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Polio Victims Hold A Reunion PICTURE: Page One, Thirty-two families had a reunion in Union Park Sunday, It was polio that brought them together, The potluck picnic was for persons who were vietims of polio in 1952 and had been patients at Iowa Lutheran Hospital. The reunion began as an idea that Mrs. Roberta Cook, 660 Thirty-third and Dick Cole, 3217 Iola had for inviting some of their friends to a picnic in Mrs. Cook's bask yard. Program Grew.

"But everyone liked the idea and the program grew so that we had to find somewhere else to hold it," Mrs. Cook said Sunday, What started as a small party, she said, ended with invitations being sent out to 75 families. Nearly 125 persons attended the get-together, Turnbull came 130 miles 1 her home Lois, in Clarinda to be present. Compare Progress. It was an afternoon for recalling other less happy days and for comparing the progress that has been made in the last two years.

Mrs. Cook told of 6 weeks spent lying in an iron lung and of 10 months in the hospital. Two years ago Galen Robinson, Linden, was brought to the hospital unconscious with severe polio. Today he does his own farmwork, using one crutch for support. Four Out of Five.

Marvin Paul, Osceola, is operating his farm again, too. Four out of the five members of his family were at Lutheran with polio two years ago. Cole, who helped plan the picnic, was hospitalized about eight months. Now he is a student at Drake University and supervisor of several municipal high school swimming pools. Mrs.

Sophia Hetherington, head of the polio ward, was at the reunion. So was Mrs. Greta Albertsen, a therapist who returned from visiting her home in Denmark just in time to attend the picnic. Larry Angove, orderly at the hospital, also was there. The former patients plan to hold another reunion next year in Des Moines.

Drake Workshop On Kindergarten A kindergarten workshop will be offered in two sections as part of the curriculum of the second term of summer session at Drake University. The first section starts today and continues through Aug. 6. The second section will be offered Aug. 9 through Aug.

13. Both workshops will be taught by Miss Jennie Wahlert, director of nursery school, Washington University, St. Louis, Mo. Miss Wahlert has worked for many years in the field of early childhood education--as elementary teacher, supervisor and principal in, St. Louis schools.

Telephone 4-4131 Beauty Salon 4th Floor You may use your charge account! We feature the most popular hair coloring Miss Clairol Hair Color Bath. We use Ogilvie Sisters preparations to help give your hair health; Revion's "Kissing Pink" for AUTO VICTIM'S RITES TUESDAY Services will be held at 2 p. m. Tuesday at the McLaren Funeral Home for Mrs. Lillian M.

Fisher, 28, of West Des Moines, who was killed when she was struck by a car Saturday night in Des Moines. Burial will be at Resthaven Cemetery. Mrs. Fisher was dead on arrival at Iowa Methodist Hospital after the MRS. FISHER, accident at Twenty-eighth street and Grand avenue.

Born in Des Moines, Mrs. Fisher had lived in West Des Des Moines most of her life. A graduate of Valley High School, she was formerly employed at Davidson's Furniture Store. She was a member of the the New litica ANNUAL Summer Sale Our regular STYLE LEAGUE cold wave permanent 7.50 The cold wave event you've wainted for! The wonderful permanent that's so easy to manage brushable and carefree from the start! You'll love its deep waves, its soft, long-lasting curls the easier summertime grooming. HAIRCUT 1.50 announcing OUT LITTLE PRINCESS SHOP Specializing in CHILDREN'S HAIRCUTS Beesty Salon Fourth Floor Beautiful Iowa, Girls Division Moines; Carole B.

Rotton, City; Carolyn Boleng, Charles L. Moore, Fairfield; Caryl ton; Betty C. Henderson, Falls; Delores Thomas, The judges selected Carol corner, as Miss Iowa. Story: Miss O'Connor Dies Here at 61 in Clear and the right Cedar Dixie Anderson, Swenson, Lake beauty (back): Rapids; L. AusKel- Des Miss Margaret J.

O'Connor, 61, of 1221 Twenty-first a native of County Clare, Ireland, died of pneumonia Sunday morning at Mercy Hospital. Miss O'Connor was a member of the Rosary Society of St. John's Catholic Church. Prior to the death of the Rt. Rev.

Msgr. M. S. McNamara, her uncle, in 1949, she made her home with him while he was pastor at St. John's in Des Moines and in Stuart.

Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Mary Leamy and Mrs. Agnes Heffernan, both of Chicago, one brother, Thomas Kiely, County Clare, and one aunt, Miss Katherine McNamara, Des I Moines. GINSBERGS OPEN TONIGHT and every Monday night until 9 AVAVA WA VAVAVA the flew Ittica NOW you can choose from 400 FALL TOPCOATS! WOW! NOW! 400 MEN'S 600 FALL SUITS! topcoats Entire stock Fall Now Suits you and can SUMMER get Topcoats, (Palm ready Beach for and Fall! excepted) Save! You SUITS Every can suit chaose and topcoat in this sale has an identity! Carries the proud label of makers such as Fashion Park, in New Utica's Hart Schaffner Marx, Michaels-Stern, Kingsridge, Joseph and Feiss. Names men have learned midsummer Sale they could depend upon.

Names they always look for. The topcoats are fleeces, tweeds, velours, cheviots. Patterns include checks, plaids, herringbones. Choose from raglan or set-in sleeves. Remember! Fall suits are worsteds, tweeds, shetlands.

NO FIT, Plenty of solids. Plenty of splahes. Pin checks. The Place to Go NO SALE Summer suits are pure wool worsteds, all Dacrons, Dacron and wools, Dacron and Rayons, Cords. for the Names Good suits.

Good topcoats. Good values. You Know! Choose from Des Moines' largest Good selections. The ingredients that make a goad men's clothing selections sale. The only kind New Utica ever offers.

Men's clothing second floor Fall Suits! Fall Topcoats! Fall Topcoats! Fall Topcoats! Topcoats! Summer Summer Suits! Summer Suits! Summer Suits! Fall Suits! Fall Suits! Fall Suits! Fall Suits! $37 $47 $57 $67 Woman Quizzed In Bakery Police 31-year-old Moines woman for questioning Sunday in connection with the theft Saturday afternoon of money bag containing $50 from an unguarded cash register at Colonial Baking 1225 Second ave. She was identified as Mrs. Billie Millhouse, of 819 Seventh st. No charges had been filed. An employee who ran after the car that was used for an escape from the scene said a man was behind the wheel and a small child also was in the auto.

Youth Program At City 'Sing' The "accent on youth" program WAS continued at the eighth Community Sing Sunday evening at Sylvan Theater in Greenwood Park. The first part of the program featured a five-piece Dixieland band and a girls' sextet from Lincoln High School and a girls' quintet from East High School. After the entertainment, an estimated 250 persons took part in a sing, led by Ernest Wills, the season's director, and accompanied by Shirley Sutton. Crash Claims Fourth Victim IOWA CITY, IA. (U.P.) Roger Hansel, 17, Garber, died in University Hospitals Saturday night of injuries suffered in a car accident last Monday in which three others were injured fatally.

The car crashed into a tree in Backbone State Park about 20 miles east of Oelwein. Other victims were Mr. and Mrs. Carson Moser, both 20, and Moser's sister, Elsie, 15, all of Garber. Moines Register Page 3 2, LOSES HIS LIFE IN CEDAR RIVER CEDAR RAPIDS, -Otto Solbrig.

30, of East Amana, drowned in the Cedar river here Sunday when each of two groups at an outing thought he was with the other. Solbrig was with a party of seven other persons when they split into two groups. One went swimming and the other went boating. At 6 p. m.

it was discovered that Solbrig was with neither group. Police were notified, and they recovered his body in 8 feet of water opposite Conrad Beach. said Solbrig apparently tried to swim across the river. 'Guys and Dolls' Lead to Brando HOLLYWOOD, CAL. (U.P.)Marion Brando has been signed by Producer Samuel Goldwyn to play, the lead in the screen version of the Broadway hit "Guys and Dolls," it was announced Sunday.

The assignment, regarded here as one of surprise castings of the year, will put Brando in the role of Guy BRANDO. Masterson, a romantic gambler. It will be the first musical for the he-man actor. Brando's selection for the role ends a 4-month talent search Nineteen candidates for "Miss Iowa of 1954," the weekend for Governor's Day festivities pause to pose for a pretty picture. Left to L.

Morris, Ottumwa; Audrey Reggentin, G. Wilson, Ames; Phyllis J. Behn, Iowa Falls; Mason City; Ruth Witthoft, Washington; June Marilyn R. Shonka Pocahontas; Lois F. American Legion Auxiliary and the Lutheran Church.

Surviving are her husband, J. Roy Fisher; a son, Randy, a brother, John, and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Putnam, all of West Des Moines. Mizrachi to Hold Dinner Sept.

5 The Des Moines chapter of Mizrachi will hold a fund-raising dinner at 6:30 p. m. Sunday, Sept. 5, at Beth El Jacob synagogue. The purpose of the dinner is to meet the Des Moines group's quota of $5,000 for the Mizrachi general fund for the establishment of Bar-Illan University in Israel.

Rabbi Isaac Stollman, vicepresident of the national Mizrachi, will speak at the banquet. Sylvia Johnston, Forest Front row, left to right: Mary Decorah; Marion Fetzer, ClinMarilyn R. Walmsley, Cedar and Mary Remling, Waterloo. the girl in the upper lefthand 7 Guardsmen in Iowa Hospitals All but seven of the 45 Missouri National Guardsmen stricken with food poisoning while traveling through Iowa Saturday were released from hospitals in Des Moines, Leon and St. Joseph, Sunday.

Nineteen of the 21 hospitalized at Leon were released as well as 10 of the 15 at Des Moines and all nine at St. Joseph. None of the remaining was in serious condition. The guardsmen, members of the 35th signal company, were on their way home from training at Camp McCoy, Wis. More than 50 others were affected but not hospitalized.

during which a number of top actors were tested for the part. Flight Breakfast Held at Red Oak RED OAK, planes carrying 174 persons landed here Sunday for a flight breakfast sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce, the airport commission and the Red Oak Civil Air Patrol unit. Merchants presented 20 prizes to the visitors and auto dealers provided cars for sight-seeing tours. in Omaha Girl Chosen As Top Majorette BUCKEYE LAKE, OHIO (U.P.) -Joan Posekany, 17, of Omaha, won the title of Majorette of 1954" and $200 first prize money in a national baton twirling contest here Sunday. The contest was sponsored by the Drum Majorettes of America..