Army's Beacon satellite launch fails at Cape Canaveral
The Army's 13th satellite attempt ends in failure after the Jupiter-C rocket experiences upper stage trouble. officials say radio contacts were lost before second stage ignition and signals later showed the mission was not achieving orbital status.
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Army
Cape Canaveral
Fla
UPI
America
John A. Barclay
Army Ballistic Missile Agency
Huntsville
Ala
Jack Froehlich
Jet Propulsion Laboratories
California Institute of Technology
Navy Vanguard
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Eisenhower Returns After Campaigning Across the Nation
President Eisenhower ends a 5300 mile campaign swing across the West Coast and Midwest. He tells staff the tour was worth it and sees Meade Alcorn to plan further campaigning. He notes Republicans feel encouraged while awaiting updates on Mrs. Eisenhower’s health.
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Washington
UPI
Eisenhower
West Coast
Midwest
Chicago
GOP
Meade Alcorn
White House
Alcorn
Congress
Republican Caravan Makes County Tour
A twelvecar Republican County Caravan toured Washington county on Tuesday with stops at an 8 a.m. breakfast with Mrs. Joe Jones of Crawfordsville and lunch at Lewis Cafe in Wellman. The route ended at 4 p.m. with participants including Congressman Fred Schwengel State Senate candidate Clifford Vance and State Representative Richard Stephens. In Ainsworth the group visited the birthplace of the Republican party where Rev Williams of Crawfordsville delivered the invocation.
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Washington County
Joe Jones
Crawfordsville
Lewis Cafe
Wellman
Fred Schwengel
Clifford Vance
Richard Stephens
Ainsworth
Rev. Williams
Renews Appeal for Chest Fund Drive
Everett Meeker chair of the Washington Community Chest urges residential canvassing statewide after a slow day showing little new money. He notes strong generosity overall but calls for every resident to be contacted and urged to give to support Chest agencies.
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Everett Meeker
Washington Community Chest
Community Chest
Meeker
Legionnaires Urge Veterans Day Observance in Community
American Legion post members call for proper observance of Veterans Day with an 11 am salute of 11 bombs, a march to the high school, and school programs. They note Nov 11 is a legal holiday per Congress and the President asked communities to observe. The drive for contributions lags with yesterday’s total at 10 663.25 and reports slow.
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Leon Beatty American Legion Post
Legionnaires
Congress
Community Chest
Everett Meeker
Farmers Store Offers College Scholarship
The Farmers Store in Washington announces a sales program awarding a college scholarship to the student who earns the most points from livestock feeds corn and oats purchases. Eligible participants are juniors or older high school students living in the Washington trading area. Scholarship begins August 1 1959 and covers one school year tuition.
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Washington
Washington Trading Area
Murray Seeks Reapportionment If Elected Governor
William Murray Republican candidate for governor told Kiwanis Club in Davenport that a GOP legislature and governor cooperating could move reapportionment in 1959. He vowed to push one house by population and the other by area, warned of two more years of stalemate, criticized Governor Loveless as a veto governor, and outlined six goals including tax reform state institutions education leadership reapportionment and industrial development. The Clinton speech followed his remarks in Davenport.
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Davenport
Iowa
UPI
William Murray
Murray
a_ Kiwanis Club
Congress of the United States
Clinton
Loveless
Washington High Band to Attend Iowa City Homecoming Parade
The Washington High School marching band will travel to Iowa City Friday evening to perform in the annual homecoming parade for the State University of Iowa. As a reward for their appearance, band members will go to see the Northwestern Iowa football game Saturday afternoon.
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Iowa City
Washington High School
State University of Iowa
Northwestern Iowa
Family Swim Session at YMCA Pool Tonight
A family swim session is scheduled for Thursday at 7 p.m. at the YMCA pool. Non members pay 25 cents for mothers and children and 35 cents for fathers, while YMCA members may join at no charge. Participants may use lobby facilities before and after the swim.
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YMCA
Welfare program extends to cover some medical costs
Iowa Welfare Department will start paying doctor and drug bills for welfare recipients from January 1, 1959. The expansion, funded by increased federal money, applies to old age assistance, aid to dependent children, and aid to the blind. Doctors, osteopaths, and chiropractors are scheduled. pharmacists' schedules pending.
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Des Moines
UPI
Iowa Welfare Department
Congress
Iowa
L.L. Caffrey
Board of Social Welfare
Welfare Department
Welfare Board
All-State District Tryouts Set For Cedar Rapids Musicians
Washington vocal and instrumental students travel to Cedar Rapids Saturday for district tryouts for the All-State band and chorus. District winners advance to Des Moines for the Thanksgiving concert at KRNT Theater. Robert Ferrell will lead two vocal quartets and Alan Bergstrom will bring three bands players to compete.
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Washington
Cedar Rapids
Des Moines
KRNT
Robert Ferrell
Carolyn Stewart
Harriet Kleese
Jeanne Booth
Linda Mink
Marvin Lowry
Bob Lee
Jim Morrison
Bill Mouser
Alan Bergstrom
Marilyn Latta
George McDaniel
John Peterson
Loveless backs child driven fund to rebuild Clinton school
Gov. Herschel C. Loveless endorsed columnist Drew Pearson’s plan for children nationwide to donate soft drinks money to reconstruct Clinton Tennessee high school after dynamite blasts. He proposed extending the drive to all Iowa public schools to raise funds and deter terrorism via public solidarity.
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Loveless
Des Moines
UPS
Drew Pearson
Clinton, Tenn
Iowa
Pearson
Iowa Atty General cites procedural error in Nielsen tax case
Atty. Gen. Norman Erbe said he erred procedurally in dismissing the income tax evasion case against Marion attorney Stanley Nielsen. Gov. Loveless and Tax Commissioner Miller argued the probe halted, while Erbe said current tax laws may be doubtful and would be refined by 1959 legislation. The Nielsen case, one of two test cases, was halted to await court rulings. A separate note says University of Connecticut reports an urgent request for rabbits from a Honduras farmer aiding lettuce production with a U S S agricultural agent.
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Des Moines
UPI
Norman Erbe
Marion
Iowa
Erbe
Herschel C. Loveless
Leon Miller
Iowa Tax Commission
Loveless
Miller
Stanley Nielsen
Tax Commission
Nielsen
Supreme Court
Linn County
Calvin Garland
Bootblack
Garland
Conn
University of Connecticut
Honduras
U. S&s
Talks End With U S and Nationalist China Agreeing on Defense Link
UPI reports three days of talks in Taipei producing a communique tying Quemoy defense to Formosa defense and renouncing force as the primary path to the mainland. Dulles and Chiang Kai-shek pledged solidarity, while whispers of troop reductions and a possible de facto truce circulated among Washington circles.
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Taipei
Formosa
UPI
United States
China
U.S
John Foster Dulles
Chiang Kai - Shek
Quemoys
Defense Ministry
Quemoy
C.d.t
Reds
Dulles
Washington
Huang Shao-ku
Chiang
Chiang-Dulles
Kalischer
Matsu Islands
Local Dealers Aid Harvest Safety Demonstration
Four Washington implement dealers join with the local high school FFA chapter to present a corn harvest safety demonstration on the square Saturday night at 8. Dealers Fenn Implement Loveless Implement Farmers Implement and McCormick Farm Equipment will bring equipment to show safe harvest methods as part of a state wide safety campaign to cut tractor and machinery fatalities and injuries.
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Washington Implement
Future Farmers of America
FFA
Fenn Implement
Loveless Implement
Farmers Implement
McCormick Farm Equipment
Government reports show living costs steady in September
The Labor Department said the consumer price index held at 123.7 relative to 1947-59 prices, with wages of the average factory worker rising to a record $77.25 weekly after taxes. Prices stayed largely stable, boosting buying power about 1 percent, while railroad and some aerospace wages adjusted.
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Washington
UPI
Labor Department
Ewan Clague
Labor Statistics Commissioner
Clague
Murray TV Program Tonight Saturday
The Murray Victory Caravan is set to air at 6 30 p m today on WMT TV channel 2 and at 5 p m Saturday October 25 on WOC TV channel 6 in the local area.
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Wmt-Tv
Woc-Tv
Chicaqua Chapter Plans Work Session at Walton Club
Chicaqua Chapter of the Izaak Walton League will meet Monday at 7 p.m. at the Walton club house five miles southwest of Washington on highway one. Members should bring lanterns hammers spades saws and other tools to ready the club house for the winter season.
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Chicaqua
Izaak Walton League
Walton Club
Washington
Highway One
Phony Bomb Scare Shuts Davenport Post Office
UPI reports a fake bomb scare disrupted Davenport Iowa post office when a letter warned of a bomb arriving Friday. FBI agents and postal investigators searched the building but found no device. officials declined to discuss the incident.
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Davenport, Iowa
UPI
Davenport
FBI
Weather forecast for Iowa clouds and rain to Friday
The United Press International Iowa forecast calls for cloudy cool conditions with light rain in the northeast and fair skies in the southwest through Friday. Rain ends early Friday with cooler tonight and little temperature change Friday. Lows tonight 35 to 42, highs Friday in the 50s, then mostly fair and mild Saturday.
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Iowa
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Riverside Trinity Methodist Church
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Frances Moss
Clara Rath
Ann Rath
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Kate Ingram
Mary Lukovsky
Gladys Fingle
Cites
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Peter Kalischer
Columbia Broadcasting System
Postoffice
United Press International
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