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HOUGHTON, DENTIST, DIES Dr. Marvin J. Houghton, 77, who was a dentist here for 55 years, died late Saturday night of a heart attack while riding in a friend's automobile en route home. Dr. Ho ton, who lived at 1124 Thirtyfifth was I one of the first dentists in West Des DR.

HOUGHTON. Moines, then known as Valley Junction. He was on the board of the Home Federal Savings and Loan Association, and was a member of the Cottage Grove Avenue Presbyterian Church, the Waveland Masonic Lodge, the Des Moines Pioneer Club, the Polk County Kings Sons, and the Black Dental Club of Des Moines. He was also a life member of the State Dental Association. Attended Drake.

A graduate of the University of Michigan Dental College, Dr. Houghton attended Drake University and was a graduate of West High School. Dr. and Mrs. Houghton celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in July, 1952.

Services will be conducted by Dr. Edward P. Ingersoll of the Cottage Grove Ave. Presbyterian Church at Dunn's Funeral Home at 3 p. m.

Tuesday. Burial will be in Resthaven Cemetery. Surviving are his wife, Myrtle three sons, Verne, of Des Moines, Marvin of San Anselmo, Cal. and Harrison of Washington, D. and six grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be Dr. E. W. Baldridge, John Bristol, Dr. W.

L. Harlan, John B. Dyer, Henry Zimmerman, and R. F. Rae.

Honorary pallbearers will be Johnathan M. Fletcher, Arthur S. Kirk, Joseph N. Chamberlain, Joseph T. Schilling, John R.

Buckley, Hedo M. Zacherle, Dr. John L. Hillman, William M. Babcock, Dr.

A. B. Thompson, and Dr. Ray G. Miller.

Iowa Dogwatch Reunion Is Held Several hundred former sailors, marines, seabees, and coastguardsmen attended the annual Iowa Dogwatch Reunion for sea-going veterans at the Legionnaire Club, Locust Sunday evening. Two brothers from Newton, Max and Weston Sloan, were elected skipper and treasurer. George E. Cushman, Des Moines was elected executive officer. Speakers included Frank Tokarz, of St.

Louis, who talked on "Uranium -Its Uses and How to Find It," and Tom Keleher, Council Bluffs, commander of the Disabled American Veterans in Iowa. A. V.C. to Honor Negro Physician WASHINGTON, D. C.

(A)- The American Veterans Committee (A. V. said Sunday it will make a "citizens award," the first the A. V. C.

has given to Dr. T. B. M. Howard, a Negro physician, surgeon and businessman at Mound Bayou, Miss.

A. V. C. Chairman Bill Mauldin said Dr. Howard was being honored for the "magnificent work he is carrying on to bring civil rights to one of the most oppressed areas of the south." The award will be presented at the A.

V. C. convention in Atlantic City, N. Nov. 11-13.

Pleads Innocent Of Drunk Driving Ole J. Ferkin, 67, of 1620 Des Moines was arrested on a charge of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated early Sunday at Second and University avenues. Ferkin pleaded innocent to the charge and trial was set for Noy. 15 by Judge Howard W. Brooks.

He was freed on $400 bond. WOW! IT'S BIG! IT'S NEW! The greatest addition to THE DES MOINES SUNDAY REGISTER in 20 years. COMING NOV. 13 Gleaning Corn in a Good Cause These men were among some 30 volunteers from Local 450 of the C. I.

0. United Auto Workers, employed at the John Deere Des Moines Works, who drove more than 100 miles in an auto caravan Saturday to glean corn for the benefit of the Iowa Society for Crippled Children and Adults. In about five hours, they picked up 300 bushels of corn on a farm south of Mount Ayr in Ringgold county owned jointly by F. B. Maloy and O.

G. Dixon who donated the 300 bushels to the Harvest of Hope for the Crippled Children fund drive, then bought it back at $1 a bushel. Several thousand volunteers from various schools and organizations over the state will participate in a similar Harvest of Hope next Saturday. NURSES GROUPS MEETING HERE Nearly 800 nurses registered Sunday in Des Moines for the 3-day convention of the Iowa State Nurses and Student Nurses associations. Virginia Walker, New York, N.

American Nurses Association section CO ordinator, spoke about "The Functions, GOODSON. Standards and Qualifications of the Industrial Nurse." Robert L. stad, Des Moines, deputy industrial commissioner of Iowa, spoke on "Workmen's Compensation and its Legal Aspects." This afternoon both groups will hear Dr. Max R. Goodson, assistant dean of Ohio State University, discuss "Communication Skills Required in Effective Group Thinking" at Moose Hall.

The talk will be followed by group discussion on "Opportunities to Practice Skills of Communication to Group Work." Toastmasters In Fall Meeting Members of almost 50 toastmasters Clubs around Iowa held their annual fall meeting Sunday at the Standard Club in Des Moines. One of the features of the program was a "hi-jinks luncheon" at which motion pictures of the clubs' activities during the year were shown. About 100 members of the District 19 (Iowa) clubs attended of Toastmasters International from Palo Alto, stopped in while passing through Des Moines and promptly won the title of the member who had traveled the farthest for the convention. Store Reports Theft Of Rifle and Shells A .22 caliber semi- automatic rifle and several of shells were reported taken Sunday night in a break-in at the Farm and Home Hardware store, 2403 Avenue Frederick M. Hubbell, police said.

Entry was gained by removing a grate from the rear window and breaking the glass. Charles Blodgett Dies at Age of 81 Charles C. Blodgett, 81, of 711 Bradway place, died Sunday of a heart ailment at Warford's Nursing Home 810 sixtythird after an illness of about 10 months. Services will be at 1 p. m.

Tuesday at Dunn's Funeral home, with burial in Glendale Cemetery. A retired sales manager, Mr. Blodgett had lived in Des Moines about 26 years. He was a native of West Union, and a member of the Plymouth Congregational Church. He is survived by his wife, Margaret; two daughters, Mrs.

Margaret Racek of Evanston, and Mrs. Alice Moody of St. Paul, a son, Charles M. of Des Moines; a brother, Arthur W. Blodgett of Miami, a sister, Mrs.

Sarah Wettstein of Milwaukee, four grandchildren and six greatgrandchildren. Clarence Culver Rites Are Set Services for Clarence E. Culver, 57, who died of a heart ailment Saturday at Iowa Methodist Hospital, will be at 10 a. m. Tuesday in Dunn's Funeral Home.

Burial will be in Boone where Mr. farmed before retiring to live at 804 Eleventh West Des Moines. He was a member of the Lutheran Church and the American Legion. He is survived by his wife, Marion, his mother, Mrs. ma Harritt of Des Moines; one Donald of Sherman Oaks, two sisters, Mrs.

Henry V. Nelson of Boone, and Helen Culver of Des Moines; three stepsons, Robert, Charles and William Heady, all of Indianapolis, and two stepdaughters, Eleanor Jane Kissel, Indianapolis, and Ruth Edwards, Van Nuys, Cal. Officers of 34th Receive Briefing Twenty-five officers of the 34th Division, Iowa-Nebraska National Guard, were briefed here Saturday and Sunday for Operation Big Blast a practice maneuver to be held at Fort Riley, in January. Division headquarter units will operate in the exercise as they would under battle conditions. No troops will take part.

Maj. Gen. Warren C. Wood, Gering, division commander, Brig. Gen.

Carlton K. Smith, Cedar Rapids, assistant commander. and other key officers attended the briefing at Redhorse Armory. New Utica Open Tonite until Bring the Family p. m.

9 Des Moines Register Page 3 Oct. 31, 1955 Post-Mortem On Assembly For Grocers By Robert Barewald. Gov. Leo A. Hoegh and four Iowa legislators engaged in a lively post-mortem on the last legislative session Sunday afternoon with members of the Iowa Retail Food Dealers Association, meeting here.

It came in a question period after a panel discussion on legislative procedures at Hotel Savery. Panel Members. Members of the panel, besides the governor, were Lt. Gov. Leo Elthon; Representative Arthur C.

Hanson Inwood), house speaker; Senator George O'Malley Des Moines), senate minority leader, and Representative Howard C. Reppert, jr. Des Moines). In answer to a question as to why the legislature hasn't reapportioned legislative districts, Hanson said: "I can't help but say that the house has passed resolutions calling for reapportionment in the last two sessions. No Senate Vote.

"But -with apologies to the senate and the lieutenant governor-it did not reach a vote in the senate." O'Malley pointed out that the people of the state voted against calling a constitutional convention to act on reapportionment in the 1950 election. Elthon said that "every 10 years the question is put to the people of Iowa without fail. If they want a constitutional convention for any purpose whatever, all they have to do is vote for it, and the convention will be called. "I am one who believes in constitutional procedures," he added. Elthon said he had a reapportionment bill introduced in the senate when he was floor leader, but that no agreement was reached on it.

Overlapping. Of the bill introduced in the last session, he said "there seemed no way to get the job done, because of overlapping of terms and areas." He said later that this overlapping would have meant no representation at all for awhile in some areas. Governor Hoegh drew applause when he said: "I'm going to ask a question myself. How about that trading stamp b'1?" He said that bill got through the senate, but after it reached the house sifting committee, "we didn't see it again." The bill would have required a trading stamp to pay a fee of $4,000 to $7,000 for each store that used the stamps. It also would have required merchants using the stamps to pay a similar fee.

Probable. The effect probably would have been to eliminate the use of trading stamps. Speaker Hanson replied to the governor that there was some doubt in the house as to "whether the legislature should deny people the privilege of getting a lot of free gifts." A member of the association then rose and said, "Does Mr. Hanson think those are free gifts? People are paying for E. H.

Tepperman, Council Bluffs, asked why "the Iowa Republican party has adopted a sales tax that does much DES MOINES CLEANING CO. 7th and College Ph. 3-4615 GINSBERGS OPEN TONIGHT Free Coffee Donuts Factory Demonstration SUNBEAM Appliances TONE'S Coffee Served Legislators Under Fire Malle Leo Elthon While Senator George O'Malley Des Moines) (center) frowns, Lt. Gov. Leo Elthon Fertile) (right) replies to question from floor during panel discussion of legislative practices at the Iowa Retail Food Dealers Association convention here Sunday.

At left is Gov. Leo Hoegh, moderator. REPORT FEW PRANKS HERE Only a few scattered Halloween eve pranks were reported to police and county officers Sunday. They included: School stop sign placed in the street at Woodland avenue and Harding road, halting traffic. Firecrackers exploding in several sections of the city.

Decaying fruit and rubbish thrown on front porches in the Highland Park area. Broken glass scattered in the 2300 block on E. Thirty-eighth st. The standard Halloween practice of pushing over outbuildings was reported in the 4700 block of E. Thirtieth street, and on Broadway street, east of E.

Fourteenth street. Some rock-throwing also was reported. Beggars' Night, traditional time for Des Moines youngsters to perform tricks for treats, will be tonight. Last year it was held the night before Halloween. Masks and costumes draped on little boys and girls will be the uniform for the nightalong with an entourage of solicitous mothers and fathers.

Find Body of Tot Missing for Year POWERS LAKE, N. D. (P)- The body of LaVerne Enget, 4, for whom an estimated men searched North Dakota prairie land a year ago, was found Sunday in a slough one mile from his farm home. The body, in 10 inches of water, was discovered by, volunteers who met to make "one last search" for the youngster who wandered from his home Oct. 17, 1954.

The boy's father Lobert Enget, identified clothing on the body as that worn by LaVerne the day he disappeared. A pathologist will try to determine if the child drowned or died from some other cause. harm to merchants in the fringe area of the state." The governor answered that the state needed more revenue for the improvement of education. "We appropriated 000 more this year for education," he said. "Seventy-nine cents of the increased tax dollar goes for education.

Twelve cents goes for better care for mentally distressed people. I had no hesitancy in accepting that (tax) method of getting revenue for two years." Egg-Grading Law. Tepperman also asked what interests the egg-grading law serves. "You know that a grocer cannot get away with selling an inferior egg," he said. "That's one of the few things he cannot cheat on." Hoegh said the primary purpose of the law was to make Iowa eggs attractive in the national market.

He said that since its passage, Iowa eggs have advanced from a price 2 cents under the Chicago, market price to a level 2 cents above it--a gain of 4 cents. Elthon said, in answer to another question, that he wanted to about "the evils of the sifting committee that are so loudly proclaimed by the scribes and others. "I want to point out that time a member (of the senate) wants to get a bill out of the sifting committee, he can ask for it to be brought out and put on the calendar. "If 30 members agree with him, it is brought out. I have yet to hear of any proposal that will work any better." The more than 1,200 association members who attended the two-day annual convention elected Lawrence Baron, Sioux City, president of the group.

Elected as vice-presidents were I. E. Albright, Des Moines, and M. P. Quinn, Ottumwa.

W. T. Gift, Des Moines, was elected treasurer. Members of the board of directors are Leo Kennedy, lington; Arnold Krongard, Clinton; Earl McNamara, Dubuque; William James, Mason City; Henry Lausen, Iowa City; Keith Rushing, Ames; Earl Perley, Sioux City; E. H.

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