Free Christmas show at State Theatre for children
The State Theatre will host a free Christmas show for children this Saturday starting at 2 p.m. The YMCA building will stay open tonight after the Demon game against Davis County with no organized activities planned. Cupid trails Washington County marriages as license totals rise toward year end. Washington County clerk Robert Porter reported 148 licenses issued as of Thursday, compared with 164 on the same date in 1968 and 175 in 1968 overall. Open highway 1 from Fairfield to Brighton is set to start Monday after construction since last summer. An emergency fleet of over 2,000 boxcars is being sent to the Midwest to move grain from a bumper harvest. Robbers held up Alex Bartkin at his West of Tavern tavern, stealing 3700 dollars for pay-check cashing.
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Washington County
Robert Porter
Washington
UPI
Midwest
Association of American Railroads
AAR
Cleveland
Alex Bartkin
Second District
Bartkin
Demos raise picture policy in Iowa ASCS offices
Iowa party officials question ASCS photo rules after county offices display Senator Miller pictures while Senator Hughes is not shown. Chairman Rasmussen cites May order to remove presidential and agriculture secretaries images. Autry says Miller image mailed to offices and tied to Agriculture Committee ranking, with no request for Hughes photos.
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UPI
Iowa
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service
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Leon Werner
van Horne
Jack Miller
Browa
Harold E. Hughes
Rasmussen
Dale H. Autry
U.S. Agriculture
Sen. Miller
Werner
Autry
Sen. Hughes
Senate Agriculture Committee
Intercepted Memo Flashes Political Framing Demand
An intercepted memo from Clark Rasmussen, state Democratic chairman, contains the line We want to be framed ending with a quoted plea. The document cites political framing as a strategic aim and notes attribution to Rasmussen and WEJ.
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Clark Rasmussen
Democratic Chairman
Nixon veto stalls HEW spending bill and school desegregation
President Nixon threatens to veto the HEW appropriations bill valued at 21.3 billion in the Senate and 17.5 billion in the House. Congress debates passing the multibillion package as conferees meet to resolve differences. A continuing resolution keeps agencies operating, while desegregation strings shift with constitutional compliance.
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UPI
Nixon
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Department of Health, Education and Welfare
HEW
Senate
House
Tax reform near completion as negotiators wrap up session
House and Senate negotiators pushed toward finalizing the major tax package with a 17 hour session and a noon return meeting planned. The bill would go to both houses for a likely Monday vote while Nixon threatened a veto on the health and welfare spending bill. Additional items included a $69.8 billion military appropriation, a foreign aid bill of about $2 billion, and police staffing for White House and embassies. The Philadelphia plan drew Senate opposition and the Ku Klux Klan is noted as founded in 1915.
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UPI
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Congress
White House
Philadelphia
Who Is Responsible Decides Question on State Cars
Iowa Attorney General Richard C. Turner ruled that the state car dispatcher has control over all state owned motor vehicles including those used by the highway commission and the board of regents. The opinion, based on the 1939 act, says the governor and the state car dispatcher hold authority for purchase, control, and records of all state vehicles, and withdraws a 1940 view allowing the regents to operate their own fleet.
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DES Moines
IDPA
Richard C. Turner
Highway Commission
Board of Regents
Regents
Frank E. Johnson
Turner
Living costs rise again in November
Washington reports the consumer price index rose 0.5 percent in November led by food clothing and home ownership. The index reached 130.5 on the 1957 59 base, up 5.8 percent from a year earlier. Food prices jumped with lettuce up 33.5 percent tomatoes 23.3 percent and beans 33.6 percent eggs up 6.8 percent.
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Washington
UPI
Labor Department
Adequate Protection Maintained Amid Police Changes
City officials assure Washington will maintain adequate police protection during personnel changes. Mayor Ralph Martin reports ongoing recruitment to replace resignations and dismissals, with interviews underway. John Green was dismissed from city service. Police Chief Glenn Murphy resigned earlier and heads deputy sheriff role, while another officer Mike Lee also left for local work. A new hire from Parsons College will join early next year to fill a police or fire vacancy. two posts remain open: police chief and one patrolman.
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Washington
Ralph Martin
Martin
John Green
Glenn Murphy
Murphy
Washington County
Parsons College
US May Ease Trade Embargo With China
The Nixon administration nears a decision to partially lift the 19 year U S embargo on mainland China allowing foreign subsidiaries of U S companies to trade with Peking in nonstrategic items such as trucks and razor blades, Treasury controlled.
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UPI
United States
U.S
China
Nixon
Peking
State Department
Treasury Department
Former legislator Voigtmann dies in Marengo Iowa
Marengo Iowa former Republican state representative Fred Voigtmann died in a Marengo hospital at age 80 after months of illness. He was a native of St James Minnesota and served in the Iowa House of Representatives.
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UPI
Fred Voigtmann
Marengo
Iowa
House of Representatives
Marengo Hospital
Voigtmann
St. James, Minn
ISU Bond Issue Questioned by Iowa Utility Commission
The Iowa Commerce Commission may review Iowa Southern Utilities involvement in defeating a municipal bond issue aimed at purchasing Wepello Light & Gas Co. A spokesman said a review would yield a recommendation to the commission. Southern said it spent only a few hundred dollars, funded by operating revenues, to defeat the bond issue. House Minority Leader William Gannon urged an inquiry into whether customers were compelled to back the utility’s political activity.
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Des Moines
UPID
Iowa Commerce Commission Today
Iowa Southern Utilities Company
Public Utilities Division
Tom Bolton
Wepello Light & Gas Co
Southern
House
William Gannon
Mingo
The
Commerce Commission
Public notices today include new Co Roaster Co. Inc. filing
Notice announces incorporation of Co Roaster Co. Inc. and probate actions including wills, appointments of executors for estates of John Melvin Knott and Glen W. Fuhr. Notices list court authority and upcoming deadlines for filings.
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Co Roaster Co., Inc
John Melvin Knott
Glen W. Fuhr
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Mike) Lee
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