Murphy Davis Retires after 25 Years with Cedar Rapids Police
Murphy W. Pat Davis ends a 25 year Cedar Rapids police career after a midnight shift retirement. He recalls saving a drowning woman in 1951 and delivering a baby in 1946. Davis plans to drive a Cedar Rapids school bus next year and visit Texas to see his daughter Jean Sutherland.
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Murphy W
Pat” Davis
Cedar Rapids
Davis
Carl Badger
Badger
Cedar River
First Avenue
Grinnell
McKinley
Washington High School
Coe
Washington
California
Pat
Murphy
Texas
Jean Sutherland
Janet Gorman
Marion
Twelfth Street
World Drouth Crisis Hits Continents and Nations
Reports from London indicate nine hour nightly water bans in Madrid with hospitals affected. Australia sees sheep sold for 14 cents, Basutoland children undernourished, and South Africa facing its driest period in memory.
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London
UPI
Madrid
Australia
Basutoland
South Africa
South Korea
UCS Directors Meet Thursday
The United Community Service board of directors will meet Thursday at 7 30 p m in the UCS office to set the fall campaign goal and approve the 1966 budgets for UCS administration and the Linn Economic Action Project The Panel C allocations committee will hold a rehearing on the budgets of Camp Fire Girls and the YMCA the night before.
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United Good Neighbors
United Community Service Board of Directors
UCS
Linn
Camp Fire Girls
YMCA
Philip Morris Sentenced for Marijuana Possession
Ventura California Philip Morris 21 was sentenced to four months in county jail last week after pleading guilty in superior court to possession of marijuana cigarettes.
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Ventura, Calif
UPI
Philip Morris
Reunion Planned for Plane Crew of 62nd Squadron
Twenty years after 44 crew members of the 62nd bombardment squadron completed 33 missions over Japan they assemble in Texas for a reunion at Lake Texoma. Co-pilot Ed Dengler, now a Carpenter Co. district manager, will attend along with 57 people total from across the U.S. including Gen. Powers and actress Lauren Bacall.
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62Nd
Texas
Slim
Japan
Ed Dengler
Des Moines
Carpenter Paper Co
Franklin Avenue
Cedar Rapids
Tokyo
Florida
Massachusetts
Missouri
Ohio
Virginia
Alabama
Pennsylvania
Colorado
Iowa
Lake Texoma
Sheppard Air Force Base
Thomas Powers
Strategic Air Command
Guam
Lauren Bacall
The
Denglers
County-Wide Building Code Possible in Linn County
Linn County Supervisors consider adopting a county wide building code requiring permits for all construction except agricultural work Plans would follow Cedar Rapids standards and national practices to ensure sound building methods The code aims to prevent blight and safety hazards by requiring plan approval before construction and would be funded by permit fees The move aligns with a forthcoming county reassessment and compares to Scott County which already has a code.
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William G. Harrington
Harrington
Cedar Rapids
Scolaro
Diabetes Tests Rise to Over Seven Hundred Thousand in 1964
The U S Public Health Service reports more than 700 000 Americans had blood tests for diabetes in fiscal 1964, up 34 percent from the prior year. Confirmed new cases stayed about 8.6 per 1 000 tested, with an estimated 2 million still undetected. Screening should focus more on older people the overweight those with a family history and those with symptoms.
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United States
New York City
Britain
Manchester
Lake
Spain
Italy
France
Portugal
South America
Uruguay
Washington
U. S
Ice
Peace Corps Vets Return Home Face Mixed Paths
UPI reports show over 3,000 Peace Corps volunteers returned from two years abroad. Of 30 interviewees, 13 resumed college, many pursuing teaching, law, or social work, while 17 could not find jobs. Five teach, four are social workers, two nurses, three staffers in Peace Corps, plus an engineer, home economist, and a former corps advertiser.
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Washington
UPI
Peace Corps
United States
America
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C.R. Man
By Ben Blackstock
Linn County Board of Supervisors
Board of Supervisors
Anthony Scolaro
Scott County
Linn County
Sheriff's Office
Birmingham
Christian Science Master
Christian Science Church
Back Bay
Boston
J. M. Pei and Associates of
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Church Center
David McDowell
Columbia University
Nigeria
Dave Glant
Morris Plan
Morris
American Industrial Bankers Association
B. W. Joseph
Morgan
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