Marion YMCA plans fall program and summer close events
Marion branch YMCA ends summer activities on September 1 as planning begins for the fall-winter program starting October 1. Registration for fall-winter is set for mid September per secretary Bob Randall. This week and next feature three summer finale events including the second annual YMCA carnival August 23, a picnic August 22, and a banner day August 25 with a parade and prize divisions. Tuesday offers hareback riding and swimming at 9 a.m. and a game room at 1 p.m. Superintendent Richard M. Sorensen reports most vacancies filled for the new school year opening September 5, with possible hires for fifth and sixth grade science and full-time elementary PE if candidates appear.
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Bob Randall
YMCA
Marion
Marion Branch
Haresback
Richard M. Sorensen
Marion Independent School District
Sorensen
Mail Carriers To Be Honored For Safe Driving Certificates
Four mail carriers will receive safe driving certificates this week. Rural carriers Royal J. Mathews on Route 1 for 19 years with no accidents and Harry Covington on Route 2 for nine years receive honors. City mounted route carriers Arthur O. Steen with six years and Harold E. nine years are recognized. Presented by Marion Postmaster Bernard J. Mullaley through the National Safety Council and The Gazette.
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Marion
Bernard J. Mullaley
Royal J. Mathews
Harry 0. Covington
Arthur O. Steen
Harold E
National Safety Council
Stiff Message to South Viet Govt By Pres Johnson
President Johnson has sent a personal message to Saigon's military leaders warning that a rigged election would alienate the American people. Envoys Taylor and Clifford disclosed the message and urged honesty in the Saigon vote amid calls from lawmakers to reassess U S policy if elections are flawed.
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Pres. Johnson
Johnson
Saigon
South Vietnam
Maxwell Taylor
Washington
Clark Clifford
Clifford
Nguyen Cao Ky
Nguyen van Thieu
Taylor
Sen
Robert F. Kennedy
D-N.y
Thieu
United States
Vietnam
Primary performances key to GOP hopefuls in 1968 race
Bruce Bross notes one year to convention as Romney or Nixon must win at least three of four major primaries including New Hampshire Wisconsin Nebraska and Oregon. A string of victories or a split set shapes momentum and fate, with Reagan Percy and Rockefeller offered as fallbacks if the frontrunners falter.
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Washington
NEA
de Muence
George Romney
Michigan
New Hampshire
Wisconsin
Nebraska
Oregon
Romney
Nixon
Dwight Eisenhower
Sen
Robert Taft
California
Ronald Reagan
Percy
Reagan
Nelson Rockefeller
New York
Gaylord Parkinson
Texas Tour Group Visits Oelwein Farm and Industry Tour
A Texas tour group of thirty two men arrives in Oelwein for a three day program touring local farms and industries. They plan to spend Tuesday and Wednesday visiting county farming operations and related sites.
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Texas
Oelwein
Indiana trooper survives train near miss on trestle
Washington Indiana patrolman Jack McDonald clung to a rail flange on a Boggs creek trestle as a freight train passed beneath him. He watched in fear while the 100 cars rolled by before the danger was revealed to be a false alert about auto thieves. He then learned officers had captured the suspects five minutes earlier.
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Washington
Ind
UPI
Jack McDonald
McDonald
Boggs Creek
Indiana
Loogootee
Baltimore and Ohio
Marengo Man Injured In Power Saw Accident
Dean Brecht 38 of Marengo listed in good condition at local hospital after a Friday power saw accident that left injuries to his left hand.
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Marengo
Dean Brecht
Girl Hospitalized After Bicycle Accident in West Union
Kathy Ameling, 9, was hospitalized in fair condition with a broken leg after a car struck her bicycle Sunday afternoon on River road between St. Lucas and Eldorado. Driver Ronald Smith, 18, Ft. Atkinson, swerved to avoid Donna Ameling but struck Kathy from behind. No charges filed.
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West Union
Ft. Atkinson
Kathy Ameling
West Union Hospital
Kathy
Donna
St. Lucas
Eldorado
Ronald Smith
LeMay Called for Destruction of North Vietnam Industry
Gen Curtis LeMay allegedly urged total destruction of North Vietnam s industrial base in a position paper circulated by Citizens for LeMay The document quotes him calling for eradicating factories and transport and power networks beginning with the largest facilities Haiphong harbor and war supply chains cited as targets The stance frames air and naval power as the key tool in ending the war
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MT. Vernon
Ohio
UPI
Curtis LeMay
Air Force
North Vietnam
Citizens For LeMay Committee
LeMay
America
Haiphong
Five Are Named To Commission On Alcoholism
Gov. Harold Hughes announces four year appointments to the Iowa Commission on Alcoholism. Dr. John C. MacQueen will replace Earl Elijah Clarence, while Rev. Wayne Shoemaker and State Sen. Vernon H. Kyhl join. Kyhl fills Hutchins’ unexpired term and a full four years. Dr. Ross C. King and Louis F. Fautsch are reappointed to new four year terms.
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DES Moines
UPI
Iowa Commission On Alcoholism
Harold Hughes
John C. MacQueen
University of Iowa College of Medicine
Earl Elijah
Clarence
Wayne Shoemaker
Fort Dodge
Vernon H. Kyhl
Parkersburg
Kyhl
C. E. Hutchins
Belle Plaine
Hutchins
Shoemaker
Carl Sinning
Manning
Iowa Liquor Commission
Ross C. King
Clinton
Louis F. Fautsch
Dubuque
Robber Takes 605 At Monticello Seven States Oil
An estimated 605 dollars in cash was stolen in a daylight robbery at the Seven States Oil Co station in Monticello about 4 40 p m Sunday. A man and woman approached in a car with Delaware county plates. The man bought 2 dollars worth of gas while the attendant Robert Ponder age 17 was pumping the gas. The robber then entered the station and rifled the cash register.
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Monticello
Seven States Oil Co
Robert Ponder
Delaware County
Services Wednesday For Charles Cady
Charles W. Cady 73 a retired buttermaker and Toddville resident since 1946 died Sunday in a Cedar Rapids hospital Born Sept 13 1893 in Palo He married Ella Maye Butterfield Oct 20 1915 in Walker Surviving wife five sons and five daughters 43 grandchildren 12 great grandchildren and George Waterbury reared in their home Services 130 pm Wednesday Murdoch chapel Center Point conducted by Kenneth E Pobuda Jehovahs Witnesses Burial Walker cemetery Friends may call after 7 pm
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Toddville
Charles W. Cady
Cedar Rapids
Palo
Walker
Ella Maye Butterfield
Independence
Royal
High Bridge
Wis
William
Clifford
Leo
Stanley Cady
Frank Shockman
Mankato
Minn
David Rasmussen
Orval Foust
Marion
John Lundholm
St. Peter
Robert Andrews
George Waterbury
Ft. Bragg
N.C
Murdoch
Center Point
Kenneth E. Pobuda
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Walker Cemetery
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