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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1975
Page
9
Weather bulletin notes showers and thunderstorms likely tonight with low temperatures in the upper 50s. Tuesday will be mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the mid teens. Rain chances 8 percent tonight and 40 percent Tuesday. Sunday high 75, overnight low 56 at Lock and Dam 16. River stage 8.58 feet.
President Ford will publish the Rockefeller Commission report on the CIA but keep secret the assassination plots details, later sharing them with the Senate intelligence committee. The Senate panel led by Senator Church questions Maheu and Bissell as it probes Castro plots and CIA activities.
The Philippines and China announced formal diplomatic relations in a Peking broadcast. President Marcos and Premier Chou En Lai signed the communique, recognizing the Peking government as the sole legal China and pledging to remove official representations from Taiwan within a month.
A head on crash of two passenger trains on the Munich Bad Toelz line leaves 36 dead and 86 injured. The wreck occurs near Warngau and Schaftlach as holiday travelers return from the mountains. Officials say rescue efforts continue with helicopters aiding transport to Munich.
JACKSON Michigan AP Dale Otto Remling 46 planned a helicopter escape from Southern Michigan State Prison to avoid scaling walls. He faces federal skyjacking and state kidnapping charges in Detroit and Jackson with four co defendants on conspiracy to commit air piracy. He said age and nerve influenced his decision and noted the Breakout film parallels his plan.
Philadelphia AP report notes antiwar radical Susan Saxe withdrew her innocent plea and agreed to plead guilty to bank robbery charges in a special deal with federal prosecutors.
Noting a bleak 1975, Richard Powell of the Iowa Development Commission says fewer firms are expanding and many planned Iowa locators are changing plans. He cites expected gas shortages and economic uncertainty as main causes. Job gains from new industry lag job losses from plant reductions and closures.
In Burlington Iowa three people Wayne Shughart 37 Seaton Illinois Mike Shughart 14 Monmouth Illinois Shelly McIntosh 10 Seaton Illinois drowned in the Mississippi River near a sandbar on the Illinois side. They were found about midnight after the girl stepped into a hole in the river bottom and the others tried to help.
Ernest Terrell an 18 year old from Des Moines drew a national award winning maritime poster for a class project that features a woman with a flag staff and the words Ship American. critics call it cheesecake and degrading to women while the ad ministration director resigns from the judging panel and Terrell faces sexism accusations. Terrell says the work was assigned and he will study commercial art with no concern for critics.
In Paris on Sunday night picketing prostitutes enforce a strike from the Champs Elysees to Rue St Denis. A lone worker is briefly seen before a heated dispute with pickets. Officers report no workers in Pigalle and mock the tax demand, noting high earnings and social security aims. The protest seeks end to police fines, tax status, hotel reopenings, and pension and welfare benefits for sex workers.
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