All-Iowa fair at Hawkeye Downs to feature Festival of Fun
The 1964 All-Iowa fair at Hawkeye Downs in Des Moines runs August 16 to 23 with a new Carnival midway and more than 40 rides and shows. Admission to the grounds is $1 for adults, free for under 12, with free parking and amphitheater access. auto racing days have free sections. Officials promise extensive exhibits, competitive entries, and dozens of tents across 100 acres and seven buildings. Premium books detail livestock shows, arts, flower, photography, and other competitions and are available from the fair office.
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Hawkeye Downs
Ray Vernimont
Fair Board
Wernimont
Vernimont
Night fighting gains push in South Vietnam training
Washington reports the South Vietnamese government under Major General Nguyen Khanh is increasing night combat training. U S advisers long urged more night drills, and Saigon now shows 42 percent of recent tactical training at night, 50 percent for noncommissioned officers. Whether the shift reduces Viet Cong night activity remains unproved.
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Washington
South Vietnam
U.S
Nguyen Khanh
Saigon
Festival of Fun Clowns at All-Iowa Fair
Toby Docky of Austria, member of the cavalcade of comics, will appear at the thrill show circus Sunday and Monday August 16 and 17 as Cedar Rapids exposition opens.
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Toby Docky
Austria
Docky
Cavalcade of Comics
Cedar Rapids Exposition
Multiple Cedar Rapids club events listed in city briefs
Community notices cover a series of gatherings in Cedar Rapids including a picnic at Noelridge Park, a Parkview pavilion potluck, an evening Optimist dinner and golf, a Cedar Rapids School Board meeting, and various speaker events at hotels and clubs around town.
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Cedar Rapids Stamp Club
Noelridge
Lpark
Southwest Civic Club
Parkview Pavilion
Jones Park
Shorewood
Twin Pines
The
Cedar Rapids School Board
Board of Education
Second Avenue SW
Coe Campaign Reaches 1.875 Million in Ford Grant Drive
The Ford Foundation grant totals 1.875 million in gifts and pledges as Coe College reports progress toward a five million dollar campaign. National and regional leaders join 28 members on the executive committee to accelerate efforts in Cedar Rapids, Linn County, and beyond.
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Thetteers
Cam- Ford Foundation
Cedar Rapids
Cedar College
Coe
Penide
Coe Challenge
Linn County
U.S
Robert C. Armstrong
National Executive Committee
Duane Arnold
Arthur Barlow
Builders Material Co
Frank Bauder
Central National Bank
Chicago
Leon H. Black
W. A. Sheaffer Pen Co
Ft. Madison
R. S. Gates
Leonard Spacek
Arthur Andersen and Co
William Whipple
Cedar Rapids Insurance Company
James Coquillette
Mer
Rockets paint colored vapor clouds at Wallops Island test
Seven Nike Apache sounding rockets launched from Wallops Island last week. Four produced pink and red sodium vapor clouds while three carried experimental capsules for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The university of Illinois used the capsules to gather wind direction and speed data at varying altitudes.
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Wallops Island
Space Agency
National Aeronautics and Space, Administration
University of Illinois
NASA sodium vapor experiments record high altitude trails
A sequence of sodium vapor releases by Arm Products Co and Vigortone Conditions with executives W Miller and Arthur Swarzentru followed by others produced pink and red atmospheric trails from 32 miles to 119 miles altitude. Ground cameras tracked wind dispersion and the images will be analyzed at Geophysics Corp of America in Bedford, Massachusetts for NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
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Geophysics Corp. of America Laboratory
Bedford
Mass
NASA
Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt
Eisenhower Reviews The GOP Convention TV Special
President Eisenhower discusses the GOP convention on television. James Hagerty and ABCs William Lawrence join the program airing at 4:00 p.m. on channel 9.
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Eisenhower
James Hagerty
ABC
William Lawrence
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