Volunteers Sign Up To Meet Blood Drive Quota
Cass county seeks 163 pints by June 30 with 78 volunteers signed for the Atlantic Elks club bloodmobile visit from 11 30 to 5 30. Regional centers warn of urgent needs after a Wichita loss of 500 pints and call for donations to support hospitals and emergency supply nationwide.
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Atlantic Elks Club
Cass County
Wichita, Kans
Wichita
Midwest
Red Cross
Kansas
Oklahoma
Red Crosk
Tom Clithero
Nebraska
Iowa
County Medical Society
Department of Health
Ask Overhaul of Securities Laws
The Securities and Exchange Commission sent a sweeping package of major securities law reforms to Congress, urging enactment this session. Chairman William Cary said some proposals are postponed for 1964, while the commission expects broader industry support for the package as practical and constructive.
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Washington
Congress
Securities and Exchange Commission
SEC
House Interstate Commerce Committee
Commission
William L. Cary
Man admits drug store break in Kenwood Drug Store
Police say Donald David Owens 32 Houston Texas confessed to breaking into the Kenwood Drug Store on May 5 and stealing drugs a .32 caliber pistol and money. Owens was arrested in Cedar Rapids on narcotics and concealed weapon charges with a prior record in Texas and Oklahoma.
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Omaha
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Kenwood
Donald David Owens
Houston
Tex
Owens
Texas
Oklahoma
Armour & Co Purchases 90 Acres Near Grinnell
Armour & Company announced the purchase of 90 acres of land along Highway 146 one mile south of Grinnell. The firm is advancing plans for new meat packing plants at West Point Nebraska and Sterling Illinois.
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Grinnell (Ap
Armour & O
Lam
Highway 146
Armour Firm
West Point
Neb
Sterling
Weather outlook stays warm with showers Tuesday
Partly cloudy conditions continue through Wednesday with scattered showers or thunderstorms Tuesday night and in the east Wednesday morning. Warm and humid with Tuesday night lows and Wednesday highs in the typical ranges. A further look shows partly cloudy skies, warm and humid Thursday.
Homage Paid Pope John At Vatican City Today
Vatican City reports a large, somber crowd paying final respects to Pope John XXIII as his bier lies in state. Cardinals plan daily meetings to arrange conclave procedures while mourning lasts through Corpus Christi possibly.
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John
Vatican City
Poe John XXII
Vatican
St. Peter's Square
St. Peter's Basilica
Pope John
Papal
Corpus Christi
Hearing Set on Dinner Club Raid Appeal in Ottumwa
Iowa Supreme Court set a preliminary hearing for June 19 on a motion by Gene Glenn for Betty Francis to appeal her conviction from Woody's Boat and Dinner Club raid last December. Francis was convicted of frequenting a disorderly house. the motion alleges no notice of appeal was filed in Ottumwa Municipal Court.
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DES Moines
Ottumwa
Willard Dullard
Iowa Supreme Court
Supreme Court
Gene Glenn
Betty Francis
Francis
Woody
Glenn
Hints of New Red Space Probes Surface in Warsaw
Soviet space scientist Anatoly Blagonravov hinted at new inter planetary probes planned for this year during COSPAR proceedings in Warsaw. He offered no details on programs but summarized findings from 71 Soviet rocket launches conducted last year.
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Warsaw
Poland
Anatoly Blagonravov
Blagonravov
Cospar
Committee On Space Research
Soviet Union
Tell Us Your Unusual Story for Our Farm Magazine
A farm magazine seeks readers to share true stories from the area. Submissions may cover early days ancestors youth adventures or unusual happenings. Authors can write or provide facts we will craft into readable features for patrons.
Plane wreckage found in Gulf linked to missing Northwest flight
Coast Guard confirms debris off Graham Island Alaska waters from a Northwest Airlines DC7 missing Monday from McChord to Elmendorf. No survivors or bodies found as search continues. 101 aboard including Midwest victims listed.
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Juneau
Alaska
Coast Guard
Graham Island
B. C
Gulf of Alaska
Northwest Airlines
McChord Air Force Base
Wash
Elmendorf Afb
Midwest
Gordon G. Stevens
Paul Lahotte
Hugo
Minn
Air Force
Luther J. Walton
Poplar Bluff
Ivan E. Updegraft
Good Thunder
Roger C. Nowicke
Marion Boeglin
Norwood
Albert A. Genato
Esther A. Klein
Neosho
Leroy W. Anderson
Cary, Til
William G. Partington
Lake City
Robert, Donald
Edward Partington
Sacrifice sect fires fatal blaze and gun battle at farm
Forty people are held in Victoria Mexico after a fanatic sect sacrificed five, burning two at the stake and six others wounded in a later gun battle at a cooperative farm 85 miles north of the city. Police reported fifteen members of the sect and three officers injured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victoria
Mexico
Here
Lect
Agriculture Department funds egg product quality research
The Agriculture Department will sponsor new research on controlling quality in processed egg products. Iowa State University will conduct the study under contract. A department report says improving egg product quality is needed to expand markets in Europe.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Iowa State University
Europe
Kennedy to push voluntary desegregation and civil rights bills
President Kennedy will meet with 100 Southern business outlets at the White House and is expected to urge voluntary desegregation of hotels restaurants stores and theaters. He plans to press Congress for a broad civil rights bill package.
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Washington
Kennedy
White House
South
Congress
Commerce Office Site Proposed in Des Moines
At a House Commerce Appropriations subcommittee hearing Roy L. Morgan director of the office of field services said the Commerce Department seeks a new Des Moines office. The proposal was publicly testified this week to justify the need for the additional office.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Office of Field Services
Des Moines
House Commerce Appropriations Subcommittee
Roy L. Morgan
Dayton Marian Library Medal Awarded to Rev Titus Cranny
The University of Dayton named the Rev Titus F Cranny of Graymoor New York winner of the 1963 Marian Library Medal for Our Lady and Reunion. Cranny, a Sioux City Iowa native and Trinity College graduate, is noted author of the year’s best English book on the Virgin Mary.
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Dayton
Ohio
Titus F. Cranny
Society of the Atonement of
Graymoor
Garrison
N.Y
University of Dayton
Father Cranny
Sioux City
Iowa
Trinity Colege
Conference on Waterworks Problems Held Here
Over 100 waterworks representatives from the region attend a regional conference at Hotel Whitney starting 1 p.m. Sponsored by the Iowa section of the American Waterworks Association the state health department and Atlantic municipal utilities. Speakers cover fluoridation losses in distribution ductile iron pipe flushing mains and groundwater exploration with a panel on distribution maintenance.
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Hotel Whitney
Iowa
American Waterwork Association
State Department of Health
Atlantic Municipal Utilities
Charles Henshaw
Dental Hygiene
Dean Johnson
Iowa Department of Health
Barnet Row
Council Bluffs
Joe Laferla
Omaha
Adolph Paul
Atlantic Water
Marcus Powell
Department of Hygiene
University of Iowa
Charles Brown
Iowa City
Iowa Geological Survey
Charles Klein
Harlan Utilities
Charter Issued for Adair Bank
The State Banking Department announced a charter for Exchange State Bank at Adair effective May 1. The bank will have total capital of 200000 dollars with 75000 dollars in capital 75000 dollars in surplus and 50000 dollars in undivided profits.
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Des Moines
State Banking Department
Exchange State Bank
Adair
State Braces for More Hot Humidity and Scattered Storms
The state faces more hot humid weather with scattered showers and thunderstorms in the next few days. Monday highs ranged from 82 in Mason City to 89 in Waterloo, with lows of 63 in Mason City Davenport and Waterloo and 69 in Council Bluffs. Spencer recorded .25 inch of rain. Lows Tuesday night stay in the 60s and Wednesday and Thursday are expected to be similar.
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Associated Press
Mason City
Waterloo
Davenport
Council Bluffs
Spencer
City approves private unmarked cars for police patrols
Creston officials authorize use of private unmarked vehicles to battle rising vandalism. Each car will carry one police officer and a deputized citizen after a request from Assistant Police Chief Dean Jarman.
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Creston
Dean Jarman
Hawkeye Boys State elects officials in 25th annual event
Delegates at Hawkeye Boys State voted for governor and other state local officers. Charles Roland and Robert Hayes head Nationalist and Federalist tickets respectively with numerous candidates named across offices. In a separate file, James Hoffa and eight associates face a 28-count indictment for fraudulently obtaining over 20 million in Central States Pension Fund loans.
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Des Moines
Hawkeye Boys
Charles Roland
Robert Hayes
Davenport
Federalist Party
Roland
Hayes
John Ramsey
Audubon
Derrick Te- Paske
Sioux Center
Paul Rehder
Sioux City
Don O'Meara
Cedar Rapids
Mat Saddler
Waterloo
Tom Grady
Charles Bringle
Newell
Richard Swan
Mason City
Kenneth Augustine
Keswick
James O'Brien
Dubuque
Bruce Niceswanger
Carroll
Robert Griffin
Denison
Hugh King
Gravity
John Tennant
James McNutt
Town City
John Fieselmann
Spencer
Maurice Moore
Oskaloosa
James Klement
Council Bluffs
Chicago
James R. Hofa
Teamsters’ Union
Central States Pension Fund
Grand Jury
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Hoffa
Sun Valley, Inc
Florida Homes
Broward County
Castro Quietly Returns to Island After Pope Death
Fidel Castro slipped back into Cuba unnoticed at Havana airport on Monday while world mourned Pope John XXIII. Soviet Premier Khrushchev and Defense Minister Malinovsky saw him off after a five week visit, with no officials greeting him and Moscow papers reporting the departure.
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Havana
Fidel Castro
Cuba
John XXIII
US Army officer wounded in helicopter south of Saigon
An American Army officer was critically wounded by Communist ground fire Monday while a helicopter was carrying him south of Saigon. He was brought to Saigon for surgery and his identity was withheld.
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Winfield
Wayne Pankoke
Elgin Pankoke
Saigon
South Viet Nam
Army Civil War Centennial Exhibit to Tour Iowa
The mobile exhibit will tour Des Moines and other Iowa cities this fall. Rep. Fred Schwengel said it shows major battles and will be displayed at the Iowa State Fair August 16 25 and at Veterans Auditorium Des Moines August 26 September 3 with further stops at Mount Pleasant September 4 7 Iowa State University September 8 12 and the University of Iowa September 13 23.
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Merriee Hansen
Meredith Walker
AFS
Miss Hansen
Christian C.hansen
Hazel
Martie Lopez
Atlantic High School
Atlantic High
Guatemala
Atlantic
Miami
Fla
Guatemala City
Spain
Miss Lopez
Hansen
Lopez
University of Madrid
Washington
Towans
Des Moines
Fred Schwengel
Iowa
Schwengel
Veterans Auditorium
Old Settlers and Threshers
Mount Pleasant
Iowa State University
University of Iowa
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Merilee Hansen
American Field Service
IFARM
Iowa Farm Bureau
Dick Falxa
Bufalo
Wyo
Tom and Roger
Grinnell College
Grinnell
Christensen
Fremont
Larry
Gulf
ISU
John T. Schledecker
FFA
Kenneth Joyce
Lewis
Sue Wedemeyer
Max H. Miller
Griswold
Francis Symonds
Anita
Tom Magill
Wilbur Armentrout
Paul Williamson
Wiota
Commerce Office
Library i
Adair Bank
Audubon Lad
Teamsters
Benjamin Dranow
Minneapolis
Dranow
Sandstone
Abel. Weinblatt
Miami Beach
S. George Burris
New York City
New York
Herbert R. Burris
George
Samuel Hyman
Key West
Calvin Kovens
Zachary A. Strate Jr
New Orleans
Castro
Yank
Michigan Bank
Detroit
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