Fire calls and a civic roster across multiple towns
Washington firemen responded after 8 to the Dalziel residence at 620 South 12th Avenue to a mattress blaze with damage limited to bedding and smoke. Columbus Junction welcomed a new fire truck with 750 gpm capacity and 18 reels of booster line. Iowa Republicans urged 18 year olds gain full party participation. Zurich hospital wing fire killed 28, with 2 more in serious condition from smoke. Chelsea town meeting produced a familyia list of officials and relatives in key posts.
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Washington
Roger Dalziel
South 12Th Avenue
Columbus Junction
Columbus Benefit Fire District
Jon Bell
Young Voters Des Moines
UPI
Fred Schwengel
Iowa
S Union
Switzerland
Zurich
Pakistan to draft new constitution in East Pakistan crisis
President Yahya Khan announced the National Assembly will meet on March 25 in Dacca to draft a new constitution. The move follows a postponement sparked by a clash between East Pakistan's Mujibur Rehman and West Pakistan's Bhutto, triggering a general strike and riots with at least 73 dead.
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Karachi
Pakistan
UPI
Mohamad Yahya Khan
East Pakistan
National Assembly
Tol
Dacca
Yahya
Sheikh Mujibur Rehman
Awami League
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
West Pakistan
People’s Party
Mujibur
Roorda mocks demonstrators as pigs in capitol protest
Des Moines Iowa lawmaker Norman Roorda blasted protesters who rallied outside the capitol after President Nixon's Iowa speech. He contrasted peaceful marching with littering and chants, accusing some demonstrators of inconsistency and disfavoring U.S. involvement in Vietnam while urging a cautious withdrawal. He urged calm and responsibility.
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DES Moines
IDPA
Norman Borda
Capitol
Nixon
Monroe Republican
Iowa
Jasper County
Roorda
Ray weighs sales tax change to ease state finances
Governor Ray ponders monthly remittance of sales and use taxes to plug a multi million dollar gap. He cites a potential windfall of four to five million from monthly collection and resembles other states' practices while warning of an escalating deficit and a looming July 1 fix.
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DES Moines
IDPA
Robert D. Ray
Ray
Marvin Selden
Deadline passes as kidnaped airmen presumed alive in Ankara
UPI reports four U.S. Air Force airmen kidnapped by the Turkish People's Liberation Army were believed alive after the dawn deadline for execution passed. Leftist protests erupted as about 400 students blocked a highway near Tamir, with police and army moving into Ankara's Middle East Technical University amid disturbances.
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Ankara
Turkey
UPI
U.S
America
William J Handley
Turkish People’s Liberation Army
Air Force
Handley
Tamir
Port
Aegean
Istanbul
Middle East
Farm Records and Management Workshop Held March 9
A farm records and management workshop for husbands and wives is set for Tuesday March 9 in the basement meeting room of the Iowa Southern Utilities building on the square from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Speakers include Les Kral Jane Passmore and Jim Frier. Topics cover budgets record systems hog market prices family communication and maximizing crop income for both farm partners.
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Iowa Southern Utilities
Area Farm
Les Kral
County Extension Home
Jane Passmore
Jim Frier
Intercepted Memo Chiang Kai Formosa Mek Inquiry
Intercepted note questions ending hostilities with Peking and signs off with distinct personal closing. The fragment hints at a plea to cease pique and seek lasting peace, attributed to a Chiang Kai or similar figure. No clear dates, places, or formal entities are fully legible.
Nationalists warn Nixon over China policy in UN row
Chiang Kai-shek's government told Assistant Secretary Green that Nixon is wrong to think Peking will moderate hostility if allowed UN membership. They pressed that the United States is naive to expect normalization with the People's Republic of China after four years of Cultural Revolution. Egypt likely to accept Thant ceasefire call but oppose extended truce without US Soviet Britain and France pressure on Israel.
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Washington
UPI
China
United States
Nixon
Peking
United Nations
Chiang Kai-shek
Marshall Green
State Department
Chow Shu-kai
Robert J. McCloskey
People's Republic of China
United Press International
Cairo
Egypt
Thant
Middle East
Poke
al Ahram
Soviet Union
Britain
France
Israel
Anwar Sadat
Sadat
Chow
Department
Green
Car stopped by heroin overdose shocks Harbor City arrest
Three men were arrested in Los Angeles on narcotics possession for sale charges after their car died from a heroin overdose. Officers traced the vehicle from Los Angeles to Tijuana and back, finding 30 ounces of uncut heroin valued at about 600000 hidden in the gas tank. One balloon burst, diluting gasoline and clogging the fuel line.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Tijuana
Mexico
Harbor City
Apollo moon rocks puzzle scientists
SPACE CENTER Houston APL Apollo 14 returns the oldest and most puzzling moon rocks yet seen by man. Scientists say the rocks are fragments of several rock types fused by billions of years of meteorite impacts and may be part of the original lunar crust.
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Wilshire
Robin Brett
Manned Spacecraft Center
Brett
Michael B. Duke
Duke
Weather outlook for OWA region cloudy and cold
The forecast calls for cloudy skies tonight with colder temperatures. Lows range from 16 in the northwest to near 20 in the southeast. Sunday should stay cloudy and cold with highs around 30s.
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United Press International
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Saigon
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MEK
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