Hills railroad to abandon 63 mile line to Montezuma
United Press International reports Rock Island Lines in Iowa won ICC authority to discontinue service from Hills to Montezuma effective July 15. The 63 mile line yielded about 2 percent of freight cars daily and losses exceed 120000 dollars yearly. Public hearings were held in Iowa City in May 1971. Hills will still be served by the railroad elsewhere.
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United Press International
Rock Island Lines
Iowa
Interstate Commerce Commission
Ilroad
Hills
Montezuma
Iowa City
Riverside
Kalona
Wellman
Kinross
South
English Webster
Kesswick
Thornburg
Gibson
Barnes City
U S bombs hit near Saigon as fighting rages in South Vietnam
Communist forces overran two outposts at Rach Kien 17 miles south of Saigon. U S B 52 raids touched within 27 miles of the capital, the closest since three years. At Lai Khe base camp near An Loc, saboteurs fired mortars in pre dawn attack. two saboteurs killed, five South Vietnamese wounded.
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Saigon
UPS
Rach Kien
U.S
Long An
Can Giuoe
Lai Khe
An Loc
Mayo Clinic finds nonaddictive drug to curb heroin craving
Mayo Clinic researchers Kerr and Pozuelo report alphamethyl-para-tyrosine AMPT reduces morphine craving and withdrawal in addicted rhesus monkeys by inhibiting monoamine production near the hypothalamus. They say AMPT could offer a safer human treatment, avoiding substitution with addictive drugs.
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Rochester, Minn
UPI
Mayo Clinic
Drederick W. L. Kerr
Jose Pozuelo
Iowa Weather Forecast Cloudiness and Thunderstorms Move East
United Press International reports cloudiness and thundershowers spreading into central Iowa tonight and east Sunday. Lows range from the 40s in the northeast to the 50s in the west, with Sunday highs in the 70s.
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United Press International
Iowa
Ray assails opponents at Black Hawk GOP gathering
Governor Robert D. Ray accused Democratic rivals Paul Franzenburg and Sen. John Tapscott of offering unlimited promise over performance at a Black Hawk County Republican convention. He faulted Franzenburg over past office budgeting and called Tapscott’s welfare and prison reform critiques exaggerated. Ray praised Nixon’s handling of inflation and condemned Democratic Vietnam War policies, stressing contrast between promise and performance.
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Ray
Franzenburg
Lowa
Tapscott
Fort Madison
George McGovern
Hanoi
Nixon
Illinois youth given life term for Shamrock Tavern killings
Sherman White, 18, was sentenced by Judge Lowell Phelps in a Scott County court to life for three murder convictions tied to the Shamrock Tavern shootings in January. He also received 25 years on each of three robbery with aggravation counts and up to 30 years on two assault convictions, with all terms to run concurrently. Two patrons and the bartender died, and two customers were wounded. four other Rock Island teens face trial on related charges.
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Davenport
UPI
Rock Island
Scott County District Court
Lowell Phelps
Sherman White
State Penitentiary
Fort Madison
White
Shamrock Tavern
Plan for Cedar Rapids Nuclear Plant by Two Iowa Utilities
Officials from Iowa Electric Light and Power Co and Iowa Power and Light Co announced preliminary plans for a second nuclear plant in Iowa. They disclosed ongoing negotiations to meet rising 1980s energy demand, with no site or design yet chosen and both firms in preliminary agreements. Iowa Electric Light has Palo plant experience, while Quad-Cities Nuclear Power Station in Cordova, Illinois involves Iowa Illinois Gas and Electric Co and Commonwealth Edison.
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Cedar Rapids
UPI
Iowa
Duane Arnold
Iowa Electric Light and Power Co
Iowa Power and Light Co
Des Moines
Arnold
Iowa Electric Light
Palo
Iowa - Illinois Gas and Electric Co
Commonwealth Edison of
Chicago
Quad-Cities
Cordova
Mosquitoes In Polk County Yield St Louis Encephalitis Virus
Iowa health officials report Polk County mosquitoes carried the St Louis virus linked to encephalitis. The finding, first since 1966, prompts watchful surveillance though Dr Julius Conner says there is no panic. Encephalitis symptoms start with fever and headache and can require hospitalization.
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Des Moines
UPI
Polk County
St. Louis
Iowa
Julius Conner
Flash flood devastates Rapid City in South Dakota
A flash flood swept Rapid City, injuring and displacing residents as creeks surged into rivers. Four bodies recovered, many treated for burns and exposure, with power outages and gas line explosions triggering fires. Water contamination fears rise as shelters open and relief crews mobilize.
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St. John McNamara Hospital
Sheriff's Office
Bennet-Clarkson Memorial Hospital
Don Kosmicki
Kosmicki
Rapid City Fire Department
Pork group to meet Tuesday for district nine Pork Appreciate Day
Washington County Pork Producers plan district nine Pork Appreciation Day Tuesday at the Junior High School. The highlight is crowning the district nine Park Queen with Peggy Chabal of Riverside as entrant and Nancy Vittetoe 1971 queen on hand. Duane Yoder of Kalona is guest. Earl Wright of Brighton nominated for state Master Pork Producer. A Porkette meeting for producers’ wives is also planned. Washington County ranks seventh among U.S. hog producers at 403,691 head annually, with Town leading state output at 25 percent of national hogs.
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Washington County
PPA
Peggy Chabal
Ed Chabal
Riverside
Nancy Vittetoe
Duane Yoder
Kalonial
Kalona
Earl Wright
Brighton
U.S
Town
Washington youth to attend Explo ’72 in Dallas
Six area youths from Washington will join about 70 000 U S attendees at Explo 72 the International Student Congress on Evangelism in Dallas Texas June 12 17 1972 The Campus Crusade for Christ event aims to train students to share faith with 100 leaders and culminates in a June 17 mass rally expected to draw up to 250 000 people featuring Billy Graham and a large reunion of God s Forever Family
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Washington
Dallas
Tex
U.S
Bonnie Bannister
Celia Brenneman
Kathy Tuttle
Rusty Bannister
Matt Baldrige
Sannia Shamdin
Campus Crusade For Christ
Billy Graham
God's Forever
Two County Friday Car Accidents Reported
Two traffic crashes occurred Friday night in the county. A Riverside youth was taken to University Hospitals in Iowa City with head and possible internal injuries after Larry Russ’s car struck the English River bridge south of Riverside around 6 p.m. In Crawfordsville area, racer Ramo Stott’s truck and trailer were damaged about two miles south of town when the driver fell asleep at the wheel. The stock car suffered minor damage and Stott was not seriously hurt.
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Riverside
University
Iowa City
Larry Russ
English River
Russ
Highway Patrol
Ramo Stott
Crawfordsville
Stott
Cedar Rapids
Muskie Withholds Backing as McGovern Leads Nomination Race
United Press Internationals report notes Sen Edmund S Muskie refused to back Sen George McGovern amid fears of a Democratic split if he wins the nomination McGovern frames Muskie’s action as a compliment to Democrats while others urge centrist support In a tense scene McGovern cancels a trip after a bomb threat halted his charter jet with 38 people evacuated and an NBC cameraman hospitalized with injuries.
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United Press Internation
Edmund S. Muskie
Sen
C McGovern
McGovern
Muskie
New York
Humphrey
Hubert H. Humphrey
California
Wilbur D. Mills
Omaha
Neb
Henry M. Jackson
Nixon
Senate
Hugh Scott
Scott Gop
Robert J Dole
Sen. McGovern
Vietnam
el Kennedy
Assa
Robert F. Kennedy
Holy Cross Hospital
Kennedy
Wallace
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Pittsburgh
UPI
George Stovern
NBC
Honor Kim Walker shines at Boys State event
Kim Walker of Washington High School earned secretary and outstanding citizen honors at Camp Dodge for the 832 attendees. He won the Donald E. Johnson scholarship of 100 dollars and was named one of two alternates to Boys Nation in Washington, D C. He studied government procedures, toured state offices, and met Secretary Melvin D Synhorst during the week before returning home Friday night.
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Kim Walker
L.M. Walker
Washington High School
Legion Post
Boys State
Camp Dodge
Des Moines
Donald E. Johnson
Walker
Boys Nation
Washington, D.C
Melvin D. Synhorst
Secretary of State
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Carter
Atlanta
Democratic Platform Committee
Georgia
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Maryland
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