Water outage planned on West Monroe Street area
Water service will be off Monday at 6:00 a.m. for about two hours from Avenue 6 west to Brighton road for repairs, said Marvin Glandon city water superintendent. In Sunset Park Washington vandals damaged two pavilions by removing wooden steps and piling benches and tables around the structures. A 134 Peospa girl in Dubuque, Iowa, was listed in fair condition after being shot by her 14-year-old brother with a salt-filled shotgun shell. no charges will be filed.
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City Water
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Sunset Park
Washington
Dubuque, Iowa
UPI
Mercy Medical Center
Dubuque County
Marie McGovern
Ken
Mike McGovern
James Sawyer
Ford urges change in welfare program for reforms
President Ford called for major welfare reform citing abuses in the system. He said the current program should be junked or tightened, and ordered Vice President Rockefeller to lead public hearings this fall. Welfare rolls rose to a record high in April while growth slowed.
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UPI
Ford
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Public Broadcasting System
Viking Mars landings to cost about 1 billion dollars
Two Viking spacecraft are planned to launch from Cape Canaveral to Mars with a price tag near one billion dollars. The mission aims to test Martian soil, weather and seek signs of life, with first landings expected near Chryse around July 4, 1976.
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Cape Canaveral, Fla
UPI
Mars
N.H. Horowitz
California Institute of Technology
Viking
Cape Canaveral
Chryse
United States
Earth
Red
Gerald Soffen
Horseman keeps riding the way to live
Port Angeles retiree Bob Seney, a former Air Force master sergeant, travels cross country on horseback seeking to ride through all 48 states. He began in Sonoita Arizona and has already covered 22 states in eight years, averaging about 20 miles daily with two horses and camping wherever grass and shelter arise.
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America
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Port Angeles
Wash
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Ariz
New Mexico
Texas
Louisiana
Mississippi
Arkansas
Missouri
Iowa
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Florida
Coa
Washington State
U.S
North
Dakota
RAGBRAI riders push on across Iowa in sixth year
Bike group described as tired yet joyful as RAGBRAI III covers wind swept routes from Dublin to Mt. Pleasant. Washington locals, Kiwanis and 4H groups supply melons, beef sandwiches, corn and cookies while riders cheer the welcoming towns and compare the journey to ancient triumphs. Journalists John Karras and Donald Kaul appear amid the crowd as tents rise at Mt. Pleasant and riders brace for Ft. Madison.
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Evening Journal
Ragbrai
Register
Iowa
Washington
Mt. Pleasant
Dublin
Kiwanis A.m.ers
Washington Fairgrounds
Kiwanis Club
Sigourney-Washington
Sigourney
0.Z
Kaul
Threshers
Ft. Madison
Van Nostrand cautions on gas shortage report’s Iowa risk
DES MOINES UPI One of Gov Ray energy advisors Maurice Van Nostrand chairman of the Iowa Commerce Commission said Iowa would not be worse off than last winter and that a crisis oriented Congress could divert Midwestern gas to the Northeast. He questioned a Ford advisor list placing Iowa among hardest hit states and urged wiser heads to protect pipeline integrity while noting only interruptible customers may face curtailment.
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UPI
Robert D. Ray
Presidential Economic and Energy Advisors
Towa
Maurice van Nostrand
Iowa Commerce Commission
Hawkeye
van Nostrand
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Midwest
White House
William Greener
Ford
Iowa
Maryland
Missouri
New Jersey
New York
North
South Carolina
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Virginia
Greener
Carolinas
van Nostrad
Northern Natural Gas
Natural Gas Pipeline of America
Michigan
Wisconsin
Middle West
Two Die in Fiery Riverside Highway Crash
Two people were killed and a third passenger in serious condition after a fiery crash on highway 22 near Riverside early today. The Riverside marshal Frank Commings drove one of the vehicles. both cars were destroyed. Names withheld while families are notified.
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Ine Evening Journal
Highway 22
Riverside
Frank Commings
Commings
Washington County Hospital
Southeast scattered thundershowers and warm spell today
Weather bulletin notes scattered thundershowers in the southeast today with clearing to partly cloudy conditions through Sunday. Temperatures remain warm with highs in the upper 80s to 90s today and mid 60s to low 70s overnight. Sunday highs expected in the mid 80s to mid 90s.
Last Apollo astronauts return home from Hawaii voyage
The last three Apollo crew members Thomas Stafford Vance Brand and Donald Slayton arrived in Washington after recovering from nitrogen tetroxide exposure during their July splashdown They held a news conference met President Ford and will dine with Soviet officials and space leaders The astronauts who endured two weeks of recuperation in Hawaii were hospitalized for lung irritation and later flown home by commercial jetliner marking a historic mainland return
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UPI
Apollo
Thomas Stafford
Vance Brand
Donald “‘Deke
Slayton
White House
Ford
Space Agency
Hawaii
Stafford
Honolulu
Tripler Army Hospital
Hawaiian
Houston
Johnson Space Center
U.S
NASA
Colorado
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