Farmers make strides in field work catch ups
DES MOINES UPI Farmers in Iowa are catching up on spring field work but corn planting and plowing lag due to rain and mud. Only 18 percent of corn planted statewide versus 30 percent last year and 6 percent above the five year average. Northwest Iowa leads with about 50 percent planted, while southeast and south central report around 5 percent. Plowing is 61 percent complete versus 90 percent last year and 95 percent average. Oats seeding at 80 percent, soybeans just starting, with hay and pastures in good to fair shape. Topsoil moisture shows 84 percent surplus and 16 percent adequate.
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DES Moines
UPI
Iowa
Iowa Weekly
South Central
Rae faces double challenge in district school board race
Incumbent Earl F Rae runs for re election in Washington Community School District Board of Education against a 13 year school teacher and a secretary in the director district 2 race. James D Gorham a Columbus Junction principal and former science teacher discusses plans for better school community communication and emphasis on guidance staff at elementary level.
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Washington
James D. Gorham Gorham
Columbus
Columbus Junction
Columbus Community
Colorado State College
WHS
Gorham
E. Main St
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Robert G. Moss
Moss
Second Ave
State Highway Commission
Ann
Jane
Ottumwa
Rae
Washington Community
Fourth Ave
University of Arizona
Farm Bureau reports rise in Iowa livestock rustling losses
Iowa Farm Bureau says 56 counties saw more than 164000 dollars in cattle and hog thefts from January through April, with 278 cattle and 1600 hogs stolen. Losses for the period equal 63 percent of 1972’s total, prompting officials to cite higher market prices and possible interstate rings as factors.
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Des Moines
UPL
Iowa Farm Bureau
Iowa
Farm Bureau
Livestok
Towa
Murphy elected Southeast Iowa Elementary Principals President
Gary Murphy of Washington was chosen president for 1973 74 at the spring meeting held Monday at Captain's Table. Officers include Wally Sutton vice president Bill Cameron district rep Gordon Cook secretary and Fred Shettler treasurer. Washington High School Concert Band will perform Thursday at 7 45 p m in Central Park, weather permitting.
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Washington
Southeast Iowa Elementary Principals Association
Walter Hetzel
Iowa Educational Broadcasting Network
Educational TV
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Mt. Pleasant
Bill Cameron
Keokuk
Gordon Cook
Sigourney
Washington High School
Central Park
Senate panel blocks final Iowa wine sales bill at least for session
The Senate Ways and Means Committee rejected the final bill to allow wine sales in Iowa grocery stores on a 6-5 vote with two abstentions. Earlier the full Senate refused to debate the other private wine sales measure, as opponents warned of higher alcoholism traffic deaths and increased per capita consumption under aggressive advertising threatening the liquor monopoly.
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Senate
Ways and Means
Iowa
Pork plant shutdown in Harlan amid labor dispute
Officials at the Western Iowa Pork Plant in Harlan said operations are stopped indefinitely, idling about 165 workers. The shutdown stems from a prolonged labor dispute with Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workmen Local P-1225 as talks on a new contract have stalled since the old pact expired February 27.
Balloon bursts during launch from Sioux City Airport
A huge polyethylene balloon built to lift a cosmic ray probe burst shortly after launch from Sioux City Airport Monday night. The 27 mile high balloon, launched by an eight man NCAR crew from Palestine Texas, settled back to the ground with instruments undamaged.
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UPL
National Center For Atmospheric Research
Palestine
Texas
Weather update for today and midweek
Weather brief reports sunny with west to southwest winds 12 to 22 mph and highs near 70. Tonight partly cloudy and warmer with west to northwest winds, low in the lower 50s. Wednesday partly cloudy and cooler with highs in the lower to mid 60s.
Skylab suffers overheating as shield loss delays crew launch
Skylab ran into overheating in orbit after the aluminum meteoroid shield tore loose during launch. NASA officials said temperatures reached about 100 degrees in parts of the lab while engineers study cooling options. The three astronauts Pete Conrad Joseph Kerwin and Paul Weitz returned to Houston to help revise the mission plan as Sunday launch was considered.
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UPI
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Joseph P. Kerwin
Paul J Weitz
Houston
Space Station
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Hutchinson
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Huntsville
Ala
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Nto
Eugene Kranz
Johnson Space Center
Kranz
Skyla
Wiretap records found in White House safe in Watergate case
FBI records of wiretaps on newsmen and government officials from 1969 to 1971 were recovered from a White House safe. Acting FBI Director William Ruckelshaus described tense removal with Secret Service guards. Henry Kissinger denied initiating taps while indicating possible involvement with Hoover and the case. Separate note: Federal Judge Harold Tyler Jr declined to be Watergate prosecutor, narrowing to three candidates.
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FBI
White House
John D. Ehrlichman
William D. Ruckelshaus
Ruckelshaus
Secret Service
Henry A. Kissinger
J. Edgar Hoover
Kissinger
Dr. Kissinger
Hoover
John N. Mitchell
UPI
Harold R. Tyler Jr
Elliott L. Richardson
Tyler
New York
Richardson
Capitol Hill
W York
Senate panel seeks immunity for Dean and mystery witness
The Senate Watergate committee voted unanimously to ask courts for partial immunity for John W. Dean to testify before the panel. It also moved to obtain an immunity order for a mystery witness, Roy Sheppard, not previously named in connection with the scandal.
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Washington
UPI
John W. Dean
Senate Watergate Committee
Roy Sheppard
Hughes cites Laos and Cambodia bombing since cease-fire
Senator Harold E Hughes claims the United States dropped over 145000 tons of bombs on Laos and Cambodia since the Vietnam cease-fire, at a cost exceeding 250 million dollars. He warns the amount rivals U.S. airpower in Japan during World War II and notes the Cambodia outlay could fund education budget restores.
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UPI
Harold E Hughes
Iona
Vietnam
United States
Laos
Cambodia
Japan
Hughes
Senate
U.S
Sacramento teen pays record price for first Superman comic
Mitchell Mehdy, 18, of Carmichael, buys the June 1938 first Superman issue for 1,801.26, a record price cited by Berkeley and Hollywood comic shops. Mehdy, dubbed "king of the comics," collects about 2,000 titles worth around 20,000. The book was bought from Theodore Holstein, 26, who had acquired it from an Arizona collector.
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Calif
UPI
Mitchell Mehdy
Carmichael
Moi
Meldy
Theodore Holstein
Arizona
Berkeley
Hollywood
Mehdy
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