Conservation Officers To Get Pistols In Iowa
Iowa conservation officers will receive firearms funded by the state. The commission approved .38 caliber revolvers for fish and game wardens park officers and water patrolmen, not part of the regular uniform on tours. The panel also rejected reopening deer license sales and discussed a 1967 retirement plan allowing voluntary retirement at 55 after 22 years with shared pension funding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
State Conservation Commission
Fish and Game
Conservation Department
William Basler
Burt
The
Conservation Officers Assn
Lowden Parade Honors Two Longtime Doctors Saturday
Lowden will observe Professional Day with all business places closing at 11 30 a m on Saturday to honor Dr C E Stoffler and Dr Fred Montz for 45 and 44 years of service. A parade forms at Trinity Lutheran church and travels to Lowden Memorial park ending at the baseball field with bands from nearby towns and floats on display afterward.
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Lowden
C. E. Stoffler Dds
Fred Montz MD
Zion United Church
Trinity Lutheran Church
Henry Ruprecht
Trinity Church
Lowden Memorial Park
Clarence
Bennett
Wheatland
Oxford Junction
France Plans to Quit NATO Defense Funds
Paris reports that starting next year France will stop funding most NATO military activities. The move follows President de Gaulle's decision to withdraw French forces from NATO integrated commands on July 1 and to require foreign bases and NATO HQ to leave French soil by April 1.
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Paris
Permanent Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
France
NATO
de Gaulle
Ice Cream Social To Benefit Camp Conservation
The Waltonians of Cedar Rapids plan an ice cream social at Lindale Plaza on Thursday from 5 30 to 8 30 p m to raise funds for Camp Conservation on the Wapsie river at Troy Mills. Over 100 youngsters from Jane Boyd Community House participated in Camp Conservation activities this summer alongside Boy Scouts drum and bugle corps cadets and church youth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waltonians, Inc
Cedar Rapids
Wapsie River
Troy Mills
Lindale Plaza
Jane Boyd
Boy Scouts
Drum and Bugle Corps
Two-Vehicle Crash Injures Three In Delaware County
Special to The Gazette. On highway 3 four miles west of Luxemburg in Delaware county a two vehicle collision injured three people. Clement Lansing 51 New Vienna was charged with defective brakes and claimed he could not stop. His pickup struck a car driven by William Samuelson 30 Staten Island New York. All three occupants were in good condition at a Dubuque hospital.
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Luxemburg
Delaware County
Clement Lansing
New Vienna
William Samuelson
Staten Island
N.Y
Lansing
How They Voted On Key 1967 68 Voter Rolls
Washington AP reports roll calls showing how members voted on several 1967 68 measures. Key votes include passage of a wage bill up to 1.60 by 1968 with party splits, and amendments on Food for Peace and mass transit subsidies. Major figures listed by name party and vote, with several abstentions and nonvotes.
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Washington
Congress
Miller R
Hickenlooper
D-Ark
Miller
Miller, Hickenlooper
Bandestra
Culver
Greigg
Gross
Hansen
Schmidhauser
Smith
Cabinet Department of Transportation
Bandstra
Former Grinnell Music Faculty Member Dies
Flora Smith, 86, longtime Grinnell college music faculty member for 18 years, died Tuesday at Grinnell Community Hospital. Born October 14, 1879, in Quasqueton, she previously lived in Cedar Rapids and Walker, later studying at Northwestern and Juilliard before joining Grinnell. Graveside services Friday at 2 p.m. in Oak Hill Cemetery, James Schlinski Funeral Home in charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grinnell
Grinnell College
Grinnell Community Hospital
Flora Smith
Change of Venue Sought in Cabin Owner Case
A state attorney general representative filed a petition for change of venue in the case of the State Conservation Commission versus 26 Mississippi River cabin owners. The petition asks transfer from Allamakee County District Court to Polk County District Court. The state accuses the cabin owners of squatting on state land. No action date set in Allamakee County.
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Waukon
State Attorney General’s Office
State Conservation Commission
Allamakee County
Polk County
Elgin City Council Cuts Residential Speed Limit
The Elgin city council on Tuesday night lowered the residential speed limit from 25 to 20 mph. Council members said the change aims to protect children and reduce accidents in the neighborhood.
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Elgin
Iowa Toll Over Labor Day Tops Twenty Six
Deputy Safety Commissioner James Haynes and Iowa highway patrol officers saw a record Labor Day toll of 26 across central and southern Iowa. Haynes cited driver negligence and diverse accident types, urged defensive driving, and said new driver education and increased patrol staffing may help, with calls for motorcycle legislation.
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Des Moines
UPI
State ‘Highway Patrol
James Haynes
Hayes
Iowa
Department of Public Safety
Tarzan Reunion In Mexico City Notables Gather For Absent Jane
In Mexico City on Edgar Rice Burroughs 91st birthday anniversary a Tarzan reunion drew four actors who played Tarzan. John Weissmuller James Pierce Jock Mahoney and Ron Ely attended at Churubusco studios where a new series is filmed. No Jane was present. Ely suffered multiple injuries from lion and leopard encounters during his tenure.
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Mexico City
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Johnny Weissmuller
James Pierce
Tarzan
Burroughs
Jock Mahoney
Ron Ely
Jane
Churubusco
Tarzans
Cheetah
India
Ely
Two Block Paving Job Planned in Decorah
The Decorah city council approved concrete paving for two blocks west of Decorah Avenue. Earlier homeowner opposition was noted. Work is planned for this fall weather permitting. The council also set weight limits on two bridges: Twin Bridges six tons and Sumner Street Bridge two tons.
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Decorah
Decorah Avenue
Sumner Street
Runaway Steam Engine 45095 Tracked by Pursuing Car
In Carnforth England, engine 45095 rolled from sheds without an engineer. A chase by its crew in a car lasted nine miles, crossing crossings and stations before the loco ran out of steam and halted. Rail officials vowed full inquiry into the runaway incident.
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Carnforth
England
UPI
British Railways
Judge imposes tight coverage rules for Sheppard retrial
Cleveland judge Roy McMahon outlined strict limits for newsmen covering Dr. Samuel Sheppard's second trial. Cameras barred from two courthouse floors and no special seating. entry on a first come basis with possible 35 seats inside a 20 by 40 foot room. He warned reporters to stay within seats or face contempt.
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Cleveland
UPI
Samuel Sheppard
Sheppard
Roy McMahon
McMahon
Alexander Martin, Jr
Government eases DST enforcement this year amid confusion
Washington reports the government may relax actions against cities failing to observe the Uniform Time Act of 1966 this year due to confusion over its phase in. The act sets DST from the last Sunday in April to the last Sunday in October and enforcement questions linger until next year.
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Washington
Johnson
D.S.T
ICC
Department of Transportation
House
Senate
Government Operations Committee
Peking Charges Linked to Gulf of Tonkin Fire Incident
The State Department said China claims U.S. planes attacked Chinese merchant ships in the Gulf of Tonkin on August 29. McCloskey noted U.S. planes were fired on during an identification pass and returned fire, with pilots reporting one vessel sunk.
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Washington
State Department
U.S
Gulf of Tonkin
Robert McCloskey
USS
Saigon
McCloskey
MacGregor accuses Fitness Council of misusing funds
Rep. Clark MacGregor charges the President's Council on Physical Fitness with wasting taxpayers' money and calls to cut the council's 475000 budget. A spokesman denies misuse and says staff work long hours. He points to a disputed travel expenditure to Tampa for a roundtable in plush brewery facilities.
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Tampa
Fla
Congress Holding Up New Head Start Funds
Washington officials said new Head Start program approvals are delayed pending congressional action on anti poverty appropriations. Existing projects receive priority as agencies operate under month to month funding since the fiscal year began July 1. Summer Head Start programs are finished while year round, age three, classes receive priority for funding.
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Washington
Office of Economic Opportunity
Egypt Moslem Brotherhood Members Get Life Terms in Plot Case
Cairo officials sentenced twelve members of the Moslem Brotherhood to life in prison at hard labor for plotting to overthrow the government. An additional ninety-three defendants received sentences from one to fifteen years.
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Cairo
UPI
Peking Troops Near Vietnam Report Amid Defector Claims
Cheung Chung-yin, a Chinese Communist defector, tells the South China Morning Post that Chinese forces have moved near the Vietnamese border. Red Guards pursued him into Hong Kong, while officials refused a demand to hand him over.
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Hong Kong
Kong
Red ‘China
Cheung Chung-yin
China
Cheung
South China Morning Post
North Vietnam
Red Guards
Red China
Norwegian Ferry Abandoned in Gale Five Missing
A Norwegian ferryboat sprang a leak and was abandoned off Jutland in a fierce gale. Danish navy says at least five missing. reports vary up to 136 aboard including crew. Forty ships and multiple air units aided rescue from Loenstrup to the stricken vessel.
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Hirtshals
Denmark
Jutland
Norway
Skagerrak
Loenstrup
Cal Dalfinn
Navy
Germany
U S Army Transport Crashes in Formosa
Chinese Nationalist police say a U S air force C 130 Hercules transport from Saigon disappeared Tuesday and crashed into a Formosan mountainside near Chiayi. All eight aboard were killed.
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U.S
Formosa
Taipei
Saigon
Chiayi
Russians Build Cuban Satellite Tracking Station
Havana radio reported Russian specialists arrived in Cuba last month to supervise construction of a satellite tracking station in Oriente province. The station will be operated soon by the Cuban Academy of Sciences. The report said a network of three storm tracking radars went into use Tuesday in Oriente, Camaguey and Havana provinces.
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Miami
Havana Radio
Cuba
Oriente
Cuban Academy of Sciences
Camaguey
Havana
Commission Studies Discriminatory Tests Across Hiring
The lequal employment opportunities commission says many employers still use tests with the same disparate impact as old whites only signs. It issued guidelines urging that tests not be the sole hiring factor and that testing methods be scrutinized for racial sex creed or national origin bias.
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Washington
UPI
Lequal Employment Opportunities Commission
Gazette Want Ads Draw Eastern Iowa Readers In
In Eastern Iowa nearly every reader turns to the Gazette want ads. The column highlights local sales and job listings, reflecting wide community use.
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Gazette
Iowa
Funds Available To Schools for Sex Education
Washington officials announce federal funds to support sex education across education levels from pre school through college and adult programs. Funds may cover teacher training and parental guidance programs, with districts applying through existing aid acts and library programs where applicable.
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Washington
UPS
U.S. Office of Education
Harold Howe II
Howe
Office of Education
Few Tahitians Greet De Gaulle in Tahiti
In Papeete less than 1,000 French and Tahitians greeted President de Gaulle on his Tahiti arrival. The ceremony was restrained with no cheers as he ended his speech at Fana airport. Chiefs from other islands shook his hand before turning away. Flags flew over Chinese stores but not Tahitian homes. De Gaulle rode to the governor’s residence on a 19 day world tour after leaving New Caledonia on September 7, arriving Tuesday night due to the date line.
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Papeete
Tahiti
Classified For Sale ad line prompts quick cash
A brief classified note encourages readers to call 362-1121 to place a for sale advertisement offering fast cash. The message positions "Positive Life Savers" as a slogan for quick sales through ad placement.
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Dial
Divorce Petition Filed In Cedar County Court
In the District Court of Iowa Cedar County the case of Vern J. Memurray plaintiff v Jesse J. McMurray defendant seeks a decree of divorce with alimony and equitable relief. The clerk's office serves notice that the petition requests a final decree and further relief as justified by law. Publication records show dates in September and October.
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ORIG
District Court of
Iowa
Jesse J. McMurray
Jesse R. McMurray
Cedar County
Eee
Unknown Claimants in Linn County Real Estate Case
Public notice lists unknown claimants of parcels in Linn County Iowa including Lenox and surrounding lots, asserting they hold fee simple title to the described lots and seeking to remove their claims. The filing references Owen C Tom and spouse Susan E plus an assortment of heirs and assignees in a partition action with court involvement in October.
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Owen C. Toma
EM Amas
Meisoner
Ar Ana
Susan E
Weir
Linn
Tomwi
Fife
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MacGregor
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