Des Moines Proposes Law Targeting Loud Public Conduct
Des Moines city council gives tentative approval to an ordinance making three or more people at public meetings illegal if conduct is loud or rude. NAACP leader Robert Wright condemns the measure as aimed at blacks and unconstitutional, while Mayor Urban defends it. The rule requires two more council approvals. The measure also covers disorderly assemblies and loitering.
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DES Moines
Robert Wright
Iown
The
National Assn. For the Advancement of Colored Persons
Wright
Thomas Urban
Urban
Elkader Approves Iowa Highway Widening Plan
Elkader city council approves Iowa highway commission plan to widen and resurface a local highway. The action sets the stage for construction work to improve traffic flow and road conditions in the community.
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Elkader
Iowa Highway Commission
Highway 56 Project Details and Costs
The plan covers highway 56 from city limits to Davis street with an estimated total of 210000 dollars. Elkader's share for storm sewers is about 8000 dollars. Construction is slated to start in spring 1969.
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Davis Street
Elkader
Marion Magic Act at Security Hospital
John and Karen Hickman of Marion performed Santa's Magic Land at the Anamosa state security hospital on Tuesday. It was the facility's first magic show and after the performance Santa Claus visited patients delivering individual gifts.
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Anamosa
State Security Hospital
John
Karen Hickman
Marion
Hickman
Santa Claus
Hospital to Move 87 Patients to Oakdale Facility
The hospital and its 87 patients will relocate to the Iowa security medical facility at Oakdale, consolidating care in a new campus.
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Iowa Security Medical Facility
Oakdale
Hughes Leaves Iowa Council With Bipartisan Warmth
Des Moines AP Gov Harold Hughes chaired his last executive council meeting before Jan 2 as he exits to become Iowa's junior U.S. senator. Statements from Melvin Synhorst praise his leadership. The council presented Hughes a leather chair for Washington duty as Lt. Gov. Robert Fulton will fill duties until Gov-elect Robert Ray assumes office.
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Des Moines
Harold Hughes
Hughes
Iowa
U.S
Melvin D. Synhorst
Washington
Iowa Commerce Commission
Senate
Robert Fulton
Waterloo
Robert Ray
Iowa Soldier Is Killed in Vietnam
In Washington AP report, rural Dunlap, Iowa, Army Pfc. Roger McCord dies of wounds from the Vietnam war. No details of his death are released. he is listed as the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lyle C. McCord of Dunlap.
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Washington
Dunlap
Iowa
Defense Department
Army
Roger McCord
Lyle C. McCord
Bank Bandit Steals $25,000 at Clive First Federal Bank
A noon robbery at the Clive branch of First Federal State Bank yielded about $25,000. The robber, 5 10 and 150 pounds, fled in a second car after locking two employees in the vault and warning to avoid alarms. The bank will reimburse customers. FBI and Iowa investigators join Clive police in the search. An unrelated TV program about the CHRIST IS BORN saga airs Tuesday night.
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Des Moines
Clive
First Federal State Bank
Miss Crawford
Jesus
Kcrg-Tv
Rites Thursday for Adolph Schuchmann
Adolph Schuchmann, 67, co administrator of the Lutheran Home for the Aged, died Sunday at a Manchester hospital. Services set for Thursday at 1 30 p.m. at Emanuel Lutheran Church. Friends may call Feeney Knutson funeral home after 11 a.m. Wednesday. An Eastern Star service will be held Wednesday at 8 p.m. Survivors include his wife Louisa, a brother Paul of Strawberry Point, three sisters Mrs Mike Schmidt Strawberry Point Mrs Victor Koch San Jose Calif and Mrs Roy Nicolet Des Moines.
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Adolph Schuchmann
Lutheran Home For the
Manchester
Emanuel Lutheran Church
Feeney-Knutson
Louisa
Paul
Strawberry Point
Mike Schmidt
Victor Koch
San Jose
Calif
Roy Nicolet
Des Moines
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Leona M. Washburn
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