Kennedy Defends Reserve Program Amid Berlin Crisis
President Kennedy urged reservists and National Guardsmen to return to civilian life as soon as possible after a year of duty. He defended the call up as preventive and not a fight, noting some hardship but stressing equal service to the nation. He announced plans for a national fallout shelter program and a broad foreign trade bill while signaling a possible trip abroad.
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Washington
UPI
Kennedy
Berlin
Fort Lewis
Wash
SAC
Omaha
Congress
United States
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Enos
Attend Red Cross Meeting in Iowa City
Mrs Ralph Martin chaired the American Red Cross VA Hospital committee meeting in Iowa City on Tuesday with Mrs R A Baumgartner representing Washington County. Plans and work quotas for hospital relief were set and assignments given to local chapters. The county has 86 dozen cookies volunteered and a Christmas quota of a bushel of oranges.
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Ralph Martin
R. A. Baumgartner
Iowa City
American Red Cross VA Hospital Committee
Martin
Baumgartner
Washington County
Red Cross
Iowa Woman Killed In Car-Truck Collision Near Algona
Mary Capesius aged 61 from Bode died from injuries after a head and shoulder trauma in a crash between her car and a county gravel truck at a county road intersection near Algona Iowa. Cliff Blanchard of Algona the truck driver was uninjured. Capesius was transferred to a Rochester Minnesota hospital for treatment.
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Rochester
Minn
UPI
Mary Capesius
Iowa
Algona
Capesius
St. Anne's Hospital
Cliff Blanchard
Mrs. Schmitt 52 Dies at Washington County Hospital
Mrs. Everette Schmitt aged 52 of rural Washington died at 11:30 am today November 2 1961 at Washington County Hospital after five years of illness. Funeral arrangements are pending with Jones Funeral Home. Surviving are her husband three sons Leland and Dean of Des Moines and Richard of Julesburg Colorado, plus brothers and sisters. One son two brothers and a sister preceded her in death.
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Everette Schmitt
Washington
Washington County
Jones Funeral Home
Verva Hagist
Keota
William
Maggie Smith Hagist
Methodist Church
Leland
Dean
Des Moines
Richard
Julesburg
Colo
George Stoutner
Virgil
Flave Hagist
Gerald Me. Dowell
Richard Hudson
Sigourney
Everette Hagist
Ottumwa
Clifford Freel
Wellman
Wild Game Feed Tickets On Sale For IWLA Chi cagua Chapter
Tickets for the annual Wild Game Feed sponsored by the Chi cagua Chapter of Irank Walton League are available from IWLA members or 2 Kneen's Refrigeration & TV. The dinner at the YMCA Community Room in Washington on Thursday December 7 begins at 6 30 pm. Buffalo is the main dish with coon venison elk pheasant rabbit squirrel duck turtle and fish also served. Lloyd Zeug of Rock Island will show films on the Sudan and a Tiger Hunt in India. Tickets are limited and open to the public as well as League members.
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Chicagua
Irank Walton League
Phil Kneen
IWLA
Kneen
YMCA
Washington
Lloyd Zeug
Rock Island
Sudan
Africa
India
Zeug
League
Eighty Dozen Cookies Sent to Iowa City Hospital
Washington County Red Cross volunteers fill a holiday quota delivering eighty dozen cookies to Veterans Hospital in Iowa City. Donors include Mrs. Don Wiley and Mrs. Delmar Yoder among others. a later list credits Mrs. Robert Lowe and 15 Women of the Moose. Roy Funston's Seventy Six Township group is noted as first to finish.
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Veterans Hospital
Iowa City
Washington County
Red Cross
Don Wiley
Delmar Yoder
Ruth Nolan
Sadie Coleman
Martha Albright
Ira McConnell
Charlies Livingston
Don Jackson
Earl Thomas
Robert Lowe
Charlies Jackson
William Tweeten
Women of the Moose
Roy Funston
Seventy Six
Fearful General Strike Roils Dominican Republic
In Santo Domingo and across the country a general strike aimed at ousting President Balaguer prompts a government crackdown. Tanks patrol streets, a curfew is reimposed, and workers are warned dismissal if absent. Opposition leaders claim the strike signals broad disapproval of Balaguer and the Trujillo remnants, while calls for negotiations surface amid limited progress. The piece also notes a YMCA junior high dance event for December.
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Santo Domingo
UPI
Joaquin Balaguer
Balaguer
Viriato Piallo
UCN
Trujillo
Fiallo
Pedro Rodriguez Echavarria
Dominican Lawyers’ Association
Radio Havana
Latin America
Juan Boseh
PRD
Congress
Kennedy says Tass distorts interview in Izvestia
UPI reports US officials accuse Tass of editing Kennedy interview with Izvestia editor Adzhubei. Omissions cited include Kennedy on Eastern Europe votes, nuclear test moratorium, Berlin reunification, and Cuba elections. Tass promised full text in Izvestia.
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Washington
UPI
Tass
Kennedy
Izvestia
Alexei Adzhaber
Adzhubei
Russia
Yalta
Potsdam
Soviet Union
Britain
United States
Geneva
Berlin
Germany
U.S
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Five Year Plan Speeds Interstate Roads in Iowa
Iowa Highway Commission unveils a 330 million five year program to speed interstate construction while slowing primary road work. Completion of I 80 Davenport to Missouri River by 1966 and start of I 5 north of Des Moines are planned with most funding from federal sources.
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Ames
UPI
Iowa Highway Commission
Davenport
Missouri River
Des Moines
Brayton
Iowa
Missouri Valley
Blairsburg
Minnesota
Sioux City
Council Bluffs
Onawa
Little Sioux
Keosauqua Way
University
2Nd Street
East 6Th
Katanga Troops Beat Two UN Officials At Private Party
Senator Thomas J. Dodd witnessed Katangese troops assault two high United Nations officials, George Ivan Smith and Brian Urquhart, during a private party in Elisabethville. Smith suffered possible broken ribs and Urquhart cuts and bruises as the UN demanded apologies and punishment for the attackers.
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Elisabethville
the Congo
UPI
Thomas J. Dodd
B- Conn
United Nations
Congo
Dodd
Katanga
United States
U.N
Moise Tshombe
Smith
Louis Hoffacker
Tshombe
Urquhart
Enos the chimpanzee launches into orbit briefly
United States rocket carries Enos about two orbits before technical problems arise in the inverter and attitude control system. The capsule lands 500 miles south of Bermuda at 1:28 p.m. EST. Enos is reported in good condition as recovery ships prepare for ascent.
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Cape Canaveral
Pacific Ocean
Canton Island
Earth
Bermuda
Guaymas
Mexico
Corpus Christi
Tex
Mercury
Enos
Project Mercury
Atlas
Cape
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
America
Russia
Vanguard
U.S
Canary Islands
Atlantic Ocean
Kano
Nigeria
NASA
Change Dip Schedule At Washington YWCA
The YWCA in Washington announced a revised dip schedule in effect until new swim classes begin. Dips occur Tuesdays and Fridays with slots for Adults 9 to 10 am, Children 4 to 5 pm, and Adults mothers daughters junior and senior high girls 7:30 to 8:00 pm.
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YWCA
Scuba Class Planned At Washington YMCA
The Washington YMCA invites youths 16 and older and adults to contact Tom McSpadden about a scuba class. If interest proves enough, instruction will begin soon after the year starts with Monday night sessions. All applicants must be reasonably good swimmers.
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Washington
Kalona Man's Auto Stolen Tuesday
Local sheriff's officials investigated after a 1953 Chrysler owned by Alvin J. Miller of Kalona was reported missing Tuesday evening. The car, believed stolen in the afternoon, was last seen in Kalona or nearby as authorities pursued leads.
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Kalona
Alvin J. Miller
Weather Watch Iowa: Colder Outlook With Cloudy Skies
United Press International reports turning colder conditions across Iowa with highs near 25-30 in the extreme north and 40s in the south. Nights dip to low 20s to low 30s, with Friday largely cloudy and cold. Temperatures through Monday run 2-4 degrees below normal and a slow warming expected early next week. No precipitation of consequence anticipated.
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Iowa
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Kivu
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Sheridan Smith
Oil Company
Washington Ywca
Washington Ymca
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