Mid-Prairie starts strong with new instructional center
The Mid-Prairie Junior High Instructional Materials Center opened with 115 books on display and average circulation of 64. Student assistants Patty Swartzendruber, Nancy Mishler, and Jean Litchler help the librarian, freeing time to work with students. Enrollment across 1968-69 totals 1797 plus 34 in county special education classes, 12 fewer than last year. Band Day at Ames features the Mid-Prairie Marching Hawks with ISU events. Seventh and eighth graders take the Stanford Arithmetic test to guide math instruction, to be retaken in spring for progress assessment.
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Mid - Prairie
Mid - Prairie Community
Ames
Mid - Prairie Marching Hawks
Iowa State University
ISU
Buffalo
Pam Goschke
Stanford
Moss
Smith
Dyer
Scouts Attend Fall Order of the Arrow Conclave
Eleven Scouts and four Scouters from Troop 242 at St James spent the weekend at the fall Order of the Arrow Conclave at camps Waubeek and Wakonda. Over 600 attended as nine members were accepted into the Order and Lavon Worley and Earl Voelker earned Brotherhood.
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St. James
Order of the Arrow
Waubeek
Wakonda
Lester Worley
John Blakeney
Ron Morton
Don Norton
John Marie
Ted Te Bockhorst
Richard Schuck Jr
Frank Russell
Richard
Washington
Service Man Finley Aliases From 101st Airborne
Sp 4 Almond Finley of the 2 502nd Infantry, 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne, is listed with APO San Francisco while his wife moves to Washington to join him overseas. His mother Josephine Young of Rural Route 2 Washington is noted as his parent.
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Almond Finley
Ehco Co
APO
San Francisco
Calif
Finley
Josephine Young
Washington
TV listings full of shows for Tuesday evening
Area WHBY and WMT schedules present a Tuesday lineup including News segments at 6 10 News 6 30 Jerry Lewis Julie 8 00 Movie Captain Kangaroo Hillbillies Dark Shadows Love of Life Guiding Light Edge of Night Tell the Truth Secret Storm and McHale's Navy plus regional shows and daytime dramas from ABC CBS and NBC channels.
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Jerry Lewis
Julie
Sunrise
Kangaroo
Andy Dick van Dyke
Tomorrow News World
Max
CBS News
Capt. Kangaroo
Dick Cavett
Ed Allen
ABC News
Tomorrow
Guiding Light
Mike Douglas
McHale’s Navy
KCRG
Jack LaLanne
Dick Cavitt
Rainbow installation crowns Marsha Russell Worthy Advisor
Marsha Russell was installed Worthy Advisor of the Order of Rainbow for Girls at the Masonic Temple on Sunday. The ceremony featured vows, a crowning, and a decorative stage with blue sapphire colors and the theme Stairway to the Stars. Attendants included Dana Russell as flower girl, family members, and Cathy Jones as a Grand Executive Committee guest.
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Marsha Russell
Order of Rainbow
Masonic Temple
Marsha
Pauline Stewart
Mary Ann Paul
Dana Russell
Eileen Russell
Chris Lechner
Ciate
Charity
Kathy Singer
Jane Bauer
Hope
Mary Ann Nihart
Judy Bauer
Mary K. Williams
Jane Moss
Julie Nichols
Sandy Wade
Eva Kay Stout
Fidelity
Diane Walby
Jane Yoder
Vicky Bauer
Confidential Observer
Mary Kay Morrison
Outer Observer
Janet Bauer
Paul Wolfe
Rainbow
Judy Dedder
Mary Crone
Diane Perdock
John B. Russell
Eileen
Dana
Julie
John
Wayne Carter
Mazon
Illinois
Cathy Jones
Judy Roth
Involvement Theme Marks Marion Avenue UPW Meet
The Marion Avenue UPW association met Friday at the church with 40 members and guests. Special guests included Mrs. Marjorie Steer social worker and others from Phoenix. Circles announced officers, reports showed 250 bandages, pajamas and $60 sent overseas, and materials for Charles City relief and migrant workers.
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Marion Avenue Upw Association
Marjorie Steer
Dale Smith
Olive Kullburg
Phoenix
Ariz
Circle VII
McClung
Adult education fall quarter opens in Washington
Richard Collins announces fall quarter of the Washington General Adult Education program a cooperative effort by the Washington Community School District and Area Ten Community College Classes run ten weeks from 7 to 9 p.m starting September 30 at the high school with a $12 tuition per class Registration occurs September 11 and September 21 by phone 653 2589 Contact Collins or Vicki Powley for details
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Richard Collins
Washington
Washington General
Washington Community School District
Area Ten Community College
Vicki Powley
Area Ten
Keokuk County Democrats plan meetings and show
Keokuk County Democratic Central Committee to meet Saturday September 21 at 8 00 pm at the Democrat Headquarters above First Trust Bank in Sigourney Central committee members urged to attend A Fall Style Show by the Women Democratic Club of Keokuk County on Monday September 23 at 7 30 pm at Memorial Hall Sigourney Tickets available from club members or at the door Styles modeled by Robyn Wells Melanie Turner Meleia Turner and others listed including John Rohloff Douglas Greiner Brenda Baker Patty Weber and more about a long list of participants
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Keota
Keokuk County
Democratic Central Committee
Democrat
First Trust Bank
Sigourney
Central Committee
Women's Democratic Club
Memorial Hall
Homer Rohloff
Norbert Greiner
Women’s Club
Robyn Wells
Melanie
Meleia Turner
Melanie Streigle
John and
Ann Rohloff
Douglas Greiner
Brenda Baker
Patty Weber
Mary Pat Heisdorfer
Dennie Conrad
Cathy Wheeler
Joan Baumert
Loraine Rice
Cynthia Dunton
Clean-up drive aims to curb lurid media influence
Mrs Walter Varney Magee new GFWC president launches a nationwide campaign to halt what she calls the proliferation of lurid sex crime and violence in movies TV magazines and paperbacks. She says the program seeks self regulation by media and public education through a Clubwoman poll and four movie choices by members. The effort targets moral standards nationwide within the federation’s 15 000 clubs.
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Gay Pauley
UPI
New York
Walter Varney Magee
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
GFWC
Mrs. Magee
Federation
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Order of Arrow
Area Television
Daktari
Showtime
Good Morning
CBS Special News Theatre 4
NYPD
Pearl Bailey
Joey Bishop
Garrison
Thief
Invaders
Dom DeLuise
Cap
Ernie
Hitchcock
Avenger
Peyton Place
THURS
Film
Bewitched
Hospital Life To Live
Lfhurs
Mr. Ed
Capt
ETVO
Bonnie Yoder
Worthy Asso
Judy Dodder
Nancy Fields
M. O. Smith
United Methodist Church
Harriet Yoder
June Dodder
Charles McClung
John Wagner
Sikke Temple
Keiffer Garton
Muscatine
Jay Brewer
Louis Larsen
Richard Wiley
Arthur Witthoff
Jack Trotman
Mike Wheelan
Ross Copeland
Dell Walker
Raymond Whisler
Vernon Elgin
Ralph Kleese
Dave Livingston
Martha Glass
Clifford Ramsdale
Garton
First Presbyterian Church
Cloyce Stewart
Democrats Planning
Keokuk Co. Meeting
Burnita Hammes
Sharon Merz
Betty Adams
Mary Jo Harras
Cleo Bryant
Katherine Greiner
Colleen Beall
Esther Flynn
Isabelle Baker
Betty Hammes
Francine Miller
Clarise Colbert
Jessie Sellers
Verna Edmundson
Opal Rohloff
Marie Daniels
Grace Sanderson
Lydia Wallerich
Harriet van Gilst
Barbara Shannon
Ethel Dunton
Iowa
Blue Cross
BIG
Shield
Des Moines
Sioux City
Bob Stevenson
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