Explosion Obliterates Iowa Hardware Store and Cafe
A gas blast in Eagle Grove Iowa leveled Coast to Coast Hardware, Chatterbox Cafe, and damaged Locke Jewelry store. At least five bodies recovered with fears of a dozen or more buried under bricks and rubble. National Guard aided, Memorial Hall morgue set up as search continues amid cold and lingering smoke.
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Eagle Grove
Iowa
UPI
State Bureau of Criminal Investigation
Viola Helgevold
Kenneth Srauman
Chatterbox
Locke Jewelry
Woodrow Roux
Brauman
Lucille Anderson
The
Cliff Alsted
Emma Johnston
Kenneth Mickelson
Lynn Boyington
Maine Yanney
Donald Blue
Iown
Robert D. Blue
Memorial Hall
National Guard
Robert D. Ray
Mark Henderson
Earl Lawson
Lawson
Debate over removing Columbus billboard stalls ownership dispute
Columbus Junction residents debate dismantling a worn religious billboard on Main Street facing highway 70. Civic groups search for ownership amid questions about land and sign stewardship, while ministers weigh relinquishing the display and plans to repurpose the area for a library and meeting space.
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Columbus Junction
Highway 70
Columnus Junction
Main Street
Charles
Connie) Plank
Columbus City
The
Columbus Business Women
Plank
Columbus Ministerial Association
Ministerial Association
State Fair tensions flare in Iowa Senate fight
DES MOINES Iowa lawmakers split Friday over Iowa State Fair operations. Senator Blouin sought an AG probe into Fair Secretary Kenneth Falk and board finances while Senator Brouin and Senator Palmer pushed to place fair oversight under the legislature. Blouin defended his charges, saying the board is not sacred and deserves public scrutiny.
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Des Moines
Iowa State Senate
Fair
Kenneth Falk
Michael Brouin
Dubuque
William Palmer
Fair Board
Blouin
Richard Turner
Falk
Palmer
Senate
Wendell Pellett
R-Atlant
Pellett
Turner
The
Grant continuation in election dispute in Riverside race
Judge L J Carson continues a motion by the county board to dismiss Elmer Schneider’s petition seeking a district court ruling him the winner in the Riverside supervisor race. A further hearing is set for next Friday. Schneider added specifics to his brief, but additions were not filed.
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L. J. Carson Rinally
County Board of Supervisors
Elmer Schneider
Riverside
District Court
Schneider
John Patterson
Willis Richards
Patterson
Overcaffeinated family chaos spoils a reporter’s snooze
Martin Albert Francis Chebuhar nicknamed Ace Reporter recalls a chaotic Friday morning at 304 East Van Buren as oversleeping triggers reminders of domestic frictions. Barb, Joey, and Barb’s YMCA class rush into a hectic scramble before the newsroom. Oversleeping sours life’s sour grapes.
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Marty Cheounan
Martin Albert Francis Chebuhar
Ace
Joey
Barb
East van Buren St
Johnny Carson
Joe
Gasoline Fire at Miami Beach Cafeteria injures many
A 5 foot 4 inch, 110 pound man in a yellow suit dumped gasoline in the Concord Cafeteria on Collins Avenue and set it alight. About 90 to 91 people, mostly elderly winter tourists, were injured and hospitalized as flames gutted the dining room. Police pursued a suspect while others searched for a second man amid the chaos and smoke.
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Miami Beach
UPI
Rocky Pomerance
Concord
Collins Avenue
Chuck Hall
Alvin Ridgway
Miami Area
Ridgway
Anne Norochnik
Greystone
David Giordini
Petition Drives Vote on Rebuilding Ainsworth Elementary
Highland patrons gathered enough signatures to require a vote on rebuilding Ainsworth Elementary School after the Jan 7 fire. The plan would use about 150000 of insurance money plus 10000 from the schoolhouse fund, no bond issue needed, simple majority.
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Ainsworth
Highland School
Board of Education
Highland
Riverside
ICCS Seeks Compromise on Cease-Fire Movements in Saigon
The International Commission for Control and Supervision resolved a dispute over observer movements in South Vietnam. Canada and Indonesia agreed to delay sending teams until Monday after a Sunday ICCS–JMC meeting. Hungarian and Polish delegates conceded a Monday schedule, while U.S. Maj Gen Gilbert Woodward urged renewed armistice enforcement. Viet Cong and Vietnamese officers were asked to halt fighting as talks continued. Maj Gen Tran Van Tra arrived in Saigon 72 hours late for the scheduled talks.
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Saigon
Iternational Commission For Control and Supervision
ICCS
South Vietnam
Indonesia
Canada
Full
Joint Military Commission
JMC
United States
North Vietnam
Gilbert Woodward
Woodward
Tran van Tra
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Debate Future of Columbus
Billboard
Highway Commission
Methodist Men
Denley Ganfield
United Presbyterian Church
Ganfield
Lyle
Nell) Weber
CBW
Grant
YMCA
Grandma's
Grandma’s
Journal Newsroom
Mt. Sinai Hospital
Gertrude Plimack
Brooklyn
N.Y
Mary Cohen
London
Mrs. Cohen
Highland Board
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