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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1976
Page
1
DES MOINES UPI reports the rock group Eagles canceled their final day Aug. 29 concert at the Iowa State Fair. Fair Manager Jerry Coughlan said the act withdrew confirmation as they expected to focus on a new album release.
The Washington City Council re schedules the second July regular session to July 26. The July 19 meeting was canceled due to scheduling conflicts among councilmen and the public hearing on a proposed re zoning near the county hospital for a pharmacy is moved to July 26 for public comment.
A three month investigation by Des Moines Metro Area Narcotics Squad led to nine arrests in Des Moines with warrants pending for five more. Authorities described the operation as one of the largest MANS undertakings, with heroin purity from 18 to 50 percent and street value around $50,000 seized. Charges include multiple counts of delivery, conspiracy, and possession with intent to deliver. A related Phoenix raid yielded nearly $1 million in pure heroin and linked a trafficking line from Mexico through Phoenix to Des Moines.
Twenty six children and their school bus driver were trapped for 28 hours in a rock quarry near Chowchilla California before digging themselves out. They were rescued unharmed and sent home with families as authorities hunted three masked kidnappers.
FBI Director Clarence M. Kelley fired associate director Nicholas T. Callahan, the bureau's No 2 man, amid Justice Department investigations into alleged illegal burglaries in the 1970s and inquiries into favoritism in surveillance equipment purchases. No successor named, and Kelley declined further comment due to ongoing probes.
Fred R. Stone of the Iowa Retail Federation will speak at 9 a.m. Tuesday to the Retail Merchants Bureau of the Washington Chamber of Commerce at Winga's Restaurant. He will discuss the effects and prevention of shoplifting in retail business.
Jerry C. Britsch 40 of rural Washington loses control northbound on highway one near Washington at 9 30 p m Friday night striking a utility pole and a Campbell Farms fence causing 1050 in damage. He was charged with failure to stop in the assured clear distance. In Kalona Town Players present Down Home Summer Show III at 8 p m July 23 24 at Kalona Recreation Center admission 150 adults 75 cents for children ninth grade or younger.
The forecast shows a warming trend through Sunday with clear to partly cloudy skies. Tonight's lows near 60, Sunday highs in the upper 80s.
A federal jury in Cedar Rapids acquitted Darelle Butler and Robert Robideau of two counts of murder each in the 1975 shooting deaths of FBI agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Their defense said the trial was unfair. both remain jailed on unrelated felonies.
David Sojka, son of Mr and Mrs Dale Sojka of Riverside, will attend the 1976 Iowa 4-H Conservation Workshop at the State Camping Center near Madrid. The week long program covers soils insects wildlife landscape architecture forests and plants to foster understanding of conservation and environmental interrelationships. The Air National Guard will provide a 60 minute helicopter overview and costs are supported by a Federal Carteridge Corporation grant and a donation from the Izaac Walton League.
First Mama Betty Ford replied from the White House on July 13 to Gary Osborn and Eva Osborn of Hutchinson Kansas, CB handles Thunderbolt and Moon Glow. She thanks them for their trading card and praises CB networks of mutual support in a friendly message.
Jimmy Carter outlined a national push to win every state, refusing to concede a single state to Republicans. He spoke at a Democratic National Committee meeting with Mondale, promising extensive voter registration drives, state offices, and fundraising for fellow Democrats. Carter stressed rapid campaign expansion across all 50 states, aiming to surpass Nixon’s 1972 landslide margins in a broad victory.
A Massachusetts proclamation announced that every citizen of Washington Iowa is an Honorary Citizen of Washington Massachusetts for 1976. Alfred Deane of Washington Massachusetts Board of Selectmen issued the note and tourism officials promote it as a publicity effort. The release claims Washington Iowa was adopted for Bicentennial observances while Washington Massachusetts seeks tourism benefit.
In Grannis Arkansas ten months of vigil for the Second Coming ended as federal marshals moved 24 members of a religious group from a small house for unpaid mortgage. The group included 10 children and was ordered by a judge to send the children back to school. Members said they still believed the end would come before action by authorities.
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