Operation Edith to Boost Home Fire Safety in Marion
Marion fire department plans Operation Edith for Oct 9 at 6 30 p m in cooperation with the Iowa fire marshal and Linn County Firemen s Association Fire Chief James Reynolds explains Edith stands for Exit Drill in the Home urging every family to make a floor plan note exit routes and practice exit procedures He asks families to leave porch lights on for 11 2 hours after 6 30 to help volunteers count lights and support the drill plus chamber and business notices from Marion local ads and events.
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Private South Vietnamese seek peace talks with Viet Cong
Report from Washington cites unnamed high standing South Vietnamese citizens pursuing private contact with Viet Cong leaders to explore an honorable exit from the war. Backed by South Vietnamese and U.S. officials, the plan envisions VC participation in community life and elections within lawful government, while opposing a coalition with Hanoi.
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Nea
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Hanoi
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Communist Organization
Officials Cite Lag in Marion School Project Delays
Marion Independent schools report slow progress on the Washington elementary addition adding eight classrooms. Supt. Richard Sorensen says roof work is done, two rooms expected by Aug 26, but not finished. All eight may open together due to pace. two classes housed in the multipurpose room. Project targeted for completion by Nov 1 with contractors aiming to meet it. High school additions progress is satisfactory with brick work and steel delivery aiding enclosure planned before snowfall.
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Washington
Richard M. Sorensen
Sorensen
Morehead Construction Co
Cardinal postpones punishment for area priests over birth control letter
Washington Archbishop Patrick O Boyle delays further discipline of 44 priests who challenged the papal encyclical. He summons senior clergy to a meeting and says a decision will come within a week, following consultations with advisors.
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UPI
Patrick Cardinal
O’boyle
Washington Area
Public Defender System Proposed for Black Hawk County
Black Hawk County District Court Judge Blair Wood urged the board of supervisors to create a public defender system noting it would cost less than current court appointed attorney fees. He planned to study current costs and report back, but the board took no action.
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API
Black Hawk County
Blair Wood
Board of Supervisors
Wood
Oskaloosa Man Dies in Accidental Shotgun Tragedy
Karl D. Walker a 31 year old resident of Oskaloosa was killed when a shotgun discharged accidentally while he hunted Monday authorities said.
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Oskaloosa
Karl D. Walker
Stanley cites U.S. waste by slicing 20 inch cake
State Senator David Stanley used a 20 inch circular coffee cake in Cedar Rapids to illustrate how he believes the federal government wastes 20 billion dollars. At a Roosevelt hotel news conference he labeled the cake the federal waste budget and cut it into portions representing 400 million to 3.8 billion dollars as he spoke before TV cameras.
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Cedar Rapids
Muscatine
U.S
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Delaware
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Congressional Quarterly
Linn candidates meet with Van Snyder on highway projects
Linn county Republican legislative hopefuls met with Van Snyder district engineer Iowa highway commission to review highway plans and progress. Projects include Coggan bridge contract 4 lane to I 80 right of way next month, Hwy 30 south of Cedar Rapids design due March 1969, Hwy 150 4 lane contracts next month, Cedar Valley Expressway acquisition on schedule, and Hwy 13 4 lane right of way appraisal starting December 1969.
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Linn County
van Snyder
Iowa Highway Commission
Highway Commission
Coggan
Cedar Rapids
Bank Robbery Stakeout Ends in Shootout at Rhode Island Branch
Police in Providence report a botched bank robbery at the University Heights branch of Rhode Island Hospital Trust Co. Two suspects were killed, a companion wounded, and a fourth man arrested after officers preempted the crime. No customers were present during the incident.
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R.I
University Heights
Rhode Island Hospital Trust Co
Haskins escapes injury in highway 20 lumber truck crash
Curtis Haskins eighteen forty, 28 from Sherwood North Dakota escaped injury when his semi loaded with lumber overturned on highway 20 four miles west of Manchester around 7 30 am Tuesday. Damage was estimated at twenty two thousand dollars.
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Pharmacy Honors To East Iowans
East Iowans at the University of Iowa received scholarships and awards at the fall Pharmacy Student Faculty open house. Recipients include Gary Metelak Cedar Rapids Elko Charitable Trust and Foundation scholarship Richard Petersen Coralville Iowa Pharmaceutical Assn Scholarship Loren Leistikow Decorah Iowa Pharmacy Foundation scholarship Linda Cherveny Dysart Iowa Pharmacy Foundation scholarship Kenneth Hunziker Independence Osco Drug scholarship Karl Hunter Lone Tree Elko Charitable Trust and Foundation scholarship Mary Hanken Monticello Hartig Drug Co Scholarship Kevin Clark Olin Schlegel Drug Co scholarship Kathryn Cranston Williamsburg Rho Chi prize and Sherling prize.
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East
Mary Hanken
Monticello
Hartig Drug Co
Kevin Clark
Olin
Schlegel Drug Co
Kathryn Cranston
Williamsburg
Rho Chi
Sherling
Miller demands hearing on charge of false uttering
Lynn F. Miller 41 of 5420 Gordon avenue NW demanded a preliminary hearing on a charge of false uttering a check. The hearing was set for 2 p.m. October 4. Miller was released on his own recognizance by Judge John Reilly. He is accused of uttering a false check March 26 for 33.95 at the Me Too store 903 First avenue SW.
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Gordon Avenue
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John Reilly
First Avenue
Portable airclinics bring dental care to Vietnam front lines
UPI reports the U.S. Army operates a 4.5 ton airborne dental clinic aboard HH-54 Flying Crane helicopters in Vietnam's central highlands. Since Aug 10 the unit has treated 225 patients in nine days, saving 450 man days by avoiding rearward trips. Lt. Col. Harold Larson leads a 37‑man unit under the 39th medical detachment attached to the 4th Infantry Division, addressing urgent dental needs amid 7.9 average cavities per arriving GI.
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Vietnam
Army
Harold Larson
San Antonio
U.S
101St Airborne Division
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4Th Infantry
Norma J Gates Released on Bond
Norma J Gates 19 of 1012 Fifteenth Street SE was released on $110 bond on a charge of assault. An information signed by Sandra Johnson alleged Gates pulled a knife on Johnson at the Johnson residence September 16.
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Norma J. Gates
Fifteenth Street
Sandra Johnson
Eighth Street NW
Miss Gates
Johnson
First United Nations General Assembly Opens in London
The inaugural General Assembly of the United Nations convened in London on January 10 1946. Delegates from member nations gathered to set the agenda and establish procedures for the postwar international body.
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General Assembly of the United Nations
London
Things a columnist might never know from mail
A collection of brief items and trivia including health risks before age 60 the importance of exercise the reading and writing delay of Gen George Patton windmills in Holland and electric pumps nutrition IQ gains from teacher attitudes breakfast lunch and dinner calorie splits safety of pilots over 60 drinking education sunflowers facing winds juvenile delinquency presidential nicknames voter residency requirements turkey supply in 1940 versus the present and a quip about reformer E W Howe.
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New York
America
George Patton
Boyle
Harvard
Frank Lloyd Wright
Anne Baxter
National Institute of Mental Health
Senator Miller urges U.S. withdrawal from grain pact
Senator Jack Miller of Iowa urged the Senate to pull out of the International Grains Agreement ratified June 13 over his opposition. He argued the pact harms taxpayers and farmers as France and Australia undercut prices, lowering U.S. wheat export markets and prices amid rising production.
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Washington
Jack Miller
A-Iowa
Senate
United States
Miller
France
Australia
U.S
City Council Faces Objections to New Fire Station Site
Dr. R. L. Tappen voices opposition to building a fire station on the south parking lot, arguing the space is needed for parking. The council continues its search for an alternate site in the downtown area.
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R. L. Tappen
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