Red Cross Swim Program Draws 960 in County
In Washington County the annual Red Cross learn to swim program reached 960 youths this six week session, five instructors per class, and use of 14 volunteers plus 13 aides. Mrs. Don L. Smith oversees the program with Mrs. Clint Boshart assisting, while buses transport children from towns to the municipal pool at the west edge of Washington.
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Red Cross
Mike Berns
Washington
Maria Simmering
Reed Edmond Son
Wellman
Washington County
Don L. Smith
Near Washington
Clint Boshart
Richard Schiebel
Milo Steele Jr
Harold Moore
Don Taylor
Jim Richart
Sam McCleery
Tom Brown
Harold Stevens
Ward Wetrick
Weekly Band Concert Scheduled Wednesday at Central Park
Washington's Municipal Band will present its weekly concert on Wednesday at 8 p.m. in Central Park. Director Robert Steele announced the program featuring God Bless America Berlin Burst of Trumpets The Trojan Prince Night and Day Brighton Beach Circus Parade Mystic Night On the Mall Pastel for Band Trombone Special Star Dust Entry of the Gladiators and Star Spangled Banner.
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Washington
Central Park
Robert Steele
America
Berlin
Walters
Holmes
Porter
Brighton Beach
Latham
Yoder
King
Goldman
Whitney
YWCA Plans Swimming Party for Girls 8 to 12
The YWCA summer program sponsors a Wednesday swim party for girls eight to twelve. No membership required. Meet at the YWCA at 1 30 p m, bring 30 cents for the swim and a treat after. Return to the YWCA by 4 p m. Mrs Willis Horton leads the activity.
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YWCA
Willis Horton
Plans Nursery School In City This Fall
Mrs. Dwight Bode of Washington announces a licensed Iowa state accredited nursery school to start this fall in the city. Enrollment for three to five year olds with a minimum three hours daily instruction. Not a day nursery. emphasizes group and individual work with social activities and nonduplicative kindergarten curriculum.
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Dwight Bode
Washington
Iowa
Bode
Iowa City
Mt. Pleasant
Fairfield
Six Hurt In Two Car Crash At Columbus Junction
Six people were injured in a two car collision on highway 92 at Columbus Junction's east edge in the early morning. Fay Dean Diller and Verna Mae Coon and three children were hospitalized in Washington County in satisfactory condition. Jimmy Earl Dale was treated and released.
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Highway 92
Columbus Junction
Washington County Hospital
Fay Dean Diller
Diller
Verna Mae Coon
Columbus City
Linda
Diana
Michele
Dale
Russians to beam Gromyko to U S TV via Telstar today
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko will be filmed at the Geneva conference and broadcast to New York as the first Russian on transatlantic television. NBC will relay his picture with Dean Rusk and Lord Home at the disarmament talks. The staged shots mark a new telecast milestone amid anticipation of late afternoon transmission.
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New York
UPI
Andrei Gromyko
Geneva
Atlantic
U.S
Gromyko
Jetstar
Ocean
Space Extravaganza Show Bridges Two Continents
A televised 18 minute sequence wowed European viewers with a panorama of Americana from the United Nations and Kennedy press conference in New York to Niagra Falls border and Mount Rushmore. Later a 170 pound satellite orbited showing European wonders from Big Ben to Lapland reindeer and Paris Louvre masterpieces.
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Americana
North American
United Nations
New York
Kennedy
Washington
Niagara Falls
Chicago
Stratford
Ont
Mount Rushmore
South Dakota
Western Plains
Golden Gate Bridge
San Francisco
Europe
London
Arctic Circle
Lapland
Marlos Skaltje
Champs Elysee
Arc de Triomphe
Paris
Houses of Parliament
Westminister Bridge
Thames
Yugoslavia
National Museum
Miroslav
Michelangelo
Sistire
Vatican
British Museum
Louvre
Samothrace
Kennedy vows dollar not to be devalued
President Kennedy warns international money speculators against betting on a dollar devaluation and affirms that the United States will continue selling gold to foreign governments to keep the dollar “as good as gold.” He cautions that a widespread belief in devaluation could pressure currency markets and gold reserves.
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Kennedy
Washington
U.S
United States
London
U.S. Treasury
Rusk and Gromyko Press On Berlin Deadlock in Geneva
Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko met for four hours over lunch at Gromyko's villa and discussed Berlin and disarmament. Both reported no real shift in positions. Gromyko reiterated no international control of a test ban and no general disarmament deal without removal of Western bases. Rusk called the Soviet resumption of tests regrettable and stressed urgency for progress at the disarmament conference.
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Geneva
UPI
Dean Rusk
Andrei Gromyko
Berlin
Rusk
Gromyko
Russia
U.S
United States
Lord Home
Kennedy Victory on Foreign Aid in House Vote
The House approved Kennedy's 4.6 billion foreign aid bill by 221 to 162 after conference committee revisions. Support came from 163 Democrats and 58 Republicans. opposition from 65 Democrats and 97 Republicans. The bill now goes to the White House for signature amid debate over three amendments on aid to Communist nations, U.N. bonds, and India.
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Washington
UPI
House
Kennedy
White House
Senate
House-Senate
Conference
E. Ross Adair
R-Ind
H.R. Gross
A-Iowa
Bob Casey
D-Tex
Bruce Alger
R-Tex
Paul C. Jones
D-Mo
U.N
India
Two Men Win Minnesota Vacations in Izaak Walton Contest
Ken Peters and Paul Rotenburger, both of Washington, won a week for four at the Red Wing Lodge on Leech Lake run by Carl Greiner. The prizes were announced at the Izaak Walton Club monthly meeting. A film on water shortage was shown by state president Bob Russell.
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Ken Peters
Paul Rotenburger
Washington
Red Wing Lodge
Leech Lake
Carl Greiner
Ainsworth
Minnesota Lake
Izaak Walton Club
Mr. Peters
Mr. Rotenburger
Izaak Walton
Highway 1
Bob Russell
Break-Ins Reported at Four Kalona Stores
Four Kalona businesses Kepler Hardware Farmers Supply Sales Farmers Feed Mill and Kalona Ice Cream were broken into during the night Monday. Sheriff officials investigate gaps in cash taken and note a pattern of similar thefts in Washington County and nearby areas.
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Kalona
Sheriff's Office
Kepler Hardware
Farmers Supply Sales
Farmers’ Feed Mill
Washington County
Red Cross Chapter Officers Elected in Washington County
Dwight G. Bode was reelected chairman of the Washington County Red Cross chapter at a board meeting following the annual chapter gathering. Seven board members were named to three year terms: William Day, Clarence Logan, Delbert Soper, John Butler, Lee Holland, Robert Nicola and Keith Horn.
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Dwight G. Bode
Washington County
American Red Cross
Court House
William Day
Clarence Logan
Delbert Soper
John Butler
Lee Holland
Robert Nicola
Keith Horn
M. Robert Everetts
Red Cross
Helen Seeberg
Moyral Steele
John Morrett
Charles van Winkle
Mordice Hughson
Mildred Noonan
Ralph Stout
Lyle Darbyshire
Kathryn Miller
Walter Sheets
S. E. Blattner
Dwight Bode
Howard Anderson
Lawrence Miksch
Winnie F. Belter
Mrs. Truman Tuttle Named Cedar Rapids Fair Judge
Mrs. Truman Tuttle of Washington was named judge of the women's department for the All Iowa Fair in Cedar Rapids August 12 to 19. She will judge premium paying classes in sewing rugs quilts spreads afghans embroidery crochet knitting ceramics handicraft and novelties among 113 classes open to Iowa women. Mrs. Noll, superintendent of the women's department, noted her ISU training and 10 years as an extension home economist in Linn County.
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Truman Tuttle
Washington
Cedar Rapids
J. Keith Noll
Women's Department
Tuttle
Iowa
Noll
Iowa State University
Ames
Linn County
Penalty For Slaying Koehrsen Ends Brown Executes
Charles Noel Brown 29 was hanged at 5 01 a m in Iowa for the murder of internal revenue agent Alvin Koehrsen 54 as part of a six day crime spree He confessed and faced the trap door after a final night of remorse and a last meal of two desserts as pickets watched at the penitentiary in Fort Madison Iowa officials reported the first execution there in a decade and Brown apologised for his earlier words before the hood placed over his head
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Fort Madison
UPI
Charles Noel Brown
Internal Revenue Service
Brown
Indiana
Alvin Koehrsen
Iowa
Pottawattamie County
Roy D. Wichael
Rites at Junction for Mrs Donald Morgan
Mrs Donald Morgan 55 of Columbus City dies at University Hospital Iowa City Funeral services set for Thursday 2 pm at Stacy Funeral Home Columbus Junction with Rev Robert Parris and Rev William Fowler officiating Burial in Columbus City Cemetery Carol Irene Hill born Columbus Junction December 19 1906 taught at Cotter and married Donald Morgan September 1 1932 Survivors include her husband two sons Donald D Muscatine and David at home three daughters Rosalie Reed Winthrop Nancy Richards Washington and Margaret Arnold Chevy Chase Md her mother Isabel Hill Columbus Junction two sisters Mrs Herbert Newell and Mrs Reid Buffington Columbus Junction and eight grandchildren
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Columbus Junction
Donald Morgan
Columbus City
University Hospital
Iowa City
Stacy
Robert Parris
William Fowler
Columbus City Cemetery
Carol Irene Hill
L. C
Isabel Siverly Hill
Cotter
Morgan
Donald D
Muscatine
David
Rosalie Reed
Winthrop
Nancy Richards
Washington
Margaret Arnold
Chevy Chase
Isabel Hill
Herbert Newell
Reid Buffington
Weather outlook for central and eastern regions
Partly cloudy through Wednesday with a few light showers in the afternoon and east tonight. Little temperature change. Low tonight 59 to 64. High Wednesday 80 to 85. Thursday outlook is fair with moderate temperatures.
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United Press International
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Red Cross Swim
City
Jimmy Earl Dale
Sigourney
Ee Way
Lynn Serbousek
Wapello
Louisa County
Ralph McDowell
Intelstar
Soviet Union
Minnesota
Red Cross Chapter
Clear Lake
Pat McClure
Pat
Washington High School
Washington Jaycee
Journal
Koehrsen
Iowa State Penitentiary
University of Iowa
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