Cedar Rapids Fair Attendance Sets New Record Amid Weather
The fair reached its sixth day with a Tuesday attendance high of 25,130 and total attendance over 85,000 as Mayors from 41 towns attended. The King Family performed multiple times, drawing large crowds at the Special Events tent, while judging and entertainment filled Wednesday and Thursday with various beef shows and musical acts.
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T-H
FFA Beef Deice
Sweet Adelines Chorus
Duroc
Hampshire
Poland
Detet Rapids
King
Cedar Raps
Thwa
Frank Bush
Cedar Rapids
Haymond Eckhart
Marian
George Bowler
Wiawatha
Harold Andrews
Hlairstown
E. J. Campton
Durant
L. W. Holbert
Mannchester
Tom Neenan
Center Point
L. O Weston
Louis Lorenzen
Olin
Orville Cox
Springville
Milo Offt
Keystone
Philip Schlesselman
Aurora
Richard Zenisek
Fairfax
Paul Busching
Clarence
Chan Coultery
Bonanza
New Controversial Desegregation Plan Faces White House Review
A 19 provision desegregation statement for Southern districts has reached the White House. HEW Secretary Finch supports keeping guidelines as Johnson drew them, while conservatives seek more time for compliance. The Justice Department has shifted to back Finch, and a three person committee drafted the new proposal amid White House deliberations.
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John Herbers
New York Times
Washington
White House
Robert Finch
Johnson
Nixon
Robert ‘Mrdian
HEW
Jerris Leonard
Civil Rights
Iowa River Flood Crests Near Cities. Water Dept Faces Losses
Floods eased after crest reports as Cedar River near Evansdale and Waterloo areas receded to near flood stage. Officials cited damage to public facilities around 50 000 dollars while several roads and utilities remained impacted along with telephones out in Independence and surrounding towns.
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Evansdale
Sid Ledermer
Independence
Wapsipinican
Chuckle Man i landlord cold joke caption headline
A humorous caption from SA Area features a landlord quip about a freezing apartment. The joke plays on the door opening and the heat going on, delivering a light moment about chilly living conditions.
IRS Plans Audits for High Income Medicare Doctors
The IRS said about 10,000 doctors, dentists, and medics who earned over $25,000 annually from Medicare and Medicaid will face a special audit. Initial checks will review 1967 returns for those above $5,000, with later years expanding to the higher $25,000 threshold.
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Washington
UPL
Internal Revenue Service
IRS
William Smith
Senate Finance Committee
McGovern Meets With Red Negotiators Over Vietnam
Senator George McGovern disclosed a secret meeting with North Vietnamese and Viet Cong negotiators seeking withdrawal of U S troops from Vietnam and an end to Washington backing of the Saigon regime. He said the talks aimed to learn the communists positions and the fate of a South Dakota pilot. He asserted no settlement while Thieu Ky regime remains and proposed a provisional government without a pre election ballot.
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Wasitington
George McGovern
S-6.d
McGovern
South Vietnam
Senate Committee
Con- Saigon
Washington
Thej
IRS
Randolph Thrower
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Russell Long
Internal Revenue Service
George Kahin
Cornell University
South Dakota
North Vietnam
U.S
McGovers
Thalken Named Hoover Library Director at West Branch
Thalken, 50, of Buena Park California, named director of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library. He assumed duties Tuesday as staff from the Hoover Institute at Stanford and Hoover Birthplace Foundation trustees attended. Thalken formerly worked on Hoover papers, aided in An American Epic, and served as a research assistant to Hoover. He holds degrees from East Texas State and Loyola and led Buena Park public libraries since 1964. Richard A. Jacobs, acting director since March 1968, returns to Washington. Thalken is married with 12 children.
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Wazcor
Jaomas
Thalken
Buena Park
Calif
National Archives and Records Service
West Branch
Daniel J. Reed
Washington, D. C
Herbert Hoover Birth Place Foundation
Hoover
Moover
Woodrow Wilson
Kansas City
Georgetown University
East
Texas State University
Loyola University
Library of Congress
Richard A. Jacobs
Hoover Library
Washington, D.C
Office of Presidential Libraries
Shellsburg Couple's Son Killed in Viet War
Sgt. Charles Clendenin, son of Mr and Mrs Joe Clendenin of Shellsburg, was killed in Vietnam by a bermit blast. He had married last Christmas and had been in Vietnam since May. His wife lives in North Carolina. The elder Clendenin manages the local telephone office. They have lived in Shellsburg about one year. Art Auction Le Corbusier paintings fetch 409050 at Sotheby's in London.
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Spocin
Thenacerim Shelleburg
Charles Clendenin
Joe Clendenin
Shellsburg
Vietnam
Clendenin
Chinatmas
Mis
North Carolina
Rogers Reports Drop in Combat in Vietnam
Secretary of State William Rogers said U S combat activity in Vietnam last week may have fallen to the lowest level of the war, possibly signaling a shift in U S troop withdrawals. He noted reduced North Vietnamese infiltration and said the change may reflect Nixon and Thieu’s Midway announcement.
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Washington
William ‘Rogers
Vietnam
U.S
Nixon
Thien
South Vietnam
Midway
Wixon
Rogers
Con
Secretary of Defense
Libd| Jy
North Vietnam
Rantania
Soviet Union
Jie
Optimism by Officials as Crest Passes in Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids authorities remained hopeful as the Cedar River leveled near crest projections, while Waterloo anticipated how far flooding would extend. Public Works Commissioner Donald Canney said the city could handle potential rises with existing measures, despite forecasts of measurable precipitation through Thursday and rain chances Wednesday night and Thursday.
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Cedar Falls
Cedar River
Cedar City
Sherwood Park
Waterloo
Big Sioux
Lour
Hawarden
Akron
Spencer
Little Sioux
Peterson
Cherokee
Cedar
Cedar Rapids
Cader Rapids
Dominld Canney
Canney
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