Hotel Shot Cuts Down Crime Ring
A gun misfire in an Omaha hotel led to the arrest of seven youths and the unraveling of a Iowa crime ring. The group admitted burglaries across 11 counties, with authorities recovering cash, guns, and stolen items from Marshalltown to Des Moines and Tama counties.
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Iowa
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Milo Quigley
Des Moines
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Preston
Morrison
Roseland
Midway Station
LeGrand
Russell Varnum
Montour
Tuffree
Traer
Tama County
SUI Alumni Institute Cancellation Revealed
The University of Iowa based Alumni Institute set for June 20 to 30 is canceled due to insufficient advance registrations. Loren Hickerson cited funding needs and suggested a possible 1963 program retooled for Iowa cities on weekend days if local interest exists. The 1963 plan included courses on rural to urban life trends and art and architecture in the atomic age.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa
Loren Hickerson
Alumni Assn
Hickerson
Iowa Cities
Bids Set on Amana Mill Foundation Project
Rock Island District corps of engineers will open bids on July 23 to reinforce the Amana woolen mill pump house and sump foundations. Plans call for sheet steel piling and concrete work costing about $25,000. Small businesses only may bid under a government program to aid smaller firms.
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Rock Island
Corps of Engineers
Amana
Coralville
Farm Daughters Day At Mt. Vernon
The Chamber of Commerce sponsors a Farmer's Daughter day in Mt. Vernon on Saturday with Rosalie Bowman of Iowa and Mary Helen Pollock of Virginia as hostesses. Main Street para de begins at 3 p.m. offering a free rose to each farmer's daughter and mother, with a rural theme and dress. A band concert in City Park at 8 p.m. marks the summer opening.
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Mt. Vernon
Chamber of Commerce
Rosalie Bowman
Iowa
Mary Helen Pollock
Whitmill
Main Street
Des Moines Trucker Killed in Interstate 80 Crash
Vance G. Bean, 52, a Des Moines truck driver for Rock Island Motor Transit Co., died when a tire blew out on his semi trailer causing the vehicle to overturn on Interstate 80 near Davenport. He was thrown from the cab and struck by a detached plate. Eastbound traffic was tied up for about two hours. Bean was en route from Des Moines to Chicago with tires.
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Des Moines
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Rock Island Motor Transit Co
Chicago
I Methodists Plan Special Session on the Ministry
The North Iowa Conference of the Methodist Church schedules a special convocation in Fort Dodge on October 17 to stress ministry. Iowa Bishop F Gerald Ensley chairs the national bishop mission on the ministry. The conference retires six ministers, adds eight full members, and receives seven on trial. Several ministers are named elders and deacons, with changes in the Hillcrest home name to Hillcrest Children's Services and additional delegates elected for the 1964 Cleveland jurisdictional conference.
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North Iowa
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Iowa
F. Gerald Ensley
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Des Moines
Romaine Barber
Waterloo
Cloud
Archer
James Dyer
Atlanta
Gordon Freeburg
Algonquin
Ill
Gary Hargroves
Castana
R. Martin Miller
Guttenberg
Gerald Schimmelpfenning
Mason City
Methodist Children’s Home
Dubuque
Hillcrest Baby Ford
Hillcrest Children’s Services
Cleveland
Jackson Burns
Cedar Rapids
M. Trevor Baskerville
Spirit Lake
Ralph Kitterman
Spencer
Hughes Will Attend Tama Powwow Dinner
Governor Harold Hughes will be guest of honor at a Democratic fundraising dinner in Tama on Saturday August 10 during the Indian Powwow. Dinner at St Patrick's School begins 6 30 p.m. with tickets priced at 3 per person. The event aims to establish a yearly Governor's day with Iowa governors attendance, following Herschel Loveless who last attended.
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Tama
Harold Hughes
St. Patrick’s School
Iowa
Herschel Loveless
Repeal of Beer Permit Limit at Tama Discussed
Tama council debated repealing the old rule that limits beer permits to six for a 3000 population. The VFW club received a new beer permit while six taverns had renewals. Capri Lanes and Eagles also renewed. Liquor licenses may face high costs and private clubs presently hold permits without new liquor-by-the-drink applications.
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TAMA
Veterans of Foreign Wars Club
Tama Taverns
Wiese’s
Blazek’s
Benda’s
Kubalek’s
Dog Poisoner Sought in Iowa City Neighborhood
The Rev Opal Comiskey offers a 25 reward for information about two dogs poisoned near East Benton and South Dubuque in Iowa City. At least two neighborhood cats are missing and dogs belong to Mrs. Comiskey and Shirley Mahoney.
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Opal Comiskey
East Benton
South Dubuque
Second Oil Well Nearing Pumping North of Keota
A new oil well is being drilled five miles north of Keota in Washington county. Flynn Brothers No. 1 reaches 1245 feet with pay sand struck. Pumps and tanks expected soon, with optimism for production. Earlier well on William Flynn farm yielded five to 10 barrels daily, now primarily water. Further tests anticipated.
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Iowa
Here
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L. O. Hill
Dallas
Texas
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Eugene Lyle
Sigourney Real Estate
Lyle
William Flynn
Natural Gas Pipeline Co
American
Cleaver Family revisits six years on Leave It to Beaver
The Cleaver family reruns their last six years in a Leave It to Beaver episode airing at 7:30 Thursday night on KCRG TV 9.
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