Russell Dies. Georgia Senator Richard Russell Dead at 73
Russell, dean and president pro tempore of the Senate, died at Walter Reed Army Medical Center after a long illness. A longtime senator since 1933, he chaired the Appropriations Committee and mentored Civil Rights opposition. He previously served as Georgia governor and state legislator. The obituary notes his respiratory failure and prior health battles including a reported tumor scare.
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Georgia
Richard Brevard Russell
Senate
Russell
Senate Appropriations Committee
Walter
Reed Army Medical Center
Russell Long
Johnson
Army Hospital
State Assembly
Air Action Violates Amendment Says Mansfield
Washington UPI report shows Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield charging that Nixon policies in Cambodia exceed Congress intent through expanded air operations. Senator John Sherman Cooper, co author with Senator Frank Church, cites concerns over constitutional limits and executive power.
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Cambodia
Nixon
Congress
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Vietnam
Laird
South Vietnam
Laos
Rogers
Church
Hospital Says Condition of Truman Good
Former President Harry Truman, 86, was rushed to Research hospital in Kansas City with severe stomach pain and is reported in good condition. His wife Bess Truman is at his bedside as doctors run tests to determine the illness and monitor his progress.
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Kansas City
UPI
Harry Truman
Bess
Research Hospital
Independence
Mary Jane Truman
Grandview
John Dreeves
Dreeves
USS report on casualties from last week in Vietnam
The USS command reports 37 Americans killed in action, 211 wounded, and 29 deaths from non hostile causes last week in Saigon.
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Saigon
USS. Command
Six Marines Die in Da Nang Helicopter Crash
A US marine helicopter crashed 22 miles southwest of Da Nang killing six marines and wounding 16. The cause was not immediately known.
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DA Nang
Group of Iowans To Visit Swedish Foreign Ministry
A six member Iowa delegation planning to meet with Swedish foreign ministry officials in Stockholm to discuss American POWs in North Vietnam. Dwain Hopkins of Muscatine and five others, split from a prior 12 member group that divided into Sweden and Switzerland trips.
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Stockholm
UPI
Iowa
North Vietnam
Dwain Hopkins
Muscatine
Paris
Sweden
Switzerland
Hopkins
Charles Brown
Marshalltown
Walter Hyiik
Villisca
John Norton
Des Moines
Jeleen Borgloff
Shel
Towns Must Decide by April First on County Dump Plan
Smaller Linn county towns must choose by April 1 whether to join the county health board in a joint sanitary landfill project. Alfred Ahern says plans must be submitted within 22 months and Cedar Rapids and Marion are excluded from the deadline.
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County Health Board
Alfred Ahern
The
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Ahern
Board of Supervisors
Cedar Rapids
Marion
Pair Hunting Son Lost Twelve Hours in Drain
James Delgado 27 and his wife 24 left their car on the Long Beach freeway with a flat tire. They telephoned for help and returned to find their two year old son Anthony missing from the back seat. A storm drain labyrinth four feet wide hid him for twelve hours until a caller heard cries and firemen rescued him. He woke and later was found safe in the car by relatives.
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Alhambra, Calif
UPI
James Delgado
Long Beach
Anthony
Delgados
Welfare family housed at Waldorf Astoria sparks walkout
Welfare workers in Brooklyn walked off the job to protest Mayor Lindsay suspending three employees after a welfare family was placed in a Waldorf Astoria suite. The family, led by Cleola Hainsworth, later moved to a friend's apartment amid calls for an investigation and a possible citywide strike by the Social Services Employees Union.
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New York
Brooklyn
John V. Lindsay
Waldorf-Astoria
Social Services
Lindsay
Cleola Hainsworth
Iowa House Approves sweeping drug bill 98 to 1
DES MOINES AP The Iowa House passed a broad drug law rewrite by 98 to 1 sending it back to the Senate with more than 20 House amendments. Key provisions target drug pushers with tougher penalties, address drug users, and curb drug festivals like last summer's Wadena event. The measure includes joint trial flexibility for co defendants and authorizes up to five years prison and fines up to 10000 for non marijuana offenses, with marijuana specifics to follow.
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Des Moines
Iowa
House
Senate
Willard Hansen
Cedar Falls
Hansen
Wadena
Norman Jesse
Jesse
Pelton
Kennedy ousted as Senate whip in surprise Byrd win
Washington UPI reports Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts loses the post of Senate Democratic whip to Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia by a 31 to 24 vote as the 92nd Congress opens. Scott re-elected GOP leader. Moss named secretary of the Democratic conference. Kennedy vows no excuses amid speculation on 1972 presidential hopes.
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Washington
Frank Moss
Utah
Byrd
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Kennedy
Russell Long
Louisiana
W F Meinen Dies in Cedar Rapids Traffic Crash
William Frank Meinen age 62 of 309 La Salle drive SW Cedar Rapids was killed in a traffic accident shortly after 6 am at Edgewood road SW and Highway 30. He died at Mercy hospital from head injuries and a fractured leg. An autopsy was planned and investigation continued with the truck owned by Harold E Burdock of Coralville and a third vehicle driven by Ronald K Claypool of Newhall. Meinen's death marked Cedar Rapids first traffic fatality of 1971.
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William Frank Meinen
la Salle Drive
Cedar Rapids
Mercy Hospital
Meinen
Edgewood Road
Highway 30
Harold E. Burdock
Coralville
Ronald K. Claypool
Newhall
Two Charged in Scaffold Mishap
Johnson County attorney files two charges in Iowa City police court against Lucian H. Todd 53 of Albert Lea Minnesota a superintendent for Harry Hendley and Sons Construction Co for failure to provide protection to employees and for hindering the labor bureau investigation into a December 17 scaffold collapse that killed two men and injured two others.
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Iowa City
State Bureau of Labor
Johnson County
Lucian H. Todd
Albert Lea
Minn
Harry Hendley and Sons Construction Co
Hendley
Neumann Bros. Construction Co
Des Moines
Todd
Chuckle Reflects On Elusive Time In A Light Moment
A playful note ponders how twenty years ago feels longer in memory than it does in the present, joking about perception of time and aging in a humorous aside. The brief item invites a wry smile about decades and forgetfulness.
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