Capsule Recovery Attempt Today
Capsul e recovery under way from space as Discoverer XVIII capsule with human and plant life aboard is to be recovered in the Pacific near Hawaii after a 4 pole-to-pole orbit. The 300 pound gold plated capsule carried radiation exposure data to aid future manned spaceflight projects.
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Vandenberg Air Force Base
Calif
Upi
Space
O. J. Ritland
Air Force Ballistics Missiles Division
Earth
Pacific Ocean
Hawaii
Sunnyvale
Tax Group Seeks Lower State Spending and Tax Relief
The Iowa Taxpayers Association urged reducing the state treasury surplus to a working level and avoiding tax increases. It proposed directing any additional school aid to property tax relief while keeping school control local, and asked local governments to cut spending and use excess funds for temporary relief. It also urged Congress to curb federal spending and eventually cut taxes.
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Des Moines
UPS
Iowa Tax Payers Association
Association
Lown
Iowa
Central Plains braced as storm complex spreads
A storm center moving from the Southwest into the central Plains brings freezing rain and ice across Oklahoma, Nebraska, Kansas, Texas, Colorado, and Missouri. The system caused record snowfalls in New Mexico and Arizona and left deaths blamed on the siege as cold air and snow spread to Indiana and New England.
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Central Plains
Oklahoma
Nebraska
Texas
Kansas
Colorado
Missouri
New Mexico
Arizona
Canadian
Indiana
New England
Jacob Lake
Grand Canyon
Ariz
Socorro
N M
Tucumcari
Roswell
N.M
el Paso
Tex
Rockies
Gulf Coast
Florida
Plains
Great Lakes
North Atlantic
California
Oregon
Washington
Iowa man pleads guilty in lonely hearts fraud case
Hilmer Eldon Barnes 49 of Clarinda pleaded guilty in Des Moines federal court to using the mails to defraud in a lonely hearts scheme. He was indicted Nov 3 by a grand jury at Council Bluffs and arrested in Clarinda. Judge Roy L. Stephenson accepted the plea and deferred sentencing until Judge Robert Van Pelt arrives.
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Des Moines
UPI
Lowan
Iowa
Minnesota
California
Hilmer Eldon Barnes
Clarinda
Council Bluffs
Barnes
U. S
Roy L. Stephenson
Stephenson
Robert van Pell
Lincoln
Neb
U.S
Education Leaders to Meet in Mount Pleasant December 12
Lay leaders from seven counties gather in Mount Pleasant for a 7 30 p m workshop on education legislation. More than 300 invitations issued by George Alton of Fort Madison for the Action Committee for Education Legislation. Speakers include Ray Nyhan and Walter Edgren with Q A to follow.
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Mount Pleasant
Henry County Court House
George Alton
Fort Madison
Action Committee
Des Moines
State Department of Public Instruction
Nyhan
Edgren
Action Committee For
Iowa Department of Classroom Teachers
Ladies Auxiliary
Iowa Department of Veterans of Foreign Wars
Disabled American Veterans
Iowa Association of County Superintendents
Iowa
Congress of Parents and Teachers
American Association of University Women
Iowa Federation of Women's Clubs
Iowa Association For Childhood Education
Iowa Association of School Administrators
Iowa State Education Association
Upsilon State
Delta Kappa Gamma
Henry
Jefferson, Lee
Louisa
van Buren
Washington
Canadians discuss Cuba trade push amid embargo gaps
A 10 man Cuban trade mission split into three groups visiting Montreal Ottawa and Toronto seeking to buy Canadian sugar mill machinery auto parts and other equipment. Cuba aims to spend 3.5 million immediately and up to 150 million in Canada next year to bypass U S embargoes. Officials from Canada and Cuba expressed optimism with no firm Canadian resistance reported.
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Ottawa
UPI
Canada
United States
Fidel Castro
Montreal
Toronto
George Hees
Regino Boti
Cuba
Beti
Hees
Boti
Emma McClelland Dies After Hip Injury
Mrs Emma McClelland died this morning at University Hospital Iowa City after a fall fractured hip two weeks ago Funeral services set for Monday at 2 p m at Powell Funeral Home Wellman Rev Paul Dietterich officiating Burial in Wellman Cemetery She was born April 18 1870 in Jefferson County daughter of Samuel and Minam Evans married William McClelland Jan 9 1896 lived in Nira since age 11 Survivors include brother Will Evans South English and sister Mrs Walter Furman Wellman
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Wellman
Emma McClelland
University Hospital
Iowa City
Powell
Paul Dietterich
McClelland
Jefferson County
Samuel and
Minam Newland Evans
William McClelland
Washington County
Nira
Will Evans
South English
Walter Furman
State Dept inspector general funds cut in probe
The GAO halted all spending for the State Department inspector general after Congress was denied access to documents on foreign aid programs in Brazil Uruguay Argentina Chile Bolivia Peru and Colombia. Acting Inspector General James F. Nugent and his 85 staff face possible job loss while the White House weighs restoring funds.
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Washington
James F. Nugent
State Department
Eisenhower
GAO
Rep
Porter Hardy Jr
D-Va
House
White House
Il Am
Hardy
Congress
Executive Branch
Inspector General
Cuban government rushes troops to quell anti Castro guerrillas
Cuban forces move reinforcements to the North Central coast region to crush rural anti Castro guerrillas led by a former Castro captain. Officials report casualties among militia and a wave of fatigue malnutrition among troops as 2,500 militiamen are ferried in from Santa Clara. In Havana, 1000 electrical workers protest at the presidential palace, prompting a government postponement of a CT C purge.
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Havana
Cuba
UPI
Fidel Castro
Corralillo
Sagua Lagrande
Campito
Campos
Fulgencio Batista
Norberto Morales
Cartabena
Rodas
Las Villas
Cuban Workers Confederation
CTC
Russia
Castro
Mrs. John Hyde Jr. Dies Here Friday
Mrs. John Hyde Jr., 57, of near Brighton died Friday at Washington County Hospital after three weeks of illness. Funeral services were held Sunday at Zehr Funeral Home in Wayland with Rev. E. E. Voss officiating. Burial in Cottonwood Cemetery. Born September 8, 1903 in Lowel she was married January 29, 1931 in Mt. Pleasant to John Hyde Jr. Survived by husband Rich ard, a son, two grandsons, and two brothers Frank Hull and Eber Hull.
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Wayland
John Hyde Jr
Near Brighton
Washington County Hospital
Zehr
E. E. Voss
Brighton
Cottonwood
Lowel
John
Maggie Schadt Hall
Mt. Pleasant
Richard
Frank Hull
Trenton
Eber Hull
Sycamore
De Gaulle’s Algeria visit sparks large Algiers riots
Rioters clashed with French troops as Charles de Gaulle toured Cherchell Infantry School 80 miles from Algiers. In Algiers 4 000 to 5 000 demonstrators tried to reach the palace with barricades and tanks nearby. Security used tear gas and clubs. no live fire reported, casualties undetailed. Rioting also reported in Oran and Blida among European settler demonstrators.
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Algiers
Algeria
UPI
Charles de Gaulle
Oran
Blinda
de Gaulle
Jean Morin
Cherchell
Franklin Roosevelt Avenue
Palace Garden
Summer Palace
Kennedy in Florida for weekend cabinet speculations
President elect John F Kennedy flew to Palm Beach with his wife and infant for a weekend with family while rumors swirled about cabinet choices. Possible nominees mentioned include Douglas Dillon Robert McNamara and Dean Rusk as potential treasury defense or state heads amid ongoing Washington speculation.
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Palm Beach
Fla
UPI
John F. Kennedy
South Florida
Washington
Kennedy
Jacqueline
John Jr
Caroline
State
Defense
Treasury
Pierre Salinger
Douglas Dillon
Eisenhower
Salinger
Dillon
Robert McNamara
Ford Motor Co
Thomas S. Gates Jr
Health
Edu
Interior
Florida
Dean Rusk
Rockefeller Foundation
David K. F. Bruce
Truman
William J Fulbright
D-Ark
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
NFO Members to Hear Reports December 14
Reports from the national board meeting of the NFO will be shared at the Washington County NFO meeting on December 14 in the Odd Fellows Hall. Des Moines discussed expanding dairy group membership and setting minimum milk prices. A new NFO collective bargaining program would boycott processors or packers not signing NFO contracts at pre determined prices. Resolutions were adopted with Herschel Newsom and Merwin Coad among speakers.
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National Board
NFO
Washington County
Odd Fellows Hall
Des Moines
Herschel Newsom
National Grange
Merwin Coad
Mrs Bessie Beasley Dies in Arlington Virginia
Mrs Bessie R Beasley died Friday December 9 in a hospital at Arlington Virginia after about a year of illness She was 72 and born in Washington County She had lived in Albuquerque New Mexico but with daughter and son in law Capt and Mrs Earnest Lambert of Arlington Survivors include daughter Mrs E P Lambert mother Mrs Harry Ritten and brother Lloyd
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Bessie R. Beasley
Arlington
Washington County
Earnest Lambert
Albuquerque
New Mexico
Ives
E. P. Lambert
Harry Ritten
House of
Donald Gardner Named Noble Grand of IOOF
Donald L. Gardner has been named noble grand of the Odd Fellows lodge here. Other officers elected include Ivan West as vice grand LeRoy Jugenheimer recording secretary Charles Mur dock financial secretary Earl Nicola treasurer and Don Hazen trustee.
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Donald L. Gardner
The
Odd Fellows Lodge
Ivan West
LeRoy Jugenheimer
Charles Murdock
Earl Nicola
Don Hazen
Two Survivors Of Airplane Crash In Vermont And New York
Two of eight crew members from a crashed Stratofortress reached safety near Schroon Lake New York after bailing out Friday night. Maj Karl E Keyes sustained serious injuries and Capt William T Combs appeared uninjured as hundreds searched the two state wilderness for the remaining airmen.
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Combs
Bristol
Keyes
Hyattsville
Former Wayland Lady Dies While Shopping
Mrs. Jesse Cundy of Cedar Falls collapsed and died in a Waterloo florist shop while Christmas shopping Friday afternoon. She had lived in Wayland on two occasions and was mother to Mrs. Gilbert Schantz, who had also lived in Wayland and now resides in Wellsburg.
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Wayland
Waterloo
Jesse Cundy
Cedar Falls
Gilbert Schantz
Wellsburg
Cundy
Snow Warning in Iowa as Winter Storm Impacts Southwest
Extreme southwest Iowa faces a heavy snow warning tonight and Sunday with four inches or more possible. Snow develops this afternoon in the extreme southwest then spreads west and central tonight and statewide Sunday, with mix of snow sleet or freezing rain in the extreme south tonight. Highs in the 20s, lows 10 to 15 from north to upper 20s south, and colder Monday as snow ends west to east.
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Iowa
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Butch) Wells
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Bob Elliott
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Buffalo
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Arlington, Va
Donald Gardner
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