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Des Moines Tribune from Des Moines, Iowa • 10

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Moines Tribune Page 10 Sept. 10, 1954 EVERY CHILD SHOULD LEARN TO DANCE says FRED ASTAIRE "There is no such thing as a bern dancer. All the good dancers have ever known have been carefully and expertly trained. I started dancing myself when was 3 and to me dancing has always been fun. I've enjoyed every minute of' All children need dance training.

The gifted child should have the opportunity to develop natural abilities and the awkward child to acquire poise and grace. It is of the utmost importance to select your child's dancing school with care. Unlike academic schools where both the teachers and the curricula must pass State Boards of Examination, many schools of dancing are operated by individuals with insufficient training. Poor teachers and unsound methods can be extremely harmful to your child. My studios have developed carefully integrated, finely woven system of training children to dance.

The curriculum is thoughtfully planned, the teachers are highly trained, and the entire program! is completely supervised. For a Limited Time Only, FREE DANCING LESSONS FOR YOUR CHILD plus a analysis by expert children's specialist ACT Take advantage of this amazing offer. Come in or phone for appointment. THIS WEEK, TUES. THRU 4-1959 COMPARE Astaire BEFORE BUYING DANCE LESSONS ANYWHERE FRED ASTAIRE DANCE STUDIOS 6th Ave.

Des Moines WHERE PHARMACY PROFESSION" BRANN DRUGS F. T. BINDER, Prop. 720 LOCUST ST. We Deliver Ph.

3-4111 DR. WAYNE L. ROQUET OPTOMETRIST EYES EXAMINED COMPLETE OPTICAL SERVICE do Extra MODERATE PRICES Charge for Credit Offices at DANIELS JEWELERS 310 SIXTH PH. 3-7181 Open Monday Night til 9 P. M.

Road Contracts Up The Iowa Highway Commission reported Friday it let contracts totaling $42,022,390 in the fiscal year ended June 30, almost double the amount let the previous year. The commission reported to Gov. William S. Beardsley on its activities for the year. It showed the commission let $30,286,342 in primary road contracts, compared with $11,352,669 the previous year.

Farm-to-market road contracts let last year totaled $11,736,048 compared with $12,775,513 the previous year. Why. Total contract lettings in the fiscal year ended June 30, 1953 were $24,128,182. The report said the 1 farmto road contract lettings less than the premarket, vious four years because the large farm-to-market road fund balance was reduced and because the commission notified counties in November, 1958 that overdrafts of the far m-t o-market funds in any large amount would not be allowed in the future. The commission said that ruling delayed the letting of contracts in counties that had overdrawn their funds in 1953.

The report showed decline of more than 10 million dollars in primary road construction. It said that was because the federal aid allotment was not received until after Jan. 1, 1954, delaying the letting of contracts. Completed. The commission said construction work on 582.35 miles of primary roads and 1,923.58 miles, of farm-tomarket we: completed in the year.

On July 1, 1954, the outstanding contracts for primary road work, were 276,659, compared with 186.440. the previous year, the report showed. Outstanding contracts for farm-to-market road work were $7,352,693, compared with $8,631,878 the previous year. The commission said income to the primary road fund from state use tax for the year was $30,725,332 and income from the additional one-cent-per-gallon gasoline tax was $7,277,969. It estimated the income this year will be about the same as last year from use tax and will increase about $500,000 from the additional gasoline tax.

Average. The report said the weighted average of all unit prices for the year was about 10 per cent below the previous year and 15 per cent below the postwar high in 1953. It said the new method of ice control (applying salt Fort Dodge Doctor Dies FORT DODGE, IA. (P). Dr.

John C. Shrader, 56, Fort Dodge heart specialist, died in his sleep at his home here early Friday, apparently of a heart attack. Dr. Shrader was born at Iowa City where his father, William Shrader, was a pharmacist. He was graduated from the State University of Iowa medical school in 1922.

He took postgraduate training in internal medicine at University Hospitals, Peter Brigham Hospital, Boston, and the Grady Hospital division of Emory University, Atlanta, Ga. Dr. Shrader had practiced here since 1927. He was a member of the board of directors of the Iowa Heart Association and had served five years as president of the Webster County Tuberculosis Association. At the time of his death he was association vice-president.

Survivors include his wife, Louise, and a daughter, Joan, at home. Services have been set tentatively for Monday noon at Marks Episcopal Church here. Train Ride BOONE, IA. -A special rail fans and amateur photographers trip over the Fort Dodge, Des Moines and Southern railroad for Sunday, Sept. 26 was announced this week.

A special three-car train will leave Boone at 8:30 a. m. going first to Ames and the Iowa State college campus. At noon the group will stop at the Des Moines Y. M.

C. A. for lunch after which the train goes to Fort Dodge and then returns to Boone. Lester Johnson Dies in Ames (The Tribune's Iowa News Service.) AMES, -Lester R. Johnson, 48, restaurant owner here, died at his home Thursday after an illness of more than a year.

Born in Boone, he had been a resident of Ames since 1940. He is survived by his wife, a son, Donald and daughter, Mrs. Adele Figura, all of Ames and a sister, Mrs. Arthur Isackson of Boone. Services will be held at 1:30 p.

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APPLIANCES 2323 FOREST PHONE 7-8613 Mergemey Word on 192 miles of primary roads last winter was successful program will be enlarged this winter. The report said its check of the speed of trucks, which are limited to a maximum of 50 miles per hour by state law, showed about 40 per cent exceeded the speed limit. It said about 4 per cent exceeded 60 miles per hour. It also said 15,605 summonses were issued for violations such as overload, improper registration trucks too wide, long and high. Fines and court costs as a result of the summonses totaled $240,424, the commission said, and increased registrations brought in another $259,180.

Ava Off to N. Leaves Brazil Ahead of Time RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL (U.P.) -Ava Gardner slipped out of Brazil Thursday night, three days ahead of schedule. The Hollywood actress left aboard an airliner for New York under her married name, "Ava Sinatra." After being mauled by fans upon her arrival here by plane Tuesday night, she checked in at the Hotel Gloria. But she moved angrily a few hours later to another hotel, the Copacabana Palace, following a martinislinging hassle with the manager of the Gloria over other guests' complaints about a noisy party in her room. George Palmer Rites Saturday Services for George Palmer, 69, who died of a heart attack Thursday at his home roe, will be at 1 p.

m. Saturday at the -Monroe Funeral Home. Burial will be in Glendale Cemetery here. He was born in Iowa and had lived in Des Moines 40 years before moving to Monroe in 1945. Surviving are a daughter, Charlott Palmer of two grandsons, George Palmer, with the Air Force at.

Scott Air Force Base, and Curtis Palmer, with the marine corps at Twenty-nine Palms, Cal. Death Takes Sculptor. CHICAGO, ILL. -Sigvald H. Asbjornsen, 86, sculptor, died Wednesday at the home of his son, Lafe.

Mr. Asbjornsen, who came from Oslo, Norway, to Chicago in 1893, was the sculptor of the Leif Erickson statue in Humboldt Park here, and the figure of Louis Joliet in Joliet, 5TH LOCUST PHONE 2-8339 2-8330 OPEN MONDAY NIGHT 'TILL 9 Wards 1954 Fall Sale Book SAVE 15.00 ON BLANKET COAT Now 12.97 Similar tor Warde Tail Wool Fleece Coat a for diene up A wait to to on Lamb poor to tea. Wont lister Color He Red, (brig wit with dark brown. Into 10. 04.

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