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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1965
Page
3
St Marys parish and Pastor announce an open house in Keota on Sunday October 17 from 1 to 4 pm. Rosary devotions at 1 pm precede a guided tour of the church school and Sisters convent. Refreshments will be served in the parish hall.
Richland Women’s Club met at the home of Mrs. Clare Hoekstra with Mrs. Tom Hoskins reviewing Sisters of the Sari by Ruth Gallup Armstrong. Guests included Mrs. Gilbert Dickinson and officials from the 4th District Conference in Ottumwa. About thirty women attended Clover Leaf Club Guest Day at Prairie Home Cafe with LeRoy Neece and Wilford Locke presenting poems and contests amid fall chrysanthemums and marigolds. Clinton Churchill is critically ill at Jefferson Square Manor in Ottumwa.
Miss Phyllis George an 18 year old Parsons College student in Fairfield Iowa is free on 5000 bond after pleading innocent to a manslaughter charge in the death of a newborn baby she allegedly gave birth to in her dorm room. The infant reportedly weighed nine pounds and lived several hours before police found the body in a garbage can outside the dorm.
UPI reports the nation has 378,460 commercial restaurants feeding about 60 million people weekly and purchasing roughly 8.5 billion dollars in food yearly. Restaurants are the largest U.S. retail group per Audits & Surveys Inc. Local and regional brands supply much of the restaurant food, contrasting with broad national-brand patterns.
In Key West Florida the UPI reported renewed small boat departures from Camarioca Cuba despite rough seas in the Florida Straits. About 100 to 200 refugees arrive daily at Camarioca with as many as 15 boats waiting to sail to Florida. Coast Guard patrols report 10 foot waves as rains lessen and officials in Key West detain a six member crew of a charter fishing boat carrying journalists to Cuba. A Bahamas coast halt stopped the sloop Hilda with five Cuban exiles aboard.
Officers aboard the Coast Guard cutter claimed they were just going fishing. The Hilda arrived here after its launch, as the Coast Guard prepared its second communications satellite. The Titan rocket, central to the soldier in space project, was fueled and ready for a demanding test flight planned for Wednesday night.
Titan-3D military space launcher launch at Cape Kennedy was delayed about three hours as engineers finished dragging launch preparations. Earliest liftoff time moved to 1 p.m. EST with heavy clouds threatening further holds while Air Force seeks camera coverage. Earlier, NASA launched a small insect-like satellite named OGO from Vandenberg AFB, and the Soviet Union reported activity in space.
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