Marion Chamber to present economic study to Iowa panel
A seven member Marion division Chamber of Commerce delegation will deliver a 56 page economic development fact file to the Iowa Development Commission in Des Moines. Headed by Gene Dunn and George Machacek, the group will meet Dick Powell and includes transport utilities education and labor data. The report is available at the Chamber office, 760 Eleventh Street.
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Chamber of Commerce
Iowa Development Commission
Des Moines
Dick Powell
Industrial Development Department
Commission
Gene Dunn
George Machacek
Chamber
Industrial Development Committee
Chuck Beahm
Eleventh Street
Area Schools Win In Speech Contest
Marion high school students earned 24 first division ratings at the district speech individual events contest in Central City. Linn-Mar entered two contestants and earned one first division rating. All first division winners can enter the state contest in Fairfield on March 24. Marion coach Pam Abdo. Linn-Mar coach Nick George. Committees Meet Linn-Mar board of education buildings and grounds and transportation committees meet Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in the administration building. Rural homemakers luncheon Thursday at 12:30 at Linn County Farm Bureau building hosted by Mrs. James Fitz gerald. Past Noble Grands Assn Grove City Rebekah lodge No. 35 meets Friday at 7:30 p.m. at Mrs. Elsie Knapp’s home 401 Eighth avenue.
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Central City
Linn-Mar High School
Fairfield
Marion
Pam Abdo
Linn-Mar
Nick George
Linn-Mar Board of Education
Rural Homemakers Club
Linn County Farm Bureau
James Fitzgerald
Noble Grands Assn
Grove City
Rebekah Lodge No. 35
Elsie Knapp
Eighth Avenue
Ex POW Takes Plane Controls in Scottsdale Flight
Navy Lt Cmdr Dennis Moore, 34, a former POW held by North Vietnam since October 1967 after his jet was downed, flew an airplane for the first time since capture. Neighbor Ken Doty piloted the takeoff, noting Moore's enthusiasm and skill during the brief flight.
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Scottsdale
Corporation Expands Recall of Mushrooms
Washington based Unit ed Canning Corp expands recall of canned mushrooms after botulism toxin found in one lot. FDA says recall now covers all large institutional size cans produced at East Palestine Ohio plant since Sept 4 1972.
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Washington
United Canning Corp
Food and Drug Administration
East Palestine, Ohio
Russians revive two 5000-year-old tritonlike creatures
Ten years ago reports claimed Russians reanimated two tritonid lizardlike beings recovered from permafrost in Siberia after five millennia. The dubious claim drew scientific skepticism and public curiosity.
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Siberia
New Mexico Congressman Denies Secret Weapons Plans Purchase
Rep. Harold Runnels says his $2,000 buy of information on Pentagon projects involved no improper conduct and that the sellers did not work for the Pentagon. He insists the material was for an independent investigation into weapon cost overruns and declined to name the sellers.
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New Mexico
Pentagon
Harold Runnels
Runnels
House Armed Services Committee
Department of Defense
Benton County officers take 30 hour traffic course
Twenty seven Benton county law enforcement officers attend the first in a series of 30 hour classes at the Benton county courthouse on Thursday nights. John L Boots of Hawkeye Institute of Technology teaches traffic patrol and investigation. The course costs 12 per officer and a county seminar on search and robbery investigation will be held in April by FBI agents.
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Popenhagen
Federal Bureau of Investigation
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Fred Nester
Ronald Sokol
Richard Spading
Belle Plaine
John Boddicker
Newhall
Quasqueton Youth Suffered Leg Bruises After Car Collision
Quasqueton resident Steven Kirby, 19, was treated for leg bruises after a car driven by Jerry Briggman, 19, also of Quasqueton, struck him on Main Street. Kirby was treated at Peoples Hospital in Independence and released.
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Quasqueton
Steven Kirby
Jerry Briggman
Kirby
Peoples Hospital
Independence
U.N. Study Finds Russian Diet Near U.S. Standards
The United Nations report says Russian meat and fat intake rose from 63.8 pounds yearly in the early 1950s to 121 pounds by 1970 with fish at 39 pounds, placing Russia near Western levels. It notes advances in nutrition since the 1950s reorientation toward agriculture and states Eastern and Western Europe now share similar calorie and protein consumption. Manouchehr Ganji prepared the study for the U.N. Commission on Human Rights ahead of a Geneva session.
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U.N
Soviet Union
Scandinavia
Iberian Peninsula
Pacific
Manouchehr Ganji
Iran
U.N. Commission On Human Rights
Geneva
Amish Woman Seriously Hurt When Buggy Overturns Near Hazleton
Mary Beachy a 28 year old Amish resident of the Hazleton area sustained multiple injuries when her buggy overturned Sunday evening. She was treated first at Oelwein hospital then transferred by ambulance to University Hospitals Iowa City in serious condition. A brother and sister riding with her were less seriously hurt but not hospitalized. Drive safely.
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Hazleton
Mary Beachy
Miss Beachy
Dan Beachy
Oelwein Hospital
University Hospitals
Iowa City
Sailor Refuses Union, Court Orders Salary Still Paid
In London, tugboat sailor Andrew Shute refuses to join the union, leading crew to sidestep him. A court ruled his firm must continue paying his salary despite his lack of work.
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London
UPI
Andrew Shute
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