Mid-Prairie teacher contract hearing set for Feb 20
A fact finding hearing on unsettled 1976 77 Mid-Prairie teacher contracts will be held at 9 a.m. February 20 in the Wellman fire department meeting room. The Public Employment Relations Board named Harry Graham of Madison to preside. The fact finder will hear testimony from both sides and issue a recommended settlement a few days later. This is a public hearing.
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Wellman Fire Department
Public Employment Relations Board
Harry Graham
Madison
Wis
Washington Junior High to stage The Junior Hs Pops Concert
The Washington Junior High School music department presents The Junior H s a Foppin annual pops concert on February 23 at 7 30 p m in the junior high gym. The Swing Choir Swing Band and Jazz Band will perform. Admission is free.
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Washington Junior High School
Fun Festival Planned at St James School Sunday Feb 29
A Fun Festival is planned at St James School on Sunday February 29 with lunch served at 1 30. Activities include games from 1 to 4 pm. The event is sponsored by the Home and School Association.
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St James
Hlome
ISU Alumni Banquet Planned in Washington Feb 28
ISU alumni from Washington County Iowa State Staters are invited to the annual spring banquet at the Captain's Table in Washington on Saturday February 28 at 6 30 p m James Hopson assistant director of the Iowa State University Alumni Association will be speaker All graduates and former students of Iowa State University are invited Reservations for the dinner must be made by February 25 and sent to Douglas Hofbauer 1407 North Second Washington The dinner including all costs is 5 Further details available from Hofbauer Mary Atwood Paul Swanks Wellman or Keith Hora Riverside
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Washington County
Iowa
Hofbauer
Mary Atwood
Paul Swanks
Wellman
Keith Hora
Riverside
Weather Outlook Mostly Cloudy Tonight to Partly Cloudy Thursday
The forecast calls for mostly cloudy conditions tonight with a transition to partly cloudy skies by Thursday. A high temperature around 40 to 45 degrees is expected, with west to southwest winds at about 5 miles per hour tonight.
McArtor Barrow Tops County Show
Ron McArtor of Crawfordsville won the heavyweight barrow and the overall top hog title at the 19th annual Winter Market Hog Show at Washington Livestock Auction Market. McArtor’s 245 pound champion led 69 entries with McCleery-Cumming Co. taking reserve and first in lightweight. Show awards and carcass data trophies will be presented March 6 at the Pork Producers banquet. results of 4-H and adult judging will be announced then.
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Ron McArtor
Crawfordsville Area
Washington County
Ed Chabal
Evening Journal
Crawfordsville
Washington
Washington County Pork Producers Association
McCleery-Cumming Co
McArtor
Pork Producers
Mike Dunphy
Kirkwood ‘Community College
Cedar Rapids
Crawfordsville Reserve
Sueden Oak Bluff Farm
Columbus Junction
Daryl Owens
Ainsworth
Eldon
Steve Bothell
Iowa City
Frieden Oak Bluff Farm
Iowa House OKs voting postcard model and private club gambling
The Iowa House approved a voter registration measure allowing postcards signed by a witness in place of notarized affidavits. It also backed a social gambling bill to permit private club gaming, aligning with an attorney general opinion, while an investigation into the Department of Social Services was authorized to oversee a Medicaid emergency funding study.
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Des Moines
UPI
Iowa House
Towans
American Legion
Senate
House
Richard C. Turner
Turner
Iowa
James Redmond
Cedar Rapids
Earl Willits
Department of Social Services
Legislative Council
Theegislature
Hhey
Medical Assistance Advisory Council
Social Services Commissioner
Ford reveals specifics of proposal for CIA changes
President Ford outlines intelligence reforms naming George Bush as top intelligence head and proposing no prior Congress notification for specific covert activities. A three member White House panel, led by Bush, would oversee the CIA. Kissinger roles reduced and new Operations Advisory Group formed. bans on spying on Americans and internal abuses, with strict safeguards and limited legal exceptions.
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Washington
Ford
CIA
George Bush
Congress
White House
Bush
America
Committee On Foreign Intelligence
Presidents National" Council
Henry A. Kissinger
Kissinger
Brent Scowcroft
Hearst testifies on SLA boss DeFreeze brag of support
Patricia Hearst testifies for third day that Donald Cinque DeFreeze told SLA followers they had wide support before the San Francisco bank robbery. She says DeFreeze brought four adults and three children to meet her as Tania and that the gang counted $10,660 after the holdup. The judge orders show his belief that her confessions were voluntary.
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San Francisco
UPI
Patricia Hearst
Miss Hearst
Donald “Cinque” DeFreeze
Symbionese Liberation Army
DeFreeze
Tania
F. Lee Bailey
SLA
Baisey Asxea
Nancy Ling Perry
Cinque
Dart
County fair awards bid for new show barn
The Washington County Fair Board awarded a 10480 bid to Spacemaker Building Systems of Oskaloosa and Farmers Cashway Lumber Co. of Washington for a 96 by 73 foot livestock show barn to ease overcrowding. Construction aims to start soon with a June 1, 1976 completion target funded by a 15000 county appropriation from a state rural grant.
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The
Evening Journal
Washington County Fair Board
Spacemaker Building Systems of
Oskaloosa
Farmers Cashway Lumber Co
Washington
County Board of Supervisors
Fair
Farmers Cashway and Spacemaker
Keomah Builders Inc
Fair Board
County Pork Producers Association
Reversal by high court Reject libel claim
Iowa Supreme Court dismisses libel suit against Des Moines Register and Tribune Co. in landmark application of Times v Sullivan. The court found the article negligent but not malicious, returning the case for summary judgment in favor of the newspaper.
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New York Times
The
Register
McCarney
Johnson County
Grand
Wire Service
High Court
Grand ‘Jury Adictment
Council Bluffs
Times
Body found along Rock Island tracks near Brighton
Washington County sheriff's officers found a man lying in a sleeping bag near the Rock Island tracks on county road WS5. He was identified only as Charlie, a transient in apparently poor health, who said he planned to return to Texas. A car found abandoned nearby belonged to an Illinois man who was hunting in the area.
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Evening Journal
Washington County
Vale Jarvis
Rock Island
Brighton
Slean Murphy
Charlie
Tarvis
Texas
Sounty Road
Illinois
Nan
YMCA Near Success in Washington Membership Drive
Victory dinner reports show Washington YMCA membership effort near success though only 22,878 of 25,700 goal was pledged. 33 workers未 report, colds and flu sidelining donors. Jack Kiesey and Frank Pierce thank volunteers as Robert Day urges YMCA community support.
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Washington
Jack Kiesey
Kiesey
Robert Day
Frank Pierce
Wanted WHS alumni for 1952 silver jubilee art show
Washington High School art instructor Carlton Bump appeals for alumni to help locate graduates from the class of 1952. Call 653-3934 with addresses to invite former art students to a spring silver jubilee show at the high school.
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Carlton Bump
Washington High School
Washington Hgh School
Eanions
Bump
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