Lunds office closed for July 9 moving day
The office of Ernest Lund, Washington County assessor, will close July 9 to move files and equipment to the McCreedy Building. The assessor will occupy remodeled round level offices. July 9 is moving day. Summer Creative Arts and Drama playground at Sunset Park cancels July 4 afternoon due to holiday. Meeting set July 3 at 1 p.m. with regular meetings on the following Tuesday and Wednesday. The playground ends after meetings July 17 and 18.
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Ernest Lund
Washington County
McCreedy
Sunset Park
Soviet TU134 crashes on takeoff in Amman injuring residents
A Soviet Aeroflot TU134 jet with seven passengers crashed on takeoff at Amman international airport, plunging into a nearby township. Officials reported several injuries among passengers and local residents, and three houses were destroyed with no fatalities indicated.
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Amman
Jordan
UPI
Iowa consumers gain three day cancel rule on door to door sales
Des Moines Iowa Attorney General Richard Turner said a new law allows consumers three days to cancel a contract with a door to door salesman starting Sunday. Exceptions apply when a single seller was contacted for emergencies property repair or when the buyer initiated the contact or for regulated insurance or securities.
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Des Moines
UPI
Iowa
Richard Turner
Towans
Turner
Youth Employment Service reports 20 youths placed in jobs
The Youth Employment Service notes 20 youths placed in community jobs this week. Rain delayed hay baling, reducing openings while awaiting more local work. Call 653-3272 at the Chamber of Commerce for odd jobs. for five weeks the totals show 89 placements, 96 registered youths, 90 openings.
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Youth Employment Service
Jeff Boshart
Washington
Jeff
Chamber of Commerce
Bailey sought sale of buried New Mexico gold to U S government
Boston attorney F Lee Bailey contacted John Mitchell about selling about 100 tons of gold buried in New Mexico to the federal government. The offer involved a potential legal arrangement to avoid prosecution under anti hoarding laws while Bailey denied any wrongdoing by his clients. The gold, worth about 250 million dollars, includes bars coins and artifacts and is buried on land leased to the Army. Bailey said a group of about 50 clients claim finder rights and that the gold was buried in the 1930s with motives to profit from a sale to the government.
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Boston
UPI
F. Lee Bailey
John N. Mitchell
New Mexico
Boston Globe
Bailey
White House
John W. Dean Ill
Senate
Watergate Committee
Mitchell
John
The
Globe
Pressure Nixon to testify amid Watergate clash
UPI reports John W. Dean III ended a week of testimony claiming Nixon knew of Watergate earlier and more than he admits. Senate Watergate Committee leaders urged Nixon to appear in person. White House rejects, saying no news conference while witnesses testify. Dean alleges Nixon signalled readiness to raise 1 million dollars to silence accused men, a claim the White House disputes as blackmail.
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Washington
UPI
John W. Dean III
Nixon
White House
Dean
Senate Watergate Committee
Sam J. Ervin Jr
D-N.c
New York Tribune
Abraham Lincoln
House Judiciary Committee
Baker
Howard Baker Jr
R-Tenn
Woodrow Wilson
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Ronald L. Ziegler
H.R. Haldeman
House Moves To Refile Social Security Increase Amid Veto Risk
The House killed temporarily the proposed 5.6 percent Social Security benefit rise for 30 million elderly Americans to reintroduce it in a veto safer form. White House objections included fiscal concerns and potential income loss for veterans and welfare beneficiaries. The move aimed to clear the debt ceiling bill and avert a government funding crisis.
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Washington
UPI
House
White House
Melvin R. Laird
Cambodia
U.S
Indochina
Weather Outlook For Iowa Three Day Period
United Press International reports Iowa's three day outlook from Monday to Wednesday includes scattered showers Monday and Monday night, then partly cloudy conditions Tuesday and Wednesday. Highs range from 85 to 93 Monday and cool to 77 to 85 Tuesday and Wednesday, with lows from 68 to 73 Monday down to 58 to 64 by Wednesday. In other items, a Missouri businessman was ordered to refund about 32,000 to students in Des Moines and Davenport who attended his keypunch school after job promises failed to materialize.
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United Press International
Iowa
Des Moines
UPI
Missouri
Davenport
Two charged with three violations in local court
Michael John Vargason of Washington pleaded guilty to three charges in justice of the peace court and paid a $25 fine on each. Chris Allen Beliel of Washington pleaded not guilty and posted bond. The charges include disturbing the peace excessive noise with mufflers and resisting a police officer. A hearing is set next week in the new magistrate court.
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Michael John Vargason
Washington
Justice of the Peace Court
Chris Allen Beliel
Ray signs town bills expanding safety and election power
Governor Robert D. Ray approved 26 measures including safety inspections for amusement rides, higher salaries for state decision makers and judges, and a landmark overhaul of Iowa election laws. The package also updates Town election rules to align with court rulings and reorganizes party central committees, with most bills taking effect August 15 unless signed before July 1.
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Ray
Des Moines
UPI
Robert D. Ray
Long solar eclipse darkens Africa and Brazil regions
Scientists in Mauritania and across Africa observe the second longest sun eclipse in over a millennium. The shadow crossed from Brazil to Africa, reaching Nouakchott at 6 39 a m EDT, lasting seven minutes and four seconds. Weather issues and experiments influenced deployment while researchers in aircraft and on the ground gathered data on sun, climate, and biology.
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Nouakchoty
Mauritania
UPI
Brazil
Africa
Atlantic Ocean
Indian Ocean
Fone
Kenya
Loiyengalani
Nouakchott
SU Pays Half of 168 571 Tax Bill In County
Iowa Southern Utilities paid 308 200 toward the county tax bill to cover the first half of total property taxes for 1972 in Washington County. Johnson notes taxes within incorporated areas total 91 896 and outside lines 66 675. The company holds 3.919 miles of lines, with annual taxes about 157 per mile. The 1972 annual report lists total taxes at 9 242 737, up 665 501 from 1971, equal to revenues from urban electric residential customers for January to November. Taxes equal 8.1 cents per dollar of revenue, state and federal taxes 16.4 cents, totaling 24.5 cents per dollar of revenue.
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Iowa Southern Utilities
Ted Johnson
Washington County
Iowa Southern
Johnson
Meat packer warns of meat rationing
Roy Edwards of Wilson and Co., Inc warned that the United States faces a major meat shortage within a year due to unprecedented slaughtering of breeding herds. He predicted a pork shortage by next year and a beef shortage in early 1974 as livestock producers send sows and litters to slaughter to offset high feed costs under Nixon price controls.
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Cedar Rapids
UPI
Roy Edwards
Wilson and Co., Inc
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