European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 03, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Hose United states 1737,537 1960 ran Tut Faqir of rom Logon 107,498. With your thou in the foreground i cd Ityl. Baking a a Filer of tin  Amano to Lonow. The stars and stripes by Mark Daunger staff writer Oti Fly Way that when the Tutt Corn  songs come and go. And often get out dated. But Iowa s old Corn song Goeson forever. Iowa country always was and still Icorn country. It i hog country now too. Mutter of fact the Best cub Omen Olowu a Corn Are Iowa dogs. Golden Iowa Corn filled up 769.978.000buihpltt in 1960. For instance. And the Corn filled out 12.433.000 Psi or the Market too. I own owes us fat countrified Prosperity to the or Jit Flat Plain of top Grade toll it is. A Good Quarter of the Grade one sailing the . Is in the state. Much of it most went Down the Drain with thought less blowing of the grasslands earlier but effective conservation measures have Lon since turned the tide Iowa or Loway As the Indrani it s name for were known is cradled Between some 300 Miles of the Broad Mississippi Riveron the East and about 200 Miles of the rolling Missouri River on the West the White Man first stepped into Iowa at Dubuque in the Northeast where the Frenchman Jullen Dubuque negotiated Lead mining rights from the indians. But this Mineral which lured Early settlers has petered out and farm Happy Iowa does count on Mineral wealth for any great part of 1u Economy. Coal in the Southwest Gypsum around fort Dodge and the ingredient Force ment around Mason City provide some Industry  who Aren t Busy in the Fields bams and stockyards these Days an work ing in meat packing in Waterloo Dubuque and Sioux City in electronics at Cedar rapids or at the big Quaker Oats Mills there assembling washing machines a Newton turning out Fountain pens at fort Madison or producing tractors again in Dubuque and  a handling the insurance bus Ness for much of the nation sine Man insurance firms have their Home or Lead ing offices in Des Molnes also publishing Point for better Homes and gardens Maga Zine and the equally thriving successful  Molnes with us Gold domed Capitol building reigns Over the True Iowa the Central portion of Mammoth Cornfields White farmhouses red barns silos an Grain elevators. The Capitol City has a population of107,68ftunfortunately declining a problem throughout the entire state a youth leaves the farm and ideas Endust rallied cities an towns. Insurance but dinged Des Molnes is the site of the Drake University relays one of the More prominent us. Sport events and it Des Molnes. Headquarter Sand first training Camp for the women s army  is Cedar rapids really Boom ing but Lowon enough to share one Sofita main Tiu Rougham with trains. Its 92,039 census in 1960 shows it fast catching up to Dei Molnes. Old timers can remember Cedar rapids and chuckle Tot it is the Hometown of Techerry sister vaudeville s worst act they or so bad that spectators flocked i everywhere and they re even credited with paying off mortgage on the  theater in new York City. On the nearby Mississippi is Davenport famed for it Palmer school of chiropractic. It was Here that d. D. Palmer developed her science of chiropractic and his son. B. J. Palmer built the still thriving school and us unique bit o heaven museum and round the world  this pan of Iowa Are the Amana colonies a successful Experiment in a co operative profit sharing Community right in America s heartland. Founded in 1859 bythe Community of True inspiration Amana residents still share and share alike basically but their big financial Success comes from a thriving food production an marketing operation. Visitors can find unusually Hearty family style meals in the Terles found among the Plain wooden . Clinton and Dubuque with its shot Tower and Coble railway relics round out the notable cities of the River Region. Contributing to then economic Wel fare is the great volume of Dirge traffic gliding along the Mississippi rivet Channel. I  Al rings Are Long past but u Tew still unset Lor Lour St unit Moon in Hiex cur Sion purposes during the Summ i sea Hon when ii Perry fifth fairs Taddus files move in like a snowstorm Lor their one Dot i it and Breeding Clear a Tut the int in Council Bluffs facing Nhothi i Prairie Metropolis Omaha right Over the River. Heie is a Grui Monu ment to Mori we i her Lewis and William dark commemorating their Council wit the Uto Imit Winnebago indians at this Ilton during their exploration of the mis sour Kulver area. Buttling Sioux City in further North on Mound like Bluffs on the River. A atty of unsavoury character during steam Boot ing Days the Rev. George Channing Haddock met his water i of murder White trying to clean it up in 1885. Now. Sioux Cit settles for the Lively life of being the live Stock and business Center for Western Iowa Northern Nebraska much of South Dakota and southwestern Minnesota Iowa s famous men Are almost at numer Ous As its ears of Corn. Most recently Lowans have figured quite prominently in literature and music of All  Wullson s the music man1 wowed Broadway with Story of rive City in Iowa and Newspaperman Phil Strong s state fair 1933 did the tame trick  Kan Tor. Author of the Best Selling Andersonville of a few years Back found new Success recently with spirit  a fat Book about the indians Slaughter of 42 White settlers a spirit Lake now a resort area from an earlier Day Hamlin Garland the first actual Farmer in american  is famous for a son of the Middle  Grant Wood gained tils Fame through his severe Iowa painting style. Among other Well known Lowans a Herbert Hoover. 30th  the United states living out his Days at West Branch former vice president Henry Wallace one of the original developers of hybrid Corn Billy sunday the Evange list and William Cody Buffalo Bill born in Scott  a person but As Well know in Ita own Way. Is the Little Brown Church inthe Vale at Nashua which or. William Pitts made mighty famous with his Little song. Iowa was once Home to the mysterious Mound builders thought to is slant eyed red skinned ancestors to the american in Dian. Their huge Mounds in the shapes of Birds animals and Snake Dot the River Bluff country. Many Are in effigy Mound National Monument near Mcgregor in the Northeast the Mounds were constructed a fortifications for religious purposes and mostly at burial Chambers us utter yielding Many valuable  Loway. Sac. Fox and Sioux succeeded these people on the big Grassy Plain be tween the mighty Rivers. Today the Indian population lives on a reservation at Tamo an area of land they had to buy Back As a Home after they surrendered ail their holdings to the . Through various  s history begins on june 25. 1673. When Louis Jollet and father Jacques mar Quette hosted at the Mouth of the Iowa River during their journey Down the mis  French claimed this country As port of Louisiana but in 1762 handed Over the Rea West of the Mississippi to Spain which country ruled it until 1800 when Napoleon pressed for its return to Franco. Realising it was a political Burden. Napoleon sold it to the United state in 1804. Settlers began to pull in about 1830. But were continually pushed Back by the indians until after the Black Hawk War of 131 the treaty that followed cleared tha indians off a 50 mile wide strip West of the Mesils suppl. The Sac and Fox were treat Ltd out of their lands by 1845 with other tribes meeting the same Fate including the troublesome Sioux in 1851 the Sioux made a comeback in 1857. However when they committed the spirit Lake Mas Sacre the subject of Kantor s Book. Iowa was attached in turn to the Terri tories of Indiana Louisiana and Missouri and was without civil Gover Meni from1821 when Missouri became a state i until 1834 whim it was attached to  1836. It was part of Wisconsin and finally come into us own As the territory of iowan Juno 12, 1b38. It joined the Union As a state on dec. 26�1846. 13