Steele to lead Washington Chamber in 1976
Bill Steele will head the Washington Chamber of Commerce in 1976. Steele owns Steele Lumber Co and was elected president of the board this week. Walter Jarrell Jr. of Farrell Printing & Office Supplies was chosen vice president and Kent Dallmeyer of the National Bank elected treasurer for the new year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Evening Journal
Bill Steele
Washington Chamber of Commerce
Steele
Steele Lumber Co
Walter Jarrell Jr
Farrell Printing & Office Supplies
Kent Dallmeyer
the National Bank
Washington Community Chest reaches halfway to goal
Campaign chairman Jim Kauffman said donations and pledges total $21,675, 51 percent of the $42,500 target. The drive shifts to residential areas as door canvassing begins, with appeals also wrapping up in business and industrial sectors. Donations may be mailed to Box 86, Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evening Journal
Washington
Jim Kauffman
Kauffman
Box 86
George Washington Slept Here at Washington High
WHS presents the popular comedy tonight and Saturday at 8 pm curtain. Tickets remain at the door. The Fullers and their adventures with a country home supply many laugh filled moments for theatergoers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Washington
Washington High School
Fullers
Waco High Drama to Stage A Widow's Weary-or-Virtue Wins Out
Waco High School's drama department presents the melodrama A Widow's Weary-or-Virtue Wins Out this Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. in the Olds gymnasium. The cast includes Terry Vigil as the villain Doug Swanson Peg Lindeen as henchman and widow Karla Gibson as widow and Telitha Bean as grandmother. Dan Widmer plays the heroine with Kim Fort as miner Rick Miller as dance hall girl and Sara Swartzendruber on piano. The story follows an unscrupulous villain attempting to steal a silver mine home and the widow's daughter. tickets can be reserved by calling the school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waco High School
Terry Vigil
Villian
Doug Swanson
Peg Lindeen
Karla Gibson
Telitha Bean
Dan Widmer
Kim Fort
Rick Miller
Sarah Swartzendruber
Rod
Grandma
Jonas Sumac
Journal
Clearer Tonight With Mild Weekend Ahead
Weather clears tonight with a low around 40 to 45 degrees. Saturday brings higher cloudiness and a high near 60. Winds shift to the west to northwest at 5 to 10 mph tonight.
Sheriff to acquire two Pontiacs for county patrols
Washington County Deputy sheriffs will soon drive two new Pontiac Catalina patrol cars, ordered from Perdock Inc. of Washington as the lowest of three bids at 6692 for both cars. The sheriff noted the cars replace high mileage units and will be white with yellow and blue markings. A new jail visiting hour was added, 7 to 8 p.m. Saturdays, to accommodate working visitors, alongside existing 9 to 10 a.m. Mondays and 2 to 3 p.m. Thursdays sessions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evening Journal
Washington County
Yale Jarvis
Perdock Inc
Washington
Perdock
Hutmacher
Chevrolet
Jim Schulze
Ford-Mercury
Jarvis
Hatfields and McCoys plan historic reunion and monument
BLACKBERRY FORK Ky UPI says the Hatfield and McCoy clans will end their feud with a public reunion. Randall McCoy kin will install an $8000 granite monument from Hatfield Monument Co. at the burial site of five ancestors. Governors of West Virginia and Kentucky invited. a roast hog symbolizes the pig dispute that sparked much of the strife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blackberry Fork
UPI
America
Tug River
Randall McCoy
Hatfield Monument Co
Henry Hatfield
Devis Anse
McCoy
Pike County
Mingo County
W.V
West Virginia
Kentucky
Expose drug bonuses in CIA experiments at Lexington center
Former Kentucky drug rehabilitation center inmates testified before a Senate subcommittee that they were given hard drugs as bonuses for participating in CIA and Navy backed experiments in the 1950s. They described a program funded to replace opium supplies, with subjects earning “banked” morphine and LSD, while officials debated ethics and subject rights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate Health
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
Kennedy
Childs
Flowers
Lexington
Graham
Harris Isbell
Eastland
Tex
Lexington Institution
CIA
Navy
Yee
Washington
Sai Isbell
Moroccan march into Spanish Sahara sparks crisis
Tens of thousands of Moroccans pushed six miles into the disputed Sahara as a mass civilian invasion tested Spain’s defenses. At the UN diplomats warned the march could trigger war, while in Madrid Prince Juan Carlos held crisis talks as Franco remains gravely ill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sahara
UPS
Mohammed
Allah
No Man’s Land
Spanish Sahara
Spain
United Nations
Security Council
Morocco
Federico Gomez de Salazar
el Aiun
Sahara Desert
Madrid
UPI
Juan Carlos de Borbon
Zarzuela
Francisco Franco
Franco
Carlos Arias Navarro
Book professor on drug charge in Iowa City case
Seven people including University of Iowa psychology professor Stephen Fox and local attorney Jane Fox were arraigned on charges of intoxication driving receiving stolen property and drug possession. Others named include Betty Ebert Michael Matyka and William Corrado as investigators recovered LSD marijuana barbiturates amphetamines and heroin at a residence following a Coralville burglary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa City, Iowa
UPI
University of Iowa
Iowa City
Johnson County
William C. Willard Jr
Francis J. Teterud
Here
Willard
Coralville
Stephen Fox
U of I
Jane
Betty Ebert
Michael Matyka
William C. Corrado
Balmy weather may linger as Iowa enjoys warm spell
United Press International notes a long stretch of unseasonably warm autumn weather in Iowa with high 60s to mid 70s and blooming marigolds and petunias. Meteorologist Warren Caldwell says the spell is borrowed time, warning November can bring abrupt cold and snow, citing past Iowa snowfalls in 1960s and early 1970s.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press International
Iowa
Warren Caldwell
National Weather Service
Aldwell
Towa
Ford unharmed after boy's flag staff strike at Mass arrival
President Ford, undaunted and uninjured, continued handshakes upon arrival in Springfield Massachusetts after a boy raised a 24 inch flag staff struck his temple. Secret Service quickly stopped the stick as Ford resumed greeting crowds before addressing editors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Mass
UPI
Ford
Massachusetts
Soviet Union
U.S
Westover Air Force Base
New England
Boston
The
New England Society of Newspaper Editors
Also Mentioned on This Page
Dave Davis
Don Turner
Ies
Ymcas
YMCA
Phot
WHS
Waco Production
Sheriff's Office
Jimmy Wolford
Wolford
Hatfield
McCoys
Zarzuela Palace
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!