Soblen Takes Overdose to Foil Deportation to U S
London UPI reports runaway Soviet spy Dr. Robert A Soblen swallowed barbiturates to block being flown to the United States for a life-term sentence. He remained unconscious at Hillingdon Hospital after an ambulance diverted from London Airport.
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London
UPI
Robert A. Soblen
United States
Soblen
Brixton
Hillingdon Hospital
Home Office
Israel
el al Airlines
Hillingdon
Home Secretary
Employment improves with record jobs but unemployment rises
The Labor Department reports August jobs rose by 198,000 to a record 69,762,000 while unemployment fell by 86,000 to 3,932,000. Yet the seasonally adjusted jobless rate climbed from 5.3 to 5.8 percent, the highest since January, due in part to auto plant shutdowns for model changes.
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Washington
UPI
Labor Department
Seymour Wolfbein
Wolfbein
Harold Stevens speaks at Kiwanis on football safety
Washington High School football coach Harold Stevens spoke at the Kiwanis Club luncheon emphasizing football as a body contact sport shaping youth. He noted near complete safety equipment this year with a new individually fitted mouthpiece. An announcement for Ladies Night at the Country Club on Thursday September 27 was made, with guest Clark Nelson of LaGrange Illinois introduced.
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Harold Stevens
Washington
Kiwanis Club
Stevens
Washington High School
Country Club
Clark Nelson
LaGrange
Illinois
Clash in DMZ Ends with Three NK Forces Killed
United Nations Command says its troops killed three North Korean soldiers on Wednesday during a clash north of the Hwachon Reservoir in the DMZ. The incident involved 15 UNC troops on a repair detail and a later illegal North Korean crossing with six remaining south of the line.
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Seoul
Korea
UNC
Mount Pleasant News Publisher Charles S. Rogers Dies at 94
Charles S. Rogers, publisher of the Mount Pleasant News for seven decades, died at Henry County Memorial Hospital at age 94. He bought The News in 1891 and led it from 1892. Funeral set for Saturday at 4:30 p.m. His late wife Lillian Kendig died in 1961 after 67 years of marriage. Rogers earned the 1940 master editor-publisher award from the Iowa Press Association and held civic roles including Iowa State Oil inspector, postmaster, trustee of Iowa Wesleyan College, Mount Pleasant school board member, and church trustee.
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Mount Pleasant
UPI
Charles S. Rogers
Mount Pleasant News
Henry County Memorial Hospital
Rogers
the News
Lillian O. Kendig
Iowa Press Association
Iowa State
UN Pleasant
Iowa Wesleyan College
Mount Pleaant Board of Education
Methodist Church
Washington County Democrats plan big fundraising banquet
Washington County Democrats announce a Thursday Sept 13 banquet at the Country Club with a $5 plate. E. B. Smith of Ames Iowa State University history professor and Senate candidate will speak. A caravan of state and local candidates tours the county from noon, visiting Ainsworth Riverside and other towns.
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Washington County
Country Club
Walter Farrell
Democratic Party
E. B. Smith
Ames
Iowa State University
Corbin Crawford
Secretary of Agriculture
John Elliott Sr
Ainsworth
Washington
Riverside
Crawford and
Elliott
Harold Hughes
Ida Grove
Robert Conner
Des Moines
Lawrence
Riverside Schools Enrollment Reaches 332 Pupils
Riverside public schools enroll 332 pupils this year under Supt. Dale E. Strotman. Riverside High School has 124 students with 19 seniors and 38 juniors. Elementary totals 208 with 38 in kindergarten and 18 to 24 in multiple grades. 72 residents and 136 non residents.
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Riverside
Riverside Public
Dale E. Strotman
Riverside High School
Strotman A
Toastmasters’ Club selects leaders and speakers
Bob Miller was toastmaster and John Meyer table topics chairman at the Toastmasters' Club meeting. Five minute speeches featured Roy Hodges on Goats in the Lettuce Patch in Washington, Frank Patterson on Could You Have Helped, and Preston Harvey on Moon Mars and Venus. Next meeting is Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. in Captain's Table.
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Bob Miller
John Meyer
Toastmasters’ Club
Roy Hodges
Washington
Frank Patterson
Preston Harvey
Moon
Mars
Venus
Kelley Goes to Gallows Today Holding Action Impacts Hog Sales
Local reports describe a national Farmers Organization holding action slowing county hog sales while prices rise. NFC leaders say the plan aims to calm markets with checkers guiding conversations and no violence expected as farmers decide to sell or hold.
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National Farmers Organization
Washington
Duane Redlinger
County Nfc Group
Redlinger
NFO
Phil
Yohe
Farm Bureau
Ossman
Duane
NFO Still Claiming Holding Successes
The National Farmers Organization reports its withholding action across 16 states reduced cattle hog and sheep receipts at 12 Midwest markets. Officials say shipments were down while observers cite market influence, as 28,300 cattle arrived today versus 30,100 last week.
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Chicago
UPS
Midwest
National Farmers Organization
NFO
U.S. Department of Agriculture
US sounding Latin allies on Cuba action in Senate briefing
The United States sought to gauge Latin American support for strikes against the Castro regime. Secretary of State Rusk discussed a possible informal foreign ministers meeting in New York as the U N General Assembly opens. Senators criticized the Cuba policy, with some urging stronger steps if Soviet missiles move on Cuba.
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Washington
UPI
United States
Cuba
Dean Rusk
New York
U.N. General Assembly
Rusk
Kennedy
Fernando Berckemeyer
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Sens
Frank J. Lausche
Ohio
Strom Thurmond
Rusk-McNamara
U.S
Thurmond
State Department
Lausche
Sen
Clair Engle
D-Calif
Senate
Rails Strike Knocks Midwest as Talks Continue
The Chicago and North Western strike spreads economic pain from Wyoming to Chicago with plant shutdowns and layoffs. Mediation sessions in Chicago fail to yield a quick settlement as 36,000 commuters face a second week. farmers and industry warn of losses across nine midwestern states.
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UPS
Chicago and North Western Railway
Midwest
Wyoming
Francis A. O'Neill Jr
Order of Railroad Telegraphers
ORT
North Western
Afl-Cio
Farmers Elevated Association
Huron
S.D
South Dakota
Kennedy
J.E. Wolfe
Presidential Emergency Board
Lander
Wyo
Dakotas
Wisconsin
Illinois
St. Lawrence
Mrs. Daniel Orendorf Dies At Mt. Pleasant
Mrs. Daniel Orendorf 82 of Wayland died Wednesday evening at Henry County Memorial Hospital Mt. Pleasant after being moved there that day. She and her husband lived in Wayland most of life and in Parkview Retirement Home lately. Funeral Saturday 10:30 at Sugar Creek Church. Burial Sugar Creek Cemetery. Survivors include husband two daughters Edna Taylor Davenport and Alvin Boshart Wayland eight grandchildren several great grandchildren four sisters all in Wayland.
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Wayland
Daniel Orendorf
Henry County Memorial Hospital
Mt. Pleasant
Sugar Creek
Glen Richard
Vernon E. Roth
Zehr Funeral Home
Mary (Mollie) Gerig
Sebastian
Nancy Goldsmith Gerig
Edna Taylor
Davenport
Alvin Boshart
Elizabeth Roth
Anna Wyse
Eva Leichty
Minnie Sutter
Start Mail Campaign For Iowa Children's Home Society Funds
Washington County volunteers mail hundreds of letters for the Iowa Children's Home Society urging funds for its state wide non sectarian work. The campaign includes residents from Washington Ainsworth Brighton Keota Kalona Wellman Riverside and more. ICHS serves emotionally upset children placed with private families through trained casework and foster supervision.
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Washington County Mail
Iowa Children’s Home Society
ICHW
Washington — Mesdames
PR Wheelan
Earl P. Booth
Paul A. Long
Robert Lenninger
Ainsworth
S. H. Jones
Mac Wallace
Brighton
Leo E. Dunbar Keota
Frank Kleese
Robert Waterhouse Kalona
Mesdames Oran Gingerich
Levi W. Miller
Ruben Miller
Wellman
Oran Birkey
Harold Leitzinger
Riverside
Marge Luckey
Washington
Iowa Children's Home Society
ICHS
Rath Packing to Lay Off 200 at Waterloo Plant
Rath Packing Co. said about 200 workers will be laid off Friday at its Waterloo Iowa plant due to a drop in livestock receipts for slaughter over the week. The company cited lower supply of animals offered for slaughter as the reason for the layoff.
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Rath
Waterloo
Waterloo, Iowa
UPI
Rath Packing Co
Youth Hanged For Slaying Ends Kiln of Crime Spree
Charles Edwin Kelley, 21, Minnesota, was executed at dawn in Iowa State Penitentiary for the 1961 slaying of an IRS agent. His partner Charles Noel Brown, 29, also of Minneapolis, died minutes earlier. The spree claimed three lives in six days across Minnesota, Nebraska, and Iowa, including Alvin Koehrsen in Council Bluffs. Witness Kenneth Vencel attended, noting the sentence was served and Kelley expressed remorse. The 23rd Psalm was read as the hood came down.
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Fort Madison
UPI
Charles Edwin Kelley
Internal Revenue Service
Kelley
Minneapolis, Minn
Iowa State Penitentiary
John Bennett
Minneapolis
Alvin Koehrsen
Walnut
Iowa
Council Bluffs
Koehrsen
Minneosta
Nebraska
Brown
Lester Peter
Kenneth Earl Vencel
Vencel
Mills County
Boyer Band Names Ballard New Director
Don Boyer was named president of the Washington Municipal Band at the annual picnic and officer election in Sunset Park. Max Lee became vice president and Jim Burney secretary with Milo Steele Jr treasurer joining Ralph Marshall Wilbur Westen Herbert Everetts Milo Steele Sr and Bill Wessler on the board. Dick Ballard was elected director for the coming year.
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Don Boyer
Washington Municipal Band
Sunset Park
Max Lee
Jim Burney
Milo Steele Jr
Ralph Marshall
Wilbur Westen
Herbert Everetts
Milo Steele Sr
Bill Wessler
Dick Ballard
Wayland Mennonite Church to Host William Walter Speaker
William Walter, a teacher from India, will speak at Wayland Mennonite Church Saturday at 7 30 pm under sponsorship of the Young People's Union of the General Mennonite Church. The public is invited.
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Wiliam Walter
India
Young People's Union
General Mennonite Church
Wayland Mennonite
Iowa Weather Forecast From UPI Partly Cloudy Night
Weather by United Press International reports Iowa to be partly cloudy in the south and fair in the north tonight and Friday with slowly rising temperatures. Lows 45 to 50 in the northwest and lower 50s in the southeast. Friday highs in the lower 80s northwest to the 70s southeast. Saturday outlook calls for cloudy skies showers likely and a turn to colder conditions.
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Iowa
Turing
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