All-Out Assault Triggers Battle for Bizerte Port
French paratroopers with artillery and air strikes launched a full scale attack to regain the canal into Bizerte Tunisia as casualties mount in a two front confrontation. President Bourguiba urged resistance and Tunisian forces to defend the country threatening wider conflict and oil pipeline seizure.
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Tunis
Tunisia
UPI
Bizerte
Algeria
Habib Bourguiba
France
Sahara Desert
Sahara
Bourguiba
Mediterranean
Obituary: Joseph Drish 51 Dies at Washington County Hospital
Joseph Drish 51 died early this morning at Washington County Hospital after a sudden illness Tuesday. He was born May 14 1908 in Jefferson County and farmed in Washington and Jefferson counties. Survived by wife Josepine Haupert five children and several brothers and sisters. Burial arrangements pending. He was a member of St Joseph Church Fast Pleasant Plain.
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Brighton
Joseph Drish
Washington County Hospital
Gould Funeral Home
Mr. Drish
Jefferson County
Pleasant Plain
John
Elizabeth Peck Drish
Josepine Haupert
Keota
Washington
Jefferson Counties
East Pleasant Plain
St. Joseph's Catholic Church
Fast Pleasant Plain
Shirley Ann
Ronald Joseph
Diana Mary
Mona Rae
Stanley Paul
Thomas
Herman
Oscar
Detroit
Barbara Drish
Lucy Melinski
Jo Ann Bennett
California
Rainfall Totals Near Here at Night
Rainfall during the night reached .39 inch according to a 7 am reading. A heavy shower occurred later in the morning with intermittent light showers before press time. Total moisture is estimated at more than half an inch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Million and Half Iowans to Gain Social Security Rise
DES MOINES UP I increased payments will go to about 1.5 million Iowa elder citizens under 1961 amendments. Widows 62 or over will see about a 10 percent boost added automatically to September checks. Auto increases also apply to aged dependent widowers and some aged parents of deceased workers. The law change may allow some widows with smaller retirement benefits to qualify for higher widow’s benefits based on their husbands’ work. Further information available at social security offices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
UPI
Iowa
Leo W. Smith
Staley to Speak at Area NFO Meeting in Iowa City
Oren Lee Staley national NFO president will speak at an area NFO meeting in Iowa City Monday evening at 9 p m CDT in the 4 H building. He will provide analysis of the latest NFC holding action and describe market reaction.
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Oren Lee Staley
National
NFO
Iowa City
Staley
Ask More Men For U. S. Draft Pool
A selective service official announced that states must increase their pool of draft ready men to 100,000. The national pool ready for immediate induction has fluctuated between 170,000 and 80,000, the official said.
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Washington
UPI
Selective Service
Phyllis Campbell Dies Suddenly at 74
Phyllis L Campbell 74 of United Presbyterian Home died suddenly. Funeral services set for 3 30 p m Saturday July 22 1961 at Sherman Eden Funeral Home with Rev Vernon Elgin. Burial in Princeton. Born July 11 1887 Cedarville Ohio she was daughter of Alvin and Jean Campbell. Survived by four sisters Mrs M Fisher Cedar Rapids Miss Emma Campbell New Wilmington Pa Francis McCall and Mrs FG Elliot both of St Louis Mo.
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Phyllis L. Campbell
United Presbyterian Home
Sherman Eden
Vernon Elgin
Princeton
Miss Campbell
Cedarville
Ohio
Alvin
Jean Cassell Campbell
Trinity United Presbyterian Church
St. Louis
M. Fisher
Cedar Rapids
Emma Campbell
New Wilmington, Pa
Francis McCall
FG. Elliot
St. Louis, Mo
Brighton Whoopee Days Marks July Festivities
Brighton hosts Whoopee Days on July 25 and 26 with a rodeo on July 29 and 30. A square dance festival features Sobaski Twins Bobby Thomas and his dad from the Grand Ole Opry with tap dancing and Twin Tones music. Rodeo shows are Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 1 30 p.m. and 7 30 p.m.
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Brighton
Sobaski Twins
Bobby Thomas
Grand Ole Opry
Twin Tones
Space Man Safe capsule lost after Grissom splashdown
Virgil I. Grissom became America's second spaceman as the Liberty Bell 7 capsule sank 16 miles east of Grand Bahama Island after a side hatch blew off. He swam 65 to 70 feet to reach recovery, was pulled aboard the Randolph, and survived in good condition.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
UPS
Virgil I
Gus) Grissom
America
Air Force
Redstone
Grand Bahama Island
Grissom
Randolph
Mercury
Robert KR Gilruth
Gbi
Shepard
NASA
Earth
Liberty Bell
Mitchell
Ind
Grissom Launches Gemini Style Space Flight At Cape
Gus Grissom wakes early in Hangar S then suits up for a spaceflight from Cape Canaveral. He climbs to the rocket, receives good luck from John Glenn, and blasts off as all systems read go. The Mercury control report shows cabin pressure and oxygen green while Grissom maintains manual control through a bright, clear sunrise.
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Cape Canaveral
UPI
Gus Grissom
Hangar
Grissom
John Glenn
Mercury Control Center
Gus
John
Shorty
Powers
Cape
Dynamite Blast Damages Des Moines Bridge Crane
Police investigated a dynamite blast that damaged four giant cranes at a Walnut Creek bridge widening site in suburban Des Moines. The Jensen Construction crane valued around 36000 dollars suffered transmission damage. witnesses heard a large explosion and saw a mushroom cloud.
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Des Moines
UPI
Walnut Creek
Jensen Construction Co
E. J. Jensen
West Des Moines
Allies cenfer on crisis in Berlin
Secretary of State Rusk called British French and West German ambassadors to discuss President Kennedy’s plan to steadily bolster US military strength. The package includes higher draft levels and intensified recruitment, with allied steps to reinforce Western Europe and a radio television address set for next Tuesday night.
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Washington
UPS
Dean Rusk
Kennedy
Rusk
Western Europe
Berlin
Congress
United States
Europe
Harold Caccia
Britain
Herve Alphand
France
Wilhelm Grewer
West Germany
Winletter
NATO Alliance
Jawn
Thomas K. Finletter
NATO Council
Former Ainsworth Resident Mrs Carl Osborne Dies in California
Mrs Carl Osborne, 65, a former Ainsworth resident, died Wednesday in Burbank California after moving there about 3½ years ago. Funeral services and burial were in Burbank. Nellie Mae Welliver, born November 7, 1806, in Ainsworth, daughter of Wilson and Eva Welliver, is survived by her husband, one daughter, three stepdaughters, two grandchildren, and two sisters Mrs Harold Young of Washington and Mrs Ray Bareus of Ottumwa.
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Carl Osborne
Ainsworth
Burbank
Calif
California
Nellie Mae Welliver
Wilson
Eva Wellver
Harold Young
Washington
Ray Bareus
Ottumwa
Blair Will Speak At Union Service
Rev Ray Blair of Associate Presbyterian Church will speak at the union worship service in Central Park Sunday at 7 90 pm. Rev Lloyd Latta of the Methodist Church will preside and Rev James Pennington of Reformed Presbyterian Church will lead the singing with choirs from Sharon and Morning Sun churches.
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Ray Blair
Associate Presbyterian Church
Union
Central Park
Blair
Lloyd Latta
Methodist Church
James Pennington
Reformed Presbyterian Church
Morning Sun
Sharon
Book by Samuel M. Thompson Donated to Washington Public Library
Dr Samuel M Thompson head of Monmouth College philosophy department presents his son’s book The Nature of Philosophy to the Washington Public Library. The donor, KR W Thompson, resides at United Presbyterian Home.
Accident damages sought in district court petition
Four petitions filed in the district court seek a total of 58 195 45 dollars for injuries from a Nov 6 1959 truck tractor crash on highway one three fourth mile north of Brighton. Plaintiffs Raymond L Lasek and J Frederic Allebach name Floyd Holtzman and Miller Trucking as defendants alleging driver negligence caused permanent injuries and damages. they request a jury trial.
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Clerk of District Court
Brighton
Raymond L. Lasek
Washington County
J. Frederic Allebach
Missouri
Floyd Holtzman
Jerry Miller
Miller Trucking
Lasek
Holtzman
Miller
Plantiff
Burlington Officers Subdue Young Gunman
A 19 year old Fort Madison meat cutter, Jerry Wayne Ross, held officers at bay for 45 minutes in Burlington with a .22 rifle. Ross was held on an assault with intent to commit murder charge and underwent a continued arraignment in municipal court to arrange defense counsel. Deputy Paul Wolz reported three bullet holes in his ear from the gunfire.
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Burlington
Yps
Jerry Wayne Ross
Fort Madison
Ross
Boss
Des Moines
Paul Wolz
Food Riots and Crop Failures Reported in Cuba
Jamaica dispatch describes food riots and shortages in Castro era Cuba. Witnesses cite six days without meat, protests over 200 heifers and 400 swine shipment to Russia, and crop losses due to rains and seed confiscation by INRA.
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Cuba
Kingston
Jamaica
UPT
Fidel Castro
Castro
Santiago
Russia
Havana
Weather outlook with scattered storms and cooler nights
United Press International summarizes a five day forecast: considerable cloudiness with scattered showers and thunderstorms mainly in the east tonight, cooler lows from the northwest around 60 to 65 in the southeast. Saturday and Sunday show partial clouds with slight temperature changes. Normal highs near 88 and lows around 60, with rainfall averaging about 0.4 inches in the north and heavier amounts in the south, mainly Monday and Tuesday.
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Journal
Bob Filiott
Area Nfo
U. S
Phyllis Campbell
Robert Laning
Nasas
Margaret Ann Birney
Margaret
Rosemary Reed
Farmerettes
Bob Elliott
Cenfer
Samuel Thompson
Public Library
Ask
Reeve Waking
United Press International
INRA
National Institute For Agricultural Reform
Anion
Czechoslovakia
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