Quaker aid project in Jordan hit by riots
The January 9 rioting damaged the Quaker agricultural project near Amman damaging five dwellings an office and a store. Two American staff members Paul Johnson and his wife were evacuated by Jordanian police to Jerash and Amman. Several American agriculturists were abroad. 11 Arab staff lived at the site. The project aimed at village improvements including terracing wheat cultivation water resource use and malaria control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Department
Jerash
Amman
Paul B. Johnson
Jean
Mr. Johnson
Winter Park
Fla
Riafars
Sut
Dibbin
Kitta
Nahle
Reimoun
Jazzara
Johnsons
Davison and Clyde Davison at Des Moines meeting
Dean and Clyde Davison of Jonas contractors attended a Pittsburgh Paint and Glass dealers meeting in Des Moines Thursday afternoon and evening. New products for 1958 were on display.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean
Clyde Davison
Jonas Contractors
Des Moines
Pittsburgh Paint and Glass Dealers
Last Rites For Edwin A Van Tiger Grundy County Farmer
Obituary notice for Edwin A. Van Tiger 73 longtime Grundy county farmer with funeral at Ivester Church of the Brethren. Died at his farm on Grundy county edge after years of ill health. Interment Eldora cemetery. Family details and survivors listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwin A. van Tiger
Grundy County
Ivester
Harmon
Elizabeth van Tiger
New Boston
Gordon C. Dickinson
Melrose Township
A. A. A. Group
San Francisco
Calif
REA Meeting To Be Held Feb 8 At Iowa Falls
The Hardin County Rural Electric Cooperative annual meeting will occur at the Metropolitan Theatre in Iowa Falls at 1 p.m. Wednesday February 8. Reports from officers directors and committees and the election of three directors are on the agenda. Director candidates include R J Mason Leonard Greiner Oswell Fisher Waldo Lepper Martin Caltvedt and Jeffrey Townswell from districts 2 6 and 7. Lunch will be served at St. Mark's Catholic church dining room before the meeting. Members may register at the theatre at noon. Twenty awards are planned mainly electrical appliances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hardin County Rural Electric Cooperative
Metropolitan Theatre
Iowa Falls
R. J. Mason
Leonard Greiner
Oswell Fishert
Waldo Lepper
Martin Caltvedt
Jeffrey Townswiell
Correction note on Hardin County ad values
A correction for the United Food Market ad in the Hardin County Index clarifies pricing. Morrell white sehead bacon was listed as 19 cents per pound instead of one point nine cents, and Rath's Black Hawk Center Sliced Ham at 65 cents per pound should not have appeared.
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United Food Market
Morrell
Rath
Blackhawk
Farm Family Field Days Planned At Eldora Show
Eldora farmers prepare for the first Farm Family Field Days with hog judging and events in the new Youth Building on the fairgrounds. The cooperative facility features block and pre cast concrete girder design and may host a grandstand program. Mrs. D W Peisen returns from Iowa City where her daughter and family tended ill Mrs Yourd who is recovering at home.
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Marceline
Melrose Township
Sadie Harms
John Harms
Steamboat Rock
Eldora
D. W. Peisen
Iowa City
John GL. Yourd
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Kermit Whithead
Mary
New Providence
Dale Hoover
New Sharon
Jean Knight Moorer
Ramallah
Jordan
Egypt
Edwin van Tiger
Ivester Church
Grace Irene
John
Whitten
Lucille
Cecil Brocr
Hawthorne
Nev
Floyd
Charlie
Grundy Center
W. H
Frank
Anna Knapp
Marty Richardson
Ora Thomas
Cora Vanderwerf
Oversea
Our
HAM
Plae
Ave
Pleasmore Candy
Gerber’s Baby Foods
Hunt
Duncan Hines
Scott County
CAP Schimmele
Iowa
REA
Eldora Henald Jedger
Richard Thorsen
Fort Dodge
Pine Lake
Joe H. Kramer
Turner
11Th Avenue
11Th
12Th St
Alice Young
Eldora Auction Co., Auctioneers & Clerks
Anmtat
Marcon
Town Falls, Ta
Hal & His
Bobby Andrews
Charles Trussell
KXEL
Jimmy Smith
Eldora, Iowa
Eldora Livestock Sales
Shell Lake
Wisconsin
TB & Bangs
Reisinger, Heltibridle & Dobson
Fine China
Heinz
Star Value Sale
Briardale
Schumachers
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