Rose Bowl Thriller as USC Tops Indiana 14 3
USC defeats Indiana 14 3 in Pasadena as OJ Simpson rushes 128 yards on 25 carries and scores twice. Sugar, Orange, and Cotton Bowls highlight a weekend of major college football with LSU, Wyoming, Texas A&M, Alabama, and Oklahoma also winning in bowl action.
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Dallas
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Alabama
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Oklahoma
Sooners
Tennessee
Miami
Satuday
Gary Beban
San Francisco
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Dick Anderson
Colorado
University Texas- el Paso
Mississippi State
Billy Stevens
Larry McHenry
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O. J
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Nelson Stokley
Stokley
Tommy Morel
Jim Kiick
Cowboys
Jerry DePoyster
Wendell Housley
Texas A&m
Aggies
Tide
Edd Hargett
Tommy Maxwell
Housley
Hargett
Larry Stegent
Local Hero Home On Leave From Goose Bay Lab
Lt Ronald Crawford son of Mr and Mrs Corbin Crawford of Ainsworth is home on leave from Goose Bay Labrador where he serves as an air rescue helicopter pilot.
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Ronald Crawford
Corbin Crawford
Ainsworth
Goose Bay
Labrador
Uclans keep top spot in cage poll
UCLA dominates the fifth weekly UPI major college basketball poll for 1967-68 with an 8-0 record and 34 first place votes. Houston sits second at 13-0, Vanderbilt third, North Carolina fourth, and Kentucky fifth. tied for sixth are Tennessee and Utah at 6-1 and 10-1 respectively.
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NEW York
UPI
United Press International
UCLA
Houston
Vanderbilt
North Carolina
Kentucky
Tennessee
Utah
Oklahoma City
Columbia
Davidson
Power tools and steak talk at local business gathering
A regional newspaper notes a meeting where local business leaders discuss economic pressures over a $10 steak, highlighting growing concern about hard times. The report mentions Stanley power tools available for workshops and professional use.
Iowa governor asserts sole authority to set revenue director salary
Gov. Harold Hughes announced he alone will set the salary for Iowa's new revenue director William Forst and deputy Earl Burrows Jr, citing legal authority as the Executive Council had not approved a pay range. Forst begins his duties as the department head today. Hughes also filled two of three vacancies on the State Board of Public Instruction but will not name appointees until all three are filled.
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Des Moines
UPI
Harold E. Hughes
Iowa
Hughes
State Executive Council
William Forst
Executive Council
Earl Burrows, Jr
Forst
Burrows
Revenue Department
General Assembly
Tax Commission
State Board of Public Instruction
Holiday highway toll takes jump in New Years weekend
United Press International reports a spike in holiday crash deaths marking the safest New Years weekend since 1962. By 11 a.m. EST 372 traffic deaths occurred from Friday 6 p.m. to Monday midnight, with California leading at 40 deaths and incidents across Texas Michigan and Illinois. Two fatal wrecks near Mina New York and El Dorado Kansas州 involved young victims.
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United Press International
California
Texas
Michigan
Illinois
el Dorado
Kan
Kansas Turnpike
Mina
N.Y
Waterloo man earns honors as male cook
Dennis Lange of Waterloo Iowa was named Iowa champion in the amateur male cook competition for his chicken puff chips recipe. Alfred E. Last of Grand Junction finished as runner up. The national event drew more than 456000 men nationwide, with winners decided by a panel of women food authorities from the states.
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New York
UPI
Waterloo
Iowa
Dennis Lange
Alfred E. Last
Grand Junction
Audit of Iowa auditor raises travel and data issues
The state audit criticizes travel claims and data processing records of a department auditor. It notes improper allocation of travel area and conflicts with private interests. It questions a $60,764 data processing expense and calls for action as fuel tax duties move to the Department of Revenue. The auditor, based in Cedar Rapids, travels to Waterloo and Des Moines and holds leadership roles in a Des Moines firm.
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Smith
State Department of Revenue
Cedar Rapids
Waterloo
Des Moines
Drawer Full of Memories From a Mother's Closet
A writer discovers a drawer empty of new clothes but full of old dresses and keepsakes. She recalls first dates, engagements, a wedding gown, World War II attire, and a daughter Jo Lee, ending with carefully folding the items back into the drawer to make space.
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Jo Lee
Des Moines
Chicago
New York
Sub-zero cold grips 11-state Northeast area
An arctic air mass drove temperatures to sub-zero lows across 11 states from Wyoming to Tennessee. Burlington Vermont set a 52 year January 2 record at 21 below, while Portland Maine hit 17 below and Baltimore reached zero. Snow and ice snarled roads from the West to the Ohio Valley amid strong winds and hazardous travel warnings.
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United Press International
Wyoming
Tennessee
Burlington
Portland
Maine
Baltimore
Ohio Valley
Colorado
Kentucky
Rockies
Kansas
Appalachians
Bozeman
Mont
Junior bowling scores and top teams at local meet
High scores show A and W with a team series of 1339 and Squire Shoppe with 1291. Team game leaders were A and W 574 and Squire Shoppe 458. Individual top series Marilyn Ward 380 with ties 362 by Sally Patterson and Gwen Rich. individual high game Marilyn Ward 146 and Sally Patterson 145.
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Custer Electric
Squire Shoppe
Marilyn Ward
Sally Patterson
Gwen Rich
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