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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1973
Page
1
Washington Jaycees will canvass Tuesday evening to collect old Christmas trees left on terraces at street intersections citywide. This annual service project helps clear trees used during the holidays from residents' areas.
Ainsworth lost its elementary school in a Sunday fire that gutted the 1920 brick building with the gym added in 1950. About 150 students from kindergarten through sixth grade face temporary facilities as the gym becomes classrooms. Firefighters from Ainsworth and seven nearby communities battled the flames into the night with no injuries reported.
Des Moines Iowa 1973 legislature opens as Lt Gov Jepsen presides in Senate and Rep Elmer Den Herder leads House swearing in new members. Leaders vow no nonsense session on revenue sharing and top priorities amid debates over abortion gambling and elder aid.
Pianist John Marie named Outstanding Jazz Player at the Tall Corn Jazz Festival on the University of Northern Iowa campus Cedar Falls. Marie, Bob McConnell and Terry Renoux earned instrument honors as well. VHS Jazz Band posted two excellent and one good ratings among 35 AAA entrants. Next events are the Jazz Concert Jan 23 and a Cedar Rapids Washington concert Jan 25.
A Davenport woman, Velma Maxine White, sustained a broken shoulder when her car collided with a truck at the junction of highways 218 and 92 near Riverside Friday at 10 30 a m. Virgil Wayne Gardner of Cedar Rapids drove the truck and Philip H White also from Davenport was in the car. Damages were about 30 000 to the truck and 2 000 to the car. Sheriff reports say the car pulled from a stop sign into the truck’s path.
Defense Secretary Melvin Laird told the House Armed Services Committee that total drafts for the year would not exceed 5,500, about one tenth of last year’s figure. He projected March calls under 2,500 and an average of about 1,000 per month for April through June as the draft authority nears expiry June 30.
Washington Iowa hosted the Charlie Byrd quartet led by guitarist Charlie Byrd with Hal Posey trumpet Gene Byrd bass and Bill Reichenbach drums. The two hour program mixed Latin pieces classical guitar solos and big jazz with a vivid Greensleeves and Jesus Christ Superstar encore.
The bulletin notes mostly cloudy weather with light snow flurries and cold highs in the teens and zero to five below overnight. It also reports Kissinger and Le Duc Tho resuming cease-fire talks in a four and a half hour session at the villa with no public handshakes when Kissinger departed at 3 30 p m local time.
Helicopters and armored police blasted two concrete rooftop bunkers at the Howard Johnson Hotel in New Orleans where two snipers held a siege that killed six and wounded fifteen over more than a day. Police blocked 50 blocks as 250 officers searched floors and stairs for the shooters.
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