Culver Opposed to Poverty Program Split Says Congressmen
Congressman John Culver warned against breaking up the anti poverty effort and placing programs under separate agencies He argued a single umbrella like the Office of Economic Opportunity gives the poor a united voice He criticized bureaucratic wrangling and urged stronger private sector tax incentives for poverty work He noted debates over board representation and contrasted poverty spending with Vietnam costs. Salem Ore Charles Sprague former Oregon governor dies of cancer.
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John Culver
Three County
Hawkeye
Community Action Program
HACAP
YMCA
Culver
Office of Economic Opportunity
OEO
Washington
Nixon
Health, Education and Welfare
Jebor Department
Johnson
Anti-Poverty Boards
Salem
Ore
Charles Sprague
Oregon
Cedar Rapids area braces for potential flood surge
Cedar Rapids may see water four feet above flood stage this spring if March brings normal precipitation. The Cedar River could reach 12.5 feet with flood stage at 13. Otis road SE and Ellis Park area near Manhattan face inundation. City officials note the 1981 and 1985 floods were larger, while 1962 maxed at 19.7 feet. Waterloo could rise five feet above flood stage to about 15 feet under normal March weather.
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Cedar Rapids
Weather Bureau
Town Civil Defense Division
Cedar River
Public Improvements
Donald Canney
Otis Road SE
Manhattan
Ellis Park
Canney
Public Improvements Department
Waterloo
Science Reading
Independence
Thej Avenue
Wapsipinicon
City Briefs Mixes Crime Ads and Local Notes
A mixed city brief reports a Verdi Lenzen residence break in near Blaze Boulevard SE, a tires theft from Mrs Slaymaker on Forty-ninth Street NE, a person joining a decorating staff at Kenwood House, and a student Dennis L Oelschlaeger named to the John Brown University dean’s list. Also notes a 1989 price listing, Cub Scout paper drive, a chicken supper fundraiser, and a Weather Bureau flood outlook for the Wapsipinicon basin with snowpack. Police report a roofing-material theft at a CR Roofing Co site and a gun charge bond for Howard E Hawk after a street argument.
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Dennis L. Oelschlaeger
Max Oelschlaeger
Lindale Avenue
John Brown University
Siloam Springs
Ark
C.R
Howard E. Hawk
Eighth Street
Hawk
Kemmeth R. Oliver
Hawks
Klan leaders sentenced for defying Congress records order
Federal judge Edward Curran sentenced two Ku Klux Klan state grand dragons to one year in prison and fined a third member $1000 for contempt of Congress after refusing to provide membership records to the House committee on un American activities. Robert Scoggin of South Carolina and Robert Jones of North Carolina received prison terms. Calvin Craig of Georgia was fined.
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Washington
UPI
Ku Klux Klan
Grand Dragons
House Committee On un-American Activities
Edward Curran
Robert Scoggin
South Carolina
Robert Jones
North Carolina
Calvin Craig
Georgia
Cedar Rapids JA contest winner to represent city at regional
Katherine Jerde Hicke won Cedar Rapids Junior Achievement Best Salesman contest defeating six judges. She will compete March 26 29 in St Paul at the Midwest regional contest with 20 cities. The statewide winner advances to the national event in St Louis in April.
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Katherine A. Jerde
Edwin Jerde
Thirty
Seventh Street
Cedar Rapids
Katherine
Junior Achievement Center
St. Paul
St. Louis
Nixon renames Fish Room to Roosevelt Room in White House
Washington AP says President Nixon ordered a new title for the conference room opposite the Oval Office. Press secretary Ronald Ziegler announced the room will be named the Roosevelt room after Teddy not FDR. The former name dated to Franklin Roosevelt’s display of tropical fish and trophies.
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Washington
Nixon
Oval Office
Ronald Ziegler
Roosevelt
Teddy
Fdr
Franklin Roosevelt
Chicago suspends thirteen policemen at convention
CHICAGO AP Thirteen policemen involved in disturbances during the Democratic national convention were suspended Thursday. Superintendent James Conlish said the 13 received two day suspensions for failing to wear badges or nameplates or for failing to properly supervise personnel under their command. The action brings disciplined officers to 43 for improper activity during the convention.
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Chicago
James Conlish
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4Th Ave
Joseph Slaymaker
Forty-ninth Street
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Kenwood House
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Madison
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Kay
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Mary
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Hopkin
George Carlin
Thelgreen
Arthur Brown
Pierson
Channel A Florists
C.R. Roofing Co
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Sixth Street Road
MacKenzie Company
First Ave
Star Printing Company
Fairfax Dairy Queen
Te Sundae Sale
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Wells
Enid Collins
Collins
Katherine Jerde
Hicke
By Stratton Douthar
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Rangers
Everglades
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Lostman River
Flamingo
T'S
Armstrong’s Foundation
Helen Halverson
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Helen
Louise
Lawise Ware
Tomy
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