The Daily Nonpareil from Council Bluffs, Iowa • Page 3

COUNCIL BLUFFS (IOWA) NONPAREIL--SEPTEMBER 19, 1949. PAGE THREE Derrol Dennis Maurice Huffer 3 Southwest Iowa Soys to West Point Congressman Ben Jensen (R- la.i has named Mark McDermott of A i a Derrol Dennis of oFn- tanelle and Maurice W. Huffer as his principal oppoinlments to the military academy al: West Point. The trio will report July 1, 1950. Dennis, 19, son of Mr.

and Mrs. George W. Dennis of Fontanelle, graduated from Fontanelle high in 1947. He is an Eagle Scout. Young Huffer, IS, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Ray N. Huffer of Shenandoah, was a member of the 1949 Shcnandoah high graduating class. He is enrolling at Iowa State college this fall. McDermott was graduated as valedictorian of the Anita high chooi class in 1947.

He is the oon of Mrs. Harold McDermott. The three youths will take medical, physical and mental tests at Fort Leavenworth, on March 6, 1950, for West Point entrance. Arabia is sometimes referred a as Araby. Enticements for Home Purchasers Charles City Firm Offers Free Gifts CHARLES CITY, JP Housing shortage? They are offering new- houses here with a new stove or refrigerator thrown in as inducement to buy.

More a that, there was a $2,000 price cut. The stoves and refrigerators are the latest offers of this community's non-profit home building corporation to get buyers for the last two of 23 houses it built. It has managed finally to get occupants--either renters or buyers--for the other 21. It has been a long, slow process, says Mayor Harold S. Henry, president of the Charles City Development Twenty-one houses are now occupied --nine by purchasers and 12 by renters.

Two remain vacant today although a housing shortage still exists here. Special Lures To fill them, the corporation has offered lures of free gifts. For the renter there will be an option to buy with part of rental money to be applied to the purchase price. The $2,000 price cut was made several weeks ago to stimulate sales, and-is retroactive for those who had bought earlier. The home-building corporation was.formed by 86 Charles City residents in an attempt to solve the housing problem of this agricultural-industrial city of 10,000.

Now, after three years, the city wants to get out of the homo building business. The combined slow sales of homes already built and 55 Jots on which additional homes could be erected has shrunk the company's revolving fund of $102,000 advanced last year for building projects. Both Henry and Lou Nefstead, secretary of the corporation, agree that note holders now will be lucky if their investment is returned to them. The houses, completed during the fall of 1948, were priced first at $10,500 and $11,200, which Henry said was without profit to the corporation. They are four- room frame, FHA-approved two bedrooms with an additional unfinished upstairs room.

Henry said the $2,000 mark-down on houses the corporation $46,000. Shortage of Housing Why did it take so long to fill these houses at a time when there is a shortage of housing in Charles City? Mayor Henry blamed the lag in part on "irresponsible talk about He blamed a slight decrease in building costs, uncertainty about jobs, talk of recession and "too few persons who could afford to buy the houses." Henry said there had been no recent demand for any of the 55 lots owned by the development company. Fourteen houses built in 194S on lots owned by the develop; ment corporation have been sold. So have 48 four-room, one-bed- I room houses, built in 1947 to start the community's house building projects. "There is a demand for $6,500 and $7,500 houses," Henry said.

"How many co ild be sold I don't know. It is as hard as ever to rent in Charles City. When it is i possible to remove rent controls I that will relieve that situation, i Some families who are getting cheap rent aren't interested now in building." Once the over-the-phone gossips get wound up they usually do a lot of running down. 121 Known Dead, 84 Are Missing Bobby Houghton Carrie Suzanne Reed. WINNING BABIES At the Monty Festo baby contest were Bobby Houghton.

(top), son of Mr. and Mrs. H. Deemer oughton, Red Oak, and Carrie Suzanne Read, a of Mr. and Mrs.

L. E. Read, Red Oak. Bobby won in the class for youngsters 12 to 30 months. Booster Spirit MUNICH, Germany, a An elderly Bavarian town clerk had sn much pain in his feet a he went to see the doctor.

When the doctor counted 38 corns on his feet, the clerk said proudly: "That many they don't evsn have in America." The state flower of Kansas is the sunflower. Kentucky Vlfai -Afilend Gentleman's Whiskey from Kentucky 86 GENERATIONS A GREAT KENTUCKY FAVORITE' National Distillers Products Corporation, New York 651 Grain Neutral Spirits Fear Ship Toll May Reach 205 TORONTO, Ont, known dead pulled from the flameswept S. S. Noronic stood at 121 Monday as divers groped below the sunken decks of the charred cruise ship in search of 84 passengers still reported missing. Red Cross officials expressed the belief that many of those unaccounted for after the panic- spreading blaze Saturday had gone to their homes without reporting their survival.

Canadian authorities had feared the death toll might reach 205. Hope that first death estimates might have been high rose when divers reported Sunday they had not found the "50 or 60" bodies firemen said they believed were trapped in the burned-out cabins. The ship settled to the bottom of her dock slip after the early morning blaze. Three charred forms were taken out of the submerged cabins Sunday night, bringing known dead in an emergency morgue to 121. May Have Gone Home Dr.

W. S. Stanbury, national commissioner of the Canadian Red Cross, expressed his personal belief that 90 percent of the 84 passengers still unaccounted for would be found "safe at home in the United States." Most of the ship's 511 passengers were Americans. Even as the divers searched Sunday night flames flared up again in the charred hull the 55,000,000 Noronic. Firemen with chemical extinguishers boardei the vessel and reported a few minutes later that the smoulder- ing blaze had been put down.

Three investigations into the disastrous fire have been opened. So far the only cause advanced for the tragedy was from K. R. Marshall, president of the Canada steamship lines, owners of the Noronic. He said the blaze may have started in a cabin from a lighted cigaret.

Marshall said he had determined ''beyond any reasonable doubt" that there was no negligence on the part of the crew. PRIZE TRACTOR--Friday was a lucky day for the Marvin Goos family at Silver City. Neighbors who helped Eurel Anderson pre pare his 160-acre farm for the big reclamation project were each en titled to a chance at the day's big prize--this tractor. Marvin won. Southwest Iowa Deaths Rites Wednesday', for Polio.

Victim Special to The Nonpareil. LOGAN Funeral services for Robert Barney, 12, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Barney, who died Saturday of bulbar polio at Mercy hospital in Council Bluffs, will be held at 1:30 p. Wednesday at Logan i i a church, with the Rev.

Leo Epperson officiating. Robert was in the sixth grade in school and was a member of the Boy Scouts. He was the Nonpareil carrier in Logan. He is survived by his parents; two brothers, a twin, Ronald, and James; and grandmothers, Mrs. Emma Weber, Logan, and Mrs.

Lena Barney, Des Moines. Burial will be in Wheatland cemetery, Breda. Heinrich Schioeder MANNING Funeral services for Heinrich Schroeder, 93, will be held at the Zion Lutheran church in Manning at 2 p. m. Monday afternoon, with the Rev.

J. M. Ansorge in charge. Burial will be in Hayes township cemetery in Crawford county, beside the body of his wife, who died in 11939. Mr.

Schroeder died at his home in Egan, S. on Friday, and his body arrived in Manning Saturday evening. He is survived by his children, Left to right, Jim and NeafGoos, sons of the winner'(right), smile MTS John Vinke, Mrs. Herman their Photo. Jahn, and Herman Schroeder, all of Manning, and several other children who live in South Dakota.

There are also a number of grandchildren 'and a grandchildren. Will Castor HENDERSON Funeral services for Will Castor, 83, former Henderson farmer, who died Friday at his home in Des Moines, will be held at 1:30 p. m. Tuesday at Henderson Christian church. Mr.

Castor was born in Clark county and was a longtime resident of the Henderson viciinity. He is survived by a son, Lyle, Salem, daughter, Mrs. Velda Johnson of Cuemado, N. three step-daughters; six step-sons; five brothers and sister. Des Hoines Man Dies of Accident Injuries MARENGO, O.

F. Hartle, 57, of Des Moines, died in a Marengo hospital early Monday of injuries suffered in an auto accident Sunday afternoon. Highway patrolmen a i Hartle swerved his car over the shoulder to avoid a collision and his vehicle rolled over an embankment. Hartle's wife, Gladys, and their daughter, Joan, escaped with minor injuries. The Hartles were driving their daughter to Iowa City where she is a university student.

The accident occurred on highway 6 about two miles west of Ladora. 800-Pound Birthday Cake for Elephant LITTLE ROCK, IP--An elephant and an estimated 12,000 persons ate cake together Sunday. The throng showed up at the Little Rock zoo to give Ruth, the elephant, a birthday party. Ruth was permitted to go off her strict diet to taste the first piece of a cake eight by seven feet square, five feet tall and weighing about 800 pounds. Then youngsters and adults alike filed by for their pieces.

Ruth--Who had been given a special bath, pedicure (polished toenails) and singe for the occasion--provided the entertainment. She went through a rou- tine of tricks she learned in circus years ago. Ruth is 36 years old. Abandon Search for Italian Fliers NEW YORK, have abandoned their hunt for two Italian fliers missing since Friday night on a flight from the Azores Islands to New York. The fliers, John M.

Brondello and Camillio Barioglio, apparently were given up for lost. The pair left the Azores Friday morning in a light Beechcraft Bonanza. They were more than half-way to New York when last heard from. The flight was announced as an effort to raise funds in America for support of a "Boy's Town" project in Italy. WAU MAGIC MIRACLES ON DRAB ANO 6ATHS IN A MA7TZ8 LOOKS.AND TILE, COSTS LESS THAV f3f ft FOOT TO WALL, THArs AIL! MT6NTED BACKIN flssuaes SMOOTH, HOUSEHOLD VtEABWty WIPES CLEAN 1 STAYS, see GAY COLOKS AT.

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