Lisbon Library Keeps Busy Hours With Tiny Profits
Lisbon’s city library, housed in a former grocery on the busy corner, holds 8,900 volumes at year end 1967. Juvenile books number 3,609 with 3,180 in adult fiction and 1,857 in adult non fiction. The library charges nonresidents $1 yearly and operates with seven board members. It circulates 8,641 volumes last year and adds periodicals including National Geographic and Look.
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Isbon
Harold Kent
Lisbon
Harlan Briggs
Ellsworth Burge
Stuart Franks
George Young
Charles Campbell
Dick Carbee
Gretta Haeseler
Briggs
Burge
Kent
National Geographic
U.S. News and World Report
Look
Saturday Evening Post
Dean Bennett
Bennett
Carbee Oil Co
Braille School Music Students Plan Concerts
Braille school music students plan a nine concert tour across central Iowa from Wednesday to Friday with 38 performers in mixed chorus band and piano. They will perform in Nevada Webster City Humboldt Burnside Minburn Jefferson Des Moines Prairie City Grinnell and conclude with a final service at the Iowa Braille and Sight Saving school chapel.
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James Grupp
Phyllis Nesbit
Christine Spaulding
Vinton
Iona Braille
Pat Baldridge
Martha
Neuzil
Jerry
Kakac
Iowa
Nevada
Webster City
Humboldt
Humboldt Lions Club
Lions Club
Burnside
Minburn
Jefferson
Jefferson Lions Club
Des Moines
Prairie City
Grinnell
Grinnell Lions
Woodwind Quintet Concert on University of Iowa Campus
Iowa City concert features Betty Bang James Lakin Thomas Ayres Paul Anderson and Ronald Tyree in the Iowa Woodwind quintet performing late eighteenth century to modern works tonight at 8 p.m. in the Iowa Memorial Union ballroom. Admission is free and open to the public.
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Iowa City
Iowa
University of Iowa
Iowa Memorial Union
Betty Bang
James Lakin
Thomas Ayres
Paul Anderson
Donna Andrews Named for Girls State Attendance
Clarence Donna Andrews daughter of Mr and Mrs Don Irey has been selected to attend Girls State in June. The program is sponsored by the Legion auxiliary.
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Clarence
Donna Andrews
Don Irey
Girls State
The
Legion Auxiliary
Vietnam veterans add new slang to American language
A reader submitted a light column on returning servicemen coining phrases such as Ba Muoi Ba and Numba One, with example sentences showing how the terms might enter daily speech. The piece also notes a baptism in Olin where Sheri Marie Dircks wore a 53 year old dress handmade by her great grandmother.
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OB Brideson
U. of I
Navy
Vietnam
Boo Koo
Dorothy
Dee Dee
Sonny
Tom
Sam
Sally
Sheri Marie Dircks
Sheri
David Dircks
Olin
St. John’s Lutheran Church
Lawrence Folkers
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Mike Conklin
Gazette
Martha Gradwell
Diana Boxwell
Lynette Bova
Braille School
John Robertson
Xin Lei
Famous Maker
Lindale
Woolworth’s
A. Oxford
B. Loafer
C. Chukka Boot
Woolworth's
Seman
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