Charity and politics mix in a jagged 1964 column
The column juggles editorials on charity and self righteousness, notes a New York car vandalism with a taunting witness message, surveys public school teacher salaries across Iowa and neighboring states, and critiques Ghana and Cuba revolutions while quoting President Johnson. It ends with reflections on plus fours and era shifts.
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Associated Press
Iowa
Towa
Desert
New York
California
Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah Leads Young African Nation
Proletarian Today notes Ghana on the Gulf of Guinea as a new but not newest republic with Kwame Nkrumah as its president. It describes him as a prominent left leaning African leader in the region.
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Regina
Ghana
Gulf of Guinea
Kwame Nkrumah
Fox Theater's 1964 opening recalled in town reminiscences
A Washington veteran recounts the Fox Theater opening on January 10 1964 and the era it began. He recalls street venues prior to the Fox the Pratt brothers and Clyde setting up the cinema and notes earlier theaters, figures, events, and the building’s later conversion and ownership shifts.
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Fox
Washington
Tme
Pratt
Ray Minick
Ed Fox
Fox Theater
Charley Chaplin
The
Prats
Winfield
Hinkle
Clyde Pratt
Clyde
Lyric
Star
Graham
George E. Pratt
Ralph
Ralph Pratt
Iowa United Theater Corporation
Des Moines
Ays Clyde
Clarence Locke
Family Christmas to Florida and a rattler in the yard
A Washington Iowa House column recalls holiday travel and family gatherings with the Omaha kin. It notes a sun splashed Christmas in Florida, visits by son James and grandchildren, and the seasonal mix of joy and safety reminders. The column weaves in a rattlesnake bite incident, a midget community post office aid, and a 1950s and 1960s memory of the era, ending with a New Year reflection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omaha
James
America
Grandpa
Florida
Miami
Brandon
Elinor Wyli
next eclipse and planetary positions guide by Gingerich
The article credits Owen Gingerich with publishing translations of eclipse tables and longitudes that help both scholars and laypeople predict solar events. It notes a U S eclipse on March 7, 1970 and cites works dating from 1887 and 2500 BC to 2000 AD with wide usage.
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Owen Gingerich
U.S
Florida
B.C. Gingerich
Cata
William Stahlamn
Abraham
Stahlman
Gingerich
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Johnson
Ghana Times
Ottawa Journal
Joe Palooka
Sustai
By Hamfisher
Blondie
Chic Young
Tan
Dixie Dugan
By McEvoy and
Striebel
Nancy
Woman Catherine
BY Ernie Bushmiller
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Tweeten
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Wooley Brothers
Crawfordsville
South Marion Avenue
Sears
Canfield
Eva Crone
Phil Crail
Pratts
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Waco
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Jones Funeral Home
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Florida State Highway Patrol
Trans-Canada Airlines
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Tampa
Preach
You
Washington, Iowa
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Goshen College
Harvard
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Beirut
Lebanon
Byblos
China
Sputnik
States
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Bulletin of the Smithsonian Institution
Venus
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Jupiter
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Theodor von Oppe Zer
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