Rain finally soaks Texas as storms lash coast and plains
Texas farmers finally saw rain after a long dry spell as violent storms swept the state. Tornadoes touched Corpus Christi and menaced Houston and San Antonio while heavy rainfall caused flooding in Corpus Christi and Goliad. A jetty rescue ended in drownings near South Padre Island.
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Daylight Saving Time Starts in Iowa in April
Daylight Saving Time begins in Iowa at 2 a.m. Sunday April 30 and lasts until October 29. Readers are urged to set clocks forward one hour before Saturday night. In a separate incident Washington firemen responded at 10:30 a.m. to 406 West Second Street to a dryer fire at the Dean Knight residence, causing smoke but minimal damage.
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Journal
Washington
Dean Knight
West Second Street
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High School Jazz Band Fund Drive Near Half Goal
In Lompoc California an update says the High School Jazz Band has raised about half the funds needed for its Switzerland trip to the International Jazz Band Festival. Door-to-door ticket sales for a concert will resume after a trip to Estes Park Colorado. Buses are due in Washington on Sunday. Constable Walter Livingston served a court summons on a heart attack victim for nonpayment of a previous bill.
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Colorado
Washington
Lompoc
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Tom Jones Splits Pants On Caesar's Palace Debut
Las Vegas reports singer Tom Jones burst into his Caesars Palace show when a seam ripped six inches along the left leg. The star quipped a quick pause to change his pants as the audience watched.
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Iowa Weather: Rain Possible East and North Tonight
A weather update shows a chance of occasional rain across eastern and northern Iowa tonight into Saturday. Southwest areas stay partly cloudy with lows in the 40s and highs Saturday ranging from the 60s in the west to the 50s in the east.
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Turner Would Increase Iowa Attorney General Staff and Fees
Des Moines Iowa Attorney General Richard C Turner complains more than 800 state workers earn more than his 22500 annual salary while his 34 lawyers face heavy workload. He cites 300 cases pending before the Iowa supreme court and options to use outside counsel, transfer funds, or absorb more work.
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Richard C. Turner
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Iowa Supreme Court
Attorney General
Supreme Court
Lawrence Scalise
Scalise
Marvin Selden
North Vietnamese push toward Quang Tri as Dong Ha falls
North Vietnamese troops drove government defenders from Dong Ha and pressed toward Quang Tri eight miles south. More than 100 tanks were reported near Quang Tri as refugees fled toward Hue along Highway 1. U S forces bombed and fought tanks with Cobras, while four Soviet PT76s were knocked out near Quang Tri. Two American pilots died in a Cobra crash as U S destroyers fired on the enemy offshore.
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Hoang Xuan Lam
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William B. Rosson
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Pacific
Apollo 17 crew nears Hawaii after record lunar haul
John W. Young Thomas K. Mattingly and Charles M. Duke ride toward Honolulu aboard USS Ticonderoga with 245 pounds of moon rocks and mapping images. President Nixon congratulates Mattingly and Duke while lunar scientists anticipate opening the first rock sample Monday in Houston.
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Cook seeks extension of seat belt mandate despite airbags
Sen. Marlow W. Cook argues a federal rule forcing airbags in 1976 models should not end the requirement for seat belts. He condemns the regulation as unjust and cites a Phoenix air bag test where dummies were thrown toward the windshield, saying belts would have prevented injuries.
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UPI
Marlow W. Cook
R-Ky
Cook
Phoenix
Ariz
Sadat Seeks More Soviet Arms in Moscow Talks
Egypt's President Anwar Sadat meets in the Kremlin with Alexei Kosygin and Leonid Brezhnev to press for more Soviet warplanes missiles and military gear ahead of a claimed one year timetable to reclaim Israeli-occupied lands. Protests over Brezhnev’s absence signal friction in the alliance.
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Nikolai V. Podgorny
Podgorny
Middle East
Nixon
Jerusalem
FBI probes possible D. B. Cooper hijacker trail in Bremerton
FBI agents show photographs of a man resembling the fugitive to Bremerton area businessmen. A wig shop owner recalls a man fitting the photo spending time trying on wigs before the hijacking last Thanksgiving Eve. The Seattle office declined to comment as the bureau recently halted its search aided by Ft. Lewis soldiers.
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FBI
D. B. Cooper
Northwest Airlines
Bremerton Sun
Seattle
J. Earl Milnes
Oren Campbell
Denise Kalete
L. H. King Imports
Ft. Lewis
Woodland
Washington
Ribicoff backs McGovern as Muskie exits race
Sen. Abraham Ribicoff endorses George McGovern for the Democratic nomination after Edmund Muskie withdraws. Julian Bond also backs McGovern, while Ribicoff questions Sen. Edward Kennedy as a possible compromise nominee. Muskie vows to fight on to the convention and Kennedy says he remains unavailable.
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Ribicoff
Julian Bond
Georgia
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
Kennedy
John F Kennedy
Connecticut
Sen
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Ed Muskie
Miami Beach
Four juniors file for WHS student council president
Four Washington High School juniors have filed nomination papers for the 1972-73 student council president race. The candidates are John Blakeney Steve Butler Jane Stewart and Kim Walker. They plan to announce running mates and conduct campaign activities with the election convention scheduled for 2:45 p.m. on campaign day May 3. Sophomores and juniors will vote the following day to elect the 36th WHS student council president.
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Mary Blakeney
Steve Butler
James L. Butler
Jane Stewart
Warren E. Stewart
Kim Walker
Lloyd M. Walker
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