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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1971
Page
1
Washington County chairman William Perdock says local Republicans will attend an inner district meeting at the Captain's Table Thursday evening to plan reorganization after new counties joined the First District. Reservations are urged through Perdock. The event aims to align local party structure with expanded district boundaries.
Four people including three University of Iowa students face charges from the March 4 campus demonstration against the ROTC program. John W. Johnson, Ronnie Kindle, Gary Nelson, and Elaine Johnson are charged with resisting execution of process assault and battery and obstructing an officer. Hearing date not set.
Indira Gandhi's Congress Party wins 927 of 518 seats with a potential two thirds majority, enabling a Socialist program without coalition partners. The move shifts power away from princes and clarifies constitutional ambitions, despite earlier presidential decrees deemed unconstitutional.
A joint committee plans to cut Senate extras from the Social Security bill leaving a 10 percent across the board benefit rise. The conferees will likely drop the minimum payment increase and retain a 5 percent boost for those over 72. The retroactive rise would start Jan 1 1971 but appear in June or July checks. The measure aims for quick passage by Tuesday or Wednesday and approval by President Nixon.
Washington High School senior Mary Wagner directs choreography for the production Half a Sixpence to be staged March 25 27 in the high school auditorium. She plans to attend the University of Iowa majoring in drama and aims to perform or dance after graduation.
Iowa City VA Hospital director B F Brown announces Dial Access Medical Lectures offering instant telephone access to five to six minute medical talks. Operated with Wisconsin Regional Medical Program, the system serves over 5,000 physicians and interns across 166 VA hospitals, via FTS lines for mobile, up-to-date expert guidance.
DES MOINES UP I three persons including an 18 year old mother Ascension Fulbright and her two year old daughter Tammy plus 11 year old William Anthony Sheperd were killed when a two story frame house burned on the near northwest side early today Fire officials said William Sheperd 35 escaped by leaping from a second story window
Kissinger held a bittersweet meeting with three antiwar activists charged with plotting to kidnap him. William Davidson, Tom Davidson and Sister Beverly Bell described him as a good listener after the White House encounter. The federal indictment also names Rev. Philip Berrigan and two others as conspirators to kidnap Kissinger and damage heating tunnels to force withdrawal from Indochina.
An intercepted memo from MARJ WAGNER High School in a note stating the writer praises Wes and mentions balleting as a descriptor. The brief appears in a casual, personal communication style with no formal organizational details.
Ankara reports indicate President Sunay met with four top military chiefs who forced Premier Demirel to resign after an ultimatum. Diplomats warn a military takeover remains possible as consultations begin to form a new government. unrest reported in Inegol with leftist offices attacked. 14,000 U.S. personnel in Turkey remain indoors per NATO guidance.
UPI reports President Nixon told Republican Senator Brooke that U S ground combat troops will be out of South Vietnam by mid-1972 while air and support forces may remain. Senator Bentsen accuses Nixon of masking Laos and regional commitments and urges public disclosure of ongoing costs and risks. He notes Vietnamization proceeding well and hopes faster withdrawals.
Des Moines Iowa. A subcommittee considers removing inequities from towns that fail to report and remit the 3 percent sales tax on municipally owned parking lots. Rep. Joan Lipsky proposes exempting cities from the tax amid varied attorney general opinions.
A notice indicates a 180 Dass wu ites of special session of city court scheduled for today. Governing body and docket details are not fully legible in the fragment.
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