07 Feb 1968
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Newspaper
Citizen Times
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1968
Page
1
The column notes aging farm leaders with many in their 50s and 60s, the Viet Nam era bringing back young men to milking and tractor work, and public concerns over beer among juveniles. It cites Kennedy criticizing Vietnam policy, Bay of Pigs lessons, and adult drinking as youths’ example.
PFC Thomas King in An Khe fighting main force Viet Cong. Thomas Klug, 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. Weldon E. Klug, participates in Operation Wheeler-Wallowa with the 1st Air Cavalry Division’s 3rd Brigade in northern Quang Tin and southern Quang Nam, including Da Nang. Pvt. Klug is in Company D, 2nd Battalion, 12th Cavalry. Airman First Class Thomas J. Snyder arrives at Ching Chuan Kang Air Base, Taiwan, as an aircraft mechanic with a Pacific Air Force unit after serving at Stewart AFB. Specialist Five Loren W. Andrews, 20, son of Urbana residents, serves as artillery surveyor with the 4th Infantry Division near Pleiku, Viet Nam.
Greene First Lt. Peder G Berdahl son of Mr and Mrs Arthur C Berdahl Fresno California has arrived for duty at Athens Airport Greece. Berdahl a nuclear weapons custodian is assigned to a U S Air Forces in Europe unit. A Fresno high graduate he earned a BS in 1965 from St Olaf College Northfield Minnesota where he was commissioned through ROTC. He studied at University of Town Le. Berdahl's wife Barbara is daughter of Mr and Mrs Homer S Mann Cedar Rapids Iowa.
The Philadelphia Bulletin quotes Judge Juanita Kidd Stout criticizing welfare as eroding work incentives. She condemns a system that pays checks to the able and unemployed, expressing sympathy for needy families while opposing subsidies that foster laziness and immorality.
WICHITA FALLS Tex Airman Tonya L Sweeting daughter of Mr and Mrs Carl E Sweeting of Iowa City has graduated from a U S Air Force technical school at Sheppard AFB She trained as a medical specialist and has been assigned to a unit of the Air Training Command at Sheppard AFB She is a 1967 graduate of Iowa City High School.
Area Ten Community will run a twelve week General Welding Class for Industrial Arts Instructors beginning Saturday February 17. Classes meet every Saturday 8:00 to 12:00 at Area Ten Trade and Industry Building 1207 Rockford Road Southwest. Course aims to improve skills and introduce new welding methods. Fee is 20 dollars, register at first session February 17. For more information call Area Ten 366-6206.
The Iowa Poultry Association forms Crobar Inc to market a frozen eggnog bar in eight Midwest states starting at the Iowa State Fair. Fort Dodge Ice Cream Specialties makes the bar. Crobar plans to reach 50 jobbers, with national rollout hoped. Officers include Hugh Gordon as president and Harold Trettin as VP. Directors include Clarence Price and Robert Jungk. The state Department of Agriculture funded initial development. FINE ARTS SYMPOSIUM BEGINS MOUNT VERNON The Cornell college symposium Criticism and the Arts 1968 opens Feb 13 with Dr Eliseo Vivas delivering The Dignity of the Arts.
Auburn defeats LSU 70 to 65 in a previews style update. The roundup lists numerous college scores with teams like Dayton Xavier West Virginia Duke and North Carolina near the top of the day’s results.
Emotions influence handwriting and vary widely even among siblings and twins. The piece notes some twins show opposite reactions to the same situations, suggesting handwriting can reveal emotional depth and order of birth. Readers may send questions for later answers in this column.
A NYU Art Collection exhibition titled A University Collects opens Feb 8 at Central College Commons and runs to Feb 29. The 640 works include paintings and sculpture, circulated nationwide by the American Federation of Arts. Curator Ruth Gurin led selections. donations and committees guide acquisitions and display. Congressman Culver urges merit-based postal appointments to end political patronage, citing Hatch Act limits and calls for Post Office independence. hearings underway.
In a Feb 12 pastoral letter Bishop Gerald O'Keefe of Davenport urges Southeastern Town Catholics to push for local fair housing laws and policies to end poverty and discrimination. He designates Feb 18 Interracial Justice Sunday and calls parishes and schools to teach equality, while rural areas share responsibility for social justice. Drugist Donald Courtnage Sr. retires after 49 years in Strawberry Point.
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