Dirksen Urges GOP Unity Amid Dismal Mood in Iowa
Senator Everett Dirksen told a large Des Moines crowd at a tribute dinner to honor Senator Bourke Hickenlooper that Americans are in a dismal mood and want leadership change. He urged Republican unity to win in November, criticized Democratic policies, and noted a nationwide unhappiness as baby debt and riots affect public sentiment.
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Des Moines
UPI
Everett M. Dirksen
R-Ill
Iowa
Hick
Veterans Auditorium
Hickenlooper
U.S. Senate
Washington
Dirksen
Chicago
Richard Daley
Daley
Ion
Senate
U.S
Bourke B. Hickenlooper
Vietnam
United States
Richard Nixon
GOP
Johnson
Show Boat Make-Up Mighty Big Task
The production’s biggest unseen job is applying makeup to about eighty cast members, including twenty eight in blackface. A volunteer crew works from six each evening under Dunham Morrison’s direction. Names of many workers are not listed in the program.
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Dunham Morrison
George Krogmeier
Dick Horak
Katy Robertson
Anne Butler
Mary Morrison
Dick George
John F Rittenhouse 82 dies in Washington County
John F Rittenhouse 82 of 215 South Avenue died Tuesday April 16 1968 at Washington County Hospital after long illness. He helped organize the Izaak Walton League and farmed in Cedar Township before moving to Washington in 1952. Survived by a nephew and several grand-nieces and -nephews. Funeral Friday 10 30 a.m. at Jones Funeral Home with Rev M O Smith. Burial Elm Grove Cemetery. Born March 18 1882 in Cedar Township to David and Mary Jane Rittenhouse. Married Jennie May Cook November 4 1908 who died October 29 1963. He was a Methodist.
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John F. Rittenhouse
South Avenue
Washington County Hospital
Mr. Rittenhouse
Izaak Walton League
Cedar Township
Washington
Jones
Rev. M. O. Smith
Elm Grove
William D. Rittenhouse
Redondo
Calif
Dr Gingerich to speak on Russia in 1967
Dr Melvin Gingerich of Goshen Indiana will present an illustrated talk titled Russia in 1967 at Sugar Creek Mennonite Church on Friday night April 19 at 7 30. He serves as executive secretary of the Historical and Research Committee of the Mennonite Church and directs church archives and research. The lecture draws on his Russia visit last summer and he plans a 1968 tour. The public is invited.
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Melvin Gingerich
Goshen
Indiana
Russia
Sugar Creek
Gingerich
Faye Knight Promoted to Iowa City Goodwill Store Manager
Faye Knight moves from Washington to Iowa City to lead the Goodwill Budget Store, following a six month tenure guiding the Washington outlet. Ray Hogue notes the Washington location has grown and will support Goodwill’s rehabilitation program for handicapped individuals. Washington’s new manager is Glenda Cleghorn with assistant Connie Vos.
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Faye Knight
Washington
Iowa City
Goodwill
Ray Hogue
Goodwill Industries
Iowa
Connie Vos
E. Seventh St
Funeral Friday for Clayde Knupp 77 in Washington
Clayde A Knupp 77 retired farmer and Washington resident died April 17 1968 at Washington County Hospital after a stroke. Funeral 2:30 p.m. Friday at Jones Funeral Home with Rev David R Hess officiating. Burial Elm Grove Cemetery. Memorials to Prairie Flower Baptist Church. Survived by wife Minnie three sons Stanley Wayne Richard of Washington two brothers Glenn and W J Knapp and seven grandchildren.
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Clayde A. Knupp
United Presbyterian Home
Washington County Hospital
Knupp
Jones Funeral
David R. Hess
Elm Grove
Prairie Flower Baptist Church
Mr. Knapp
Samuel R
Maggie
Phillips) Knupp
Eliots Business College
Burlington
Minnie Jackson
Washington
Washington Rotary Club
Stanley
Wayne
Richard
Glenn
W. J. Knapp
Columbus
Ohio
Prairie Flower Spring Fling shows dresses in home economics
The Prairie Flower School presents its annual Spring Fling Friday April 19 at 2 p.m. In a spring setting intermediate and advanced classes display dresses made this year with home economics students handling refreshments. The program is directed by Bernice Nickell and Richard Herlein with assistance from Jeanne Erickson.
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Prairie Flower
Prairie Flower School
Bernice Nickell
Richard Herlein
Jeanne Erickson
Nickell
Mr. Herlein
Medical and surgical admissions and dismissals listed
Yesterday admitted: Mrs Mada Dick inson, Washington medical. Miss Judith Krueger, Washington surgical. Mrs Earl Mallox, Washington medical. Dismissed yesterday: Richard Martin Holmstrom, Washington surgical. Today: James Nelson, Washington medical. George Schultz, Ainsworth medical.
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Mada Dickinson
Washington
Judith Krueger
Earl Mallox
Richard Martin Holmstrom
Surgical
James Nelson
George Schultz
Ainsworth
Easter Dinner Guests From Several Cities
Local sighting notes Easter dinner guests visiting in Sylvester Sobaski home in Brighton include Mr and Mrs William Shu nick and Mr and Mrs Dean Edwards and their sons from Davenport and Washington. Another group from Michigan City Indiana visited Mrs Martha Mosier Mitch Molly and Mary with Mrs Mosier's parents Mr and Mrs Martin Whitaker and with Mrs Pearl Palmer.
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William Shunick
Davenport
Dean Edwards
Martha Mosier
Mitch
Molly and
Mary
Michigan City
Indiana
New York science touts cream for dry skin aging
Marie Davant promotes Peacock's Imperial Creme claiming rapid improvement in dry skin wrinkles crow's feet and brown age spots with a 10 day money back guarantee. The ad promises lighter dull skin, clearer texture and pore lubrication plus a $2.00 price at West Side Square department or drug stores.
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Geneva
Marie Davant
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