Wellman men charged in fox pelts theft at Wellman
Two 18 year old men from Wellman were arrested by county sheriff's officers and charged with larceny after 50 fox pelts were stolen from trapper Robert Embry. Kim Wasson and Kirby Miller are held on $1,000 bond each with a preliminary exam at 9 30 am Monday. Authorities say the heist is not tied to other Kalona Wellman thefts. The article also notes Capital City Bank plans to sell its majority stake to Edwin Langley and Philip Werner, effective January, with assets around 63 million dollars, making it the fifth largest bank in Des Moines.
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Wellman
Kim Wasson
Kirby Miller
Washington County
Robert Embry
Kalona-Wellman
Wasson
Kirby
Des Moines
UPI
Capital City Bank
Rolfe O. Wagner
Edwin Langley
Lincoln
Neb
Philip Werner
Hastings
Langley
Nebraska
Werner
Balloonist Oerman sets world record in hot air flight
Tom Oerman of Muscatine broke the world time aloft record for hot air balloons, flying nine hours and thirty-two minutes from Des Moines to Laprairie, Illinois. He earlier placed second in the national championships at Indianola, while Matt Whitiker of St. Paul held the previous distance record of 196.7 miles.
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Oreman
Indianola
Minor quake rattles homes across four states
A tremor measured at 4.75 on the Richter scale struck the Southern Appalachians at 2 50 am EST. Reports came from Eastern Tennessee Western North Carolina Western South Carolina and North Georgia with no injuries or major damage noted.
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Knoxville, Tenn
UPI
Appalachians
University of Mississippi
Seismological Laboratory
National Weather Service
Atlanta
Tennessee
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
T. J. Berdo to attend NAM parley in New York
T J Berdo of Washington will join 11 other Iowa high school business teachers at the 78th Congress of American Industry in New York December 6 and 7. He and his wife Georganne travel with sponsorship from McCleery Cumming Co to hear Henry Kissinger Milton Friedman Gerald Ford and William F Buckley Jr. The event at Waldorf Astoria aims to inspire classroom instruction with insights on the American enterprise system and capital formation.
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T. J. Berdo
Washington
Iowa
Congress of American Industry
New York
U. S
Henry Kissinger
Milton Friedman
Gerald Ford
William F. Buckley Jr
Berdo
Georganne
McCleery-Cumming Co
Waldorf-Astoria
Bertes
National Association of Manufacturers
McCleery-Cumming
Iowa Association of Manufacturers
Kissinger
Friedman
University of Chicago
Newsweek
Buckley
National Review
Ford
Weather Town Zone 13 Forecast
Partly cloudy and colder tonight and Saturday in Zone 13. Lows dip to 25 to 30 with winds turning north easterly. Saturday highs reach 45 to 50.
Nixon Discusses Energy Crisis With Emergency Council
President Nixon met with Secretary Shultz amid efforts to address the energy shortage. Rationing would be a last resort, as the energy bill stalls in the House Commerce Committee. Rep Jim Wright proposed a multimillion dollar gas tax funded fund for transit and energy research.
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Washington
UPI
Nixon
Emergency Energy Council
George P. Shultz
White House
Shultz
House Commerce Committee
Jim Wright
D-Tex
My Lai general fails to clear record for retirement
Brig. Gen. Samuel W. Koster, the top officer punished for the My Lai massacre, loses bid to restore major general rank and a distinguished service medal. He seeks removal of a censure over the 1968 inquiry, but Army Secretary Callaway affirms vacating his temporary rank as of his Dec. 16 retirement from Aberdeen Proving Ground.
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Washington
UPI
Samuel W. Koster
My Lai
Koster
Vietnam
Army
Howard H. Callaway
Army Test and Evaluation Command
Aberdeen Proving Ground
Callaway
Stanley) Resor
Three Fryer brothers charged in four Iowa slayings
Three Fryer brothers Allen Earl 39 David Lyle 24 and James Ray 21 were charged with four counts of murder each for the November 17 shotgun killings of four Sioux Falls teens at Gitchie Manitou State Park Iowa. An extradition hearing was planned as the case involving eight agencies unfolded.
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Sioux Falls
S.D
UPI
Lyon County
Iowa
Gitchie Manitou State Park
South Dakota
Minnesota
Allen Earl Fryer
Hartford
David Lyle Fryer
James Ray Fryer
Ike Skinner
Skinner
Iowa Bureau of Criminal Investigation
Lyon County Sheriff's Department
Civil Defense Auxiliary Police
White House accuses Watergate prosecutor staff of bias
The White House charged Leon Jaworski's office with ingrained bias and political aims in the Watergate hearings. Press Secretary Ziegler accused Richard Ben-Veniste and aides of pursuing headlines and questioned tape integrity while denying personal attack on Jaworski.
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Washington
UPI
White House
Leon Jaworski
Nixon
Ronald L. Ziegler
Jaworski
Ziegler
Richard Ben-Veniste
New
American Bar Association
Archibald Cox
Cox
Special Prosecutor
Information and referral plan aids Washington County elderly
The Area Agency on Aging will launch an information system in January to help seniors in Washington County access services. Local centers under Margaret Tuttle will answer inquiries from 9 a.m. to noon daily using a volunteer network. A county directory lists counseling, financial aid, medical care, nutrition, legal aid, employment and more. A training seminar for volunteers occurs December 18 with volunteers already chosen.
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Washington County
Area Agency On Aging
Margaret Tuttle
Washington
AAA
Rob Robinson
Robinson
Energy Awareness Week planned for Iowa schools
State Superintendent Dr. Robert Benton urges all Iowa school administrators to plan Energy Awareness Week for December 10 to 14 with faculty and student groups and seeks mayoral involvement. Gov. Ray to back energy conservation talks with Toastmasters. highway lighting to be cut by up to 80 percent. Meetings in Atlantic Iowa City Storm Lake and Waterloo discuss energy crisis with State Geologist Sam Tuthill and Maurice Van Nostrand.
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John N. Nassikas
Federal Power Commission
Labor Department
United Press International State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Robert Benton
Iowa
Robert D. Ray
Benton
Toastmasters International
Iowa Highway Commission
Sam Tuthill
Iowa Comerce Commission
Maurice van Nostrand
Atlantic
Iowa City
Storm Lake
Waterloo
Ray
Enery
Andy Norton
Ottumwa
Energy Conservation Committee
Joseph Coupal
Coupal
Niffenegger Hurt When Truck Overturns In Wapello Area
Ivan Niffenegger of route two Keota suffered injuries after his truck overturned and trapped him following a collision with a truck driven by Corwin Brown of Wapello near the intersection of highways 92 and 1. He was freed by a wrecker and transported to Mercy Hospital then Iowa City.
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Ivan Leo Niffenegger
Route Two
Keota
Mercy Hospital
Corwin Wenzil Brown
Wapello
Washington
Niffenegger
Brown
Washington County Hospital
Iowa City
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Georgia Institute of Technology
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Rock Rapids
Here
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Stewart Baade
Dana
Roger Essen
Michael Hadrath
Vinson
New York City
Gerald L. Warren
Illinois
John J. Sullivan
Leonard Garment
Douglas Parker
Housing and Urban Development Department
J. Fred Buzhardt Jr
Watergate
Ivan Niffenegger
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