50 Years Later Rededication of Linn County Courthouse Parade
The Linn County Courthouse was rededicated Saturday fifty years after the original ceremony. A downtown parade featured an antique 1919 Model T driven by Jim Sterling of Polo with his wife and two children, built from parts bought nationwide. Jarry Knoke, age 3, son of Dorothy Knoke of Cedar Rapids Route Three, rode in the parade.
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Linn County
Jim Sterling
Polo
Sterling
Jarry Knoke
Dorothy Knoke
Route Three
Cedar Rapids
Exxon's $46 Million Political Gifts In Italy Scrutinized
The Exxon Corp and Esso Italiana faced questions over $46 million to $49 million in Italian political contributions from 1963 to 1972, including $86,000 to the Italian Communist party. An official said some payments were unauthorized and may have been diverted by an employee.
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Trinity Service
Washington
Exxer Corp
Italy
Esso Italiana
Communist Party
Exxon
Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee
Archie Monroe
Monroe
Compannists
Richard Keresey
Mobil
Canada
Gulf of Corp
Mivefly
South Korea
Gulf
Right to Treatment Clarified by Iowa Law and Court Ruling
Iowa tightened commitment rules with a June bill signing by Gov. Robert Ray. Ten days later the TLS Supreme Court ruled harmless eccentrics cannot be confined without treatment, potentially reducing involuntary patients and enabling releases for many nationwide existing cases. Kenneth Donaldson, a 67 year old, sought the ruling's reach.
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Iowa
Robert Ray
TLS Supreme Court
Florida
Kenneth Donaldson
Donaldson
Potter Stewart
American Psychiatric Assny
Selig M. Korson
Mental Health Institute of Independence
Supreme Court
Indepéndence
Mt. Pleasant
Clarinda
Cherokee
Nuclear arms race looms in Middle East says study
Two researchers from the American Enterprise Institute warn that Israel likely possesses nuclear weapons and Arab states may build stockpiles. They urge the United States and the Soviet Union to craft contingency plans to prevent a wider world war if nuclear warfare erupts in the region. The report notes Dimona’s mystery operations and Israel’s plutonium capacity to replicate Nagasaki's bomb.
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Washington
Israel
United States
Soviet Union
Middle East
Robert Pranger
Dale Tahtinen
Pranger and
Tahtinen
American Enterprise Institute
Dimona
Dimana
U.S
Nagasaki
Crater Lake Park Closed Over Sewage Contamination
Crater Lake National Park is shut indefinitely after testing shows polluted drinking water from a dye spill and sewage, affecting hundreds with nausea and cramps. CDC investigators report 500 to 1,000 cases since mid June. park officials say the lake itself is not contaminated and closure will last weeks.
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Crater Lake Park
Crater Lake
Oré
Crater Lak National Park
Center For Disease Contral
Atlanta
Park
Heroine Il
Richard Sims
Postal Official Calls for Higher Rates to Avoid Cuts
Washington AP reports Ralph Nicholson senior assistant postmaster general for finance warns the postal service faces a financial crisis without new revenue. He says service cuts are not the answer and urges raising authorized rates, noting rates are frozen while the Rate Commission studies changes.
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Washington
Postal Service
Ralph Nicholson
Nicholson
Nichelson
Independent Postal Rate Commission
Commission
Utility Aid Plan Hits Consumers Twice
The Port administration proposes a 12 percent permanent investment tax credit for new electric plants and a five year rapid write off for pollution controls and coal conversions. Utilities would gain tax breaks totaling billions, but higher electric rates would be needed to offset tax liability and fund future plants.
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Washington
UPI
Port Administration
Treasury
William Simon
Simon
House
Ways and Means Committee
Near US Canada deal on Alaska to Mackenzie gas pipeline
Washington and Ottawa reportedly near a two to three month treaty to back the 2,600 mile Arctic gas line from Alaska and Mackenzie river delta to the United States. The plan aims to ship up to 45 billion cubic feet per day to Pacific Northwest and other regions, easing shortages in northern markets.
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Washington
Canada
United States
Alaska
Mackenzie River
U.S
Ottawa
Arctic Gas Consortium
el Paso Natural Gas Co Tes
Arctic
Prudhoe Bay
Pacific Northwest
Rocky Mountain Area
Upper Midwest
Northeast
Middle Atlantic
GAO report finds VA on job training for veterans underused
Indiana senator Val Ze Hartke cites GAO findings that bureaucratic mismanagement left the on job training program underutilized. About 27 percent of employers would have hired veterans if referred, while 65 percent reported no trainees, and 27 percent had never had a veteran participate. No follow up system existed to track referrals or outcomes.
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Indianapolis
Valce Hartke
D-Ind
Hartke
Senate Veterans Affairs Committee
General Accounting Office
Veterans Administration
Labor Department
Dad title question about being called dad by others
A witty reflection about a day when everyone calls you dad except your own children. The piece uses humor to explore family dynamics and expectations.
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