New Year Holiday Schedule For City Services And Trees
City garbage trucks run New Year’s Day with 5 a.m. pickup. landfill open till noon. Washington stores swap Friday hours to replace Thursday night, post offices closed, Evening Journal at noon. Jaycees offer Christmas tree disposal January 6 at 6:30 p.m. in Washington. Waterloo fund drive surpasses $29,000 target for Roberta Albert’s kidney transplant. Davenport adds $5,000 to Waterloo total for University of Minnesota Hospital operation.
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UPI
Waterloo
Waterloo Courier
Davenport
Roberta Albert
University of Minnesota
University Hospitals
Iowa City
Power outage prompts emergency generator at English cottage
In ST AGNES England Mrs Zeke Wooton called the local electricity board as a blackout hit her home. The board installed a gasoline powered generator to run a tropical aquarium keeping fish alive until power returned ten hours later.
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ST. Agnes
England
UPI
Zeke Wooton
Local Electricity Board
Heather Tropical Aquarium
Two-Man Submarine Sinks During Demonstration
In San Francisco Chris Brose demonstrated a new two man submarine that sank. Brose escaped unharmed and the craft was later refloated.
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UPS
Chris Brose
Brose
Schwengel to visit Washington County in January
Congressman Fred Schwengel plans two early January visits in Iowa's first district with a Coffee with Fred and Ethel on January 13 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Helscher home and a January 7 in person office hour from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Morrison Morrison and Lloyd on West Washington Street. He invites residents to discuss issues and learn his positions.
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Washington County
Iowa
Fred
Ethel
J. W. Helscher
Schwengel
Washington
Law Firm
Morrison, Morrison and Lloyd
West
Washington Street
Weather Preview for Iowa Tonight and Thursday
United Press International reports a cloudy night with lows from 5 to 15 degrees. Thursday will be partly cloudy and warmer with highs from 25 to 32 degrees.
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United Press International
Iowa
Floods threaten in the East amid treacherous year end weather
Heavy rain and melting snow threaten East Tennessee Virginia and West Virginia with floods while West Virginia National Guard units evacuate families. Two Tennessee deaths blamed on heavy rains. A snow storm and ice driven travel chaos spread from the Southern Plains to the Northeast with multiple winter weather alerts and a fatal cold snap across the Plains.
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Southern Plains
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Plains
West Virginia National Guard
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Virginia
West Virginia
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Salem
Ill
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St. Louis
Agnew wraps Manila visit amid Asia tour
Vice President Spiro Agnew neared the end of his Philippine stay on a 23 day Asian goodwill tour. Talks with President Ferdinand Marcos were cordial with no agenda or decisions and Washington pledged to uphold its commitments to Asian nations. The day included a helicopter tour of Bataan and Corregidor and a moon rock presentation to Marcos.
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UPI
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Philippines
Viet Nam
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United States
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Corregidor
Marcos
Rice
U.S
Pacific War Memorial
Mt. Samat
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Eugene A. Cernan
Perot and 25 Tons of Gifts Foiled by Moscow Deadline
Dallas magnate Ross Perot announced failure to load 25 tons of Christmas gifts for 1,400 American prisoners in North Vietnam into a Boeing 707 and reach Moscow before Hanoi deadline. He appealed to Hanoi officials and spoke with Kosygin and Brezhnev. Perot vowed not to abandon the humanitarian mission despite setback and Moscow's rejection.
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UPI
Texas
Ross Perot
North Vietnam
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Dallas
Hanoi
Perot
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Communist Party
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Earth
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Laos
U.S
North
Vietnam
Mondale denounces Medicare premium rise as unfair
Senator Walter Mondale criticizes the Nixon administration for increasing the Medicare doctor insurance premium by 33 percent to 5.30 dollars a month, arguing it harms seniors during inflation. He considers actions to lower the premium next year while noting existing hospital coverage and the $4 monthly doctor insurance.
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Washington
UPI
Walter F. Mondale
D-Minn
Nixon
Mondale
Robert H. Finch
Health, Education and Welfare
Medicare
Finch
Groenemann Accepts New Pastorate at Collinsville Illinois
At a Sunday meeting on December 28 St Paul congregation accepted the resignation of pastor David Groenemann after nearly three years in Washington He will assume a new post at St John Evangelical United Church of Christ Collinsville Illinois The Groenemanns plan to move in March or April A pulpit committee and the Iowa Conference of the United Church of Christ are seeking a new minister.
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St. Paul
David Groenemann
Washington
St. John Evangelical United Church of Christ
Collinsville
Illinois
Groenemanns
Iowa
Intercepted Memo Sends Hopes for 1970 Reality
A mysterious intercepted memo circulating to journal readers speaks of hopes becoming reality in 1970. It closes with a personal sign off from WEJ, evoking optimism and a shared journalistic outlook.
Probate of wills and executors named in two estates
Public notices announce probate of the wills and the appointment of executors for the estates of Charity Mae Sturrgeon and Vernon E. Dawson. The notices specify filing guardianship issues and deadlines for interested parties to contest or respond to the filings.
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Estates of Charity
Mae Sturrgeon
Vernon E. Dawson
Hardin calls for national rural growth policies
Agriculture Secretary Clifford M. Hardin urges urgent national policy to promote unprecedented growth in nonmetropolitan areas. He cites progress on feeding the poor, farm income gains, and civil rights, while criticizing the Rural Affairs Council. He notes food stamp boosts and aims to zero counties with no food programs by June.
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Washington
UPI
Clifford M. Hardin
Hardin
Nixon
Cabinet Rural Affairs Council
America
Marcos to give away all worldly possessions
President Ferdinand E. Marcos announced he will donate all his worldly possessions to the Filipino people to set an example of self sacrifice. Spokesmen declined to state his wealth, while opponents claim he is worth about 125 million dollars, making him one of Asia's wealthiest men. He said he has transferred his material possessions to a foundation to be called the Ferdinand E. Marcos Foundation.
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Manila
UPI
Ferdinand E. Marcos
Marcos
Asia
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