Washington launches city cleanup campaign for eyesores
City officials led by Mayor Willits announce a sweeping residential cleanup plan in Washington Iowa. The drive targets dilapidated out buildings junk cars and unsafe structures with warnings and potential condemnation if owners refuse cooperation. Citizens urged to report blight and city pledges enforcement when needed.
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Week of Viet Nam fighting claims 156 U.S. deaths
The Defense Department reports 156 American servicemen killed in action in Viet Nam in the seven days ending Monday, raising the war’s combat toll to 2,491 and wounds to 12,028. The week marks the highest combat deaths this year, surpassing 121 in the week ended January 24. Since January 1, 894 Americans have been killed in combat.
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Viet Nam
Washington seeks women group help for tree replanting
City of Washington aims to develop plans to re plant trees lost or threatened by the Dutch Elm epidemic sweeping Iowa counties. Mayor Cloid Willits hopes a local women's service organization will lead and assist in a city wide re planting program and coordinating shrub and tree purchases with Kiwanis Club backing. He is ready to meet with any organization to broaden the effort.
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Harvard expert urges contact with China over isolation
Dr. John K. Fairbank of Harvard told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that isolation has increased Peking's aggressiveness and that engaging China on multiple fronts is needed. He cautioned against overreacting to Maoist plans and predicted a gradual mellowing of the Chinese revolution, while warning the U.S. cannot yet withdraw from South Vietnam and must maintain East Asia power balance.
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Peking
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Harvard University
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
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U.S
East Asia
North Viet Nam troops overrun US camp near Laos border
In Laos region near the Laotian border the enemy overran Camp A Shau after a two day siege as North Vietnamese regulars supported by 2,500 troops pressed the outpost defended by 12 to 13 U S special forces and 300 Montagnard tribesmen. Major Bernard Fisher and Major Stafford Myers were cited for air action during the crisis.
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Stafford W. Myers
Newport
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A Shan
Viet Nam
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Nguyen Chanh Thi
North Viet Nam
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da Nang
William McKean
5Th Special Forces
Reject voting by poor on OEO plans
R Sargent Shriver faced Congress to defend a 1.75 billion OEO program as votes by the poor in antipoverty elections were scrapped. Subcommittee chair Adam Clayton Powell criticized local poverty programs and urged withholding funds from New York, Chicago, and other sites after low turnout debates.
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Office of Economic Opportunity
Subcommittee
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Kansas City
Weather outlook for Iowa by United Press International
Considerable cloudiness tonight and Friday with scattered showers or thunder showers. Lows around 40 to 45, highs in the 60s, and Saturday looks partly cloudy and mild.
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United Press International
Iowa
Soviet dogs Blackie and Breeze push toward altitude record
Russian space dogs Blackie and Breeze report feeling quite satisfactory after 17 days in orbit as Tass notes a wealth of experimental data. They reach up to 560 miles from Earth and enter the Van Allen belt, aiming to pave the way for a manned flight to break orbital altitude and endurance records later this month.
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Tax cut reversal moves to conference for $1 billion trim
President Johnson’s Viet Nam era tax package advanced to House Senate conference aimed at restoring about $1 billion of its $6 billion revenue plan. Senate action trimmed revenue via Social Security rider and a 10 percent excise tax on local telephone calls, complicating the path to final passage.
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George A. Mathers
D-Fla
House
Winston L. Prouty
R-Vt
Wedneday
Trator
Probate notices for Knebel Hebner Shelangoski Bauer
Public notices announce probate of will and appointment of executor for Catherine A. Knebel and probate of wills plus appointment of administrators for Manton M. Hebner Anthony Robert Shelangoski and Keith Allen Bauer. A special election will decide the merger of Washington Township district in Johnson County with Mid-Prairie district.
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Catherine A. Knebel
Manton
M. Hebner
Anthony Robert Shelangoski
Keith Allen Bauer
Washington Township
Johnson County
Mid-Prairie
YWCA knitting course draws eager girls in Washington
Washington's YWCA offered a knitting course and far exceeded expectations with 45 young learners storming the doors. Debbie Laux poses with yarn and needles as the Journal captures a moment of concentration and humor in this hobby kickoff.
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