Iowa Farm Boy's Steer Competing In Chicago Finals
A 950-pound Aberdeen-Angus steer named Holy Cow owned by 17-year-old Chuck Wood Jr. of Spencer Iowa competes for the grand championship at the 59th International Live Stock Exposition in Chicago. The steer faces four eastern university contenders after a blue ribbon win in the senior calf class.
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Chicago
UPI
Iowa
Holy Cow
Chuck Wood Jr
Spencer
Wood
Pennsylvania State University
Iowa State College
Wether
Iowa State
Penn State
Airlines Hope for Strike Settlement
Prospects for settlement improve as Trans World Airlines faces a dispute over mechanics seniority rights while Pan American maintains service for months. Eastern Air Lines shows little progress with engineers’ union rejections and American Airlines gains time from a court hearing on a pilots’ union dispute.
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Trans World Airlines
Pan American World Airways
Leverett Edwards
National Mediation Board
Kansas City
TWA
International Association of Machinists
Pan American
Transport Workers Union
State Supreme Court
Railway Labor Act
Eastern Air Lines
Flight Engineers International Union
Miami
Fla
IAM
Eastern Mechanics
American Airlines
U. S. District Court
Frederick van Pelt Bryan
New York
Air Line Pilots ’Association
American
Pratts Lead In U s Bridge Marathon
Richard and wife Pratt top the third round of the U s Men s bridge marathon with 6900 points, a 200 point edge over Roy Fields and his partner at 6700. Top ten list includes McCleery Phillips Glassburner Morrison Elder Hensel Reed Walker Bailey and the duo of McConaughy Ellingsworth. Missouri the leader with 21813 calves in 1958 the nation s registered Angus cattle production, followed by Iowa Illinois Texas and Oklahoma.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Pratt
Pratt
Roy Fields
Howard McCleery
T. R. Phillips
William Glassburner
Ira Morrison
Dave Elder
Clint Hensel
Robert Reed
John Walker
Ted Bailey
William McConaughy
Don Ellingsworth
Missouri
Iowa
Ilinois
Texas
Oklahoma
Republicans to Meet McManus Over Iowa Senate Appointments
Prominent Republican senators plan an informal meeting with Sen. Edward J. McManus to avoid a clash over Iowa Senate committee appointments for 1959. Republicans hold a 3 17 majority and seek control while Loveless faces cooperation challenges with McManus as presiding officer.
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Des Moines
UPI
Edward J. McManus
Senate
William Nicholas
McManus
Nicholas
Herschel C. Loveless
GOP
Cuban Rebels Defy American Forces
Eastern Cuba reports say 16 Americans held by rebels and more than 60 deprived of water and milk. United Fruit says 14 Americans at Guara station captured with the village. mill and Cuban homes impacted. Rebels call for U S help to free reporters. police deny entrapment claims.
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Havana
UPI
Cuba
United Fruit Co
Guara
Preston
United Fruit
Preston Mill
U.S
Inter-American Press Assn
Pat Farley Zopane
Fort Lauderdale
Fla
Cienfuegos
United States
Earl E.T. Smith
American State Department
Fulgency
Batista
School Plan Carries In Louisa and Muscatine Areas
Voters in seven parts of Louisa and Muscatine Counties approved a plan for a reorganized school district in a special election. The proposal passed 556 to 70 in all seven areas including Grandview and Letts. Effective July 1 1959 the new district unites four Louisa County districts and three in Muscatine County.
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Columbus
Louisa
Muscatine
Grandview
Letts
Louisa County
State Senator Watson Dies After Illness in Sheldon
State Sen Harry E Watson 52 a longtime Republican legislator died Monday night in Sheldon after a three day illness. A farmer and landowner from Archer born in 1906 he represented O Brien Clay and Dickinson counties and chaired the Senate Appropriations Committee in 1957. Gov Loveless will order a special election to fill the vacancy.
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Sheldon
Iowa
UPI
Harry E. Watson
Sanborn
Watson
Senate
Sanborn Funeral
House
O’brien
Clay
Dickinson
Archer
Herschel C. Loveless
Jaycees to Install Christmas Decorations Tonight
Washington Jaycees meet at the Ross Motor Service building at 7 this evening to finish decorating the business district. They will place the nativity scene at city hall and wreaths around the square with all members urged to assist.
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Washington Jaycees
Ross Motor Service
Jaycees
City Hall
Farm Prices in Iowa Rise in November
Iowa farm prices in mid November are up 7 percent from a year ago, with the index at 250 percent of the 1910-14 base. The Agriculture Department notes a smaller decline than usual from October, dropping about 1 percent versus the 1947-56 average fall of nearly 5 percent.
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Des Moines
UPI
Iowa
Agriculture Department
Petitions on School Reorganization Plan Filed Today
Petitions from 18 districts in the Washington area reorganization plan were filed with county superintendent Lester B. Krabill. Committee members said the required signatures are secured in each district and more than half of eligible rural voters have signed. A hearing before the county board of education will set a date within days to move toward an election.
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Washington
Lester B. Krabill
County Board of Education
Knutson Voices Frustration Over Eavesdropping Probe
Washington UPI reports Rep. Coya Knutson expresses unhappiness at an attorney's disclosure that his operatives bugged her apartment. The attorney Benedict Fitzgerald Jr. claimed use of a parabolic microphone and automobile tracer to track her husband Andy amid a pending suit and alleged affairs.
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Washington
UPI
Coya Knutson
D-Minn
Benedict Fitzgerald Jr
Coya
Andy
Tragic Our Lady of Angels Fire Recounts Heroic Escapes
Eyewitness accounts tell of a Chicago tragedy at Our Lady of Angels school. Nurses and lay volunteers describe heroic acts by a nun and father as students struggled to flee amid smoke and flames.
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Chicago
UPI
Our Lady of Angels School
Lions Club Carnival At West Chester Schoolhouse
Chester Lions Club presents its annual carnival and box social at the West Chester school house on Saturday December 6 at 7 30 p m Proceeds support local community projects sponsored by the Lions Club of West Chester
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West Chester
Lions Club
Lions Club of
Arson or accident eyed in Chicago Our Lady of Angels blaze
Police and FBI investigate the Our Lady of Angels fire on Chicago's West Side that killed 87 students and 3 nuns and injured nearly 100 others. Arson squad questions students about a discarded cigarette in the basement stairwell as coroner orders a blue ribbon inquest.
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Chicago
UPS
West Side
Austin
John XXIII
Our Lady of Angels Parochial
Walter McCarron
Pope
Patrick Deely
Frank Pape
Pape
O’sheay
Machaj
FBI
Iroquois Theatre
New London
Tex
Our Lady of the Angels
Cook County
Robert Quinn
Quinn
Farmington Doctor Honored as National General Practitioner
Dr. Lonnie A. Coffin, 68, longtime Farming ton physician, named the nation’s outstanding general practitioner of the year by the AMA House of Delegates. Coffin delivered 2,500 babies, founded Indian Lake Park, supported local youth, and remains active in practice after 44 years in Farmington Iowa.
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Minneapolis
UPI
Lonnie A. Coffin
Farmington
Iowa
The
American Medical Assn
Coffin
AMA
House of Delegates
Iowa State Medical Society
van Buren
France
Drake University Medical School
Iowa Methodist Hospital
Des Moines
Gretta
Indian Lake
Local Swine Men Visit New Testing Station
A carload of residents visited the open house of Southeast Iowa Bear Testing station in Ottumwa on Monday. The station, opened in November, now has 196 pure bred pigs on test with Washington County entries from Knoteks Chabal Riverside and Don Robison Brighton. Local attendees included John Knotek Lee Chabal Ed Long Cecil Long Don Robison and Tom Robb with Knotek serving on the board of directors.
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Ottumwa
Iowa
Washington County
Knoteks
Chabal
Riverside
Don Robison
Brighton
John Knotek
Lee Holland
Ed Chabal
Cecil Long
Tom Robb
Knotek
Jaycees Sell Christmas Trees Here This Week
Washington Jaycees announce their annual Christmas tree sale to fund service projects. The lot at Willits corner, one block north of the post office, opens Thursday from 2 to 9 p m and runs daily until December 13. After December 13 hours are 1 to 9 p m.
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Washington Jaycees
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Willits Corner
Re Appointment Of Medical Staff At Washington County Hospital
Washington County Hospital board, at a regular meeting, re appointed all present medical staff as required annually. Active staff include C. A. Boice and 10 others. associate members J R Miller, K L McGuire, J G Widmer, John S Hooley. Consulting members cover pathology roentgenology surgery and internal medicine.
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Washington County Hospital Board
C. A. Boice
W.S. Kyle
J. M. Lloyd
T. M. Mast
M. L. McCreedy
G. E. Montgomery
G. J. Nemmers
C. W. Beckman
D. G. Sattler
E. D. Miller
E. J. Vosika
J. R. Miller
K. L. McGuire
J. G. Widmer
John S. Hooley
K. L. Cross
Pathology
G. M. Wyatt
C. M. Greenwald
Roentgenology
J. W. Dulin
G. H. Scanlon
W. R., Vetter
C. E. Schrock
G. S. Anderson
H. M. Korns
Iowa Democrats End 1958 Campaigns in the Red
Iowa Democratic State Central Committee reports a 777.92 deficit after receipts of 16 505 65 and expenditures of 12 451 71 from July 26 to November 25. Chairman Donald Norberg hopes a December 18 Des Moines Victory Dinner will erase the deficit and aid 1960 local elections.
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Des Moines
UPI
Democratic State Central Committee of
Iowa
Secretary of State
Democratic Committee
Donald Norberg
Albia
Norberg
Weather summary for Iowa: mild and cloudy through Wednesday
Partly cloudy through Wednesday with warmer nights in the north and east. Mild conditions continue on Wednesday with highs around 35 in the northeast and near 50 in the southwest. Tonight’s low temperatures range from 24 to 32 degrees. Thursday remains partly cloudy with continued mild weather.
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United Press International
Iowa
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Ed Klock
Mary Brock
Margaret Chambers
Margaret
Chester Lions Club
Vatican
Archdiocese of
Our Lady of Angels
Daniel O’sheay
Patrick Machay
Ed Ball
Little League
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