Operation Adventure brings free camping to non Scouts
The Iowa Council of the Boy Scouts unveils Operation Adventure to provide 200 non scout boys ages 11 to 13 from Muscatine East Moline Rock Island Moline and Davenport a seven day camp at Loud Thunder Scout Reservation near Edgington this summer. Two sessions run August 4 to 10 and August 11 to 17 with essentials limited to clothes and appetite while all equipment is furnished. Funding comes from local foundations and engaged businesses and individuals in the council area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Boy Scouts of America of
Iowa
Muscatine
East Moline
Rock Island
Moline
Davenport
Loud Thunder
Edgington
Trowa Council
Jefferson School
Buffalo Bill
Hanley
Hanley Cottage
Joe Hanley
New York
Reagan Nixon shift reshapes Republican power balance
Analysis of 1960 to 1968 events shows Nixon seeking Rockefeller support to craft a broader platform while Rockefeller grapples with Reagan prospects. The piece argues the party moved toward a more conservative, state and regional power center, diminishing Rockefeller style liberalism and altering potential ticket dynamics and leadership alignments.
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Dick Nixon
Nelson Rockefeller
Ronald Reagan
Nixon
Rocky
Ike Eisenhower
Rockefeller
Fifth Avenue
New York
Treaty of
Reagan
New Orleans
Richard Nixon
Seaboard
West
Middle West
South
Northeast
Credit hearings seek limits on rising computer power
In Washington Hart and Gallagher push for federal rules to curb credit reporting systems. They warn data banks now hold dossiers on millions and warn that automated processes can erase nonpersons, mischarge customers, or deny credit, with hearings set for 1968 and bills likely next year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Michigan
Philip Hart
New Jersey
Cornelius Gallagher
Aflcio
Committee On
Hart
Gallagher
Associated Credit Bureaus of America, Inc
Retail Credit Company of
Atlanta
Hooper-Holmes Bureau
Morristown
N. J
Ing
Miami
New York
Mongoloid child care and institutionalization debate
A reader asks if a borderline mongoloid child should live at home or be placed in an institution. Dr. Mother notes retardation varies by degree, most nonseverely retarded children can learn and work, while severely retarded may need institutional care. He urges professional guidance and emphasizes opportunity for capable children to live useful, happy lives in ordinary society.
Clarke foresees a future with no daily work for many
New York AP reports Arthur C Clarke, physicist and science fiction writer, predicting in the next century 3 percent of current work will vanish or be done by machines. He envisions millions of superior machines and even trained apes aiding household tasks, while education, research, and entertainment become dominant industries.
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New York
Arthur C. Clarke
Clarke
Pericles
Socrates
Athens
MGM
Inga
Excursion Postponed By Weather To Next Monday Evening
Our Yesterdays notes a planned excursion was postponed due to bad weather and will occur next Monday evening, rain or shine, with details as announced. Also mentions Ashton morning westbound, Bramnworth returning from Chicago, Burk visiting Wapello, and barley replacing wheat per food administration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WE. Ashton
Bramnworth
Chicago
W.D. Burk
Wapello
Today in History June 6 1968 highlights
Date recounts major events from 1944 D Day to varied historic notes. It lists Nathan Hale born 1755, Pushkin birth, Alsace annexation, Belleau Wood action, Yorktown sinking, Brazil war with Japan, De Gaulle Algeria visit, Profumo resignation, Keeler affair, and Israeli forces at the Suez coast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Normandy
France
Nathan Hale
Alexander Pushkin
Alsace
Germany
U.S
Belleau Wood
Yorktown
Midway
Ens
Brazil
Japan
Calabia
Western Hemisphere
Charles de Gaulle
Algeria
Britain
John Profumo
Christine Keeler
Egypt
Mediterranean
Suez Canal
Apostles Travel to Cyprus Proclaim Message in Salamis
The passage recalls the Holy Spirit sending the party from Seleucia to Cyprus, where in Salamis they preach in Jewish synagogues. A prayer asks for guidance to witness amid life’s troubled seas, seeking others to know Christ and discover Christian joys.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seleucia
Cyprus
Salamis
RSV
Jesus
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Gilbert Dietz
Your Community Daily
H. L. Nelson
Carl Walter
Adv
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Mgr
Wire Service
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John Chamberlain
Daily Oklahoman
Snap Branson
White River
Branson
Meo
San Francisco Calif
Chronicle
Dust
Marshalltown
Times - Republican
Franklin (N.H
Bloomer
Midland (Canada) Free Press Herald
Somerville
N.J
Messenger - Gazette
Small sOciety
Georgia
Oregon
Alka
pHa Frais
James
Joseph G. Mother
M.D
Moiner
Boyle
Towa
Food Administration
Assembly of God
West Seventh Street
the Daily Prayer
Fog Ferree
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