Gift money vs campus transfer in Muscatine
Dear Aunt Sadie reports a dispute over transferring Muscatine Community College property to the Eastern Iowa College District. The Muscatine board seeks full appraised value for the campus, including gift funds, while funds would revert to the schoolhouse fund for future buildings pending legislative action and voter approval.
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Lettier
Sadie
LEE
East Third St
Town
Your Community
H. L. Nelson
William Fary
Carl Walter
Adv
Gilbert Dietz
Sam Childs
Mgr
Rau
Chicago
Clinton School Board
Eastern Iowa College District 40
Clinton
Pus
Musser Trust
Heinz
College Board
Richard Stanley
Iowa
A.A. Johnson
Community College
Indecent Incentives Draw Fire Over Welfare Payments
The Billings Gazette comments on HEW and IRS inducements offering a pencil or five dollars to prompt replies to questionnaires. Rep Brock denounces paying welfare recipients to return forms as foolish and questions why Civil Defense outreach did not offer similar incentives to boost response rates.
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Billings Gazette
Internal Revenue Service
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
W. E. Brock
R-Tem
ADC
Civil Defense
Salt on Highways From The voumwa Courier
The Ottumwa Journal urges a coordinated ice control program using road salt to keep winter traffic moving safely. It notes salt is cheap and effective despite car corrosion and urges cooperation across jurisdictions and border states to count lives saved and injuries avoided, arguing for broader adoption.
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Voumwa Courier
City of
Ottumwa
Iowa Highway Commission
No wild weeds for him in male fashion
The Christian Science Monitor notes forecasts of bold menswear never materialize. Despite chatter of gaudy colors and wild designs, the American man remains conservative, observed among crowds, with hippie styles deemed not truly stylish and not what experts predict.
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The
Christian Science Monitor
Saturn 6 noise study fuels sonic boom debate
The Cedar Rapids Gazette notes Columbia University detected sound waves from a Saturn 5 test at 900 miles away. The study, quantifying air pressure pulses over half an hour, equates the source to 500 jet engines. It raises questions about sonic boom limits with future supersonic transport.
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Cedar Rapids
Cape Kennedy
Columbia University
New York
Saturn 5
Saturn
Are These Matters for World Law
James J. Kilpatrick argues that UN conventions on women’s political rights and forced labor threaten U.S. sovereignty by treating internal law as international. He urges the Senate to vote them down in 1968, warning of a world court and broader “one world” governance. He cites Proxmire’s push and Eberhard Deutsch’s critique.
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James J. Kilpatrick
Washington
Johnson
Senate
Wisconsin
Wiliam Proxmire
United States
UN General Assembly
International Labor Organization
Proxmire
Eberhard P. Deutsch
New Orleans
Tion
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Deuitsch
American Bar Association
Switzerland
Sweden
Peru
U.S
State Department
Do Not Chase Quack Cancer Cures Says Dr Mother
A reader argues against urging a dying friend to seek cancer clinic help. The doctor explains quacks prey on hopeful patients, cite secret cures, and warns that legitimate clinics offer no hidden methods. Ethical medical reporting requires open knowledge sharing among physicians.
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Miss Mln
Letter Responds To Hanoverian King Grave Myth
A reader debunks a Davenport Times-Democrat feature claiming a grave in Cranston area a king’s tomb. The letter clarifies John F Lindenburg’s inscription error and the royal line, citing sources on Hanoverian history and urging peace for the actual grave. It includes a second letter urging Muscatine Community College to reconsider Easter vacation spending versus aiding a student for Vietnam and agricultural aid.
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Tam
Cranston
Jean
Oak Grove
Works Progress Administration
Muscatine
John F. Lindenburg
Lloyd Horton
Palmer College
Davenport
Royal House of Hanover
Brunswick
Hanover
Germany
John Lindenburg
A.O. Hunter
Letts
Iowa
Davenport Times-Democrat
John
Guelph
Lindenburg
England
Victoria
Muscatine Community College Student Council
Vietnam
Thomas B. Manton
Iowa Avenue
Chambers' Brothers renew pork packing operations
The Chambers' Brothers renewed pork packing late last week and have killed about fourteen hundred head. They expect to wind up for the season in a few days, signaling a close to the current packing cycle.
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Chambers’ Brothers
LL. Lane
Link Cope
Wapello
William Huttig
Rudolph George
Today in History January 6 1968 highlight
Today is Saturday January 6 1968 with 360 days left. Events include Joan of Arc birth in 1412 Martha Dandridge Custis marriage to George Washington in 1758 Morse public telegraph demo in 1838 Roosevelt dies 1919 FDR four freedoms 1941 USSR arms reduction ten years ago 1958 Brazil shift to presidential system five years ago 1963.
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Joan of Arc
Martha Dandridge
Custis
George Washington
Samuel F. B. Morse
Morristown
Theodore Roosevelt
Oyster Bay
N.Y
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Soviet Union
Brazil
Prayer and guidance verse ends in Rajpicing
A devotional fragment from The Daily quotes Jeremiah 29 13 urging seekers to find God with all their heart. It prays for guidance to Christ and mindful service to those searching for answers.
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Jeremiah
Christ
Rajpicing
Hin Hame
Amer
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Mecklenburg-Strelitz
George
Prussia
Mary Alexandrina
Saxe-Altenburg
Thyra
Schleswig-Holstein- Sonderburg-Glucksburg
Christian Frederick
George Wilhelm
John of
Europe
Almanach de Gotha
Queen Victoria
Benson and Esher
Conrad Miller-Brown
House of Hanover
Alvin Redman
Jeff
Jeff Thompson
Jake Bowman
F. Bisesi
C. Lloyd
Wilton
Herschel Frater
Wilton Telephone Co
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