Television Today remembers Tallulah Bankhead and others
Hollywood remembers Tallulah Bankhead Hugo Haas Max Asnas and Dick Maney as 1968 takes part of show business cheer. Nixon appears on NBC Laugh-In Jan 20 and CBS airs Sisters of the World Jan 5 with Ky interview on Face the Nation.
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Jimmy Cannon
Richard Nixon
NBCTV
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Martin
Sisters of the World
Cbs-Tv
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Nguyen Cao Ky
Iowa Reclaims Corn Title With Record Yield
Iowa regains top corn status as USDA estimates put 1968 corn production at 901,728,000 bushels, edging Illinois. Iowa may post a record 93 bushels per acre, with last year at 986,332,000 bushels and 1966 at 901,748,000. Soybeans reach a new high of 177,952,000 bushels and 32 bushels per acre. Oats and hay set records for yields. nationwide crops of wheat and soybeans also break records.
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UPI
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Iowa
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Iowa Upset Over European Internal Soybean Tax Plan
Iowa congressman Fred Schwengel and the American Soybean Association voiced strong opposition to an proposed European Community internal consumption tax on soybeans. Schwengel pressed William Roth to protest the move, warning it could trigger protectionist policies and harm U.S. soybean sales, noting Iowa’s 1967 soybean output valued at over $35 million with much of it exported to Europe.
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Iowa
American Soybean Association
ASA
European Economic Community
USA
U.S
Fred Schwengel
William Roth
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Schwengel
Europe
EEC
Newsmen Watchdogs Form to Enforce Open Meetings Law
A five member watchdog committee of journalists was created by the Iowa chapter of Sigma Delta Chi to press for full compliance with open meetings and open records statutes. The group will monitor state and local officials and oppose any efforts to water down access to information.
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Committee of Newsmen
Iowa
Sigma Delta Chi
National Journalism Society
Tom Patrick
Patrick
Iowa Highway Commission
Polk County
Wilbur Hildreth
Watchdog” Committee
Don Muhm
The
Des Moines Register
Bruce Bakke
United Press International
Norman Brewer
Des Moines Tribune
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Grinnell Herald-Register
Bob Wilbanks
WHO Broadcasting Co
Million Left for World University for Peace
Louis Wallace 72 left 1 million dollars in his will to create a world university promoting peace. He specified relocation to an international institution in Yalta or Jerusalem, with executors authorized to direct the estate to other institutions pursuing similar aims if the plan cannot be carried out.
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Louis Wallace
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Yalta
Russia
Jerusalem
Vance Flies Home for Consultations on Vietnam Talks
U.S. negotiator Cyrus Vance returns to Paris for consultations with U.S. leaders amid waning odds of a Vietnam peace conference before year’s end. He may meet with Johnson or Nixon before resuming talks, and will stay a month past Nixon’s inauguration to hand the baton to his successor.
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Johnson orders broad expansion of U S air routes to Pacific
President Johnson approves CAB plan expanding U S air services to Hawaii Japan the Far East New Zealand and Australia Airlines and routes include Trans World to Hawaii Guam Okinawa and Far East Continental to Hawaii South Pacific New Zealand and Australia Pan Am via Fairbanks Northwest to Orient Northwest via Anchorage Braniff to Hawaii through Mexico City and Flying Tiger cargo to Japan and Orient cities for five years.
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Coffee Trial Slated Jan. 27
The murder trial of Hoover L. Coffee in Linn district court is scheduled for January 27. Judge William Eads appointed William Olinger as co counsel to defend Coffee, who is 39 and faces an open murder charge in the shotgun slaying of 18 year old Michael Lawson on October 24 at 1214 Sixth street SE, where they both lived.
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Hoover
Harry Dasher Dies Longtime Railroad Agent
Harry Dasher 79 an express agent for the Chicago Milwaukee Railroad for 50 years died in a hospital here Thursday after a heart attack. Survived by wife two daughters Mrs Jack Martindale of Waukon and Mary Lou Wiegand Minneapolis and son Richard Chicago. Services Saturday at 10 a.m. at St. Patrick's Catholic church Bakke Hanson funeral home in charge.
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Harry Dasher
Chicago Milwaukee Railroad
Jack Martindale
Mary Lou Wiegand
Minneapolis
Richard
Chicago
St. Patrick’s Catholic Church
Bakke-Hanson Funeral Home
Iowa draft official sees no early cutback if war ends
Des Moines AP reports Col. Glenn Bowles chief of Iowa selective service says no immediate drop in draft calls if peace comes in Vietnam. He notes many returning men will need to decide next steps and some will be replaced. Bowles cites college deferments and current ready-to-draft pools as factors shaping quotas.
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DES Moines
Iowa
Glenn Bowles
Iowa Selective Service System
Bowles
Heroism Medal For Saving Girl
Joseph Loring Kochis of Hamilton Montana received a bronze medal and 750 dollars from the Carnegie Hero Commission for rescuing a 10 year old girl swept into a culvert. He ran 750 feet swam 12 feet under water and used debris to free Patricia Hunter who was drowning July 13.
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Patricia
Kochis
Carnegie Hero Commission
Want Ad Call Sells Unneeded Items
A playful note promotes calling the Want Ad line 369-1234 to sell items no longer needed. The brief urges readers to place ads for disposal.
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