Editorials: Lawyer for the Poor at the Supreme Court
A Washington Iowa journal excerpt reviews a U.S. Supreme Court ruling ensuring indigent defendants receive legal rights equal to those of the wealthy. It highlights a University of Iowa law professor who defended a prison inmate in a habeas corpus case, stressing the principle that the poor should receive essential legal aids without cost or delay.
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College of Law
University of Iowa
Supreme Court of the United States
Iowa
Supreme Court
Iowa City
Iowa Penitentiary
Lawrence Long
District Court
Ventriloquist for Congress Fun Idea in The Times
A witty note suggests electing a ventriloquist to the legislature after noting a London paper’s report that a ventriloquist named Charles Astor died leaving a sizable estate. The piece mocks politicians as mouthpieces and imagines the chaos a ventriloquist could create in government.
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Times of London
Eng
Charles Astor
Iowa to regulate surface mining under new bill
A Des Moines report notes Iowa mines about one million tons annually, mostly from strip mines. A legislative study committee backs a 1967 bill to regulate surface mining beyond coal and gypsum, requiring post mining land smoothing, a $50 license, and mine registration, with enforcement powers for the state mining department and a companion effort to restore abandoned sites as demonstration projects.
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Des Moines
IDPA
Iowa
State Mining Department
Moving to Arizona Willis family leaves Iowa
Brighton reports a farewell coffee for Mrs Beatrice Tracey and Mrs Keith Willis as they depart for Tempe Arizona with family. Other items note Pythian Sisters meeting at K P Hall a barbecued pork supper plans and a Past Chiefs Club Christmas party with carols and gifts. A Job's Daughters ceremony in Des Moines and a vytman Sisters event with a Santa visit are also mentioned along with several social visits.
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Brighton
Lloyd Reighard
Mable Dunbar
Beatrice Tracey
Keith Willis
Tracy
Mrs. Willis
Annette Reighard
Kathryn, Mineart
Clarence Brown
Tony Meath
Doug
Sherry Wikoff
Tempe
Arizona
Pythian Sisters
K.P. Hall
Kay Custer
M.E.C
Knights and Sisters
Louise Engle
Margaret Miller
Howard Koch
Harold Swick
New London
Carroll Morgan
North West of Richland
Nelle Long
Max Waterhouse
Hazel Wikoff
Marianne Brinning
Beth Lepper
Eva Stagers
Beatrice Tracy
Santa
Ed Warren
Pacifica
California
Maurice Gowey
Ray Brinton
Des Moines
Bethel
Job
Supreme Guardian
Velma Joy Burney
Portland
Oregon
Harvey Smith
Omaha
Nebraska
Warren
Calif
International Order of Job’s Daughters
Guardian Council
San Bruno
Bethel No
South
San Francisco
Grand Guardian Council of
Vytman Sisters
Martha Schooley
Christmas program at Bethel Church in Bethel
Bethel Church will host a Christmas program by the children on Sunday evening December 18 at 7 30 with all invited. The issue also notes the David McCartney family letter from North English detailing family activities including John’s Navy basic training in San Diego Elaine finishing Cedar Falls and Joe and Eric involved in school and church life plus hunting and basketball. Mr and Mrs Charley Horak celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary with open house from 2 to 4. The column also comments on unseasonably warm weather and fall plowing by farmers.
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Bethel
Bethel Church
David McCartney
North English
David
McCartney
Charley Horak
Horaks
Dean Sandburg
Washington Evening Journal and Advertisers Acknowledgments
Fragmented OCR shows the Washington Evening Journal and associated staff names and roles, with scattered references to editors, advertisers, and production, plus stray terms like United Press Leased Wire and circulation notes. The readable fragments include staff positions and subscription mentions though no coherent news item is present.
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United Preas
Inland
Prem Astin Town Daily Press
Prems Ass'n
Burest
Notrump Opening Leads to Controversial Double
In a twenty year old Columbia Club rubber bridge game in Indianapolis, Joe Cain opened one notrump as South, Al Sobel doubled after a two diamonds overcall by North, and the sequence highlighted a tense moment in the club. Sobel, then American Contract Bridge League tournament director, recalls the incident with a mix of regret and fairness, noting the players’ emotions and the fragile nature of competitive bridge ethics.
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North
Columbia Club
Indianapolis
West
al Sobel
South
Joe Cain
Sobel
Cain
King Fea
Misplayed lead turns a 3NT redouble into a five for Sobel
In a bridge club tale from the past, Sobel doubles after North redoubles to three no trump. East outsources a club lead out of turn, and Cain forces the return, yielding Sobel a disaster as declarer makes five notrump redoubled, netting Cain a lunch amid the Syndicate.
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Sobel
North
East
Declarer
Cain
West
South
Joe Cain
Tures Syndicate. Inc
Kalona Rebekah Lodge elects 1967 officers in meeting
Kalona December 5 election of Kalona Rebekah Lodge officers for 1967 named C R Beckley noble grand Phillip Preston vice grand Jack Guengerich secretary L J Strickler treasurer and Alva Kepler trustee for three years Presiding was Mrs Donald Dickel with 21 members present Plans set for December 16 Christmas party and Secret Sisters.
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Kalona
Kalona Rebekah
Odd Fellows Hall
C. R. Beckley
Noble Grand
Phillip Preston
Jack Guengerich
L. J. Strickler
Alva Kepler
Donald Dickel
Preston
H. A Swartzendruber
Gail Swartzendruber
Beckley
Roland Maxwell
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