Community Chest drive reports early funds. Keota accident noted
Early corporate division solicitations total 3459 dollars as KEOTA DALE DAWN and his son suffer injuries in a combine pickup collision near their rural Keota home. They were treated at Washington County Hospital Dana later transferred to Mercy Hospital Town City with a fractured shoulder others released after treatment. Duane Miller is treated and released.
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Community Chest Fund Drive
Keota
Dale Dawn
Duane Miller
Wellman
Dana
Washington County Hospital
Mercy Hospital
Town City
Washington Hospital
Miller
Riceville Voters Reject High School Plan. Levy Passes
In Riceville the community rejected a plan to build a new high school with 738 yes to 581 no a 56 percent approval. A 10 mill levy to finance the building was approved by residents 822 to 500. Officials noted turnout set a record.
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Riceville
UPS
Washington Iowa student wins national 4 H Woolverton Scholarship
Nancy Vittetoe a junior at Iowa State University and Washington County 4 H member has been named one of two national winners of the Florence Flannery Woolverton Scholarship. The $500 award was donated by The Boye Needle Company and announced at the 51st National 4 H Congress in Chicago. Vittetoe has a textiles and clothing merchandising major and has long led 4 H activities, including clothing grooming home management and dress revue projects.
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Marie Vittetoe
Washington
Iowa
Iowa State University
Florence Flannery Woolverton
Boye Needle Company
Chicago
Cooperative Extension Service
Miss Vittetoe
Edwin Vittetoe
Washington County
Weather in Iowa: Sun, clouds, light snow possible east
Mostly sunny west with variable clouds and a chance of light snow or flurries in the east this afternoon. Highs near 30 northeast to upper 30s southwest. Clear to partly cloudy tonight with lows in the 20s. Thursday will be partly cloudy and colder, highs: northwest lower 30s to southeast upper 30s.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Knoke Seeks Lottery Bill For Iowa Legislature
Iowa Rep. George Knoke asks the Legislative Service Bureau to draft a statewide lottery bill after a constitutional ban was repealed. He proposes a planning commission and general fund profits with no earmarking, plus legislative rules committee approval.
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Harrison Weber
Iowa Daily Press
Ass'n Des Moines
IDPA
Iowa
George Knoke
Council Bluffs
Legislative Service Bureau
Knoke
State
Legislative Departmental
Serge Garrison
Union official named as Secretary of Labor
President Nixon named Peter J. Brennan of the New York Building Trades Council as labor secretary designating him to head the Labor Department. Brennan's selection follows a labor support shift and Hodgson’s resignation, with further cabinet announcements anticipated.
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Camp David
UPI
Nixon Today
New York City
Peter J. Brennan
Brennan
James D. Hodgson
White House
Ronald L. Ziegler
New York Building Trades Council
Jixon
Organized Labor
Afl-Cio
George Mean
Labor Department
Arthur J. Goldberg
United Steelworkers Union
John F. Kennedy
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Martin Durkin
Plumbers Union
Durkin
Goldberg
Supreme Court
Nixon
New York
Hodgson
New York State
Ziegler
Meany
Kalona Launches Three Day Regional Labor Survey
Communities in Washington and nearby counties join Kalona and the Industrial Committee for a three day labor survey to gauge potential employment as a firm eyes Kalona for 100 to 200 jobs. Registration runs Thursday through Saturday at local sites including Kalona Foodland and Savings Bank.
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Washington County
Kalona
Industrial Committee
Kalona Community Club
Evening Journal
Gene Johnson
U.S
Community auction funds Good Samaritan Fund at Halcyon House
An auction at the Washington County fairgrounds on Saturday December 2 at 1 30 p m raises money for Halcyon House Good Samaritan Fund. Items include baked goods grain furniture and antiques. Donations welcome via fairgrounds 10 a m to 1 p m or church pickup.
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Washington County Fairgrounds
Good Samaritan Fund
Halcyon House
Washington
United Methodist Church of Washington
Methodist Church
Food prices dip as retail basket slides in October
UPI reports October saw a 2 percent drop in the cost of a typical market basket as beef and bread prices edged lower while margins by processors and retailers narrowed earlier, keeping the year over year rise at 7.3 percent. Farm-to-retail spreads widened, and live cattle prices fell to their lowest in a year despite a small retail decline in beef.
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Ington
UPI
Agriculture Department
Russia
Press club to issue report condemning Nixon on pressfreedom
New London Connecticut UPI indicates the National Press Club will publish a report condemning President Nixon for harming the White House press conference. William V Shannon says Nixon harbors hostility toward reporters and seeks to muzzle media. compares Nixon to Eisenhower and urges strong confidentiality rights for journalists.
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New London
Shannon
Connecticut College
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House
Senate
Garrison
George R Kinley
Des Moines
Michael Biouin
Dubuque
Adrian Brinck
West Point
Richard Norpel
Bellevue
James Wells
Cedar Rapids
Hawkeye
Philip Hill
Hill
James Schaben
D-Dunlap
John H Clark
Keokuk
Russell Wyckoff
D-Vinton
Frank Crabb
R-Denison
Leonard Andersen
Sioux City
Rep
Jack Miller
Robert Ray
Maurice Baringer
Arthur Neu
Robert Lounsberry
W. J. Usery Jr
United Mine Workers
United States
William Bryant
UMW
Kalona Labor Survey
Halcyon House Sale
South Iowa Methodist Homes
Wesley Acres
Heritage House
Atlantic
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