Iowa Senate backs 18 year old voting measure
The Iowa Senate approved a constitutional amendment to set the voting age at 18 by a 49 to 9 vote. House action appeared unlikely as the lowering of the voting age faced opposition and a committee-indefinite postponement risk, with leaders signaling weekend maneuvers to influence the House.
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UPI
Iowa Senate
Senate
Robert Rigler
House
Maurice Baringer
Roelwein
Rigler
Andrew Frommelt
Frommelt
Iowa House debates school bills and passes measure on sick leave
In Des Moines the House committees advance bills on teacher contract appeals, school bus transportation, and radio equipment for schools. A key vote approves a sick leave increase to 90 days for school employees. The Dirksen amendment debate yields a 92 to 28 passage amid partisan tensions led by Democrat Ray Bailey of Clarion. Continued on page 2.
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Senate
House
John Kibbie
D-Emmetsburg
Vietnam
Joseph Cassidy
D-Walcott
Cassidy
Des Moines
Iowa
Iowa Council For Better Education
Ing
Towa
Ray Bailey
Clarion
Motors Club official opposes plan for universal intersection signs
Floyd L. Link of the Motors Club of Iowa urged State Sen. David Stanley to withdraw a bill proposing stop or yield signs at all Iowa intersections. He cites research claiming signs would not reduce accidents and notes Scott County data showing more incidents where signs exist.
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Davenport
Iowa
UPI
The
Motors Club of Iowa
David Stanley
Link
Scott County
Tentative agreement ends Harlan strike by Feb 27
A tentative settlement between UPWA and Western Iowa Park Plant officials in Harlan Iowa. About 100 to 150 workers will return to work on February 27 after negotiations on language continue. Pickets have ceased and violence noted since the 1966 strike began.
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Chicago
UPI
Western Iowa Park
Harlan
Iowa
United Packinghouse Workers of America
David Hart
Des Moines
District Three
UPWA
Hart
Don Johnson
California
Ferry
Western
National Labor Relations Board
Funds From Foundations Deny CIA Ties Across Groups
Newspaper Guild says it has received over 900000 dollars since 1960 from five private foundations and did not knowingly take CIA money. It lists Chesapeake, Broad Hit, Warden Trust, Granary Fund, and Andrew Hamilton Fund as contributors, with 615000 from the three active since 1965.
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Washington
UPI
American Newspaper Guild
CIA
Central Intelligence Agency
Guild
Charles Perlik
Philadelphia
Perlik
Mao orders border army to prepare for war amid Sino Soviet tensions
Chinese posters quote Mao Tse tung ordering units along the 5000 mile border with Russia to ready for conflict. Japanese correspondents say purge activities may continue in border units, with extremist Red Guards warned of potential anarchy. Clashes reported in Anhui, Inner Mongolia, Tibet, and Liaoning as Moscow reports say Mao loyalists control only five of China’s provinces.
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UPI
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Pacific
Red Guards
Wang Li
Anwhei
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Tibet
Liaoning
Manchuria
Moscow
Blast Kills Eleven In New Jersey Plant Disaster
Rescue teams searched the Morningstar Paisley Division plant in Hawthorne for victims after a series of fiery explosions. One body was recovered. 11 presumed dead, 16 injured, as crews labored through snow and wreckage under floodlights. The plant made food preservatives and adhesive materials. cause undetermined.
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N.J
UPI
Morningstar Paisley
International Latex Corp
Louis Bay Il
Weather outlook for Iowa with light snow and cold temperatures
United Press International reports cloudy conditions in Iowa with intermittent light snow. Greatest accumulation likely in the extreme south near two inches. Tonight and Sunday partly to mostly cloudy with a new chance of snow Sunday and colder temperatures. Highs today in the 20s north to lower 30s south. tonight lows 5 to 10 northeast to 20 southwest. Sunday highs in the upper teens to 20s.
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Iowa
B 52 Bombers Ramp Up Coastal Vietnam Raids
UPI reports continuous B 52 strikes along the Cambodian border and central South Vietnam as four massive raids brace a four prong coastal sweep. Government and U S troops unite with South Korean forces to push guerrillas inland near Quant Ngai, claiming 100 enemy dead as North Vietnamese units operate in the area amid heavy combat and ongoing Rio Grande operations.
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Saigon
UPI
South Vietnam
Hanoi
Quant Ngai
U.S
Probate of Will and Executor Appointment for Alta Hendrick
Probate of the last will of Alta Hendrick is announced with appointment of the executor. The proceedings outline the transfer of estate assets under court oversight and establish the authority of the named executor to administer creditors and beneficiaries.
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Alta Hendrick
Two Killed in Separate Iowa Auto Crashes Today
A 21 year old Dunlap man David John Hornbeck died when his car left U S 30 two miles north of Dunlap and overturned in a farm field. Passenger Gary Hartwig 19 was hospitalized in Denison in satisfactory condition. A second fatality occurred Friday when a Jefferson man Donald E Kuehl 46 died in a one car crash south of Farnhamville after the driver Robert W Kuehl 50 fell asleep, the car going off a Calhoun County road into a ditch.
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Robert Kuehl
Greene County Hospital
Jefferson
Apollo 1 inquiry to begin findings today
The board of inquiry seeking the fire’s cause plans to assemble findings starting today with preliminary reports from investigative panels through Tuesday. A summary report goes to Dr. Seamans on Wednesday as Mueller and program officials report Thursday on impacts to the lunar program. Virgil Grissom, Edward White, and Roger Chaffee died in the January 27 blaze aboard the Saturn 1 Apollo spacecraft, which was moved to a nearby building for dismantling and source tracing.
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API
Floyd L. Thompson
Robert Seamans
Space Agency
George Mueller
Seamans
Virgil Grissom
Edward White
Roger Chaffee
Carmichael ends nonviolence era in UC speech
Stokely Carmichael addressed about 7,000 at Sproul Hall on the UC campus, declaring SNCC was no longer nonviolent. From the steps he blasted police and, amid questions on tactics, said he had tried nonviolence for five years and would resist with lethal force if police harmed him.
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Calif
UPI
Stokely Carmichael
University of California
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
SNCC
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Black Power
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