News in Brief from Across the Nation and World
Atlantic City liquor dealers halt convention deliveries due to a two week Teamsters strike. Congressman-elect James W. Symington praises Everett Dirksen for “making the world safe for folk singers.” Antiwar protesters confront Dow recruiters at Marquette University after canceled interviews. California Board of Education refunds $16,765 to Los Angeles and $6,833 to San Francisco amid sales tax reversals. Argonne scientists oppose Army antiballistic missile site near Chicago. U.S. battle deaths dip to five week low. 1,031 U.S. wounded as 1,838 Communists killed in Saigon area.
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Iowa Development Commission seeks 430000 more state funds
Des Moines UPI Iowa Development Commission asked for over 430000 annually in state appropriations to raise salaries to compete with other states. Director John Johnson cited a 50 percent turnover and the need for eight more staff to fill openings. Budget hearings continued through December 10 with Gov elect Ray reviewing all agency requests.
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Dairy Industry Commission
Money crisis looms as rich nations near swap plan
Bonn reports a 10-nation crisis meeting nears a 1 billion swap arrangement to bolster France and avert chaos. Banks in Switzerland say devaluing the pound and revaluing the mark are alternatives as France loses gold reserves and speculators push the franc down. West German Finance Minister Strauss says a solution outline is emerging amid heated talks.
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Switzerland
Franz-Josef Strauss
Bank of France
Water Experts Discuss Intercepted Memo In Washington
An intercepted memo from Washington notes water use could have a sobering effect. The message, signed by WEJ, addresses water policy and its potential impacts.
Iowa Weather Forecast From UPI Tonight and Friday
Generally fair conditions for Iowa with overnight lows from the upper 20s in the northwest to the mid 30s in the southeast. Friday highs range from the around 50 in the northeast to the low 60s in the southeast.
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Water shortage warning in U.S. report to Congress
A Johnson administration warning says Americans may use more water than nature can provide within 50 years. The 472 page Water Resources Council report notes demand could exceed supply by 2020, with regional disparities and serious pollution issues in the Great Lakes region. Alaska shows few water problems while the lower Colorado and Rio Grande basins face critical shortages.
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Mines trap 78 as fires spread in coal disaster
In Mannington West Virginia explosions and fires worsened, filling tunnels with deadly carbon monoxide. Seventy eight miners remain trapped after blasts, with rescue efforts delayed as company officials and union leaders express cautious hope. Some miners were rescued earlier, saved by lowered buckets.
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W. Va
UPI
William Poundstone
Consolidation Coal Co
Poundstone
W. A
Tony) Boyle
United Mine Workers
UMW
Washington
Boyle
David H. Davis
Farm Bureau Presses Change in School Financing
Iowa Farm Bureau at its annual meeting urged shifting school funding away from property taxes with a cap of 25 percent on operating costs. Delegates backed a larger personal property tax credit, change to assessment law to use productive use in valuing land and buildings, opposes using estimated land sale price, and urged full payment of agricultural land tax credits. They favor local reorganizations to improve programs, oppose mandatory enrollment growth, and support local decisions. The group also endorsed a national land retirement reserve with bids, outdoors use, and a long range plan costing one to one and a half billion, plus calls for reform of feed grain programs and a ten to fifteen year retirement horizon.
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National Food and Recreation Reserve
North Vietnam rebuilder moves stockpiles toward DMZ
UPI reports informed U.S. sources say North Vietnam is launching a crash effort to repair bombed highways and reroute materiel south toward the DMZ. Laborers work on Highway 1 as photo intel notes hundreds of workers clearing the coast route. In the south, Hoi An suffers the costliest shelling since bombing paused last November amid anticipated Communist offensives.
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Iowa Democrats elect Frommelt as minority leader in Senate
Andrew Frommelt of Dubuque, 47, was chosen minority leader of the Iowa Senate by Democratic colleagues after losing a bid for lieutenant governor. He has held the post before, with prior terms as Senate majority leader in 1965 and 1967, and as minority leader in earlier sessions.
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UPI
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Dubuque
Iowa
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NATO presses new Mediteranean air command in warning
In Naples NATO unveiled Maraimed a new air command to hunt Soviet ships and subs in the Mediterranean and warned that any crisis there or in the Middle East would have world consequences. US Rear Adm. Edward C Outlaw leads the force with American Italian and British planes and Greece Turkey may join. France cooperates though it plans NATO withdrawal from some activities. General Lemnitzer cited a growing Soviet fleet presence and linked it to historic Russian aims.
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Czechoslovakia
Lemnitzer
Bank Robbery Hits Booneville Iowa Bank
Gunmen robbed Farmers & Merchants Bank in Booneville, taking an estimated thousands of dollars in mixed bills. They forced manager E. E. Cushman and customer Glenn Hartz into a vault, locked them inside, then fled in a white 1960s car. Cushman, 67, said the sum was in small bills including twenties tens and fives. He described the suspects as two white men aged about 30 to 35. Booneville lies six miles southwest of Des Moines and the bank had a prior heist two years earlier.
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American Legion
Glenn Hartz
Dallas County
Des Moines
Winterset
German freighter Cap Colorado Fire Kills Three
The German freighter Cap Colorado carrying meat and wool was crippled by a fire in the Pacific about 1,000 miles northeast of Honolulu. Eight crewmen remained aboard as survivors were rescued from lifeboats by the Indian ship Sumdra Gupta Jayanti. The blaze killed three of the 37 crew, and the cause and extent of damage were not yet known. The ship, en route from Brisbane to Vancouver, sent a distress call and reported the fire under control.
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Washington City Council Minutes and County Ambulance Bid Notice
Public notices include minutes of the Washington City Council meeting and a call for bids on county ambulance service. A canvass report on county voting and a city ordinance governing natural gas installations are also published.
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