Fire at Wincrest Nursing Home Leaves Many Injured
In Chicago a fire at the Wincrest Nursing and Rest Home forced evacuations as elderly residents filled the yard. Rev. William Pollard aided in evacuation while hospital officials reported most injuries from smoke inhalation. Victims were taken to Edgewater Weiss Ravenswood St Francis Evanston hospitals.
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Wincrest Nursing and Rest Home
Chicago
Father Pollard
Wincrest Nursing and Rest
City Building Department
City Board of Health
Msgr
Clifford Bergin
St. Gertrude’s Roman Catholic Church
Edgewater Hospital
Edgewater
Weiss Memorial
Ravenswood
St. Francis Hospital
Evanston
Court ruling loosens limits on campaign spending
The decision lets individuals and groups spend unlimited sums to promote a candidate without authorization, while candidate committees face no limits on their own spending. It sparks plans from donors like Stewart Mott and Joe Coors to back campaigns indirectly, and raises questions for Ford supporters and overall enforcement as Congress must reconstitute the FEC.
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Nixon
New Hampshire
Fat Cat Society
Neil Staebler
Federal Election Commission
Stewart Mott
General Motors Corp
Mott
George McGovern
High Court
Eugene McCarthy
Joe Coors
Coors
California
Ronald Reagan
Ford
Chicago
Clement Stone
Executive
Congress
House
Senate
Morris Udall
D-Ariz
Lloyd Bentsen
D-Tex
Nelson Rockefellers
Ariz
Udall
Indiana
Birch Bayh
Campaign Spending Decision Prompts Mixed Political Reactions
President Ford urges prompt action to shield elections from undue spending after the Supreme Court ruling lifting limits. He seeks congressional talks to reconstitute the FEC or enforce the act while campaign committees cut spending to 1974 levels. Reactions vary among Democrats and Republicans, with some praising disclosure and limits, others fearing free expression and a political vacuum.
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Washington
Ford
Supreme Court
Federal Election Commission
Attorney General
Congress
Henry Jackson
D-Wash
Jackson
Oklahoma
Fred Harris
Ronald Reagan
California
Loren Smith
Citizens For Reagan Committee
High Court
Iowa House Extends Farm Land Moratorium to Three Years
The Iowa House voted 66 to 19 to extend the farm land moratorium for corporations from one year to three years. The change follows debates on data gathering and potential impacts on attracting new plants and farm ownership. The bill proceeds to the Senate.
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Des Moines
Iowa House
Lyle Scheelhaase
D-Moville
Secretary of State
Melvin Synhorst
Laverne Schroeder
R-Mcclelland
Frank Crabb
R-Denison
Carroll Perkins
D-Jefferson
Iowa
Perkins
Senate
Dubuque Agency Seeks Court Injunction in Rights Case
The Dubuque city Human Rights Commission asks a district court for an injunction against Flexsteel Metal Products to protect rights in a discrimination complaint filed by Bernadine Ackley. John Callan testified for the company and said he was laid off after testifying, which the firm calls unrelated to his testimony.
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Dubuque
Human Rights Commission
Flexsteel Metal Products Division
Flexsteel Industries, Inc
Bernadine Ackley
Matt Lorenz
Flexsteel
John Callan
Callan
Fire at Kleckner Farm Causes Large Loss
RUDD Iowa AP Dean Kleckner farm near Rudd sustained about 30000 in damage when a hog house burned at dawn. Twenty sows and eighty feeder pigs were killed in the blaze investigators suspect a faulty heater started the fire.
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Kleckner Farm
Rudd
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
Dean Kleckner
Fenelon Place Elevator Fare To Rise To 15 Cents
In Dubuque the Fenelon Place elevator fare will increase to 15 cents in March marking the second rise in nearly a century. The ride started at five cents in 1882 and was raised to ten cents in 1962.
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Fenelon Place
Dubuque
Man Shot in Battle With State Trooper
Max Schaefer, 58, of rural Lockridge, was in critical condition with a head wound after allegedly pulling a revolver on state trooper Gary Allen in southeast Iowa. The incident followed a traffic stop when Schaefer reportedly cocked the weapon and pointed it at the trooper after being warned to drop it.
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Lockridge
Iowa
Max Schaefer
University Hospitals
Iowa City
Gary Allen
Fairfield
Schaefer
Allen
Jefferson County
Joe Smutz
State license granted to Cedar Rapids rehab center
The Cedar Rapids drug rehabilitation center is among ten Iowa agencies licensed as a drug abuse treatment facility. Annual licensing covers outpatient residential and methadone services, with the state and federal standards guiding management facilities treatment and clinical records reviewed by the Iowa drug abuse authority.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa Drug Abuse Authority
Iowa
Drug Abuse Authority
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Shriver
Pennsylvania
Milton Shapp
John Gardner
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R-Con
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Minnesota
Edward Kennedy
Massachusetts
Hugh Scott
Richard Schweiker
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Ohio
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