After his adoptive father died in 1955, the nine-year-old Jim, his mother and his sister moved to California, where he began playing in youth-league baseball. In 1956, his mother married actor Max Palmer, from whom Jim Palmer took his last name.
City of Grimes, Iowa. Grimes is a city in Dallas and Polk counties in the U.S. state of Iowa. The population was 8,246 at the 2010 census. Grimes is part of the Des MoinesâWest Des Moines Metropolitan Statistical Area.
In Government: Meet Our Mayor and Council. The City of Corning, Adams County, Iowa has a Mayor-Council form of government. The Council and Mayor and other City officers have such powers and shall perform such duties as are authorized or required by State law and by the ordinances, resolutions, rules and regulations of the City.