OGO satellite launches from Vandenberg into polar orbit
UPI reports a polar orbit launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base carrying an OGO satellite with 20 experiments including a Van Allen radiation detector built by the University of Iowa. The craft aimed for 300 to 970 miles high but reached higher due to ground guidance failure. backup systems adjusted the mission.
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Vandenberg Air Force Base
Calif
UPI
U.S
OGO
Orbiting Geophysical Laboratory
Federal Space Agency
Iowa City
Iowa
University of Iowa
Earth
More Troops Sought For Viet Nam Readiness
Washington reports the reserve component will supply 119000 National Guard and 31000 Army Reserve troops for 15,000 infantry and six 4000 brigades. Training rises to 72 drills yearly as units upgrade to full strength, with readiness to deploy within eight weeks if activated. McNamara aims for possible use by next June.
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Washington
UPI
Organized
Army Reserve
Viet Nam
National Guard
Vinton school to end teenage dances in gym
Vinton Iowa UPI The Vinton School Board decided to halt teenage dances at a junior high gym after reports of drinking and improper student behavior. Authorities cited pre Halloween pranks including loitering pranks, vandalism, and tire tampering in the downtown area. officials estimated about 40 to 15 boys may be involved.
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Vinton
Iowa
UPI
Vintén
Iires
Battle in Delta Guns Kill and Wound Vietnamese Rangers
Viet Cong guerrillas engaged 500 government troops 15 miles south of Can Tho in a major sweep of the Mekong Delta. American advisers suffered heavy casualties. a AP photographer Huynh Thanh My, 29, was killed. Da Nang collision killed one Navy man and injured 11. B52s bombed targets near Saigon. US forces 1st Cavalry took high ground overseeing Route 19 aiding a 200 truck convoy from Qui Nhon to Pleiku.
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Saigon
UPI
Mekong
U.S
Associated Press
Can Tho
da Nang
Guam
Iron Triangle
Strategic Air Command
SAC
173Rd Airborne
1St Cavalry Division
Highlands
Pleiku
Qui Nhon
Viet Nam
Waterloo Man Faces Charge of Bigamy
Waterloo Iowa United Press International report says Jack Crawford 38 a Waterloo wrestling referee was bound over to district court on a bigamy charge. Prosecutors say Crawford cohabitated with two wives in Black Hawk County and married Dorothy in Missouri in 1953 producing four children. Their latest child was born last July. He also allegedly married Linda Tovar 28 in Preston Minnesota in June 1964 and she had a child last July. Crawford's second wife was divorced from David Tover and had three children.
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Waterloo
Iowa
UPI
Jack Crawford
Crawford
Black Hawk County
D. Quinn Martin
Dorothy
St. Joseph
Martin
Linda Tovar
Preston
Minn
David Tover
Shortage of town funds prompts light department probe
IMOGENE Iowa UPI A cash shortage totaling 3804 dollars in Light Department funds was found during a state audit. Mayor Tony Maher warned the discrepancy could threaten the town post office, while Postmaster S W Jones who was clerk during the shortage pleaded guilty to embezzlement.
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Imogene
Iowa
UPI
Tony Maher
Lorne Worthington
S. W. Jones
Light Department
Jones
Maher
Country Club to hold its annual meeting
Members of the Washington Golf and Country Club will hold their annual meeting October 20 at 7 30 p m in the country club Reservations for the turkey dinner must be made no later than Friday October 15 by telephoning the clubhouse Business to be transacted includes the election of four directors All stockholders associate members and social members are urged to attend.
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Washington Golf and Country Club
Record Iowa student enrollment hits 16,355
Final figures from the University of Iowa show a record 16,355 students enrolled, up 13 percent from last year and nearly double the enrollment a decade ago, as reported by UPI in Iowa City.
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University of Iowa
Iowa City
Iowa
UPI
President Johnson’s slower than expected recovery update
Washington reports President Johnson remains weaker than anticipated after gall bladder and kidney stone surgery but continues to show gradual strength gains. Press secretary Moyers notes restlessness and fatigue, with doctors saying recovery is progressing though slower than expected. Johnson dictated a birthday telegram to Dwight Eisenhower during a visit to the Be thesda Naval Hospital.
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Washington
UPI
Johnson
White House
Bill D. Moyers
James C. Cain
Mayu
Moyers
Eisenhower
Lady Bird
Iowa Weather: Partly Cloudy with Showers Ending East
United Press International reports Iowa will see Friday partly cloudy conditions with showers ending in the east and cooler air in the west. Tonight's low expected 35 to 40 with northwest to southeast extremes near 50. Friday highs range from the 60s in the west to lower 70s in the far east. Saturday outlook predicts considerable cloudiness with showers or thundershowers.
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United Press International
Iowa
Jr Hi Y Donates To World Service At YMCA Carnival
The Jr Hi Y club of the Washington YMCA donates 30 to the World Service goal and hosts a Jr High dance 730 to 930 p m. Tickets cost two five cent tokens with no memberships required. The booth will be among fourteen run by about 125 YMCA boys, open 6 to 9 p m. Proceeds support overseas YMCA World Service programs in countries like Ceylon Jordan UAR Korea and others as part of the 1965 campaign totaling 2 512 440.
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Washington Ymca
World Service
Whe Jr, Hi - Y Club
YMCA
North America
Ceylon
Jordan
United Arab Republic
Korea
Rites at Wellman for Mary Mullinnix
Mary Ellen Mullinnix 85, formerly of Wellman, died in a Cedar Rapids nursing home. Funeral Saturday at 2 p.m. at Powell Funeral Home Wellman with Rev. Robert Paris. burial in River Junction Sweet Cemetery. Survived by children Lena Ihns Irvin Fountain Sargent Marion Ruth Schauf Harold Clifford Enos and Robert. siblings and many grandchildren and great grandchildren. Methodist Men hold first dinner Oct 20 at 6:30 p.m. in church basement with film The Million Club. season tickets available via Bob Ross or Daryl Dodder.
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Wellman
Mary Ellen Mullinnix
Cedar Rapids
Powell Funeral Home
Robert Paris
Sweet Cemetery
River Junction
Mullinnix
Jerry
Jane Walker Canott
Lawrence Fountain
Lena Ihns
Irvin Fountain
Lone Tree
Iowa Sargent
Largo
Fla
Marion
Iowa City
Everett
Ruth) Schauf
Mobile
Ala
Harold
Clifford
Edna
Texas
Enos
Luverne
Robert
Arthur Enfield
Louis Glider
George Canott
Crawfordsville
John and
Roy
Bob Ross
Daryl Dodder
Washington High announces 1965 Homecoming schedule
Homecoming events begin Friday at 2 20 p m with a student assembly in the auditorium Principal Burge Hammond will introduce Queen candidates Linda Anderson Meri Jo Birney Christine Campbell Carla Grimes and Ellen Moriarty The parade starts at 3 pm proceeding through town to the square and back The queen and attendants appear at halftime of the Washington Muscatine game at Case Field and the dance follows at the high school gymnasium.
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Washington High School
Burge Hammond
Linda Anderson
Meri Jo Birney
Christine Campbell
Carla Grimes
Ellen Moriarty
Joyce Long
South Fourth
East Washington
Iowa Avenue
Washington - Muscatine
Case Field
Frenchmen win Nobel medicine prize in 1965
The Nobel medicine prize of 1965 goes to Francois Jacob Andre Lwoff and Jacques Monod of France for discovering a new class of regulatory genes in humans at the Pasteur Institute. They will share $56,400 and be honored December 10 in Stockholm. The trio's work links gene regulation to enzyme synthesis, with high future research potential.
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Stockholm
UPI
Francois Jacob
Andre Lwoff
Jacques Monod
France
Sven Gaard
Nobel Committee
Caroline Institute
Alfred Nobel
Jacob
Lwoff
Monod
Pasteur Institute
Paris
Gaard
Farm bill price tag criticized by Shuman in Iowa remarks
Shuman, president of the American Farm Bureau, told Linn County Farm Bureau that the Johnson administration farm program carries a price tag above 18 billion dollars and warned the issue remains unsettled beyond the current 1969 expiration. He argued the plan extends direct payments to cotton and increases wheat costs by hundreds of millions, warning of a drive to limit payments and push more farmers into a government controlled agriculture system.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
UPI
Johnson Administration
American Farm Bureau
Charles B. Shuman
Linn County
Farm Bureau
Shuman
Permit to operate motor carrier Davenport to Washington
Public notice announces an application for a permit to operate a motor carrier service between Davenport and Washington. The filing outlines the proposed route and legal compliance steps required for approval. Entities include the applicant and the two cities Davenport and Washington. A decision timeline and regulatory authorities are referenced.
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Davenport
Washington
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Vandenberg
Tom Gray
Distributive Education Club
Harold Hughes
DECA
Bob Coleman
Mason City
David Salem
Des Moines
Jane Smith
Cedar Falls
Gray
Hughes
IDPA
Pentagon
Army Reserve and National Guard
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
South Viet Nam
McNamara
Vinton School
Delta
Country Club
Hi-Y
Y World Service
Mary Mullinnix
Methodist
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