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Newspaper
Oelwein Daily Register
Location
Oelwein, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1973
Page
2
The Oelwein Daily Register explains its limited supply of the 96 page Centennial edition after selling out plans. Editors note the risk of price hikes and compare to past football ticket scalping in Iowa City. Readers are urged to save issues or call for a possible list of extras, emphasizing restraint and shared access.
The newspaper thanks advertisers for enabling a sold out Centennial edition and invites readers to study the historic content. It credits subscriber support for photos and city life excerpts and notes an index of advertisers on page one. The issue highlights the business community as it existed in 1973 and marks the paper nearing a century of operation.
The National League of Cities and U S Conference of Mayors representing 15 000 municipalities urge immediate action. Cities cut fuel use by halting park lighting and ballfield lighting, shortening street light hours, idling engines, and limiting patrols and department operation to conserve scarce fuel. Detroit delegates warn of uncertain price and supply as motorists feel only mild impact for now.
Astronauts Charles Conrad and Joseph Kerwin perform a daring spacewalk to free a jammed solar panel on Skylab. With improvised holds and no maneuvering aids, they restore power as ground control supports the mission, ensuring the $2.6 billion program can continue. Paul Weitz assists in orbit, and the crew resumes experiments next day. Lettuce prices rise due to unfavorable California weather doubling year-ago levels.
Colson testifies that the White House financed E Howard Hunt's 1971 trip to Massachusetts or Rhode Island to question a police source about the Chappaquiddick case. He also details Hunt's assignments, the Attack Group, and hush money contributions linked to Continental Inc. activities.
Dundee Special: Delaware County will use a $5,576 grant from the Iowa Crime Commission to hire an additional deputy sheriff. The county will cover the remaining annual salary, funded partly from federal Law Enforcement Assistance Administration sources. Current deputies are Owen McCarthy and Dave Benter under Sheriff Bert Elledge.
Delaware County Pork Producers are invited to a district appreciation dinner at Turner Hall, Postville, on June 21. The program includes a cook-out school on preparing pork for large groups, the district pork queen contest, and a briefing on national and state pork association activities. Cook-out starts 4:30 p.m. with pork chop dinner at 6:39 p.m.
A column notes Hong Kong litter fines up to $2000 and discusses the spread of languages from Esperanto to 5000 tongues. It cites a National Geographic estimate of Earth’s ice age extent, then reports a U S Forest Service finding that cemeteries near Boston and New York host 29 non interment activities. Quotes Tacitus and Nicholas Murray Butler on efficiency and human nature.
Incoming Iowa State University students in the College of Science and Humanities attended two day orientation sessions on campus this week. The program covered aptitude tests counselor meetings and fall class planning. Attendees included Gary H. Hanson and Donald M. Saboe of West Union.
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