Two-Time Miss America Preliminary Winner Engaged
Judith Anne Ford of Iowa City now Tipton and Victor origins won Friday night for a third time in the swimsuit round and became the only contestant to win two preliminaries. Linda Fitts of Florida claimed the talent preliminary, while Miss Illinois won the talent event with a trampoline act. Miss America will be crowned in Atlantic City tonight.
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Illinois
Judith Anne Ford
Iowa City
Tipton
Victor
Barnes Engaged to Mitchell Miles in Pageant Afterglow
Debra Dene Barnes Miss America 1968 announced Friday her engagement to Mitchell Miles 22 of Arcadia Kansas a Kansas State College student. The couple both music students at Kansas State and had dated 18 months. Barnes will end her reign tonight.
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Debra Dene Barnes
Mitchel Miles
Arcadia
Kan
Kansas State College
Pittsburg
Miss Barnes
Miles
Kansas State
Car Out Of Control Flips After Skid In City Block
Robert G. Prucha Jr. and passenger Larry Shelton escaped injury when the car veered and rolled in the 1100 block of C street SW. Authorities noted $3,000 damage to the vehicle and charged Prucha with failure to have his vehicle under control and striking fixtures adjacent to the street.
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Robert G. Prucha, Jr
Camburncourt SE
Larry Shelton
Martelle
C Street
Prucha
Iowa candidates urge changes to farm programs
Democratic Gov. Hughes and Republican Sen. David Stanley urged vital changes to farm policy at a conservation day event near Eldora. Hughes backed collective bargaining for farmers but said it cannot replace government programs while Stanley pushed land retirement to curb overproduction and called for ending government grain stock manipulation and limits on farm subsidies.
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Eldora
Iowa
U. S
Hughes
David Stanley
Muscatine
Stanley
Harold Hughes
Freeman
Armed Forces 2 East Lowans Win Medals for Vietnam Service
A batch of Iowa service members earn medals for Vietnam duty. Army 1st Lt Gary M Florence receives the Purple Heart for wounds suffered in February while stationed at Fort Campbell. Army 1st Sgt Dewayne V Weers earns the Bronze Star from Vietnam combat and is stationed at Fort Lewis. Other updates list various ranks and deployments including Fort Myers Fort Benning Fort Leonard Wood Offutt Air Force Base and more as members travel to or from Vietnam assignments.
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Army
Gary M. Florence
Shirley Florence
Skyline Drive
Glen Florence
First Avenue
Vietnam
Florence
Ft. Campbell
Jefferson High School
Dewayne V. Weers
Fred J. Weers
Anamosa
Gladis V. Finn
Cedar Rapids
Ft. Lewis, Wash
Douglas Moore
Harold L. Moore
Twenty-sixth Street
Ft. Myers
Douglas Trachta
Lester Trachta
Fourth Avenue
Forbes Air Force Base
Kan
Juan Cortez
Eleventh Avenue SE
Ft. Dix
N.J
Ft. Benning
Milton Deerr
Manchester
Reese Air Force Base
Texas
Marine Pvt
Charles W. Hepker
Forest W. Hepker
Springville
San Diego
Kenneth L. Benson
Coralie Benson
Reynolds Avenue
Doyle Benson
Center Point
Ft. Leonard Wood
Michael Tedrow
L. J. Tedrow
Miller Arraignment Set for Next Friday
Glen Miller, 40, of Millersburg, charged with assault with intent to inflict great bodily injury, will be arraigned next Friday in Iowa County District Court. Miller was indicted on August 30.
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Marengo
Glen Miller
Millersburg
Iowa County District Court
Miller
Teen shooter fires 12 rounds at party wounding teens
County authorities report Miller approached a late night gathering at a vacant farm near his home on August 16 and fired 12 shots. Two teenagers sustained injuries as a result of the attack.
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Miller
Senate approves large HEW funding boost in labor education welfare bill
The Senate voted 45 to 8 to add nearly 500 million dollars to an 18.5 billion appropriations bill for Labor Education and Welfare. The measure includes 215 million for the war on poverty and provisions limiting federal aid to students convicted of crimes during campus disorders and prohibiting forced busing or attendance to counter racial imbalance.
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Washington
UPI
Senate
Departments of Labor and Health, Education and Welfare
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Teraos
Fran Garten
Great Neck
N.Y
Marcia Banks
Bloomington
Minn
Dee Ann Allen
Minot
N.D
Palisades
Florida
Linda Fitts
Pat Hauswald
Sioux Falls
Bonnie Nachreiner
Adams, Wis
Ft. Dells
Wis
V. Zumr
Shaw
Coach
Raps Freeman
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