Eldora Boy's School Chaplain Resignation Sparks Debate
Iowa officials investigated the Eldora Boys Training School resignation of Rev. Howard Blandau and found an unfortunate clash of ideas and personalities. Gov Loveless said a public statement would follow after all facts were gathered. Blandau cited a rest need and disagreements over discipline and Freudian concepts.
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Eldora, Iowa
UPI
Iowa Board of Control
Howard Blandau
Eldora
Robert Lappen
George Callenius
Blandau
Lappen
Des Moines
Herschel C. Loveless
Board of Control
Herbert Leeper
Loveless
Measles Victim Too Big for Hospital
Robert E. Hughes a 1065 pound carnival figure ill with measles could not be moved into Bremen Hospital so doctors treated him in a trailer behind the facility. He required oxygen for a heart condition and remained under constant medical watch as hospital doors and equipment could not accommodate him.
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Bremen
Ind
UPI
Robert E. Hughes
Chicago
New York
Hughes
Emden
North Vernon
Fishhook
Ill
Judge Patterson's Wife Maude Patterson Dies at 83
Mrs. Maude Patterson, 83, wife of District Judge J. G. Patterson, died Tuesday morning at her home in Oskaloosa. Garland's Funeral Chapel of Oskaloosa is in charge of arrangements.
Two Riverside Scouts Earn Eagle Scout Honor
Riverside youths from Boy Scout Troop 235 will receive Eagle Scout badges at a Friday open air court of honor at the Omer Strabala home. Bill Walsh and Kenneth Veggy are the honorees, with Louis Pailliotet as Scoutmaster. Roy Young of Mt. Vernon will speak.
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Riverside
Omer Strabala
Bill Walsh
John R. Walsh
Kenneth Veggy
Earl Yeggy
Louis Pailliotet
Roy Young
Mt. Vernon
Funeral Friday for Former Wayland Man
Fred Klopfenstein former Wayland resident died Tuesday at Henry County Hospital Mt Pleasant after a month-long stay. Funeral 2 p m Friday at Wayland Mennonite Church under Zehr Funeral Home with Rev L A Habbeger and Rev Owen Wilson officiating. Burial details withheld. He was a retired farmer and Wayland Mennonite Church member. Survived by widow Emma and four children Glen Dennis Klopfenstein Kevin Klopfenstein and Mrs Milford McCreedy, plus twelve grandchildren and seven great grandchildren.
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Wayland
Fred Klopfenstein
Henry County Hospital
Mt. Pleasant
Zehr Funeral Home
Wayland Mennonite Curch
L. A. Habbeger
Owen Wilson
Pleasant
Christian Klopfenstein
Mary Wenger Klopfenstein
Washington County
Amanda Wyse
Emma Miller
Glen
Dennis Klopfenstein
Kevm
Rainbow Girls Plan For Carrousel Dance
Rainbow Girls announce a semi formal Carrousel Dance at the Country Club on July 19 with the Skylarks five piece orchestra performing from 8:30 to midnight and a floor show at intermission. Tickets available from Rainbow Girls or Connelly Hardware Store. invitation extended to DeMolay Masons Eastern Star members and friends.
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Washington Rainbow Girls
Country Club
the Skylarks
Rainbow Girls
Connelly Hardware Store
All Rainbow Girls
Masons
Eastern Star
George G. Glick Dies Here Tuesday at 80
George G. Glick retired railroad man died at 433 East Second Street at 7:30 p m Tuesday July 8 1958 He was 80 and had been ill for months Funeral services 9 a m Saturday at St James Catholic Church burial Woodlawn Rosary 4 30 p m Friday at Sherman’s Funeral Home He was born March 23 1878 in Washington son of August A and Denise Reliel Glick Survivors include one son Master Sergeant Verle J Glick Alamogordo AFB New Mexico one granddaughter one brother Charles J Glick Davenport and two sisters Mabel McConahay Fon du Lac Wis and Blanche Bickford Davenport.
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George G. Glick
East Second Street
St. James Catholic Church
Rev
T. J. Lew
Woodlawn
Sherman
Mr. Glick
Washington
August A
Denise (Reliel) Glick
Rock Island Railroad
Rock Island
Verle J. Glick
Alamogordo Air Force Base
New Mexico
Iowa skaters complete first leg to Chicago
Keith Crone of Washington Iowa and Bob Brenneman of Iowa City arrived in Davenport after skating 55 miles from Iowa City in about eight hours. They will rest in Moline then resume toward Chicago on Thursday. They expect to sightsee there and may return by skating.
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Davenport
Iowa
UPI
Iowa College
Chicago
Keith Crone
Washington
Bob Brenneman
Iowa City
Moline
Des Moines
Murray at Young Republicans Meeting in The Epicurean
Dr William G Murray Republican candidate for governor told a district Young Republicans group at The Epicurean that a governor cannot wave a wand to change Iowa law. He urged cooperation with 158 legislators and expected GOP control of both legislative houses.
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Washington
UPI
William G. Murray
Iowa
GOP
Epicurean
Murray
Iowa State College
Herschel C. Loveless
Loveless
Nine Airmen Postponed News Conference After Shootdown
Nine U S airmen injured when an unarmed transport was shot down by two Russian MIG fighters near Wiesbaden. The Air Force postponed a press conference for medical debriefing and fatigue concerns as Moscow accused Washington of brinkmanship and condemned the border incident. The crew crossed into Soviet Armenia on June 27 while en route from West Germany to Iran and Pakistan via Cyprus.
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Wiesbaden
Germany
UPI
U.S. Air Force
Air Force
Moscow
United States
North America
U.S
Armenia
West Germany
Iran
Pakistan
Cyprus
Russia
Strategic Air Command
Former Head of Chicago Union Denies Underworld Ties
A former Chicago Bartenders Union Local 278 leader testified before the Senate Rackets Committee denying knowledge of underworld figures linked to his rise. Louis Romano, now in Coral Gables, said he worked with Abraham Teitelbaum and earned an $18,000 salary, insisting he did not participate in labor-management deals. The hearing linked Romano to gangster-influenced union control and questioned payments by management to unions.
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Washington
UPI
Chicago
Senate
Louis Romano
Chicago Bartenders Union Local 278
Robert F. Kennedy
Coral Gables, Fla
Romano
Frederick Evans
Nitti
Teitelbaum
Capone
Abraham Teitelbaum
Internal Revenue Service
Cris Carson
Carsons Restaurant
Sidney Smith
Peter Pan
Les Johnson
The
Englenook
Sheldon Esrig
Esrig’s Restaurant
Harold Schwinner
Barney's Market Club
Ralph Guttsell
Chicago Restaurant Assn
Judicial Convention May Bring Changes On District Bench
Oskaloosa reports say district court judge J G Patterson may retire or seek renomination in the sixth district. L R Carson is floated as Republican candidate while incumbents Bechly and Yoder loom. Democrats will also nominate three judges and other potential candidates are named. The sixth district includes Washington Mahaska Jasper Poweshiek and Keokuk counties with terms starting Jan 1 1959.
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Oskaloosa
J. G. Patterson
Washington County
Patterson
L. R. Carson
Sixth
Frank Bechly
Montezuma
R. G. Yoder
Americans Escape Attack in Lebanon
Rebels attacked a Beirut apartment house housing seven Americans including Dory Chamoun and embassy families. The building was hit with gunfire and grenades but all occupants escaped injury as fighting raged, with reports of wounded elsewhere and further clashes near Tripoli and Bahsad Bridge.
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Beirut
Lebanon
API
Camille Chamoun
Chamoun
Dory
U.S
Francis Boardman
Ann
Pamela
Point Four
Steven P. Dorsey
Gwenn
Charlotte
Dorsey
Tripoli
Iraq Petroleum Co
Bahsad Bridge
Eisenhower Urges Tight Canada U S Cooperation
President Eisenhower urged Canada and the United States to maintain free world cooperation against Communist imperialism and to amicably resolve differences. He spoke before Parliament in Ottawa after wreathing Canada's war memorial and met Prime Minister Diefenbaker to discuss economic policy and defense collaboration.
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Ottawa
Ont
UPI
Eisenhower
Canada
United States
Russia
Free World
U.S
National War Memorial
John Diefenbaker
Columbine III
Diefenbaker
Arctic
Red Cross Schedules Water Safety Classes in Washington
The county Red Cross announces 675 enrollments for Water Safety at the new Washington Municipal Pool. Classes run July 14 to August 22 with six instructional phases and a completion test. Plans include expanded next year with more swimming, lifesaving, boating, and canoeing.
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Red Cross
Washington
Municipal Swimming
W. H. Boekelman
Washington Municipal Swimming Pool
Boekelman
Lester Leeper
Neighbors Contribute to 1958 Iowa Field Day Prep
Community volunteers aid preparations for the 1958 Iowa Conservation Field Day and Plowing Matches set for September 12 on farms north of Washington. Neighbors assist with tree removal fencing dam work and gully filling while committees are formed for clean up plowing contest and field lay out.
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Iowa
Harold and Earnest Strum
Hazel Spera
Jerry Heck
Preston Edmondson
Washington
Washington County
Everette Cox
LeRoy Veggy
Ailvin Strum
Marlin Shalla
Dean Luers
Dwane Shalla
George Horn
Joe Knotek
Space Needed for Warhawk Boy Scout Camporee Near Washington
The Warhawk Boy Scout district seeks a suitable site near Washington for its fall camporee October 17 to 20. About 200 Scouts are expected. Linus Patterson urges locals with potential space to contact district officials Leroy McGraw Bernard McCarthy or Wilson Putnam.
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Warhawk Boy Scout District
Washington
Linus Patterson
Boy Scout Council
Leroy McGraw
Bernard McCarthy
Wilson Putnam
Weather Outlook for Iowa Five-Day Period
Partly cloudy through Thursday with scattered showers and possible thunderstorms in the east and south. Temperatures stay cool, highs near 75 to 85, nights 55 to 65. Friday remains mostly cloudy with more showers and cooler conditions. Temperatures through Monday stay on the cool side with small daily changes and normal highs in the upper 80s and lows in the lower 60s. Occasional showers and thunderstorms expected with rainfall averaging 1 to 2 inches over five days.
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United Press International
Iowa
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