Benefit Auction for Gillesby Boy urged to buy
The Washington Evening Journal urges community support for Gordon Gillesby 10 the son of YMCA official Robert Gillesby. A benefit sale at the fair grounds features donated merchandise and livestock to cover hospital and surgical costs for a kidney transplant operation in Denver. Buyers are asked to attend Tuesday night and purchase items to convert gifts into cash.
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Gordon Gillesby
Robert Gillesby
YMCA
Gordon
Thought For The Day: Refuges And Everlasting Arms
A devotional quip cites Deuteronomy 33 27 about God as refuge and the everlasting arms. It notes faith opens that refuge to people facing titanic troubles and that the arms did not let them down.
Stoutners attend sessions Return from TTT convention
Keota residents report a family’s trip to Scottsdale Arizona for the TTT Society National Convention at the Camelback Inn. Mrs Stoutner served as National T TT Society president and presided over meetings and the convention October 13 and 14. Other locals attended events and visits across Iowa and Arizona.
Dear Abby letters on care for mentally deficient and family fallout
A reader asks Abby to present both sides of institutionalizing a Mongoloid child and shares a personal account of placing a 19 year old daughter in a safe home. Other questions include handling a brother’s new baby with his separated marriage and a bearded boyfriend’s rough shaving causing irritation. Abby advises on boundaries and invites readers to submit advice.
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Abby
Altho
Puss
Busheks Attend First District WWI Meet and Visits
Riverside reports Edward and Mrs. Bushek attended the First District meeting of Veterans of World War I and Auxiliary in Fairfield on Sunday. They then visited Mr. and Mrs. Mel Lechty. Also noted are a family move to the Pharse Home near Lone Tree after an auction, a birth in Charleston to Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Wingler, and hospital visits involving Mrs. Alvah Bell and family.
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Keith Herr
Judy
McGregor
Johnny Detweiler
Cedar Rapids
Elsie Greiner
Cecil
Doyle Greiner
Marion
Greiner
B. J. Byrne
Wisconsin
Vincent Byrne
Shullsburh
Hazelgreen Wisconsin High School
Charles Hornung
Angela
Rex
Wingas Cafe
Washington
Melvin Bell
Kenneth
Morrells
Wilbur Kiene Riverside
Edward Bushek
Fairfield
Mel Lechty
Anna Younkin
Harold
Pharse
Lone Tree
Wm. J. Wingler
Charleston
South Carolina
Ernest Kiene
Crawfordsville
Wilbur Kiene
Iowa weighs reform of its legislative system
Des Moines Iowa lawmakers and citizens form an eight member panel plus 24 lay members to study the Iowa General Assembly and improve its process. The group reviews national trends and aims to publish findings by November 15 1968 possibly ahead of the November 1968 elections.
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Iowa
Iowa General Assembly
Des Moines
George Morgan
Citizens Conference On State Legislatures
Citizens Conference
Morgan
Robert Rigler
New Hampton Republican
Famous Hungarian bridge player Kassay's daring five diamonds
Bela Kassay, exiled revolter turned New York bridge leader, plays five diamonds doubled. West leads heart. Kassay ruffs and discards, ruffs more, with clubs and spades, then a heart triumphs as A and K of trumps fall. The defense is analyzed as imaginative but ineffective. East’s discard choices are debated.
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Bela Kassay
New York
Kassay
West
King
East
King of Hearts
South
Res Syndicate, Inc
Mark My Words Picking up the bones
A columnist warns that Las Vegas casinos rely on luck as a seductive force. A Connecticut man loses 500000 at the Dunes Hotel, tempted to return to the tables after brief rational quitting thoughts, driven by memories of the roll and cheering crowds. The piece frames gambling as a dangerous cycle and the Lady Luck as a powerful, elusive force.
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Las Vegas
Luck
Connecticut
Dunes Hotel
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Denver
Mrs. Boyd Sanders
Fort Madison
Dick Strickler
Nick
Harold Fisher
Milwaukee
Walter Fisher
Fisher
Bob Fishers
Dick Fishers
Gale Reiss
Margaret Huber
Mercy Hospital
Iowa City
Washington, Iowa
Gdean Arby
Los Angeles
Cal
Rolind
Abigail van Buren
Edward Busheks
Washington Evening Journal
David Elder
William Shannon
Charles Morris
Bob Shaffer
Howard Hazen
Post
United Press
Inland Daily Press Ass
Iowa Daily Press Ass
Iowa Press Ass'n
Audit Bureau of Circulations
Joe
Bray
Pinkly
Slikworth
MR. Slik
City Press
Ernie Bush
Sluggo
Rel
U.S
Lowa
Harrison Weber
Iowa Daily Press
IDPA
Kansas City
Trowa
B. Jay Becker
North Dealer
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