North Vietnamese Hit Many Areas in New Raids Report
North Vietnamese claim raids hit numerous populated areas as U S planes bombed antiaircraft batteries in Ha Tinh and heavy B 52 raids expanded into Laos. The U S command tallies 80 strikes in North Vietnam for the year, with casualties reported on both sides in Mekong delta and central highlands. Marshall Green told Thieu Nixon denied secret talks in Peking, while U S troop strength in South Vietnam fell to 119 600 with a plan to reach 69 000 by May 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Vietnam
Laos
U.S. Command
Ha Tinh
Demilitarized Zone
U.S
South Vietnam
Central Highlands
Quang Tri Province
Mekong Delta
Saigon
Marshall Green
Nguyen van Thieu
Nixon
Indo-China
Peking
Foreign Office
Green
Far East
Thieu
U.s.china
Army
Air Force
Navy
Coast Guard
Vietnam
Thailand
City Briefs Roundup of local notices and events
Community items include Cedar Rapids stamp club meeting at Peoples Bank West, various ads for services and products, theft reports at multiple residences, Sigma Delta Pi initiation in Miami University chapter, theater and club meetings at Roosevelt and Longbranch, March events, a high school concert date correction, and an insurance agents talk by David Feldenthal at Cedar Rapids Independent Agents meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stamp Mix
Cedar Rapids Stamp Club
Peoples Bank West
Sigma Delta Pi
Denise K. Flickinger
Trailridge Road
Miami, Ohio
David
Feldenthal
Valuation Counseling Inc
Chicago
Cedar Rapids
Longbranch
McManus Refuses To Alter Sentence
U S Judge Edward J Mc Manus declined Mary F Hoffer acceptance of concurrent state and federal terms. The Milwaukee woman, 27, was sentenced to three years after pleading guilty to transporting forged checks in an interstate ring involving 173 stolen checks. Mc Manus ruled he cannot reorder federal and state sentences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
Edward J. McManus
Milwaukee
Mary F. Hoffer
Miss Hoffer
McManus
States Should Lead Public School Financing Burden
A presidential commission urged that states take the prime role in financing elementary and secondary schools and rely less on local property taxes. It called for federal incentive grants, estimating $4 to $5 billion needed over five years, and suggested expanding aid to parochial and private schools within constitutional limits while considering tuition tax credits or deductions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Commission On School Finance
Nixon
Neal Ball
Commission
Walker man Donnell Shaffer dies of injuries
Donnell K. Shaffer, 50, lifelong Walker resident, died Saturday night in an Iowa City hospital from injuries suffered in an accident February 25 at Walker. He was born May 4, 1921, north of Walker. Surviving are his mother Alice Shaffer and five sisters and four brothers. Services set for 2 p.m. Wednesday at Murdoch funeral home with burial in Troy Mills cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walker
Donnell K.shaffer
Iowa City
Alice Shaffer
Harold Hemphill
David Fay
Troy Mills
Martin Frit
Marshalltown
John Buck
Lancaster
Calif
William Beatty
Ojai
Gerald
Aurora
Dale
Springville
Marvin
Alan
Cedar Rapids
Murdoch Funeral Home
Bernice Rose 74 dies in Cedar Rapids hospital
Bernice Rose 74 lifelong Center Point Alburnett resident died Saturday in a Cedar Rapids hospital born November 19 1897 northeast of Center Point married DeLoss Rose August 23 1920 at Morrison III survived by husband a daughter four sisters two grandchildren and one great granddaughter services at 2 pm Thursday at Alice United Methodist church friends may call at Murdoch chapel Center Point after 4 pm Tuesday
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alburnett
Alice United Methodist Church
Murdoch Chapel
Center Point
Truman seeks full funding for $7.9 billion aid program
President Truman urged Congress to approve every penny of his new global foreign aid program totaling 7.9 billion dollars to confront a Soviet threat to the survival of civilization. He framed the spending as essential to avert a catastrophic outcome and urged swift action by lawmakers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Truman
Congress
Public TV Approved by Senate Unit
A Senate subcommittee recommended passage of a bill to extend educational television to all Iowa by 1975, renaming it public television. The 5-0 vote sends the measure to the full appropriations committee with a $24 million appropriation and $800,000 yearly for three years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Des Moines
Full
Appropriations Committee
Subcommittee
Charles Balloun
Toledo
House
Iowa
Sen. Balloun
State Educational Facilities Board
KDIN
KIIN
West Branch
Primary race dynamics mix in national contest comments
The piece notes George Wallace expected to prevail in Florida and possibly seek other primaries, while Reubin Askew says Wallace will win Florida’s Democratic primary but stay a limited candidate. Nixon opponents Ashbrook and McCloskey claim Nixon abandoned Republican principles on CBS. Agnew condemns McCloskey’s self aggrandizing attitude in U S News interview.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florida
Reubin Askew
George Wallace
Nixon
Ashbrook
McCloskey
CBS
Agnew
U.S. News and World Report
Republican Party
Cedar Rapids Man Held for New Orleans Police
Cedar Rapids police held 29 year old Albert G Thurman at city jail after investigating a family disturbance at 618 Sixth Avenue SE Sunday. He is wanted in New Orleans for a break in authorities said Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
New Orleans
Sixth Avenue SE
Albert G. Thurman
James Redmond joins Cedar Rapids city attorney staff
James Redmond, 29, of Coralville, joins the Cedar Rapids city attorney's staff as a full time assistant. His salary is expected around 10,000. He will fill vacancies created in January when two part time assistants declined reappointment. Redmond is a Cedar Rapids native, University of Iowa law graduate, former law clerk to Justice Clay LeGrand, naval reserve veteran, and plans to move to Cedar Rapids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Redmond
Coralville
Cedar Rapids
Redmond
Forrest W. Rosser
David L. Marner
David McGuire
McGuire
University of Iowa College of Law
Supreme Court
Clay LeGrand
Naval Reserve
Redmoni
Washington High School
Northwestern University
Extending Lunches to All Public Schools OK
Iowa house unanimously approved a bill appropriating 575000 dollars to fund hot lunches for all public school students starting in 1973 74. The measure passed 83 to 0 with an amendment limiting eligibility to students in school four hours or more daily, excluding half day kindergartners and some shared time private school students. The bill returns to the senate for further action. Funds go to the state department of public instruction. The hot lunch program already operates in most Iowa schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
House
Senate
State Department of Public Instruction
Dennis N. Akers Held on Two Counts
Dennis N. Akers aged 24 of 913 Seventeenth avenue SE was arrested after a brief chase in the 100 block of Eighth street NE. He faces charges of larceny for stealing a $40 billfold from the China Joy restaurant and additional counts of attempting to elude police and parole violation, with bond set at $1,000 while held in the city jail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dennis N. Akers
Seventeenth Avenue SE
Iarly
Eighth Street
Akers
China Joy
Janice Berger Held For Larceny of Car
Janice K. Berger, 24, of 216 Fifteenth Street SE, was held in Linn County jail after she visited the police department at 4:30 a.m. Monday and allegedly admitted stealing a car on February 27. She was charged with larceny of a motor vehicle and held in lieu of a $1,000 bond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Janice K. Berger
Fifteenth Street
Linn County
Miss Berger
Preparation H relief for hemorrhoidal itching and swelling
An advertisement touts Preparation H as fast relief for burning itching and pain from hemorrhoidal infection and inflammation. It claims hours of comfort and reduced swelling with soothing lubrication, available in ointment or suppository forms and supported by tests in New York City Washington DC and the Midwest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City
Weallacee
D.C
Midwest Medical Center
Iowa Farm Program Signup Lags as Week Ends
Iowa officials race to enroll 4 million acres with six days left and 53 000 farms more needed. Through Thursday 92 000 farms had diverted 2.5 million acres, down from 145 000 last year, as Linn County reports 1 600 farms enrolled and Marion office sees a "wild" day. Secretary Butz must decide on the 25 10 5 plan by March 20 to 23.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ASC
Werner
Earl L. Butz
Linn County
Bob Wegmuller
Marion
Linn
Butz
Municipal Court Action Involving Victor Scoville
Victor Scoville, 20, of 1408 B avenue NE, pled guilty in municipal court to assault and battery and criminal trespass. He received a 30 day suspended jail sentence on each charge. The assault claim was filed by James Dolan, 1418 B avenue NE, for anOct. 13 incident and the trespass claim by Glen Whiting for an Oct. 1 incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victor Scoville
B Avenue NE
James Dolan
Glen Whiting
S. E. Carsner Fined For Reckless Driving
Stewart E. Carsner of 215 Eighth Street Marion pled guilty in municipal court to a reduced reckless driving charge. He was fined 100 dollars plus costs after an arrest on drunk driving charges dated February 28.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stewart E. Carsner
Eighth Street
Marion
Extortion Case in NE Iowa Probed
Authorities seek an extortionist after a Maynard couple reported their 16 year old daughter missing for about two weeks. A $1,000 demand left in a paper bag in an Oelwein lot failed to produce the payoff, leading to a stakeout. The girl was found at Roger Duggan's home in Maynard. Duggan, not part of the plot, received 30 days in JP court for encouraging a juvenile delinquency charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oelwein
Roger Duggan
Maynard
Duggan
Arkansas
Iowa Senate OKs bonds for pollution control facilities sale
Des Moines AP says the Iowa senate approved a bill by 39 to 1 allowing cities to issue industrial revenue bonds to buy pollution control facilities and lease them to local industries, with the measure moving to the house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa Senate
House
Battery Charger Spark Triggers Atlas Chemical Fire
A stray spark from a battery charger started a Sunday blaze at Atlas Chemical Co plant at 1120 Second Street SE. Firemen arrived at 3:30 p.m. and gained control within minutes after the manager could not extinguish it. the back storage room was gutted and smoke damage spread through the building, with misreported addresses delaying response.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlas Chemical Co
Edsel McMickle
Spring Term Adult Classes Begin Monday
Spring term evening high school classes for adults start Monday at Kennedy High School with 6 30 p m starts. Registration is available at Kennedy each evening and students may enroll anytime during the term. Daytime high school completion classes begin this week at Kirkwood Community College, sponsored by Kirkwood. The term ends June 2. For more information call 3985546.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kennedy High School
Kennedy
Kirkwood Community College
Kirkwood
Center Point Rites For Ruth A. Lyman
Ruth A. Lyman 77 lifelong Center Point resident died Sunday in a Cedar Rapids hospital born May 10 1894 northeast of Center Point married Pearl Lyman Feb 15 1912 at Center Point member of United Methodist church survived by husband two grandchildren and one great grandson services set for 2 p.m. Tuesday at Murdoch chapel
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Center Point
Ruth A. Lyman
Cedar Rapids
Pearl Lyman
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North Vietnamese Foreign Ministry
Coiffures Unlimited
Edward Burrell
Roosevelt
Argus Instamatic Magicube
Hall
Mark Mengler
Fifteenth Street SE
Ambassador Lounge
East, Marion
Adv
Kenneth Oliver
Sixth Street SE
Jones Paramount Pharmacy
C.L.E.A.N
George Milligan
Jerry Elsen
First Avenue SE
Nelson’s
Deborah Munson
C Street
Bowling Street
Regis High School
Fashion Cleaners
James McCoy
Center Point Road
First Trust and Savings Bank
Lawrence M. Seidler
Knollwood Drive
Bowdoin College
Brunswick
Maine
Park Forrest Garden Club
S.A.V.E
Society of American Value Engineers
Harnischfeger Corp
Thomas F. Cook
8.A.V.E
Midwest
Cedar Memorial Park
Klinger
Feoun
5Th Ave. SE
Donnell Shaffer
Bernice Rose
Balloun
Sen
Arthur Neu
Carroll
Senate Schools Committee
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
C.R. Man
C.R. City
Janice Berger
By al Swegle
Leon Werner
van Horne
State Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation
Texas
Scoville
S. E. Carsner
M. R
Marty) Smith
First Ave
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