Van Buren County may be wet in liquor vote reversal
KEOSAUQUA UPI Van Buren County reportedly voted dry in a liquor by the drink election but officials warn an error may reverse results. Auditor Clyde Roberts says ballot boxes must be opened to verify counts and that Bonaparte precinct confusion could swing the tally to a wets victory by 79 votes instead of a dry 71.
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Keosauqua
UPI
van Buren
Clyde Roberts
Roberts
Bonaparte Precinct
Atty
Hultman
Douds
Drys
Bonaparte
Farmington
Transportation Aid To County Schools in Washington County
State aid warrants issued by county superintendent Dwight G. Bode distribute 29 459 88 dollars to Washington County districts. Mid Prairie Community leads with 11 982 29, Riverside Rural and Pleasant Hill Rural receive smaller shares. total state aid statewide sums to four million with about 58 percent payment rate.
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Washington County
Dwight G. Bode
Mid- Prairie
Washington
Ainsworth
Mid - Prairie Community
Riverside Independent
Ballard Orchestra to Play Friday at New Youth Center Opening
Dick Ballard and His Band will perform at open house Friday evening at the Washington Youth Center on the square. Music will start with dancing from 9 to 11 30 p.m. The event, organized by the Youth Center Council, is free for area high school students and families.
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Dick Ballard
Washington Youth Center
Lloyd Miller
Washington Area
Ballard
Ballard Orchestra
American Federation of Musicians
Muscatine
Iowa
Youth Center Council
Cheryl Anderson
Donnie Miller
Rich Ballard
Patty Hammer
Richard Vosika
Dick Eryestone
Mary Ellen Luckenbill
Susie Duncan
Jim Logan
Rick Bordwell
Pam Robison
Daylene McAvoy
Jim Mallory
Kim Boyer
Jim Koehler
Martie Anderson
Mary Butler
Jan Heaton
Mark McCarthy
Tom Lowe
Tim Trotman
Meri Jo Birney
Mollie Kneen
Mary Powers
Jack Trotman
Merle Allison
Robert Anderson
Bandit Beats Cafeteria Attendant and Hotel Clerk Robbed
Des Moines police hunt for Bishop Cafeteria employee William Branson 38 after a robbery and beating at the cafeteria and a second hold up at the Brown Hotel. About $160 taken in the hotel robbery and $24.25 in cash and money orders from the cafeteria caper. Mrs. Byron Wilson, 33, was left in fair condition after being struck with a whetstone in a sock.
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Des Moines
UPI
Bishop Cafeteria
Brown Hotel
William Branson
Byron Wilson
Rites Thursday For Mrs. Arnold Smothers
Funeral services for Mrs. Arnold Smothers will be held at 1 30 p m Thursday in the Powell Funeral Home at Keota with the Rev Arthur Lang officiating Burial will follow in Pleasant Grove Cemetery at Sigourney Mrs Smothers died Tuesday morning
Birmingham Kiwanis hears city coordinator talk on government
R B DeLa, Birmingham's integrated city coordinator, spoke at the Kiwanis noon meeting. He described duties as city coordinator and praised council-manager govt trends. The program included scholarship checks to Washington High School graduates Jan Fane and Jim Moyer. Lester Hackett of Gary Ind. attended, and Rev Harold DeVries announced his relocation to California.
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R. B. DeLa
Mr. DeLa
Washington High School
Jan Fane
Jim Moyer
Kiwanis Club
DeLa
Washington
Lester Hackett
Gary
Ind
Jay Vinson
Harold DeVries
Presbyterian Church
California
GOP Senators Fight Manpower Bill Over Funding
UPI reporting that Senate Republicans led by Everett M. Dirksen oppose a Kennedy manpower retraining bill citing lack of state matching funds. They propose sending it back to Labor Committee or replacing grants with federal loans for the unemployed seeking other jobs. The measure would add 161 million dollars for FY starting July 1, 1964, aiming to retrain about 400,000 unemployed by June 30, 1965.
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Washington
Senate Labor Committee
The
Treasury
Urge Participation In ASC Elections
Washington county farm owners operators and tenants will vote on community committees September 19 at 8 p m in township meetings. Three members and two alternates per township by secret ballots. Delegates to the September 28 county convention to name the ASC committee. One year terms start October 1.
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Washington County
ASCS
ASCA
Washington
Iowa
Lins
ASC
Swanson Speaks at Washington Y's Men’s Club Meeting
Merwin Swanson, a State College of Iowa student and member of a touring group that visited Europe and Iron Curtain nations, spoke at the Washington Y's Men's Club opening meeting Tuesday evening. He shared impressions from Russia and other countries visited during the summer tour.
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Merwin Swanson
State College of Iowa
Europe
Washington Y’s Men’s Club
Mrs. Emma Foor 92 Dies in Wapello Rites Planned
Mrs. Emma Foor aged 92 died Tuesday evening at Muscatine General Hospital. She lived most of her life in the Wapello area and had resided at Restopia in Columbus Junction for two years. Funeral services will be held in Wapello Thursday at 2 p.m. Her body lies at Dudgeon McCully Funeral Home in Wapello.
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Emma Foor
Columbus Junction
Muscatine General Hospital
Wapello
Dudgeon McCully Funeral Home
Swissair Caravelle Crash Kills 80 Aboard Near Zurich
A Swissair Caravelle crashed minutes after takeoff from Kloten Airport killing all 80 aboard. The wreckage spread over farmland near Duerrenaesch, with ground fires, and no immediate cause or passenger list available. A disaster in Swissair’s 32 year history, witnesses reported an emergency signal and explosion in flight.
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Switzerland
UPI
Swissair
Kloten
Duerrenaesch
Rome
Geneva
Junkers
Constanze
Germany
Federal Air Office
Birmingham and Mobile desegregation proceeds amid tensions
Governor Wallace stayed in Montgomery as Birmingham and Mobile opened public schools to Negro students amid protests. Two Armstrong children entered Graymont Elementary by a rear door while police faced a crowd. troopers did not appear at the schools.
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Birmingham
Ala
UPI
George C. Wallace
Alabama
Mobile
Mississippi
Wallace
Montgomery
University of Alabama
Kennedy
Tuskegee
Floyd
Dwight Armstrong
Graymont
Armstrongs
Graymond
Birmingham City
Ramsay
West End
Armstrong
West End High School
Name Candidates In Waco School Election
Voters in the Waco School District will cast ballots in the regular school election Monday September 9 from noon to 7 p.m. District 1 and 3 vote at Wayland, district 2 at Crawfordsville fire station, district 4 at Olds. Nomination papers filed by W. J. Graber Vernon Fletcher George Brooks and Elmer Meyer for three year and one year terms.
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Wayland
Waco
Crawfordsville
Olds
W. J. Graber
Vernon Fletcher
George Brooks
Elmer Meyer
194 Enrolled at St James School First Day Attendance
A total of 194 students enrolled at St James Catholic School for their first full day of classes. The pupils in grades one through eight include 103 boys and 91 girls, slightly up from 189 last year, with a record high of over 200 students reached two years ago.
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St. James Catholic School
Mary John Ann
St. James
Weather Iowa Sees Cloudy Skies and Rain Through Thursday
The forecast calls for considerable cloudiness across Iowa through Thursday with occasional showers and thunderstorms through tonight and in the east portion on Thursday. Locally heavy rains possible west tonight, cooler extreme west tonight, warmer west and central Thursday. Low tonight 55 to 60, high Thursday mid 70s east to mid 80s west. Friday outlook is partly cloudy with little temperature change. Five day temperatures expected 4 to 6 degrees below normal east and near normal elsewhere with rainfall 0.50 to 0.80 inch east and 0.20 to 0.50 inch elsewhere.
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Iowa
Senate Panel Endorses Test Ban Linking Nuclear Arms Use
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee said the test ban treaty would not prevent U S use of nuclear weapons in war and would curb arms races. It urged ratification as a net American advantage and noted no serious risk to U S strike capability while reducing proliferation and easing Cold War tensions.
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UPI
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
United States
Russia
Senate
U.S
Edward Teller
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Foreign Relations Committee
Eisenhower
Harrison A. Williams
Dn.j
Red China
Asia
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