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The page lists daily high and low temperatures for cities including Atlanta Miami Bismarck Minneapolis Houston Seattle Los Angeles Washington and forecasts for Friday to Tuesday with possible snow east of the state. It also records precipitation totals Dec and year figures, barometer and humidity readings, sunrise and sunset times, and obituaries and service notices for several Iowa towns with named individuals and addresses.
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Miami
Bismarck
N. Oreane
Houston
Seattle
L. Angeles
Washington
Gazette
Hope urges politicians keep quiet during Vietnam tour
Bob Hope wrapped up his seventh annual Vietnam base tour urging politicians to stay silent. He told 22,000 troops at an Army base that compassion is vital and urged actions to secure a lasting peace. Hope admitted Vietnam feels like an unpopular conflict and reflected on a recent hospital ship incident. He plans more tours and hinted this could be his last, though he remains hooked on entertaining troops.
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Long Binh
Vietnam
Bob Hope
Hope
Czechoslovakia
Southeast Asia
Navy
South Korea
Alaska
Gil
Defense Department
Fire destroys library at Ralph M. Gates Elementary
A fire gutted the library and administration building at Ralph M. Gates Elementary near El Toro. Investigators blamed arsonists after finding slogans inside. Loss estimated at 100000 dollars. classrooms in separate buildings were undamaged and the school planned to reopen on Jan. 4.
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EL Toro, Calif
UPI
Ralph M. Gates
el Toro Marine
Angela
Nixon
Robert Day
Laguna Hills Fire Department
Hughes Eligible for Social Security at 65
Howard Hughes, the recluse billionaire, turned 65 in the Bahamas and is eligible for 185 dollars a month in social security. A spokesman said he would need to make a personal appearance to collect the money and noted the benefit is not based on need.
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Las Vegas
UPS
Howard Hughes
Bahamas
Social Security Administration
Hughes
Breakin at Calmar cafe targets bus depot funds
A burglary at the Home cafe in Calmar netted between 200 and 300 dollars. The cafe serves as a depot for Hawkeye Scenic Lines and is owned by Fran cis Maudry. Entry was gained by breaking a window and a door.
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Calmar
Francis Maudry
Hawkeye Scenic Lines
Train's Christmas Spirit Tarnished on Panama Limited
The Illinois Central Panama Limited arrived in Chicago nine hours late after a Wednesday night collision with a stalled truck near New Orleans. The trip suffered repeated engine failures and heat system problems between McComb and Carbondale with multiple engine swaps and delays through Mississippi and Illinois. IC chairman William Johnson said officials hoped passengers would reach their destinations on time.
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Chicago
Illinois Central Railroad
New Orleans
McComb
Miss
Brookhaven
Grenada
Memphis
Elkville
Ill
Carbondale
Odin
William Johnson
Youngblut charged after Independence crash on Highway 20
Russell Youngblut, 21, of Jesup, was charged with failure to have his vehicle under control after a Thursday accident on Highway 20. He struck a parked car owned by Jack Cornelious of Independence.
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Russell Youngblut
Jesup
Youngblut
Highway 20
Jack Cornelious
Jesus in Nazareth and Bethlehem A Look at His Likely Appearance
The essay argues Jesus resembled an ordinary Galilean, with beard and long hair, bluntly challenging famous portraiture. It describes Nazareth neighbors seeing a carpenter’s son, Bethlehem’s serene setting, and a rugged Holy Land shaping a powerful, sun-tanned man. It muses that true vision of Christ lies in hearts, not artist’s depictions.
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Jesus
Judea
Nazareth
God
Holy Land
Jesus Christ
Bethlehem
Saliba
Aida Canovati
Galilee
Christ
British ex patriot Johnston released by Communist China
Johnston, in good health, arrived in Hong Kong after his release this week. A government spokesman said he is the last British expatriate released by China, while four other British subjects in China are unaccounted for and previously lived there or worked for Chinese authorities.
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Hong Kong
Johnston
China
Mail from POW camps shows surge in letters home
The U S post office reports 330 Americans in North Vietnamese POW camps mailed 2 578 letters home in the first 11 months, a sharp rise from prior years. Pentagon puts POW count at 378, Hanoi at 339, with Christmas mail and packages boosting totals though exact figures are unavailable.
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U. S. Post Office
Blount
Pentagon
North Vietnam
Hanoi
Paris
Vietnam
Post Office
Pws
Midnight Mass In Vietnam for 2000 GIs
More than 2,000 U S GIs attended midnight Christmas Eve services in Long Binh Vietnam led by Terence Cardinal Cooke and Dr Oswald Hoffmann at headquarters 15 miles northeast of Saigon. Cooke spoke of external and internal peace and Hoffmann echoed the Christ centered message.
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Christ
Cancels Dinner Date After Crash and Collapse
Oelwein resident Dale Frisch, 23, was seriously injured in a Thursday accident near Dunkerton when his car was sideswiped and overturned. After calling his grandmother and brother, he walked to a farm to report he would miss the dinner, then collapsed at the Oelwein hospital and was moved to a Waterloo hospital for head and internal injuries.
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Dale Frisch
Waterloo
Dunkerton
Frisch
August Frisch
Lowell Frisch
Memorial Services and Burials Listed for Several Individuals
Memorial services are scheduled for Anne E. Silver at Immaculate Conception Church at 9 a.m. Saturday with burial at Cedar Memorial cemetery. The rosary will be recited at 8 p.m. Friday at Turner chapel east. Gertrude James Wylie will receive services at Turner chapel west at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, with burial at Memorial Gardens in Iowa City. Aliie McKee will be honored at Turner chapel east at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, burial at Linwood cemetery. Margaret Murdock’s service is set for Saturday at 1:30 p.m. in Kuba funeral home east, burial at Sissley Grove cemetery, conducted by Rt. Rev. Alexander George.
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Silver
Anne E
Immaculate Conception
William P. Leonard
Cedar Memorial Cemetery
Turner Chapel
Wylie
Gertrude James
Walter Kellison
Leigh Soule
Memorial Gardens
Iowa City
McKee
Aliie
Wayne Shireman
Linwood Cemetery
Murdock
Margaret
Kuba Funeral Home
Alexander George
Sissley Grove Cemetery
Quaker Picket at White House Over Vietnam War
American Friends Service Committee members picketed the White House on Christmas Eve calling the war a disgrace and disaster. A 27 page Indo China 1971 report urged a clearly stated swift U.S. military withdrawal by a set date in 1971 and outlined Vietnam involvement history.
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Washington
UPI
American Friends Service Committee
White House
Quaker
Nixon
National Security Council
U.S
Vietnam
South Vietnam
Kidnaper Returns Part Of Things He Had Kept
West Plains pilot Charles Leon Hopkins received a package from James Byrnes a Leavenworth inmate. Byrnes a former FBI ten most wanted member is serving two life terms for kidnapping and related crimes after forcing Hopkins to fly him to Des Moines. Hopkins found a shirt watch and coat but no money in the parcel.
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West Plains
Charles Leon Hopkins
James
John Byrnes
Leavenworth
Kan
Byrnes
FBI
Hopkins
Hardy, Ark
Des Moines
Escape plot case underlines anti Semitism in Soviet Union
The court heard that an Israeli former Aeroflot pilot led a two year escape plot amid widespread anti Semitism in the USSR and Jewish emigration barriers. Yuri Fyodorov claimed vacation aims but received a 15 year prison term, the harshest sentence alongside another defendant.
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Aeroflot
Dymshus
Local man reports assault and robbery on Twelfth Avenue
C R Man Wayne Butz of 1922 Mt Verne Road NE reports five men assaulted him just after midnight in the 600 block of Twelfth Avenue SE and robbed him of $34.
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C.R
Wayne Butz
Mt. Verne Road
Butz
Twelfth Avenue SE
Nixon Touts Peace Progress During Christmas at White House
President Nixon and family marked Christmas at the White House after urging Americans to be hopeful about peace prospects. He reiterated belief in a postwar generation of peace and planned a quiet holiday with wife Pat and daughters Tricia and Julie, plus Julie’s husband David Eisenhower.
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Washington
Nixon
White ‘House
White House
Tricia
Julie
David Eisenhower
Mamie Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Non-Combat Deaths Exceed Viet War Toll
The defense department reports non combat deaths in Vietnam have surpassed combat deaths for the past three weeks. Since the war began, 17 percent of U S military deaths were from non combat causes. Week totals show 46 32 and 31 non combat deaths versus 23 29 and 27 combat deaths. Accidents account for 87 percent of non combat fatalities, illnesses nine percent, and murder or self harm four percent.
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U. S
Vietnam
Pope delivers Christmas mass at St Peter's for 15000
Pontiff holds a third Mass of the day at St Peter's in front of about 15 000 worshippers after a midnight Mass for the diplomatic corps. He asks if Christianity remains relevant to the modern world and answers affirmatively, stressing the Gospel and Christ. For the first time he delivers the Christmas message live from St Peter's rather than via Vatican Radio. Vatican officials say the new method gives the message more emphasis.
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St. Peter’s
Sistine Chapel
Vatican Radio
Vatican
Mother and husband endure Viet Cong tiger cage protest
At Cape Kennedy a grieving couple, Shirley and Vincent Donahue, staged a Christmas Eve confinement in a bamboo tiger cage to spotlight US POWs in Southeast Asia. Their son Air Force Capt Morgan Donahue has been missing since December 13 1968 with no word on his fate.
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Shirley
Vincent Donahue
America
Southeast Asia
Donahues
Donahue
Chavez followers call boycott of six Imperial Valley lettuce growers
CALEXICO Calif AP Farm Labor Leader Cesar Chavez followers call for boycotts against six Imperial Valley lettuce growers. John Quintero United Farm Workers Organizing Committee agent calls the action Cesar's Christmas present while Chavez seeks negotiations after a court ruling allows an appeal in a contempt case tied to Bud Antle Inc. The move includes posted pickets at Antle fields and others with 10000 acres across the valley and Calexico loading stations for recruiting harvest workers.
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Calexico
Calif
Cesar Chavez
Imperial Valley
John Quintero
United Farm Workers Organizing Committee
Cesar
Chavez
Monterey County
Salinas
California Supreme Court
UFWCC
Bud Antle Inc
UFWOC
Antle
Teamsters Union
Teamsters
Quintero
California - Mexico
Tama Man Accused Of Drunk Driving
A rural Tama man, Milton Brown, 37, was arrested by the Iowa Highway Patrol late Thursday night at highways 13 and 30 and is held in Linn County Jail on drunk driving charges.
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Linn County
Iowa Highway Patrol
Milton _Brown
Want ads are convenient in expensive and get the job done for you
The phrase notes the value of want ads for quick hiring or sales, highlighting cost and efficiency. It frames want ads as a practical tool for connecting buyers and sellers, with emphasis on convenience and results.
Gifts Taken and Items Stolen Reported in City Brief
Lois Crosby reports Christmas gifts valued at 34.95 stolen from her apartment on December 11 and 23 1971 at 422 Second Street SW. Mike Ryan reports a .16 gauge shotgun stolen from his residence between Sunday and Wednesday at 2828 Thirty third Avenue SW. Emily Brezenski reports 450 missing from a dresser drawer in her apartment in the last month. Dr Dale Morgan reports an evergreen tree valued at 45.32 cut down in his yard Wednesday or Thursday. The poodle winner at Hawkeye Seed Co is B W Becicka of 276 Wilson Ave SW.
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Lois Crosby
Second Street
Mike Ryan
Thirty-third Avenue
Emily Brezenski
Glass Road
Dale Morgan
Staubcourt NE
Hawkeye Seed Co
B. W. Becicka
Wilson Ave
S.W
Adv
G E Penne Found Dead in Garage
George Edward Penne aged 27 of 614 G avenue NW was found dead in his garage Thursday after 5 p m. His body was found inside the closed garage near a car. An autopsy will determine the cause of death.
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George Edward Penne
G Avenue NW
Penne
AP News Assurance on Local Coverage Rights
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