News in Brief: tax district codes and national politics
Washington County residents must include school district codes on tax forms for Washington 92-6768 Mid-Prairie 92-4271 Highland 92-2977. Nixon era opens without a nickname. Roosevelt Truman Eisenhower Kennedy Johnson labels listed. Des Moines funeral for Karl Mattern. WWII-era Gen Wheeler records. Senate panel backs Walter Hickel as interior secretary. Insects have thousands of muscles. Dutch soup lovers lead Europe. Japan birth bonus for fourth child. sneezing study links to virus spread. Litterbug fines rise nationwide.
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Washington County
Washington
Mid-Prairie
Highland
Battle of Dimes to aid March of Dimes drive
Washington Rotary Kiwanis and Y's Men’s Clubs plan a battle of dimes Saturday morning on the north side of the square. Planks laid on saw horses will form a line from the Squire Shoppe to Mc Daniel's Drug. The first club to lay enough dimes to stretch the full block wins. Proceeds go to March of Dimes birth defect research. Contest starts at 9 a.m.
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Washington Rotary
Kiwanis and
Y's Men’s Clubs
Washington County
Squire
McDaniel's Drug
Nixon Inauguration Promises Peace and Unity at Capitol
Richard Nixon becomes 37th president delivering a 1700 word inaugural pledge to seek peace among nations and heal domestic divisions. He urges calm, equal rights for Negroes, open world cooperation, and a less hostile public discourse while vowing to pursue freedom and progress with compassion. Security is heightened for the ceremony and parade, with thousands of police and troops on hand.
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Washington
UPI
Richard Milhous Nixon
United States
Capitol
Nixon
America
Isiah
Pat
Pennsylvania Avenue
Secret Service
Earth
Spea
New Iowa Governor Robert D Ray Takes Oath in Des Moines
Robert D Ray was sworn in as Iowa governor in ceremonies Thursday at Veterans Memorial Auditorium in Des Moines. The inauguration was captured by a UPI telephoto image.
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Iowa
Robert D. Ray
Des Moines
Veterans Memorial Auditorium
UPI
Youth Job Program Aims to Raise 1969 Funds
Washington County seeks $2,000 to extend a 1968 summer youth employment program. Last year 278 applicants, 108 openings, 426 placements from Iowa State Employment Service effort in Ottumwa, led by youths as interviewers. Now locals urged to fund continuation through September.
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Washington County
Iowa
The
Wash
Marilyn Calhoun
South Iowa
Decision on St. James school closure in Washington
The Davenport diocese will decide on January 24 whether St. James elementary and junior high in Washington will close. Polls favored keeping the school open, but factors include nun shortages and rising costs. If closed, grades 1–6 would move to public schools and up to five mobile classrooms could be added to handle excess students.
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St. James
Washington
Davenport
Catholic Church In
St. James Parish
Washington Junior High
Iowa Weather: Cloudy Night with Freezing Drizzle Possible
United Press International reports Iowa will be mostly cloudy tonight with a chance of freezing drizzle or light snow, colder in the north. Tuesday brings mainly cloudy skies, a further drop in temperatures, with lows in the 20s and highs in the 20s to around 30 in the south.
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Iowa
Battle underground in Viet tunnels escalates
In a weekend clash 23 Viet Cong were killed and 136 captured in a two mile coastal tunnel network on the Batangan Peninsula, as 3,000 Marines and 2,000 South Vietnamese troops swept the area. Marines battled amid 30 foot tunnels, with an amphibious push described as the largest since the Korean War.
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Saigon
UPI
Batangan
William Cox
Jackson, Miss
Kate Webb
Cox
Miss Webb
Fire guts Coast to Coast Store in Waverly Iowa
A $200 000 blaze gutted the Coast to Coast Store in downtown Waverly on Sunday. Four nearby businesses suffered smoke damage while about 50 firefighters from four northeast Iowa departments battled the two hour fire. No injuries were reported. Fire officials believe the blaze started in an upstairs storage area behind the two story brick building. A fire wall on both sides helped prevent spread to adjacent stores Skantz Gift and Card Shop and Leuthold Johannsen Clothing incurred heavy smoke damage.
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Waverly
Iowa
UPI
John Sullivan
Skantz Gift and Card Shop
Leuthold Johannsen Clothing
Joint Session on Ethics Rules for Iowa Legislators and Lobbyists
Des Moines reports a public hearing scheduled for Tuesday by House and Senate Ethics Committees to discuss proposed rules and guidelines for lawmakers and lobbyists. Chairman Floyd Millen aims to outline suggested discussion areas with five minute oral limits and written remarks.
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Des Moines
UPI
House
Senate
House Committee
Floyd Millen
Farmington
Millen
Iowa
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
John F
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Karl Mattern
Des Moines Art Center
Hickel
Senate Interior Committee
Walter J. Hickel
Interior
Henry M. Jackson
Dash
New York
Joseph Wheeler
Atlanta
Orkin Exterminating Company
Blonde
Bill
Ellesmere Port
England
UPL
Post Office
Australia
Utrecht, Holland
Europe
Tokyo
Japan
Nakatomi
Keep America Beautiful, Inc
Ray
Vladimir Shatalov
Moscow
Ington County
Governor's Commission On Children and Youth
Washington High School
Wej
United Press International
Battle
Viet
Arthur Neu
R - Carroll
Senate Ethics Committee
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