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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1972
Page
7
FBI Director J Edgar Hoover Bays told a Senate subcommittee paid informants helped arrest 5168 fugitives and recover 30 million dollars in stolen merchandise in 1971. Additional measures include 1397 arrests and 1690 questioned, with state referrals yielding 7668 arrests and 22 million dollars in goods seized.
A House passed bill to let grocery stores and taverns with beer permits sell wine remains active as Sen. Davis subcommittee works on amendments to lower the proposed 195 cent tax per gallon. Lawmakers aim to finish the session by next weekend and move the measure to the Ways and Means Committee.
Cambodian field marshal Lon Nol proclaimed supreme government control and took over as chief of state, disbanding the Constituent Assembly. Lon Nol’s move follows Chen Heng’s departure and places Sirik Matak as premier, while South Vietnamese forces continue operations nearby. The assembly faces constitutional drafting amid growing instability.
The report notes 121 raids in 1921 but warns counts misreflect intensity due to varying aircraft participation. Latest raids occurred Thursday afternoon Friday evening and this morning with U S aircraft supported over Laos and southern North Vietnam, attacked by air defenses. no damage reported and results unavailable per the command communique.
American POWs are reportedly living in caves and tunnels in northern Laos, with estimates up to 200 prisoners. Photographer John Everingham, just freed after 29 days, cites conversations with Pathet Lao about captured pilots. He says a Sam Neua province bakery exists for bread for Americans and prisoners have limited outdoor exercise.
Mrs Wayne Schnei der of Route 2 joins the Bloomington Farm Bureau Women in sewing pajamas for the SS Hope. Iowa Farm Bureau Women are producing pajamas tubes and layettes as a humanitarian effort for the ship.
About 180 Muscatine County Farm Bureau Women join Iowa State Farm Bureau project making drip dry pajamas robes and layettes for the S.S. HOPE. Since 1960 the hospital ship has visited eight countries. Iowa groups donated over 1,000 pajamas in 1971 and continue in 1972.
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