YMCA Lake Darling week camp planned for boys
The Washington YMCA announced a week long summer camp for boys aged 9 to 14 at Lake Darling Youth Center near Brighton Iowa. Registration requires $5 and is due by July 9 with $25 camp fee. The program features daily routines, healthful meals, outdoor chapel, cabins and skill classes in archery boating swimming handicraft and more.
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Washington Ymca
Lake Darling
Brighton
Iowa
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4 H Leaders Meet in Washington County Office
Washington County 4-H leaders gather Thursday June 16 at 1 30 p m in the county extension office to plan for local club achievement shows and the county fair. Miss Sally Smith notes new 4-H girl class options and distributes entry sheets and schedules while urging leaders to bring leader manuals and club library envelopes.
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Washington County Home Economics
County Extension Office
Sally Smith
County Extension Home Economist
Miss Smith
4H Committee
World War I Veterans Meet Wednesday At Local Barracks
Members of the local World War I veterans barracks will hold a business meeting Wednesday at 8 p.m. after the standard joint potluck supper with the auxiliary unit at 6:30 p.m. Plans for a reception honoring the newly elected state commander will be finalized. Eligible veterans in the community are invited to attend.
Mid-Prairie Plans Portable Classrooms andStaff Moves
The Mid-Prairie school board approved four portable classrooms for placement at Kalona elementary, delivery set for July 25. They also announced staff appointments for the upcoming year, naming Phil Parman as football coach, plus teachers Katherine Wehrle, Carol Bryant, Mabel Detweiler, Mary Ann Moss, Dixie Boller, and Pat Wheeler. The board authorized selling the old West Chester rural school building to Don Orr and awarded Wesley Burrows a roof repair contract for the junior high.
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Wellman
Mid-Prairie School Board
Kalona
Phil Parman
Katherine Wehrle
West Chester
Carol Bryant
Mabel Detweiler
Mary Ann Moss
Dixie Boller
Pat Wheeler
Don Orr
Wesley Burrows
Washington Masonic Lodge Fish Fry and Degree Work
The Washington Masonic lodge invites all Masons to a fish fry on Wednesday June 15 at 6 30 p m followed by first degree work at 8 p m An inclusive community event for members and local readers.
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Band concert features trombone trio in Central Park
A trombone trio of Don Boyer Warren Erickson and Ed Day will be featured in the Washington Municipal Band concert Wednesday at 8 p.m. in Central Park. The program includes God Bless America Berlin Queen City March Everglades Overture and more ending with the National Anthem.
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Don Boyer
Warren Erickson
Ed Day
Washington Municipal Band
Central Park
Walters
Berlin
Queen City
Yoder
Plan for survey CAP directors elected to terms
Four Washington County Community Action Program board members were elected to terms on the Southeast Iowa Community Action board at a Monday meeting at the Robert Day home. Baldrige and Mallory take one-year terms. Marek gets three years. Gilpin two years.
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Washington County Community Action Program
Southeast Iowa Community Action Board of Directors
Robert Day Home
John Baldrige
Jud Mallory
Lloyd Marek
Ambrose Gilpin
Southeast Iowa
Mt. Pleasant
Harry B. Tiller
Tiller
Cedar Rapids
Washington County
Kosygin Opens Finland Talks with Kekkonen in Helsinki
Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin and Finnish President Urho Kekkonen began talks in Helsinki on Viet Nam and a Finnish plan for a nuclear free zone in Northern Europe. Kekkonen was to brief Kosygin on U S views on Viet Nam as outlined by Secretary of State Rusk.
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UPI
Alexei Kosygin
Urho Kekkonen
Finland
Europe
Kekkonen
U.S
Viet Nam
Dean Rusk
Rusk
Johnson
Planes Down Unidentified Aircraft Off North Vietnam Coast
Navy jets from USS Ranger scrambled and shot down an unidentified plane 18 miles northeast of Thanh Hoa after radar detection by Coontz and Seventh Fleet ships. A second bogey fled into North Vietnam while Phantom pilots observed radar and visual contact. Phantom pilots from Ranger 143 and Ghost Riders 142 credited with the kill.
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Thanh Hoa
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Soviet Demands Pullout of U.S. Forces for Viet Nam Accord
In Geneva the Soviet Union insisted that American forces must be withdrawn from Viet Nam as the price of any disarmament agreement. As negotiations resumed after a six week break, Moscow warned the East-West deadlock would endure, denouncing U.S. aggression in Viet Nam. Negotiator Alexei A. Roshchin linked bans on underground nuclear tests and preventing new nuclear powers to the U.S. pullout.
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Viet Nam
Moscow
U.S
Alexei A. Roshchin
Wyman Alumni Meet in 1967 Reunion at Wyman School
The 31st annual Wyman Alumni Association meeting was held Saturday at the Wyman School with 98 alumni and guests. Rex Lee presided, roll call highlighted the class of 40 years prior, two members Lois Holland Putman and Luther Davis attended. Event featured entertainment by Rev. Penny's group from Iowa City. Attendees from distance listed, with officers named Si Finke Jr president and others.
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Wyman
White Cloud Club
Crawfordsville
Rex Lee
Lois Holland Putman
Washington
Luther Davis
Mt. Pleasant
Local nuptials and hospital notes across several states
Mr and Mrs E D Morrison Jr and others attended a bridal shower for Marty Whitmore at the Avon Illinois summer home of Howard Davis. Whitmore will marry Jim Morrison in June. Messages report Mrs Cloyce Rathmel a patient in Burge Protestant Hospital Springfield Missouri awaiting surgery. Weekend guests included Beckler and Long families from Nebraska and Iowa. Carla Rothlisterger visited from Bartlesville after her University of Iowa graduation. The Truman Tuttle family attended niece Margaret Ann Scott’s wedding in Omaha to Robert Fisher, with graduates remaining in Iowa City. Mrs E L Stewart traveled from California to the wedding and will help care for her sister in Des Moines after surgery.
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E. D. Morrison, Jr
Jean
Jim
Cheri Anderson
Marty Whitmore
Howard Davis
Avon, Ill
Miss Whitmore
Jim Morrison
Truman Tuttle
Local residents host visits and travel notes in Iowa area
Mrs. Spencer Thompson returns to Vancouver Washington after a stay with Mr. and Mrs. Vernon E Witting. Des Moines guests Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sheets and children Cindy Matt and Robin visited Mrs. Lewis Goodlander. Mary Powers returned from weekend visits with Jean Johnson and former classmates. Delphia Skinner of Silvis Illinois and Larry Woods of Moline Illinois stayed with Mr. and Mrs. Claude Woods of Washington. Larry completes a year at Purdue and will work with John Deere in Moline this summer. Mr. and Mrs. C L Goodell returned from Omaha where they won an all expenses paid trip in a store contest. They were hosted by zone managers and spouses from Iowa City Sheridan. Mr. and Mrs. F A Halda Tony and Mary visited E D Morrison Jr. They attended Coe College Alumni Banquet. Halda is a former Diana Coffey, Louise Gravier, Florence Schumacher, Esther Troxel attendee at a hairdresser convention at the Burlington Hotel with Jamison Shaw as MC and a smorgasbord later. Dean Hunter entered Mercy Hospital Iowa City for minor surgery and is in room 326 likely to be discharged soon. Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Payne attended the Philco merchandise line showing at Rock Falls Illinois and visited Mrs. Raymond Gidley of Davenport. Mr. and Mrs. Charlies Been Blossom of Pacoma California and Mr. and Mrs. Richard Lopez and children Sherie and Mark of La Crescenta California left after visiting Ralph Zeck and Howard Been. Zeck hosts 16 relatives Friday night at Captain's Table.
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Omaha
Neb
Iowa City
Sheridan
Charlies Beenblossom
Pacioma
Calif
Richard Lopéz
Sherie
Mark
la Crescenta
Ralph Zeck
Howard Been
Property transfers record for Maple Wood Park and Stickney’s Brighton
Roger L. Hochstetler and wife transfer lot 8 block 2 Maple Wood Park to Darwin Dean Curtis and wife. Alice F. Lanning transfers lot 10 and north half of lot 9 in block 5 Stickney’s addition Brighton to Joseph O. Smith and wife.
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Roger L. Hochstetler
Darwin Dean Curtis
Maplewood Park
Wellman
Alice F. Lanning
Joseph O. Smith
Stickney
Add‘ Brighton
Mrs Jesse Riley Dies in Columbus Junction at 71
Mrs. Jesse Riley 71 of Columbus Junction died Monday at Muscatine General Hospital. Funeral Thursday 2 pm at Stacy Lewis Funeral Home with Rev. Earl Josten officiating. Burial in Columbus City Cemetery. Survived by husband Jesse Riley three daughters Mildred DeWitte Lucy Riley and others, a son Charles, 13 grandchildren, four great grandchildren, two brothers and a sister.
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Columbus City
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Cairo
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Lucy Hall Willet
Mildred DeWitte
Harry Ashby
Burlington
Lucy Riley
Charles
Muscatine
Glenn
Harlan
Myrtle Cassabaum
Glenview
Ili
Washington Evening Journal staff and affiliations note
The Washington Evening Journal of Washington Iowa lists David Elder as Editor and Business Manager William Shannon as Vice President Advertising Director Charles Morris as News Editor Bob Shaffer as Local Advertising and Howard Hazen as Production Superintendent The paper publishes afternoons except Sunday Christmas and July 4th It is entered as second class matter under the 1879 act and is associated with Inland Daily Press Assn Iowa Daily Press Assn Iowa Press Assn and the Audit Bureau of Circulations
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Iowa
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William Shannon
Charles Morris
Bob Shaffer
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