Explosion hits Penick and Ford plant in Cedar Rapids
Investigators from state labor and hygienics labs probe a fire and two explosions that damaged the Grainmillers Union plant, with a $100,000 loss estimate. Across items, the brief notes political, security, and crime incidents from UPI dispatches: Carswell nomination opposed, ABM plan rejected, Arab grenade attack in Munich injures one, Radnor station repairs cause commuter delays, Bargfred jailed over advertised goods, bank drive‑in robbery in Kansas, and a Houston pistol grab at a surplus store netting $150.
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Cedar Rapids, Iowa
UPT
Penick and Ford
Elza Yates
Grainmillers Union Local 100
State Bureau of Labor
State Hygenics Laboratory
Cedar Rapids
Edsel McMickel
Iowa Supreme Court upholds remap delay for 1970 election
Iowa Supreme Court unanimously says the 1969 Republican drawn reapportionment plan is unconstitutional but lets it stand for the 1970 elections due to time limits for filing. Justices Becker and LeGrand dissent, urging a constitutional plan now. The court notes crossing precinct lines is needed for true population equality in future plans.
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Des Moines
UPI
Iowa Supreme Court
Iowa
High Court
Franks H. Becker
Clay LeGrand
State Democratic Central Committee
Supreme Court
General Assembly
House
Senate
Dan L. Johnston
Democrats
Central Committee
Johnston
U.S. Supreme Court
Becker
Nixon unveils $10 billion plan to clean up air and water
President Nixon calls for a total mobilization to rescue the environment with a $10 billion program to clean waters and curb pollution. He proposes a clean waters act, federal standards, tough fines, swift enforcement, and a phased four year funding path starting July 1, plus an Environmental Financing Authority to aid municipalities. Aims include 1,500 new treatment plants and upgrades to 2,500 more, with a five year goal for a low pollution auto and gasoline reform. Russell Train leads a new advisory council to push the effort.
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Washington
UPI
Nixon
Congress
Environmental Financing Authority
Interior Secretary
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Russell E. Train
Deadly avalanche hits Val dIsere leaving dozens dead
In Val dIsere France an avalanche from Dome Mountain crushed a three story youth hostel and a hotel. By noon rescuers recovered 42 bodies and 60 were saved. Most victims were French German or Belgian skiers. President Pompidou sent the interior minister to supervise the rescue effort.
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Val D’isere
France
UPI
Jean Calude Killy
French Union of Fresh Air Centers
Edelweiss
Chamonix
Argentiere
le Col Des Montets
Georges Pompidou
Raymond Marcellin
Agnew mocks Democrats during Lincoln fundraiser speech
Vice President Spiro T. Agnew criticized a Democratic televised rebuttal to Nixon's State of the Union as superb fantasy calling publishers of the Great Society and New Frontier germs. At a $50 dinner for Gov. Tiemann, Agnew praised the show while protesters outside chanted and were kept apart from the venue.
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Lincoln
Neb
UPI
Spiro T. Agnew
Nixon
State of the Union
Norbert T. Tiemann
Agnew
The
Great Society
New Frontier
Democrat
Congress
Capitol) Hill
Aries Curvenarrows Highway Plans Memo Intercepted
An intercepted highway commission memo hints at a strategic pivot as officials consider flexible routing amid growing traffic and new road tests. The document references arms of the department, potential adjustments, and timing for public input.
STAR PROJECT Seeks support for musicians
The STAR Project may be funded by Washington and Waco school districts by March 1. Local boards face taking over about two thirds of teachers salaries for the next school year while the federal government covers summer school instruments and operations. Six districts including Mount Pleasant Keokuk Burlington Muscatine Washington and Waco are served by four teachers who perform as a string quartet. Burlington has already voted to assume the cost.
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Washington
Waco
Washington School Board
Star Project
Mount Pleasant
Keokuk
Burlington
Muscatine
Ron Wise
Wise
Ribicoff backs uniform school desegregation plan
Senator Ribicoff voiced support for Stennis’s bid to outlaw North de facto school segregation. He argued the North bears responsibility for pervasive segregation through housing patterns and neighborhoods. The move stems from a four year $35 billion school aid bill amendment targeting both de jure and de facto segregation.
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Abraham A. Ribicoff
D-Conn
Stennis
North
Ribicoff
Senate
Dixie
South
George D. Aiken
R-Vt
Ray Favors Safeguards in Wiretap Bill for Iowa
Gov. Robert D. Ray said he has told Senate backers he wants stronger protections for individual rights in a wiretapping bill. He has not decided on a veto, and noted the bill would require multiple applicants for court orders and add stiffer penalties. The measure, already amended in the House, faces Senate debate.
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Des Moines
UPI
Robert D. Ray
Senate
Ray
Iowa
Rayals
Probate of will and executor for Cleo C. Fletcher
Public notice lists probate of Cleo C. Fletcher estate and appointment of the executor. Also an application to operate motor carrier service in Iowa is presented for public record today.
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Cleo C. Fletcher
Iowa
Senate passes diagonal highways bill in Iowa Senate
The Iowa Senate narrowly approved a diagonal highways bill by 33 to 24 to restrict the Highway Commission from building diagonal roads without legislative approval. The measure targets farmland preservation by preventing farmland fragmentation, with amendments allowing diagonal routes if aligned with rail lines or river beds. Senator Frommelt called for reconsideration, and debate highlighted tensions between the legislature and the highway agency.
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Des Moines
UPI
Iowa Senate
State Highway Commission
Senate
Andrew Frommelt
D-Dubuque
House
Highway Commission
Iowa
Wright
Franklin
Minnesota
Commission
Hugh Clarke
Belmond
Eugene Hill
Newton
Iowa Weather Outlook Tonight Through Wednesday
Partly cloudy and cold tonight and Wednesday with lows from 5 to 10 above, teens in the northeast and the southwest: highs Wednesday in the 20s to 30s, with northeast to the 30s in the southwest.
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United Press International
Iowa
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U.S
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Germany
Riem
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Manfred Schreiber
Assaf Dayan
Philadelphia
Penn Central Railroad
Radnor
Oakland
Calif
William Bargfred
Bargfred
Henry J. Kaiser Jr
Kansas City
Kan
Brotherhood National Bank
Houston
Ralph McCartney
Wallace
Alabama
George C. Wallace
Birmingham
Snow Buries Ski Resort
John C. Stennis
Mississippi
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