Red Cross volunteers tally Cass county service year
Cass county Red Cross volunteers logged over 4300 unpaid days in the year July 1960 to June 1961. The report shows 2319 hours by 838 volunteers in blood programs fund raising first aid and water safety along with numerous unrecorded hours by leaders and workers.
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Cass County
Red Cross
Edward P. Cole
Don Inhofe
Joseph Devlin
Wiote
Clithero
W. A. Hokenstad
Griswold
Dick McCauley
Caley
Mea
D. Emmert
Eee
Richard Becker
Anita
Atlantic
Anka
Bill Parker
Victa
Lewis
Cumberland
Unita
Parker
Paul Pellett
Sesson
Wakonda
Sunnyside
Dewey Kuiken
Good Neighbors Association
Edna
Ion
Atlantic Community Chest
Co. D. Emmert
Lydia R. Otto
MacArthurs Welcome Crowd Greet General in Philippines
About 200000 people packed Panay to hail Gen and Mrs MacArthur as the 81 year old general returns to the island where he began his career. The couple will conclude their triumph tour with a stop in Corregidor and end in Manila by Wednesday.
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Philippines
Douglas MacArthur
Panay
West Point
MacArthurs
Manila
Corregidor
Weather outlook with showers and thunderstorms Tuesday into Wednesday
Considerable cloudiness with scattered showers and locally heavy thunderstorms on Tuesday night and Wednesday. Winds from the southeast and east Tuesday night, with cool highs in the northwest and warmer values southeast. Outlook calls for partly cloudy and cooler Thursday.
Girl Rescued By Copter After 3 Days On Coast
Twelve year old Becky Reever of Bellaire Texas survived three days on the Oregon coast after going missing near Seaside. A fisherman spotted her on a rocky beach and directed rescuers to reach her as a helicopter piloted by 1st Lt. Dennis M. Chase landed in dense fog to airlift her to safety. She’s dehydrated but in good condition, with a broken right foot and minor injuries expected to heal.
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Seaside
Ore
Becky Reever
Oregon Coast
Becky
Bellaire
Tex
William Roever
Peter Long
Houston
Anio Rautio
Tautio
Rautio
Dennis M. Chase
Portland
Frederick Rawls
Houston Post
Returned to face Red Oak charges
James Scott Ross 22, a itinerant tree trimmer, is returned to Red Oak to face charges of raping a 14 year old girl last Friday night. Ross was arrested in Excelsior Springs Missouri last Saturday. Sheriff Chet McCune said Ross escaped while being questioned and he waived extradition and was brought here Monday.
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Red Oak
James Scott Ross
Ross
Excelsior Springs
Montgomery County
Chet McCune
Oakwood School Board legalizes paddling policy
Dayton Ohio AP The Oakwood School Board approved a paddling policy for seriously disruptive students ending an unwritten prohibition. Superintendent George Pfleger said many pupils had been talked to death after years of lenient handling.
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Dayton, Ohio
Oakwood
George Pfleger
Astronaut Prepares For Second U S Space Flight
News reports detail preparations for Americas second manned space flight with Air Force Capt Virgil Grissom as leading candidate and Lt Col John Glenn as backup. NASA aims for a July 16 window and trains pilots for orbital missions, noting capsule upgrades and an enhanced escape system.
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Cape Canaveral
Fila
America
Air Force
Virgil I. Grissom
John H. Glenn Jr
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Navy
Space Agency
Grissom
Mitchell, Ind
Glenn
Shepard
Newton- Ohio
Startling sight as horse gallops down highway near track
Cleveland motorists were startled when Island Lad, a race horse, bolted from a pony boy and galloped along the highway near Randall Park race track. The horse was seen riderless and running free through traffic.
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Cleveland, Ohio
Randall Park Race Track
Island Lad
Contracts Awarded for New Salem Lutheran Home
Elk Horn contracts totaling 347 756 were awarded for the new Salem Lutheran home. P M Anderson Construction of Tecumseh Neb bid 230 100 for general work, Sloan company 80 816 for loading, and Avoca Electric of Avoca bid 27 750 for electrical work. The board and William Beuttler and Son Architectural of Sioux City reviewed bids last week. Work to begin soon, elevator installation bids were rejected.
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Elk Horn
Salem Lutheran
P. M. Anderson Construction Company
Tecumseh
Nebr
Company of Sloan
Avoca Electric Company
Avoca
Salem Lutheran Board of Directors
William Beuttler and Son Architectural Company
Sioux City
Anderson Company
Salem Board
Band Concert At Sunnyside Park Tonight
A community band concert is set for tonight at Sunnyside Park Washington Post lists Sousa A Melodie Caravan and other selections. Programs include Deep River Suite Scotch Folk Suite Canadian Sunset and Star Spangled Banner with arrangements by Christianson Erickson Farrar Padilla and Warrington.
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Sunnyside Park
Washington Post
Judy the Champanzee Bowler at Dallas Farm Meet
Judy the chimpanzee, famed for tossing coconuts, headlines a Dallas farm event as the world’s champion bowler. Reported high score is 133, highlighting her surprising skill beyond monkey business.
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Judy
Dallas
Tex
Sheep Flock Awarded To Lauren Joyce
Lauren Joyce of Atlantic receives a flock of ten purebred Shropshire sheep under the Iowa FFA sheep improvement program funded by the Seare Roebuck Foundation. The two year award is one of twelve flocks across four breeds, part of a self perpetuating project begun in 1953. Joyce plans dairy beef and corn projects and will be a junior this fall in Atlantic FFA.
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Lauren Joyce
Joe Joyce
Rt. 3
Iowa Ffa
Seare Roebuck Foundation
Norman Vandehasar
Atlantic
State road contracts total 72.6 million in fiscal year
Ames report shows contracts totaling 72.55 million awarded by the State Highway Commission for the year ending June 30. Primary roads led with about 40 million, interstate about 11 million, and farm-to-market roughly 21.4 million. Paving covered 139.5 miles of primary roads, 16 miles of interstate roads, and 83.8 miles of farm-to-market roads.
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AMES
State Highway Commission
Protest Ban On African Party Rally Draws Large Cape Town Crowd
In Cape Town a thousand protesters of all races gathered Monday night to condemn the government ban on the colored convention. Among participants were Roman Catholic Archbishop Owen McCann and former chief justice H A Fagan. Meanwhile more than 200 delegates met 45 miles away in a farm shed and urged a non racial national convention.
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Cape Town
South Africa
Owen McCann
H. A. Fagan
Services Held for W. A. Sheaffer Co Chairman
Services were held Tuesday for Craig R. Sheaffer 68 chairman of the board of the W A Sheaffer Pen Co He died from a self inflicted gunshot wound at his home Sunday authorities said The incident occured in Fort Madison Iowa where the company is based
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Fort Madison
Craig R. Sheaffer
W. A. Sheaffer Pen Co
Sheaffer
Soviet spaceman Gagarin hailed by crowds in London
Londoners greet Yuri Gagarin with cheers as he arrives from Moscow. Thousands line his 15 mile route, with 1,500 officials present. Dignitaries invite him to Mansion House Buckingham Palace and lunch, extending his visit to four days. In Washington Kennedy presses defense and foreign aid amid Khrushchev budget talk and Berlin tensions.
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London
Gagarin
Bernard Waley-Cohen
Mansion House
Harold Macmillan
Queen Elizabeth
Buckingham Palace
Washington
Kennedy
Congress
House
Sam Rayburn
D-Tex
Soviet Union
Budge
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Khrushchev
Rayburn
Pentagon
Berlin
Explosion Kills Sioux City Lad
A 15-year-old Sioux City boy, William Anders, died in a basement explosion while assembling a pipe bomb with gunpowder from firecrackers. His father was away in California and his mother was shopping when the blast occurred.
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Sioux City
APA
William Anders
Wayne W. Anders
Anders
California
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Ilo
Lloyd Petersen
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Hancock
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Max Petersen
Sandy Ellison
Kim Ellison
Des Moines
Richard Maben
Rex Sievers
Oakland
U. S. Space
Wilke
Leon
Robert Herman Wilke
Meiner
Lamoni
Lucas
Willie
David Herrick
Topeka
Kan
Bob
New Salem Lutheran Home
Manhattan Beach
Sousa
U.S
Richard B. Russell
D-Ga
Senate Armed Services Committee
Russell
George D. Aiken
R-Vt
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Colorado
Denise Sullivan
Jeanette
Charles Boothroyd
Rockville
Conn
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