One Car Crash Near Washington Injures Herdlicka
Ainsworth resident James Herdlicka suffered facial cuts and back injuries after a late night single vehicle crash about a mile east of Washington on highway 92. Police say he fell asleep at the wheel and the car left the roadway near the Blue Note. He was transported to Washington County Hospital. In other police news a suspected car thief from Oskaloosa was arrested in Washington and is jailed. Douglas Dean Preston was taken into custody and the stolen car recovered. Local police investigated theft of four tires and wheels from a Geb Chevrolet lot at the east edge of Washington during the night. The Washington High School jazz band directed by Lawrence Green will appear on WMT’s Eye on Iowa on April 23 and will tape in Cedar Rapids on April 7. The band may travel to Switzerland. Local officers sent a dog to the University of Iowa labs to test for rabies after five year old Mickey Gaffey was bitten earlier. The dog was located north of Washington and killed last night.
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James Herdlicka
Ainsworth
Washington
Herdlicka
Washington County Hospital
Oskaloosa
Washington County
Douglas Dean Preston
Washington High School
Lawrence Green
WMT
Iowa
Barry Norris
University of Iowa
Mickey Gaffey
Horle Addition
Gaffeys
Mickey
Cordova Plant Approval Eases Possible Power Shortages
The Iowa Conservation Commission voted 4 to 1 to allow limited operation of the Cordova Illinois nuclear plant to avert potential outages in eastern Iowa and western Illinois. The plan permits 20 percent capacity with diffuser pipes for cooling until a closed circuit system is ready in about 40 months, with environmental safeguards and state oversight to follow.
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DES Moines
API
Iowa Conservation Commission
Iowa
Illinois
Cordova
Ill
Byron Lee
Chicago
Commonwealth Edison
Lee
William Scott
Mississippi River
Nicholas G. Dozoryst II
Leslie Licklider
Cherokee
Licklider
Atomic Energy Commission
Keith McNurlen
Ames
Commission
Iowa - Illinois Gas and Electric Co
Davenport
McNarlen
Detroit
Illinois Water Pollution Board
Dozoryst
Will Play Here April 11 Pianist Leslie Wright Coming
The South American pianist Leslie Wright arrives in Washington for a concert on April 11 under the Washington Concert Association. Members and new season entrants will hear Wright perform works by Mozart Brahms Chopin and Mendelssohn. He has played major world capitals and recorded for BBC Radio and Pathe Marconi. Wright born in Quito Ecuador in 1938 rose to international recognition in his twenties.
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Leslie Wright
Washington
United States
Washington Concert Association
Mr. Wright
Mozart
Brahms
Chopin
Mendelssohn
Rome
London
Paris
Geneva
Brussels
Tokyo
Hong Kong
Columbia
Europe
South America
Asia
Mr Wright
BBC
Radio - Television Francaise
Radio Basel
Pathe - Marconi
la Voix de
Son Maitre
Quito
Ecuador
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Fritz Masbach
Wright
Academia Santa Cecillia
North Vietnamese Blitzkrieg Rolls Toward Hue and Quang Tri
North Vietnamese forces using amphibious tanks broke through the Cua Viet defense and overran a South Vietnamese naval base near Dong Ha while advancing toward Hue and Quang Tri. U.S. pilots report MIG activity along the DMZ and compare the push to a World War II blitzkrieg with supply columns moving down Highway 1. Weather limited air strikes, as the invasion entered a new dangerous phase of Nixon’s Vietnamization program.
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Saigon
UPI
Cua Viet River
Demilitarized Zone
Dmz
U.S
North Vietnam
John O'Gorman
421St Tactical
Stewart Kellerman
U.S. Navy
Dong Ha
Annamite
Anne
Hue
Quang Tri
O’gorman
Highway 1
Hanoi
Kim Willenson
da Nang
Haiphong
South Vietnam
Laos
U.S. Command
Washington
Nixon
Ray Signs Iowa Lunch Bill And Name Change Measure
Gov. Robert D. Ray signed legislation to require all Iowa school districts to run hot lunch programs by 1973 with 575000 dollars state share and to seek federal funds. An amendment requires lunch for students in districts with four hours or more daily. He also signed a name change bill requiring court approval and allowing married women to change names without consent.
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Des Moines
UPI
Robert D. Ray
Senate
County Supervisors Close Two Dirt Roads and Revert Land
After public hearings with no objections the county board relinquished easements on two dirt roads, one mile on the Franklin Bright on line and a 1920 foot stretch in Brighton township section 3. Ownership of the land reverts to adjacent landowners increasing taxable land by about nine acres. A $346.50 work claim from Cletus Reed awaits board approval at the next meeting.
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County Board of Supervisors
Franklin - Brighton
Brighton Township
Cletus Reed
Wisconsin Primary Sparks Tight McGovern Humphrey Contest
In Wisconsin McGovern and Humphrey battle for the Democratic edge as looming crossovers from Republicans and Alabama Governor Wallace inject uncertainty. Muskie seeks a miracle upset while Nixon faces Ashbrook McCloskey in the Republican race as 1.5 million voters brace for 67 Democratic delegates and a pivotal moment for Farm Belt support.
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Milwaukee
Wis
UPI
George S. McGovern
Hubert H. Humphrey
Wisconsin
Edmund S. Muskie
Midwest
Humphrey
McGovern
Alabama
George C. Wallace
Muskie
Wallace
Henry M. Jackson
John Lindsay
New York
Eugene J. McCarthy
Nixon
John M. Ashbrook
Ohio
Paul N. McCloskey
Badger
Massachusetts
Pennsylvania
Weather Forecast for Iowa Clears with Cool Nights
United Press International reports Iowa will have clear skies tonight with lows in the 20s. Wednesday night will be mostly sunny and warmer with temperatures in the lower 40s to around 60 across regions from northeast to southwest.
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United Press International
Iowa
Trash Pick Up Day Volunteers Rally in Washington County
Young residents organize the annual Trash Pick Up Day with the County Community Action Program of Youth Employment Service. Volunteers meet at the courthouse on Saturday April 15 at 8 am to clear roadsides, bring gloves and sack lunches, and enjoy a planned wiener roast if turnout is large. If weather or manpower delays occur the event shifts to April 22.
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Washington
Kiwanis Drugmobile Visits Washington On April 7
The Kiwanis Club sponsors the Drugmobile display titled Games Without Winners to raise awareness of drug abuse. It will park on the east square and at local schools with shifts from 8:30 to 10 a.m. 10 a.m. to noon 1 to 3:30 p.m. and 3:30 to 6 p.m. Burge Hammond chairs the event with support from Ron Hallock Paul Flynn Dr Phillip Levine and Governor Robert Ray. The public and families with teens are urged to attend.
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Kiwanis
Washington
Washington Kiwanis Club
Burge Hammond
Kiwanis Committee
Kiwanis International
Nebraska - Iowa
Ron Hallock
West Des Moines
Paul Flynn
Iowa Drug Abuse Authority
Phillip Levine
Drake University College of Pharmacy
Robert Ray
Blue Grass man given 15 year suspended sentence in Arco theft
Gene P. Waddell, 30, of Blue Grass received a 15 year suspended sentence for possession of burglary tools in the Arco Chemical Co. theft at Fremont last year. Judge L R Carson of Oskaloosa paroled him to the State Bureau of Adult Correction Services. Waddell and Robert Lee Morris of Davenport were arrested in Washington County in a bus believed to carry chemicals from the Arco plant. Morris faces charges but remains at large.
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Blue Grassman
Arco Chemical Co
Fremont
L.R. Carson
Oskaloosa
Gene P. Waddell
State Bureau of Adult Correction Services
Waddell
Robert Lee Morris
Davenport
Washington County
Arco
Morris
City Plans April 24 Bid Hearings for Sewer and Street Work
The city schedules 8 p.m. hearings Monday April 24 at City Hall on bids for North Fourth Avenue paving from Washington Street to the railroad tracks and related street projects. Plans call for a new north south route to ease traffic on North Second, curb and gutter, seal coat surfaces, and West Fifth Street paving with extra thickness funded by the city. Other improvements are to be financed by general obligation bonds with no special assessments. The City Plan and Zoning Commission endorsed priority for land acquisitions near the junior high and west of the high school, and proposed a Committee on Community Communications to coordinate multiple local groups.
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Washington
North Fourth Avenue
Washington Street
Main Street
North Second
West Fifth Street
North Avenue B
North Avenue D
City Plan and Zoning Commission
Stanley Consultants Inc
Committee On
Industrial Board
Board of Adjustment
Chamber of Commerce
Park Board
City Council
School Board
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Pianist Leslie Wright
Ray
Vocate
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