Cooper Ready for Return Home After Space Flight
Astronaut L Gordon Cooper undergoes final shipboard exams aboard the USS Kearsarge before departing Hawaii for Honolulu and a reunion with his family. He will resume travel to Cape Canaveral after a six hour stay in Hawaii and a planned news conference.
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Kennedy in Plea For Racial Peace
President Kennedy traveled to the South for a nine hour tour urging educated citizens to reject prejudice and violence and uphold the law. He spoke at Vanderbilt to mark the TVA anniversary and the university's 90th year and noted two nearby dam projects. Alabama Governor George Wallace planned to attend the TVA event with Kennedy.
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Milk Drivers Strike in Chicago Amid Delivery Cut Protests
Local 754 of the Teamsters struck five major Chicago dairies Dean Milk Co. Borden's Hawthorn Melody Coun try's Delight and Bowman Dairy cutting milk supply on the busiest midweek shopping day. 35 area dairies remained closed and six others kept operations as union leaders accuse dealers of seeking to end home delivery to force higher profits.
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Iowa Weekend Weather Outlook
Partly cloudy tonight with a low in the 40s. Sunday brings widely scattered showers across most of the state, with highs in the 60s in the north and 70s in the south. Monday trends toward partly cloudy skies and little temperature change.
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City Crews Will Paint Parking Lines
City crews start repainting parking stall lines in the business district at 4 a.m. Monday. Orville Long urged motorists to keep cars off the work areas during the coming week and signs will mark the streets. Cooperation will speed the task.
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Continue Planning For Ridiculous Day Signs Across City
Harold Jarvis says banners marking Washington's Ridiculous Day have been posted at city edges as June 6 planning advances. Merchants are being invited to join in the zany custom with silly costumes ridiculous bargains and parade entries planned for the annual event.
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Iowa Legislature Seeks Last Day On Record Session
Des Moines Iowa lawmakers hurried to finish a 125 day session aiming to adjourn sine die on Saturday The tax and spending package remained unresolved with a house senate panel favoring a 3 percent sales tax while opposing the income tax withholding plan Government funds earmarked for local tax relief and about 170 million in appropriations were under review The House passed 387 bills including 12 appropriations totaling over 1 billion dollars and sent 23 to the governor while the Senate sent 9 to the governor with similar totals
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Kennedy to meet Pope John XXIII amid health rumors
President Kennedy plans a June visit to Italy and a meeting with Pope John XXIII, sparking speculation about the Pontiff's health and potential shifts in U.S. Vatican relations. Reports of a stomach ailment and possible cancer circulate, while Vatican officials offer no comment.
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U S Breaks Diplomatic Contact With Haiti
Washington reports the United States interrupted formal diplomatic contacts with Haiti as disapproval of President Francois Duvalier. Officials said the move stops formal talks yet is not a suspension and could be reversed if needed. Duvalier argues he was reelected in 1961, while Washington asserts his six year term expired.
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New Threat of Birmingham Violence
The Birmingham race crisis escalates as police patrols increase and armed Negro volunteers guard churches and leaders’ homes after a bomb threat tied to Martin Luther King Jr. Also reports from Greensboro and Lynchburg, NAACP plans in Jackson, and federal court actions touch other civil rights developments. King warns of further threats. federal troops already deployed in Birmingham.
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Presbyterians Invite Dr. King to 175th General Assembly
Delegates of the United Presbyterian Church in the U S A invite Martin Luther King Jr to address their 175th general assembly in Des Moines on the theme responsibility of the church in the present racial crisis The invitation comes as Dr King may not attend due to his Birmingham race work Eugene Carson Blake stated clerk says merger talk with other Protestant bodies could materialize within two years with groundwork first.
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Tiny 24-Ounce Baby Clings to Life in Rhode Island
A 24 ounce premature boy, born Monday to a mother 62 months pregnant, fights for survival at Osteopathic General Hospital of Rhode Island. Doctors shield him with an electronic incubator device and whisky drops for body temperature and stimulation as his mother remains in good condition.
Three Ottumwa Residents Injured In Two Car Crash
Three Ottumwa residents were injured in a two car crash on highway 92 about 42 miles east of Washington Friday at 3 40. Gene Arnold Williams the driver of the westbound car on a Navy weekend pass said he did not know what happened as his car drifted to the shoulder then back into Robertsons car. Williams car was demolished and Robertson car had about 700 dollars damage. Fred L Robertson and his wife were taken to Washington County Hospital with chest injuries and lacerations along with Williams who had cuts chest and back injuries.
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Emil Fink 73 Dies in Washington Friday
Emil Carl Fink 73 retired farmer of 802 South Iowa Avenue Washington died Friday at Veterans Hospital Iowa City after a nine month stay He lived in Keota 1956 to 1962 Funeral Sunday 2 p m Keota Federated Church Rev Harold F DeVries officiating Burial with military honors Keota Cemetery Powell Funeral Home Keota in charge Survivors include wife two sons Ernest Packwood Harold Keota four grandchildren three stepchildren Thelma Michum Santa Rosa Calif brother Fred and two sisters all of Alma Kansas He was born August 12 1889 to Frederick and Augusta Gnnet Fink and married Gertrude Reighard in 1919 who died in 1952. He later married Nelle Stutsman. He was a Presbyterian and WWI veteran.
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Seed Mosaic Hobby Grows From Winter pastime
Henry Kiene a retired Washington County farmer creates three seed mosaics from corn beans peas and peppercorns. Two rooster and one hen pictures are displayed at Gevock's DX Station and at his home 107 North Fifth. He plans the intricate work took about a week per piece with daily sessions and required careful seed placement to resemble feathered texture.
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Stan ley to address GOP Women in Washington County meeting
State Representative David Stanley of Muscatine will speak Thursday May 23 at 2 p.m. at the Keith Vetter home in West Washington Street. The third term legislator will discuss the Shaft reapportionment plan and other topics. Vetter will introduce him. Stanley, an attorney and former valedictorian, is active in politics and served in the Air Force.
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