Scouts Kickoff Draws 650 Plus Pledges for Camp Fund
More than 650 volunteers from six counties attended a Boy Scout camp capital development kickoff in Armar ballroom. The drive aims at a $350,000 goal with $112,116 already pledged, including a $30,000 gift from Collins Radio Company employees via United Fund.
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Clifford Jordan
Boy Scout Camp Capital Development Fund
Jordan
Armar
Lee Miller
Collins Radio Company
Employe United Fund
Miller
Collins Employes
Gazette
Morris Potter
Fred Moore
Iowa City
William Helscher
Washington
Don Goodman
Anamosa
Paul Anderson
Vinton
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Cedar Rapids
Bob Zinc
Steve Zieke
Robert Ellyson
Springville
Everett Beatty
Shellsburg
Keith Elwick
Special Gifts
Lee Beneke
Marion
Camp Waubeek Renovation Plans at Coralville Reservoir Venture
A preliminary venture bases on the Coralville Reservoir area and envisions renovation of the present Camp Waubeek. The plan outlines potential funding, site improvements, and community impact considerations for the regional recreation facility.
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Enture
Corralville Reservoir
Camp Waubeek
Subway Youth Rumble In Brooklyn Yields 18 Arrests
At a Brooklyn station during rush hour a dispute among about 40 youths led to a brawl with pipes and tire irons. Transit Authority officers chased the group to the street, seized clubs and tire irons, and jailed 18 teens on $2,000 bail each. No passengers were hurt. The suspects included eight whites and ten Black youths, with four Black girls among them.
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New York
Brooklyn
Transit Authority
Anthony Maglio
Insurance Men Meet Thursday At Ranch Club
Cedar Rapids and Des Moines insurance men will address a sixcounty meeting Thursday at the Ranch club. R F Smil of Cedar Rapids on the executive board of the Iowa Assn of Independent Insurance Agents announced the event. William L Burger Cedar Rapids branch manager of the Iowa Inspection Bureau will discuss A Typical Day at the Iowa Inspection Bureau. Harry J Figge of Figge and Associates Des Moines will speak and serve as consultant to the agency management committee of the state insurance association. Tom Donovan Cedar Rapids Assn of Independent Insurance Agents president will head a delegation.
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Cedar Rapids
Des Moines
Ranch Club
R. F. Smil
Iowa Assn
William L. Burger
Iowa Inspection Bureau
Harry J. Figge
Harry J. Figge and Associates
Figge
State Insurance Association
Tom Donovan
Cedar Rapids Assn
Delega
Local meeting session ends with community dinner
A fragment notes a session for about 40 local members starting at 3 p.m. and concluding with a dinner. The text emphasizes a community gathering and meal at the close of the session.
Thinks Japan Slipped Up at Pearl Harbor
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, who will turn 80 in February, wrote to Honolulu Star-Bulletin editor William Ewing detailing perceived Japanese errors at Pearl Harbor. He cites not attacking the fuel oil tanks and not bombing the submarine base at Quarry Point as key missteps that helped shorten World War II.
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Japan
Pearl Harbor
Honolulu
Chester W. Nimitz
Nimitz
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
William Ewing
Navy Yard
Quarry Point
Isubmarines
Nimitz recalls Pearl Harbor losses and carrier threat
In a Monday letter Nimitz says Japanese subs sank over 75 percent of Japanese merchant shipping. He notes Pearl Harbor caught the Pacific fleet at anchor saved many lives and imagines losses if the fleet had been at sea with six Japanese carriers. He and his wife live on Yerba Buena Island in San Francisco Bay.
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Western Pacific
Nimitz
Hawaii
Pearl Harbor
Adm
Husband Kimmel
Jnet
Admiral Kimmel
Nimlitz
Yerba Buena Island
San Franlcisco Bay
Ulbricht Says UAE Visit Not Linked to Cairo Recognition
Berlin authorities quoted the East German News Agency stating Walter Ulbricht’s trip to the UAR has no connection with any potential Cairo recognition of East Germany. The report was issued midweek, clarifying diplomatic ambiguity.
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Berlin
Walter Ulbricht
U.A.R
Cairo
East Germany
Four Die on Double Date in Alaska Car Tragedy
Ketchikan Alaska AP reports four people died on a double date when two young guardsmen and two high school girls were found in a car on Annette Island with the engine running. Preliminary details suggest asphyxiation as the cause.
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Ketchikan
Alaska
Beast
Annette Island
Shell Oil Co's Founder Is Dead
Santa Barbara Calif AP J C Van Eck 84 founder of Shell Oil Co died Tuesday Born in Holland he was a banker before joining the Royal Dutch Shell He came to the U S in 1911 and a year later started the American Gasoline Co fore runner of Shell Oil
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Santa Barbara
Calif
J. C. van Eck
Shell Oil Co
Holland
Royal Dutch Shell
U.S
American Gasoline Co
Shell Oil
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Boy Scout
Collins
John Swaner
Hawkeye
Boy Scout Council
Col. Brooks Booker
University of Iowa Air Force Rotc
Forest Evashevski
University of Iowa
Evashevski
Col. Booker
America
Air Force
C. C. Birr
Leadership Gifts
Council
Boy Scouts of America
Howard Cherry
Waubeek
James Mittan
James Sibert
Cleo Edwards
Les Liabo
District Special Gifts
Dennis the Menace
Landenberger
Espey
Optometrists
Third Street
Dial
DR. Pipkin
Henry's
Henry's East Side
Henry
First Avenue NE
Second Avenue
S. E
Iowa
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