Washington Concert Association to launch membership drive dinner
The Washington Concert Association opens its annual enrollment with a Tuesday dinner for campaign workers at 6 30 p m at The Willows. Chairman Mrs Richard Paul and committee members Mrs E D Morrison and Mrs John Thorne lead this year s effort with workers urged to note the date Tuesday March 14.
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Washington Concert Association
the Willows
Richard Paul
E. D. Morrison
John Thorne
Burglar Strikes Prairie Flower School West Of Washington
Thieves broke into Prairie Flower School eight miles northwest of Washington in Cedar township during the night Wednesday. They ransacked the office and escaped with a small amount of money, a tape recorder, and a radio. Entry was gained by smashing a window in an attached mobile unit. intruders used shop tools to access the office. Officials say only coins from a pop machine and a few dollars of hot lunch program money were missing. The sheriff's office investigates.
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Prairie Flower
Washington
Cedar Township
Street cleaning plea for Washington motorists tonight
Street Commissioner Orville Long asks Washington drivers to clear the square and nearby blocks by midnight so business district streets can be washed tonight. The notice emphasizes removing parked cars to allow street cleaning operations in the area.
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Orville Long
Washington
Weekend Rain Outlook With Cool Temperatures
Light rain remains possible into Saturday with highs in the mid to upper 40s. Tonight's low near 35 to 40, easterly winds 8 to 18 mph. Precipitation chances drop from 70 percent tonight to 50 percent Saturday as the system moves away.
Counties stash 18.5 million in unspent road funds
Iowa counties hold more than 18.5 million dollars in unspent county road funds at the end of 1972, with 33 of 9% counties reporting balances above 200 thousand. Polk leads with 965,373, followed by Pottawattamie 650,323 and Scott 617,001, as debates over funding and appropriations continue in Des Moines.
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Des Moines
UPI
State Comptroller’s Office
Iowa
United Press International
Comptroller
House
Robert D. Ray
State General Fund
Ray
Marvin Selden
Selden
Iowa County Engineers Association
Iowa Good Roads Association
Polk County
Pottawattamie County
Scott County
Crawford County
Black Hawk
Allamakee
Fremont
Johnson
Jasper
Linn
Rain spreads across nation with storms and snow
UPI reports wet weather across the country with two tornadoes in southeastern Kansas and additional twisters elsewhere. Showers and thunderstorms stretch from the Plains to the Lower Mississippi Valley and Tennessee, while heavy fog covers the Atlantic coast. Snow falls in higher elevations from the southern intermountain region to the Rockies, with winter storm watches in the Arizona and New Mexico mountains and snow advisories for southern Nevada travelers.
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United Press International
Kansas
Tennessee
Mississippi
Atlantic
Accord reaches in principle on Wounded Knee stand-off
UPI reports Justice Department spokesman John Hushen says agreement in principle with American Indian Movement leaders could settle the Wounded Knee crisis near Pine Ridge South Dakota. Negotiations focus on departure timing for militants and procedural steps while hostages were freed after two days.
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Wounded Knee,sd
UPI
Justice Department
Wounded Knee
AIM
John Hushen
Pine Ridge
Natural Gas Pipeline plans $12 million storage expansion
Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America announced a five field expansion costing about 12 million dollars to boost underground storage for the 1973-74 heating season. Facilities in Illinois Iowa and Oklahoma will add 80 million cubic feet on peak days and 8 billion for the season to meet delivery needs.
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Chicago
Natural
M. Salvino
Iowa
Illinois
Peoples Gas
Gulf of Mexico
Trinidad
U.S. Southwest
Sayre
Okla
Cairo
Columbus City
Loudon and
Herschel Northwest
Washington Community School District Early Dismissal Monday
Students will depart at 2 p.m. on Monday March 12 as teachers in their buildings attend meetings for curriculum revision and study. Elementary teachers meet by grade level and secondary teachers by subject area with parents asked to have children home about an hour and a half early. regular schedule resumes Tuesday March 13.
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Washington Community School
London bombings prompt IRA probe across city
Police questioned IRA sympathizers as London hunted for bombers after two blasts killed one and injured 259. Scotland Yard checked 70 suspicious cars, evacuations occurred, and 10 suspected attackers were detained. two more car bombs were defused and Prime Minister Heath urged action amid a tense, security‑driven city.
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London
UPI
Irish Republican Army
IRA
Scotland Yard
Hadeen
Provisional
Belfast
Ireland
Edward Heath
Robert Carr
No. 10
Downing Street
Old Bailey
Heinz Hartkopf
Burlington Northern to close Washington branch line depot
Burlington Northern plans to rearrange agency service in Washington on March 15 and retire the depot building. Agent Leon Johns, here since 1965, will transfer to Glenwood as BN trims staff citing low business. trains will still deliver freight to Washington. The depot, serving since the 1880s, dates its final era as a dying piece of local rail history.
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Burlington Northern
North Sixth Ave
Journal
Burlington Northern Railroad
Grand Central
C. F. Ander
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
Cb&q
Kissimmee
Fla
Anderson
Cha Franzen
Washington
Leon Johns
Little Depot
Charles Franzen
West Main St Johns
Glenwood
Burlington
Johns
D.S. Nelson
Ottumwa
Burlington To
Milwaukee Road
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
Franzen
Mediapolis
Winfield
Crawfordsville
Childee
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U.S. Cavalry
Great Plains
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Here
Ralph Erickson
Erickson
U.S. Atorney
Richard Kleindienst
White House
Upper Midwest
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