Prisoner swallows 5 inch blade survives voyage through body
Glenwood Iowa doctors marvel at 24 year old jail prisoner Levendowsky who swallowed a five inch blade fashioned from an arch support. X rays show the blade passing from stomach through 28 feet of small intestine to the large bowel with four danger points ahead. Surgeons debate removal by proctoscope as he remains under guard at Mercy Hospital Council Bluffs.
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Glenwood
Iowa
UPI
Rafael A. Roure
Mills County
Jack Levendowsky
Council Bluffs
Mercy Hospital
Merle Brown
Levendowsky
Brown
Pottawattamie County
Roure
K.A. Bhasingh
Creighton University Medical School
Omaha
Nixon's finances described as acutely strained
Los Angeles API Nixon financial problems described as acute with potential legal bills possibly reaching half a million dollars. Dean Butler, Nixon adviser, says estate payments and back taxes worsen the picture, while subpoenas in Watergate and a Charlotte civil suit loom. Memoirs negotiation cited but denied.
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Los Angeles
API
Richard Nixon
Nixon
Dean Butler
Los Angeles Times
Butler
San Clemente
Calif
Key Biscayne
Fla
California
Charlotte, N.C
Washington High School band launches magazine subscription drive
The Washington High School band begins a fundraising effort to raise up to $6,000 for a tour this year. Over 80 students will seek subscriptions through September 16 with 40 percent of proceeds staying local. Carl Berst of QSP oversees the program with band director Charles Shanks.
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Washington
Carl Berst
QSP
Reader's Digest
Charles Shanks
Kalona mayor pushes pool bond renewal with federal grant plan
Kalona residents may soon vote again on financing a junior Olympic size municipal pool after repeated rejections. Mayor Richard Adams advocates the plan arguing younger voters and families will aid passage while costs have risen from 65 000 to about 135 000 and a federal cost sharing grant via the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation could cover half.
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Kalona
Washington County
Richard Adams
Adams
Bureau of Outdoor Recreation
U.S
Ed Mezvinsky
Herman Thompson Co
Cedar Rapids
Kalona Jaycees
Washington
Johnson County
Ford urges students to join inflation fight at OSU
President Ford told Ohio State graduates that inflation is the nation's urgent domestic threat and urged a new partnership of labor and educators to raise productivity. He cited Chinese youth and productivity as a lesson and urged Americans to apply knowhow, capital, and technology to curb inflation.
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Columbus
Ohio
UPI
Ford
Communist Youth of
China
Ohio State University
America
Washington
White House
Camp David
St. John Arena
University of Michigan
Ohio State
Michigan
All America
Universities of
Labor and Health, Education and Welfare
House
United States Marine Corps Band
United States
Washington merchants gauge Labor Day closings
Merchants react variably to Labor Day with many stores closed while others keep normal hours. Government offices will shutter, schools suspend classes at public and parochial institutions, and the post office operates only holiday service with no regular deliveries. The Evening Journal will publish at noon Monday.
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Washington
St. James Parochial School
Evening Journal
Lounsberry calls past 16 months Iowa farming emergency period most bizarre
Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Robert Lounsberry describes the last 16 months as the most bizarre period for crop and livestock emergencies since April 9 1973. He notes USDA and Presidential disaster declarations covering 49 counties and 4 380 farmers receiving 7 7 million dollars in emergency loans.
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DES Moines
IDPA
Iowa
Robert Lounsberry
Lowa
Lounsberry
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture
Farmers Home Administration
Congress
U.S. Agriculture
Earl Butz
Robert Ray
Cass
Monona
Woodbury
Delaware
Hamilton
Adair
Montgomery
Page
Plymouth
Fremont
Mills
Lyon
Osceola
Dickinson
Clay
Ray
Crawford
Dallas
Warren
Marion
Mitchell
Adams
Union
Taylor and
Ringgold
Buzz
Secretary of Agriculture
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Missour
Pottawattamie
Scott Meredith
New York
Washington Municipal
Asst
Ray Miller Jr
Journal
Lounsberry Reviews
van Buren
Lucas
Muscatine
Aanoose
Davis
Monroe
Decatur
Clarke
Lee
Wayne
Harrison
Shelby
Guthrie
Audubon
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