Bells to ring across Washington County on July Fourth
Washington County will join a national bell ringing project on July 4 at noon. Churches schools and city bells including St James St Mary Riverside First Baptist and the city hall fire bell will sound for four minutes to honor freedom. The effort echoes John Adams and receives Kennedy’s presidential urging as a patriotic act.
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Washington County
United States
Robert Bates
Washington County Bar Association
Bates
Washington
Earl
J. Lew
St James Catholic Church
Walter Boeckmann
St. Mary's Catholic Church
Riverside
First Baptist Church
First Presbyterian Church
Fire
City Hall
Richard Peterson
Harold de. Vries
Maynard L. Brown
City
St. Paul
West Chester
Grace Hill
John Adams
Adams
Evermore
John F. Kennedy
Special Services At Tabernacle This Week
Special services are conducted this week Monday through Friday at the Christian Tabernacle. The Rev. Harold Williams will deliver messages each evening at 7 30. Williams, lately in Washington, is en route to churches in Chicago Philadelphia and Washington areas with his wife and three teenage children. The public is invited.
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Christian Tabernacle
Harold Williams
Williams
Washington
Chicago
Philadelphia
Washington, D. C
Dies in Des Moines: Dr Edmund Zimmerer, health chief
Dr. Edmund G. Zimmerer, 74, Iowa State Health Commissioner since 1953, died early today at Methodist Hospital Des Moines. He joined Iowa Health in 1941 as cancer control director after leading Nebraska health divisions and earlier serving as a bacteriologist and hospital medical director. A fire alarm report notes smoking electrical wires in an alley on West Second Street with minor damage.
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UPI
Famund G. Zimmerer
Iowa
Methodist Hospital
Zimmerer
William S. Beardsley
Iowa Department of Health
Division of Cancer Control
Iowa Department
Nebraska
Washington
Monnday
West Second Street
Red Cross Swim Program Continues in Washington County
The American Red Cross in Washington County reports the summer learn to swim program at the Washington Municipal pool is progressing smoothly with about 900 children enrolled. Directing the effort is Mrs. Clinton Boshart, with Mrs. Mike Berns as assistant director. A long list of instructors, swimmer aides, water safety aides, basket monitors, and time keepers is helping run the program.
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Richard Schiebel
American Red Cross
Washington
Washington Municipal
Clinton Boshart
Mike Berns
Marsh Atkinson
Tom Brown
W. H. Boekelman
Sam McCleery
Harold Moore
Jim Richart
Max Roth
Marian Schiebel
Don Smith
Milo Steele Jr
Harold Stevens
Don Taylor
Ward Weitrich
Charles Carter
Hal Dunham
Neal Des
Shirley Garrett
Edna Jones
Sandy Rich
Don Rich
M. D. Snodgrass
Donna Guy
Mary Crone
Marietta Fuhr
Judy Dodder
Lavon Graber
Laura Holden
Chris McCleery
Kay McCleery
Marla Simmering
Janet Schiebel
Susan Wettrieb
Doris Boileau
Chris Campbell
Jean Johnson
Jim Brown
Larry Custer
Pat Hanson
Mary Powers
Trudy Hysell
Barbara Robertson
Maxine Yoder
Soil Moisture Short in State Signals Drought Risk
Iowa reports subnormal rainfall for seven to eight of nine weeks with fair to poor pasture conditions widespread. Corn and soybeans need rain soon. corn about three inches taller than last year, about 60 percent laid, and moisture stress rising despite generally good crop conditions in heavier rainfall areas.
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Des Moines
UPI
Iowa
Sand Concert to Feature Marches And Selections
The Municipal Band in Central Park will present a sand concert Wednesday at 8 PM featuring marches and popular selections. Program includes God Bless America and The National Anthem, with pieces such as Colonel Miner’s March Rosen Aurora Overture Yoder Stardust Carmichael Twilight Time Nevins Swing Bolero Yoder Anniversary Song Jolson Leader Man Rag arr Corfield The Klaxon March Fillmore With a Song in My Heart Rogers Home on the Range arr Breigel Crosley March Fillmore.
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Yoder
Carmichael
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Man Rag
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Klaxon
Fillmore
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Breigel
Crosley
Farm Bureau District Meetings Planned in July
About 1 000 Iowa farmers are expected at district Farm Bureau meetings July 8 to 12 to develop policy. County resolutions committees will work on the county opinionnaire and member participation plans. District seven meeting for Washington County is set for Iris Court Mt Pleasant at 6 p.m. CST July 10.
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Iowa
Country Farm Bureau Resolutions Committees
Farm Bureau
County Resolutions Committee
Washington County
Iris Court
Mt. Pleasant
Storm damage as rain and wind strike Washington County
Rain showers and gusty winds hit the Washington County area causing farm damage near Coppock along Sandy Hook road. Two large trees fell on the Don Fox farm damaging a yarn and a garage, with windows blown out and hail damaging nearby beans. Crops on Leichty and Petratz farms were blown over but not ruined. A separate break in at the American Legion rooms in Crawfordsville led to the theft of three Springfield rifles.
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Washington
Washington County
Sandy Hook Road
Coppock
Riverside
Crawfordsville
Kalona
Richmond
Wayland
Don Fox Farm
Fox
Leichty
Petratz
American Legion
Britisher Flees To Soviet Zone
LONDON UP I Prime Minister Harold Macmillan faced a new scandal as Edward Heath disclosed that HA R Kim Philby a former British diplomat and noted Soviet agent tipped off Burgess and MacLean in 1951 about security officials on their trail He also suggested Philby may have fled to the Soviet Union, deepening the sex and security scandal surrounding Provo and Christine Keeler.
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UPI
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Burgess-MacLean
Russia
Privy Seal
Edward Heath
HA. R
Kim) Philby
Beirut
Lebanon
Guy Burgess
Donald MacLean
Burgess
MacLean
Foreign Office
Heath
Philby
Washington
Macmill
Macmillan
John Profumo
Christine Keel
Plan Holiday Events At Local Country Club
Washington Golf and Country Club hosts a Fourth of July program for members featuring a two ball foursome golf tournament at 1 30 p m on Thursday a potluck supper at 6 30 p m where each family brings a meat dish and another dish to share and a fireworks display after the meal.
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Washington Golf and Country Club
Secret Police Agent Here Soviet Diplomat Expelled
Washington reports a Russian born U.S. employee in a sensitive post was expelled after the State Department charged a Soviet attache, Gennadiy Sevastyanov, with espionage threats to a U.S. worker identified as John. The affair highlights KGB activity within the Soviet embassy and a … journey of coercion and fear across U.S. soil.
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UPI
U.S
Russia
Soviet Emassy
State Department
Gennadiy G. Sevastyanov
Soviet Union
Fed
Committee For State Security
KGB
NAACP presses for stronger civil rights action in Congress
Chicago UP I report on the NAACP declaring President Kennedy's civil rights program inadequate and urging sweeping legislation this session. Delegates at the 54th NAACP convention plan a mass civil rights convention in Washington to pressure leaders, with calls to extend attorney general powers, sanction discriminatory unions, and enforce fair employment practices. Roy Wilkins warned that support for robust civil rights measures is essential and signaled political opposition to Goldwater and certain senators in 1964.
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Congress
Anim Naacp
Washington
Seton
NAACP
Fair Employment Practices Commission
Herbert Hill
Afl-Cio
Roy Wilkins
Association
Barry Goldwater
Wilkins
Everett M. Dirksen
R-N
Richard B. Russell
D-Ga
Country Club to Seek Beer and Liquor Licenses
Washington Golf and Country Club stockholders voted to pursue beer and liquor licenses for sale by the glass at the club. The board was authorized to file necessary applications, with a beer permit already submitted to the county supervisors. The vote was overwhelmingly in favor as Iowa’s new liquor law replaces the former bottle provision.
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Washington Golf and Country Club
Club
County Board of Supervisors
Iowa
Albert Nicola 86 Dies in Washington Nursing Home
Albert Nicola 86 of Columbus City died Monday at 8 10 p m in The Pines Nursing Home Washington He was born Oct 16 1876 near Riverside son of Marcellus and Christine Tottman Nicola He married Martha Miller July 13 1908 Surviving are his wife a son Clyde of Columbus City a daughter Dortha Warren Washington four grandchildren seven great grandchildren and one sister Mrs Viola Johnson Powell Wyo Funeral is Wednesday at 2 p m at Stacy Funeral Home Columbus Junction Burial will be Elm Grove Cemetery Washington
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Nicola
Riverside
Marcellus
Christine Tottman Nicola
Martha Miller
Clyde
Daugher
Dortha Warren
Viola Johnson
Powell
Wyo
Stacy Funeral Home
Elm Grove Cemetery
Businesses to Close for Fourth of July Observance
Washington observes Independence Day with many closures. County state and federal offices and most retail businesses shut. The Evening Journal will not publish for the holiday, one of two holidays the paper observes. The YMCA also closes Thursday.
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Washington
Evening Journal
Journal
YMCA
Weather report highlights scattered storms and cooler trend
United Press International notes town area mostly fair north and partly cloudy south with widely scattered thunder showers likely in the extreme south. Cooler tonight in the east and south. Wednesday brings more clouds and a chance of scattered thunderstorms in the extreme south and west, cooler in the southeast and extreme east. Lows tonight 55 to 60 north and 60 to 65 south. Wednesday highs range from 80s in the northeast to near 90 in the extreme southwest.
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United Press International
Kennedy Urges Unity on Naples NATO Stop
President Kennedy wrapped up a 10 day European tour in Naples urging stronger Western unity to combat communism and keep NATO strong. He met Pope Paul VI and Malian President Antonio Segni, issuing a joint communique on Soviet talks and multilateral nuclear force studies while planning a Naples NATO visit before returning to Washington.
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