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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1972
Page
8
A new Credit-Audit program will run at Mid-Prairie High School during 1972-73 after a faculty and administration study. The plan allows Cr and Au entries, outlines eligibility, timing, and evaluation rules, and preserves a traditional grade path. English changes add junior senior electives with 329 students in 22 sections enrolled.
Rosann Crayne of Washington receives the Iowa 1962 County Extension Home Economist Association scholarship honoring her as a top student. The $200 award applies to her freshman tuition, per Marilyn Thatcher, county extension home economist.
Kevin Koehn, the new program director, announces a full fall schedule at the Y. Events will begin later this month and continue into September, featuring swimming, flag football, folk groups, and guitar lessons among others.
Three incumbents on the Merged Area Ten board will run unopposed in the September 11 election. B A Jensen of Cedar Rapids James Sauter of North English and Max Lewis of Wellman seek re election. No other nominations were filed by August 22. Jensen represents District Nine Sauter District Four and Lewis District Six.
Three armed men seized a Colombian airliner carrying 27 others and forced it to fly to Camaguey Cuba. The TAC domestic airline Viscount prop jet landed in Cuba and the Swiss embassy in Havana was asked to arrange the return of the plane, its six crew members, and 21 passengers.
Fire trucks rushed to a Bronx fire to find dozens of illegally parked cars hindering access to hydrants. Two firefighters rescued Dr. Nicholas Belinovitch, 90, but he died at a hospital. The death echoes a battalion chief’s fatal blaze nearby a year earlier under similar rescue efforts.
Russell R. Byers 73 died Friday morning at Mercy Hospital Iowa City. Funeral services set for Sunday at 2 p.m. at United Methodist Church Keswick with Rev Roy K Hoover officiating. Burial in Sorden Cemetery east of Keswick. Visitation after noon today at Powell Funeral Home South English.
Democrats and interested voters will gather in Brighton Sunday at 6 p.m. at the home of the Leo Mullikins to continue their monthly fund raising dinners held in Washington County. Attending candidates include Harold Forret for state auditor Daryl Beall for secretary of state Ed Mezvinsky for U S Congress Keith Dunton for state representative Elmer Schneider for board of supervisors Tracy Anderson for county attorney John McDaniel for county sheriff Maxine Elliott for clerk of district court Roberta Schoonover for county auditor. The gatherings since March let voters raise issues and show early support for the party’s candidates.
China uses its veto to block Bangladesh joining the United Nations Security Council despite support from Britain France the United States and the Soviet Union The decision stems from Bangladesh’s independence following the Indo Pakistan war and New Delhi’s backing of East Pakistan’s secession, with China criticizing the outcome as a universality violation.
About 170 Workers Union members from Millmen's Local 1495 of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Jointers walked off the job at a Chico match manufacturing plant to protest the firing of three employees for long hair after a federal mediator failed to resolve the dispute.
The Ainsworth Elementary Center reports 165 pupils enrolled with 26 in kindergarten. New staff include Mrs. Michael Brice as kindergarten teacher, Miss Rachel DeBeer as fifth grade, Mrs. Sue Martin as reading teacher, and Nancy Mercier as art instructor. Several community members and families are noted visiting, selling at a farm sale, and assisting local clubs.
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