Washington High Jazz Band Featured On Eye on Iowa
Washington High School’s jazz band directed by Lawrence Green will perform on Eye on Iowa Sunday at 10 30 p.m. on channel 2 WMT TV. The group plans a summer trip to the International Jazz Festival in Switzerland while rain continues across the area with .98 inch recorded by 7 a.m. Farmers seek dry days to start field work for the 1972 crop season.
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Washington High School
Iowa
Wmt-Tv
Lawrence Green
Switzerland
Washington
Indian pow wow scheduled with Cornell program in Mount Vernon
A Cornell College program in Mount Vernon partners with an Indian pow wow to discuss American Indian issues. The event runs next Thursday through the weekend with about 40 Rosebud Sioux officers and tribes from Iowa South Dakota Minnesota and New Hampshire.
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Mount Vernon
UPI
Cornell College
Webster Two Hawk
United Sioux Tribes of
South Dakota
Iowa
Minnesota
New Hampshire
Rosebud Sioux Reservation
Chamber of Commerce membership drive plans announced
Dick Anderson, chair, says 42 businessmen have been recruited to contact all Washington businesses for the 1972 drive. Six teams, about 35 contacts each, will lead the effort with captains listed. The drive begins April 27 after the April 26 Appreciation Night banquet at K C Hall featuring Robert W. Carlson and the Washington Jazz Band. Proceeds aid the band's Montreux Jazz Festival travel fund. Tickets through the chamber office or board members and team captains.
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Dick Anderson
Washington Chamber of Commerce
Washington
Chamber of Commerce
Dick Paul
Harold Jarvis
Clem Dold
Clarence Brown
Mike Orris
Claude Woods
Chamber
K.C. Hall
Robert W. Carlson
Minnesota
Public Service Commissioner
Washington Jazz Band
Montreux
Chamber of Commerce Office
Chamber Board of Directors
Injured Man Sues Iowa Race Track Driver and Association
Henry B. Allen of West Des Moines files a $350 000 damage suit against stock car driver Joseph H. Alsin and the Mid-Continent Racing Association after a July 4 1970 blast at the Iowa State Fairgrounds. Allen alleges severe injuries including facial lacerations head trauma and loss of eyesight and hearing with four months in hospital and additional damages requested for his wife.
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Des Moines
UPI
West Des Moines
Iowa State Fairgrounds
Racing Association
Henry B. Allen
Joseph H. Alsin
Ankeny
Weather Forecast for Iowa Canada? Southwest Cloud Changes
Partly cloudy southwest with decreasing clouds to the west. Rain ends northeast tonight with lows in the mid 30s to lower 40s. Saturday brings partly sunny skies and warmer temperatures with highs in the mid 50s to low 60s.
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United Press International
Iowa
Growth of School Busing in Washington District
National School Bus Transportation Week highlighted Washington Community School Districts large busing system. The district now runs 900 daily riders across 24 buses with 21 drivers, covering 214 578 miles yearly on a 97 000 dollar budget. Williams notes modern 60 passenger buses and routes extended for efficiency reflecting a decade of reorganization. no major injuries in years and only one minor accident this year, under a full blanket accident policy.
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Washington Community School
Glen Williams
Williams
the Journal
Mark Williams
Jane Whittaker
Morris Meyer
Walter Sojka
Lloyd Reighard
Iowa
Brighton
Washington
Moon walkers Young and Duke land on Cayley Plain
Astronauts John W Young and Charles M. Duke Jr. stepped onto the lunar surface at 11 59 a m EST on Cayley Plain during Apollo 16, opening six miles of rover travel and setting up a nuclear geophysical observatory as Thomas K Mattingly II orbited Casper. A six hour delay had delayed landing but did not alter the walk schedule.
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Orion
Lunar Orbit
Earth
Moon
Air Force
Thomas K. Mattingly II
Casper
Young
Duke
Lunar
Cayley Plain
Descartes
Anthony England
Cayley Plains
Chicago trip for youths to seek Turner inspiration
About 20 local youths plan a chartered bus trip to Chicago this afternoon to hear Glen W. Turner, the controversial cosmetics magnate, address a motel audience near O'Hare. Youths from Cedar Rapids, Iowa City, Davenport and other Iowa towns join the outing to gain motivation for a proposed self run teen club or center.
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Chicago
Glen W. Turner
Washington
O'Hare International
Turner
Orlando
Fla
Cedar Rapids
Iowa City
Davenport
Iowa Cities
Clarence Zieglowsky
Wyatt McDonald
Bettendorf
Soviet Denounces U.S. Bombing of North Vietnam
In Moscow Politburo member Fedor Kulakov condemned the American bombing of North Vietnam and pledged Soviet military support for Hanoi and allied movements in Laos and Cambodia. He declared the Soviet people wrathfully condemn the crimes of the American militarists in Vietnam.
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Moscow
UPI
Soviet Union
U.S
North Vietnam
Hanoi
Vietnam
Laos
Cambodia
Fedor D. Kulakov
Kremlin
V.I. Lenin
Kulakov
Communist Party
Major struggle for An Loc continues as battle widens
North Vietnamese artillery and U S planes reduce An Loc to rubble in a 16 day fight 60 miles north of Saigon as refugees flood southward. The offensive expands into Cambodia with Highway 1 seizure, threatening Saigon while U S planes and B 52s tally more missions and casualties.
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Saigon
UPS
U.S
An Loc
North Vietnam
United States
Chon Thanh
Cambodia
Hiep Duc
da Nang
National Liberation Front
Viet Cong
Nguyen van Thieu
UPI
Leon Daniel
David Kennerly
U.S. Navy
Phnom Penh
South Vietnam
Neak Luong
U.S. Command
Kontum Province
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Sues
Zieglowsky
Dong Ha
Viet
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