Sweden Sets H Day for Left to Right Traffic Change
Sweden plans a three part transition for the 1967 switch to right hand driving with a nationwide no traffic period on H Day September 3. A 10 hour ban clears roads as police lights signs and road markings are changed. Thousands of volunteers and 2000 military policemen will assist the operation.
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Stockholm
UPI
Hoeger
Ford
State Commission
Commission
Sweden
Hday
Tammy Branstetter Turns Two In Crawfordsville
Crawfordsville Aug 3 Tammy Branstetter celebrated her second birthday Friday. Guests included Mrs. Carl Aine and children Tammy Todd Kendyl and Mrs. Branstetter. Also noted: Wayman family welcomed a son Thomas Robert at St Luke's Cedar Rapids weighing 7 lbs 14 oz, and Tom Godfry visiting Cedar Rapids with cousin Bob Wells to attend the Washington Fair.
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Crawfordsville
Tammy Branstetter
Carl Aine
Tammy
Todd
Kendyl
Branstetter
Floyd Fisher
Daryl Owens
Mike
Lynnette
Illinois
Stronghurst
Keokuk
New Boston
Robert Wayman
St. Luke’s Hospital
Cedar Rapids
Waymans
Wayman
Hattie Dye
Atkins
Thomas Robert
Tom Godfry
Bob Wells
Charles Wells
Washington
Vacation period at Bethel church
Bethel church will suspend Sunday services on August 22 while Rev. Mil an Thompson takes a two Sunday vacation starting August 15. Sunday School will meet on the 15th, then no services on the 22nd to allow members to visit other churches.
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Bethel
Milan Thompson
Mike
Marty Pender
Monroe
Iowa
Jr. Knottnerns
Marty
Donald Brown
Beverly Crandall
Joe Kauffman
Judy Thompson
Eisenhower to Attend Hoover Birthday Observance
Former President Dwight Eisenhower will attend the Herbert Hoover birthday event in West Branch. Arrangements for Tuesday August 10 are underway with a 2 p.m. program at the Hoover Library and a stamp sale beginning at 8:30 a.m. at the post office for first day cancellations. The town, with under 1,100 residents, will host activities throughout the day.
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West Branch
Dwight Eisenhower
Herbert Hoover
Post
Lewis Yoder on Colorado vacation
Local notes from Kalona detail multiple summer trips and visits. Lewis D. Yoder sails to Manitou Springs while families from Kalona join excursions to Minnesota and New York. Hospitals in Iowa City report an emergency appendectomy for Harley Coblentz. Events focus on Hoover library dedication with dignitaries, stamps, and commemorative activities drawing thousands.
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Kalona
Lewis D. Yoder
Manitou Springs
Colorado
Joe Allen
Bena
Minn
Harley Coblentz
Near Kalona
Mercy
Harry F. Fry
Claude Lee
Seattle
Washington
Mae Stillwell
Philip Foraker
Iowa City
Katona
Paul Baumert
Swartzendruber
Elizabeth Stumpf
Fifth Street
Jean Figgins
Connie Ehrenfelt
Minneapolis
Ruby
Mary Bontrager
Ruth Fisher
Marie Jackson
New York
New England
Susan Kinsinger
Steve
Doug Knepp
Jacob Zinn
Eric Shaver
United Christian and Baptist Church
Forest Lake
Ottumwa
Julie Hartzler
University Hospitals
Car crashes into Iowa farm home injures driver
In Hampton, Iowa, a car driven by Margaret Mildrath, 40, left U.S. 65 and crashed into the southwest corner of the Recepka family's living room at midnight. Mildrath was treated and released, while the Recepka family escaped injury. The car was demolished and house damage was not yet estimated.
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Hampton
Iowa
UPI
Lyle Recepka
Here
Franklin County Sheriff’s
Margaret Mildrath
U.S. 65
Recepka
Mildrath
Country Breakfast Coffee Raisin Biscuits Recipe
This feature extols a hearty country breakfast starting with coffee and fresh berries. It provides a full biscuit recipe with coffee in the dough, vanilla notes, and a vanilla cream finishing brush. Ingredients include biscuit mix, instant coffee, raisins, spices, egg, milk, and cream.
Reseal or redeem corn loans amid price outlook
Iowa State economist Gene Futrell analyzes whether farmers should reseal corn under loan or redeem loans and sell on the cash market. He notes May to July price dip about 7 cents, potential weakness into late summer, and a ~13 cent per bushel gross reseal return. He adds CCC sales and 1964 crop actions drive down prices. a 3.9 billion bushel crop could keep supplies ample, with yield up modestly and oat and barley prospects also covered.
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Iowa State University
Gene Futrell
Futrell
CCC
Iowa
Richland News Briefs A Weekend of Visits and Milestones
In Richland many residents hosted guests including James Fassett Cheryl and Fred McCleary and families at Levi Van Dyke’s home. Gear Morrows hosted relatives from Peru and Ottumwa. Pfeiffer-Zear reunion drew about 60 from multiple towns with 40th wedding anniversary noted for C J and Ot tumwa’s Zear pair. Julius Zear return trip to Whitier planned after ten days here. Major surgeries and hospital stays were reported for Mrs Lyle Keiser and Mrs Clarence Wehage. Albert Buttery plans Florida vacation while A Joe Kelly and Dennis Kelly family celebrated grandson Timothy’s birthday in Davenport.
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Hadley
Audubon
L.O. Hadley
Pfeiffer - Zear
Richland Friends Church
Whittier
Calif
Cedar Rapids
Ainsworth
Washington
Keota
Fairfield
Sigourney
Coralville
C.J. Zear
Ottumwa
Raymond Zear
C.K. Zear
Whitier
Lyle Keiser
Jefferson County Hospital
Don Feltz
Clarence Wehage
Sperry
Albert Buttery
Florida
Helen Ramsey
Colo
Richland
Ollie
Joe Kelly
Davenport
Timothy
Dennis Kelly
Saturday Stamp Corner recalls Adlai Stevenson memorial
A postal memorial stamp for Adlai Stevenson will be released October 23 in Bloomington Illinois with ceremonies linking his Illinois roots and UN contributions. President Johnson praised Stevenson in a letter to the Postmaster General. collectors may request first day covers and uncancelled stamps from designated post offices while other new issues include a Christmas stamp in Silver Bell Arizona and a Lincoln stamp in New York City as part of the Prominent Americans series. A Traf fic Safety commemorative to be issued September 3 in Baltimore Maryland features a red light signal and a 115 million print run managed by the Post Office Department with first day covers handled there.
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Illinois
United Nations
Adlai Stevenson
Bloomington
Johnson
Gronouski
Silver Bell
Arizona
New York
Baltimore
Giori Press
Post Office Department
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Robert Day
Robert Bates
West Main St
John C. Owen
West Washington
South Side Square
Stewart & Shearer
Attorneys At Law
Richard A. Stewart
Paul V. Shearer
West Main
M. L. Tweeton
Marion
Optometrists
Eisenhower
Lewis Yoder
Mrs. Eugene Way
United States
Hoover School
Strategic Air Command Air Force Base
Offutt Field
Nebraska
Great Lakes Naval Training Center
Presidential Library
William Thalacker
Murray W. Gibson
Richard J. Murphy
United States Post Office Department
Richard G. Stuelke
West Branch Heritage Foundation
Richard M. Nixon
Dwight M. Miller
Memorial Park
Charles W. Corkran
Corkran
Miller
Washington Concrete CO
12Th St
Rock Island
Joey
Murs
Wilson
Levi van Dyke
Mrs
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Brighton
Carrie J. Mumper
New
Interesine Pares
Eddie Edwards
Dean Edwards
Orpha Griffith
J. W. Hendrickson
By Walt Green
CL. Jennings
Northrup King Fair
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Chas. H. Schroeder
Wellman
Carl Luers
Harold Mineart
Rt. 1
Delbert Krotz
Bob Yoder
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Keith Murphy
Richard Weeks
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