City Employee Calls City Budget Waste on Auto Use
Cedar Rapids letter writer denounces city owned vehicles used by staff for private use and urges council action. The author cites delayed report by City Clerk Harold G. Schaeffer and compares to state auto plan, urging employees to leave cars after hours. Includes note of Viet Nam service by Ronald R Grannis, 22, son of Tenafly residents.
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Harold G. Schaeffer
Gentelmen
Cedar Rapids
Frank Bush
Harold C. Schaffer
Des Moines Register
Jack Langford
Robert Ray
One of a Kind Wedgwood Vase Featured at Cedar Rapids Antique Show
The National Antique Show in Cedar Rapids marks its 25th anniversary with more than 40 exhibits from 11 states including Wedgwood items. A rare Fairyland Lustra Wedgwood vase designed by Daisy Making-Jones, owned by Donald C. Koehn, will be showcased and pictured in a new English book. An appraiser booth funds the American Cancer Society, and the American Legion Auxiliary serves daily. The four day show runs Oct 3–6 at Veterans Memorial Coliseum, with admission charged.
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Cedar Rapids
Veterans Memorial Coliseum
Colorado
Virginia
Florida
Daisy Making-Jones
Donald C. Koehn
England
Wedgwood Society
Antiue
American Cancer Society
American Legion Auxiliary
Potter and Carney Merit Updates From Viet Nam Duty and Navy Training
SFC Robert R. Potter, son of Mrs. Carolyn Gephart and relatives in West Virginia and Iowa, was assigned Aug 6 to the 1st Field Force Viet Nam Artillery as assistant operations sergeant. In San Diego, Fireman Apprentice Tom P. Carney, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clement C. Carney, graduated from the Basic Electricity and Electronics school at the Naval Training Center, the Navy’s largest West Coast program.
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U. S. Army
Viet Nam
Robert R. Potter
Carolyn Gephart
Washington Ave
1St Field Force
Viet Nam Artillery
Rose Marie
Fairmont
W.va
James A. Potter
Adrian
Waterloo
San Diego
Tom P. Carney
USN
Clement C. Carney
Chandler St
U.S. Naval Training Center
Navy
Print Show at Cornell To Feature Picasso and Friends
Mt. Vernon Cornell College hosts a print show featuring Picasso Chagall Renoir Cezanne Dali Miro and Vasarely among 400 works from London Grafica Arts It runs Sept 18 from 10 am to 7 pm in The Commons Hilltop Lounge with lithographs etchings woodcuts and posters on sale from 10 to 3000 The collection explains editions and the concept of original prints by noted masters of printmaking.
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Cornell
Picasso
Chagall
Renoir
Cezanne
Dali
Miro
MT. Vernon
Miro and
Vasarely
Cornell College
The
Commons Union Board
Commons Hilltop
London Grafica Arts
Eugen Ivan Schuster
Tae
Summer Sailor Completes Cruise Aboard Topeka
Midshipman K. W. Elderkin USN 24 son of Mr and Mrs D M Elderkin of 352 Park Terrace SE has completed a six week summer cruise aboard the guided missile cruiser USS Topeka. He was trained in engineering weaponry navigation shiphandling seamanship and applied classroom subjects. The program includes midshipmen from the Naval Academy and other colleges.
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Topeka
K. W. Elderkin
USN
D. M. Elderkin
Park Terrace SE
U. S. Naval Academy
Army Chopper Pilot Garry Pugh Receives Wings
Garry E. Pugh, 21, son of Mr and Mrs Jesse E Pugh, received the silver wings of an Army aviator at Hunter Army Airfield Georgia on August 13 and was appointed a warrant officer after completing a 16 week helicopter pilot course. He learned gunnery tactics and helicopter support techniques for ground troops, plus helicopter maintenance and survival training.
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Hunter Army Airfield
Garry E. Pugh
Jesse E. Pugh
20Th St. SW
Annual Battle of Bands at Armar Ballroom Nov 8
The third annual Battle of Bands will be held November 8 at Armar Ballroom. Verne Josifek and Miles Adams of Musicians Local 137 announced the event. A 16 piece Glen Miller style Bohemian Centennial Polka Band along with Dixieland, country and western bands and two jazz combos will perform. It is the region’s only such event, offering varied music and dancing for attendees.
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Armar Ballroom
Verne Josifek
Miles Adams
Iowa
Service members update from Missouri and Vietnam
Army Private David R. Smith of Central City completed an eight week construction machine operation course at Fort Leonard Wood Missouri learning to operate bulldozers and drainage work. Staff Sergeant Edward D. Moore of Marion Vietnam duty at Da Nang AB is a fire protection specialist with Pacific Air Forces and is a 1963 Springville graduate. Gunner Mate Third Class James F. McVeighn of Marion serves aboard USS Berkeley participating in Sea Dragon operations in the Gulf of Tonkin near the DMZ with notable bombardment actions north of the DMZ and near Dong Hoi, involving bridges fuel storage areas and a destroyed highway bridge and ferry crossing.
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FT. Leonard Wood
David R. Smith
Robert E.smith
Central City
Cheryl
Moore
da Nang
U.S
AIR Forces
Viet Nam
Edward D. Moore
Carl L. Moore
First Ave
Marion
da Nang AB
Vietnam
Pacific Air Forces
Sheppard Afb
Texas
Springville
Iowa
Consolidated High
Vinita Bynum
Dmz
Dong Hoi
Berkeley
Sailor Donald A. Karr Returns From Viet Nam Deployment
Carr, a shipfitter third class in the US Navy, is the son of Mr and Mrs Donald Karr of 848 17th St SW. He sailed back to San Diego aboard the amphibious force flagship USS Estes after eight months with the Seventh Fleet in the Western Pacific. The Estes operated around Da Nang, South Vietnam, serving as a command and communications center and taking part in nine amphibious assault operations.
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San Diego
Donald A. Karr
USN
Donald Karr
17Th St. SW
Amphibious Force
USS
Estes
U. S. Seventh Fleet
Pacific
da Nang
Viet Nam
Seventh Fleet
Hearing set Sept 26 on Iowa 549 corridor route
A public hearing is planned September 26 at Lakeside Elementary Middle Amana to establish the corridor for Iowa 549 Freeway in Benton and Linn counties. The 22.5 mile route would run from I 80 west of the Amanas exit north to Cedar Rapids via Walford and Highway 30, with right of way acquisition set to begin in 1970 and initial construction in 1971 as part of a planned 833 mile Iowa freeway system.
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Ames
Iowa
Benton
Linn
State Highway Commission
Lakeside
Middle Amana
Amanas
Homestead
Walford
Cedar Rapids
Swine Exhibit at Waterloo Sale Sept 28
The swine exhibit part of the Meat Animal show at the National Dairy Cattle Congress in Waterloo will offer hogmen a chance at top seed stock. A spotlight sale of top animals follows the show at 7 pm on Saturday Sept 28, with eligibility for the sale limited to roughly the top third of competitors. The event supports FFA and 4H youths with project gifts from leading Midwest swine producers as the 1968 Exposition runs Sept 21 to 29 with dairy cattle and dairy goats shows scheduled.
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National Dairy ‘ Cattle Congress
Waterloo
Midwest
Healy Earns Bronze Star at Ft Riley Ceremony
Captain Dennis J. Healy, son of Donald and Mrs. Healy of Elmwood Court NE, received the Bronze Star Medal at Irwin Army Hospital Ft. Riley on Aug 9 for heroism in Vietnam on Feb 3, 1968 while with Advisory Team No. 63. General Westmoreland presented the award with a second Bronze Star for meritorious achievement.
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FT. Riley
Dennis J. Healy
Donald H. Healy
Elmwood Court
Irwin Army Hospital
Kansas
William ©. Westmoreland
Cheif
U. S. Army
Healy
Vietnam
Army
U.S. Military Assistance Command
Soc Trang
Dennis J
Republic of Vietnam
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CU Chi
Ronald R. Grannis
Grosvenor Grannis Jr
Tenafly
N.J
25Th Infantry Division
Christine
33Rd St. NE
SFC
Sailor Carney
Rembrant
Toulouse-Lautrec
Garry Pugh
W.C. Garry
E. Pugh
Red
Armar
Carr
Waterloo Sale
Bronze Star
44Th Ranger Battalion
Army of the Republic of Vietnam
Phong Dinh
Faulter
United States Army
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