Washington School Board Tables Property Use Request
The Washington school board on Wednesday tabled a proposal to use school property for a sheltered workshop for the handicapped. A joint planning committee seeks a $300,000 building with $237,000 HUD grant pending approval, and the board asked for clarity on federal funds before proceeding. Other action included grade level reorganization, staffing changes, a new contract with the teachers, and library policy questions.
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County Community Action Program
CAP
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Developmental Center Board
Redlinger
Charlotte Ripperger
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Developmental Center
HUD
James Lloyd
Kelly Schlapkohl
Schlapkohl
Lincoln Elementary
Lincoln
Brighton Elementary
Washington Education Association
Cathi (Carter) Hill
Katharine Waddell
Janet Lower
Dave Tremmel
Tremmel
Iowa City
Floyd Woods
University of Iowa
Randy Hillman
Washington
Hillman
Planned Parenthood
Blairstown man eligible for unemployment benefits
Patrick B. Conner testified he was fired for refusing to cut his hair due to religious beliefs. Hearing officer Robert L. Martin ruled the dismissal would violate his constitutional right to freedom of religion. Conner worked in the Amana Society bakery at Amana until his discharge on November 19.
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UPI
Blairstown
Job Service of Iowa
Patrick B. Conner
Robert L. Martin
Conner
Amana Society
Amana
Senate prayer prompts bipartisan moment in Des Moines
In an unlikely moment in the Iowa Senate, Republican Sen. Warren Curtis of Cherokee offered a closing prayer thanking the Lord and asking for help for the majority leader. Majority Leader George Kinley of Des Moines responded with humor, saying he needed all the help he could get.
Fire in Robbins claims five lives in freezing suburb
In Robbins Illinois police report a early morning blaze killed five occupants of a home including four children. Victims named are Robert Bynum 26 April Bynum 3 James Carrington 15 Cathy 13 Ora 11 and Candy 14 escaped unharmed. Mother Claudette Carrington 39 was elsewhere with a sick relative when the fire started.
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Carrington
Schwengels Proposes Tax Credit for Soil Conservation
Senator Forrest Schwengels of Fairfield introduces Senate File 21 proposing a tax credit for permanent soil conservation projects and home improvements to accelerate soil conservation in Iowa. He cites past losses of topsoil and urges action as agriculture underpins the state economy.
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Fairfield
Iowa
Schwengels
Senate
Joint Budget Committee For Natural Resources
Soil Conservation Department
Cold Weekend Forecast With Light Snow Risk
Weather brief notes cloudy periods with occasional light snow tonight followed by very cold conditions. Frigid Friday with partly clear skies and subzero to near zero temperatures. Tonight low 10 to 15 below. Friday high near zero to five above. Snow chances about 40 percent tonight.
Plan to surge economy with $50 tax rebates proposed
Washington report outlines a $31.2 billion two year program to send $50 rebates to most Americans including dependents and Social Security recipients. The plan aims to spur growth through tax cuts and public works while projecting unemployment to fall to about 6.7 percent by late 1977.
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Schultze
Lance
Congress
Carter Proposes Broad Stimulus Plan With Rebates and Credits
President Carter outlined a multi part economic stimulus package including $50 rebate checks plus $50 per dependent, special $50 Social Security and railroad retirement payments, a small permanent tax cut by raising standard deductions, and business tax credits. The plan covers rebates, public works, jobs programs, training, revenue sharing, and tax reform with costs listed for fiscal 1977 and 1978.
WHS seniors plan two fund-raisers for prom
Washington High School senior class plans a paper drive and a variety show to fund the upcoming prom. Paper drive runs through February with pickup lines, 4 to 6 p.m., call 653-2554 653-5145 in Washington or 694-3630 in Brighton. Variety show Hearts-A-Poppin at 8 p.m. February 14 in the high school auditorium features area acts. no admission charge, donations welcomed.
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Evening Journal
Washington High School
Bill Whittenberg
Joe Mineart
WHS
Washington
Brighton
Whittenberg
Mineart
Wheat carryover higher than thought
Washington UPI reports a faster buildup in national grain stocks lifts wheat carryover to about 1.095 billion bushels by next summer, the largest since 1963, with corn carryover rising to 724 million bushels by October and soybeans falling to 75 million.
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Washington
UPI
Agriculture Department
Substation Blast Knocks Out 21,000 PG&E Customers
Five explosions at PG&E Monta Vista substation in Cupertino damaged four transformers and cut power to about 21,000 customers for up to half an hour. It was unclear if linked to Marin County bombings by the New World Liberation Front. Power was mostly restored within four minutes.
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Calif
UPI
Pacific Gas and Electric Co
Marin County
New World Liberation Front
Pg&e
Ron Rutkowski
Monta Vista
Los Gatos
Los Altos
Saratoga
Big Basin
Vatican reaffirms ban on women as priests
The Vatican rejects women priests, affirming that Christ was a man and sacraments require male ministers. Pope Paul VI approved an 18 page declaration by the Doctrinal Congregation, stressing natural gender resemblance and the priest’s representation of Christ.
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UPI
Paul VI
Sacred Congregation For the Doctrine of the Faith
Vatican
Franjo Seper
Jerome Hamer
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