Iowa
Old Press
Council Bluffs Nonpareil
Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie co., Iowa
Saturday, October 2, 1943
Slot Machines ordered Destroyed
When Judge Murray gave his decision that the slot
machines seized in raids this summer by the sheriff’s
department were gambling devices and therefore ordered destroyed,
one phase of the current drive against gambling and gambling
devices in Council Bluffs was ended. But the other phase, that of
keeping the machines from reappearing must still go on. While
some of the gamblers who have been making a good thing out of the
racket in Council Bluffs may fume and fret it is not their
welfare in that respect that the city must look after, it is the
good of all of the city that must be watched.
A great statesman once said that “eternal vigilance is the
price of freedom.” It is equally true that only eternal
vigilance will allow our people young and old to live in a town
and under conditions of which they shall not be ashamed. Recently
one law enforcement officer is said to have made the statement
that a majority of the people in Council Bluffs favored an open
town. To a certain extent this is true, we believe. But we do not
believe that a majority, large or small, in Council Bluffs are in
favor of gyp gambling games in which the only possible winner is
the house, or slot machines in which the jack-pot is rigged so
that from half to four-fifth of the take goes into the pot.
It is time that the law-enforcement officers, city and county
both, become alive to the fact that the people are not going to
stand for such things. We want a place to live in, where our
children can be brought up to live decent human lives, and where
the temptations, heavy enough at best, are reduced to a minimum.
The new curfew ordinance, if passed, will bring home to the
parents some of their responsibility, but the police department
and the sheriff’s office have their duty too. It is up to
them to remove as many of the temptations for children as
possible so that the parent’s job will not be beyond their
ability to handle. Keep the slot machines and gambling games out
of Council Bluffs, now and from now on.
Col. Brooks Leaves
The announcement of the retirement of Lt. Col. Horace
Brooks from the army, and his consequent withdrawal from the
position of professor of military science and tactics in the high
schools of Omaha and Council Bluffs will be regretted by all who
have known him. Col. Brooks has fitted in well with the scheme of
things in Council Bluffs, has been a pleasant officer with whom
to work and in general has earned high esteem among the people
who have followed the R. O. T. C. record in this city. Under him,
both Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson units of the R. O. T.
C. have maintained a uniform high standard of organization and
have remained in the honor class during his tour of duty.
His relationship both with the school authorities and with the
public has been pleasant, and he has earned the respect of the
boys who had military science under him. We shall be sorry to see
him leave, but we wish him well in whatever sphere of activity he
chooses to follow in the future. His successor, Maj. Charles H.
Obye, comes here with an excellent record in the teaching field
and in army work and seems well fitted for the task of training
the boys of the school. We bespeak for him the wholehearted
co-operation of the citizens of the town, and if he comes to live
in Council Bluffs, we welcome him as a new citizen of whom we
hope to see much more in the future.
[transcribed by L.D., January 2015]
The Council Bluffs Nonpareil, Council Bluffs, Iowa, Thursday, October 07, 1943
Harrison Co. Sends Another Large Group to Induction Center
Special to The Nonpareil
LOGAN – The following Harrison county registrants were accepted for service in the armed forces on Sept. 13. Those accepted by the army left for Fort Leavenworth the first of the week. Those in the navy and marine corps were detailed to active service a week ago as these two branches only permit a one week furlough after induction.
Army: Edward Michel Hatterman, Dunlap; Ralph Lavern Hirst, Missouri Valley; Bernard Ern Germer, Woodbine; Paul Albert Walde, Woodbine; Wilbur LeRoy Lutz, Little Sioux; James Voge Kemmiah, Persia; William Edward Frazier, Missouri Valley; and Ralph Leslie Spencer, Dunlap.
William Girard Blume, Dunlap; Marshall David Albert, Dunlap; Horace George Vore, Logan; John Fredrick Pokett, Logan; Scott Edward Wilson, Missouri Valley and Donald Leroy Cooper, Missouri Valley.
Navy: Leonard Emil Osbabr, Persia; John Joseph Messinger, River Sioux; Harold Eugene Vititoe, Mondamin; William Joseph Nauroth, Dunlap; Wendell Percy Alton, Little Sioux; Gordon Arthur Dugdale, California Junction; Vern Henry Hosman, Modale; Billy Eugene Stichler, Missouri Valley; and Kenneth Theodore Powell, Missouri Valley.
Marine corps: Ivan Woodrow Redinbaugh, Neola.
- Save Your Tin Cans -
[transcription by Sharon R. Becker, Dec. 2012]