Protests Crushed as South Africa Bans ANC and PAC
Cape Town and Johannesburg police arrest hundreds in dawn raids amid a passbook protest that fueled 17 days of violence. Government bans the African National Congress and Pan Africanist Congress until April 6 1961, with emergency rules to stay in force.
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Cape Town
South Africa
UPS
Johannesburg
African National Congress
Pan Africanist Congress
F. C. Erasmus
Erasmus
De Gaulle Faces New Farm Crisis Amid Protests in France
Paris reports state leader Charles de Gaulle returning from Britain to confront widespread farmer protests over price controls. Demonstrations disrupted cities including Sens and Quimper with tear gas and violence. The National Federation of Agriculture warns renewed pressure to restore subsidies and price supports.
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Paris
UPN
Charles de Gaulle
Britain
de Gaulle
United States
France
Sens
Quimper
National Federation of Agriculture
Honor Pupils At Washington Junior High Recognized
Principal Jesse Linch announced the honor roll for the third nine weeks at Washington Junior High. Seventh grade honorees include Room 1 Jeanne Allison through Barbara Stettler. Room 5 lists Kenneth Jensen among others. Eighth grade students across five rooms include David Everetts Sandra Knepp Claireen Arnold Richard Eyestone and several peers who achieved a B average or better.
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Jesse Linch
Washington Junior High School
Jeanne Allison
Ronald Gregory
Richard Holden
Trudy Hysell
Jim Mallory
Susan Roth
Barbara Stettler
Avis Widmer
Richie Ballard
Jim Koehler
Peggy McGaffey
Judy Pollock
Judy Roland
Kim Boyer
Stephen Foss
Lanetta Leon
Connie Potter
Steve Tindal
Carol Grennwalt
Carol Hornung
Robert Latta
Patricia Lewis
Daylene McAvoy
Patricia Nottis
Barbara Robb
Miriam Watters
Mike Green
Nancy Knutson
Gary Lawson
Mary McBee
Sally Owen
Barbara Robertson
Pam Romine
Claudia Tines
Kenneth Jensen
David Everetts
Sandra Knepp
Carla Lemke
Pamela Robertson
Richard Eyestone
George Johnson
Bonita Miller
Dixie Potter
Carolyn Pratt
Richard Vosika
Marjorie Wulf
Claireen Arnold
Mary Ellen Luckenbill
Linda Neff
Steve Putman
Carol Ray
Pam Robison
Mike Steele
Ronald Wagner
Pat Batterson
Pat Davison
Pat Farrell
Roger Flory
Pat Hammer
Judy Johnson
Mark McConnell
Don Miller
Vaughn Rinner
Gary Shebeck
Charlotte Singleton
Steven Soucek
Carolyn Todd
Gloria Wolf
Richard Bennett
Mike Boshart
Ira Mae Earnest
Marleen Ferrell
Linda Johnson
Ted Simmering
Mary Ellen Stout
Danny Ryner
Red Cross Aid Open to Flood Sufferers in Washington County
Washington County Red Cross urges flood victims to contact the county office for aid in food clothing furnishings or home repairs as needed. Gifts are outright and no interest is charged. The Ottumwa Fort Madison Burlington Sioux City and other chapters are providing shelter meals clothing and disaster relief and now move into rehabilitation funding.
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Washington County
Washington County Red Cross
Washington
M. Robert Everetts
American Red Cross
Winnie F. Belter
Red Cross
Ottumwa
Fort Madison
Burlington
Sioux City
Wapello
Iowa
Wayland Area Eyes Combined School District Plan
Wayland area school boards from Wayland Consolidated and several independents discussed a possible vote on forming a single Wayland Community School District. Maple Grove No 3 opted out for study. Noble Consolidated was invited but not represented and may join within a week. Proponents seek new at large five member board and a July 1 1960 start with about 2 245 000 assessed valuation. Junior Hi Yers dance at YMCA Saturday 7 15 to 9 30 p m admission 10 cents members 35 cents non members.
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Wayland
Wayland Consolidated
Maple Grove No
Maple Grove No. 3
Prospect
Flowers Independent
Douglas Independent
Coppock
Noble Consolidated
Noble
Hi-Y’ers
YMCA
Dean Garrett
Holy Week Services Open Sunday Evening
The First Presbyterian Church hosts the first Holy Week service Sunday April 10 at 7 30 with Rev P Hewison Pollock of Iowa City delivering the sermon on The Resurrection of the Dead Special music includes God So Loved the World an anthem by Stainer two piano organ duets by Calvin Wolf and Lawrence Zuehlke a prelude A Lenten Meditation by Rogers and an offertory Bless Be the Tie that Binds by Naegeli Rev Ralph Wedeking of the United Church of Christ reads the Scripture and offers the closing prayer.
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First Presbyterian Church
P. Hewison Pollock
Iowa City
Stainer
Calvin Wolf
Lawrence Zueh
Mrs George Conrey Dies in Denver Colorado
Crawfordsville relatives report the death of Missus George M. Conrey in Denver Colorado on April 6 She was born January 29 1896 in Crawfordsville daughter of Walter Orris and attended Crawfordsville High School Class of 1914 She taught in Crawfordsville Olds and Colorado Springs Survivors include her husband one grandchild and a sister Mrs Glen Harris of Great Falls Montana all in California and Montana respectively
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Crawfordsville
George M. Conrey
Denver
Colo
Olds
Walter Orris
Crawfordsville High School
Iowa State Teachers College
Colorado Springs
California
Glen Harris
Great Falls
Montana
Iowa to remove 668000 acres for soil bank contracts
Iowa will place 668000 acres of cropland into soil bank conservation reserve contracts this year, up 36 percent from 1959. The program covers 2.49 percent of statewide cropland with 7857 contracts in effect, paying about 12117437 dollars in rentals. Woodbury leads in acres under contract while Greene has the fewest.
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DES Moines
UPI
Soil Bank Conservation Reserve
Iowa
ASC
Gerald C. Randleman
Randleman
Calhoun
Greene and
Osceola
Guthrie County
Woodbury County
Greene County
Last-Ditch Effort Delays Senate Civil Rights Vote
Southern senators pressed to stall final passage of a civil rights bill led by J. William Fulbright as Eastland sought to send the measure back to Judiciary for further study. The debate, with Dirksen optimistic of a vote tonight and Johnson and Russell wary of final action, continued amid weakening amendments and closed doors on new changes.
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Washington
UPI
Eastland
Everett M. Dirksen
Ill
Senate
Lyndon B. Johnson
Tex
Richard B. Russell
Dga
Barney Baker Faces Jail Term in Taft Hartley Case
Robert Barney Baker a 300 pound Teamster official and Hoffa protege faces up to three years in prison and a 30000 dollar fine after a jury convicted him on three Taft Hartley Act counts for taking payments from Exhibitor's Service Inc. to settle a jurisdictional dispute. Judge Babe Marsh deferred sentencing pending probation report. Hoffa testified Baker was not acting as an official union representative.
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Pittsburgh
UPI
Robert
Barney) Baker
Teamster
James R. Hoffa
McKees
Babe Marsh
M. Barney Cohen
Baker
Hoffa
George F. Callahan Jr
Exhibitor's Service Inc
Callahan
Teamsters
Senate
Baptist Choir to Present Crown of Life Cantata Sunday
The Baptist choir will perform the cantata Crown of Life by Rob Roy Peery on Palm Sunday at 10 45 A M in the First Baptist Church. Soloists include Wayne Wagner Judy Crone Mrs S Jay Curry Marvin Lowry and Gloria Wolf with flute in an inspirational program of Easter hymns.
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the Baptist Choir
Crown of Life
Rob Roy Peery
Palm Sunday
First Baptist Church
Wayne Wagner
Judy Crone
Mrs. S. Jay Curry
Marvin Lowry
Gloria Wolf
NASA reports Tiros satellite clock fault limits Russia photos
NASA director Dr. T Keith Glennan said a clock timer failure on the Tiros weather satellite has prevented the high resolution camera from operating except on Hawaii New Jersey and Atlantic coastal areas. The large low resolution camera continues to image Russia and the Far East while others are reviewed at Ft Monmouth and Kaena Point Hawaii.
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Washington
UPS
Federal Space Agency
Tiros
Russia
T. Keith Glennan
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Glennan
Hawaii
Pacific
New Jersey
Atlantic Seaboard
China
Far East
Ft. Monmouth
N.J
Kaena Point
Soviet call for nonuse of nuclear arms met with skepticism
In Geneva the Soviet Union urged a solemn pledge by all nuclear powers to not be first to use atomic and hydrogen weapons. Western delegates said the plan was not new, calling it the same old baloney with a Russian dressing. Valerian Zorin presented the proposal at the 19th session, while Western officials doubted any real shift from prior disarmament efforts.
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Geneva
UPI
Soviet Union
Russia
Valerian A. Zorin
Zorin
Rrussia
United States
Britain
France
Finger in Dinner Roll Grounds $2500 Award
Denver jurors awarded Mrs. Elizabeth Jones $2,500 for the shock of finding a human finger in a dinner roll bought at a Safeway store on August 25, 1958. Safeway admitted an employee lost a finger in a bakery accident and the severed finger was not recovered.
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Denver
UPI
Elizabeth Jones
Safeway
Western leaders set one week limit for summit talks
Western nations plan a summit in Paris opening May 16 limited to seven days with a possible ten day maximum. If progress is made, a Big Four ministers’ meeting will refine details later. A second summit could be held early in 1961 after the new U.S. president takes office.
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London
Nikita Krushchev
U.S
Paris
Eisenhower
Harold Macmillan
Washington
Macmillan
Charles de Gaulle
de Gaulle
White House
Humphrey Launches West Virginia Bus Tour for Primary
Sen. Hubert Humphrey begins a three day bus tour in southern West Virginia to boost support for the May 10 primary. He arrives from Minnesota and schedules rallies including a Beckley stop after visits to mining communities in Kanawha and Raleigh counties. Sen. John Kennedy set to arrive in West Virginia Monday.
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Wisconsin
Washington
John Kennedy
Los Angeles
Hubert Humphrey
West Virginia
Charleston
W.va
UPI
Minnesota
Virginia
Humphrey
Beckley
Kanawha
Raleigh
Kennedy
Robert Day Named County Manager in Erbe Campaign
Robert Day a Washington attorney was named county manager for Norman Erbe's bid for governor. The appointment was announced today by Joseph B. Flatt Erbe's state campaign manager.
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Robert Day
Erbe
Washington
Norman Erbe
Joseph B. Flatt
Mr. Erbe
Secretary Mitchell denounces Hoffa in Davenport speech
Secretary of Labor James Mitchell called James Hoffa a grave danger to America and said Hoffa has disserved the American labor movement. He warned about Hoffa's future amid a Teamsters probe and urged belief in free collective bargaining as a premium over government intervention.
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Davenport
UPI
Secretary of Labor
James Mitchell
Teamster
James Hoffa
America
Hoffa
Teamsters
Mitchell
Iowa City
Republican Party
Eisenhower
Rites Saturday For Ethel Mae Rees 67
Funeral services for Ethel Mae Rees age 67 will be at 2 p m Saturday at Stacy Funeral Home in Columbus Junction. She died Thursday at 2 30 p m in Beauchamp Nursing Home Winfield where she had lived 18 months. Born near Wyman May 2 1892 she was daughter of John M Rees. Survived by brother Ralph Rees of Wyman. three brothers and a sister preceded her in death. She was a member of Zion Congregational Church.
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Crawfordsville
Ethel Mae Rees
Stacy
Columbus Junction
Beauchamp
Winfield
Miss Rees
Olive Moore
Wyman
John M. Rees
Ralph Rees
Zion Congregational Church
Minor Injuries In Highway Crash Reported
Don Applegate of southwest Washington suffered a minor head cut in a Thursday crash on highway one. Charles M. Scott, 22, of Fairfield, sustained a leg injury as a passenger in the other car driven by Terry Wayne Heil of Fairfield. Sheriff deputies reported $900 in damages. Heil pulled off the highway to let an oncoming car pass and was struck when he began to cross.
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Don Applegate
Washington
Charles M. Scott
Fairfield
Terry Wayne Heil
Heil
Highway One
Weather Iown Five Day Forecast
Partly cloudy through Saturday with scattered light showers or snow flurries in the northeast Saturday afternoon. Northerly winds 20 to 35 mph in the northeast Saturday. Tonight will be somewhat colder with little temperature change. Saturday highs in the 40s to near 50, lows 25 to 33. Sunday partly cloudy with continued below normal temperatures. Temperatures through Wednesday averaging 5 to 10 degrees below normal, highs 50 to 56, lows 26 to 32. Light precipitation, about .10 inch or less, with occasional showers.
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Denver, Colo
Talkathon
Illinois
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Dirksen
Barney Baker
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