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get "raises The trustees of Denison ' Municipal

Utilities increased salaries of most employees by an average of 8 per cent at a recent meeting. The raises were based on a combination of the increased cost of

Testimony living and individual .

The salary of Oayrnon manager, was increased ~hi;!;~i~t:;: $22,000 a year and that of Jim ~ office manager, Irom,Sll,500 .:';~i'~t'; -" f,

A contracl to . demolish the,A; chimney: at the old .power plant 16th Street was awarded to

~:~,;l2ii;~~lg22J~I shortly before noon Friday In the trial of mana! former Denison . School Superintendent D?bro George Dobrovolny's slander and libel suit wltne~ against three former members of the Mundt school boa rd. discus

Wrecker Associated Wrecking CO';;P';;" ~ of Omaha. for $0,500.

Meeting with Roy Middough, of the Sioux City architectural firm of Beuttler Associates, the trustees selected a reddish brown brick for the new Utililies Building to be erected on the foundation of the old water mtration plant at 16th Street and Fifth Avenue South. Demolition on the site is expected to start within two ~eeks.

Senior citizens to help prepare neW county park

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Andrew Bell, dies; lawyer · . and senator

Former Crawford County State Senator and County Attorney Andrew B. Bell died early Saturday at Crawford County Memorial Hospital. He was !Xl and live<! at Eventide Lutheran Home for the Age<!.

Two senior citizens will help prepare the by Ruth Burnside site of the new Crawford County park east Andrew Bell, born in Aspinwall, at-of Denison this year, County Conservati~n tended Denison Normal and Business Executive Officer, said today.. . College and graduated Cr·om Drake

The Iowa Conservation Commission will University, Des Moines in 1912. reimburse lheir pay, the $2.20 minimum Elected county attorney in 1912 Mr. Bell hourly wage under the CORES~-- served as attorney for 10 terms. He was Conservation and Outdoor Recreabon nominated for the o[fice before he Employment for Senior Citizens-- graduated from Drake. Each time program. . returned to office with majors ranging

Tv.·o employees, who must be 60 or older, from \,100 to 3,300 votes. will start work Aprill and an' expected to Retiring"from that office he ran for state continue until Oct. 31, he sail~. Their duties senator and was elected in 1933 and served will include removing interior fences, two terms. During his term as senator he erecting new line fences and boundary o~ned an office in the Laub Block. signs and removing d.ead tree~. While serving as state senator he

Anyone interested. I!"J applYl":g for ~he sponsored the homestead exemption bill; jobs was advised to VISit the Demson office which became a law. .' of the Iowa State Empl{'yment Service, GovemorKraschel appointed Mr. Bell to 1410 Broadway. a committee to investigate the state liquor

Glover also announced that a $14,330 commission in Des Moines, reimbursement ror the recent purchase of Two major CAses that he prosecuted as 80 acres for the new park has been ap- county attorney were the Voss forgery proved. The U.S. Bureau of Outdoor case and the Farm Holiday group. The Recreation Will pay that sum to the latter case got national prominence and County which paid $32,000 for the land that was carried in papers in England, France, had beCn part of the Midwestern College . and Germany. campus. · . The 'National Guard was called out by

The final IImd acquisition is now being Governor Clyde Herring and guards came considererl for the park, which has 280 from Red Oak and Council Bluffs. The 300 acres. There will be a 40'acre lake. guardsman were armed with bayonets and

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loaded guns and the county was under martial law for seven or eight weeks.

His wife, the former Clara CUrry, died in 1957.

Surviving are his brother, Henry, of Denison,"a son, Robert and two grandsons,

American Beef Packers will challenge Robert and. ~ames. ' the request for nearly $1.5 million In I('gal A rosary Will be celebrated Sunday at ~ fees submitted in its bankruptcy case. p.m. at the Huebner ~neral. Home,

ABP has until 4:30 p.m. Monday to file followed by Mass at 10 a,m, Monday. at ~t. cbje r Federal Bankr'Jptcy Court Rose of Lima Church. Friends may caU at J d:eI08!~id Crawford 'has. scheduled a, ·the Huebner Funeral ' Home at 2 p.m. h~aring on the matter Wednesday . .. : s,:!nday;lnterment will be}n St. Rose of

Said Joseph Skram, preside.nt of ~BP. Lima Cemetery, "I'm upset any time we're talking about $1.5 million in attorneys' fees ."

ABP's attorneys, Fitz~crald, Brown, T ro,,'''· C::1rt:lrr ~h"rr. Dnd Bllrmettio:!r,

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District Judge George F. Davis from dismissed the jury uQ.til Thursday at 9:30 pany a.m. , when they'll return to the court tnst;u house in Denison to hear the attorneys' Nahol summations and the judge's instructions POtl and consider a verdict. invoic

Dobrovolny sued Francis Clark, Doris conve Bartels and Dr . Tyson Long as a result of have 1 remarks he said they made at a meeting forwa with Denison clergymen Feb. 19, 1973. would asking $73,000 actual damages and $25.000 $40,00 in punitive damages froJ? each. He filed Ask an additional action against Mrs. Bartels said for an article she wrote, as school board Denis

.president, that was published in the exa·m Denison Bulletin Feb. 22. prov€

A tape recording of the m~ting was slips played a week later on Radio Station audit< KDSN and an account of it published in the Tri; Bulletin Feb. 20, 1973. large:

Clark and Mrs. Bartels testified Thur- $20,OC sday and Friday and Dobrovolny was Pot recalled for rebuttal. On Wednesday earli( testimony ,taken by deposition from Dr. Long a week before his death last May was read to the jury.

Dobrovolny is represented by Attorneys Michael R. Mundt· and Raymond E. Franck. Thomas Eller·'lndAlian F . Nash are the attorneys for Clark, Mrs. Bartels and Dr. Long's Widow, Elizabeth, as executor of his estate.

Dobrovolny· maintains that the three former school directors maliCiously made false statements thi!.t caused him injury, knowmg they wel"i! false or in reckless disregard of whether or not they were true.

The statements included charges ~'t]at he ,.. lied, was incompetent and withheld financial information atout the schools.

'ClarK and Mrs. Bartels had testified last week when they were called by Mundt as adverse witnesses.

On Thursday-Clark said he was received cooly.when he first joined the school board and' not taken into buildings or shown where things were. . : His inquiries about finances, Clark said,

would be' referred to the business manager, who told him, "You wouldn't Wlde~tand it anyway."

Discussing teaching material , Clark said the health text books were so old lnal the school nurse tore out the section on brushing teeth. .

He described community feeling at the time Dobrovolny was superintendent as an uproar, with lines of attitude drawn.

Mrs. Bartels said she had originated the swnmer program .for reading and math but did not get willing- help {rom the schoO! administration.

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A Narrative History

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The People of Iowa with

SPEC IAL TREATMENT OF THE IR eHIEI-' ENTERPR ISES IN EDUCATION, RELIGION, VALOR, INDUSTRY,

BUSINESS, ETC.

" EDGAR RUBEY HARLAN, LL. B., A. M. Curator of the

Hidorit:al, Memorial and Art Deportmmt of Iowa

IOWA BIOGRAPHY (G~atu[loul]Y P u b lished)

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was a member of th" rr""byt..,rian ! 'hun'h whl> daily lived his faith,

Like her husband, Mrs, CI'uw!ord i ~ very phi lanthrollk, She is acti\'e in soci al life at Winterset, where she is a gene rous su ppor ter and consistent member of the Presbyterian Chut'ch, a nd is also a member o f the Des Moines Woman's Club,

\VAI.DO E~Ir..RS08 KIo.HLEIl, able lawyer, has fo r a number of years been a leader of the bal' at Denison , and that community entel'taincd a very high appreciation of his wOl'k as a professional man, as a financial adviser and public official.

1\11,. Kahl er was bor n a t Tt'ael', Iowa, Ju ly 13, lR80. His father, Marcus Kahler, a native of Ge rmany, ca me to Amel'ica when twenty-five yea rs of 11ge, was for thir teen yeal's assistant cashie r of a bank in Traet' and th ("11 was connected with the lumber bu si ness until hl~ death. He died at t he age of sixty-two. He married Lena Kuehnle, who was born at Du buque, Iowa, Ilnd s urvives him, They had a lami ly of $ix children: H. V, Kahl er, a physkian at Rei nbeek, Iowa; Waldo Emel'son ; Mrs, K, D. Seeberger , of Portl and, Oregon; l\Ir~. Hat'old Ingham, of Dallas, Texas ; H(>rbert B" chief clerk in the postolliee at Traer; and Mrs. Paul Thomas, of Colorado.

Waldo Emerson Kahler spent all h is eal'1}' yea rs in his nati \'e lown. He was g raduated from the T raer High Sehool in 1898 and in 1904 took his law degl'ee at t he University of Iowa. Since ~rad uatinp: he has Ih'ed at Denison, For II time he was in the emJl [ o~' of Shaw & Kuehnle, ow ners of the Ba nk of Denison, the senior member of t his firm being Leslie M. Shaw, one time go\'er nor of Iowa and Intel' !ecl'et al' ~' of the United States treasur~', 1\1]'. Kahler for one year had charge of t he business of Shaw & Kuehnle at (ha rter Oak. In 1906 he I'('[urned to Denison lind was in pal·tnership with MI'. P. W. Harding in the practice o f law unt il January 1. Hi lt>. Since that date he has calTled on an indi\'idual law practice, He served as counly attorney in 1917-18, during the World 11'111' pe t' lod, and at th(> same time was Federal appeal agent of hi s locality. MI' , Kuhlet· for neurly ten years hil S loeen city attorney of Denison,

HI' is lin active RepubliC'an, is a member of the MasoniC' Lodge and Improved Onlet' of Red M(> n, and he and his family are Pl'esbytel'ians, He manied, in 1907, Miss E(l na Stevenson, who was also born at Traer, Iowa, He t' pat'ents were Hugh \Y. and Elizabeth (Preston) Stevenson. Her father is still Jiving and both familie~ were early geUlcrs in Ta ma County.

ANlHU;W Br.LL is a lawyer by profess ion. has de monstrated his ability in the line of general practice, but most of hi~ time si nce his ad mission to the loar has been taken up with his duties Il5 coun ty attornc~' of Crawford County,

MI'. Bell, whose official tenu re in the ('ourthouse al Ol'-ni!<on has probably be(>n longer than

nt ht,1' J1r~"t'nt "toun!\' officials, wa~ born at Aspl~ wall. CI'8wford Cnunty, December 7, 1886, H~ Ilarenls were Andrew and Christine (GlUck, stadt) Bel!, his rather a nati\'e of Scotland and his motht'r of Gel'many, His grandfather, Sand, landI'S Bell, came with his family from Scotland and settled at Dow Ci ty in Crawford County itt 1M55, when his son Andrew was five year. of IIge. He ~pen t the rest of his life as a rarmtr Andrew Belt bet:ame a \'a il road man, and 1!'ti in the set'vice for a number of years a nd Jattr farmed in Cra wford County until 191 3, wht~ he moved to Denison and Jived retired unt il hi, death, Novembe t' ]1, 19 18 .. The widowed mother lives in Denison . The re were two sons, Andrtlo> Bel! and Henry. Henry Bell is a gTa du ate 01 $(>ver ai coll eges and universiti('s and has been a s uccessful journalist and edi torial writer,

Andrew Bel! was educated in district school, and attended the old Den ison Norm al School 1! e attended the University of Iowa, taking tb~ work of the College of Lib(>l'al Arts and Law and latet' attended Drake University a t Des Moines where he graduate<l from the law department 'in 1912, Before completing his law course lit hud a nnounced himself as a ca ndidate for the office o! county attorney, and in the fall of 1912 was elected to that office on the Democratic: ticket, He has se rved in that posit ion eont inu, utlsly except for the two years of ]9 16-17, At the expi ralion of his present term, January 1 I!J33, he will ha\'e served as county attorney of Crawford County for eigh t~n years.

MI', Belt is very popular with aU classes of people in Crawford County, his abilities hIVe 1)I'ought him a high rank in the legal profession an:1 his reputation fo r personal integr ity Inti hi~h ideals has gained him a legion of f r iends 0\'1' 1' the stale. He is aftilialed with numerous 100ljZes and organizations. He man 'ied, Febl'u al'Y 12, 1929, Miss Clara Cu rry, who was born at Dcni~on, dau jZhte r of roll'. and Mrs, A. T, CIIITY, and has one son, Robel·t Andl 'e\\' Bell, bot'n Selltember 4, 1930,

ARCIllBALD A. PLAGMAN. Doctor of Dental Sur, gery, with offkes in the American Commercial & Savings Bank Building at Davenpor t, b rin" to his work not only long and care-ful training hut II profe ssional atti tude which is of itself one of the ind ispensa ble qualifications for a man who does good work and wins success in the face of mode rn competition.

Doctor PJagman is a native of Iowa, and wu born on a farm neal' Petel'Son in Clay County, January 10, 1897, His parcnts, Henry and Annl (Mohrot') Plagman, were born in Illi nois, of German ancestry. His mother is sti ll Ih'ing It Peter~on. His lather a lways look a deep intcrest in school and ch urch lifc in his home community and se rved fo r a numbet· of ye ars on the school board, Doctor P lag-man has two brothers lidng in Des i\loines, one, Herbert, owning I drug business and the Des Moines Agency of Stutz Motor Compan~', ",hill' the other bl'other,

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