4-H Demonstration Teams Compete In Annual Fair
Madeline Redeker and Dorothy Coakley of the Marionettes were named grand champions in the 4-H Achievement Show demonstration division. The junior and senior divisions highlighted "A Footstool with Storage Space" and "Sticks and Stones" among blue and red ribbon entries. Winners earn trips to the Dairy Cattle Congress in Waterloo and state fair opportunities as noted in the event's program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Armory
Madeline Redeker
Dorothy Coakley
Marionette Club
Dorothy
Ohers
Peggy Stewart
Phyllis Martin
Wynne Petraty
Beverly Wilson
Busy Bees
Madeline
Washington Coun
Wynne Petratz
Buss Pees
Waterloo
Dairy Cattle Congress
Phyllis Anderson
Joyce Suter
Clover Seaf Club
Peees Sreart
Waterloo Dairy Congress
Donna
Mary
Jo Bareverette
Anne Friese
Genevieve Redeker
Marionetties
Donna Selka
Parmerettes
Jarol
Sandra Ornduff
Jolly Cinderella Players
Patty Lash
Belle Day
Isabelle Booth
Marionettes
Lawlys
Pegg Stewart
Ruth Augustine
Patty Sheerz
Jolly Jokers
Owanda Blattner
Mary Galloway
The
Sara Young
Joan Eagle
Phyllis Lowe
JoAnn McNeil
Clover Leal Club
Joyce Brewer
Sarah Trotman
Dovee Brewer
Mary Jonselmenns
Jdovee Stailer
Peggy Stewner
Kharla Pareed
Journal Club Set Rev. Phillips as Guest Speaker
Rev Milo Phillips has been secured as guest speaker for this years Journal Three Quarter Century dinner at the Country Club on Saturday August 28 at noon. Invitations have been mailed to about 2000 members and reservations are already returning to the Journal office. Membership is free and aging 75 or older may obtain application blanks at the Journal office. Transportation from 111 No Marion will be provided if desired.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milo Phillips
This Years Journal
Country Club
Journal Office
Journal
No. Marion
Marriage License Issued to Kroecker and Diener in Upland
A marriage license has been issued to Bernhard Paul Kroe ker and Esther Ruth Diener, both residents of Upland California.
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Bernhard Paul Kroeker
Esther Ruth Diener
Upland
Calif
Five Appear Before Judge J. G. Patterson
Judge J. G. Patterson presided in district court Thursday with five defendants. Edgar Knepp received a suspended 90 day OMVI sentence and parole while license suspended. Ernest Zook got 200 dollars fine and costs with license suspended. Powers and Ferns pleaded not guilty and await trial. Dale Kerr pleaded guilty to larceny of an outboard motor and drew 60 days at hard labor.
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J. G. Patterson
Edgar Knepp
OMVI
Washington County
Zank
Ernest Zook
Richard Lehnan Powers
Harold Woodrow Ferns
Judes Batterson
Mren
Dale Kerr
Britain Plans to Test Atomic Weapons Near Australia
London warned ships and planes to stay clear of a 60 000 square mile naval area northwest of Australia as Britain prepares its first atomic explosion. The Monte Bello Islands near the northwest coast will host the test within days, with a 200 by 300 mile zone deemed dangerous to aircraft and shipping during the weapon test.
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London
Urs
Britain
Australia
Monte Bello Islands
Indiana Ocean
Admiralty
Arrest of Clifford Avers for intoxication sentenced
Clifford Avers was arrested last night on intoxication charges and appeared before Mayor W B Dupuis this morning. He was sentenced to 20 days in the county jail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clifford Avers
W B. Dupuis
Marriage License Issued To Boekelman And Koehle
A marriage license was issued at the courthouse today for Vernon Harold Boekelman of Buffalo Center and Julia Koehle of Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Court House
Vernon Harold Boekelman
Buffalo Center
Julia Koehle
Washington
Supper at Richmond Holy Trinity Church
Members of the Holy Trinity church in Richmond will host a chicken supper Sunday evening August 10 with serving starting at 5 o'clock at the hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holy Trinity Church
Richmond
Rain Forces Cancellation of Greenfield Softball Doubleheader
Rain at noon today forced the cancellation of a planned doubleheader softball card at Greenfield tonight. No makeup date was announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greenfield
Thirteen Perish In Navy Crash Near Sangley Point
A PBM seaplane based near Sangley Point in the Philippines crashed in Japan with 12 aboard missing for over 26 hours after reporting a starboard propeller failure. Navy and Air Force planes from the Philippine Islands conducted a large search over Manila Bay and surrounding waters amid heavy rain.
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Tokyo
Japan
U. S. Navy
Philippine Islands
Manila Bay
Sangley Point Naval Base
Philippines
Drought Aid Plans Paced for Stricken States
Agriculture officials from Tennessee Kentucky Iowa Wisconsin Michigan Indiana Illinois convened to map an emergency cattle feed plan for Tennessee and Kentucky. The plan funded with 5 million dollars in federal emergency funds, to be advanced by the Housing and Home Finance Agency, will be carried out with the Commodity Credit Corp. buying shipping and selling feed at reasonable prices to farmers. The drought has burned pastures and hay crops forcing farmers to cull cattle to avoid starvation.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Tennessee
Kentucky
Hood
True
Iowa
Wisconsin
Michigan
Indiana
Ilinois
Commodity Credit Corp
Housing and Home Finance Agency
Weather outlook for Iowa with cooling trend this weekend
Partly cloudy and cooler tonight with showers in extreme east. Saturday fair and rather cool with highs around 75 to 80. Low tonight near 60 in the northwest and about 60 elsewhere. Sunday looks fair and a bit warmer with scattered showers west late Sunday. Five day outlook: normal highs 84 to 88, lows 60 to 62. cooler Saturday, warmer Sunday, then cooler again Monday and Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Art Eden Finds Rare 1850 Canadian Half-Cent Coin
Art Eden, an employee of the city water plant, uncovered a half-cent Canadian coin dated 1850 while digging a ditch on South Avenue in Bo. The coin is smaller than a fifty-cent piece and adds to his collection of coins gathered over many years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Art Eden
City
Ieee
Mr. Eden
South Avenue
Eden
Plans for Local Gas Service In Washington Iowa
City council held an informal session with Iowa Southern Utilities officials and local heating dealers to discuss natural gas service plans. Utilities expect all current equipment buyers to be served under new permits, with permit issuance required before further work. Dealers urged including heaters, utility, and city council representatives in the final permit system draft for gas installations.
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Iowa Southern Utilities Company
Washington
Iowa Southern
Oil Plant Burns At Cedar Rapids Fire Destroys Shellane Bulk Facility
A Shell Oil Co Shellane bulk oil plant in Cedar Rapids was struck by an explosion fueled fire Thursday night. Firemen fought the blaze for nearly three hours with gaso line products exploding and sending dense smoke and flames high into the air. Twenty one year old Charles Holtzman, at the plant when discovered, suffered burns and was hospitalized in fair condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Shellane
Shell Oil Co
Wiles
Charles Holtzman
Wis
County Boy Scouts map Get Out the Vote drive and camporee
District Boy Scout meeting at the Ka lona hotel outlined a Get Out the Vote campaign for November led by Dr Robert Q. Eastland of Washington. Plans include door to door reminders before the November 4 election. Camporee set for September 5 to 7 probably at Lake Darling with Warren Dare as camping and activities chairman. Attendees included Senator Carl T. Anderson, Ole Slostad, Martin Hunter, and five Brighton residents representing a new troop.
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Kalona Hotel
Robert Q. Eastland
Washington
Warren Dare
Lake Darling
Carl T. Anderson
Wellman
Ole Slostad
Hawkeye
Martin Hunter
Iowa City
Mr. Hunter
Salina
Kansas
Brighton
Bill Boshart
Russell Bannister
Gifford Morrison
Robert Everetts
Richard Pratt
E. L. Haney
Dr. Eastland
Walter Messer
Paul V. Shearer
Artemas Brown to Speak at Sunday Union Service
Artemas Brown will speak on Religion for Young People at the regular Sunday evening union church service in Central Park. Assisting will be Everette Burham with Charles Lueckenbill as soloist and Mrs Artemas Brown on the piano.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Artemas Brown
Union
Central Park
Mr. Brown
Everette Burham
Charles Lueckenbill
Local Woman Arrested for Suspended License and DUI
Marjorie Loebsek of Sandwich Hawaii was arrested west of Washington on Highway 92 this morning by the sheriff s office. She was charged with operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated after her car went into the ditch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marjorie Loebsek
Sandwich
Washington
Sheriff's Office
Final Rites Held for Mrs. Owen Sutherland
Funeral services for Mrs. Owen Sutherland of Iowa City were held at the First Presbyterian Church with Dr. J. Grossheim in charge. Burial followed at Monticello Cemetery. Mrs. Sutherland, longtime secretary of the church, was killed in a car crash near Buffalo, Wyoming, last Monday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Owen Sutherland
Iowa City
First Presbyterian Church
J. Grossheim
Monticelto
Grossheim
P Hewison Pollock
Sutherland
Washington
Buffalo
Wyo
Rhee Casts Doubt On Korea Peace Through Truce Talks
South Korea’s President Syngman Rhee expressed no hope that Panmunjom armistice discussions would end the war. He stated that peace seems unlikely until the Soviet Union accepts defeat of the free nations. Chinese news in Peiping accused the North of seeking to wreck negotiations as talks resume Monday.
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Panmunjom
Korea
Syngman Rhee
Seoul
Soviet Union
Peiping
Beardsley Urges Iowans to Back Eisenhower
Gov. William Beardsley in Irwin urges Iowans to elect Dwight D. Eisenhower to lead the nation, railing at Truman era policies as inflationary and harmful to solvency. He portrays Iowa’s administration as sound and progressive as Democratic rival Herschel Loveless planned to speak at the two day horse show.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Irwin
Iowa
Williams
Beardsley
Herschel Loveless
Itumwa
Top Dairy Project Sells at $37 Here Thursday
Annual Washington county Junior Achievement show highlighted by a Durée barrow sold for 39 per 100 pounds to John Knotek, top dairy market project results feature 138 head sold at 22.80 per cwt average, total receipts 6043 dollars, and a reserve champion steer judged earlier.
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Washington County
John Knotek
Bohr Brothers of
Weisman
Vee Duree
Mr. Kootek
Wilson & Co
Cedar Rapids
Durtan Brothers
Wellman
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Rev. Phillipt
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Mhan
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Jack Droz
Lee Emery
Logan Reif
Kalona
Dr Evert Haney
Camporee
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Jerry Johnson
72Nd Ordnance Medium Automotive Maintenance Company
Savanna Ordnance Depot
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Howard Bohr
Harold
Bob Cave
Vara
Angus Heifer
Paul Smith
David Norman
Calvin Graber
Larry Shalla
Bill Durran
Don Argo
Dean Luers
David Meyers
Bob Kleese
Jon Jarvis
Wendel Bachmann
Don Stoutner
Jim Watson
Ken Bauer
John Alsip
Phyllis Semler
John Spenner
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Dale Mil
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Willis Longer
Don Spenner
Willis Long
Dean Meyer
Jerry Crossett
Harvey Timmons
Keith Horn
Bob Spencer
Bill Durian
Merle Farrier
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Richard Ross
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