Washington Community School opens with slight enrollment rise
Enrollment across Washington schools totals 2,185 on opening day with 2,158 reported at the high school. Breakdown shows 513 in junior high, 455 at Stewart, 493 at Lincoln, and 178 at Brighton. The high school assembly featured introductions and a speech by Tom Essex. Pilgrim Monument cornerstone laid in 1907 by Theodore Roosevelt. dedication by William Howard Taft occurred August 5, 1910.
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Kelly Schlapkohl
Stewart Elementary School
Lincoln Elementary
Brighton Elementary
Tom Essex
Washington Merchant
Provincetown, Mass
UPI
Theodore Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
Iowa State Fair closes with record attendance in 1967
Sunday final day crowds at the Iowa State Fair set a new paid attendance record, topping 600,000 for the first time and bringing 10-day totals to 601,786. Drake University student Bill Lauritzen won a 1967 automobile in the Talent Search, with runnerup Dick Oatts receiving $800 for his saxophone performance.
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Des Moines
UPI
Drake University
Bill Lauritzen
Sherry
Dick Oatts
Jefferson
Skydivers in fatal jumps over Lake Erie tragedy
Fifteen skydivers jumped from a converted B25 at 20 000 feet through dense clouds and landed off target in Lake Erie. Two bodies were recovered. four survived, with eleven missing and feared dead. Officials said the jump violated FAA rules while Coast Guard units and boats scoured 185 square miles of lake.
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Huron, Ohio
UPI
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United States Parachute Assn
USPA
Federal Aviation Agency
IAA
Ray Starnes
Pilot Chute Magazine
FAA
Oberlin
Greene urges stronger air campaign over North Vietnam in Senate
Marine Corps Commandant General Wallace M. Greene told the Senate preparedness subcommittee that the Communists have opened a second front along the DMZ in Vietnam and called for a tougher air war to choke North Vietnamese support. Army Chief Gen. Harold K. Johnson said aerial strikes have aided Allied gains in South Vietnam. Greene praised Johnson's decision to deploy 45 000 more troops.
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UPI
Wallace M. Greene
Demilitarized Zone
Dmz
Vietnam
North Vietnam
Greene
Marine Corps
Senate Preparedness Subcommittee
Hanoi
Portons
Green
Harold K. Johnson
Army
South Vietnam
Ile
Johnson
Humprey’s brother dies in Minneapolis
Ralph Humphrey 62 brother of Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey died Sunday with the vice president at his bedside. He ran the Huron South Dakota drug store where the future VP studied pharmacy. Hospitalized in St Barnabas for terminal cancer, funeral date not set. Surviving are his widow Harriet and sisters Frances Howard and Fern Baynes.
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Minneapolis
Ralph Humphrey
Harriet
Frances Howard
Arlington, Va
Fern Baynes
Marines Face Major Viet Cong Attacks Across South Vietnam
Vietnamese battles erupt as Viet Cong rockets strike the Leatherneck base at Dong Ha and Marble Mountain, killing several Marines and injuring dozens. U S bombers and fighters counter, artillery positions are destroyed, civilians suffer hundreds of casualties, and a terror campaign targets elections nationwide.
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Saigon
UPS
U.S
South Vietnam
Marble Mountain
Urge Spending Out Causes Calls For Tax Cuts
Washington reports Sen. William Proxmire and House Republican leader Gerald R. Ford urged cutting federal expenditures to avoid a tax increase. Ford warned a rise would hurt the economy, while Proxmire noted any increase could be delayed until January. The Ways and Means Committee continued tax hearings as the National Grange backed a tax hike to prevent government borrowing and rising interest rates.
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UPI
William Proxmire
Joint
Congressional Economic Committee
House
Gerald R. Ford
Johnson
Proxmire
Senate
Ford
Issues and Answers
ABC
House Ways & Means Committee
National Grange
Grange
Street resurfacing in Washington business district to start
Mayor Cloid Willits urged motorists to move all vehicles from streets slated for resurfacing in the Washington business district. Crews will work Tuesday on Marion Avenue from the post office to Ross Garage and on one block of Washington and Main extending west from the square to the court house and Perdock garage building.
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Washington
Cloid Willits
Marion Avenue
Ross Garage
Washington and Main
Court House
Perdock
$2 Million Fund Aimed to Free Hoffa Revealed
Life magazine reports underworld and union leaders raised a $2 million fund to free Teamsters President James Hoffa from federal prison in Lewisburg Pennsylvania. An offer of $1 million was proposed to former government witness Edward Grady Partin to alter testimony used in Hoffa’s jury tampering trial.
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Chicago
UPI
Life Magazine
Underworld
Teamsters Union
James Hoffa
Lewisburg
Life
Edward Grady Partin
Hoffa
Sandy Smith
Carlos Marcello
Marcello
Cosa Nostra
New Orleans
Louisiana
Partin
Teamsters
Baton Rouge
Chattanooga
Tenn
Soviet vows to retain Vladivostok and Siberian border
Moscow warns Beijing as Tass announces a crash program in Vladivostok to double housing by 1980. The move signals Moscow's intent to hold the port forever, with Blagoveshensk slated as a Siberian model city to showcase development near the Chinese frontier.
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Moscow
UPI
Soviet Union
China
Siberian
Russia
Tass
Vladivostok
Vadivostok
Siberia
Blagoveschensk
Weather outlook Iowa partly cloudy and warm Tuesday
United Press International reports Iowa skies mostly cloudy tonight and Tuesday with warmer conditions. Low tonight near 60, high Tuesday near 90, cooler in the northwest on Tuesday, and Wednesday outlook calls for partly cloudy and cooler.
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United Press International
Iowa
Notice of hearing and letting bids on Riverside sewer system
Public notice announces a hearing and the letting of bids for the Riverside sewer system. Details include date, time, and location of the hearing, plus bidding instructions and requirements for contractors. The notice specifies where bid documents may be obtained and deadlines for submission.
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Riverside Seware
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