Wild Fourth of July Showers Dampen Area then Clear Sky
Heavy showers drenched the region early July 4 with 1.74 inches in a brief period raising three day totals above two inches. Rain caused hillside washouts while traffic in Brighton left Jerry Cline injured and Martha Last charged for failure to yield. Washington Hall added to the National Register. Governor Ray will consider a youth conservation corps proposal. Dubuque offers aviation management major this fall. Carlisle reports a water main break leaving 2,200 residents without water.
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Brighton
Jerry Cline
University Hospitals
Iowa City
Lake Darling State Park
Highway Patrol
Martha Last
Wisconsin
Cline
Carlisle
UPI
Aerial bomb explodes at Mission fireworks display
A faulty pig aerial bomb exploded during a Catholic War Veterans fireworks show in Mission Texas killing Melissa Ginzer 19 months and Ricardo Vargas 18 and injuring 13 others. Police said none of the injured were in serious condition. The crowd included Ginzer Sr and two other Ginzer children and Sandra Coffing. Five Mission firefighters set off the display.
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Mission
Tex
UPI
Melissa Ginzer
McAllen
Ricardo Vargas
Ray Rodgers
Felix Ginzer Sr
Ginzer
John Felix Jr
Mary
Sandra Coffing
Mission Fire Department
Weather Outlook With Warm Humid Weekend
Sunny today with a high in the mid 80s. A slight chance of thundershowers tonight with a low in the mid to upper 60s. Warm and humid Friday with a threat of thundershowers and a high in the lower 90s. Winds east to southeast 8 to 18 mph tonight and 5 to 15 mph tonight. Rain chances 20 percent tonight and 30 percent Friday.
Land dispute halts Crawfordsville park plan amid sale dispute
Lions Club and County Conservation Board pressed the Supervisors over selling land eyed for a park near Crawfordsville. buyer Steve Fletcher plans to keep the 2.54 acre tract, while a 21 year old Washington man Kirby Aldinger died in a three car crash on highway 92 near Sigourney. Several injured, including two seriously, and ongoing questions about the 1965 Lee Lease estate gift and access to the site.
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Crawfordsville Lions Club
County Conservation Board
Board of Supervisors
Steve Fletcher
Crawfordsville
Fletcher
Willis Richards
Herb Rich
Lions
Richards
Highway 218
Kirby Aldinger
Washington
Sigourney
Harper Road
Highway 92
Aldinger
Marion Avenue
Perfex
Sigourne
Benningfield
Conger
University Hospitals
Iowa City
Keokuk County
Kirby Nils Aldinger
Roger and
Elizabeth Wallerich Aldinger
Iowa Tech
Ottumwa
Future Farmers of America
John Patterson
Tracy Anderson
Lee Lease Estate
Vernon
Patterson
Clif Conklin
Conservation Board
Highway Commission
Towa City to permit Sunday liquor sale
United Press Internation reports Towa City will join Iowa towns adding Sunday liquor sales for the first time this weekend. The new law allows by the drink sales in restaurants clubs hotels and similar venues with nonalcoholic sales dominant but bans package sales. Iowa City approved the ordinance while Mount Pleasant voted against it.
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United Press
Towa City
Iowa
Mount Pleasant
Broadening U.S. control over farm export shipments
The Dent administration expanded export controls to 41 livestock feed commodities including meals, fats, and edible oils to safeguard summer supplies for meat dairy and poultry producers. Corn remains unrestricted though corn gluten feed was added.
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Washington
UPI
U.S
Commerce
Frederick B. Dent
Dent
Rogers proposes five point plan for Europe peace
UPI reports Secretary William P. Rogers at the European security conference urged a five point framework to make Europe safer. Goals include legal principles governing relations between nations, an exchange of military information, dispute resolution methods, trade and science cooperation, and expanded human contact across the divide. He urged freer travel and media access and noted U S and Soviet roles in a more secure Europe.
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Helsinki
UPI
William P. Rogers
Rogers
United States
Europe
Russia
America
Soviet Union
Iowa Governor Backs Limited 60-Foot Truck Permits
Des Moines Iowa Governor Robert D Ray endorsed limited permits for 60 foot trucks in border cities after Sioux City livestock interests warned that longer semis could attract out of state cattle shipments. He cited need to move more cattle at once while keeping Iowa’s 55 foot limit in effect elsewhere.
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Des Moines
UPI
Sioux City
Robert D. Ray
Iowa
Border Cities Bay
Vision tests to be given here July 10
Pre-school vision readiness tests will be given to all pre-kindergarten children of the Washington School System on Tuesday July 10. Local optometrists with the Iowa Optometric Association plan a public service day to screen children for eye and visual deficiencies. Early detection of Amblyopia is vital to prevent deterioration. Parents should take children to any local optometrist without appointment on July 10. Visual readiness reports will be returned with health records. Participating optometrists include Dr. Max L Smith Dr. Wm. A. Westphal Dr. J.F Mallory and Dr. John Lemmon.
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Washington
Iowa Optometric Association
Max L Smith
Wm. A. Westphal
J.F Mallory
John Lemmon
Claim Soviet sends spies into Israel
Beir ut reports Jordanian authorities found documents aboard a crashed Aeroflot TU134, alleging Moscow used emigrating Soviet Jews to implant a spy network in Israel. The papers mention agents connected to the Amman Moscow link, linked to a twice weekly Amman to Moscow flight via Beirut and Yerevan.
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Beirut
UPI
Moscow
Israel
L’orient-Le Jour
Amman
Yerevan
Armenia
Hijacked Plane Carrying $700000 Lands in Cuba With 26 Hostages
Argentina's Bank of the Nation reported $700,000 in cash aboard the hijacked Boeing 737, seized by guerrilla attackers on a flight from Panama City to Jujuy. The jet arrived in Havana with 26 aboard, all reported well.
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United Press International
Argentina
Bank of the Nation
Cuba
Chile
Peru
Panama
Buenos Aires
Jujuy
Foreign Ministry
Havana
UPI
New York
Jose Marti
Panama City
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Washington City Hall
Steve Wiggers
The
Washington County ‘Historical Society
Central Iowa
Youth Conservation Corps
Civilian Conservation Corps
Southeast Polk
Ecology Club
Ray
Ecology Council of America
United Presbyterian Church
Leonard Leslie
Washington Commu
Jami Lloyd
Justine Hotle
Mary Chmelar
Mary McCarthy
Larry Robison
Standing
E. Kelly Schlapkohl
al Kinzler
James Gorham
Richard Wiley
Keith Lord
Henry Saucer
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