Optimist Club awards bicycle safety posters at Stewart School
Washington Optimist Club and Stewart Boosters Club sponsored a bike safety day with drills on the Stewart School playground. Prizes were awarded for poster contests with first place Sherry Nelson earning a transistor radio and others receiving bike related prizes and flags. A later report notes an 80 acre farm near Mount Union sold for 141000 at a Henry County District Court auction to Schmidt Farms Inc, a record price for the county, with prior owner Wesley and Vida Clark.
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Washington Optimist Club
Stewart
The
Optimists
Stewart Boosters Club
Sherry Nelson
Vicki Jo Jeffries
Lori Long
Rory Shalla
Devonna Martin
Lyndi Beemblossom
Sheryl Bauer
Jane Pilcher
Kyle Horsey
Paul Horak
Dee Ann Batterson
Tracy Owens
Tammy Evans
Yvonne Hughes
Rennee Buchwolz
Mount Union
UPI
Here
Henry County
Iowa
Schmidt Farms, Inc
Winfield
Wesley
Vida Clark
Schmidt Farms
Iowa Cemetery Firms Face $1.2 Million Tax Dispute
UPI reports two Black Hawk County cemetery outfits Midwest Garden of Memories and Cedar Valley Memorial Gardens plus operators Ray Limbrecht and Albert Vocke face a Tax Court case over back taxes 1965 through 1968 totaling about 1.21 million dollars. The Waterloo headquartered companies contest IRS claims in U S Tax Court.
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U.S
Waterloo
Showers Likely In Weather Town Zone 13 Tonight
Weather Town Zone 13 predicts showers or thunderstorms this evening with a low in the upper 50s. South winds 15 to 25 mph. Sunday will be partly sunny and cooler with highs in the 60s. Rain chances are 60 percent tonight and 50 percent Sunday.
Washington High School joins USDA lunch participation study
Washington High School in Iowa has been selected by the Department of Public Instruction to participate in a national project on school lunch participation. The study, involving 300 high schools, aims to boost teen meal participation by testing responsive lunch program methods and informing students and staff about nutrition benefits.
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Washington High School
Iowa Department of Public Instruction
State Department of Education
School Food Service Office
U.S. Department of Agriculture
USDA
Marianne Custer
Food and Nutrition Service
Burlington Hawk Eye Named Newspaper of the Year
The Burlington Hawk Eye was named Newspaper of the Year by the Iowa Press Association at Des Moines. The Hawk Eye dominated many judging classes, with top awards in education coverage, contemporary affairs analysis, and advertising layout.
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Des Moines
UPI
Burlington Hawk Eye
Iowa Press Association
Press Association
Hawk Eye
Ames Daily Tribune
Cherokee Daily Times
Estherville Daily News
Storm Lake Pilot Tribune
Cascade Pioneer- Advertiser
McGregor North Iowa Times
David Awbrey
Burlington
John McCormally
Head Start considers phasing out county day care center
The Head Start policy committee plans an open house on May 1 as it weighs Ending the day care segment due to low enrollment and high costs. The thriving half day class will continue, while the multi county Head Start council must approve major changes. Mayor Johnson proclaims Get to Know Head Start Day.
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al Kinzler
Washington
Kinzler
Emmanuel Lutheran Church Parsonage
Community Action Center
West Second Street
Harold Johnson
FBI briefs on Hearst kidnapping inference debate
FBI officials declined to draw conclusions about Patricia Hearst role in her kidnapping. Authorities found a notebook mentioning her last January 7 at an SLA hideout near Concord, raising questions about innocence claims by Randolph Hearst and ongoing investigation notes.
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San Francisco
UPI
Patricia Hearst
FBI
Randolph A. Hearst
Patricia
Berkeley
SLA
Hearst
Miss Hearst
Israel and Syria Exchange Fire on Golan Front Amid Diplomatic Push
Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan softened a warning of all out war as artillery duels continued on the Golan Heights. He urged a political settlement with Syria while stressing Israel’s readiness should negotiations falter. Both sides reported ongoing clashes as Kissinger prepared shuttle diplomacy across the region.
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Moshe Dayan
Syria
Golan Heights
Dayan
Israel
Golan Front
Mount Hermon
U.S
Henry A. Kissinger
Middle East
Cairo
Mt. Hermon
Hermon
Kissinger
Sabadani
Four men arrested in Keota shooting case
Keokuk County deputies and Highway Patrol arrested Michael M. Flynn Daniel L. Huber Terrence L. Altenhofen and Scott Bennett in connection with the March 31 shooting at Town Marshal Keith Wallerichs home and patrol car. Flynn remains jailed on bond while the others posted 4000.
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Keota
Keith Wallerich
Michael M. Flynn
Daniel L. Huber
Wellman
Terrence L. Altenhofen
North Liberty
Scott Bennett
Huber
Altenhofen
Bennett
Flynn
Keokuk County
Sigourney
Sheriff's Office
Highway Patrol
Wallerich
Liddy Ordered to Stand Trial on Contempt Charges
Watergate figure G Gordon Liddy faces a trial on contempt of Congress after a federal judge ordered proceedings. The hearing also touched on the Ellsberg break-in case with Judge Gesell demanding evidence on Nixon's possible involvement by April 29. Liddy, already serving a contempt sentence, has May 10 trial date set without a jury and a separate June 17 trial for the Fielding burglary.
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Washington
UPI
Watergate
G. Gordon Liddy
FBI
White House
Leon Jaworski
Ellsberg
Liddy
Jaworski
Nixon
U.S. District Court
Gerhard A. Gesell
Beverly Hills
Calif
Pentagon Papers
Daniel Ellsberg
Gesell
Charles W. Colson
John D. Ehrlichman
Felipe de Diego
Eugenio R. Martinez
Bernard L. Barker
Martinez
Barker
de Diego
Ehrlichman
Colson
Congress
CIA
Fielding
District of Columbia
Watergate Office
John H. Pratt
He's dead legally a Milwaukee man told by clerk
Immokalee Florida resident Donald A. Helgerson learned his wife had declared him legally dead in 1965 after he deserted his family in 1950. Milwaukee County Clerk Francis X. McCormack said he will send Helgerson a copy of the pronouncement with a note urging him to contact an attorney to reestablish his status.
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Milwaukee, Wis
UPI
Donald A. Helgerson
Milwaukee County Clerk of Courts
Helgerson
Immokalee, Fla
Francis X. McCormack
McCormack
School Board Deliberates Boundary Change and Staffing
The Washington Community School District board meets at 7:30 p.m. next Wednesday in the senior high library to discuss boundary and bus routing changes for the Brighton attendance center and possibly reduce next year's fourth grade sections from six to five. It will also set salaries for para-professionals and Title I staff and review sick leave policy and extended health benefits for non-salaried employees. Recommendations will be presented to move Gary Collins to head sophomore basketball coach and to name Bill Cox eighth grade girls basketball coach.
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Board of Education
Washington Community School District
Brighton
Gary Collins
Bill Cox
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