Staley Sets Stage for NFO Holding Action
Oren Lee Staley winner of the NFC presidency launches the movement toward a nationwide holding action on agricultural products. He vows to push contracts with processors and organize a moratorium to pressure higher farm prices amid a 12 minute speech at the NFC convention. The group plans extending bargaining units across 22 states as New York and New Jersey dairy groups join the effort.
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DES Moines
UPI
Oren Lee Staley
N-F-O
National Farmers Organization
Staley
NFC
Forest Nave Jr
Missouri
Robert Casper
Winterset
Militant
Corning
Iowa
New York
New Jersey
NFO
Church World Service Truck to Collect Used Clothing
The Church World Service truck will visit Washington around December 17, 1963. Gather usable clothing bedding and shoes and bring them to the First Baptist Church before that date. Pack items in boxes and label with your church name and address. Donors are asked to contribute eight cents per pound for overseas mailing if possible.
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Church World Service
Washington
First Baptist Church
Church World Service Center
Berlin Wall to open for Christmas visits
East German authorities will permit West Berliners to visit East Berlin during the Christmas period. The West German press office said East Berlin plans to allow visits and that technical details for passes and passage through the wall would be arranged by experts.
Open house announced for Bronze Medallion Home by Bob Swift
Iowa Southern Utilities Co announces an open house for the Bronze Medallion Home built by Bob Swift at the west edge of Washington on highway 1 and 92. Visitors are invited Saturday 1 to 8 p m and Sunday 1 to 5 p m. Details appear in today’s Evening Journal advertisement.
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Bob Swift
Washington
Iowa Southern Utilities Co
Evening Journal
Iowa Woman Charged with Murder in Child Death
Marilyn Ostrander faces a murder charge in the death of her 6 year old stepdaughter Melinda on November 26. She was arrested after calling a minister to report the case and was arraigned held without bond for a preliminary hearing set December 6. She and husband Ronald Ostrander recently moved to Webster City from Newton.
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Webster City
Iowa
UPI
Marilyn Ostrander
Arthur Long
Ronald
Newton
Portugal Faces UN Security Council Over African Policy
At UN headquarters in New York the African bloc pressed Portugal before the Security Council accusing its rule in Angola Mozambique and Portuguese Guinea of threatening regional peace. While rejecting broad sanctions they signaled possible renewed talks and highlighted NATO ties as a point of contention.
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United Nations N.Y
UPI
Portugal
Security Council
Council
Norway
South Africa
Angola
Mozambique
Portuguese Guinea
U.N
Africa
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO
Obituary of Edward Blumenstein of Wellman
Edward Blumenstein died at 12 40 p m Thursday at his Wellman home after a stroke in 1961. Funeral Sunday 2 p m at Powell Funeral Home Wellman Rev Arthur Ulrich to officiate. Burial Wassonville Cemetery. Survived by three daughters Margery Miller Irene Groff Venneta Brannon. one son Merle. one brother Harvey Seattle. one sister Merle Munson Wellman. nine grandchildren ten great grandchildren. Born November 5 1886 to Frank and Lavina Blumenstein. Married Minnie Perrin February 24 1909. Lutheran Church member, lifelong Wellman area resident.
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Wellman
Edward W Blumenstein
Powell
Arthur Ulrich
Wassonville
Blumenstein
Mr. Blumenstein
Frank and
Lavina Wetrich Blumenstein
Minnie Perrin
Lutheran Church
Wellman Area
Melvin
Margery) Miller
William
Irene) Groff
Charles
Venneta) Brannon
Mt. Pleasant
Merle
Milan
Ill
Harvey
Seattle
Soviet claims Kennedy death blamed on right wing extremists
In Pravda the Soviet Union accuses right wing extremists of eliminating President Kennedy to shift U S political forces, while urging China to halt anti-Soviet propaganda and calling for a world Communist Party conference. The piece notes Kennedy as a key capitalist leader trying to adjust policies. Western observers doubt a successful Soviet summit with China.
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Moscow
Kennedy
Moscow Radio
Peking
Swisher Receives Six Month Federal Prison Term
Iowa City lawyer and state representative Scott Swisher was sentenced by Judge Roy L. Stephenson to serve a six month federal prison term after pleading guilty to failing to file federal income tax returns for 1957 through 1960 totaling about 59897 dollars. Swisher, 44, was given a week to surrender and had acknowledged neglect linked to his father Ingalls Swisher’s ill health and his own heart problems.
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Des Moines
UPI
Scott Swisher
D - Iawa
Swisher
U.S
Roy L. Stephenson
Stephenson
Ingalls
Perfect attendance drive urged by Rotary club
President Bill Sitler announces a December campaign to hold at least two 100 percent meetings. If achieved, Washington is likely to lead the district in attendance that month as members are urged to attend every Monday in December.
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Bill Sitler
Rotary Club
Washington
Johnson calls for fresh ideas to fight communism in hemisphere
President Johnson challenged U S foreign policy planners to generate new ideas to combat Communist subversion in the hemisphere as he cited the South Vietnam struggle involving 18 000 Americans. He urged constant self review to ensure maximum effort and success. He spoke to 800 senior State Department officers and outlined expected initiative, vigor, and candor in policy and actions. The president highlighted confidence in his top aides and noted progress since Kennedy's era.
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Washington
UPI
Johnson
South
Viet Nam
U.S
State Department
America
White House
Central Intelligence Agency
John A. McCone
Anthony J. Celebrezze
Department
South Viet Nam
Vocal instructor Knecht attends national association meeting
Verne Knecht, vocational agricultural instructor at Washington High School, serves as an official delegate to the fifteenth annual National Vocational Agricultural Teachers Association convention in Atlantic City New Jersey. More than 400 VTA teachers will attend as the Iowa association representative. sessions run from Saturday noon to Thursday evening December 12.
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Verne Knecht
Washington High School
National Vocational Agricultural Teacher’s Association
Atlantic City
New Jersey
Mr. Knecht
Iowa Association
Tractor Auto Crash Near Washington Causes Damages
A tractor and plow driven by Burt Hahn and an auto driven by Donald Patterson collided Thursday evening one half mile north of the junction of highways 1 and 92 in Washington. Patterson failed to see the tractor and struck its rear, pushing it off the road. Damages were about 250 dollars to the tractor and 450 dollars to the auto. No injuries reported.
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Burt Hahn
Washington
Donald Patterson
Patterson
Hahn
Patterson Auto
Cookies for veterans at Iowa City hospital urged
Red Cross officials request cookies for holiday festivities at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Iowa City. Mrs Ralph Martin VA Hospital chairman asks willing women to bake and donate cookies immediately and contact her or the Red Cross office in Washington.
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Red Cross
Veterans Administration Hospital
Iowa City
Ralph Martin
Red Cross VA
Weather Outlook Iowa Five Day Forecast
Weather by United Press International for Iowa. Fair and warmer tonight. Saturday cloudy and colder with a chance of showers. Low tonight 32 to 35. High Saturday 40s north to 50s south. Sunday decreasing clouds cooler and windy. Five day forecast: temperatures Friday night through next Wednesday average slightly below normal. Rain and snow Saturday Monday and Tuesday totaling about 1.4 inches.
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United Press International
Iowa
Americans awarded Freedom Medals in White House ceremony
President Johnson awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 31 men and women including Marian Anderson Ralph Bunche Felix Frankfurter and Pablo Casals. The ceremony in the White House marked both celebrated fame and humble lifelong service with recipients spanning arts science diplomacy education and advocacy.
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Washington
UPI
Johnson
Peace Corps
White House
Kennedy
New York
Herbert H. Lehman
Lehman
Marian Anderson
United Nations
Ralph J. Bunche
Supreme Court
Felix Frankfurter
Aflcio
George Meany
Pablo Casals
Jean Monnet
Thornton Wilder
Genevieve Caulfield
Thailand
Viet Nam
Annie Wauneka
Arizona
Colorado
Utah
New Mexico
Luis Munoz Marin
Puerto Rico
E. B. White
North Brooklin
Maine
Edmund Wilson
Wellfleet
Mass
J. Clifford MacDonald
Tampa
Fla
Anderson
Bunche
Ellsworth Bunker
Putney
Caulfield
James B. Conant
John F. Enders
Boston
Frankfurter
Karl Hol
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