Crawfordsville Lions Host Large Crowd at Pony Show
Linda Lowe was crowned Miss Crawfordsville 1962 after a beauty contest held with the eighth annual Lions Club Pony Show in Crawfordsville. First runner up was Donna Woods with Beth Wells as second runner-up among six Crawfordsville contestants. A crowd of 300 to 600 attended as the event moved to the high school field due to rain.
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Crawfordsville
Linda Lowe
Lyle
Dude) Lowe
Linda
State College of Iowa
Cedar Falls
Donna Woods
Beth Wells
Kathy Allender
Linda Hesseltine
Elaine Paisley
Lions Club
Raymond Bonar
Washington
Janet Wilson
Dude Lowe
Don Lowe
Tuffy
Calico Kid
Emery McGuire
David Eichelberger
Wayland
Beauty
Beth Stephenson
C. R. McCoy
Princess
C.R. McCoy
Debbie Cornick
Judy
Marsha Holmes Named To District Office By Young Republicans
Crawfords ville youth Marsha Holmes named vice chair of the first district Young Republicans at Des Moines. She is a Washington County junior delegate to the state Republican convention and a former Washington High School student active in the band. She will attend high school in the new WACO district at Olds next year. Other county junior delegates include Betty Peters Phyllis McDowell Dennis Day Dave Everetts Julie Young Craig Waddell and Joe Jones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marsha Holmes
Crawfordsville
Des Moines
Marsha
Washington County
Claire Holmes
Washington High School
New Waco
Olds
Betty Peters
Phyllis McDowell
West Chester
Dennis Day
Dave Everetts
Julie Young
Craig Waddell
Washington
Joe Jones
Red Cross Plans Annual Meeting in Washington County
The Washington County American Red Cross chapter will hold its annual meeting Monday at 8 p.m. in the courthouse court room. Chapter chairman Dwight Bode urges all members officers and service chairmen to attend as reports on activities are heard and directors elected. Those who joined during the county-wide drive or through the Washington Community Chest are eligible to participate.
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Washington County American Red Cross
Court House
Dwight Bode
Washington Community Chest
Mid-Prairie Budget Hearing Set for Kalona July 30
The Mid-Prairie Community School District will hold a public hearing on its 1962-63 budget at Kalona on July 30 at 8 p.m. The proposed budget totals 999 358 with 509 358 to be raised by taxation and a millage rate of 49. The increase reflects new high school construction additions and staff expansions.
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Wellman
Mid - Prairie Community
Kalona
Hearing on Local School Budget in Washington District
Directors of the Washington Community School District hold a public hearing at 7:30 p.m. August 8 at the old junior high to discuss the 1962-63 budget. Expenditures are estimated at 1 041 985, a decrease from 1 270 607 last year due to schoolhouse fund cuts, while general fund spending rises. The estimated millage is 40.625, up from 37.928, with 22 mills for the schoolhouse fund for future expansion. There are about 2,000 school age residents, and local costs per pupil compare favorably with other districts.
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Washington Community School
Evening Journal
Seven Are Killed In Head-On Crash Near Shawano
Three couples and a neighbor die in a pre dawn head on collision on a hill southwest of Shawano Wisconsin. The Mehlberg car carrying the couples headed north and Pingel in the south bound car. Weather clear road dry and no witnesses reported.
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Shawano
Wis
UPI
Here
Oscar Mehlberg
Walter Grimm
Anita
John Koepke
Nora
Dilton Pingel
Marion
Mehlberg
Pingel
Richland Minister Injured in Accident
The Rev. Frederic Harris of Richland was injured when his 1962 car flipped on Youth Center road near Lake Darling at 7 50 a m He was not thought seriously hurt but was taken to Fairfield hospital for head injuries and examination by sheriff investigators who cited loose gravel as the cause.
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Frederic Harris
Richland
Fairfield Hospital
Youth Center
Lake Darling
Harris
GOP Platform Calls for Liquor Law Review and Tax Relief
The Iowa Republican convention approved a platform urging a re examination of liquor laws and immediate long term property tax relief. The platform also backs annual legislative sessions increased school aid Shaff reapportionment and Kerr Mills funding for elderly care. George Nagle was re elected state party chairman and Irene Laverty as vice chair.
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Des Moines
APS
Iowa
Resolutions Committee
Kerr-Mills
Robert Dilley
John Birch Society
Congress
Dilley
George Nagle
Iowa City
Irene Laverty
Indianola
GOP
Norman A. Erbe
William H. Nicholas
Kerr- Mills
Kennedy
Ice Cube Catch World Record Claims From Two Towns
In Terre Haute Indiana John Kelly and Bob Neville both 18 claimed a world record for playing catch with an ice cube before it melted completing 4 332 exchanges. In Effingham Illinois John Klosterman 13 and Mike Cordis 11 said they tossed a standard sized ice cube 4 001 times before it melted.
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Terre Haute
Ind
UPI
John Kelly
Bob Neville
Effingham
Ill
John Klosterman
Mike Cordis
Tax Cut Seen as Political Risk in 1963
UPI reports many congressional veterans warn Kennedy faces a political misstep if he pursues an election year tax cut. They cite voter hostility to reduced revenues amid red ink spending and a hoped mid August decision on whether to act. The House Ways and Means Committee weighs economic testimony and public hearings.
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Washington
UPI
Kennedy
House
Ways & Means
Congress
Mystery Mr X emerges in $1.2 million stock theft case
In New York the 1.2 million in blue chip stocks stolen from Bache & Co is tied to eight arrests. Tallman and Dodge face grand larceny charges after a scheme involving GM IBM Du Pont and others, with Mr X identified by authorities as the pivotal figure in the heist.
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New York
UPI
Mr. X
Bache & Co
N.Y
Gordon A. Tallman
Bache
Robert J. Dodee
Iver
New York City
Joseph George Martinelli
Jersey City
N.J
John Lombardozzi
Brooklyn
Carmine Lombardozzi
Martinelli
Lombardozzi
FBI
Dist
Atty
Frank
Hogan
Tallman
Dodge
du Pont
International Business Machines
Standard Oi
New Jersey
American Motors
American Telephone and Telegraph
Polaroid
Bronx
Isadore Gorlitzsky
Alan Louis Fisher
Denver
Michael Lokacos
Michael Levas
Miami Beach
Newark
U.S
Kennedy era military shakeup raises questions of command
President Kennedy contemplates drastic changes in military structure including a possible single defense chief of staff and a merger of the Army Navy and Air Force. Generals Taylor Lemnitz and Wheeler are slated for key European and Army posts as Norstad retires and NATO leadership shifts unfold.
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Washington
UPS
Kennedy
Maxwell D. Taylor
Army
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Joint Chiefs
Defense
Congress
Taylor
Congressional
Navy
Air Force
U.S. High Command
Paris
U.S. Air Force
Lauris Norstad
Europe
American Forces
NATO
U. S
Eisenhower
Lemnitzer
Earle G. Wheeler
George H. Decker
Decker
Wheeler
Leinitzer
Curtis E. LeMay
Naval Operations
George W. Anderson
David M. Shoup
Mt Pleasant Man Drowned After Boat Plunge in Skunk River
Jack Burden, 28, drowned in the Skunk River near Mount Pleasant after a gyrating ducking boat with two brothers drifted into a whirlpool by the Oakland Mulls dam. The motor stopped and Burden was thrown from the craft.
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Mt. Pleasant
Mount Pleasant
Skunk River
Here
Jack Burden
Burden
Oakland Mulls Dam
Partly cloudy with scattered showers through Sunday
United Press International reports a weather outlook showing partly cloudy skies with scattered showers or thunderstorms through Sunday. Thunderstorms may be severe this afternoon with hail and damaging winds, especially in the extreme southwest, then turning cooler in the northwest Sunday. Tonight low 60s. Sunday highs 75 to 80 in the northwest and around 80 elsewhere, with Monday partly cloudy and slightly cooler.
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Kauffman’s Grocery
Sail Inn Cafe
Wayland State Bank
Erbe
Harold Hughes
Journal
Charles Morris
Crawfordsville Lions
Mark Huston
Columbus Junction
Bobby Boyd
Frank Boyd
Ray Strawhacker
Ottumwa
Miss Satin
Happy Hour Pony Ranch
Floyd Anderson
West Branch
Guyola Anderson
Gordon Odegard
Red Rebel
Edgewood Acres
Linda Grimes
Ursa
Rebel
Galen Ludwicek
Anamosa
Lorna McCoy
E. R. Sommers
Jim Sommers
Clarence Lowe
Larry Lowe
Roy Gerot
Society's King
Diker
Captain
Paul Boyd and Son
Mike Boyd
Lady of
Sunnyside
Ursa, Ill
John Craman
Colonel Cal
Judy Smith
Clover Leaf
King
Connie Caspers
Senorita
Sue Rathjen
Marengo
Zorro
Young Republicans
Red Cross
Mid-Prairie
Kathy
Bob Elliott
Mister X
Newark, N.J
General Motors
Norstad
Lyman L. Lemanitzer
United Press International
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