Iowa approves 184 million for social services plan
Iowa Senate passes a 41 to 2 vote on an 184 million dollar two year appropriation for the Department of Social Services, nearly 194.4 million including amendments. The measure maintains old age assistance protection and allows counties to levy up to 7.44 mills for certain categorical aid programs.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Senate
House
Department of Social Services
Sen
Lee Gaudineer
D-Des
Moines
Gaudineer
Robert D. Ray
Ray
Legislative Council
Wilson Davis
R-Keokuk
Davis
Sens
John Tapscott
D-Des Moines
Arthur Neu
Barroll
Tapscott
Social Services Department
Board of Parole
Plan for new bridges and surfacing near West Liberty and Moscow
The Iowa Highway Commission will open bids on June 22 for bridge and road surfacing projects near West Liberty and Moscow. Work includes a damaged bridge south of Moscow, a replacement near West Liberty, shoulder stabilization on Highway 61 from Muscatine to the Scott County line, and surfacing on Highway 6 from Muscatine to the Scott County line. The plan follows a Muscatine county delegation’s March visit highlighting soft shoulders on 61.
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West Liberty
Moscow
Ames
Iowa Highway Commission
Highway 6
Muscatine
Scott County
Muscatine County
Highway Commission
Davenport
State Highway Department
Highway 61
West Liberty youth an officer at Boys State
Ron Jensen of West Liberty has been chosen secretary of agriculture of the American Legion Boys State at Des Moines. Clark Pellett of Atlantic was elected governor, with Gene LaSuer Newton lieutenant governor Jon Pickard Des Moines secretary of state Joe Fitzgerald Estherville auditor Chuck Burnett Sioux City treasurer and Steve Sauerby Cedar Rapids attorney general. Boys State opened Monday and runs through June 13 with Muscatine area representatives attending.
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Ron Jensen
West Liberty
American Legion
Des Moines
Clark Pellett
Atlantic
Gene LaSuer
Newton
Jon Pickard
Joe Fitzgerald
Estherville
Chuck Burnett
Sioux City
Steve Sauerby
Cedar Rapids
Boys State
Muscatine Area
Survivor recalls deadly LOS ANGELES air collision
1st Lt. Christopher Schiess, sole survivor of a collision that killed 50, parachuted after impact from a Marine F4 Phantom. The DC9 airliner carried 44 passengers and five crew. wreckage lay in a 2000-foot gorge near Duarte, California. Weather brief and radar notes followed.
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Los Angeles
Christopher Schiess
Salem
Ore
Schiess
Air West
Los Angeles International
Fallon Navy Air Station
Nevada
el Toro Marine Corps Air Station
Calif
Inadequate landing system blamed for airline crash
Officials tied the Allegheny Airlines Convair 580 crash at Tweed-New Haven Airport to missing instrument landing system features. Twenty eight of thirty one aboard died after fogged conditions and a power line strike in marshland. Survivors were treated at Yale New Haven Hospital. Flight recorders were recovered for examination.
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New Haven, Conn
Allegheny Airlines
Tweed-New Haven
James Malarky
National Transportation Safety Board
John H. Reed
Malarky
Airline Pilots Association
Huntington
W. Va
Marshall University
Yale-New Haven Hospital
Janet McCan
Washington
Kelly
James Walker
Memphis, Tenn
Two Americans killed in enemy attack near DMZ bases
US and South Vietnamese forces clashed with North Vietnamese troops for the third day along the DMZ. Two Americans were killed and four wounded in a bombardment two miles southeast of CMA, while another clash 22 North Vietnamese were killed and four weapons captured. U.S. aircraft supported ground troops as B52s struck DMZ positions. An OH6 helicopter was downed off Phu Quoc with one crewman wounded. In eastern Cambodia, about 2,000 South Vietnamese rangers pressed a six day drive with nine enemy killed near Kompong Trabck.
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Saigon
U.S
Demilitarized Zone
Souutheast
CMA
Charlie 2
Dmz
Phu Quoc
Cambodia
Kompong Trabck
Ronger
Cedar Rapids man convicted of second degree murder
Perry Harris, 23, of Cedar Rapids, was convicted Monday night of second degree murder in the Feb. 13, 1971 shooting death of Ernest Jordan, 37, of Cedar Rapids. The defense urged an innocent verdict, claiming the two were friends and the gun fired accidentally after deliberating eight and a half hours.
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Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Perry Harris
Cedar Rapids
Ernest Jordan
Jordan
Linn County District Court
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Audie Murphy
Arlington National Cemetery
Murphy
Roanoak
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Duarte
San Gabriel Mountains
DCI
Federal Aviation Administration
New London
New Haven
Norman Kelly
Waterford
Reed
Iowa State University
National Organization For Women Now
Judy Ritts
Ames Chapter
NOW
Des Moines, Iowa
United Methodist Church of Iowa
Congress
Southeast Asia
Independence
Join FL. Kennedy
Cambridge
Mass
John F. Stewart
Harry 8. Truman
Bellevue, Town
Jackson County
Get Theater Awards
New York
Mickey Rooney
Kay Medford
Rooney
Miss Medford
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