Jepsen Urges New Ideas and Jaycee Awards Presented
Lt Gov Roger Jepsen urged Cedar Rapids Jaycees to propose new ideas to meet Iowa needs at the Jaycee awards night at the Roosevelt hotel. Scott McIntyre was Boss of the Year. Trent V. Winegar won the Distinguished Service award for civic and business leadership. Robert Walker named outstanding farmer for Cedar Rapids area.
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Gazette
Tom Merryman
Roger Jepsen
Davenport
Scott McIntyre, Jr
Jepsen
Trent V. Winegar
Northwestern Bell
Robert Walker
Marengo
Cedar Rapids
Jaycees
McIntyre
United Fire and Casualty Co
Jaycee
Northwestern Bell Telephone Co
Iowa
British reply to Soviet mid East plan offered in Commons
Britain delivered its response to the Soviet phased Arab Israeli peace proposal. Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart presented the reply to Soviet Charge Boris Piadychev in a 15 minute House of Commons meeting. Parts were praised as constructive while others required clarification.
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London
Britain
Boris Piadychev
Michael Stewart
House of Commons
Russia
Berkeley Site Burned Arson Suspected After Student Picketing
The University of California Berkeley auditorium Wheeler Hall was gutted by fire late Wednesday with campus police suspecting arson after witnesses saw several people flee the building. A one day union teacher walkout and involvement by the Third World Liberation Front and Black Students Union accompanied the event.
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University of California At Berkeley
Wheeler Hall
Third World Liberation Front
Black Students Union
San Jose State College
ABC Newsman Peter Jennings to Speak at Area Ten Event
ABC Newsman Peter Jennings will speak January 31 at 8 p.m. in the Cedar Rapids Veterans Memorial Coliseum as part of Area Ten Community College 1968 69 special events. The talk “Year In Year Out” covers the 1968 political and domestic scene with a Q A session to follow. General admission tickets are available at Area Ten student affairs and at the door. Area Ten students with activity cards attend free. high school and college students may buy tickets at a reduced rate.
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Peter Jennings
ABC News
Cedar Rapids Veterans Memorial Coliseum
Area Ten Community College
Jennings
Canada
ABC
America
South Vietnam
India
Indira Gandhi
Harold Wilson
Great Britain
William Westmoreland
Abba Eban
Area Ten Office of Student Affairs
Coe
Cornell
Mt. Mercy Colleges
Syrian Floods Close Bridges Across Syria
Torrential rains triggered floods in many parts of Syria, destroying numerous highway bridges and causing traffic nationwide to nearly halt.
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Damascus
Syria
American Album offers unusual 1800s America photos
The library highlights American Heritage Publishing Co. editors assemble a family album of everyday life with rare prints. Many images are new to print and use original plates for sharp detail. The book can be reserved by visiting a library agency or calling 366-1561.
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America
Public Library
American Heritage Publishing Co
Civil Rights Official Quits Local Eagles Lodge
Jeris Leonard 37 plans to resign from the Fraternal Order of Eagles Milwaukee lodge amid its whites only policy dispute. Leonard will leave local groups as he moves to Washington to head the Civil Rights Division, praised by Atty. Gen. John Mitchell for his civil rights record in Wisconsin and Milwaukee.
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Washington
Order of Eagles
Milwaukee Lodge
Justice Department
Jerris Leonard
Lodge
Department
John Mitchell
Leonard
Wisconsin
Milwaukee
Mitchell
Czech Reformers Return Amid Palach Hunger Strikes
Two top reformers Ota Sik and Eduard Goldstuecker returned from exile as hunger strikes to honor Jan Palach continued in several cities. Palach's coffin will be displayed in Prague ahead of his funeral observances scheduled for Saturday.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Jan Palach
Palach
Ota Sik
Switzerland
Eduard Goldstuecker
Czech Writers’ Union
Communist Party
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Crandall Drive
James —. Hanson
Modern Woodmen OF America Home Office
Rock Island, Illinois
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Pennsylvania State University
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Pittsburgh
Penn State
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Walter
Students For A Democratic Society
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Westchester
Rembert Stokes
Wilber‘force University
Ohio
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Baldwin
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First Avenue
R. W
Bob) Lutzelman
Sik
Goldstuecker
Czechosovakia
England
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Basel
Pergon
Emil F. Leypoldt
Friante Oa
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