Plans For New Fat Cattle Sale In Washington
A Washington Livestock Sales Co meeting outlined a Friday morning fat cattle sale starting tomorrow at 9 a.m. with plans to attract area feeders. Buyers from as far as Mississippi and Alabama show interest, and the operation will be a bonded market with a $3 per head commission. Local officials and bankers supported the venture as key to regional packing interests.
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Washington Livestock Sales Co
Washington
Royal Sales Barn
Jack Scheeler
Paul Widmer
Mississippi
Alabama
Scheeler
Iowa Livestock Auction Markets
Rock Island
Letts Farmer Killed In Farm Accident
COLUMBUS JUNCTION Clif ford Hinmann aged 4 of near Letts was killed when he fell from a tractor into a brushcutter blade after the tractor struck a stump on his farm six miles northwest of Letts. He left a widow a son a daughter his mother and three sisters. Funeral service set for 2 p.m. Saturday at George M. Wittich Funeral Home Muscatine with burial in Memorial Park Cemetery.
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Columbus Junction
Clifford Hinmann
Letts
Hinman
George M. Wittich
Muscatine
Memmorial Park
Rites Friday For Mrs Nettie Nordyke
Funeral services for Mrs Nettie Nordyke will be held Friday at 2 p m in the Richland Methodist Church with the Rev Frederic Harris officiating Burial will follow in Friends Cemetery Gould Funeral Home of Richland in charge Mrs Nordyke died Tuesday evening at Hadley Rest Home in Richland
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Richland
Nettie Nordyke
Richland Methodist Church
Frederic Harris
Friends Cemetery
Gould Funers
Committal Service For A T Stewart Friday
A committal service for AT Stewart of Phoenix Arizona will be held at 4 p m Friday in Elm Grove Cemetery. The Rev Lloyd Latta will conduct the service. Jones Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Stewart, a native of Washington, died May 31 1963 in Phoenix. He was 86. His wife Priscilla Stewart and sister Gertrude Bowman of Washington DC survive.
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AT. Stewart
Phoenix
Ariz
Elm Grove
Lloyd Latta
Jones Funeral Home
Stewart
Washington
Vivars
Prsnee Stewart
Gertrude Bowman
Washington, D.C
ZIP Code Numbers to be Used by U S Mail
Post offices nationwide prepare for a five digit ZIP Code system to speed delivery. Some areas in Crawfordsville announce codes 52621 for Crawfordsville and 52622 for Wyman rural station. After July 1 all mail should carry the correct five digit code to improve service and reduce mis-sent mail.
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United States Post Offices
Washington Post Office
Howevet
Crawfordsville
Wyman
Rawfordsville
John Doe
Iowa
Ben Dowis 70 Dies in Illinois
Ben Dowis 70 of Keota Iowa died Tuesday at Lutheran Hospital in Moline Illinois. The funeral is Friday at 1 p.m. at United Presbyterian Church Rock Island. Survived by sister Mrs Vina Mattison Keota two brothers Tom Dowis Washington Floyd Dowis Dearborn Michigan. He was a son of James and Amelia Dowis and was reared in the Keota community.
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Keota
Ben Dowis
Silvis
Lutheran Hospital
Moline
United Presbyterian Church
Rock Island
Vina Mattison
Tom Dowis
Washington
Floyd Dowis
Dearborn
Michie
James
Amelia Dowis
Urge Registrations For YMCA Boys Tour
YMCA invites boys to join a Cedar Rapids and Iowa City trip sponsored by the Washington YMCA. Departing June 2 at 7 45 a m from the Y, the group visits Cedar Rapids, has lunch in a park, then returns to Iowa City for additional tours. Rent costs 1 30 dollars.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa City
Washington Ymca
Tension in South as NAACP rally spurs protests
Across the South tensions flare as marches form and boycotts target segregated shops. In Jackson Mississippi Mrs Medgar Evers widow calls for a month of mourning and continued civil rights work while 147 protesters are arrested by police after a NAACP meeting. National Guardsmen reinforce an integrated campus at Tuscaloosa Alabama where Vivian Malone and James Hood attend class amid broader demonstrations.
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United Press International
Grees
Southland
Jackson
Miss
Medgar Evers
Bega
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
Evers
Sity
Tuscaloosa
Ala
Howver
Skin Diving Class Starts Monday at Y
Boys and girls who can swim at least five lengths of the YMCA pool are eligible to enroll in a two week skin diving class. The course teaches basic skills for participation in this growing water sport. Each pupil must furnish fins mask and snorkel. Class limited to 15 members. Registration via YMCA. Meets Mondays Wednesdays and Thursdays from 11 am to noon.
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YMCA
Prof Schmidhauser to Speak at NFO Meeting Here
John Schmidhauser of State University of Town will speak at the Washington County NFO meeting Monday evening. County chairman Elmer Schneid announces the event for June 17 at 8 p.m. on the Washington County Fairgrounds. The public is invited. An explanation of the new neat label of the Congress of Farm Organizations will also be given.
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John Schmidhauser
We State University of Town
Washington County
NFO
Elmer Schneid
Neat
Congress of Farm Organizations
CFO
Funeral services for Wellman resident in Geneseo
Funeral services for Mrs. Lloyd Bleumenstein, a Wellman resident, will be held in Geneseo, Illinois, at 2 p.m. Friday. She died there this week.
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Wellman
Lloyd Bluemenstein
Geneseo
Bleumenstein
Busy Session For Local School Board
District board members heard reports on junior and senior high activity funds and the auditor’s 1961-62 results. They hired two teachers and approved a school bus purchase while discussing the 1963-64 budget and completed contracts. Petitions from Indian Creek and Riverside rural districts seek merger with Washington Community School District, with merger steps to be set by the county board if approved.
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Edward Hutchcroft
Geraldine Schmidt
Stewart School
Janice Lawless
Washington Community
Indian Creek Ral
Riverside
Board of Education
County Board of Eduucation
Few Are Licensed County Homes in Iowa Statewide
Only 8 of 82 Iowa county homes are licensed under current law and 2 more have applied for licenses according to F W Pickworth of the State Department of Health. Seventeen counties do not operate county homes, leasing to private operators who hold licenses.
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Des Moines
Iowa
F. W. Pickworth
State Department of Health
Norman A. Erbe
Harold Fi Uhes
Pickworth
Hughes
Lee
Palo Alto
Decatur
Hancock
Howard
Kossuth
Pocahontas
Scott
Union
Wineshiek
Adair
Cherokee
Clarke
Clay Franklin
Grundy
Harrison
Ida Yon
Madison
Mills
Monona
Seeola
Ringgold
Sac
Warren
Wright
Plans for Presbyterian Home expansion approved
Plans for the Presbyterian Home in Washington were drafted by the Home board. An architect's drawing shows current buildings on the grounds and future main buildings and cottages. Dane Morgan and Associates of Burlington will prepare plans for one addition to the main building.
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United Pres. Washington
Home Board
Dane Morgan and Associates of
Burlington
Kennedy Pushes Civil Rights Plan For Congress
President Kennedy urged Congress to consider a civil rights program focusing on school desegregation public accommodations and voting rights while excluding FEPC The White House met with Democratic and Republican leaders and business officials to discuss a broader move toward job equality and minority rights The president planned further talks with labor leaders and former presidents Truman and Eisenhower to build support for his approach
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Washington
Kennedy
Congress
FEPC
White House
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Mont
Harry Truman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Everett Dirksen
House
Charles Halleck
Lyndon B. Johnson
Mike Mans
Andrew Hatcher
Afl-Cio
Teamsters Union
James L. Hoffa
Kennedys
Fves
Eisenhower
Highway 92 survey crews begin work in two segments
Survey teams under Virgil Petersen start along Highway 92 in Seokuk and Madison Counties. One crew will operate from Sigourney for about four months, widening resurfacing and reconstructing 25 miles to the Washington County line. The second team will base at Winterset to complete Iowa 92 from the Adair County line to Winterset in 1966.
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Towa State
Mghway Commission
Seokuk
Madison
Virgil Petersen
Sigourne
Sigourney East
Washington County
Winterset
Iowa 92
Adair
North English Man Is Regional Farm Bureau Fieldman
Copper of North English will assume the regional Farm Bureau fieldman post July 1 for Iowa counties including Washington Keokuk Iowa and Poweshiek. He will work from offices in four county seat communities while remaining based in North English. Copper has 19 years with the Farm Bureau and holds a BA from Loras College with graduate work.
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Sil Copper
North English
Farm Bureau
Iowa
Keokuk
Washington
Powesheik
Copper
Loras College
Weather Outlook From United Press International Town
Mostly fair in the west and partly cloudy in the east tonight with scattered showers or thunderstorms in the far east. Friday cooler with highs in the 70s north to 80s south and partly cloudy skies. Tonight lows 50s north to lower 60s south. Saturday partly cloudy with a chance of a few afternoon storms.
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United Press Internationa
Macmillan Faces Crisis As Cabinet Wrestles Over Resignations
London UPI report details Prime Minister Harold Macmillan chairing a crisis cabinet meeting amid the Profumo scandal. Ministers hint at resignations while observers warn that a major exit could topple his government. Patrick Gordon Walker urged reform, while Labor focuses on security questions in Parliament.
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London
UPI
Harold Macmillan
Nnd Powell
Powell
Macmillan
Lord Hailsham
Keith Joseph
XA. Butler
Labor Party
Profumo
Southwark
Patrick Gordon Walker
Labor
Rom
Moscow
Britain
Gordon Walker
House of Commons
John Profumo
Christine Keeler
Eugene Ivanov
Cyril Osborne
Partment
Kimi Zilliacus
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Washington and Mrs
Griffeths
Abingdon
Bob Elliott
Harold Griffeth
A.T. Stewart
U.S. Mail
Moline, Illinois
Prof. Schmidhauser
County Homes
U. P
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