Centenarian Firecracker Emma Wassmer Celebrates 90
Emma Wassmer of Gerrans nursing home marked her 90th birthday Saturday. A lifelong Linn County resident born in Greenwald Switzerland, she stays active with walking, riding, quilting, cards, and shopping. She and husband Jacob farmed near Alburnett Central City for years. she has three children Charles Raymond and a sister and brother elsewhere.
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Gerrans Nursing Home
Eighth Avenue
Emma Wassmer
Switzerland
United States
Emma Snabnit
Monticello
Wassmer
Greenwald
Europe
Gerrans
Mrs. Wassmer
Charles Wassmer
Linn-Mar Fair To Be Saturday
The Linn-Mar fair runs Saturday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. in the district main elementary building with lunch and supper, crafts, foods, and games. proceeds fund equipment for all grades. The event features a carnival atmosphere, fish pond, cake walk, dart toss, animal balloons, and numerous community notices.
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Linn-Mar
Marion Council Seeks Bids For Legion Pool Bath House
Marion city council plans to reopen bids for replacing the bath house at the Legion Memorial pool. Bids will be opened Monday night as final legal work on the second 1966 paving program nears completion. The Douglas Construction Co. seeks a 30 day extension on the Indian Creek sewer extension deadline. Public safety committee to report on creating a fire captain position and adding 10 volunteers. Ladies Progressive club meets Thursday at 1 p.m. at Bishop's Lindale Plaza with Mrs. M. J. Buckner as hostess. Athenian club gathers Thursday at 7:30 p.m. Grace Boyd hosts at 862 Ninth Avenue. school boys and men's gym, Red Cross first aid class, girls Tri Hi-Y, and beginning sewing activities set for 7:30.
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Legion Memorial
Douglas Construction Co
Indian Creek
Council
Public Safety Committee
North Fayette Plans Teachers Workshop on Mental Health
North Fayette County Community schools host an in service workshop for teachers on Mental Health with Supt. R Wesley Carlson outlining the program. The 9 a m general assembly features Dr Richard J Bealka on Promoting Mental Health in the Classroom The Teacher's Role and a 10 45 a m session on Mental Health Discipline and Achievement led by Dr Shirley Kremanek. Afternoon discussions run 1 30 to 3 p.m.
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West Union
North Fayette County
Wesley Carlson
Richard J. Bealka
Mental Health Institute of Independence
Ibe
Shirley Kremanek
Mental Health Institute
Independence
Cedar County Schools Receive 120000 Aid Disbursement
Tipton County Supt. L. N. Gill reports Cedar County’s seven high school districts received 120,144.70 in general state aid and supplemental sums. Districts include Bennett, Clarence, Durant, Lincoln, Lowden, Tipton, and West Branch with individual amounts listed. The second half of aid, totaling about 119,985.01, is due in early May 1967.
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L. N. Gill
Cedar County
Lincoln Community
Evergreen
Lincoln
Bennett
Clarence
Durant
Sunbury
Pioneer Township
Lowden Consolidated
Tipton
West Branch
Baringer Seeks House Speakership in 1967
OELWEIN Iowa State Rep Maurice Baringer Republican of Oelwein announced Saturday his candidacy for speaker of the house in the 1967 legislature. A fourth term representative and animal nutritionist he has chaired the Scientific Advisory Committee of the National Feed Ingredients Assn for 13 years.
Suit Filed Against Town of Gladbrook
Altorfer Machinery Co of Cedar Rapids sues Tama county court for 7000 plus 4 percent interest over a warrant issued Oct 4 1966 by Gladbrook mayor Earl H Eggers and the town clerk Demand for payment allegedly refused The town answers seeking dismissal and proof of plaintiff's ownership and validity of the warrant through Town Attorney D B Kleibenstein
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Toledo—Altorfer Machinery Co
Cedar Rapids
Tama County
Gladbrook
Earl H. Eggers
Altorfer Co
Eggers
Atty
D. B. Kliebenstein
Altorfer
Rogow to Speak at University of Iowa Shambaugh Lectures
Former University of Iowa faculty member Arnold A. Rogow will deliver the 1966 Shambaugh lectures on The Politics of Psychiatry in the Senate Chamber Old Capitol. The open lectures, at 8 p m Tuesday and Thursday and 3 30 p m Wednesday, cover Psychiatry as a Political Science The Psychiatrist Views His Profession and Political Attitudes of Psychiatrists.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa
Arnold A. Rogow
Shambaugh
U. of I
Department of
Rogow
Senate
Old Capitol
City College of the
City University of New York
University of Wisconsin
Princeton University
Haverford College
Haverford, Pa
Stanford University
Palo Alto
Calif
Univerisity of California At Berkeley
University of California At
Los Angeles
Social Science Research Council
Center For Advanced Study In the Behavioral Sciences
Ford Foundation
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Yale Law School
Fall Commencement II at ISU this Saturday
ISU set to award more than 400 degrees at fall commencement Saturday November 19 with President W Robert Parks presenting honors at 9 30 a m in the Armory. A reception in Memorial Union Sun Room follows as exams end November 18 and winter quarter begins November 29.
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Ames
Iowa State
W. Robert Parks
Armory
Memorial Union
Howard Steward 69 Dies at Strawberry Point
Howard V. Steward 69 rural mail carrier for 30 years and former dairy operator of Strawberry Point died Friday. Survived by wife Esther, daughter Mrs. Harold Linderwell, son Leon, two sisters Nellie Stamp and Mrs. August Schmidt, eight grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Services Monday at 1:30 p.m. Feeney Knutson funeral home.
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Howard V. Steward
Esther
Harold Linderwell
Leon
Cedar Rapids
Nellie Stamp
van Nuys
Calif
August Schmidt
Arlington
Feeney-Knutson Funeral Home
Pheasant Victory At Home As Boy And Dog Help
Deputy Harry McMurray misses opening pheasant season but his 7 year old son Jeffrey and their dog Boots capture a pheasant in the backyard. Boots, a mix of Cocker and Spitz, holds the bird until Jeffrey can take it.
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Owa County
Harry McMurray
Marengo
Jeffrey
Boots
McMurray
Oktoberfest films shown in Munich from Amana event
Jaycee sponsors arranged filming of the Amana Oktoberfest. The films were shown on television in Munich, Germany, home of the original festival, last month.
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Amana
Munich
Germany
Christian Social Teachings by George W Forell
Iowa City scholar George W Forell edits a Doubleday Anchor Original to gather 30 Christian voices on social ethics from Bible times to Pope John XXIII. The collection includes Aquinas Luther Calvin and rare Pietist writings, each with Forell introductions.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa School of Religion
Doubleday
George W. Forell
Paul Tillich
John XXIII
Forell
St. Thomas Aquinas
Martin Luther
John Calvin
Littell Leads Iowa Wesleyan College as President
Franklin H. Littell serves as president of Iowa Wesleyan College in Mt. Pleasant, guiding the institution through its academic programs and community role.
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Franklin H. Littell
Iowa Wesleyan College
Mt. Pleasant
Ferrell to solo with U S Symphony in Iowa City concert
John Ferrell the University of Iowa violinist will be featured as soloist in a Proko fiev concerto with the U of I Symphony Orchestra conducted by James Dixon in the Iowa Memorial Union. The program includes Haydn Symphony No. 88 and the premiere of Rota by Charles Dodge. Free tickets at the Information Desk South Lobby Union.
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University of Iowa
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Joseph Haydn
Charles Dodge
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Iowa String Quartet
New York
Carnegie Recital Hall
Washington, D.C
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Los Angeles
Kansas City
Officers Elected By Traer Chamber
At the Traer Chamber of Commerce annual dinner meeting last week Dave Martin, a Traer insurance man, was elected president for the coming year succeeding Ann Hulme. New directors named are Mrs. Jean Redman Dave Tufree and Reg Reuman.
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TRAER
Traer Chamber of Commerce
Dave Martin
Traer Insurance
Ann Hulme
Jean Redman
Dave Tuffree
Reg Reuman
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