Johnson to push jobless drive by cutting overtime
President Johnson, finishing a Texas holiday stay, plans a job-creation effort by pressuring manufacturers to cut overtime hours. The proposal targets creating about 919,000 new full-time positions, with budget talks and a tax plan on the horizon, while Wirtz notes excess overtime could fund full-time work.
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Johnson City
Tex
UPI
Johnson
Texas
Washington
Congress
W Willard Wirtz Wirtz
Texas White House
Najeeb Halaby
Avi
Viggers to speak at U P Brotherhood meeting
Mr and Mrs Stephen Viggers will share experiences from a trip to five European countries at the January Marion Avenue United Presbyterian Men meeting Monday evening January 6. Dinner starts at 6 30 p m in the church dining room and all interested men are invited, says Dr J F Mallory vice president of the group.
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Stephen Viggers
United Presbyterian Men
Marion Avenue
United Presbyterian Church
J.F. Mallory
YMCA Hobby and Craft Club Opens Year With Meeting
The YMCA Hobby and Craft Club begins its year with a first meeting on Monday January 6 at 5 p.m. All boys interested in hobby crafts are invited to join. The club will explore models woodworking plaster leather and ceramics at the YMCA.
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YMCA
Pope Paul VI begins Holy Land pilgrimage to seek Christian unity
History making trip to the Holy Land opens with Pope Paul VI landing in Amman in fog. Over the next three days he will visit sacred sites and meet Eastern Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras I to promote reunion after centuries of split. The pontiff pledges a pilgrimage of prayer and penance and will carry the hopes and sufferings of the world to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher and the Grotto of the Nativity. He urges forgiveness and unity, noting dialogue with Eastern churches as key to reconciliation.
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Jordan
UPI
Paul VI
Holy Land
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Athenagoras I
Eastern Orthodox Church
Rome
Antonio Segni
Athenagoras
Joseph II
Eugene IV
Constantinople
Semi-private swim lessons offered at Washington YMCA
The Washington YMCA offers eight week swim lessons for boys and girls ages 6 to 8. Two classes run Mondays 5 to 6 pm and Wednesdays 4 to 5 pm, limited to 12 pupils per class. The course ends March 2 and 4, with a total cost of $5. registration is urged.
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Washington Ymca
YMCA
Masonic lodge installs officers at open meeting
Washington Masonic Lodge held an open meeting in the temple Friday evening to install officers. George W. Dare served as installing master with John Davisson as installing marshal as about 50 attendees watched Harold F. Moothart become worshipful master and other officers named Del Sert Zager Dwight Murray Edgar Stewart Paul Snakenberg Marion Snodgrass Richard P. Stookesberry Virgil Davis Howard Timmons Ray Enfield Owen Grecian Iyler.
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Virgil Davis
Howard Timmons
Ray Enfield
Stewart
Owen Grecian
Iyler
Russian professor injured in Cambridge plunge amid secrecy
Yuri Aseyef, 35, associate professor of philosophy from the University of Ленинград, studying at Harvard, was severely hurt after a three story fall from a Cambridge apartment. He underwent surgery at Cambridge City Hospital, including spleen removal, with 24 hour nursing care. officials said asylum paperwork was in process and Russian officials may be allowed to interview him when stable.
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UPI
Cambridge
Federal Bureau of Investigation
State Department
Police
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University of Leningtad
Harvard University
Washington
Aseyef
Emassy
Harvard St
Gerald Platt
Platt
Cambridge City Hospital
Robert Owen
Owen
Martin Cramer
Aseyev
Jaycees to Collect Christmas Trees Here
Washington Jaycees will conduct their annual pickup of Christmas trees Monday evening. A truck manned by Jaycee members will tour the city collecting trees from street corners. Residents should place trees on the terrace at the street intersection nearest their home.
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Washington
Actress Eva Gabor Robbed In Miami Temple of Love
Blonde actress Eva Gabor and husband Richard Brown were bound and gagged by two masked intruders who pistol whipped her, stole a 12 carat diamond ring with 30 surrounding diamonds, a wedding band, a gold watch, cash and an earring at the Racquet Club in North Bay Village. Police studied the scene as Gabor endured a possible concussion and facial injuries.
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UPI
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Miss Gabor
Zsa Zsa
Magda
Gabor
Sion
Richard Brown
Brown
Russell Hammerschmidt
North Bay
Three Die in Iowa Weekend Traffic Toll Rise
A Friday night two car collision near Arispe left James Weeda 21 Shannon City Kenneth Eighmne 16 Tingle and Barbara Brown 17 Afton dead A fourth youth Daniel Hudson 18 Creston hospitalized with serious injuries Another crash near Manly before 6 p m cost Charles Dahl 70 Manly his life and hospitalized Larry Smith 15 Bode passenger in a pickup driven by Clarence Smith 51 as their vehicles collided on Town 9 west of Manly Iowa toll rises for the new year to seven fatalities.
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Iowa
Union County
Arispe
James Weeda
Shannon City
Kenneth Eighmne
Tingle
Barbara Brown
Afton
Daniel Hudson
Creston
Manly
Charles Dahl
Mason City
Larry Smith
Bode
Clarence
Smith
Dahl
Stores to close Saturday nights in January and February
Most Washington stores will close Saturday nights during January and February following a custom observed in recent years. Stores ending their day at 5 or 5:30 p.m. will not reopen after supper, with the early closing starting tonight.
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Washington
Goldwater Rules Out Echo As He Seeks GOP Nomination
Sen. Barry Goldwater declares for the Republican presidential nomination with a campaign plan starting in New Hampshire. He vows a clear choice between his conservatism and Rockefeller liberalism, aiming to energize Southern Republicans and confront Rockefeller in early primaries. He braces on crutches after foot surgery and highlights a cross‑country battle with major primaries slated through Illinois and California.
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Goldwater
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Robert Taft
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Orphaned sisters stay together in Collinsville
Five sisters aged 11 to 17, orphaned after their father Hershal died of a heart attack and their mother Modena passed earlier, plan to remain together under one roof with help pouring in. Etta Myers 17 is now head of the family as offers of aid flood in, including a fund drive by Betty Ferrell of East St. Louis. They owe about 4600 for their home and 2000 in funeral debts, living semi temporarily with relatives and well wishers.
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UPL
Etta Myers
Hershal
Modena
Etta
Patty
Lorene
Mae
Pamela Sue
Collinsville High School
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Betty J. Ferrell
Air Rifle Classes Begin at YMCA Washington
Air rifle sessions start Tuesday afternoon at 4 p.m. at the YMCA in Washington for boys ages 8 to 15. The program teaches gun and hunter safety, proper firearm use and care, using Daisy air rifles on a 15 foot range with official targets. Boys should register at the YMCA desk now.
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YMCA
Washington
Washington County Names Volunteer Farm Placement Reps
Donald G. Sander of the Iowa State Employment Service in Muscatine re announced the re appointment of volunteer farm representatives for 1964. The middlemen aid both farmers and workers and the service is free. In Washington County the volunteers are Donald Bold Wellman Don F Kirchner Riverside Don Rabenold and W A Trotter Ainsworth Robert Miller Crawfordsville Thomas and Roger Miller Kalona.
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Donald G. Sander
Iowa State Employment Service
Muscatine
Washington County
Donald Bold
Wellman
Don F. Kirchner
Riverside
Don Rabenold
W.A. Tr
Troopers guard Auburn campus during first Negro student registration
State troopers patrolled Auburn University as registration for the first Black student commenced. Col Al Lingo said the campus would be sealed off this morning and outsiders, including federal officials, would not be admitted.
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Auburn
Ala
UPI
Auburn University
Col al Lingo
Highway Patrol
Iowa Weather: fair tonight and mild weekend warmth ahead
United Press International reports Iowa will see fair conditions tonight with lows between 20 and 25. Sunday turns a bit cooler in the northwest, with highs from 35 to 40 and higher in the southeast. Monday looks sunny and mild.
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United Press International
Iowa
Washington Farm Institute plans announced by Ag Bureau
Fourteen members of the Ag Bureau of the Washington Chamber of Commerce met Friday to finalize plans for the second annual Washington Farm Institute set for January 22 at the YMCA. The program centers on "Opportunity" with five speakers, a free 9 a.m. coffee and doughnuts, a free noon lunch, and a Q and A session in the afternoon. Robert Kennedy will preside in the morning, with greetings from Mayor L C Willits and Walter E Ferrell Sr. The speakers include Leg Kolmer, Robert Spangler, and Robert Bergland, with afternoon talks by Thomas R Smith and M C Pete McVay. Ticket holders for the institute may obtain free lunch, and committee members are listed under program, hospitality, facilities and food, and publicity.
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Washington Chamber of Commerce
Washington Farm Institute
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Owa State University
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Jim Frier
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