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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1972
Page
1
Santa Claus will arrive by firetruck in Central Park at 6 30 p m to meet area youngsters and collect gift requests. The North Pole resident is expected to hand out candy during the visit.
Sheriff's deputies investigated a Thanksgiving night burglary at Farmers Supply Sales Inc in Kalona. Thieves took about $2000 in office equipment and merchandise including five snowmobile suits two calculators four adding machines a typewriter gloves and $13 in cash after forcing open a side shop door between 5 and 9 p.m.
In Oskaloosa Donald Sweitzer was fined 300 dollars and barred by a U S District Court order from further rent increases and from collecting rents violating the wage price freeze. The case involves a 14 unit complex with Sweitzer overseeing about 30 more units in the city and IRS orders to roll back $5 hikes. In Des Moines a man John Berry and his 15 year old son Roger were arrested after being seen hunting inside city limits. Berry faces four counts of illegal possession of game animals discharging firearms and driving without a license. Roger Berry faces similar animal and vehicle charges and was sent to juvenile authorities.
Des Moines IA. About 75 percent of Des Moines firemen have authorized their executive board to call a strike vote. The move follows city council rejection of an arbitration award while firemen remain under ordinance terms.
Mostly sunny and warmer this afternoon with highs in the upper 40s. Tonight and Saturday turn cloudy with a chance of rain and highs in the 40s. Lows tonight in the mid to upper 30s. Winds from the south to southwest at 10 to 20 mph. Rain chances near zero this afternoon, 40 percent tonight, and 50 percent on Saturday.
Goshen College sends 18 students to a 14 week overseas trimester in Central America. Judy Roth teaches English to sixth and seventh graders in Liberia while aiding community projects and studying Costa Rican culture.
U S. adviser Henry Kissinger met North Vietnam’s Le Duc Tho for about an hour in a private villa near Paris. Washington said a continuation is planned Saturday, with no advance timetable disclosed. Viet Cong criticized U S. support for Thieu amid ongoing negotiations.
A south Texas rancher Kenneth Adams 60 ex convict shot five Mexican male aliens in his ranch house kitchen near Laredo. He waited a day to report the killings and was jailed on a 100000 bond. One victim tied to Leon Buana Huato Mexico. authorities note high powered device used. Adams convicted in 1966 of fatal harm in a separate Dobie family case.
Bar bara Mills, 50, was fatally stabbed during a Thanksgiving quarrel over a turkey slice at a friend's home in Cleveland. Mills allegedly slashed at a man with a razor before the man stabbed her. the unnamed suspect was detained after treatment for facial cuts. The killing ties Cleveland's yearly homicide record at 294.
FBI arrests four Iowa residents on theft of government property and a crime on a government reservation after a Fort Des Moines motor pool burglary. Indicted are David Harkness Creston Steven Riggs Des Moines Roland Smith Nevada and William Ferris Des Moines. A fifth suspect John Romine 17 is being sought in Missouri. Fletcher Thompson said.
In a rare daytime clash, Israeli troops entered south Lebanon by helicopter near Ibl el Saqi and Khreibeh. Palestinian News Agency reports four guerrillas wounded while Israeli losses were unspecified. fighting lasted about an hour with casualties evacuated by helicopter.
Finland formally recognizes both the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic becoming the first Western nation to do so. Cabinet action followed telegrams to West German and East German leaders. Finland seeks full diplomatic ties and neutrality guarantees amid wartime status with the Soviet Union, with Kremlin tacit approval.
The Washington School Board sets general fund expenditures at 2 227 400 for 1973 74 with a 2 98 percent increase based on 2 150 projected students. A maximum 988 per student was set for this year and the allowable growth is 48 per student. The board declines sale of 47.58 acres from Busby farm and approves NC A evaluation team appointments for March 1973. A follow up class of 1972 study and policy changes on maternity leave are reviewed along with recent Iowa Supreme Court decisions on district boundaries and director elections.
Eight turkeys weighing 140 pounds fed the Joyce clan for a 95 member Thanksgiving at St. Pauls Lutheran Church hall. Agnes Joyce, 73, celebrated with 11 children, 40 grandchildren and 28 great grandchildren as relatives gathered from across the country for the holiday and birthday observance.
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