Plans for Eastern Iowa safe driving road rally announced
A 1500 invitation mailing targets Explorers in seven counties for an April 19 road rally in Hawkeye Area council. Teams of driver and navigator will navigate a two hour course evaluated on checkpoint accuracy. Rally school at Steitzer Lincoln Mercury on race day. first prize could enter Detroit finals for scholarships.
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Iowa
Tom Cook
Ambroz_ recreation center
Cook
Hawkeye Area
Explorer
Steitzer Lincoln Mercury, Inc
Detroit
Dear Genie Editor's Note Queries on Iowa Genealogy
A reader asks genealogical questions including marriages and births tied to Iowa families. Names include Gartrell Otis Wise Lamb Trogdon Ra guet Bargers Goeken and descendants in Taylor, Van Buren, Appanoose, Lucas, Fletcher cemeteries and cities like Cedar Rapids Keokuk and Rapid City.
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Genie
Linn County Heritage Society
Iowa
Dear Genie
P.O. Box
Cedar Rapids
Martin van Buren Wise
Susan Singleton
Johnson County
Matilda
Cora
Keokuk County
Tillie
McCoy
Lathrop
Vernie
Bissell
Jack Wise
Phyllis Wise Wennermark
Old
Marion Road
Lamb
Trogdon
North Carolina
Alexander Lamb
Lucas
Jane Trogdon
Fletcher Cemetery
Lambs
Trogdons
van Buren
Appanoose
Joseph J. Costello
Adams Street
Apt
Kansas City
Kan
Johann Goeken
Augusta Mein Goeken
Oldenburg
Germany
America
Audubon County
Ida Goeken Grossman
Amelia Goeken Williams
Charles
Frederika Goeken Maher
John
Winnie Goeken Robertson
Rapid City
Grant to Chicago University for pancreatic cancer study
The University of Chicago received a 175000 grant to study early diagnosis of pancreatic cancer. Dr. A R Moossa will lead the project, aiming to detect the disease earlier, and the research will coordinate with NCI funded studies at Mayo Clinic in Rochester and Sloan Kettering Institute in New York. Jack Benny died of pancreatic cancer in December after the cancer was diagnosed by X ray.
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Chicago
University of Chicago
Jack Benny
Mayo Clinic
Rochester
Minn
Sloan-Kettering Institute
New York
Northwestern Bell seeks calendar art from area artists
Northwestern Bell invites amateur and professional artists in Iowa Minnesota Nebraska North Dakota or South Dakota to submit artwork for a 1976 appointment calendar with a Bicentennial theme. Selected works earn $200 publication rights. Contact Northwestern Bell’s business office for details.
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Northwestern Bell
U.S
Upper Midwest
Iowa
Minnesota
Nebraska
North
South Dakota
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