Fire and bond votes mark brief city news
Washington firefighters responded to a blaze at the Ward Heaton home on East Washington Street caused by an overheated blower motor. In Columbus Junction, voters approved a $100000 bond issue for a high school addition by a 235 to 118 margin. Three men were arrested in Rome, Georgia, with a 400 pound bull in a car. In Stockholm nine Santas were jailed for disturbing the peace after a party. Des Moines judges rejected more challenges to Iowa's 3 percent services tax on construction and laundries. Milwaukee man Charles P. Brown Jr seeks a name change to avoid confusion with Charlie Brown. Hersham England a white elephant sale featured a cameo set, duplicated as a joke. In Golden Cole triplets Denise Diane and Debby Lieberman celebrate Friday the 13th birthdays. Bryan Texas a youth Santa Claus toy drive suffers missing toys from a warehouse theft.
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Washington
Ward Heaton
East Washington Street
Heat failure hits Fairfield Iowa after gas line outage
Fairfield Iowa loses heat as a Michigan Wisconsin pipeline fault disrupts gas supply. About 3200 meters must be shut individually before restoration. 50 linesmen from Muscatine Marengo and Marshalltown aid repairs. Schools and hospital switch to standby oil heat. daily Fairfield Ledger cannot publish. oil-heated nursing homes issue concerns.
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Fairfield
Iowa
Upi
Michigan - Wisconsin Pipeline Co
Iowa Electric Light & Power Co
Iowa Electric
Muscatine
Marengo
Marshalltown
Robert Ferguson
Ferguson
Leroy Harris
Michigan - Wisconsin
Birmingham
Harris
Parsons College
Fairfield Daily Ledger
Jefferson County
Jetliner crash off Caracas leaves 51 dead
Searchers found only bodies and two empty liferafts in the shark infested Caribbean Sea after a Pan American jet from New York exploded and crashed 16 miles off the Venezuelan coast near Maiquetia International Airport. No survivors reported. rescue teams continued the wider search.
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Caracas
UPI
Caribbean Sea
New York
Pan American World Airways
Venezuelan
Maiquetia
la Guaira
Pan American
Antonetti
Luis Beltran Gonzalez
de Toscano
Fairlawn, N.J
Venezuela
Iowa Board punishes 26 public districts on probation
DES MOINES Iowa State Board of Public Instruction placed 26 public school districts on one year probation for lacking guidance counseling qualified librarians or required course offerings with possible loss of state aid if standards are not met. The board also probationed 18 private and parochial schools amid the drive to raise minimum requirements.
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Des Moines
UPI
State Board of Public Instruction
Iowa
Blizzard Sweeps Five Plains States With Bitter Cold
A UPI report describes a rapid moving blizzard and severe warnings across Iowa Nebraska the Dakotas Minnesota and surrounding areas. Winds 40 to 60 mph driven snow reduced visibility while five inches fell in Sioux Falls and six to eight inches in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Cold subzero temperatures were reported from the western Dakotas to Montana with Cut Bank Montana at 11 below.
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Plains
Weather Bureau
Iowa
Nebraska
Dakotas
Minnesota
Sioux Falls
S.C
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Montana
Cut Bank
Mont
Rockies
Judge defied fate in Catalina Island life tale
Ernest Windle, magistrate of Catalina Island, survived a 1907 wreck injury and a 90 year life, editing Windle's History of Catalina and policing with panache. He assigned a $5 fine to Errol Flynn over a dog leash incident, later becoming a local scholar and newspaperman. Funeral services planned in Avalon.
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Avalon
Calif
UPI
Ernest Windle
Catalina Island
Catalina
Windle
Justice Court
California
Errol Flynn
Catalina Pier
Flynn
Severe blizzard conditions in northern Iowa with lighter south
Weather bulletin reports a severe blizzard in the far north with occasional blizzard conditions or near blizzard south. Snow and blowing snow more pronounced north. Partly cloudy tonight. Snow or blowing snow east. Winds diminishing slowly. Colder with lows zero to 5 above northwest and 5 to 10 above southeast. Saturday mostly fair and not as cold. Outlook Sunday partly cloudy and warmer.
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Iowa
Regents oppose Western Iowa four year college plan
On a 7 to 2 vote the Iowa Board of Regents rejected establishing a four year state college in western Iowa now, hoping to inform next month’s legislature. Chair Stanley Redeker and Joseph Rosenfield opposed, urging a full review and noting the move props up legislative aims. The 1967 law and $500,000 in funds spurred site work near Atlantic, with summary prep of consulting firms’ preliminary studies planned.
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DES Moines
UPI
Iowa Board of Regents
Iowa
Rosenfield
Atlantic
700 Deaths Reported In Flu Epidemic Threat
UPI reports about 700 deaths from flu and pneumonia across 122 cities mark the nation on the threshold of a Hong Kong flu epidemic. At least 33 states report illness. peak expected mid January. Colorado shows border to border outbreak. high attack rates in schools and institutions.
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Atlanta
UPI
United States
National Communicable Disease Center
NCDC
Hong Kong
Colorado
West North Central
East North Central
Middle Atlantic
John R. Bagby
Chicago
Ursuline College
Ohio
General Motors
Cleveland
Ford Motor Co
Los Angeles
Three Saigon towns shelled as U S B52s raid area
UPI reports Communist shelling hit Sa Dec Loc Ninh and Khanh Hung near Saigon with at least 10 killed and 24 wounded. B52s dropped 3.5 million pounds on guerrilla positions while government troops and police stayed alert for a red attack. Ground actions killed 12 guerrillas. an American helicopter was shot down but crew escaped.
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Saigon
UPI
U.S
Sa Dec
Loc Ninh
Khanh Hung
United States
North Vietnam
South Vietnam
Intercepted Memo from Fairfield Iowa Weather Note
An intercepted memo from Fairfield Iowa notes a remark about the season’s coldest day of winter. The author signs as WEJ and ends with a casual closing.
Kalona woman dies in one car accident near Iowa City
Esther Borntrager 46 of Kalona died on arrival at University Hospitals Iowa City after a one car crash on Highway 1 five miles south. She was widow of A D Borntrager who was killed in 1953. Survived by six children, four daughters and two sons, and several siblings. Funeral planned Sunday at Kalona Methodist Church with burial at Fairview Cemetery.
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Kalona
Esther Borntrager
University Hospitals
Iowa City
Highway 1
Borntrager
A. D. Borntrager
Central City
Iowa
Kalona Methodist Church
James Bross
Fairview Cemetery
Peterseim
Henry
Mary
Ann Stutzman Kauffman
Veterans Hospital
Lester Miller
Wellman
George N. Gingerich
Levi
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Charlie Brown
Brown
Alim Abd Al-Karim
Hersham
England
Brian Bennett
Libby
Bennett
Golden
Cole
Denise
Diane
Debby Lieberman
Bryan, Tex
Santa Claus
Chamber of Commerce
Prexy
San Francisco State College
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Dr. Hayakawa
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UPI Telephoto
United Press International
O’hare International
Louisiana
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Tennessee
East Texas
Central Plains
Moynihan
Council On Urban Affairs
Richard Nixon
Daniel P. MoynIhan
Joint
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