Cambodia to free 12 Americans amid border tensions
Prince Norodom Sihanouk announced Cambodia will release all 12 U.S. servicemen. The 11 crewmen of a patrol craft and a helicopter crewman are freed, handed to the Australian embassy, and allowed to return home for Christmas. He noted a U.S. message urging release and tied the action to border recognition.
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Phnom Penh
UPI
Norodom Sihanouk
Cambodia
Sihanouk
Johnson
U.S
South Vietnam
United States
Mekong
Waco Hosts Christmas Party and Suzuki Expert Visit
About 90 Waco employees attended the annual Christmas party at the Captain's Table on December 14. After a buffet, gifts were exchanged in a white elephant game. On December 16, John Kendall, SU professor and Suzuki method expert, observed Project STAR classes and discussed his work across 40 states. He serves as concertmaster of the St. Louis Philharmonic and first violinist in the Edwardsville faculty string quartet. Kendall also praised Crawfordsville visits while noting library additions on Norway, Soviet, and Hungarian education funded by Byron Thomas.
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Waco
Marilyn Rees
Jackie Fulton
John Kendall
Southern Illinois University
Project Star
Kendall
Shinichi Suzuki
Japan
Suzuki
St. Louis
Norway
Byron Thomas
YW Club Sees Crafts and Christmas Program
The YW and Thirty-Niners groups held meetings and a dessert lunch at the YWCA. Mrs. Ewart Scarff presented figurines for new sconces, and Miss Dorothy Cummer with Mrs. Mark Hampsher led a Christmas program with Martha Glass on piano. Cohostesses included Mrs. Walter Anderson and others.
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Ewart Scarff
Everett Burham
Thirty - Niners
Thee Ywca
Dorothy Cummer
Wesley Bader
Mark Hampsher
Miss Cummer
Martha Glass
Esther White
W. W. Nolin
Nina Alleman
Iowa Town and Country
Walter Anderson
Roy Sowash
Edith Weidner
Accident on icy South Iowa Ave at Cemetery Road
Slippery streets caused a morning collision at the South Iowa Ave Cemetery Road junction around 8:30. Robert J. Cheyney of 220 E Van Buren Washington skidded into Wen dell DeWayne Eden of 305 W Main Washington as they turned onto Cemetery Road. No injuries and both cars sustained several hundred dollars in damage. City police filed no charges.
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South Iowa Ave
Cemetery Road
Robert J. Cheyney
E. van Buren
Washington
Wendell DeWayne Eden
W. Main
Father kills four at welfare office then dies
Sherman Kline 35 shot his estranged wife Lorraine 33 and four others at a Carlinville Illinois Department of Children and Family Services reunion party. He wounded four of his seven children and killed three workers and a stenographer before fleeing to Missouri and fatally shooting himself. Eyewitnesses named include Don Jones WFMI radio journalist and coworker Mary Lou Staltz.
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Carlinville, Ill
UPI
Sherman Kline
Carlinville
Illinois Department of Children and Family Services
Kline
Lorraine
Frank Wildegrub
Bonnie Albrecht
Ann Keppler
O'Fallon
St. Charles
Don Jones
WFMI
Litchfield
Mary Lou Staltz
Jones
Barney Patterson dies after four weeks illness
J Wyatt Barney Patterson 67 of Riverside died Wednesday December 18 1968 at Mercy Hospital Iowa City after a four week illness. Funeral Saturday 10 am Sherman Eden Funeral Home Rev L J Bergthold in charge Burial Richmond Cemetery Rosary Friday 8 pm funeral home Rev Edward F Collins in charge He was born October 14 1901 in Washington County son of Clarence and Anna Frank Patterson He farmed in Washington and Johnson Counties all his life Surviving sister Loretta Kern Washington four nephews and one niece.
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J. Wyatt
Barney) Patterson
Riverside
Mercy Hospital
Iowa City
Sherman - Eden
L. J. Bergthold
Richmond Cemetery
Rosary
Edward F. Collins
Mr. Patterson
Washington County
Clarence
Anna Frank Patterson
Washington
Johnson County
Lester
Loretta) Kern
Norman Thomas dies at 84 in Huntington New York
Norman Thomas, veteran leader of the American Socialist Party who ran for president six times, died at 10:10 a.m. at Hilaire Farms Nursing Home after a long illness. He was 84. A Presbyterian minister by training, Thomas helped shape liberal policy from the New Deal era and noted that socialism’s program endured even if the party did not. He left behind a new book, his fifteenth, due to publish next year.
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Huntington
N.Y
UPI
Norman Thomas
American Socialist Party
Thomas
Presbyterian Church
Franklin D. Roosevelt
America
United Press International
Hilaire Farms
Local family notes and holiday visits across Iowa
Pfc. Mike York arrives from Ft Belvoir Va for Christmas with his parents and relatives. Mrs Kay Thoma and daughters from Orange Ca spend holidays with the Cherry family. Larry Cuddy returns home after Vietnam tour to visit his grandparents. Legon Hall pot luck square dance Saturday 6 30. Bud Conner caller. Robert Lang and wife mark 57th wedding anniversary Saturday Dec 21. Sperry Easter of Washington undergoes eye surgery at Veterans Hospital Iowa City. Bill Lee returns from University of Iowa for Christmas break. Tina Bain a Mercy Hospital patient in Iowa City room 323 receives visitors.
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Pfc
Mike York
Ft. Belvoir
Dale York
Kay Thoma
Kim
Jamie
Orange
California
Sperry Easter
Washington
Veterans Hospital
Iowa City
Bill Lee
University of Iowa
Max Lee
Nuclear test rocks four states with giant placement blast
A cavern was blasted in Paute Mesa Nevada as the most powerful U.S. nuclear device exploded. Observers watched on closed circuit TV from 12 miles away while seismographs recorded the massive blast. The shock caused buildings to sway across four Western states and registered at 1.4 million tons of TNT energy. Gamblers on the Las Vegas Strip felt a vibration but casino operations continued.
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United States
Nevada
Hiroshima
Las Vegas Strip
Ground Zero
Counties Seek Injunction Over Property Valuation Ruling
Forty five Iowa counties asked a court to halt Revenue Department valuation increases claimed to delay tax collection. Norman Peterson warned Scott County could face a $13 million red ink if valuations shift to conform with Forst’s ruling, risking debt and interest. County officials argued Forst must act by August 19, while others claimed no deadline exists and counties lack standing to sue. The changes affected 70 counties with mixed effects on farm property taxes.
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Becker
Revenue Department
Norman Peterson
Bettendorf
Scott County
Forst
Murray
Iowa
McKinley
Bus Skids Off I 80 Near Earlham Iowa Injuring Two
Two Greyhound passengers were hospitalized after a bus went off Interstate 80 near Earlham Iowa about 12 miles west of Des Moines. The western bound bus struck a car that had hit a bridge and then skidded 250 feet down an embankment. The driver Robert C King of Omaha kept the bus upright. the car driver William Harry Johnson of Aurora Colorado was uninjured.
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Earlham
Iowa
UPI
Dallas County
Wright
Omaha
Neb
Robert C. King
Interstate
William Harry Johnson
Aurora
Colo
Johnson
Howard G Skinner dies at 80 in West Chester
Howard G Skinner 80, of West Chester, died Wednesday December 18 at 4 p m in Washington County Hospital after two years of illness. Funeral services held at Jones Funeral Home at 2 p m with Rev Richard Peterson in charge. Burial in Elm Grove Cemetery. Born June 29, 1880 at Keota to Adolphus and Catherine Skinner. Married Dora Shettler October 11, 1911 at Sigourney. Lived in Ottumwa before moving to West Chester where he painted and hung wallpaper and ran a mink farm. Survived by wife, one son Russell of West Chester, two grandchildren, one great grandson, sister Mrs Clare Schulty and brother Clayton Skinner, Washington.
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Howard G. Skinner
West Chester
Washington County Hospital
Jones Funeral Home
Richard Peterson
Elm Grove Cemetery
Mr. Skinner
Keota
Adolphus and
Catherine Dalmantha Shaffer Skinner
Sigourney
Dora Shettler
Ottumwa
Russell
Clare Schulty
Clayton Skinner
Washington
Community Dinner Celebrates Christmas Spirit and Anniversaries
December gathering at the community center featured a decorated room, a large lighted tree, and Santa presenting a poinsettia. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Glider marked their 56th anniversary as the Community Chorus debuted. A Meals on Wheels donation drive was encouraged for winter gifts. The column closes with a festive reminder of Joy to the World and the season’s meaning.
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Santa
Kerrs
Louis Glider
Kerr
Earth
Social calendar notes and upcoming meetings
Social calendar lists notices due by 10 a.m. for first publication and three day advance printing. Friday events include CWF General Meeting at 7:30 p.m. at church with executive board at 7 p.m. Garden I dessert luncheon at Captain's Table. Rebekah Lodge at IOOF Hall 7:30 p.m. Bethlehem Commandery 6:30 p.m. Masonic Temple annual potluck turkey dinner. Saturday Shirts and Skirts Club 6:30 p.m. potluck and dance at Legion Hall with meat furnished and 50 cent gift exchange led by Bud Conner.
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Square Dance
The
Legion Hall
Bud Conner
Church
Rebekah Lodge
IOOF
Bethlehem Commandery
Masonic Temple
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Boyd Siefkas
Wolf's Flower Shop
Evening Journal
Washington, Iowa
Barney Patterson
Frigidaire
Mark OF
Kniens
Larry Cuddy
Marissa
Illinois
C. M. Cuddy
Mr. Cuddy
Vietnam
Robert Langstaff
Ainsworth
Tina Bain
Curtis D. Livengood
L. B. Eicher
Livengood
University of Iowa College of Dentistry
Des Moines
Merle Bean
Eicher
B. David
Olegan
Corber
By Grace Kerr
Powell Furniture
Wellman, Iowa
Ucsb An
Bob Roe
North Iowa
Osincup
Lane
Hassocks
Marshalls
Arpet
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