Johnson orders $1.5B Manned Orbiting Lab to orbit in 1968
President Johnson directs the Defense Department to fund a $1.5 billion Manned Orbiting Laboratory to launch in 1968 with two astronauts aboard. The cylinder shaped lab will be boosted by a Titan 3-C, attached to a Gemini capsule, and will conduct two weeks to a month of space experiments while advancing spaceflight technology and peaceful purposes.
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Joseph L. Myler
Washington
UPI
Johnson
Defense Department
Manned Orbiting Laborator
United States
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Gemini
Earth
Hubert H. Humphrey
National Aeronautics and Space Council
Council
Defence
Robert S. McNamara
James E. Webb
United Nations
MOL
Registration Monday for new and returning Washington schools
New teachers report today with orientation in the administrative building then meet principals. Students register Monday August 30 by last name, with kindergarten and Brighton pupils also on that day. Birth certificates required for registration. morning and afternoon slots depend on name initials.
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Washington
Brighton
Cattle Feeders Plan Arizona Tour For Iowa Group
Washington County residents may join a Farm Bureau cattle feeder tour to Flagstaff Arizona. Registration at the county office is required by September 24. Arizona hosts will showcase several thousand Hereford calves and yearlings on rangeland at 7000 feet in the ponderosa pine area during the week of October 25.
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Washington County
Farm Bureau
Flagstaff
Ariz
Arizona Farm Bureau Livestock Producers
Iowa
Ponderosa Pine
Rain totals in Washington reach three quarters inch
Washington weather observer reports about .72 inches of moisture from a rain event early this morning. The downpour began around 6 a.m. with the majority of the precipitation falling in a hard shower.
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Washington
Washington Community High welcomes 169 freshmen and sophomores
About 169 students attended the annual pre school orientation at Washington Community High School Tuesday evening. Twelve new students joined as sophomores prepared to begin classes in the high school, with organ music, a welcome by Rex Neuhauser, and an introduction to Principal Burge Hammond and Assistant Principal Tom English.
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Washington Community High School
Jacqueline Schoonover
Rex Neuhart
Rex
Burge Hammond
Hammond
Tom English
Washington High School
Permelia Lay
Dick Anderson
Meri Jo Birney
Martin Chebuhar
Bill Hardy
Phil McConnell
Dave McDaniel
Max Meyer
Ellen Moriarty
Allen Pohren
Mid-Prairie Schools Opening Date Set for August 27
WELLMAN Mid-Prairie Community schools will open Friday August 27 with an anticipated enrollment of 1300 pupils. Kalona elementary and the junior and senior high start at 8 40 a m and end at 3 30 p m while Wellman and West Chester elementary start at 8 40 a m and end at 3 50 p m. Transportation schedules cause the variation and town students are advised not to arrive before 3 30 a m. The district will observe daylight saving time until after Labor Day.
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Wellman — Mid - Prairie
Kalona
Wellman
West Chester
Waco High School Band to Perform at Iowa State Fair
The Waco High School marching band will perform twice at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines. The 70-member group, led by drum major Nancy Rhea and director Harold Dodd, travels from Olds on Saturday and appears at noon and 7 p.m. on Friday.
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Olds
Waco
Fair Grounds
Nancy Rhea
Harold Dodd
Jr high age dance at YMCA Saturday
The last YMCA sponsored junior high dance of the summer season will be held from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Saturday in the community room of the Y building. New seventh graders are invited to attend for the first time to meet new classmates and other junior high students. Cost is ten cents at the door with a 35 cent day pass for non members.
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Y Building
Cedar Falls Youth Shot Dead During Target Practice
A Cedar Falls youth, 17 year old Tom Koshatka, was killed instantly when another youth, 18 year old Brad DeHoff, accidentally fired a new .22 caliber rifle. DeHoff, unfamiliar with the gun, chambered a shell and misjudged that the bullet hadn’t entered. The shot struck Koshatka in the heart as he stood in front of him.
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Cedar Falls
Iowa
UPI
Here
Tom Koshatka
Brad DeHoff
Koshatka
DeHoff
Nomination Papers Circulated For Wayne Davis In Washington
Local political scene today reports nomination papers circulated for Wayne Davis for councilman at large. Davis seeks re election to his current post. City clerk notes Mayor Cloid Willits has taken out nomination papers as well.
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Wayne Davis
Washington
Davis
Cloid Willits
Committeemen Named In ASC Elections In Washington County
Washington County ASC elections list community committeemen chosen August 23 at polling places. Top five vote-getters become committee members for a year with chair and vice chair auto delegates to the county convention August 28 at 9 30 a m. Current members are Howard Lins Sam Boyd and David Kleese. The county committee and community appointees set policy explain programs and assign duties with committee members eligible for commodity sealing and farm work. Names announced in order by township include Brighton Luke Weber Carl Jarvis Dwight Robison Carl Corpman Guy Stacy Cedar Robert Pearson Wayne Witthoft Kenneth Patterson Robert Jones John Duvall Clay Ray Maor er Harvey Hoskins Roy Rogers Lane Morgan Paul Snyder Crawford Silas Finke Jr William Edgar Alvin Jones Russell Williams Robert Henderson Dutch Creek Francis Wright Leland Sheetz Kenneth Pepper Waldo Miller Cloyce Crone English River Richard Scott Lloyd Plecker C A Small Raymond Cor tum Mark Koening Franklin Wilbur Wright Clyde Crile Robert Stout Bruce Campbell Kenneth Cuddeback Highland Donald Swailes Richard Soukup Merle Colton Dean Sandburg Paul Beard Iowa Charles Sku bal Marion Thompson William Schneider Edward Kucera Leroy O Connor Jackson Rogert Marek Lloyd Duensing Ralph Witthoft Harold Strum Leroy Yeggy Lime Creek Henry Berger Carol Oldfield Harold Leitsinger Leo Gislain Oral Norman Marion Stephen Wolfer Leonid Novak Ralph Schoonover Harold Gamon Glenn Wenger Oregon Glen Lord George Stout Jr Elmer Wenger Duane White Henry Wagenknecht Seventy six Lawrence Romine Cletus Reed Lyle Palmer Carold Richard Dennis Stoutner Washington Ward Wolfe Raymond Bonar Eugene Reed Lloyd Courtney Richard Wiley
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ASC
Washington County
Howard Lins
Sam Boyd
David Kleese
Munity
Brighton
Luke Weber
Carl Jarvis
Dwight Robison
Carl Corpman
Guy Stacy
Cedar Township
Robert Pearson
Wayne Witthoft
Kenneth Patterson
Robert Jones
John Duvall
Clay Township
Ray Maorer
Harvey Hoskins
Roy Rogers
Lane Morgan
Paul Snyder
Crawford Township
Silas Finke Jr
William Edgar
Alvin Jones
Russell Williams
Robert Henderson
Dutch Creek
Francis Wright
Leland Sheetz
Kenneth Pepper
Waldo Miller
Cloyce Crone
English River
Richard Scott
Lloyd Plecker
C. A. Small
Raymond Cortum
Mark Koening
Franklin
Wilbur Wright
Clyde Crile
Robert Stout
Bruce Campbell
Kenneth Cuddeback
Highland
Donald
Iowa
Charles Skubal
Marion Thompson
William Schneider
Edward Kucera
Leroy O’conner
Jackson
Rogert Marek
Lloyd Duensing
Ralph Witthoft
Harold Strum
Leroy Yeggy
Lime Creek
Henry Berger
Carol Oldfield
Harold Leitsinger
Leo Gislain
Oral Norman
Marion
Stephen Wolfer
Leonid Novak
Ralph Schoonover
Harold Gamon
Glenn Wenger
Oregon
Glen Lord
George Stout Jr
Elmer Wenger
Duane White
Henry Wagenknecht
Lawrence Romine
Cletus Reed
Lyle Palmer
Carold Richard
Dennis Stoutner
Washington Township
Ooward Wolfe
Raymond Bonar
Eugene Reed
Lloyd Courtney
Richard Wiley
Gemini 5 crews spy Minuteman launch in space watch
Gemini 5 astronauts Gordon Cooper and Charles Conrad witness a Minuteman missile launch from Vandenberg AFB California as they near the halfway mark of their eight day spaceflight. The sighting occurs during the fifth day on Gemini 5 orbiting the Earth, with control noting fuel use and splashdown plans in the Western Atlantic.
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Vandenberg Air Force Base
Calif
Cooper
Conrad
Minuteman
Pacific
Gemini Control
Valerie Bykovsky
Trudy
Gordo
Baja Peninsula
Lower
California
Atlantic
Earth
Study merit system for state employees in Iowa
Iowa Governor Hughes said the Executive Council will study a proposed merit system for about 8,000 state workers, with final recommendations due December 15. The plan would replace the failed civil service bill from 1965, while Hughes pledges ongoing civil service advocacy. He favors biennial tests for future applicants, opposes retesting current staff, and would fire any unqualified workers.
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Des Moines
UPI
Iowa Executive Council
Harold E. Hughes
Hughes
Iowa
New minister Charles E. Cowell Jr. named pastor at First Christian Church
Rev. Charles E. Cowell Jr. is installed as pastor of the First Christian Church in Washington. He and his family will move into the parsonage at 309 West Second Street. Cowell, 41, arrives from Fargo where he led the First Chan Church and taught psychology at a local university while serving as VA Hospital chaplain. He holds degrees from George Washington University and Southern California School of Theology, including a doctorate of divinity. The first sermon is scheduled for Sunday, September 5.
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Charles E. Cowell Jr
First Christian Church
Washington
Cowell
West Second Street
George Washington University
Washington, D. C
Southern California School of Theology
The
Christian Church
North Hollywood
Calif
University of Minnesota
First Chan
Fargo
North da
University In
Five Iowans honored for life saving at State Fair
Gov. Hughes awarded five Iowans for heroic acts during the 107th Iowa State Fair. Anthony Colbert Des Moines Ed ward Cotter Corning Robert Brinton Fort Dodge Jerome Haugland Cherokee and Dennis Goldman Delta were cited for rescuing people from danger in separate incidents. Cotter revived Ray Christ after a live wire contact, Goldman saved Wayne Goldman from the North Skunk River, Colbert pulled a coworker from electrical danger, and Brinton and Haugland helped rescue two victims from a burning car after a Fort Dodge crash.
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Des Moines
UPI
Cotter
Ray Christ
Corning
Christ
Wayne Smith
Goldman
North Skunk
Delta
Wayne
Dennis
Nis
Colbert
Veterans Memorail
Mike Bolton
Haugland
Brinton
Fort Dodge
John Eggen
Randall
Eggen
Weather Summary for Iowa Tonight and Thursday
Partly cloudy conditions across Iowa with showers and thunderstorms in the west. Showers affect 20 to 40 percent tonight with continued mild temperatures. tonight’s lows near 60 to 65 and highs Thursday in the 80s.
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Iowa
West Portion
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