Enlistments of 9 East Iowa Men Reported
Nine Iowa men enlist in armed forces with multiple branches sending recruits to San Diego for training. Marines and Navy assign 9 men, others join delayed enlistment or receive promotions. Notable names include Long, Prescott, Pfeiffer, and Cook with service in Vietnam and assignments aboard Coral Sea and Okinawa.
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San Diego
Marine Corps
Terry W. Wyeth
Center Point
Donald A. Tang
Iowa City
Richard W. Lacock
Navy
Terry G. Gunzenhauser
Belle Plaine
Steven M. Healey
Victor
Orval OD. Faulkner, Jr
Seeley Avenue
Frederick L. Swope
Edgewood Road
Thomas R. Fettkether
David O. van Laningham
Independence
Uss
Coral Sea
Dean L. Seeman
Sandra Seeman
Fourth Avenue
Okinawa
Evidence Supports Big Bang Creation Theory
Three Navy scientists report X-ray survey results from Centaurus A that back the Big Bang model, estimating the universe formed 10 to 12 billion years ago. The study, noted in Science Magazine, contrasts with steady state theory and ties observed infrared background to the Big Bang origin.
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Joseph Myler Washington
UPI
Navy
Centaurus A
Milky Way
Empire State Building
Shebang
Science Magazine
Herbert Friedman
Naval Research Laboratory
E. O. Hulbert
Britain
J. B. S. Haldane
Watermelon of 118 Pounds Wins Prize at NC Festival
A watermelon weighing just over 118 pounds won first prize at the 14th annual North Carolina Watermelon Festival in Raleigh. The melon, entered by Ed Weeks of Tarboro, beat its nearest competitor by 35 pounds. John Speedy Adams of the Raleigh Chamber of Commerce won the seed-spitting contest with a 29 foot throw.
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Raleigh, N. C
North Carolina
Ed Weeks
Tarboro
John “Speedy” Adams
Raleigh Chamber of Commerce
Time capsule buried for Boston brick school build
Boston officials buried a time capsule for a 150 year old English public high school, the nation’s oldest non preparatory public high school. Items include a valedictorian address copy a TV dinner and a Bobby Orr Bruins sweatshirt.
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Boston
UPI
English High School
Paratory Public High School
Boston Bruin
Bobby Orr
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Fourteenth Avenue SE
Kenneth G. Caldbeck
1550
Eighth Avenue SE
Army Pfe
John C. Long
Linda Long
Twenty-fifth Avenue
Bob C. Long
Thirty-third Street
Vietnam
Army
David L. Prescot
Ray Prescott
Ninth Street NW
Floyd M
Pfeiffer
Donna
Washington
Robert W. Pfeiffer
North Liberty
Donald N. Cook
Ronald N. Cook
McConnell Air Base
Kansas
Terry D. van Laningham, Son
Timothy M. Donnelly
N. J. Donnelly
A Avenue
Palms
Calif
Raymond J. Lachapelle, Jr
Shirley Lachapelle
Decorah
Larry O. Newman
Lynn Newman
C Avenue NW
Wilma Usher
Cedar Crestcourt
East
N.T
South
West
By Oswald
James Jacoby
U.S
Gordon’s
Gordon’s Dry Gin Co.,ltd
Linden, N. J
Hogan
Bobby Orr Sweatshirt
Cornerstone
Sun
Wmicar Company
P.V.C
Men‘’S Suede Shoes
Sun. Ito
S. Kresge Co
United States
Canada
Puerto Rico
Australia
Camelot
Phono
Cedar Rapids
Circle-Of-Sound
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