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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1975
Page
1
Des Moines reports the Iowa attorney general ruled a licensed nurse may not serve as a trustee of a county hospital. Assistant Attorney General Larry Blumberg told Muscatine County that Iowa law prohibits physicians or licensed practitioners from trusteeships. He noted renewal of the nurse’s license would keep her in that category.
Milwaukee police sought the slayer of Rev. Alvin B. Moore after his body with three gunshot wounds was found in the Solomon Community Temple parsonage. A 3 year old man was questioned Tuesday but released for lack of evidence as investigators pursued a motive. no weapon or struggle was observed.
The Federal Communications Commission for the first time denied a public broadcast license renewal to Alabama Educational Television Commission for eight stations and rejected a construction permit for a planned night station over findings of racial bias in its operations. The split 4-2 decision halted the renewal and the night station plan.
The Social Security representative is now in the board room of the Washington School Administration Building at 404 West Main Street. She will be there each Wednesday morning from 9 30 to 11 30 a.m. Offices were formerly in the basement of the post office.
A Marion couple, Olivia and Lewis Williams, filed a $1.2 million malpractice suit in Linn County District Court against Memorial Hospital in Burlington. The action is a counterclaim to a small claims case over a $618 bill for hospital services from January 23 to 29, 1973. The petition alleges negligence in diagnosis and treatment by Dr Jo Ellen Hoth and ER nurse Edith Tadelski, among others, and names the hospital as defendant.
A raging snowstorm swept over New England dumping up to 15 inches of snow in western Massachusetts and prompting school closures across the Hudson Valley. Thunderstorms and a tornado were reported in the lower Mississippi Valley while Vermont and New York saw significant accumulations and travel disruptions across multiple states.
UPI reports Judge John J. Sirica reduced the sentences of John W. Dean III Jeb Magruder and Herbert Kalmbach to time already served ordering their immediate release from Ft Holabird Md. The White House had no comment and Ford reportedly had no prior knowledge of the commutations.
Iowa Energy Policy Council members delay final approval of a statewide energy report due Jan 15, seeking more study and broader consensus. With five of nine members present, discussions focus on controversial recommendations including a strong conservation theme and zero energy growth in 1975. Council chair Maurice Van Nostrand hopes broad state input will shape a voluntary or federal mandated conservation approach.
Weather summary notes clouds increasing with highs around the mid to upper 30s. Decreasing cloudiness expected tonight with overnight lows in the mid 20s.
Iowa Army National Guard troops began hauling 600 gallon water tankers into Olds to fill a 35,000 gallon storage tank that emptied as the town faced a drying well. Mayor Harold Messer said pumps cannot keep up with demand while state aid efforts consider a new well. Emergency services and Civil Defense were mobilized as residents brace for continued supply concerns.
The Tass news agency called rumors of a leadership power struggle fabrications and stated the party and people of the Soviet Union are united under Brezhnev. Tass noted Brezhnev attended his mother’s lying in state, a movement last seen Dec. 24, and cited a postponed Middle East trip.
State Comptroller Marvin Selden reports July to December 1974 tax receipts totaling $354.7 million, $19.5 million above his forecast. Income tax led gains, with $148 million—19.5 percent higher than a year earlier. Corporate, sales, and use taxes also beat estimates amid a broader revenue rise. Total first-half receipts reached $415.4 million, 6.4 percent above projections and 36.1 million higher than the prior year.
The former head of Houston Police Department’s Criminal Intelligence Division said the unit kept a card file on people not suspected of crimes. He said the files did not contain derogatory data and some were used for security. Police Chief Lynn said he learned these dossiers existed.
The Michigan Employment Security Commission announced expansion and extension of unemployment benefits. Seventeen emergency offices will open to handle about 130,000 new applicants with potential reach up to 400,000 by year end. A mail only Special Unemployment Assistance program targets previously uncovered workers including municipal and county employees, school staff, farm and domestic workers with an anticipated $92 million payout.
The Music Department of General Fortnightly Club of Washington and Everetts Music Co sponsor a summer music campship to Dorian Music Camp at Luther College Decorah for Washington County students from seventh to eleventh grade. January 21 deadline to Mrs Wayne Gamon route 2 Washington.
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