Iowa caucus tests plans for delegate apportionment
At the first Iowa caucus Ray faced questions over minority and majority delegate plans. Governors from several states discussed open rules for convention delegates and a fair apportionment system. Iowa figures show 38 of 2140 delegates under the compromise versus 34-35 under other plans, with party leaders debating eastern versus midwestern influence and platform content.
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Ray
Iowa
William Milliken
Michigan
Francis Sargeant
Massachusetts
Winfield Dunn
Tennessee
Tom Evans
Washington
Russelle Peterson
Delaware
Deane, David
Vermont
Edgard Witcomb
Indiana
Bay
John Mowry
Marshalltown
John McDonald
Dallas Center
Mowry
Jerry Parkin
Ames
Dollar Rises in West Germany Markets
The dollar reached a three month high in West Germany and rose in most major European exchange markets. It traded about 0.83 percent below the official parity of 3.2225 marks set at last December’s Washington talks. The pound also firmed in Frankfurt.
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London
UPI
West Germany
Washington
Frankfurt
Hippies Block Front Door at $500 GOP Dinner in Miami
In Miami at a Fontainbleu fundraising dinner for the Republican National Convention only three lowans attended the $500-a-plate event. Pauline Schnepp of Sidney was kept from the front by protesting hippies who locked arms and shouted four letter words as she ventured to the back door. Fremont county Republicans bought her ticket, and police later cleared the crowd enabling the Witten Meyers to enter through the front.
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Miami
Fla
Fontainbleu
Pauline Schnepp
Sidney
Fountainbleu
National
Charles Wittenmeyer
Davenport
Wittenmeyers
Taxes Going Up No Matter Who Wins
Nobel economist Paul Samuelson predicts federal taxes will rise again in 1973 regardless of the presidential outcome. He notes tax loopholes will dominate campaign talk, cites McGovern’s $1,000 per person plan as controversial, and says the economy should be good next year despite ongoing tax and policy debates.
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Samuelson
Boston
UPI
Paul Samuelson
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sunday Herald Traveler
Sunday Advertiser
Kennedy
Johnson
McGovern
Nixon
Death Toll Rises in Korea Rains to 368
Seoul experiences the heaviest rains in 47 years with 368 confirmed deaths and 66 missing. Landslides after 17 inches of rain devastate the central north, with 202 bodies counted in Seoul and four Han River bridges closed. Government mobilizes nearly half a million workers. U.S. forces aid in rescue.
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Seoul
South Korea
Han River
U.S
Soviet Musicians Vanish During Mexico City Tour
Two Soviet musicians from the Leningrad Music Hall on a Latin American visit disappeared in Mexico City as of Monday, according to the tour coordinator.
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Mexico City
Leningrad
Income Gap Shrinks Between Whites and Blacks in 1965–70
The Conference Board reported the white black income gap narrowed to about $4,000 annually by 1970. White family income rose 40 percent to 10,236, black income up 60 percent to 6,279. Black schooling rose to 11.9 years, over three years more than in 1959. Poverty: 29% of black families below $3,968 vs 8% of whites.
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New York
United States
Conference Board
Weekend vandalism nets 59 broken windows in Cedar Rapids area
Cedar Rapids and Marion police logged 59 reports of broken windows over Saturday night into Sunday morning. In Cedar Rapids 27 car windows were damaged, with 19 on the southeast side, six southwest, and two northeast. Marion reported 31 car windows and one house door window broken on the southeast side. The damage occurred between midnight Saturday and 7 a.m. Sunday as investigations continued Monday.
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Cedar Rapids- Marion
Cedar Rapids
Marion
Wrong Yard Youth Faces a Drug Charge
An 11 year old was arrested by Cedar Rapids police on a possession charge after an unsolicited guest was found in a back yard. The youth was processed by the youth bureau and referred to the probation office.
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Cedar Rapids
Tom Leakin
Clifton Street
Youth Bureau
Probation Office
Two Firemen and Home Owner Injured in Two Fires
Sunday fires left two firemen and a homeowner with minor injuries. Dan McDaniel 23 of 1927 First Avenue SE dropped a gas filled paint container while fleeing a kitchen blaze causing damage to kitchen and basement and smoke throughout the home. Fireman Ralph Rauch strained his back moving a smoke ejector and Allen J McEnany injured when a ladder fell during a garage blaze at 1010 Eighth Street SW.
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Dan McDaniel
First_ avenue SE
McDaniel
St. Luke’s Hospital
Ralph Rauch
Mercy Hospital
Allen J. McEnany
Sally L. Rife
Eighth Street
McEnany
Jet airliner model built in California for six hour coast to coast flight
A spokesman for the aviation industry announced that a model of the nation’s first commercial jet airliner was underway in California. The plan aims to establish six hour coast to coast service by 1958.
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California
Authorities Target Ice Cream Bell Nuisance in Portsmouth
PORTSMOUTH England UPI authorities threaten to prosecute ice cream truck owners who ring bells too loudly. Officials say the bells disturb hospital patients and keep night workers awake, prompting calls for curb on the chimes.
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Portsmouth
England
UPI
Kitchen Owner Seeks Halt to Invading Cats
ST. ALBANS England UPI Hilary Daley reports alley cats invaded her kitchen and ate the turkey she had just baked. She appeals to health inspectors to exterminate the cats. The cats are a menace, she says, howling all night and breeding.
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ST. Albans
Rio jetliner crash leaves many dead
Ten years ago a Brazilian jetliner carrying 104 people ran off a runway in Rio de Janeiro and crashed, killing numerous passengers and crew. Police and emergency services rushed to the scene as investigators began determining the cause of the fatal accident.
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Rio de Janeiro
Theft of Marshal Record Charged in Iowa Town
Dominic Blaha, 42, of Coggon, accused of stealing the Coggon town marshal's daily record book kept since January. He surrendered at Linn County jail after a warrant from Center Point Mayor Gerald Matheny on larceny charges. Book missing after Havlik investigated a tavern fight. Blaha held on $5,000 bond and to appear in court Friday.
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Dominic Blaha
Coggon
Blaha
Linn County
Center Point
Gerald Matheny
Lamir Havlik
Matheny
Havlik
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