Hughes urges clothing fee for prison guards
Gov. Hughes backed a clothing allowance or state purchase of uniforms for guards at Anamosa and Fort Madison, citing a $20,000 cost. He warned liquor laws are hard to enforce with current manpower and urged 100 percent local police cooperation. A Neb. mayor denied a $50,000 dry fund. New York Pro Musica set for Decorah concert this Sunday.
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Hughes
Anamosa
Fort Madison
Merle Haynes
South Sioux City
Neb
Iowa
Gazette Decorah
New York Pro Musica
Decorah
Scott Blocks Clothing Bill in Iowa Senate
Iowa Senate committee stalls a bill to outfit prison guards with uniforms as Sen. George Scott protests over funding. The Board of Control notes annual costs could reach 20 000 dollars and suggests state take over the service. In a separate action, a conservation bill to bar debris on commission lands faces questions over wording.
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Sen. Scott
Iowa Conservation Committee
State Conservation Commission
Rites Thursday for Mrs William Reardon in Iowa City
Mrs. William Reardon 86 of Iowa City died after a two week illness. Native of Iowa County she and her late husband ran the Reardon hotel since the 1920s. he died Jan 29. Survived by four sisters and three grandchildren. Services Thursday 2 0 p.m. at Donohues with burial in Memory Gardens. viewing starts Tuesday evening.
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Iowa City
William Reardon
Iowa County
Reardon
Reardon Hotel
Donohue’s
Must Oust Castro, Legion Told
James Powers of Macon Georgia told the Iowa Legionnaires the United States must remove Fidel Castro and his communist regime from Cuba. He urged US action to curb Soviet influence and said the Castro government is a tool of international communism threatening the western hemisphere.
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Des Moines
UPI
Cuba
United States
American Legion
James Powers
Macon
Iowa
Powers
Fidel Castro
Legion
Americas
America
Western Hemisphere
PTA Carnival to Benefit School Library Fund
Central City PTA sponsors a school carnival on February 23 starting at 5 p.m. at the school to raise funds for new library books. Local families invited to attend and support the drive.
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PTA
Legislators Drift Into Tangents in Iowa Debate
Frank Nye notes how lawmakers stray from business during floor debates. While discussing reapportionment or brucellosis, members share off topic anecdotes such as family stories or past events. One incident about a long gap since a physical or mental exam sparked press interest.
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Mittilda
Rockies
Legislative Brothers
Organizations meeting on liquor by the drink in Des Moines
The Committee of 99 and Iowans for Progress sent representatives to a Des Moines gathering last week at a driest in town YMCA venue to promote legalized liquor by the drink.
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Committee of 99
Iowans For Progress
Des Moines
YMCA
Hughes Signs Four Bills Including Conservation and License Measures
Gov. Harold Hughes signed four bills. One authorizes prison industries to complete 1964 motor vehicle license plates with a $175000 general fund deficiency appropriation for supplies and materials. Another bill allows county conservation boards and drainage districts to cooperate in federal watershed and flood control projects with soil conservation districts. The signings also correct a 1879 land patent in Mahaska County and adjust a boundary line near a state fish nursery in Cerro Gordo County.
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Des Moines
UPI
Harold Hughes
Prison Industries
State Safety Department
Mahaska County
Goldie Chilcote
Ellen Peterson
Cerro Gordo County
Iowa pacifist may return home after court ruling
Eston Rockwell, 32, an Iowa pacifist living in Costa Rica since 1950, awaits U.S. decision on a passport. The Supreme Court invalidated a law stripping citizenship from those abroad to avoid service, potentially allowing Rockwell and other pacifists to reenter the United States. His wife has a passport. his hearing had stalled pending the ruling.
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San Jose
Costa Rica
UPI
Iowa
United States
Eston Rockwell
U.S. Supreme Court
Rockwell
Mary
West Branch
Supreme Court
Jennie Chamness
Sheriff Wallerich Home From Hospital After Hepatitis
Sigourney Iowa Sheriff John H Bud Wallerich has been sent home from Veterans Hospital Iowa City He will return March 15 for leg surgery He is recovering from hepatitis that followed a hunting accident in Canada last October.
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Sigourney
John H
Bud’’ Wallerich
Veterans Hospital
Iowa City
Wallerich
Canada
Sigourney Walton Group Schedules Hunt
The Izaak Walton Chapter sets a fox hunt this Sunday in the Clear Creek area southwest of Keota. Hunters meet at the Mile A Way Inn east of Sigourney at the Junction of 149 and 92 at 1 p.m. Last Sunday's hunt yielded four foxes.
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Sigourney
Izaak Walton
Clear Creek
Keota
St Ambrose Students Push Fund to Bring Ghanaian Students
St. Ambrose college students form a scholarship fund to bring two disenfranchised Africans from Ghana to the school. Iowa congressmen Rep. Neal Smith and Rep. Fred Schwengel support broader U.S. inclusion of qualified African students, following a campus forum on communist Bulgaria.
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Ghana
St. Ambrose
St. Ambrose Council
Polio Clinics Endorsed as Cities Urged to Proceed
Iowa health chief Dr. Edmund Zimmerer urged local communities to resume polio immunization clinics using Salk or Sabin vaccines including Sabin type III. The policy shift follows a Jan. 31 advisory panel decision and renewed Surgeon General review suggesting both vaccines are recommended.
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Des Moines
UPI
Edmund Zimmerer
Iowa
Health Department
U. S
Canada
Zimmerer
Four Arkhed Burglaries Tied to Crepe Soles Shoe Print Case
In Charles City Iowa a crepe soled shoe linked two young men Joseph Sichra and Leslie Dawson and their wives Sherry Sichra Peggy Ann Dawson to burglaries across six counties. The group admitted break ins at Marble Rock Greene Aplington Du Mont Hampton and faced charges with bonds set at 2500 each while wives were placed with juvenile authorities.
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Charles City
Iowa
Floyd County
L. L. Lane
Lane
Craig Beck
Cerro Gordo
Rockwell
Mason City
Greene
Aplington
Du‘mont
Butler County
Hampton
Franklin County
Marble Rock
Gladbrook
Tama
Lin
Coln
Tama County
Sidhra
Dawson
Waukon Council OKs paving project on Second Streets
WAUKON The city council Monday night adopted a resolution of necessity for a paving program on Second streets NE and NW. The project is estimated at 66 500 with 37 000 paid from road tax and the rest by assessments on property owners.
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Waukon
Secondstreets
Wiley Says Right-of-Way Bill Would Save Money
Des Moines reports the Town senate highways committee delayed action on a bill enabling the state highway commission to buy right-of-way for primary highways in advance using anticipatory warrants. The measure caps warrants at 7 million and aims to save taxpayer money by avoiding high “speculator” prices, though full details await Chief Engineer L. M. Clauson’s explanation.
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Wiley
Des Moines
UPI
Senate Highways Committee
State Highway Commission
L. M. Clauson
Commission
Boy Bitten by Pet Raccoon At Home
Daniel Bland, son of Mr and Mrs Dale Bland, was bitten on both hands and the left leg by a pet raccoon while playing at home Sunday. He was treated by a doctor and released.
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MT. Auburn
Daniel Bland
Dale Bland
Unusual 3 Car Crash Injures Oelwein Man
Harold Hintz, 62, of Oelwein, suffers two broken legs after his car is pinned between his vehicle and John McDonald’s in a chain collision near Frederika. Henry Budweg, 44, Fredericksburg, rear ends McDonald, pushing it into Hintz. McDonald, hit and standing by, suffers possible collarbone fracture and facial cuts. Hintz later transferred to Rochester, Minnesota hospital. the crash occurred near the junction of highways 63 and 334.
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Frederika
UPI
Here
Harold M. Hintz
Oelwein
John McDonald
New Hampton
Hintz
McDonald
Henry Budweg
Fredericksburg
McDonald's
Budweg
Rochester
Minn
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Charles P. Miller
Burlington
Hatch & Brookman
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Kremlin
Associated Press
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Central City Carnival
Frank Nye
U.S
Sheriff Wallerich
Larg
Landis
R. W. Landis
Landis Loans & Investments
First Avenue
S. E
Cedar Rapids
Empire
Sigourney Walton
3Rd Ave
Schwengel
State Department
Washington
Rep. Smith
Smith
Toledo
Joseph Sichra
Sherry
Leslie Dawson
Peggy Ann
Waterloo
Waukon Council
Sen
George O’malley
Filsworth CO
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Seventh Avenue
C.R
S.G.A
Armstrong Store
2Nd St. SE
Armstrong Ramp
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