News in Brief from Washington New York Ames and England
The Washington city hall processes applications for federal funds under Part 1 Act with an on site intake and daily appointments. Joseph Colombo remains in a coma from bullet wounds and infection at Roosevelt Hospital. Ames police hold a woman on child stealing charges after she abducted three children for a plan to Egypt. Paul Argrave admits to nude dress pranks in Hurst and is fined for underwear theft.
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New York
Joseph Colombo
Boss
Roosevelt Hospital
AMES
APS
Egypt
Monika Nassar
Bracknell
England
UPI
Paul Argrave
Hurst
Argrave
New fighting in north provinces across Saigon fronts
UPI reports fresh clashes between South Vietnamese and Communist forces in the northern provinces, Mekong Delta, and across the Cambodian border. B52 raids hit Laotian border areas as air forces strike northeast and along the Mekong. Casualties include 21 Viet Cong killed, 4 Americans dead, 9 wounded, with 19 communists killed in Cambodia and 14 guerrillas killed in the Mekong Delta.
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Mekong
Cambodia
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Quang Ngai
Mekong Delta
Kien Long
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Paris
Ellsberg explains leak decision amid Green Beret charges drop
Daniel Ellsberg, once a Pentagon hawk, decided to release the Defense Department Vietnam study after Army dropped charges against Green Berets. He blamed the Johnson era system for concealing truth and said he would go to prison if needed for leaking secret documents.
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UPI
Daniel Elsberg
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Gon
Dep
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Johnson
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Vietnam
Creighton Abrams
Green Berets
Auditor clashes with Iowa Commerce Commission over seal actions
Iowa Governor Robert Ray criticizes State Auditor Lloyd Smith for sealing Commerce Commission offices and delaying staff work. Smith defends overnight audits to guard records and denies evicting chair Maurice Van Nostrand while stressing no systematic desk search occurred without staff present.
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UPS
Robert D. Ray
Lloyd Smith
Town Commerce Commission
Ray
Commerce
Smith
Commerce Commission
Commission
Maurice van Nostrand
van Nostrand
Commerce Comm
Probate of will and appointment of executor notice
Probate of the will and appointment of executor details appear on page 1. The notice identifies the estate and seeks to appoint a responsible party to manage the affairs and distribution as directed by the will.
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Execu LD
Governors Economy Panel Cuts Costs and Streamlines Iowa
Des Moines Gov. Robert D. Ray outlined the Iowa Economy Committee's progress after a 32 member luncheon. The plan lists 317 of 406 executive actions completed and 183 laws advanced, with five more guiding constitutional changes. Ray also signed a General Services Agency bill to save about 1 million annually.
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UPI
Robert D. Ray
Ray
Little Hoover Committee
Econom Committee
Monte Weissenburger
Keokuk
General Services Agency
Economy Committee
UPL
Iowa
Civil Defense
Albert Maricle
Torndoes
Maricle
Small Business Administration
Federal Housing Administration
Nixon
Markle
Nationwide half million telephone workers strike delays limited
A nationwide walkout by about 500000 telephone workers caused limited delays as automated systems and supervisory staff maintained service. AT&T said no serious disruptions anticipated while unions warn the strike could last two weeks and affect operator assisted calls and long distance connections.
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UPI
American Phone and Telegraph Co
At&t
Communications Workers of America
Bradford
Charleroi
Cape Kennedy
Fla
The
Space Center
Austian
New York
Greenburgh
Staten Island
Long Island City
Brookly
Iowa deficit forecast deepens as Democrat attacks Ray
Western Iowa Democrat Senator James Schaben warned Drake University that the state general fund will show a larger deficit by the end of the current biennium. He blamed overestimated tax receipts by the Ray administration and accused fiscal planners of deliberate miscalculation. House leaders defended the administration, citing economic slowdown and prior Hughes era spending as broader causes of the deficit.
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UPI
Robert D. Ray
Iowa
James Schaben
Dunlap
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Institute of State
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Schaben
Ray
House
Andrew Varley
Stuart
Harold E. Hughes
Varney
Hughes
U.S
Dale Cochran
Eagle Grove
Cochran
Varley
Attendance ahead of last year at Washington pool
Attendance at the Washington Municipal Swimming Pool runs well ahead of last year due to hot dry weather. Paid attendance reached 17 609 by Sunday evening, about 2 000 more than last year through July 11.
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