I A. TSgt.

James G. Springer of Cedar Rapids has presented a $60.15 memorial gift to the Air Force Aid Society in memory of his twin brother, MSg't. John G. Springer, who was killed when his C-124 Globemaster crashed into the Atlantic off Iceland Mar. 2.

The money: was given by friends in lieu of flowers at a memorial service held recent ly. The surviving twin, is sta tioned at Charleston Air Force Base, S. as a flight maintenance technician. Mother of the twins is Mrs. J.

F. Berry, living on a farm near Cedar Rapids. Let Contract (The Tribone'a Iowa Newt Service.) RED OAK, IA.The Mont gomery county board or su pervisors has awarded a con tract to C. Henningsen Inc. of Atlantic for $128, 948.38 on 7.258 miles of rolled stone base surfacing in scattered areas of the county, County Engineer P.

A. Michel said this would be the first work of this type in southern Iowa. The work is to be done this yean Dr. Jensen Resigns GRINNELL, IA. Dr.

Gale E. Jensen, professor of edu cation and director of the Institute for Teacher Education at Grinnell College, has rz- signed to become program director for community-adult education at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. effective, Sept X. fnmrr fa rtlilii la. fn fi fttKt" SP A HCTT 'l TpT fciwawn wwii wtwttmnmurrmtm Maana.

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