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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1971
Page
7
Comedian Dick Gregory, down to 102 pounds, says he will fast for 10 years if necessary but will not eat solid food until the Southeast Asia war ends. He marked the 100th day by running 15 miles in a Chicago park, continuing an all liquid diet started in April to protest the war.
A Muscatine youth, David M. Newton, 19, was arrested early Sunday by police at Ina Maes restaurant after allegedly entering to steal from a cash register. He faces two breaking and entering charges and is jailed on $10,000 bonds. Two other youths, Danny Ray Spoonmore and Danny Wayne Zaehringer, plus Larry Dean Parks, were charged Saturday with possession of stolen goods after officers found highway construction and traffic signs in their vehicle. Parks was sent to juvenile authorities.
Apollo 15 crew David Scott and James Irwin left the lunar surface after three days of exploration in the Falcon lunar module, leaving behind the first car driven on the moon. They plan two more days in lunar orbit with the Endavour in pursuit of astronaut Worden, and will return to Earth late Wednesday with rock and soil samples possibly dating to 4.6 billion years ago.
Negotiators announced a contract providing 42 percent pay raises over 42 months for about 200000 train workers and ordered pickets removed from 10 strikebound railroads at noon. The 18 day strike ended after a 17 hour Labor Department bargaining session, averting congressional intervention.
Keith Raymond Wetzel 24 of Route 1 Wapello died Saturday in a two car crash about 13 miles south of Muscatine on lower Stewart Road near the Island Pumping Station. Services Tuesday at 2 pm at Geo M Wittich Funeral Home. Burial Greenwood Cemetery. Wetzel survived by wife one son and several relatives. Police and sheriff investigated. two other drivers, John Foot 52 and Ella Mae Foot 48, were hospitalized in fair condition.
Pittsburgh AP report notes most U S steel plants idle after a new contract with the United Steelworkers. The wage deal raises pay about 30 percent over three years, but workers were turned away from midnight shifts. US Steel indicated production would resume only to match backlog, with no layoff plan clarified. Prices rose at U S Steel and other majors as orders lagged.
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