Two youths confess to high school break-in and others nearby
Washington city police report two youths confessed to breaking into the local high school and several nearby locations including Keota West Chester Trenton Olds and Oskaloosa. Police also investigated a separate break-in at Munn's Standard Service on West Madison Street where a glass door was broken and about $10 in change stolen.
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Washington City
Keota
West Chester
Trenton
Olds
Oskaloosa
Third Colorado policeman slain at drive-in grocery
Pueblo Colorado officers report that Patrolman Thomas M. Hanson 36 was shot dead during a holdup at a drive-in grocery after entering the store for milk. A second officer James Askay fired three shots through a glass window, killing the gunman Bernard Meehan 19. A second suspect fled. The killings follow two Colorado officers shot dead in Denver and La Junta last Thursday.
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Yueblo
Colo
UPI
Thomas M. Hanson
Colorado
James Askay
Bernard Meehan
Pueblo
Willoughby
Hanson
Thomas Ray Carpenter
Denver
Otero County
Larry Smith
la Junta
Nixon releases funds for rural water and sewer grants
The Nixon administration agreed to release 30 million of 150 million impounded rural water and sewer grants following congressional pressure. Up to 30 million will be spent, with 120 million remaining impounded. Grants go to communities with FHA applications on file when suspended.
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Washington
UPI
Nixon
Agriculture Department
Congress
Farmers Home Administration
FHA
Weather Town Zone 13 Forecast Sees Snow End Tonight
Partly cloudy and cold with light snow ending tonight. Lows near 5. Winds light and northwesterly. Sunday will be cold with a high around 15. The barometer reads 1028.
Free time a mistake in Iowa shoplifting case
Lovettie Patrick, 31, of Rowley, already facing a five year term for shoplifting, was granted a delay to report to the Iowa Women's Reformatory after telling the Waterloo court she needed time to handle personal matters and see her children. She was later arrested at Crossroads Shopping Center for allegedly shoplifting gloves.
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Waterloo
UPI
Lovettie Patrick
Rowley
Black Hawk County
Iowa Women’s Reformatory
Rockwell City
Peter van Metre
Reformatory
Iowa Top 10 News Stories of 1973 Ranked by Towa Editors
The year’s leading Iowa stories include the Eagle Grove blast that killed 13, major political shifts as Harold Hughes retires and Robert Ray weighs options, a severe winter fuel crisis, a Sioux Falls quadruple homicide linked to South Dakota suspects, end of U.S. involvement in Vietnam with a veterans bonus, a deadly KCRG tower collapse, a crippling April blizzard, Sunday beer liquor sales reform, and a lengthy legislative adjournment over funds plus crop of floods and other notable events such as 18-year-old rights, a dorm murder, and abortion law ruling.
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Des Moines
UPI
Towa
Eagle Grove
Harold E. Hughes
Robert D. Ray
Senate
Iowa
T Ion
Sioux Falls
S. D
South Dakota
Vietnam
KCRG
University of Iown
Sarah Ottens
U of I
James Hill
Supreme Court
Postal increases delayed to March after council order
The U S Postal Service will push back planned rate hikes to March 2 per a Cost of Living Council order reducing the increase by 15 percent. Postmaster General E T Klassen said the deferral lowers first-class rates to 10 cents and airmail to 13 cents, with broader category rises. The two month delay could cost the Postal Service about 236 million dollars in revenue.
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Washington
UPI
U.S. Postal Service
E. T. Klassen
Klassen
Council
Gas price gouging prompts federal action across states
Washington reports irate motorists claim gas stations charge 10 to 25 cents more per gallon with many posts not on pumps. Attorney General Bork orders U S attorneys to pursue retail price excesses as allocations tighten. Energy chief Simon notes mid January demand limits and 80 percent supply capacity. jet fuel up 10 percent, residual fuel and heating affected.
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Washington
UPI
Federal Energy Office
Robert Nip
Nipp
Robert H. Bork
U.S
Bork
Internal Revenue Service
William E. Simon
Venezuela doubles petroleum prices raise world oil costs
Venezuela announces a New Year price hike to 14.08 dollars per barrel with a follow up planned on Feb 1. Industry sources expect Western oil majors Exxon Shell and Mobil to pass the rise to U.S. consumers mainly in Atlantic states as gasoline and home heating costs rise.
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Venezuela
America
Sybia
Iraq
United States
House Foreign Affairs Committee
George M. Bennsky
State Department
Fuels and Energy
Caracas
UPI
Hugo Perez la Salvia
Exxon
Shell
Mobil
Atlantic States
Egyptians Down Israeli Recon Plane Over Suez Canal Front
Egyptian forces shot down an Israeli reconnaissance plane over the southern Suez Canal sector signaling intensifying clashes near the truce lines. Israel denied a loss of a Phantom and said the Israeli plane was engaged by Egyptian air defenses. Talks in Geneva continued with both sides reporting progress on disengagement principles and a potential troop pullback along the canal.
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Ry Unitea Rress
Suez Canal
Lake Timsah
Canal
Israel
Egypt
Cairo
al Ahram
Geneva
Tel Aviv
Moshe Dayan
Tahal el Magdoub
Mordechai Gur
Gasoline Dealers Fight Federal Plans in Iowa Protest
The Iowa Gasoline Dealers Association led by Ottumwa president Jack Everett denounces federal energy measures they say will shutter small dealers. They criticize William Simon's carbon priority plan placing stations low, promising 60 days of supply if government stays out. Everett calls for boosting production and warns standby rationing will curb demand without boosting supplies.
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Ottumwa
UFI
Iowa Gasoline Dealers Association
Jack Everett
Federal Energy
William Simon
Simon
Everett
Ths Association
Mr. Simon
Solzhenitsyn Publishes Gulag Expose on Soviet Terror
Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn releases The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956, a two part manuscript exposing the Soviet secret police, camps, and terror system. He accuses Stalin of planning anti Jewish repression and compares czarist and Soviet repression as far worse. The work, once samizdat, is now circulating in Europe and North America amid threats and KGB pressure.
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New York
UPI
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Soviet Union
Gulag Archipelago
Solzhenitsyn
Moscow
West
Europe
North America
The
New York Times
Harper & Row
Stalin
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Leningrad
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