Marion Mayor Potter resigns ends five year term
Marion Iowa city actions include resignations and elections plan. Mayor Ralph W Potter resigns effective December 31 after five years in office and is elected to the Iowa Senate in the November general election. City Council discusses replacements, street light upgrades, traffic signal coordination with the ICC, and bids for a southwest spur sanitary sewer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion
Ralph W. Potter
Potter
Iowa Senate
Bill Grundy
Ford
Willis Schnell
First Avenue
Tenth
Twenty-fourth
Third Avenue
Indian Creek Road
Robert J. Stone
Raymond Eckhart
Marion Chamber of Commerce
Hennessey Bros., Inc
South Eleventh Street
Hennessey
Lee Schoon
Hennessey Bros
Rites in Cedar Falls For Former Resident
Mrs. Mary A. Self former Marion resident died Friday in a Cedar Falls hospital after a short illness. Widow of George W. Self she was a member of First United Methodist church of Marion. Surviving daughters Mrs. Paul W. Wright Marion and Mrs. Kenneth J. Bruster Rock Island TI and five grandchildren. Services held Monday Cedar Falls with graveside rites by Rev Larry Suggs at Mt. Vernon cemetery. Our Marion office will be closed Friday December 6 1968 while moving to 1080 Ninth Avenue reopening December 9 1968.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary A. Self
Twelfth Street
Cedar Falls
George W. Self
First United Methodist Church of
Marion
Paul W. Wright
Kenneth J. Bruster
Rock Island
I Larry Suggs
Mt. Vernon
First National Bank
Town
Ninth Avenue
White, Stone & Horan
Adv
British Airways Tries To Sell Old Planes to Peking
BEA seeks to sell 23 used airliners for about six million pounds to Red China. The jet mix includes 10 Comet 4B, 13 Viscount 806 turbo-props, as replacements ordered. Captains Pleasante and Watson review prospects in Africa and China.
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London
British European Airways
China
BEA
Ross Pleasante
George Watson
Africa
Britain
U.S
Nuns Convicted in Orphan Misconduct Case in Florence
In Florence AP reports three nuns and three others were convicted for mistreating children at a Roman Catholic orphanage run by Father Giovacchini Pelagatti. The sentences include four years for Sister Carmela and three years eight months for Sister Teofila with a one year term for Sister Angela, all reduced by two years.
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Florence
Say
Gestapo
Lucia Napolitana
Carmela
Giovacchini Pelagatti
Walter Lenz dies former Oelwein resident
Walter Lenz 68 a former Oelwein resident died Monday in Prairie du Chien Wisconsin Services will be held there Thursday
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Oelwein
Walter Lenz
Prairie du Chien
Says Negroes Don't Want Shooting War
New York AP report quotes Swedish sociologist Gunnar Myrdal saying racial leaders pushing a violent revolt have little Negro support. He argues only about 10 percent of the population would back guerilla warfare, warning violence leads to a demand for law and order and risks disintegration without reforms for the poor.
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New York
de. Gannee Miynds
Myrdal
Munich bans Manchester Krupp history translation
A Munich court prohibits sales of the German edition of William Manchester's Krupp history until he removes three passages the court calls damaging and untruthful. Kindler Verlag plans an appeal while Arndt von Bohlen und Halbach alleges the text paints his ancestors polemically and undignified.
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Munich
William Manchester
Krupp
Kindler Verlag
Krupps
Arndt von Bohlen
Halbach
Alfried Krupp
Franz-Josef Hinzen
Arndt
X-15 Pilot Knight Wins Harmon Trophy at White House
Major William Knight, 39, of the X-15 program, received the Harmon International Aviator's Trophy and Distinguished Flying Cross at the White House. Knight, praised for hypersonic X-15A2 flights, set a record speed of 4,520 mph and reached 280,000 feet to qualify for astronaut wings.
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Johnson
Harmon International
William “Pete” Knight
Knight
Clifford B. Harmon Trust
White House
Air Force
U.S
Fined $500 for TV Racy Movie
Robert Allen Veatch, 25, received a $500 fine after pleading guilty to transmitting obscene material on a television station in the Palm Springs area. He claimed the racy stag film was shown accidentally after the station signed off, while he thought all transmission had stopped. Veatch, a San Bernardino resident, was fired as a studio control technician by the station.
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Los Angeles
Robert Allen Veatch
Veatch
Federal Communications Commission
KPLM
Palm Springs
San Bernardino
Calif
U. S
Francis Whelan
All Santas need cash for Christmas
A terse classified note offers cash for Christmas items with contact number 369-1234. The brief ad implies quick buy or sale needs centered on Santa merchandise or holiday gear.
U S Moves in Field of Human Rights Years Observed
Secretary of State Rusk said 1968 was a year of turmoil but proof the nation is moving in human rights. The ceremony included Averell Harriman and messages from President Johnson. A new 13 cent aerogramme was introduced to spread messages of peace and brotherhood.
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Washington (Ap
Rusk
U.S
Paris
Commission
State Department
Harriman
Johnson
Post Office Department
Gen. Watson
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Marion Boulevard
Roger D. Heun
Duncombe
Melvin H. Rich
Melvin H. Rich, 155 Thirty-fifth Street
van Diest Supply Co., Inc
Webster City
By Larry Tanner
Ralph Potter
Peter F. Crivaro
City of
Des Moines
Leighton Ford
Council
City and Milwaukee Railroad
Eleventh Street
Sixth Avenue
Iowa Commerce Commission
ICC
Charles Mullens
James Reynolds
Gjellefald Construction Co., Inc
Forest City
Dave
Parks Department
Laurence Martin
Oak Shade Cemetery
Martin
City Hall
Fifth Avenue
Milwaukee Railroad
Seventh Avenue
Wilkins School
Civil Service Commission
Linn County
Knollcrest
Equity Investors, Inc
3M National Advertising Co
Merwen L. Taylor
Spence
Ben A. Spence
Baxter Memorial Chapel
Jean P. Hayter
Marion Lodge No
Memorial Park
Fort Dodge
Masonic Temple
Ralph Repstien
Terry
James Drive
Roger
Fort Polk
Repstiens
Oklahoma City
Wyler
Ray
North Star Homemakers Club
Farmers State Bank
John Dixon
Harry Nielson
Richard Matus
Accurion
Bulova
Nordman Jewelers
YMCA
Marion Branch
Eterna
3Rd Ave
Cedar Rapids
Sorg Pharmacy
Marion Lorenz
John Yousse
Monticello
British Airways
Peking
Manchester
Pierre Bouguer
Wal
Syle Onerel
X-15
Pete Knight
Washington
Maud Lake
New
Citizens Loan Corp
Landis Financial Group
First Avenue S.E
Zales
Him
Bellers
Lingale Plaza
Baily
Tae
Willentwat
Iitie Afk
Straiat Rentiocny Bocarogwitsky
Ousuluang Col, Ferareon
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