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These rock-steady traits did not grow out of a conventional childhood. Bill was born in Ottumwa, Iowa (present pop. 33,631), of English-Dutch ancestry. His parents (his father was an airman too) separated when he was a baby, leaving him to be raised by his paternal grandmother. When he got pneumonia, she took him to California to build up his health...
Herschel Loveless, 41, the sincere and ungrammatical mayor of Ottumwa (pop. 34,000), is Beardsley's opponent. Loveless' chief issue: Iowa, where liquor now can be sold legally only in state-operated package stores, should have legal liquor by the drink...
...with Washington bureaucracy after eight months, and pining for a more patriotic part, Nixon joined the Navy, asked for sea duty, and was promptly assigned to Ottumwa, Iowa. There he learned nothing about the sea but a good deal about the Midwest. Eventually Nixon wound up as an operations officer with SCAT (South Pacific Combat Air Transport Command), which had the difficult and dangerous task of hauling cargo to the combat zones. He spent 15 months in the South Pacific, once, on Bougainville, was under bombardment for 28 out of 30 nights. Says he: "I got used...
Died. T. .(for Thomas) Henry Foster, 76, millionaire meat magnate, president (1921-44) and since then board chairman of John Morrell & Co., the nation's fifth biggest meat-packing company, founded by his father; of a heart ailment; in Ottumwa, Iowa...
...Ottumwa, la., at least seven people were killed and 16,000 made homeless when the rain-choked Des Moines River burst its banks. Flash floods in Ohio, South Dakota, Missouri and Oregon killed six people and sent refugees fleeing for high ground. Near Rutland, Vt., an over taxed power dam burst, left 500 homeless, 18,000 without light, drinking water...