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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1964
Page
1
President Johnson previews the fall race with sharp contrasts to Barry Goldwater on civil rights nuclear weapons control and crime. He warns civil rights will be a campaign issue and urges parties to avoid inciting racial tensions while defending civilian control of nuclear decisions.
Washington (UPI) The 1964 presidential campaign keeps the civil rights issue in play as President Johnson and Sen. Barry Goldwater meet at the White House. Both leaders reaffirm the aim to avoid inciting racial tensions this fall while offering little detail on the session.
Diana Reis and Terry Mangold represented Washington county 4-H clubs at the sixteenth annual Leadership Training Conference for Young People at the Iowa 4-H Camping Center near Madrid from July 20 to 25. A total of 124 delegates aged 16 to 25 from 4-H, Farm Bureau, cooperatives, church groups, Federal Land Bank and other organizations attended.
Delila Litwiller died this morning at Pleasantview Nursing Home in Kalona after a two day illness. Funeral at 3 p.m. Monday at Upper Deer Creek Mennonite Church with Maurice Swartzendruber and Walter Beachy in charge. Burial in Lower Deer Creek Cemetery. Powell Funeral Home of Wellman in charge. Born April 24, 1881 to Jacob and Elizabeth Swartzendruber. Widow of John J. Litwiller who died March 10, 1916. Survived by three sons and three daughters, 13 grandchildren and 27 great grandchildren.
OAS ministers prepared to authorize sanctions against Cuba for aggression toward Venezuela. Fifteen of twenty members support economic and diplomatic penalties, with Chile and Mexico opposing and Bolivia and Uruguay abstaining. Argentina and Peru join the majority backing hemispheric suspensions of trade, shipping, and diplomatic ties with Cuba.
In Rochester New York a night of anti police rioting involved about 2000 enraged Black residents using knives clubs and bottles. Police fought back with water hoses tear gas and barricades as 98 injured and 80 arrested were tallied. Governor Rockefeller mobilized National Guardsmen while city officials declared a public emergency and police sealed off the 52 block Negro neighborhood.
State Archeologist Marshall B. McKusick and University of Iowa students announced a fortified Hartley culture village along the upper Iowa River northwest of Lansing. Dating to about 1200 A.D., the one-acre site adds a fourth major Iowa culture and suggests more fortified villages in Allamakee County.
Fannie E. Wilson, 82, of 11842 South Iowa Avenue, died Friday July 24 1964 at Washington County Hospital after a weeklong illness. Funeral at 1 30 p m at Jones Funeral Home with Rev Stanley Woeste in charge. Burial in Woodlawn Cemetery. Born January 20 1882 in Washington she taught home economics in Colorado Wisconsin and Michigan for ten years. Longtime Washington resident member of the Methodist Church and the PEO Sisterhood. Survived by several cousins.
Ray Priebe, manager of Farm Service Company in Washington, resigns effective August 1, 1964. The firm served Washington, Keokuk and Henry Counties with petroleum, fertilizer and feed products. Priebe spent 26 years with Farm Service Companies in Iowa, 18 as a manager and three as northwest division manager over 24 counties. Future plans are not definite.
The Leon Beatty American Legion post will hold its annual chicken supper and install officers on Tuesday at 6 30 p m Attendance is urged for all post members Don Rinner will be the new commander Guests at the dinner include the Blue Ladies of the Legion Auxiliary who volunteer at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Iowa City
President Johnson flatly rebukes Charles de Gaulle over calls for a new Southeast Asia conference and European unification aims. He says such plans would ratify terror and weaken NATO while stressing U S support for free European nations amid Viet Nam tensions. Iowa forecast noted with highs in 80s to 90s and isolated showers.
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