East Iowan Ambulance Driver Retires After 37 Years of Service
Carl Seckel, 67, retires after 37 years as an ambulance driver on roads across Iowa, Benton and Johnson counties. He answered over 700 calls, transported 170 fatalities, and witnessed two state executions. Teammates included his loyal wife, and his career spanned crashes from tractor mishaps to roof falls and eight fatal crashes on Highway 6 near Oxford Junction.
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Arengo
Carl Seckel
Iowa
Benton
Johnson County
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Midway
Hos
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South Amana
Aurora
Nellie Nelson
Walford
Oxford
Amanas
Blairstown
Belle Plaine
Williamsburg
Millersburg
Don Hadenfeldt
Hadenfeldt
Cedar Rapids
Julius Hadenfeldt
E. N. Brown
Highway Commission
26 Class 17th Annual Horse Show At Oxford Junction
The 17th annual Oxford Junction horse show will be held at the American Legion park starting 10 30 a m with 26 classes. It is sponsored by the Jones County Saddle Club and Oxford Junction American Legion Post. Judge will be Robert Meyers of Fairfield and announcer Dr G K O’Brien of Springville. County sheriffs and highway patrolmen are praised for cooperation in planning and safety. The piece also recounts the ambulance service career of Seckel, Marengo’s former mayor, including a life in funeral coaching and his memories of rescuing and comforting grieving families.
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Oxford Junction
Robert Meyers
Fairfield
Jones County
G. K
Fred Vokel
Chris Engelbert
Guy Schroll
Bill Spurier
Washington Iowa crime ranks ninth lowest in U.S.
Washington Iowa reports crime rates for 1960 to 1968 show Cedar Rapids Des Moines and state totals well below national figures. The application for a $337 705 federal grant cites crime index at 6 282 per 100 000 in Cedar Rapids and Des Moines versus 7 517 in the five next largest cities. Rep Schwengel vows to fight larger trucks on highways while Rep Culver notes his daughter Becka proposed a hopscotch court at school.
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Ashington
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Des Moines
Hawkeye
United States Department of Justice
Iowa Crime Commission
Sioux City
Davenport
Waterloo
Area Ten College
University of Iowa
Fred Schwengel
House
John Kluczynski
D-Ir
Schwengel
John C. Culver
Culver
Becka Culver
Graft Rejection Research Seeks Private Support
Dr Rieke explains shrinking federal grants threaten graft rejection work tied to lymphocyte study. He cites a NIH grant cut from 22000 to 18000 and notes rats cost about 400 for two months of radioisotope injections. He asks for cash gifts and bequests, stressing no admin costs and future use of donor bodies for research and possible transplantation.
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National Institutes of Health
Rieke
Ordination Set for Charles Ager Dundee
Charles D. Ager of Dundee will be ordained a minister in the American Lutheran church today at 3 30 p m at St John s Lutheran church Dundee Chaplain Herman Diers Wartburg college will perform the ordination Rev Kenneth Gamb of Waterloo will speak Ager son of Mr and Mrs Charles Ager Manchester graduated Manchester high school 1955 earned BA Wartburg college and divinity degree Wartburg seminary and has accepted a call as associate pastor at Trinity church New Hampton
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Charles D. Ager
Dundee
St. John’s Lutheran Church
Herman Diers
Wartburg College
Kenneth Gamb
Waterloo
Ager
Charles Ager
Manchester High School
Wartburg Seminary
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