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Newspaper

Washington Evening Journal

Location

Washington, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jun 10, 1963

Page

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Wallace Plans to Block Negro Enrollment at Alabama

In Tuscaloosa a large security force of 800 police and 700 National Guardsmen kept order as Gov. George Wallace prepared to intervene to block Vivian Malone and James Hood from enrolling at the University of Alabama. Federal injunctions loom while Wallace vows law and order.

Tuscaloosa Ala UPI University of Alabama George C. Wallace Montgomery Wallace Vivian Malone James Hood

Jacob Lantz Dies At Lone Tree Saturday

Jacob Fd Lantz, 81, died Saturday at Happy Haven Nursing Home Lone Tree after a stroke. Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. at Sor den and Adams Funeral Chapel Lone Tree with Rev. Jerry Brown officiating. Burial in Riverside Cemetery. He was born June 13 1881 in New Virginia Iowa and married Verna Green Feb 13 1905. Survived by one daughter Gail Nurdock Lone Tree. three sons Lyle Bob Milan and Herbert Dayton Ohio. one brother Ernest Kearney Nebraska. 17 grandchildren and three great grandchildren.

Ravers Lee Jacob Fd Lantz Happy Haven Lone Tree Sorden and Adams Jerry Brown Riverside Cemetery Mr. Lantz New Virginia Annais and Arynne Wills Lantz Verna Green Washington County Gail Nurdock Lyle Bob Town City Lloyd Milan Herbert Dayton Ernest Kearney Neb

YMCA Tour to Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Set for June 22

Washington Y sponsors a Saturday trip for boys on June 22. The delegation departs at 7 45 a.m. to Cedar Rapids for a Nissen Trampo line plant tour and park picnic, then returns to Iowa City for tours of the Old Capitol museum and university athletic facilities. Cost is $1.30.

Cedar Rapids Iowa City Washington Y Nissen Old Capitol

County Board Acts on School District Reorganization

Washington County Board of Education met Saturday and attached remnants of Highland Community School reorganization to the Washington Community School District. land segments from Highland Township Oregon Township and Ainsworth Consolidated District join the Washington district effective July 1 1963. The board also signed a contract with William Bauer to teach the Advanced 1 group at Prairie Flower school next term. Bauer is a State College of Town graduate and has taught at West Branch for four years.

Washington County Board of Education Highland Community Washington Community Highland Highland Township Oregon Township Ainsworth Washington William Bauer Prairie Flower School Mr. Bauer State College of Town West Branch

Rites at Ainsworth For Mrs Lopshire

Mrs Alicin Katherine Lopshire a 80 year old Ainsworth resident died Sunday night at Mercy Hospital Davenport. Funeral is Wednesday at 1 30 p m United Presbyterian Church Ainsworth with Rev Dale Brehmer and Rev Carl Megehelsen presiding Burial at Ainsworth Jones Funeral Home in charge Survivors include four sons five daughters 26 grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren Also a sister Anna id Lone Tree and a brother Victor Burich Riverside

Alicin Katherine Lopshire Ainsworth Mercy Hospital Davenport United Presbyrian Church Dale Brehmer Carl Megehelsen Jones Funeral Home Lopshire Riverside James Katherine Bocher Burich William 4. Lopshire LeRoy Iowa City Francis Andalusia Robert Richard Agnes Hobart Muscatine Joy Tucker Buffalo Marian McDole Evelyn Wilson Della Manley Annald Lone Tree Victor Burich

FFA Members Assist At Hampshire Day Field Event

Four Washington Future Farmers of America members and their adviser Verne Knecht attended the Hampshire field day on the Greene Stephens farm. The swine judging youths participated in testing and helped tabulate results alongside other competitors. participants included Dennis Crone Jim Witthoft Tom Duensing and Larry Fox.

Washington Future Farmers of America Verne Knecht Hampshire Field Day Greene Stephens Farm Dennis Crone Jim Witthoft Tom Duensing Larry Fox

Offer to End Nuclear Testing Robert H Lloyd Dies Very Suddenly

Robert H Lloyd 63 custodian at the Washington County courthouse died Sunday morning June 9 1963 a few hours after a heart attack. He lived at 951 South Fourth Avenue and funeral services will be at 2 pm Tuesday at Jones Funeral Home. Burial will be in Elm Grove Cemetery.

Robert H. Lloyd Washington County Court House

Ann (Puckett) Wilson dies in Crawfordsville

Funeral services for Ann Puckett Wilson are set for Tuesday at 3 p.m. at Crawfordsville Methodist Church with Rev. Pennington leading. Burial will follow in Crawfordsville Cemetery. She died Sunday in Crawfordsville after a long life born in Kentucky November 11 1887. She is survived by three sons James Crawfordsville Leonard Donnellson and Robert Letts, 12 great grandchildren, one sister Arneen Esteppe of Jeffersonville Kentucky, and other relatives.

Crawfordsville Ann (Puckett) Wilson Crawfordsville Methodist Church Paul Penington Barton - McKasson Winfield Ilinois Indiana Iown Mt Pleasant Methodist Church Royal Neighbors of America James Leonard Donnellson Robert Letts Arneen Esteppe Jeffersonville

4-H Group Returns From East Trip

A chartered bus with 27 Washington County 4-H club members and three chaperones returned Sunday afternoon from Washington D C The group stayed at the national 4-H center and attended a citizenship workshop Local members participated in committee work gaining practical citizenship experience learned during the trip East.

Washington County 4-H Club Washington, D. C East

House Committee Rejection of Kennedy Tax Plan

The House Ways and Means Committee voted 14 to 11 against approving any part of Kennedy’s request to raise taxes on stock dividends by 460 million dollars annually. The panel rejected a Republican idea to give all taxpayers the same health insurance incentive and debated proposals behind closed doors as it advances Kennedy’s tax reduction and revision program.

Washington UPI House Ways and Means Committee Kennedy Afl-Cio

Instruction Session For Learn-to-Swim Assistants At Pool

Municipal pool staff and volunteers are summoned to a learn-to-swim planning meeting at the pool Wednesday at 10 a.m. Mrs. Clinton Bosh am chairs the Red Cross summer project and will assign roles to instructors water safety aides and swimmer aides. If rain cancels the session it will move to Thursday at 10 a.m.

Wii Clinton Bosham Red Cross Project

Mrs Ella Plank 72 Dies in Son's Home

Mrs Klarank 7 of Kalona dies Sunday at her son Stanley's home in Iowa City after months of illness. Funeral service set for 2 p.m. Wednesday at East Union Mennonite Church with A Lloyd Swartzendruber and Euge Garber in charge. Burial in East Union Cemetery. Peterseim Funeral Home Kalona handling arrangements. Born near Kalona February 1 1801 to Yost and Anna Peterseim Stutsman. Married William H Plank in August. he died in 18. Survivors: the son in Town City, one sister Mrs Milton Slabaugh of Kalona, seven grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren. Besides her husband she was preceded in death by a daughter two brothers and three

Istian Church Masonic Age Washington Marylin Heater Denver Cole Dorothy Ann Lloyd Robert Lloyd Jr Innell Clara Wallace Lloyd Dorothy Ann John Lloyd Hannah Jones Great Britain Kalona Klarank Stanley Iowa City East Union’ Mennonite A. Lloyd Swartzendruber Euge! Garber East Union Peterseim Plank Yost Anna Peterseim Stutsman William H. Plank Town City Milton Slabaugh

Washington Coin Club Meeting Tonight

Washington Coin Club members and guests will meet at 7 30 this evening at the Washington County Fair Grounds. This is the final meeting with displays arranged and the usual spins auction will be held during the evening. A swapping board is set up for members and refreshments will be served.

Washington Coin Club Washington County Fair

Weekend accidents claim twelve lives in Iowa

Twelve people died in weekend incidents in Iowa, including six drownings and five farm-related fatalities. The national total reached 221 for 1963, 31 more than the prior year through June 9. Victims named include Loren Freeman 16 Traer and William Peters 20 Forest City among others.

Robert Bures Neb Clifford Commer la Vista Lyle Senreiner Mount Carroll Hazleton Papillion N K. Smith Burlington Sherwyn Leroy Kardell Marne

Harperman 81 Dies After Lingering Illness

KEOTA Roy W White 81 of Harper died Sunday after a long illness. Funeral service Tuesday at 1 30 p m at Powell Funeral Home Keota with Rev Marvin F Miller in charge. Burial Lafayette Cemetery near Harper with Masonic rites. Born Harper Dec 2 881 son of Benjamin H and Ansylvina Gilbert White. Married Anna Conklin March 27 1907. Retired electrician and longtime Harper resident. Member of Methodist Church and 50 year Mason and Odd Fellows. Survived by widow a son George H Rock Island IL three grandchildren and three great grandchildren.

Keota Roy W. Wane Harper Powell Funeral Home Marvin F. Miller Lafayette Cemetery Benjamin H Ansylvina Gilbert White Anna Conklin Methodist Church

Little Reduction In Liquor Sales In Iowa Report

Iowa liquor sales at state monopoly stores fell only slightly after Gov. Hughes crackdown. Ten-month sales total reached 37.84 million dollars, down about 0.5 percent from last year. Border stores showed declines, while interior stores rose 1.07 percent in the period.

Des Moines UPL Iowa Harold E. Hughes Liquor Control Commission Iscal Commission Hughes Gunty Council Bluffs Siouxity Davenport Bettendorf Clinton Dubuque Burlington Muscatine Fort Madison Keokuk

Kennedy pledges no atmospheric tests while talks proceed

President Kennedy announced the United States will refrain from atmospheric nuclear tests as long as other states do so, while initiating high level talks in Moscow with Khrushchev and Macmillan aimed at a partial and eventual full test ban. He stressed peace, civil rights, and continued Geneva disarmament efforts.

Washington UPI Kennedy United States Russia Britain Moscow Nikita’ S. Khrushchev Harold A. Macmillan American University London Congress Birmingham Legislative Branch America Geneva Honolulu Andrews Air Force Base

Southeast Iowa Amateur Golf Tour draws 180 players

Photo from the Southeast Iowa Amateur Golf Tournament at the local Country Club shows a player teeing off while three others and a participant's wife pose. The Sunday event enjoyed near perfect weather and drew about 180 golfers from Iowa Illinois and Missouri.

Iowa Ilinois Missouri Journal Bob Eliott

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Roe Y Hampshire Alabama Col al Lingo Department of Public Safety Bama Alfred Harrison Pt. Benning Go Harrison Autherine Lucy Jacob Lantz YMCA Mrs. Lopshire FFA Trip East House Committee Kennedys Labor Organization Ways & Means Committee Andrew J. Biemiller Hie American People Biemiller Ella Plank Son Harperman
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