Groundhog Phil Predicts Mild Winter After Shadow Fail
Punxsutawney Phil made his annual appearance at Gobbler Knob in Punxsutawney Pennsylvania. UPI reports the shadow was weak due to Daylight Saving Time, with Sam Light stating six weeks of mild winter weather. The tradition began about 90 years ago in this Allegheny foothill town where leaders in top hats gathered to watch Phil emerge from his burrow. Other towns Quarryville Pennsylvania and Sun Prairie Wisconsin also claim notable groundhogs.
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Gobbler
Punxsutawney, Pa
UPI
Phil
Sam Light
Punxsutawney Ground Club
Allegheny Mountains
Gobbler’ Knob
Punxsutawney
Quarryville
Sun Prairie
Wis
Flu at Highland School Reduces Absences This Week
The flu virus caused high absenteeism at Highland Junior-Senior High School. Of 360 students, 90 were out Wednesday, about 70 Thursday, and 50 Friday. Illness lasted from 2 to 7 days, and seems to be subsiding.
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Highland
Highland picks Once Upon a Mattress for school musical
Highland Community High School vocal music department selects the Broadway satire Once Upon a Mattress as this year’s musical. Performances run March 21 through 23 and promise the inside story of the princess who could not sleep atop twenty mattresses with one pea beneath.
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Highland Community High School Vocal Music Department
YMCA members push toward $26,230 goal in drive
Volunteers in the 1974 Washington YMCA membership drive report progress at midway to the target of 26,230 dollars. A Friday meeting showed 12,121.50 raised. The victory dinner is set for next Tuesday at 6 20 p m in the Y with Y Men’s Club members invited to share the meal. workers urged to finish calling before then.
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Washington Ymca
Iowa Senate upbeat on early session progress
Des Moines reports Lt. Gov. Neu and Senate leaders praise initial weeks of the 1973 session while noting the House lags. Major early gains include a 55 mph speed limit, licensing of professional boards, and lifting the 3 percent sales tax on food and prescription drugs.
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Des Moines
UPI
Senate
House
Arthur Neu
Nell
Nixon proposes $304.4 billion budget to fight unemployment
President Nixon unveils a record 1975 budget of 304.4 billion dollars. He aims to sustain high employment despite inflation, even if it busts the budget, with social payments taking about a third and defense at 87.7 billion. No funding for national health insurance or welfare reform.
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Washington
UPI
Nixon
White House
Congress
Frederic V. Malek
One Stop Service Plan Aims Consolidation Of USDA Offices
The USDA plans merging 15000 field offices into regional One Stop Service Centers. ASCS SCS FHA and crop insurance offices would share facilities and staff. County director Day notes limited impact locally but foresees potential regional shifts and privacy concerns. Regional offices may replace county ones, risking local control and harmony among Civil Service staff.
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U.S. Department of Agriculture
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service
ASCS
Soil Conservation Service
SCS
Farmers Home Administration
FHA
Bill Day
Washington County
USDA
Iowa
Dale Awtry
Towa
Day
West Jefferson Street
Highway 92
Iowa City
Perdock Named Washington County Iowa 2000 Chairman
William Perdock of Washington was appointed chairman of the Washington County Committee on the Future of Iowa to the Year 2000. The Iowa 2000 program aims to set statewide goals through grassroots effort focusing on energy natural resources economic development and life enhancement with staff support from Jim Frier.
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William Perdock
Washington
Washington County
Iowa
Douglas Grant
Cedar Rapids
Nan Waterman
Muscatine
Keith Horn
Riverside
John Davis
Ainsworth
Charles Hotle
Don Kirchner
Robert Day
Jim Frier
Iowa City
Mansfield Calls Congress to Clean Up Campaign Financing
Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield frames campaign finance reform as a solemn obligation for Congress amid Watergate. He foresees a House impeachment vote on Nixon possible within months, with a Senate trial only if impeached, and urges Nixon to back open, financed elections while Congress shifts to tax reform health care and other 1974 agendas.
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Washington
UPI
Congress
Senate
Mike Mansfield
House
Nixon
Mansfield
Senators and Cedar Rapids trip for elderly program
Washington residents may ride bus to a Cedar Rapids elderly program at Kirkwood Community College on Saturday February 9 at 1 30 pm featuring Senator Dick Clark. A noon bus from United Presbyterian Home and YMCA returns by 630 pm. Round trip costs 2 reservations via YMCA Senior Center.
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Washington
Cedar Rapids
Dick Clark
Kirkwood Community College
United Presbyterian Home
YMCA
Ymca Senior Center
Polk County farmer shot in shootout leaves suspect dead
Polk County farmer Robert Casteel was hospitalized in satisfactory condition after a Thursday night shootout on his 160 acre Alleman area farm. Charles Dennis John, 40, of Ames, was found dead along U S 69 near Casteel's home. Deputies said both men fired .22 pistols without words, and John may have had accomplices.
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Des Moines
UPI
Polk County
Robert Casteel
Alleman
Charles Dennis John
Ames
John
U. S. 69
Casteel
First woman traffic czar directs downtown Chicago crowd
In Chicago on a frigid Friday Mrs Lillian Woods led traffic at State and Madison as the city’s first woman traffic chief. She said the role marks a forward step for women in police work while partner Richard Charnow urged her to not fear the cars amid busy downtown flows.
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Chicago
UPI
Lillian Woods
Che
Richard Charnow
Charnow
House backs 55 mph speed limit in Iowa dispute
Des Moines reports the Iowa House approved a bill to lower the speed limit to 55 miles per hour 83 to 10 after a two week delay. Republicans and Democrats sparred over federal pressure and highway fund withholding while Gov. Ray urged quick action amid fuel concerns.
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House
Lamborn
Sen
George Kinley
D -Des Moines
Senate
Kinley
Nell
Robert D. Ray
Des Moines
UPI
Clifton Lamborn
Maquoketa
Chamber
Carl Neilsen
Altoona
Washington
Arthur Small
Iowa City
Dale Cochran
Eagle Grove
Sound of Music cast announced by Y leaders at the Y
Miriam Jones of Fairfield and Dick Myren of Washington will sing the lead roles of Maria and Captain von Trapp in the Y's spring musical. The nun roles go to Katherine Stewart and Millie Keating among others. rehearsals start March 11 with shows April 15 to 20.
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Maria Rainer
Captain von Trapp
Miriam Jones
Fairfield
Dick Myren
Washington
Leon Hillman
Calvin Wolf
Sara Lu Morrison
Miss Jones
Joe Jones
Myron
McCleery-Cumming Co
Brigitta
Lisa Lloyd
Marta
Jennifer Keating
Gretl
Carolyn Hanson
Frau Schmidt
Kathy Fisher
Rolf
Bill Whittenberg
Elsa
Elizabeth Widmer
Ursula
Rhea Logan
Max
Herr Zeller
Earl Rea
Franz
Dave Elder
Baron Elberfeldt
Stan Soucek
Baroness Elberfeldt
Jan Gallagher
Sondra Dunn
Admiral von Schreiber
Don Albert
Liesl
Cindy Eden
Louisa
Patty Gorham
Sue Bash
Christie Wiley
Kurt
Friederich
David Hillman
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Department of Transportation
Neu
Washington 7
Evening Journal
Civil Service
Perdock
Iowa 2000 Group
John Butler
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