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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1971
Page
1
The Washington Airport Club hosts its annual Flight Breakfast Sunday with serving from 6:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Tickets cost $1 for adults and 50 cents for children under 12. Residents urged to attend for a community morning event.
Iowa House approved a bill to align election law with the coming 18-year-old vote in 1972. The chamber backed restoring a 10-day preelection registration, rejected statewide registration, extended polling hours, and broader residency changes. Debate noted data processing slows registration. amendments to extend polls were defeated.
Stuart Carter, a Roseburg High School graduate senior, was to receive a special award for perfect attendance during his three years of high school. The note hints at a poll visit in Roseburg, Oregon, and references a UPI report about local civic engagement tied to a student.
A dynamite truck crash on U S Highway 78 near Birmingham triggered a massive blast that killed five people and injured at least 35. The truck carried 10,000 pounds of dynamite and 10,000 pounds of slurry. A crater formed in the road as Army teams moved in at dawn, while onlookers were swept away and a nearby school gym roof collapsed during a gospel song event. Roadblocks and fires spread into surrounding woods as authorities investigated the cause. The driver, A W Fielding of Birmingham, warned bystanders before the blast.
The Senate narrowly rejected a Schweiker amendment 49 to 43 that would have extended the draft for one year. The move would have pressured President Nixon and Congress to address a further extension ahead of millions of newly enfranchised 18 to 20 year olds in the 1972 elections, shaping the political landscape before the election season.
Alice Swanson, sixth grade teacher in the Washington school system, named outstanding elementary conservation teacher in Washington County by Soil District Chairman Larry Shalla. Des Moines Register awards program sponsors regional entry. Jeanette Miksch and Virginia Holmes were other finalists. Judges assessed classroom climate for conservation, field trips, awareness of environmental issues, and student motivation to conserve natural and human resources.
Partly cloudy with scattered thundershowers tonight. Lows in the mid sixties. Sunday partly cloudy and a little cooler with highs in the lower eighties. Rain chances are 30 percent tonight and 20 percent Sunday.
Communist gunners fired about a dozen 122mm rockets into Da Nang and the U S airbase. Five civilians were killed and 10 wounded in residential areas near the base. U S Command and South Vietnamese sources reported casualties and damage at the base.
Covenant Lodge No 101 members in Crawfordsville presented a pin to Frank Bailey marking his sixty year milestone in the Odd Fellows. Bailey, 84, joined in Crawfordsville and transferred to Washington Lodge after his home lodge disbanded. A resident of Crawford and Wash ington Counties, he has rarely left the township, and a delegation of 12 members visited him this week, though age and stairs keep him from attending lodge sessions.
President Nixon dedicates the 1.2 billion McClellan Kerr navigation system forming an Oklahoma sea coast. He says the waterway linking the Arkansas and Verdigris rivers will spur growth, curb urban crowding, and attract investment, turning inland towns into seaports amid a broad regional development push. Governors Hall, Bumpers, and Love attend. Kansas Governor docking declines due to back surgery.
University of Washington scientist Robert E. Francois reports a hot water ice pick improvised on Arctic ice island T-3 near 250 miles from the North Pole can carve a 15 foot deep by 4 foot square pillar in hours. Assisted by Elbert Pence the device uses a circulated heated water edge through steel tubing to melt ice along the cut line. The system recirculates and reuses water until the pillar rests under the ice.
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