Lassner Named to Hoover Foundation Research Post
Dr. Franz G. Lassner resigns after 40 years as director of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library in West Branch to become director of research and publications for the Hoover Birthplace Foundation. He will pursue American studies and academic life, enriching the foundation’s research program.
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Franz G. Lassner
Herbert Hoover Presidential Library
Lassner
Herbert Hoover Birthplace Foundation
Georgetown University
Washington, D.C
Hoover Library
Hoover Institution
Palo Alto
Calif
Herbert Hoover
Rhoads
Birthplace Foundation
Presidential Library
General Services Administration
Hoover
Robert Goodwin
Des Moines
The
National Archives and Records Service
General Services
Iowa
Foundation
United States
Centennial Services Honor 100 Years of Zion United Presbyterian
Coggon church marks its centennial with services at 10 30 a m led by Rev I F Hayenga former pastors Rev Harold Arink and Rev Lyle Graff plus two church sons Rev Donald Kehrli and Rev Edward Traft speakers at 2 p m after a potluck dinner. Choir and quartet provide music. Organized May 19 1868 by Samuel Graham and John S Blanch first elders. Building with bell added 1886 and expansions through 1966. current minister Rev Aaron Koskamp since 1965. current membership 148.
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Harrold Arink
Rowley
Lyle Graff
Cedar Rapids
Donald Kehrli
Gladbrook
Edward ‘Treft
Philadelphia
Samuel Graham
John S. Blanch
Graham
Aaron Koskamp
Ice Cream Cone Sought By Captain Landing Helicopter
In Middle Wallop England an army captain landed a helicopter beside a vendor’s van and bought a 9 cent ice cream cone before taking off.
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Middle Wallop
England
Upi
Charles Reagan
Humphrey cites rural crisis alongside urban troubles
Vice President Humphrey urged at an Associated Dairymen meeting that rural America faces a crisis as dire as city problems. He noted 8 million rural migrants to towns and cities over 17 years and argued for real freedom of choice in residence with cleaner, safer urban areas and better living standards overall.
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Kansas City
Humphrey
Associated Dairymen, Inc
Central States
America
You
Viet Cabinet Is Mainly Civilian In Huong Government
President Thieu installed Tran Van Huong's cabinet at the presidential palace. The ministers are mostly civilians, many of them Buddhists from the south. only interior and defense are held by generals. Huong vowed to safeguard the country and stressed the cabinet's pivotal role.
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Saigon
Thieu
Tran van Huong
Huong
School Bus Drivers Settle in Dubuque Standoff
AP reports Dubuque school bus drivers end a Tuesday walkout after reaching a settlement with the school board. 38 drivers accept a 39 cent per hour raise from 2.50 and a half cent per mile bonus for accident free driving, with buses to run Monday and the injunction dropped.
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Dubuque
Garlyn Wessel
Civic Advisory Units Named in Tornado Areas
Two civic committees were formed to advise the Red Cross on recovery programs for Charles City Oelwein and Maynard after tornado damage. Charles City chairman is W A Argbrechtsmeyer and Oelwein Maynard head is Churchill Williams. The Red Cross reports aid to over 20 000 victims and workers with 700 to 800 families expected to seek individual recovery aid.
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Mason City
Red Cross
Charles City
Oelwein and
Maynard
W. A. Argbrechtsmeyer
Churchill Williams
Oelwein
Oelwein-Maynard
Virgil Jacobsen
John Salsbury
H. M. Finch
Richard Trost
Harold Mead
Douglas Brown
James Clark
Carl Hauser
James Smith
Oelwein - Maynard
Georgia Hutchinson
Richard Emery
Morris Nelson
Gerald Watlaufer
Lyle Pleshek
Fred Loetcher
Aaron Schlegal
Tony Haas
The
Goldwater Wins Libel Award Against Fact Magazine
Barry Goldwater secured a $75,000 libel verdict in New York against Fact magazine publisher Ralph Ginzburg and former editor Warren Boroson over a 1964 article claiming he was psychologically unfit to be president. The nine jurors awarded $50,000 punitive damages against the magazine and $25,000 against Ginzburg, with $1 compensatory against all three.
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NEW York
Barry Goldwater
Fact Magazine
Ralph Ginzburg
Warren Boroson
Harold Tyler
Ginzburg
Boroson
Goldwater
Harris Steinberg
Fact
Minority Report Criticizes Iowa Crime Study Findings
Four Iowa Crime Commission members protest key recommendations as favoring criminals over victims. They oppose Miranda rights cautions, expanded access to evidence, and minority group preferences in hiring, urging merit based law enforcement to deter crime.
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Iowa
DES Moines
Iowa Crime Commission
Crime Commission
U.S. Supreme Court
Commission
Farm Money Approved by Committee
The senate appropriations committee approved a bill funding farm programs for the next fiscal year at 5,536,050,300 dollars, slightly above the house total but still 1.39 billion below Johnson’s request. The bill preserves 225 million for food stamps, up 40 million from this year, and adds 20 million for new meat inspection activities.
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Washington
UPI
Senate Appropriations Committee
House
Johnson
Senate Committee
Congress
Puget Sound Award To Russian Skipper
Seattle report notes Capt. Leonid Zhezherenko of the freighter Orekhov receives a Puget Sound Maritime Press Association award for seamanship and valor after aiding in the sinking of the freighter Panoceanic Faith on October 10 1967 in the Gulf of Alaska. Eight of the 22 crew members were recovered.
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Seattle
U.S
Gulf of Alaska
Puget Sound Maritime Press Association
Leonid Zhezherenko
Quarton Receives Iowa Broadcasters Distinguished Service Award
William B. Quarton, retired president of WMT TV and executive VP of WMT radio in Cedar Rapids, was honored Friday night with the Distinguished Service award by the Iowa Broadcasters Association at the IBA meeting in Atlantic.
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William B. Quarton
Wmt-Tv
WMT Radio
Cedar Rapids
Iowa Broadcasters Assa
IBA
Atlantic
Survivors Bring Bodies Ashore After Sinking
The sinking victims were recovered by the Orekhov and taken to Vancouver British Columbia. Zhezherenko opposed lowering the bodies by slings and demanded they be carried ashore as his crewmen lined the route.
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Orekhov
Vancouver
B.C
Zhezherenko
Traer Summer Band Concerts Return in Taylor Park
Traer announces a seven week series of summer concerts in Taylor park beginning Sunday June 9. Director Neil Donald says the schedule repeats with the concert band playing each Sunday and the stage band featured on the second Sunday and on alternating Sundays.
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Traer
Neil Donald
Taylor Park
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