All-Iowa Festivities Highlight Fourth of July Events
Cedar Rapids continues as crowds pack the fair with stock car races and a grand fireworks show billed as the largest in Iowa. The Golden Knights parachute team planned jumps at 2:45 pm Friday and again Saturday and Sunday. The Cowsills top the lineup with three performances on Saturday and two on Sunday in the Special Events tent. Weather dampened attendance earlier, with 9,442 present on Thursday.
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California budget ends stalemate with Reagan veto cut
After four days of battle California’s budget crisis ends as Gov Ronald Reagan signs the $4.24 billion appropriations bill with a blue pencil, cutting $125.67 million and slashing state funding for primary and secondary schools by 78 million. The Assembly 58-19 and Senate 41-? approved the plan after Democrats relented to fund public schools, ending a stalemate that threatened the new fiscal year.
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Iowa Gillan Killed in Fall Near Wauk on
Viggo Jensen 23 son of Mr and Mrs Paul Jensen of Iowa City dies after apparently falling from a high cliff while staying at a resort on Grant Hartley farm 20 miles north of Waukon Iowa State engineering student at Ames George L Gay funeral home Iowa City arranging services Sheriff Theodore Rumphje leads searchers for missing person incident reported Thursday morning
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Paul Jensen
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Allamakee
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Ames
George L. Gay Funeral Home
Administration scraps deadlines for desegregation aims
The Nixon administration discards fixed deadlines for full desegregation while reaffirming the goal of ending racial segregation in schools. It will pursue court actions against districts resisting meaningful integration and stresses new coordinated procedures over guidelines as Attorney General John Mitchell and HEW Secretary Finch announce.
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Nixon
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Department of Health, Education and Welfare
July Cedar River reaches record July level in Cedar Rapids
Cedar River reached a record July crest Friday as high as 15.98 feet near the city department grounds, three quarters of a foot above Tuesday's 15.25-foot mark. Flood stage is 13 feet, with slow rise and a held dike system as engineers monitor water over flood level.
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Signs Show Red Infiltration Has Slowed In Vietnam
Washington intelligence analysts report no clear signs of North Vietnamese infiltration moving south. The pipeline has averaged 30,000 men in transit with about 19,000 monthly entering the war zone, but heavy rains and reconnaissance limits may have slowed movements. Officials warn the lull could be temporary as battles decline and a potential reshuffling of units is possible amid U S troop withdrawals.
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Ho Chi Minh Trail
Laos
Town Weather Brightens After Fourth Holiday
Cooler temperatures and less rain chance were forecast for Saturday after the July Fourth weekend. Thunderstorms scattered across northwest town Thursday, leaving residents cautious about holiday travel and outdoor plans.
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Northwest Town
US and Viet Cong clash near Saigon. nine U.S. dead
North Vietnamese troops opened fire on a U.S. infantry unit 27 miles northeast of Saigon, killing nine and wounding 19 as American forces searched for an enemy base camp. The fight, the heaviest U.S. losses in days, lasted from noon Thursday to nightfall with reinforcements deployed and air support called in.
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Storms batter Midwest causing casualties and damage
Violent thunderstorms struck parts of the Plains and Midwest causing extensive damage in southern Illinois where one person was killed and three injured. The three county area east of St. Louis suffered the worst blow with toppled trees downed power lines and smashed store windows in Carlyle Centralia and Kaskaskia college. A camper truck rollover killed a woman and injured her husband as floods and heavy rain halted streets in Centralia. Wind gusts reached up to 190 miles per hour in Hettinger North Dakota while eastern Nebraska railcars were derailed at Cozad.
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Midwest
Illinois
Lilinois
St. Louis
Hettinger
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Nebraska
Cozad
Clinton County
Illnois
Carlyle
Kaskaskia College
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Revolution in the U S 1776 and 1969 by Henry Steele Commager
Henry Steele Commager contrasts the 1776 revolution with modern American upheavals, praising the founders for creating a new empire built on consent, constitutional conventions, written constitutions, separation of church and state, federalism, and legal checks on power, while noting later generations’ destructive fervor. The piece surveys foundational advances and their enduring mechanisms.
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Henry Steele
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Iew
York
New York
America
Liem
Ansarilny
Five Teens Killed in Missouri Valley Crash
A three car collision on highway 30 near Missouri Valley left five teenagers dead and two others injured. Victims include Edward Greer 18 Kathy Sue Bertlesen 16 Michael Ratiley 18 Lewis Keirnes 18 and Maxine Burbridge 16. Charles Sieck 17 and Allen Johnson 18 survived with injuries.
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Harrison County
Edward Greer
Michael Ratiley
Kathy Sue Bertlesen
Lewis Keirnes
Denison
Maxine Kay Burbridge
California Junction
Iowa
Iowa Highway Patrol
Creer
Keirnes
Charles Sieck
Woodbine
Steck
Missouri Valley Hospital
Allen Johnson
Denigon
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