Centennial electricity lights up Oelwein celebration
In Oelwein a Centennial celebration brings brisk business and excitement as remodeling on the Hartig Diamond Bros. building signals the town's milestone. The New Christy Minstrels perform tonight after radio mixups, with a Saturday parade, Eddy Howard band at the Coliseum, a Rock Dance, and a church-sponsored Centennial worship closing the weekend.
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Charles and
Frederick
Hartig
Diamond Bros
Eddy Howard
Oelwein
Watergate viewed by Gunnar Myrdal with hopeful note
Stockholm economist Gunnar Myrdal told Bill Moyers he is saddened by Watergate but hopeful the scandal will end well. He praised American ideals, warned against damage to US power over public opinion, and urged patience as Watergate hearings were postponed for the Nixon Brezhnev summit.
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Gunnar Myrdal
Stockholm
United States
Bill Moyers
Johnson
Myrdal
America
Nixon
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Hoffa Plans Comeback To Lead Teamsters In 1976
Hoffa, released in 1971 after prison terms for jury tampering and mail fraud, seeks to overturn a parole ban preventing direct or indirect labor leadership until 1980. He says no judge added such restriction and hints at court action in Miami Beach. He targets Frank E. Fitzsimmons, 75, as his aging successor.
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James R. Hoffa
The
Teamsters
Frank E. Fitzsimmons
Miami Beach
Hoffa
Nixon
Prayer and civic notes mix with project plans
Prayer text asks for courage to pursue useful works and fruit for the kingdom. The fragment mentions various lines about money, courage, and worship, followed by odd capitalized phrases and a list of local initiatives including free parking for Oelwein, continuing industrial promotion, a low rent housing facility, and a Frog Hollow recreation project.
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Nike
Jesus
Frog Hollow
New clerk hired in Fayette County
Mrs. Clarence Cannon has assumed duties as a clerk in the office of the Clerk of Court Fayette County to assist with the work of the newly appointed magistrates who will assume duties July 1 An official notice will be released later on office hours and locations and other details involved. Mrs Richard Bitterman Mrs Chris Knos and Bessie Schneider Fayette were visitors to their cousin Mrs Ben Jenkins at the hospital. Mrs Arlen Foster Marengo called her mother Mrs John Borland at the hospital Tuesday. Mr and Mrs Jerry Reckemmer Lori Mike and Angela have returned home after operation at Ken's Kamping Rove Mew London Minn.
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West Union
Clarence Cannon
Fayette County
Richard Bitterman
Chris Knos
Bessie Schneider
Fayette
Ben Jenkins
Arlen Foster
Marengo
John Borland
Jerry Reckemmer
Lori
Mike
Angela
Ken's
Kamping Rove
Mew
London
Minn
Failor
Commerce Department
Social and Economics Statistics
Census Bureau
White House
Colson
Pat Buchanan
Ken Clawson
McGovern
West Union area urged to fill Manpower Survey
Industry seeks data from workers in West Union Iowa to gauge available labor for a potential out-of-state manufacturer. The survey, kept confidential, targets current and prospective workers including non residents, with jobs not immediate and applications to follow if the plant locates here. Deadline June 29.
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West Union
Interst
Register Business Office
Iowa Employment Security Commission
Iowa
Commission
Union
There is a Season centennial worship in Oelwein gym
Dr Oswald Hoffmann will preach at 7 45 p m Sunday June 24 in the final event of Oelwein s Centennial celebration at the high school gymnasium under the Oelwein Area Council of Churches theme There Is A Season features brass ensemble community chorus children s choir centennial hymn a clergy processional and banners plus a multi media slide show An offering will fund event expenses and any excess goes to a cooperative Council project to begin the second century
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Oswald Hoffmann
Oelwein
Oelwein Area
Council of Churches
Centennial Visitors Gather in Oelwein Area
City briefs note Mary Katherine Thompson and relatives from Evert Wash and Des Moines visited Tuesday evening with their uncle and aunt Ludwig Leyh and wife. Gary Walrath and family also attended. Ethel Allen formerly Ethel Petzel of Norwalk Cal returns for centennial events. Ray Garvey and son Gordon of St Louis plan cousins visits near Oelwein.
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Mary Katherine Thompson
Evert
Wash
Gerald Alexandria
Des Moines
Ludwig Leyh
Gary Walrath
Ethel Allen
Ethel Petzel
Norwalk, Cal
Oelwein
Ray Garvey
Gordon
St. Louis, Mo
Board Adopts School Budget For 1973 74
The North Fayette County Community School District board met to approve a 1973-74 general fund budget of 1,471,261 and a schoolhouse fund of 158,088 totaling 1,629,349. The vote included a property tax reduction as state aid increases. They also allocated funds for athletic and staff positions, reassigned athletic director duties, and set July 9, 1973 as the next meeting for final budget approval and public hearing in August.
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West Union (Special
Board of Education
North Fayette County Community
West Union City
Roy Harrell
Dennis Eckhoff
Steve Story
William Sloss
University of Northern Iowa
Patricia Kruger
West Union Elementary
Mason City
Luther College
James Boelman
North High School
Price fixing verdicts in Iowa dealer case with six guilty
NEVADA AP No sentencing date set in Story County District Court after a jury found six International Harvester dealers guilty of conspiring to fix prices on parts about 10 percent above company suggestions. Eight innocents were acquitted and three other cases were mistried.
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Nevada
Story County District Court
International Harvester
Ralph Bauer
Palo Alto
Gene Vulgamott
The
Jewell Implement Co
Jewell
Maynard Library Opens Six Week Summer Reading Program
The Maynard Library launched its summer reading program on Tuesday. It welcomes children from kindergarten through eighth grade and will run for six weeks. Awards will be given for five and ten books read, encouraging all local youngsters to register.
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Maynard
Nixon aide hides nephew from hippies in California camp
Private detective Anthony Ulasewicz, paid from a secret GOP fund, tracked Donald Nixon Jr. to a California hippie commune. Ehrlichman lectured him home, while the Nixon circle faces broader fallout over the White House attack group and staffers’ political misconduct.
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Washington
Nixon
White House
Donald Nixon, Jr
John Ehrlichman
Anthony Ulasewicz
Donald
Ulasewicz
New York City
Herbert Kalmbach
California
Ehrlichman
Robert Vesco
John Mitchell
Commerce
Maurice Stans
Colson
Edward Failor
Failor
Quiet Fayette City Council Meeting Sets Minor Actions
Fayette special council session moved swiftly with three actions. The beer license for Bachelors III tavern in Marlin B. Olesen's name was renewed, a damaged maple on the city parkway near Fayette Lumber Yard was approved for removal at 60 dollars, and members were authorized to attend a home rule meeting in West Union. Mayor Russell Swartz City Attorney Robert Anthony and Councilman Water Griffin will attend. Next regular meeting is set for Monday evening July 2.
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Fayette
Bachelors III Tavern
City Parkway
Marlin B. Olesen
West Union
Bachelors NT
Daryl Kaber
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