VETTER REPORTS Senate delays adjournment in Iowa
Senator Vetter notes the 62nd General Assembly runs past its typical end as Democrats stall on major tax revision. He cites ready budgets from two years ago, 1615 bills introduced, and calls for Senate cooperation to finish within days. Visitors included Wellman locals and Washington Methodist groups.
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General Assembly
House
Senate
Appropriations
Board of Control
Board of Regents
Vocational Area Technical Community College
IPERS
Howard Murphy
Max Lewis
Wellman
Iowa
Washington
MYF Fellowship
The
Methodist Church In
McFate
Lane Messer
Marsh Atkins
Washington Evening Journal staff and masthead note
The Washington Evening Journal of Washington Iowa lists staff roles and departments including David Elder editor and business manager William Shannon vice president advertising director Charles Morris news editor Bob Shaffer local advertising Howard Hazen production superintendent and notes publication schedule afternoons except Sunday Christmas and July 4th. It mentions entry as second class matter under an 1879 act and affiliations with press associations and audit bureau.
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Washington Evening Journal
Washington
Iowa
David Elder
William Shannon
Charles Morris
Bob Shaffer
Howard Hazen
Deeds Record Transfers Real Property Interests
On the record Robert A Roe and wife transfer to Stella J Vacha Jot 3 bik 6 OP Washington Henry J Owen and wife transfer to Mable G Owen NE of SE 4 of sec 12 76 6 Gottlieb Hess and wife transfer to Ed gar L Slemmons and wife OL 8 and 9 OP West Chester I B Hoxworth transfers to Clarence A Goodwin lot 22 Crandall's subdivision on OS 9 and 10 East Washington
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Robert A. Roe
Stella J. Vacha
Washington
Henry J. Owen
Mable G. Owen
Gottlieb Hess
Edgar L. Slemmons
West Chester
I. B. Hoxworth
Clarence A. Goodwin
Crandall
East Washington
Cubs Pack 243 May Meeting at Sunset Park
Cubs Pack 243 held their May meeting at Sunset Park with Den 6 leading the pledge, Den 4 presenting a circus skit, and parents performing. Gene Thomas awarded certificates and pins to several Den Mothers and Cubmasters, while Webelos built a campfire and Marty Miller and Alan Jorgenson earned Wolf Badges. Arrow points, year pins, Pinewood Derby winners, and multiple scouters received awards. Memorial Day parade urged, assembly at Court House at 9:30 a.m. in uniform.
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Cub
Sunset Park
Den 6
Den 4
Gene Thomas
Bain
Moratti
Nicholson
den Mathers
Mabb
Brock
Gilmer
Webelos
Wayne Brock
Marty Miller
Alan Jorgenson
Ricky Wood
Ronnie Bain
Danny Renoix
Mike Gray
Sean O’hanlon
Greg Thomas
Sidney Mabb
Danny Renoux
Terry Burkum
David Booth
Cubs
Court House
Brazilian youth chosen for AFS exchange at Washington High
Joao de Souza Mansur, a 17 year old Brazilian student from Juiz de Fora, will join Washington High School as an American Field Service exchange student for the 1967 68 term. He is the eldest of seven children, son of a bus company owner, and plans to live with the Ira Morrison family. The local AFS chapter notes this is its eighth year sponsoring Washington exchanges and invites members to a June 7 breakfast honoring Suthep Vacharaprongpreecha returning to Thailand. Reservations due by noon June 5.
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Joao de Souza Mansur
Washington High School
Brazil
Vernon Elgin
AFS
Joao
Juiz de Fora
Washington
Suthep Vacharaprongpreecha
Thailand
Hooked by a fish hook a common aid practical
Family Health News covers fishing injuries advise not to pull the hook but seek medical help to minimize damage. It notes doctors may snip the shank push the hook through, offer tetanus shots and antibiotics, and warns hook wounds can get infected without treatment.
St Paul Vacation Church School Opens May 31
Vacation church school for nursery to junior high runs May 31 to June 3 at St. Paul United Church of Christ in the church basement. Sessions from 9 to 11 a.m. feature the Bible as theme with hand crafts. Teachers include Dale Byerly Debby Miller Don Pilcher Merle Miller Linda Witthoff and others.
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St. Paul United Church of Christ
Bill Guenther
Washington
St. Paul
Dale Byerly
Ainsworth
Debby Miller
Don Pilcher
Merle Miller
Linda Witthoft
Ed Zieglowsky
Debbie Zieglowsky
Walter Westen
Rev Herbert Hankins dies in Fayetteville
The Rev Herbert Clyde Hankins 83 died in a Fayetteville Arkansas hospital May 20 1967. He was born December 27 1883 in Sigourney son of William H and Eleanor Randall Hankins. A retired Methodist evangelist in the Missouri and Northwest Arkansas Conference, he later ran Hankins Monument Co in Fayetteville. Surviving are his widow four daughters one brother and two sisters Grace and Hazel Hankins both of Sigourney ten grandchildren twelve great grandchildren and one great great grandchild. Funeral service held at Central Methodist church in Fayetteville May 22.
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Herbert Clyde Hankins
Fayetteville, Arkansas
Sigourney
William H
Eleanor Randall Hankins
Missouri and Northwest Arkansas Conference
Hankins Monument Co
Fayetteville
Arkansas
Grace
Hazel Hankins
Central Methodist Church
Sophomores Invited to Washington High Chorus Tryouts
Washington High School invites sophomores to chorus tryouts for the next school year. Any student entering tenth grade should report to the high school during next week under director Jesse Knight. Tryouts run Monday Wednesday and Thursday from 8 to noon and 1 to 3 30 in the vocal music room.
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Washington High School
Studers
Jesse Knight
Vocal Music Room
Mid-Prairie FFA names officers for 1967 68
The Mid Prairie FFA met May 18 at Dicky's Prairie Home with 40 members and one guest. Members elected 1967 68 officers: President Calvin Gingerich Vice President Denny Davisson Secretary Scott Pemberton Treasurer Loren Huber Reporter Rusty Patterson Sentinel Don Wiles. Assistants include Howard Pewitt Danny Yoder Roy Malichky Doug Dann Steve Schroeder and Dave Murphy.
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Wellman
Mid Prairie
Future Farmers of America
Dicky
Prairie Home
Calvin Gingerich
Denny Davisson
Scott Pemberton
Loren Huber
Rusty Patterson
Sentinel
Don Wiles
Howard Pewitt
Danny Yoder
Roy Malichky
Doug Dann
Steve Schroeder
Dave Murphy
Stewart School Attendance Honors 1966 67
Stewart School records list pupils who were never absent or tardy for the 1966-67 year across kindergarten to sixth grade. Names span each grade with students such as James Gebhardt, Daniel Moeller, Lori Vargason, Joe Christner, Jeff Goodell, Bryan Buffington, Dale Carroll, Eric Baumert, Lori Vaughn, Mike McGuire, and others.
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Sheryl Miller
Deborah Vanderlinden
Dale Carroll
David Martin
Martin Miller
Wendell Timmins
Pamela Gardner
Vicki Waggoner
Eric Baumert
Marty Johnson
Brian Proctor
Donna Crossett
Sally Davidson
Marlene Earls
Cathy Mangold
Diane Martin
Jeffrey Zear
Lori Vaughn
Sandra Widmer
Mike McGuire
David Smothers
Rodney Vandenberg
Randy Wehr
Penny Harvey
Lisette Kleese
Francine Marek
Witthofts celebrate 50th wedding anniversary
Mr and Mrs John Witthoft of Washington marked their fifty years of marriage on Friday Their wedding took place May 26 1917 at the Methodist Parsonage in Iowa City The couple has four children twelve grandchildren and one great grandchild They have spent their married life on a farm ten miles west of Washington No observances were planned.
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John Witthoft
Washington
Iowa City
Witthoft
Kehoe Honored by Iowa Bar for 50 Years of Practice
Louis J. Kehoe of Washington joins 37 other Iowa lawyers recognized at the Iowa Bar Association meeting in Des Moines for reaching 50 years in the profession. Kehoe completed his half-century in law several weeks prior.
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Louis J. Kehoe
Washington
Iowa
Iowa Bar Association
Des Moines
Mr. Kehoe
Mrs Emma Warfel 93 dies in Iowa home
Emma Rebecca Boyer born January 2 1874 in Washington County daughter of David and Eliza Boyer. She married Rudolph S. Warfel in 1897 who died 1935. She was a Marion Avenue United Presbyterian Church DAR and DUV member. Surviving son David Warfel of Santa Monica sister and brother-in-law and a number of nieces and nephews. Funeral Monday at 2 p.m. Jones Funeral Home with Dr Vernon Elgin officiating. Burial Woodlawn Cemetery. She died May 27 1967 at United Presbyterian Home.
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Emma B. Warfel
United Presbyterian Home
Jones Funeral
Vernon Elgin
Woodlawn
Emma Rebecca Boyer
Washington County
David
Eliza Jane Harris Boyer
Washington Academy
Rudolph S. Warfel
Marion Avenue United Presbyterian Church
Daughters of the American Revolution
Daughters of Union Veterans
David W. Warfel
Santa Monica
Calif
Ray Bower
Ottumwa
F. W
Mary) Kerr
Caldwell
Kansas
Davenport approves $2.8 million bond for classrooms
Davenport Iowa voters approved a $2.8 million bond to build 43 new elementary school classrooms by 4,746 to 2,134. A $596,000 bond for a West High School auditorium passed but failed to reach the 60 percent requirement, at 3,951 to 2,852.
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Davenport
Iowa
UPI
West High School
Iowa student drowns at Coralville Reservoir
Daryl W. Brown 21, Jesup, a University of Iowa student, died after stepping into a deep hole while swimming with friends at the Coralville Reservoir. Coast Guard recovered his body around 1 a.m. authorities said he was a poor swimmer and the son of Mr. and Mrs. Roland Brown.
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Iowa City
Iowa
UPI
Daryl W. Brown
Jesup
University of Iowa
Coralville Reservoir
Brown
Roland Brown
Coast Guard
Social calendar notices for early week events
Social calendar lists various club meetings and activities with times and hosts. Sunday Rainbow Girls open installation at 3 30 pm, public invited. Monday Golden Age Club 1 30 pm at YMCA. White Shrine Bridge 1 30 pm with dessert and cards at Masonic Temple. Wash-Away TOPS 8 pm YWCA. Daughters of the Nile 7 pm Mrs Walter Bauer May 29. Tuesday Golf 2 ball foursome 1 30 pm at Country Club bring partner or husband. Wednesday Ladies Golf Association league play starts 12 30 luncheon make reservations. You Go I Go Club 1 30 pm with Mrs Charles Mayer.
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Golden Age Club
YMCA
White Shrine Bridge
Masonic Temple
YWCA
Daughters of the Nile
Walter Bauer
Bob Ryner
Dean Cox
Ladies Golf Association
Charles Mayer
Hospital admits and dismissals listed for several residents
Hospital entries show yesterday admissions for James C. Atkinson of Brighton and Clarence Richards of Ainsworth, with dismissals for Richard Schenk and Joyce Reighard in Washington. Today includes Emery Miller and son in Kalona, Dean Crooks and daughter, and Virgil Smith in Washington. A birth is recorded for Warren Escher and spouse in Washington a son.
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James C. Atkinson
Brighton
Clarence Richards
Ainsworth
Richard Schenk
Washington
Joyce Reighard
Emery Miller
Kalona
Dean Crooks
Virgil Smith
Richland woman loses foot in farm accident
Mrs. Don Underwood, 29, of three miles west of Richland Iowa, had a foot amputated at St. Joseph Hospital in Ottumwa after a farm accident Friday. She was helping her husband unload corn when her foot was caught in an auger wagon, mangling and crushing it. She is the mother of three grade school children and former Janice Nordyke.
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Richland
Don Underwood
Iowa
St. Joseph Hospital
Ottumwa
Columbus Junction Bank Moves to New Building
The Columbus Junction State Bank will relocate Monday May 29 to the State Bank Building after remodeling the old site. The bank has operated from the L. S. Myers Building for about a year during renovations. A grand opening date will be announced later.
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Columbus Junction
Columbus Junction State Bank
State Bank
L. S. Myers
Speck given 30 day delay before death decision
Richard Speck, convicted of the eight nursing student murders, gains a 30 day reprieve as Circuit Court Judge Paschen postpones sentencing to evaluate potential epileptic fits. Defense urged delay amid brain wave tests showing suspicious features, with a death penalty recommendation from the prior Peoria trial.
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Chicago
UPI
Richard Speck
Circuit Court
Herbert C. Paschen
Speck
Paschen
University of Illinois Neurology
Mrs May Fleming to celebrate 95th Memorial Day birthday
Mrs May Fleming of Shenk Nursing Home Wellman will mark her 95th birthday on Memorial Day rather than Friday as once reported. The former Washington resident remains a local figure in the community.
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May Fleming
Shenk Nursing Home
Wellman
Washington
Johnson seeks Mideast peace through careful diplomacy
President Johnson urges Israel to avoid hasty moves that could harm its case as he pursues a diplomatic breakthrough. White House talks with Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban focused on possible U N action and U.S. aims to keep the vital Gulf of Aqaba shipping route open.
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Washington
UPI
Johnson
Middle East
Israel
Abba Eban
White House
Eban
United States
Gulf of Aqaba
Man ill from farm insecticides near Richland
Tom Hoskins, a farmer three miles south of Richland, became ill Monday from insecticides. He was taken to Ottumwa Hospital and released Thursday. His son, C L Hoskins, was taken to Fairfield Hospital for an appendectomy on Wednesday and is in good condition there.
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Richland
Tom Hoskins
Ottumwa Hospital
C. L. Hoskins
Fairfield Hospital
Hospital report mixups correct patient names
A Friday Journal item misidentified Mrs. Richard Schuck as a medical patient at Washington Hospital. The correction states the admitted patient was actually Mr. Richard Schenk, admitted Thursday and later dismissed from Washington County Hospital in today’s report.
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Richard Schuck
Washington Hospital
Goff Belts Lot Sale To Meyer Couple In Block 6
Clarence W. Goff and wife transfer lot 5 and part of lot 6 in block 4 to David L. Meyer and wife. The transaction covers a width of 5 feet south 6 feet in J. H. Young's and Washington addition.
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Clarence W. Goff
David L. Meyer
J. H. Young
Washington
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Ronald Bain
Jack Gilmore
Joe Gilmore
Larry Burkum
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Pat Brock
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Bobby Nardys
Brian Caldwell
Steve Jaspering
AFS Exchange
Ira Morrison
Suthep
Leon Hillman
Louis Larsen
Family Health News
Walter. H. Kemp
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
Joseph C. Sharp
Los
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Samuel Ayres
Salk Institute For Biological Studies
San Diego
August B. Kinzel
Institute
Nelson Rockefeller
New York State
American Society of Newspaper Editors
Yale
Herbert Hankins
FFA
Mid-Prairie
J. W. Helscher
P.O. Box
Washington, Iowa
Ohio National Life Ins. Co
Cincinnati
Witthoft’s
Emma Warfel
Coralville Lake
Rainbow Girls
Warren Escher
Vegas
A.low
Thunderbird & Sharp
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Lloyd Turnipseed
Taylor S. Jarvis
Carl W. Jarvis
Lane
Noel
Washington, D. C
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Jon C. Jarvis
Jon Jarvis
George Saars
Taylor
American Airlines
San Francisco
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Wells Fargo Bank
Mideast
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Greer
World
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Greer Technical Institute, Inc
Michigan Ave
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Matt Goes
Sturpimly Adipm
By Wendell Eden
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Sherman-Eden Funeral Home
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