Ten Speakers Set for Soapbox at New Chautauqua
Ten speakers will address viewers on topics from women’s liberation to abortion and marijuana at a special New Chautauqua in Central Park at 3 p.m. Thursday. If rain, the event moves to City Hall. Bill Whittenberg will introduce the speakers, with a full schedule to be published Wednesday.
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Cookout King Contest Set For County Fair Week
Washington County Farm Bureau sponsors a Cookout King event open to all men. Chairman Louis Larsen announces details and notes winners may advance to the state fair barbecue day on August 22.
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Washington Municipal Band Opens Season In Central Park
The Washington Municipal Band presents its first concert of the season at 8 PM in Central Park on Wednesday. The program includes God Bless America Hosts of Freedom March Contempora Overture Rainy Days and Mondays Diamond Jubilee Concert March Bill Bailey The Mummers The Music Man Torch of Liberty March Summer of 42 Ode To Joy Cherry Pink Little Brown Jug Miss Liberty March Grant Us Thy Peace and Star Spangled Banner.
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Rotary Exchange Students Visit Washington for Overnight Tour
Rotary Foreign Exchange students will tour the Western states with an East start and midwest travel. Hosts in Washington and nearby areas will welcome them for overnight stays and a park picnic for host families.
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Iowa to fund family practice centers in state
Weather forecast predicts variable cloudiness with scattered showers this afternoon and cooler tonight. Northwest winds 10 to 18 mph today and 5 to 10 mph tonight. Wednesday mostly sunny with highs in the 70s. A Des Moines report notes a subcommittee approved 930000 dollars over two years to establish family practice centers aimed at keeping family oriented doctors in Iowa.
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Old Creamery Theatre Kids Shine In Stories Stories Stories
The Old Creamery Theatre Company delighted a full house in Washington High School with a one hour children's show Stories Stories Stories. Seven performers used simple props and imagination to bring nursery rhymes and short tales to life for tots and their families.
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Waterloo parents appeal busing plan to Iowa Supreme Court
The Neighborhood School Association of Waterloo filed an appeal with the Iowa Supreme Court seeking to halt the Waterloo School Board's forced busing plan set for next fall. NSA seeks an injunction reversal after a district court denied it.
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Governors Quiet About Presidency at Governors Conference
At the 65th National Governors Conference in Nevada Lake Tahoe, governors dodged outright talk of a 1976 bid. Reagan and Rockefeller offered guarded responses while reporters pressed on age and candidacy. Watergate dominated corridor chatter as Lucey urged Nixon's resignation and drew partisan rebuke.
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Local students present ten short films for New Chautauqua program
Ten films by high school students will be shown Thursday through Saturday as introductions to discussion periods. Titles include The Perils of Sebastian and The Monument, directed by local producers. runs range from four to twenty minutes with most six to eight. John L. Clark, ex Four Seasons Nursing Centers head, pleads guilty to $200 million stock fraud in New York.
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Ron Powers
Iowa State University
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Karlene Kerfoot
Joseph Mauch
Iowa Wesleyan College
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Nancy Horak
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Susan Gray
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Oklahoma City
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Magruder named in Watergate Senate hearing
Liddys former secretary Sally Harmony testified that after the June 17 1972 break in Jeb Stuart Magruder authorized payment for Gemstone stationery used to log tapped conversations and then Harmony shredded the bill She said Magruder signed the payment and she gave the invoice to him for his knowledge The committee rejected a postponement request from Archibald Cox as Senate hearings into the Watergate case continued.
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