Anniversary services for missionary supporters listed
The appeal asks support for medical bills for longer, Hyannis Port Mass Rev Willis Booth and Myrna Reeves Genheimer, with Doris Benson Chase and Carol Leet Edwards among former church members studying for the ministry. Velva Booth Wagner and Lorene Booth Koltevich are pastors wives. Special services commemorate the anniversary from Wednesday September 16 to Sunday September 20.
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Ry Longer
Hyannis Port
Mass
Willis Booth
San Pablo
Calif
Myrna Reeves Genheimer
South Africa
Doris Benson Chase
Japan
Carol Leet Edwards
Duane Johnson
Velva Booth Wagner
Lorene Booth Koltevich
U S asks unity in South Viet Nam political purge widens
In Saigon Premier Maj Gen Nguyen Khanh begins purging top military leaders who aided last weekend’s coup. Eight junior officers vow to back him if needed as Viet Cong orders for a nationwide offensive surface. Sub-Brig. Gen Phan Van Dong says security captured front lines documents. Air Commodore Nguyen Cao Ky reports four revolt leaders relieved and to face punishment.
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Saigon
Viet Nam
UPI
Nguyen Khanh
Viet Cong
Phan van Dong
Dong
Front For the
South
Nguyen Huu Tho
Nguyen Cao Ky
Khanh
Johnson presses health care plea at IAM convention
President Johnson appealed to about 4,000 union delegates in Miami Beach to back health care for the aged under Social Security. He urged Americans to stand up and be counted as Senate-House talks stall on a medicare bill. The IAM, a 900,000-member union, backs his bid for a full term while warning Congress remains unlikely to pass the measure soon. Johnson’s Florida trip came amid hurricane damage reports and prior campaign appearances.
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Miami Beach
UPI
Johnson
Organized Labor
House
Congress
International Association of Machinists
IAM
Senate House
Capitol Hill
White House
Washington
Far West
Montana
Oregon
California
British Columbia
Florida
George E. Reedy
Georgia
Embree marks first business anniversary
Richard Embree observes his first anniversary as proprietor of Norton Plumbing Heating and Air Conditioning. He purchased the business on September 15 1963 from Mrs Keith Norton, continuing a Wash ington business founded by Ivan Norton and later carried on by Keith Norton until his death.
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Richard Embree
Norton Plumbing, Heating
Keith Norton
Washington
Ivan Norton
Prairie Flower Baptist Church celebrates 110 years
Prairie Flower Baptist Church marks its 110 year history with a look back at the Richmond Baptist Church origins of 1854 founded by Mor gan Edwards and the early pastors. The current building dates to 1926 with dedication on May 2 1926 and a 32 pastor legacy including Rev Charles Hawkins and others who later became missionaries.
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Prairie Flower School
Prairie Flower Baptist Church
Charles Hawkins
Richmond Baptist Church
Prairie Flower
Morgan Edwards
Richmond
George Bell
Coffman
Prairie Flower School House
D. S. Bishop
S. H. Bear
W. H. Benson
I.C.B.J. Bohemian Fraternal
Thomas Simpson
A. J. Unthank
Homer Kirchner
W. R. Yard
Washington
Merle Booth
Fair Oaks
California
Jer
Bellair Township School Fund Shortage Under Audit
Centerville Iowa UPI reports the Bellair Township school faces criminal charges for a fund shortage over three years totaling more than 4600 dollars. Appanoose County Attorney James Milani said embezzlement by forged checks or destruction of public records charges would be filed against Mrs. Maxine Powers wife of School Board President Raymond Powers.
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Centerville
Iowa
UPI
Bellair Township
Appanoose County
James Milani
Maxine Powers
Raymond Powers
Riverside appoints councilman to fill vacant seat
Riverside names Robert Schneider to the town council on Monday evening, filling the post left when Roger Schloss became mayor after Harry Gould resigned weeks earlier. Schloss had moved to the mayor's office, creating the vacancy.
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Riverside
Robert Schneider
Schneider
Roger Schloss
Schloss
Harry Gould
County hospital needs study cites growing usage and aging facilities
County Hospital Board and medical staff reviewed a five year study by Dane Morgan Company Burlington on hospital operation. The report notes rising admissions, occupancy, patient days, surgeries and outpatients, with fewer average stays and a surge in emergencies since 1963. It identifies over a dozen facility inadequacies especially in heating plumbing electrical systems room sizes and building layout though structure is sound, remodeling deemed expensive.
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County Hospital Board
Dane Morgan Company of
Burlington
Morgan Associates
Morgan
Tindal winner in local school vote
In the Washington Community School elections Leonard Tindal defeated incumbent board member L. T. Heilman by a scant two votes in the county wide school board elections. A total of 206 ballots were cast in district five with 104 for Tindal and 102 for Heilman.
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Washington
Leonard Tindal
L. T. Heilman
Tindal
Heisman
Dean W. Luers
Luers
Heilman
Goldwater Opens Southern Campaign Attacking Viet Nam Policy
Barry Goldwater pressed his anti Johnson Viet Nam policy critique in Winston-Salem as part of a four day southern swing. He accused the administration of evasive misjudgment and a lack of candor about the war while defending states rights and criticizing federal overreach including cigarette labeling rules. He named Hubert Humphrey and Everett Jordan in his remarks and drew a large crowd in Winston-Salem.
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Winston - Salem
N. C
UPI
Barry M. Goldwater
Southland
South Viet Nam
Goldwater
Johnson
Southeast Asia
Arizona
Winston-Salem
Barry
San Francisco
Tobacco City
Viet Nam
United States
Bobby Baker
Sen
Everett Jordan
Hubert Humphrey
South
The
White House
Rioters Blamed on Extremists in Philadelphia Uprising
Three Black Nationalists were accused of inciting a three day riot in North Philadelphia by spreading reports that a Negro woman was killed. Abbyssinia Hayes, Raymond Hail, and Florence Mobley were arrested after warrants from Judge Vincent Carroll. Police said the trio helped rouse a mob that looted 400 stores, damaged $2.5 million in property, and led to 1,400 arrests, with costs reaching $4.1 million to restore order.
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Philadelphia
UPI
Abbyssinia Hayes
Shayk Muhammad
Raymond Hail
Yusseff Abdulla
Washington, D. C
Florence Mobley
Spe
Cially
Vincente Carroll
FBI
Johnson
Richard Edwards
James H. J. Tate
Weather forecast for Iowa by United Press International
Partly cloudy to cloudy through Wednesday with showers or thunderstorms in the south tonight and Wednesday. Warmer in the north tonight and Wednesday. Lows tonight 40s north to 50s south. Highs Wednesday 60s northeast to 70 southwest. Partly cloudy and warm Thursday.
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United Press International
Iowa
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U. S
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Cleo Orris
Highland School Board
Columbus
Roy Hauenstein
Robert F. Reaney
J. B. Henson
Mid - Prairie
Hubert Malichky
Richard Huber
Mid - Prairie Community
Waco
Vernon G. Fletcher
Oral Conrad
Fletcher
Conrad
Kevin Clifford Conklin
Robert Vincent
Herbert Huber
Genevive Lyle
Conklin
Huber
Carolina
Asia
Supreme Court
Jordan
Lyndon
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