Miller Defends Record as Iowa U hecklers confront Miller
Senator Miller faced boos and heckling at the University of Iowa during a campaign speech. Security and Democratic rival Dick Clark supporters attended, passing leaflets and urging calm. Miller defended his record on reform and Vietnam, denying leaving stages at prior events. He noted tax reform progress and rejected marijuana legalization, while audience members apologized for the disruption after the talk.
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Iowa City
University of Iown
Jack
Miller
Vietnam
East
Dick Clark
Democratic Senate
U. S. Senate
Grand View College
University of Northern Iowa
UNI
Daryl Beall
Urbandale
Des Moines
Juana
Miler
Clark
Des Moines Airlines Agree On $1 Head Tax Collection
Spokesmen for Braniff International United Air Lines and others outlined plans to collect a $1 head tax on passengers leaving Des Moines. Airlines will not force payment and may accept cash or checks at ticket offices or departure gates. military personnel are exempt with form. The tax goes into city collection to fund airport maintenance and improvements.
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Des Moines
API
Mutic Pal
Branife International
United Air Lines
Qtark Airlines
Jobs Up Jobless Rate Holds Steady in October
Washington AP reports the nation’s total employment increased by about 700,000 to 82.7 million, seasonally adjusted up 260,000, while the jobless rate remained at 5.5 percent. Average earnings for about 1 million rank-and-file workers held at $3.78 an hour, $129.13 a week, with weekly pay up 9.6 percent year over year. Unemployment dipped for men to 3.9 percent, women to 3.5 percent, and teenagers to 15.3 percent. White unemployment stayed at 6 percent, nonwhite fell from 10.2 to 10.4 percent. Manufacturing jobs rose by 650,000 since October 1971, with service industries adding 175,000.
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Labor Department
Department
Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Turing
Bureau
Smatic
Moscow
Khrushchev
Berlin
ISEA Demands 5 Percent Pay Hike for Teachers
DES MOINES The Iowa State Education Association urges school boards to raise salaries and benefits for the 1973 74 year by five percent. President Roy Karlson says the rise is minimal yet necessary given cost of living and wage price controls. The report also calls for teacher planning time, joint admin teacher committees, paraprofessional job descriptions, higher qualification standards, duty free lunches, maternity leave, due process in staff changes, sabbatical policy, and a stronger push to improve student opportunities and teaching status.
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State Education Assa
Focal
ISEA
Roy Karlson
Nixon
Boards of Education
Karlson
Iowa
Two Plead Innocent To Drunk Driving
Harald R. Valght, 82, Marshalltown, and Lester E. Konieck, 56, rural Traer, pled not guilty to drunk driving charges in Tama County District Court. Their jury trials were set for Jan. 4. Vajert’s move to suppress evidence and related hearings were scheduled for Dec. 13 and Dec. 20 respectively.
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Toledo
Ansel J. Chapman
Tama County
Harald R. Valght
Marshalltown
Lester E. Konieck
Traer
Vajert
Konicck
Konieck
Stone Heads Early Donors to Nixon Campaign at $1 Million
The Nixon re election effort disclosed donors who contributed large sums from 1971 to 1972. W Clement Stone led with $1 million and other major names like Richard M Staats and Arthur Ki Watson appeared on a list detailing 183 donors who gave at least $1,000,000 collectively. The revelation followed a legal challenge and new federal rules requiring donor naming.
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Nixon
Washington
We Moment Stone
Committee
Comon Cause
Citizens’ Lobby
U.S
Elmer B. Staats
Staats
Boston Globe
Government Accounting Office
Arthur K. Watson
Watson
la France
Nixon Committee
W. Clement Stone
Chicago
Insur~aries Co
Deere Hearing on Rights Canceled at Deere Works
Waterloo AP report says an Iowa civil rights commission hearing on John Deere Tractor Works employment practices was canceled Thursday after the commission and the firm’s attorneys said they had worked out some of the problems. Alvin Hayes, Commission Director, commented on the development.
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Waterloo
Iowa Civil Rights Commission
John Deere Tractor Works
Commission
Alvin Hayes
Orders Appeal In Manslaughter Case Expedited
Judge Ansel J. Chapman ordered Jeffery Royal Wilson to obtain counsel to expedite his appeal to the Town supreme court. Wilson, 23, formerly of Traer now of Waterloo, was convicted of manslaughter for a May 16 1971 collision that killed Laura Andrews of Buckingham after crossing a bridge at Wolf Creek north edge of Traer. His attorney is unavailable.
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Ansel J. Chapman
Tema County
Jeffery Royal Wilson
Traer
Waterloo
Supreme Court
Jared
Bauch
Wilson
Anamosa
Laura
Andrews
Buckingham
Wolf Creek
Return of X Movie Licenses Ordered Des Moines
A federal court judge ordered the return of operating licenses to two triple X theaters in Des Moines after the city council revoked Mini-X and Studio U licenses. Judge William Stuart ruled the revocation unconstitutional pre censorship.
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Des Moines
Counvell
Studio U. U. S. District Court
William Stuart
Soviet Propaganda Chief Claims Ten Million Germans Killed
The Soviet propaganda chief reported ten million Germans had been killed or permanently put out of action on the Russian front, signaling a major claim about losses in the conflict.
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