Senior Citizen Clubs Warn Against Financial Scams
A social column cautions elderly readers about widespread scams targeting seniors across the nation. It lists schemes from home repairs to real estate and securities, advises consulting family and professionals before investing, and suggests checking promoter endorsements with local chambers of commerce. The piece also notes a Golden Agers meeting with a quilt project and upcoming June 12 senior trip. It finishes with a September wedding announcement for Jean Carolyn Miller and Arthur William Evans.
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Chamber of Commerce
Washington
Margaret Miller
Brighton
John W. Miller
Jean Carolyn
Arthur William Evans
Lucille Evans
Phillip Evans
Mt. Pleasant
Community Club Notes From County Home Gatherings
Mrs. P L Fenn hosted Word Weavers at a dessert luncheon in her country home with travel plans discussed and best wishes to Mrs. Leona Peiffer heading to Oregon to visit her children. Rural Women and Go and Let Go clubs met with guests and birthday celebrations, while Linger Longer featured poems, slides on tardiness talk, and gifts for hosts and attendees.
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P. L. Fenn
Word Weavers Club
Leona Peiffer
Oregon
Rural Women’s Club
Robert Jones
Rita
Myron Shields
David Bauer
Duane Redlinger
Leonard Brinning
Edith Richardson
Pella
Fern Carr
Leonard Goeke
Novella Hess
Rosaleen Goeke
Linger Longer
H. J. Brenneman
Linger Longer Club
Raymond Lewis
Eileen
Columbus Junction
Dale Lance
Ron Sheetz
Dean
Corrine Phelps
Frank Kleese
Clyde Dawson
Don Oxenford
William Chmelar
John Dawson
DAR Officers Installed As Ward Hosts D A R Meeting
DAR Mrs E E Ward hosted the D A R Tuesday as new officers were installed Regent Mrs Charles Hotle and Vice Regent Mrs Edgar Stewart. A pin guard honored retiring Regent Harold Durst. Rainbow Girls at Masonic Temple held a salad supper honoring seniors and a reception is planned for Mary Crone and others who served as worthy advisors since May 1966. Grand Assembly events and signups are noted with June dates.
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DAR
E. E. Ward
Daughters of the American Revolution
Charles Hotle
Edgar Stewart
Harold Durst
Tom Davis
Rainbow Girls
Masonic Temple
Carol Earnest
Bonnie Bannister
Judy Dodder
Bev Davisson
Mary Crone
Australia
Dwight Brown
Iowa City
Alice Harnagel
Sally Lind
Sally
Barb Warner
Julie Nichols
Vicki ‘Lucker
Jan Vacha
Becky Atkinson
Annice Reschly
Sandy Wade
Shelly Horton
Kathy Engel
Jo Dodder
Eileen Russell
Farmington
Temple
Grand Assembly
Vicki Thomas
Four H clubs host meetings with talks and demos
Claire Wehr hosted the Dutchettes 4 H Club Monday with eight members present. Plans for a June 19 meeting at Grace Hill Community Building include Patten of Fairfield speaking on Pattern Alteration. Busy Bees members met with Gay Wagner. demonstrations covered sewing darts hems and pressing equipment. Committees were formed for the local achievement show and the next meeting to be July 10 at the home of Jane, Nancy and Marcia Vittetoe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Claire Wehr
Grace Hill
Patten
Fairfield
Melanie Miksch
Julia Miksch
Paul Wehr
Busy Bees
Gay Wagner
Cheryl Rader
Debbie Baker
Donna Wilson
Sadie Wilson
Marcia Vittetoe
Lori Hotchkiss
Charlotte Hiller
Cynthia Edwards
Nancy
Jean Vittetoe
Jane
McCreedys honored reception at Riverside
A June 5 pot luck supper at Riverside honored Mr and Mrs Ivan McCreedy of Biloxi Mississippi former Riverside residents. Attendees included Jack Walsh Veggy Havel Tener Cress Harold Cress Ivan Shrader W Bouquet Dorothy Fitzsimmons and William Cress of Iowa City. Golden wedding anniversary for Tremmel Kern on June 8 at Coralville American Legion building. Robert Simon stationed in Norfolk to discharge in November after six months in the Mediterranean. Travel brief notes a Canada US travel dollar gap study cites 14 Canadian offices in US versus none for US in Canada. Americans spent 730 million in Canada and Canadians 560 million in the United States.
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Riverside
Ivan McCreedy
Biloxi
Mississippi
McCreedy
Jack Walsh
Jack Veggy
George Havel
John Tener
Gerald Cress
Harold Cress
Ivan Shrader
W. S. Bouquet
Dorothy Fitzsimmons
William Cress
Iowa City
Fred Kron
F. W. Schnoebelen
Hubert Kern
American Legion
Coralville
Hubert
Emma
Tremmel Kern
St. Mary’s Church
Bernard Jacobs
Mier
Washington
UPI
National Association of Travel Organizations
Travel Bureau
United States
Canada
US Travel Service
Jaycees plan charity car wash in Washington
Washington Jaycees announce a fund raising car wash to be held from 1 to 6 p.m. Saturday at the Nixon Feed plant. Proceeds will support community service projects sponsored by the Jaycees.
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Washington
Jaycees
Nixon
Washington Evening Journal masthead details
The Washington Evening Journal lists staff roles including David Elder as Editor and Business Manager, William Shannon as Vice President Advertising Director, Charles Morris as News Editor, Bob Shaffer as Local Advertising, Howard Hazen as Production Superintendent, and notes published afternoons except Sunday, Christmas, and July 4. It shows press and association memberships and a note on mail subscription rates in Iowa.
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David Elder
William Shannon
Charles Morris
Bob Shaffer
Howard Hazen
Washington
Iowa
Casualties light in Middle East war reports
United Press International reports that fighting has been heavy on several fronts since the war began but casualty figures remain vague. Israel cites 500 wounded in a Jordanian shelling while admitting 19 aircraft losses. Egypt notes two plane losses without pilot details. Three Western correspondents are known to have been killed.
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Middle East
Israel
Jerusalem
Egypt
Eyewitness report from Jerusalem under battle fire
An eyewitness account from Jerusalem describes continued fighting between Israeli and Jordanian forces for a second day. The report was dictated by telephone amid ongoing clashes and bombardment.
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Jerusalem
Jerusalem Tightens Grip as Jordanian Holdouts Falter
UPI report from Jerusalem describes Israeli forces on a strategic height around the old city pressing to end Jordanian resistance. snipers take cover near Mount of Olives as loudspeakers urge surrender amid ongoing small arms fire.
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Jerusalem
UPI
Mount of Olives
Siege Tightens as Jerusalem Feels Heavy Strikes
Sandbags line the ancient wall while Israeli aircraft target the last Jordanian artillery near the Mount of Olives. troops avoid street to street fighting to save as much of the city as possible. Officials report widespread damage and injuries in Jerusalem with over 1,000 buildings destroyed and five hundred hurt. Large areas of the Christian Quarter, including near the Holy Sepulchre, are engulfed by smoke.
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Mount of Olives
Israel
Old City
Jerusalem
Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre
Changes in pay for Iowa lawmakers proposed
The Iowa House revived a constitutional amendment allowing the legislature to set a different pay method for lawmakers, potentially moving to an annual salary. The measure previously cleared the Senate, was delayed in March, and a late vote on postponement failed. Debate highlighted whether a future pay change would limit session length, with mixed party support and the measure referred to a sifting committee.
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Des Moines
UPI
Iowa House
General Assembly
Senate
House
James Klein
R - Lake Mills
Sifting Committee
Floyd Millen
Klein
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