County CROP Drive Underway to Aid Refugees Abroad
Richard Staple Iowa CROP director led a Washington gathering at St. Pauls United Church of Christ outlining a weeklong corn solicitation. Corn accepted at Wellman to 20 percent moisture for shipping, with local drives in Highland and Johnson counties fueling cash transfers and food aid funds.
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Christian Rural Overseas Program
Richard Staple
St. Paul's United Church of Christ
Washington
Wallace Swartzendruber
Wellman
Highland Township
Ainsworth
Johnson County
Kalona
Iowa Township
Richard Weeks
Washington National Bank
Weeks
Staple
St. Paul's Church
Thanksgiving week toll rises with eight Iowa deaths
United Press International reports eight traffic fatalities in Iowa during the 102 hour Thanksgiving period, bringing the annual toll to 549 and leaving 55 fewer than the prior year by November 27.
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United Press International
Iowa
Roscoe Glen Rowland
Story City
Owen J. Welling
St. Louis
Robert Warren Fry
Fair
Blizzard Rips Plains as Winds Hit 60 Miles an Hour
A early season blizzard moves across the Northern Plains with winds up to 60 mph and heavy snow. At least three deaths are attributed to the storm. Scottsbluff reports nine inches of snow and a missing pilot from North Platte is later found dead in a crash near the airport.
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Venezuela in Turmoil as Army Moves on Rioters
In Caracas thousands clash with police during protests against President Betancourt. Government declares partial suspension of constitutional guarantees as soldiers and guards quell rioting near Andres Bello High School and Silencio Square. Police report multiple wounded and arrests while demonstrations resume after a telephone workers strike.
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Presbyterians Invite New Pastor in Washington
Members of the First Presbyterian Church in Washington voted to call Rev. Harold De Vries of Kamrar as pastor after his Sunday sermon and brief business meeting. The church seeks to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Rev. W. J. Grossheim, with a decision expected in a few days by the church and presbytery.
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Gus Arthur Schramm Claimed in Wellman
Gus Arthur Schramm 81 died Sunday at Shenk Rest Home in Wellman Funeral services set for Wednesday at 10 a m at Powell Funeral Home Rev Ezra Shenk officiating Burial at Wassonville cemetery He lived in Nira formerly employed at Maple Crest and is survived by relatives in Garner Iowa.
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Powell
Fzra Shenk
Wassonville
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Nira
Maplecrest
John
Harriett Still Schramm
Garner
Iowa
Local winner announced in Voice of Democracy contest
Rosie Latta daughter of the Rev and Mrs Lloyd Latta a junior at Washington High School has been named local winner in the Voice of Democracy speaking contest Miss Latta will go to Muscatine for regional judging winners there advance to the state contest The Iowa Association of Radio Broadcasters sponsors the contest contestants were from school speech classes here
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Lloyd Latta
Washington High School
Miss Latta
Muscatine
Iowa Association of Radio Broadcasters
Des Moines Youth Faces Murder Charge
Des Moines eighteen year old James M Scarlett confessed to killing Harvey Thomas seventy and wounding Ada Thomas fifty nine during a home robbery attempt. He planned the crime for two weeks and bought the rifle for fifty dollars.
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YPI
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Here
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Harvey Thomas
Ada
Broadlawns Hospital
Wilburt Hildreth
Glen Ingraham
Thomas
Retarded Children’s Group Names Board
Keith Proctor named chairman of the Washington County Association for Retarded Children for the coming year. Other members include Mrs. Lytle, Mrs. Marshall, Mrs. Gilpin, Mr. Dea, Mrs. Lamansky, Keith McClelland, and Paul Rotenburger. Meeting Thursday at 1 p.m. in the nurses home. Cedar Rapids official Volkweeh to discuss department services, workshop, and training program. Public invited.
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Washington County Association For
Robert Lytle
Payne Marshall
A. J. Gilpin
Washington
John R. Dea
Ainsworth
Roy J. Lamansky
Keith McClelland
Brighton
Paul Rotenburger
Riverside
Volkweeh
Cedar Rapids
Mrs Emma Peters 80 Dies in Washington County Hospital
Mrs Emma Harrison Peters 80 of Ainsworth and formerly Columbus Junction died Sunday at 11 am in Washington County Hospital. Services held Tuesday at Stacy Funeral Home Col umbus Junction with Rev Melvin Meineke. Burial Cambrian Cemetery. Survived by daughter Mildred Martin of Moline son Harrison Peters of Moline two brothers Benjamin Peters of Ainsworth Charles Peters of Oklahoma City one sister Mrs Robert Crim of Columbus Junction.
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Emma Harrison Peters
Ainsworth
Washington County Hospital
Stacy Funeral Home
Melvin Meineke
Cambrian Cemetery
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Richard Peters
Mildred Martin
Moline
Harrison Peters
Benjamin Peters
Charles Peters
Oklahoma City
Okla
Robert Crim
Mid-Prairie Junior High Band to Perform in Kalona
The Mid-Prairie Junior High band led by Tom Eddy will give a free concert Tuesday at 8 p.m. in the Kalona school gym. Guest soloist Mrs. Sharon Benelli joins the group of 52 students from Kalona West Chester and Wellman for their first appearance in black uniforms with white accessories.
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Mid - Prairie
Tom Eddy
Sharon Benelli
West Chester
Wellman
Plan Family Night At Christian Church
The Christian Church in Fairfield hosts a monthly family night with a covered dish dinner at 6 30 p m followed by a travelogue by Rev Don Eagle about a world Christian Churches convention in Edinburgh Scotland and European travel.
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Don Eagle
Fairfield
Edinburgh Scotland
Eagle
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Funeral services for Riverside boy Stephen Knottnerus
Funeral services were held for six year old Stephen Knottnerus at Lorden and Adams Funeral Home Riverside. He died Sunday November 27 at University Hospital Iowa City after four days illness born October 19 1954 in Washington son of Robert L and Hilda Knottnerus survivors include parents two sisters Katherine Kay and Sharon Rene and great grandmother Mrs William Moore of Anaheim California
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Robert L. Knottnerus
Edward Philgreen
Riverside Cemetery
Stephen Knottnerns
University Hospital
Iowa City
Washington
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Hilda Knott
Nerus
Katherine Kay
Sharon Rene
William Moore
Anaheim
Calif
Local Farmer Class Plans Trip to Kalona
The Washington adult farmer evening class will visit Kalona on Thursday December 1. Dr Paul McAndrews will show disease free pig production facilities. All area swine producers are invited to join the discussion. The group will depart Washington High School at 7 15 p m.
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Kalona
Paul McAndrews
Washington High School
Ousted Premier Lumumba Evades Guards in Stanleyville
Patrice Lumumba slips from his guarded Leopoldville home and heads to Stanleyville to attend his infant daughter's funeral in a move seen as part of Congo power struggles. Lumumba says he travels not as a refugee, while Katanga leader Tshombe and President Kasavubu consider talks ahead of a Congo leaders conference.
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Joseph Kasayoubu
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Moise Tshombe
Tshombe
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Conference of Congo
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Elisabethville
Crowds Dwind as Negro Pupils Return to Integrated New Orleans Schools
Four Negro girls resume first grade at two integrated schools, with the smallest heckler crowds since integration began. At McDonogh 19 no white students entered. at Frantz only a few did despite one Negro girl attending. Police guards are down from prior weeks as federal marshals accompany the pupils.
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William Frantz
Frantz
St. Bernard Parish
Worst of Storm Will Miss Iowa
Snow squalls glaze highways in northwest Iowa as the first general storm of the season moves northeast from southwest Minnesota. Freezing mist makes highways icy in the Cherokee district. cold fronts bring zero to 20 degree readings by Tuesday with winds 30 mph in the northwest. Highs Tuesday reach 10 to 20, with partly cloudy skies and modest warming by Wednesday.
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Community volunteers harvest 600 acres in Janecek fields
More than 35 men spent five days last week gathering about 600 acres of corn on the late Louis Janecek farms west of Washington. They worked from dawn to noon Saturday finishing the haul and left equipment on site for pickup Sunday. The effort totaled roughly 120 acres daily with many volunteers yet to harvest their own corn. Janecek drowned in a July boating accident on the Skunk River near Richland leaving a wife and children at the farm two miles north of Grace Hill.
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Louis Janecek
Washington
Janecek Farm
Janecek
Skunk
Richland
Jay Patterson
Frank
George
Dale
Melo Janecek
Lloyd Miksch
Daryl Tucker
Charles Snyder
Dale Jay
Kenneth
Donald Robertson
Robert Pearson
Clair Beatty
Leland Sheetz
Merle Brinning
Kenneth Weber
Dennis
Pete Tinnes
Ed White
Elwood Kleese
Raleigh Thornton
Maurice Grieser
Warren Stewart
Howard Custer Jr
Larry Tinnes
Walter Johnson
Wayne
Tracy Janecek
Donald Smith
Allen Miksch
Merrit Morris
Cold Wave Grips Iowa With Snow and Strong Winds
Weather from United Press International reports a cold wave across Iowa tonight through Tuesday morning with lows near zero to five above in the northwest and 15 to 20 above in the southeast. Snow squalls, 30 to 50 mph west to northwest winds, and a gradual warmup by midweek are forecast.
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