Major Keokuk Fire Ravages Four Blocks in City Worst of Century
Investigators probe a pre dawn blaze that destroyed six businesses and a residence in Keokuk Iowa causing about 1 million dollars in damage. Firefighters from five communities battled the flames for nearly four hours. No fatalities. two firefighters injured. Arson under consideration. Police evacuated residents and civil defense units aided.
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Keokuk
Iowa
Jem City Transfer Co
Mississippi River
Illinois
Keokuk Labor Temple
Humes Beer Distributing Co
Dorn’s Transfer Co
Hiland
Bernard Weber
Fort Madison
Montrose
Donnellson
Town
Hamilton
Warsaw
Ill
John Brehny
United Presbyterian Church
Brehny
4 H photography meetings planned in Washington County
4-H photography meetings announced by County Extension Director Jim Frier invite boys and girls to join two groups. Group one covers junior beginners, Group two targets amateur photographers. Leaders Ken Bakehouse and Dallas Kinney will run sessions at the Washington County Fairgrounds starting Wednesday April 29 at 7 20 pm. Participants should bring their own cameras. A 3 to 4 session series is planned focusing on camera use film types storytelling and photography as a career.
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Immmers
Washington County
Jim Frier
Ken Bakehouse
Dallas Kinney
Washington, County Fairgrounds
Lamberts Plant Hawaiian Potatoes From Washington
Mr and Mrs Clyde Lambert of Rural Route 2 Washington receive two Hawaiian potatoes to plant this spring. The potatoes, native to Hawaii but from Washington, came from a Middletown relative. Plant each potato in a 2 ft deep by 2 ft across by 1 ft wide hole, fill with dirt mulch, and set stakes as vines can reach six feet. Plants can yield up to 50 potatoes per hill and should be dug after frost.
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Clyde Lambert
Route 2
Washington
Hawaii
Middletown
County Democrats to gather for county convention
Washington County Democratic delegates will meet at the courthouse at 8 pm for the county presidential convention. County chairman Walter Farrell says every delegate has been notified by mail and urges attendance at the gathering tonight.
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Svashington County
Court House
Walter Farrell
Caravelle jet crash near Dhahran kills 49 aboard
A Middle East Airlines Caravelle with 49 aboard including 23 Americans crashed in shallow Persian Gulf waters ten miles off Dhahran Saudi Arabia. No survivors reported. ARAMCO employees among the victims. Search hampered by a sand storm and limited navigational aids at Dhahran. Flight from Beirut to Dhahran disappeared after signaling readiness to land.
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Beirut
Lebanon
UPI
Middle East Airlines
Persian Gulf
Dhahran
Saudi Arabia
Arabian American Oil Co
Aramco
Navy
Syrian Desert
Kuwait
R. E. Steed
C. W. DiSpieco
Youngstown
Ohio
Marine Corps
Dharan
Arabian American Oil Company
Bahrain
Hamal
Saudi Desert
TV awards honor Janssen Stevens on Hope show
Hollywood UPI reports Inger Stevens and David Janssen were named TV's best performers in the fifth annual TV Guide poll. Janssen’s The Fugitive and Stevens’s The Runner’s Daughter were celebrated on Bob Hope's NBC show. Huntley-Brinkley won best news program. NBC Olympic coverage cited as best single news program.
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Hollywood
UPI
Inger Stevens
David Janssen
TV Guide
Janssen
Abc-Tv
Miss Stevens
Rmer
Bob Hope
Nbc-Tv
NBC
ABC
Washington Community Chest elects five new board members
Five new members William Matson Jim McQuaid Mrs C A Larsen Mrs Paul Gebhardt and Dr Theodore Schwartz were named to the Washington Community Chest board for three year terms at this week’s annual meeting Officers will be chosen at an organizational session and plans set for activities in the coming year The addition of these five directors expands the board as it prepares for future programs and fundraising efforts.
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The
Washington Community Chest
William Matson
Jim McQuaid
C.A. Larsen
Paul Gebhardt
Theodore ‘Schwartz
Hultman blasts waste in Iowa welfare talk
Iowa Attorney General Evan L. Hultman told a Tama County GOP crowd that welfare dollars must not fund public parasites. He urged a strict review of state programs to ensure funds reach genuine need and warned against abuses in public and private charities.
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Toledy
Iowa
Evan’ L. Hultman
Johnson
America
Hultman
Washington Chamber Plans Brighton Caravan for 125th Anniversary
The Washington Chamber of Commerce and the 125th Anniversary Celebration Committee sponsor a caravan to Brighton on Wednesday evening April 22. About 100 carloads of Washington residents, including Brothers of the Brush and Anniversary Belles, will assemble at the 92 Cafe on West Madison at 6:30 pm and depart at 6:45 pm for a guided ride with Mayor Cloid Willits and Walfer Farrell as masters of ceremonies. Attendees are urged to wear old fashioned attire and bring instruments or entertainment to boost the trip. Brighton stores will stay open and shoppers are urged to visit and buy goods to celebrate 125 years of trading with Washington.
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Washington Champer of Commerce
Brighton
Washington
Brothers of the Brush
Smooth Faces
92 Cafe
West Madison
Cloid Willits
Wal
Farrell
Mr. Farrell
De Gaulle Leaves Hospital Room After Prostate Operation
President Charles de Gaulle walked briefly in his Cochin Hospital room 24 hours after a prostate operation. A bulletin described his night as good and his condition very satisfactory. The 73-year-old leader, 1965 re election prospects, and campaign signals were noted as key factors in future decisions.
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Paris
UPI
Charles de Gaulle
Cochin Hospital
de Gaulle
de Gaule
Grass fires in area burn for days despite small damage
In Washington area 13 grass fires in nine days strain fire crews. Ten fields burned near the Earl Galloway farm northeast of Washington illustrate wasted man hours from grass fires started by a discarded cigarette. Fire Chief Tom Tanner urges extreme caution as grass fire danger remains high.
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Washington City
Earl Galloway
Washington
Earl
Tom Tanner
Lightning Blamed for Junction Fire In Columbus Junction
Firefighters were called at 4 a.m to extinguish a blaze near K L Peters home in the northwest part of Columbus Junction. The building and contents were badly damaged with investigators attributing the fire to lightning during a severe thunderstorm that dropped an inch and a half of rain.
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Columbus Junction
K.L. Peters
Methodists plan four meetings to explain church workings
Washington Methodists have completed plans for a series of four meetings next week to acquaint members and friends with the inner workings of the church. Reports from each church commission will be heard and budget questions invited. The brief meetings, opening phase of every member visitation, will not take pledges and will be followed by coffee and cookies in the church basement.
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Washington Methodists
Bomb explodes in Nicosia amid truce zone tensions
A plastic bomb linked to Greek Cypriot snipers exploded near a U N forces position in central Nicosia, injuring no one. President Makarios, visiting the Ledra Palace Hotel, urged removal of a sand bagged gun position, while Greek Cypriot general Pantalides resisted. British UN troops faced irregulars along a narrow no man’s land as tensions rose.
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Nicosia
Upt
U.N
Makarios
Ledra Palace
Menelaos Pantalides
Cyprus
Pantalides
Prem S. Gyani
Cian
Ledra
Gyani
Round up suspects in police slayings
LAWRENCEVILLE Ga UPD three suspects were arrested in Carabelle Florida in a roundup of auto theft suspects linked to the killings of three Georgia officers. Police say the officers were murdered after confronting two suspicious cars on a dirt road near the Northeast Expressway. The slain officers were Jerry Everett 28 Ralph Davis 49 and Marvin Gravitt 52. The investigation involved state county and Atlanta police as detectives linked the deaths to a car theft ring. Their patrol car radio siren and lights were missing and a burned car believed stolen earlier in Atlanta was found nearby.
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Lawrenceville
UPD
Carabelle
Fla
Georgia
J. C. Bell
Florida Highway Patrol
Gwinnett County
Florida
Atlanta
Gwinnett
Quilt Sammon
Jerry R. Everett
Ralph K. Davis
Marvin Jesse Gravitt
Everett
Davis
Gravitt
Weather forecast for Iowa with Sunday frost and showers
United Press International reports partly cloudy conditions in Iowa with frost or freezing temperatures in the north on Sunday. Warmer by Sunday afternoon, highs 55 to 60, lows around 30. Monday outlook includes scattered showers and possible thunder.
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United Press International
Iowa
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Henry Berkhoff
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