Iowa House approves merit system for state workers
Iowa House Republicans and Democrats combined to pass a merit system bill 98 to 15, sending it to the Senate. Gov. Harold E. Hughes has long backed civil service reforms, aiming to hire and promote on merit through competitive exams, shielding jobs from political shifts. Rep. Grassley called the plan a step toward attracting qualified workers, while Rep. Mowry criticized it as hypocrisy.
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UPI
Iowa
Senate
Harold E. Hughes
Charles Grassley
New Hartford
Grassley
House
Des Moines Senate panel backs $3 million for state educational network
The Senate Educational Committee recommended a $3 million appropriation to fund a statewide educational television and radio network and related government communications system. The plan envisions leasing transmission facilities and expanding from Des Moines to Iowa City Cedar Falls and beyond, with eventual sites in Ottumwa Corning and many others.
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Des Moines
UPI
Senate Educational Committee
Senate
Harold E. Hughes
Kenneth Nurse D-Hartley
KDPS
University of Iowa
John Montgomery
Iowa City
Cedar Falls
Ottumwa
Corning
Fort Dodge
Mason City
Denison
Decorah
Spencer
Sioux City
Burlington
Davenport
Dubuque
Council Bluffs
Senate panel flags naval ammo and pilot shortages in Vietnam
A Senate preparedness subcommittee report on Vietnam cites ammunition problems for air and surface units and a near term pilot shortage in the Marine Corps. It notes Navy logistics are strained by the high tempo of Southeast Asia operations and warns shortages will test Washington as Marines face 851 current and 1,021 future pilot gaps.
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Washington
Korea
Wallace M. Greene Jr
Marine Corps
Witness insists Speck is the man in nurse killings
Corazon Amuaro testified under cross examination that she described Richard Speck from the start as the man who ordered eight nurses to their deaths and watched from hiding under a bed. She said police initially described a tall, crew cut man, but she identified Speck as blond with long slicked hair and a marked face, pointing to him and saying this is the man.
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Peoria
Richard Speck
Corazon Amarao
Chicago
UPI Telephoto
Gerald W. Getty
Miss Amarao
Speck
Weather forecast for Iowa turns colder with frost likely
United Press International reports frost or freezing temperatures likely in the northern Iowa portion tonight as skies clear and temperatures drop. Friday will be generally fair with lows from 28 to 32 in the north and 35 to 40 in the south, and highs in the 50s. Saturday outlook is fair and warmer.
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Iowa
Ransom Paid Beats Kidnapped Boy Home In Beverly Hills
Kenneth Young, 11, son of a major financial magnate, was kidnapped from his bed in Beverly Hills. A $250,000 ransom was paid and he was recovered at 3:30 am after a 72 hour hold. FBI and Beverly Hills police led the nationwide probe with no suspects in custody.
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Calif
UPI
Kenneth Young
FBI
Wesley Grapp
Grapp
Citywide Spring Clean-Up Drive Opens for Washington Residents
Mayor Cloid Willits announced a city led cleanup campaign running through April 15 offering free trash hauling. Residents should place containers along rear alleyways or curbside frontages with unlicensed junk cars moved or declared a nuisance and removed at owner cost.
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Washington
Cloid Willits
Willits
Mississippi flood plan includes air tour by state leader
Iowa Adjutant General Junior Miller announced an air tour along the Mississippi flood area on Friday. He will travel with state legislators to Clinton and Dubuque, with stops at Sabula Guttenburg McGregor and Marquette as communities brace for what could be the second highest flood in history. National Guard units remain on duty in Clinton and may be deployed to other sites, including Dubuque, with a duck amphibious craft used for Marquette transportation duties.
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UPI
Iowa
Junior Miller
Mississippi River
Miller
Clinton
Dubuque
Sabula
Guttenburg
McGregor
Marquette
Iowa National Guard
National Guard
Rock Island
Corps of Engineers
Harold E. Hughes
Unions expand TV strike sympathy across networks
Fifteen broadcasting unions join AFTRA in a sympathy move to press ABC CBS and NBC toward a settlement. The action risks causing more live and newly taped programs to be replaced by films and reruns, as technicians and electricians already walked off at NBC and ABC causing outages on Huntley Brinkley.
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New York
UPI
American Federation of Television and Radio Artists
AFTRA
ABC
CBS
NBC
Nbc-Tv
Satellite strays into wrong orbit
CAPE KENNEDY UPS reports a new satellite stranded in an unintended orbit after rocket failure. ATS 2, part of five applications satellites, deployed 251 foot booms giving it a spiderlike appearance while its elliptical path ranged from 115 to 6,600 miles high. Officials doubt salvage of useful data as gravity exposure varied with altitude.
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UPS
Earth
Applications Technology
ATS
Globe
Wave of Viet Cong terror hits South Vietnam near DMZ
Viet Cong guerrillas attacked a prison camp near Quang Tri as part of a 10 hour terror wave from Saigon to the DMZ. The offensives left many dead or maimed among civilians and soldiers, with U S and South Vietnamese forces suffering casualties in Mekong Delta clashes and near the Cambodian border. Allied reports tallied Communist deaths and American and South Vietnamese losses across multiple engagements, including a 173rd Airborne post hit by mortars near War Zone C.
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UPI
Quang Tri
South Vietnam
Demilitarized Zone
Dmz
Mekong
Cambodia
North Vietnam
Bac Giang
Hanoi
U.S
U.S. Army
173Rd Airborne Brigade
Iowa Senate passes bill setting minimum traffic fines
The Iowa Senate approved 42 to 11 a bill to establish minimum fines for minor traffic violations and to create traffic violation offices. The measure allows mail payments of minimum fines plus $2 court costs for simple offenses, with court appearances required for more serious or aggravated violations.
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Des Moines
UPI
Iowa Senate
Iowa
Justice of the Peace
Senate
Humphrey Tours Berlin Amid Bomb Plot Alert
Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey ignored a police bomb plot against his life and arrived in West Berlin for a 14 day European tour. He was cheered by about 3,000 locals at City Hall despite leftist protests and heavy security. Police arrested eight men and three women, some suspected of making bombs, though officials later said the devices were smoke bombs.
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Berlin
UPI
Hubert H. Humphrey
West Berlin
U.S
Humphrey
Heinrich Albert
Appointment of administrator in estate of John Walter
Public notice lists the appointment action for the estate of John Walter. The notice outlines the administrator’s designation, jurisdiction, and related filing details as published in the public notices section on page six.
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John Walter
All-Sport Banquet Tickets On Sale In Washington
Tickets for an All-Sports Banquet are now available through the De Men’s Club in Washington. The event, at Washington Junior High School at 6 p.m. on April 20, honors ninth through 12th grade athletes. Priced at $3.50, each ticket covers attendance and a meal for one athlete. Contact a De Men’s Club member or buy at Paul’s Shoes or Blake’s Davis Paint Store. Iowa University coach Dick Schultz will speak.
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Paul's Shoes
Blake’s Davis
Dick Schultz
Iowa University
Ralph Miller
Hawkeye
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