Mount Mercy Choristers to Appear on TV Dec 22
Mu LaraTaA InaA senior from Iowa City, Bonnie Beddicker from Watkins Miss Lane, and 34 Mount Mercy Choristers will star in a televised Christmas program. InaA serves as narrator and assistant director and choreographer for the production. The group’s annual TV appearance runs December 22 from 12 15 to 12 45 p.m. on KWWL.
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Iowa City
Bonnie Beddicker
Watkins
Miss Lane
Mount Mercy
Kwwlfinty Oter
Kidney Kontrol by B F Norberg Chariton
Attorney General Turner voices concern over highway rest stop practices described as illegal in a satirical poem. The piece mocks summer cornfields and marijuana plots, urging travelers to refrain from illegal activity as they pass through rural areas.
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Turner
Iowa unemployment rate unchanged in October
The Iowa unemployment rate remained at 1.9 percent in October, with civilian employment rising to 1,240,300 as farm labor boosted numbers. Nonfarm employment fell 4,000 to 861,400, while manufacturing lost 2,300 and average weekly manufacturing earnings dipped to 128.39 due to less overtime.
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Iowa
Iowa Employment Security Commission
Chuck's Chirps on Sleep Disturbers and Morals
A cheeky column discusses waking children for school and the dangers of disturbed sleep. It mocks alarm clock culture and suggests growing bigger than disturbances as the solution, noting the author’s own calm personality as evidence.
Bishop Thomas says Methodists need no doctrinal tests
In Montezuma Iowa on November 30 Bishop James S. Thomas of Des Moines urged Methodist leaders at the Newton District Churchmanship Institute to understand their heritage. He argued Methodists require no doctrinal tests for joining and stressed identity, results, discipline, mission, freedom, and perfection as their marks.
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Montezuma
Iowa
James S. Thomas
Des Moines
Newton
First Methodist Church
Thomas
Christ
Thomad
Caraway Heads NFO Delegation to Louisville
National Farmers Organization delegates gather in Louisville Kentucky December 6 to 7 for a historic convention. George Caraway of Marion leads Linn County with a full slate including Paul Huber Dick Shafer Albert Scott and others as NF O President Oren Lee Staley says the NFC offers farmers hope amid low prices.
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The
National Farmers Organization
NFO
Louisville
George Caroway
Marion
Aid
Linn County
Louiseville
Linn
Paul J. Huber
Dick Shafer
Albert Scott
Harold Hills
Aubry McShon Esmex
Rahlena
Norbert “Noon‘ad
Don Ashby
Dick Pike
Wilbur Detert
NFQ
Oren Lee Staley
NFC
Play-Pen Politics Claims by James A Albert
Linn County Iowa Young Republican James A Albert objects to current State Young Republican officers he calls "play-pen politics" He warned at a $25 per plate Cedar Rapids fund raising luncheon that a Dec 16 Des Moines meeting would push unfair convention rules He cites a 500 member College YR Club as to have no more votes than a 5 member CYR Club He urges opposition to such measures to prevent Albert from losing his bid for chair.
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Linn
S County
James A. Albert
Iowa Young Republicans
Albert
Roosevelt Hotel
Cedar Rapids
Central Committee
Des Moines
Iowa Young
Hearings Set for Jan 10 on Discontinuance of Twin Zephyrs
Rep. Culver announces ICC hearings on the discontinuance of the Twin Zephyrs trains 22 and 23 between Chicago and St Paul. The Dubuque session is Jan 10 at 9:30 a.m. in City Hall with additional hearings set for Chicago LaCrosse Wity and Minneapolis during the same week.
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Washing Ston
John ¢. Culver
Dubuque
Interstate Commerce Commission
Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad
Chicago
St. Paul
Culver
ICC
City Hall
LaGrasse
Wity
Minneapolis
Minn
Road Men Eye Skies Prepare To Plow Snow
Ames Iowa State Highway Commission details winter prep as Iowa faced a snowy pattern. Maintenance crews recall historic seasons with record snows and cold, noting last winters below average yet heavy snows earlier in the decade. Officials report costs and steps to remove ice and snow and keep highways clear.
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Ames
Iowa State Highway Commission
Iowa
Wildlife Club Meeting and 1968 Elections
The Wildlife and Outdoor Club of Cedar Rapids and Marion will hold its regular meeting on December 18 at 7 30 p m in the Marion R E C Building. Officers for 1968 will be elected. Ice Fishery tickets and posters will be available. Slides will show the 3rd annual Achievement Award banquet at Des Moines on November 4 with Cedar Rapids winning the Air Pollution trophy. Slides of the Coon supper will also be shown. Congressman Culver announced a 3 127642 contract to Colling Rapid Company in Cedar Rapids for aircraft equipment. Marion post office construction contract awarded. building at Sixth Avenue and 11th Street to have 7 724 square feet interior, 1 174 square foot platform, 13 395 square foot platform, with 20 year lease at 19 594 annually plus six 5 year renewals. Total project cost 174 406. Building to be completed within a year.
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Wildlife and Outdoor Club of
Cedar Rapids and
Marion
Lake McBride
Solon
Iowa
Wildlife Club
Cedar Rapids
R. E.C
Des Moines
John C. Culver
United States Air Force
Colling ‘Rapid “Company
Konstract i
Sevies
Berettay
Marion P. GO
Sixth Avenue
11Th Street
Culver
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Meet For Action
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Zephers
Hositor
Iowa Highway Commission
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Sibley
Rock Rapids
Towa
Atoll
aoLteersas
Seeazeenes
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Éenenerens
Sts Canbeatel
Eaendeanen
Coenen
Si Bhuldak
Biphen
Ferry
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