Newly Freed POWs Include Civilian Pilot
In Hanoi 49 American POWs are released including a civilian pilot who had been held longest among civilians. Nine Americans from Laos freed. a Canadian missionary also handed over. The group travels to Clark Air Base aboard two flying hospitals, joining 37 others released earlier as the last batch under the repatriation plan through Feb 12.
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Clark Air Base
Philippines
Hanoi
U.S
Laos
Arso
Pathet Lao
North Vietnam
Vietnam
Circle Clark Field
Air Force
Walter M. Stischer
Austin
Tex
United States of America
Lloyd D. Oppel
British Columbia
Samuel A. Mattix
Centralia
Wash
Oppel
Mattix
Kingkok
Ernest C. Brace
Indochina
Red Carpet
OU Professor Dead At 63
Lawrence Henry Shepoiser, 63, professor of education at Ottawa University since 1969, died at his home. He previously served as Kansas area superintendent of schools for a decade and held multiple Iowa posts. Survived by wife Marjorie, two sons, a brother, a sister, and two grandchildren. Burial at Linwood Cemetery in Geneva, Iowa. memorials to Ottawa University.
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Lawrence Henry Shepoiser
Ottawa University
Chestnut
Ottawa
Shepoiser
Wichita
Westminster United Presbyterian Church
Henry A. Roberts Jr
Linwood Cemetery
Geneva
Iowa
Sheppiser
Des Moines
Louis C
Saide M. Schoephoerster
Marjorie Elizabeth Clock
Iowa State Teachers College
Cedar Falls
University of Iowa
University of Colorado
Hudson
Traer
Independence
Mason City
Northern Iowa University
Lamb- Roberts
Nursing Home Planned for Wellsville in 14 Months
A 60 bed facility may join Wellsville within 14 months as C. M. Corporation proposes a 70-bed nursing home. Financing via $500,000 industrial revenue bonds would be an obligation of the corporation, not the city, and bonds would be repaid from nursing home revenue. Construction would follow a 20 year lease purchase agreement after state approvals.
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Joan Istas
Wellsville
Walt Bartel
C. M. Corporation
Sioux City
Iowa
Bartel
Ted Hartenstein
Mid Continent
Wichita
Dwayne Graber
C.M. Corporation
Franklin County
Hartenstien
Hartenstein
Graber
C. M
Sasnak Bill Resurrected In Kansas Legislature
The Kansas House revived a funding bill for Sasnak a plan to expand fishing and hunting resources and boost boating safety. A companion bill to raise boat certification fees was rejected earlier, while another bill to lift hunting fishing trapping and deer antelope permits passed for residents with non resident rates to rise. The House adjourned amid debate on related tax lid extensions and corporate disallowance measures with fate uncertain in the Senate.
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Senate
Confernee
House
Robert Docking
Candidates Featured On Ottawa City Commission Race
Page four of today's Herald covers the roundup of candidates vying for five Ottawa City Commission posts in Tuesday's general election. A separate Ottawa U S C 290 Board of Education candidate roundup will be in Thursday's paper.
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Herald
Ottawa City Commission
U.S.C. 290
Ottawa
Two-Way Talks Hold Fate Of Wounded Knee
AP reports hopeful progress as two negotiating sessions are planned 150 miles apart to end the 29 day occupation at Wounded Knee. Kent Frizzell notes optimistic talks with AIM and rival group while AIM leaders reportedly fled during heavy fighting. A federal marshal is injured and a plane allegedly delivered arms to the militants.
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Wounded Knee
8.D
Kent Frizzell
U.S
American Indian Movement
AIM
Rapid City
James Abourezk
D-S.d
Abourezk
Frizzell
Timistic
Russell Means
Dennis Banks
Seige
Panic Drags Midwest Hog Market Down
The Associated Press reports hog prices in the Midwest fell sharply for the second straight day amid panic selling. Prices in Iowa and Southern Minnesota direct hog markets dropped $3 to $4 per hundredweight from Tuesday, with Omaha down $3.25 to $3.75 and Chicago traders urged to avoid market-weight hogs under 215 pounds. Officials cited consumer boycott fears and packer difficulties in selling dressed meat as key factors, forecasting further declines as market confidence wanes.
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Associated Press
Midwest
Iowa
Minnesota
Omaha
Kansas City
Des Moines
Chicago
Philip Bradshaw
Illinois Pork Producers Association
Bradshaw
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Saigon
Nguyen van Thieu
America
Tan Son Nhut Airbase
U. S. Command
United States
South Vietnam
Republic of Vietnam
Freedom Fighters
Lawrence Shepoiser
Bartel Garber
C.M
State Department of Health
Ted Harte
South Main
Topeka
Kan
Kansas House
Duane McGill
Winfield
Ways and Means
Bennett
Glenn Kreusher
Nebraska State Agriculture Department
Kreusher
Ramant
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