Weather summary and local notices from March 1968
The bulletin lists high and low temperatures across major cities such as Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, Houston, Miami, New Orleans, New York, and Los Angeles with barometric readings and humidity at noon. It includes March total precipitation 0.09, normal 2.48, and total to date 65, plus legislative actions HF203 and HF260 and obituaries in Iowa communities with multiple church services and funeral details.
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Atlanta
Bismarck
Chicago
Denver
Houston
Miami
N. Orleans
New York
Area Ten fights for growth in health occupation programs
Area Ten defends expanding health occupation programs citing need for a comprehensive community college. Dispute centers on state aid funding for 1969-70 and 1970-71 with Area Ten receiving 1,165,185 based on 2,877 FTEs. Des Moines meeting included 14 of 15 area boards. special Area Ten meeting planned to discuss budget.
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State Department of Public Instruction
Area Ten
Des Moines
B. A. Jensen
Iowa moves to shorten Fulton term as safety commissioner
debate over whether Fulton should serve at the governor’s pleasure or a fixed four year term intensified as a legislative committee considered shortening the term. Fulton cited surprise at the action and sought a meeting with the governor while senators discussed grandfather clauses and equal application to all officials.
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Fulton
Harold Hughes
Senate
Hugh Clarke
R-Belmond
Clifton Lamborn
Maquoketa
Public Safety Commissioner
House Constitutional Amendments
Laird Warns of Chinese Nuclear Threat and ICBM Challenge
Former Defense Secretary Laird told lawmakers the Chinese nuclear threat will be one of the era’s gravest national security problems. He warned the Soviet Union poses a serious challenge with more ICBM launchers than the U.S. has, and outlined plans for Sentinel missile defense. He urged $800 million to deploy Sentinel, detailing 12 U.S. batteries with options for Hawaii and Alaska.
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Soviet Union
U.S
Laird
Capitol Hill
Nixon
Hawaii
Alaska
City Linn County Discuss Substandard Housing Violation
The Cedar Rapids city council and Linn County health officials met to review 35 vacant and substandard houses within city limits. Some homes were found in serious housing code violation. health officials noted pending court action in one case.
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Cedar Rapids
Linn County Health Department
Royal Family New Series Airs Wednesdays at 7:30
The King Family debuts a new color series airing at 7:30 p.m. each Wednesday on Channel 9. The program showcases family performances and entertainment in a weekly format.
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Royal! Entertainment
Three men fined for drunk driving in Linn County court
In Linn district court three men pled guilty to drunk driving. Joseph A. Ritchie of Marion, 44, faced a 60 day license revocation after arrest on Blairs Ferry road. Floyd E. Davis, 55, stubbornly denied charges related to an accident near Cedar Rapids and received the same fine and license revocation. Cleopher Luter, 49, of Cedar Rapids area, got 500 dollars and 120 day license revocation after a July crash on Twelfth avenue and Eighth street SE.
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Linn District Court
Joseph A. Ritchie
Tenth Street
Marion
Ritchie
Blairs Ferry Road
C Avenue
Warren Rees
Floyd E. Davis
Cedar Rapids
Rees
Davis
Highway Patrol
Mt. Vernon Road
Cleopher Luter
Thirteenth Avenue SE
Luter
Twelfth Avenue
Eighth Street SE
First Session on Priority Projects Held in C R
The Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce committee opened three meetings to advise the city council on priority public projects. The focus was the $8 million civic center with upcoming talks on a combined fire police complex and a new library, plus bond-issue timing and presentation.
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C.R
Cedar Rapids
Chamber of Commerce
Civic
Montrose
Harry Boyd
Hub Schimberg
Civic Center
Schimberg
First Avenue
Third
Fifth Streets
Fifth Avenue
County To Get Auto Forfeited In Drug Case
The Linn sheriff's department will receive a forfeited car used in illegal marijuana transportation after a Linn district court ordered its seizure. The attorney general confirmed the county's entitlement for official use, despite the state justice department's priority claim. The vehicle, owned by Robert B. Newton of Henry Illinois, had marijuana found in the trunk during a police search. Newton faces narcotics charges in January related to the incident.
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Linn Sheriff's Department
Linn
State Justice Department
Linn Board of Supervisors
Attorney General
Robert B. Newton
Henry, Ill
Newton
Massive Airdrop Injures 24 in Focus Retina Exercise
U S military officials in Seoul report 24 men from the U S 82nd Airborne and South Korean special forces were lightly injured in a Monday air drop launching Operation Focus Retina. Officials cite gusting winds as cause and say total participants included about 1,320 Americans and 600 South Koreans. The Yoju war games 35 miles south of Seoul proceed through Friday.
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Seoul
U.S
U.S. 82Nd Airborne Division
Yoju
Richard Volz Found Dead in Apartment
Richard Eugene Volz aged 37 of 109 Tenth Street SE was found dead in his apartment Wednesday noon. Authorities reported a personal safety related gunshot as the cause. The body was taken to Turner Chapel East.
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Richard Eugene Volz
Tenth Street SE
Volz
Turner Chapel East
Coughlin Named To Illinois Post
Gov Richard Ogilvie announced the appointment of Joseph Coughlin deputy commissioner of Iowa social services as chairman of the Illinois youth commission. Coughlin 46 replaces John Troike who remains a member. The IYC runs eight correctional institutions and 10 forestry camps for juvenile delinquents. Coughlin previously held high posts in Wisconsin including parole and juvenile review boards and corrections administration.
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Springfield
Ill
UPI
Richard Ogilvie
Joseph Coughlin
Iowa Department of Social Services
Illinois Youth Commission
Coughlin
John Troike
IYC
Troike
Otto Kerner
Wisconsin Parole Board and Juvenile Review Board
Wisconsin Division of Corrections
Wanted Ad Guide for Quick Item Search
A brief note directs readers to use a wanted ad to locate items fast and provides the contact phone number 369-1234 for dialing.
Readable fragments from a late newspaper page
A scrambled text fragment lists names and sections such as Dear Abby Dear Polly and entertainment with Rick DuBrow and Leonard Lyons. It references bridge, financial and sports pages including Rex Conn and Gus Schrader, with sporadic notes like bowling and a picture page.
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Rick DuBrow
Leonard Lyons
Art Buchwald
McIntyre Bill Seeks Funeral Price Filings in Iowa
Rep Scott McIntyre Jr filed an amendment to HF310 requiring mortuaries to file a complete price schedule with the state public health commissioner. The measure covers all incidental funeral charges and seeks greater regulatory authority for the profession, though it changes the bill’s original intent.
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Des Moines
State Commissioner of Public Health
Scott McIntyre
Cedar Rapids
McIntyre
State Association of Funeral Directors
State Commission of Public Health
U.S. Navy Loses Lead as Soviet Fleet Grows
A U.S. House subcommittee report says aging ships and weak shipbuilding erode American seapower. It calls for an extended, well balanced construction program aiming for 850 ships by the 1980s, including 41 Polaris subs and more nuclear attack submarines, noting Soviet ships vastly outnumber U.S. craft.
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Washington
U.S
Soviet Union
House
Armed Services
U. S
U. S. Navy
Rep. Rivers
D-S.c
Deaths Florence Runner widow of John W Runner
Florence Runner widow of John W Runner formerly of Cedar Rapids died in Denver on Monday. Born May 17, 1883 in Iowa she lived in Colorado since 1947. Survived by two daughters Jean Harrison and Mary Larson, three sons John Dwight Claude, a sister Alta Kuns, two brothers Charles and Homer Kuns, 14 grandchildren and several great grandchildren. Graveside services at Riverside Cemetery Marshalltown at 10 am Saturday conducted by Rev Edward O Neal. Calling hours 7 to 9 pm Friday at Beatty Bearle chapel.
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Florence Runner
John W. Runner
Cedar Rapids
Denver
Iowa
Colorado
Jean Harrison
Mary Larson
Saratoga
Wyo
John
Dwight
Riverton
Claude
Alta Kuns
Austin
Minn
Charles Kuns
Portland
Ore
Homer Kuns
Hampton
Riverside Cemetery
Marshalltown
Edward O’neal
Marshalltown First
Intensified Vietnam Operations Near Saigon Reported
The third phase of the communist offensive nears a culmination with attacks on Saigon and other cities. Clashes outside Atlas Wedge see American forces repelling two ground assaults near Saigon, killing 32 Reds northwest of the capital and 35 guerrillas west of the city. A South Vietnamese battalion of 400 men loses 10 killed and 48 wounded against an estimated 800 NVA. A light observation plane is shot down in the Mekong delta, 40 miles southwest of Saigon, killing both American crewmen, the 349th American aircraft lost in South Vietnam.
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Saigon
U.S
Mekong Delta
South Vietnam
Migrant Field Protesters Pack State Capitol Hall
Workers and farmers rallied inside the state capitol as speakers denounced migrant field conditions. Ray praised the marchers for peaceful demonstration while opponents shouted questions about actions to be taken. The crowd moved to observe legislative proceedings under guard to stay orderly.
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Ray
Capitol
Owens
Stanley
Wouldn't Repeal '67 Worker Law Wouldn't Repeal '67 Worker Law
DES MOINES The child labor bill sent to the house calendar Tuesday does not repeal the 1967 migrant workers law after all. State Rep. Scott McIntyre said the amendment intended to exclude young part time agricultural workers from permits was misread and the migrant children’s law remains intact. A new amendment by 34 Republican house members would restore the migrant children’s law.
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Des Moines
House
Scott McIntyre
Cedar Rapids
McIntyre
Wayne Faupel
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Daily Record
D.R. Weather
Gazette
EES
Dike Sckevendee
Coralville Lake
Iowa Development Commission
State Conservation Commission
St. Luke's
James Ballou
Iowa City
Amos Williams
Avenue NW
Richard Clark
Twentyfifth Street
Gene Dolson
Schultz Drive
Jerry Foust
Michael Durland
Park Avenue SE
Yuma
Ariz
Perry L. Hanson
Hanson
Merle Hanson
Athol
Mass
John Stevenson
Stevenson
Raymond Stevenson
Bever Avenue
H. E. Olerich
Lamplite Lane
Cresco
Lee Sill
Sill
Wesley Kluber
Frank Sill
Brookland Drive
Brenda S. Watson and
George Gibbons
Marjorie G. Mercuriali
Gino Mercuriali
Roberta Dunek
Dennis Dunek
Myrtle Lee
Edward A. Lee
Hazel Coates
Nathan A. Coates
Cigaret
Worthington Drive
Sixteenth Avenue
Earl O. Morris
Twenty-third Street
Daniel E. Moore
Twentieth Avenue
Joel M. Marlin
Coe College
William Bronick
Regina M. Hofford
Grant Wood Drive
Norman J. Elmer
Sumner
Charles IL. Blank
C Avenue NE
Pamela Wong
Ruthann Dykhuizen
Gary C. Steffen
Ryan
Mitchell A. Lamberson
Seventh Street
Luci J. Thoma
Jesup
Donald E. Lyons
Kar City
Robert J. Moes
Eighteenth Street
Maurice Sateco
Fifteenth Street
Nick Stravropoulos
Barbara J. Conway
Roger Haddy
Charles R. Finnegar
Seventeenth Street
James R. Bemis
Cloyd L. Turner
University Park
Michael J. McDonald
Route One
Robert C. Gandy
Fifth Street
John R. Thomas
Sandra K. Etzel
Albert C. Shoudy
Nineteenth Avenue
Waucoma
Randy Joe Blue
Richard Blue
Federated Church
Reed's
Volga
Howard L. Taylor
Methodist Church
Witt’s
Elkader
Tipton
Walter J. Conway
Sheets and Son
Blairstown
Meta Karsten
Peffers-Halverson
Wauk
Bellas- Wright
Sigourney
Alpha Wolfe
Holm’s. Central City
George Aiken
Murdoch’s. Friends
Mt. Vernon
Robert H. Barnes
Baxter's
Cedar Memorial Funeral Home
Area
State Department
Public Safety Department
James Schaben
Dunlap
Clarke
State Medical Examiner
John E. Lapes
3Rd Ave
Fourth Street
University of Iowa
Richard Volz
Illinois
Mariam Vander Linden
Editorial
Dr. Andelman
Dear Abby
Suzy Knickerbocker
Polly
Chuck Flynn
Jacobus
Sylvia Porter
Sam Shulsky
Rex Conn’s ‘Shucks
Gus Schrader
Don Walton
The
Drummonds
David Lawrence
William S. White
Bob Melvold
C. L. Sulzberger
Ley, Tate
Alton Blakeslee
Dennen
Virginia Payette
Frank Nye
Bob Considine Mort Reed
McIntyre Bill
America
United States
Mrs
John Runner
Roland Wilbert Vault Co., Inc
P.O. Box
Turner
Turner’s
John K. Turner
Oyvine
National
Turner Mortuary
First Ave
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