Surprise gift marks Hoover fund drive at West Branch
About 325 members and guests of the Hoover Presidential Library Association joined Lowell Thomas at the Highlander Inn in West Branch for a dinner and talk. The event yielded news that the association is about to receive a $100,000 challenge gift from donor Donald Johnson of Coralville.
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Iowa City
Hoover Presidential Library Association of West Branch
Lowell Thomas
Highlander Inn
Hoover Association
Donald Johnson
Coralville
Association
Herbert Hoover
Thomas
Don Johnson
West Branch
Allan Hoover
Hoover
Mary Anna
Hoover legacy gift challenged by anonymous donors in West Branch
Trustees heard a Cedar Rapids couple match every two dollars donated by August 10 1980 up to 100000 with a 300000 gain to the Hoover association. Allan and Andrew Hoover attended with Thomas who recalled his CBS career and Tibet trips. The dinner was co hosted by the National Park Service and the National Archives. ON THIS DATE in 1968 Nixon received a Vietnam peace talks update from Johnson and Vance.
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Cedar Rapids
Herbert Hoover
West Branch
Johnson
Veterans Administration
Nixon
Thomas and Johnson
Allan Hoover
Greenwich
Andrew
Thomas
Hoover Park
Smith
Hoover
Bohemian Grove
California
San Francisco
David Rockefeller
Tibet
Forbidden Nation
Dalai Lama
Himalayan
CIA
George Bush
National Park Service
The
National Archives and Records Service
Richard Nixon
Vietnam
Paris
Lyndon Johnson
U.S
Cyrus Vance
Helpless feeling as arson fires rattle Oskaloosa
Police out in force after seven fires linked to a curfew protest shake Oskaloosa. Merchants stay closed. a 20 member youth group frequents the square park amid vandalism and drug use, while officials get help from state troopers and investigators.
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Oskaloosa
Bob Walton Jr
John Smith
House-Senate nuclear study committee named
The Legislative Council named a House-Senate study committee on nuclear power plant operation in Des Moines. House chair Rep. Linda Svoboda and Senate chair James Gallagher lead the group to study waste disposal prospects and Iowa's role as a potential waste depository.
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House-Senate Nuclear Study Committee
House-Senate
Iowa
The
Legislative Council
Des Moines
House
Linda Svoboda
Damana
Senate
James Gallagher
D-Jesup
Svoboda
Cedar Falls
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Sing Sing Federal Prison
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al Smith
Robert Hammond
Bureau of Criminal Investigation
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Are Federal Savings and Loan Association
West Des Moines
Ankeny
Newton
Davenport
Clinton
First Street
Third Avenue
Lower Muscatine Road
Giant Store
16Th Ave
Phillips
Colgate
NEW Fall All Ladies
Missy
Corelle Living
Corning
Missy and
Junior
Thirty-Second
Oakland Rd
FBI
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