04 Oct 1969
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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1969
Page
1
Members of Local 159 International Mold ers Union Crane Branch meet at Washington County fairgrounds Sunday at 9 am to vote on ratification of a tentative contract with Crane Co. The AFL CIO affiliated union has been in negotiations with Crane Co. for some time.
Southport mayor Walter Prescott triggered a $36000 cataract opening in the town. Minutes later the fountain ran foam filled as pranksters dumped 50 pounds of detergent into the water pumps, leaving the area ankle deep in foam.
A predawn raid in Whittier Calif turns deadly when a 22 year old father Heyward H Dyer is killed by a bullet that passes through the floor from an upstairs gun as narcotics agents wrongly enter two apartments. One arrest made during the operation.
University of Iowa geologists recovered a complete bison skeleton from the Arling Hughes peat bog near Marion, tracing its origin to about 25,000 years ago. Radiocarbon dating and pollen analysis will refine the age as experts ponder why the ice age giant survived in peat, offering clues to Iowa’s ice age extinctions.
New Iowa Highway Commission lawyers ask Polk County District Court to drop the dispute with Atty. Gen. Richard Turner. They seek dismissal or dissolution of the temporary injunction while arguing the case violates a state statute prohibiting litigation between state administrative departments. Hearing set for Oct. 13 on dismissal and an intervention petition from an Iowa taxpayer.
Suspects alerted officials in Toledo Iowa when neighbors reported an elderly recluse Emma Zmolek 90 had died of natural causes several weeks earlier. Her daughter Blanche Zmolek 55 was found caring for the body after authorities forced entry and arranged a hearing with the Tama County insanity commission.
Undercover officer Mary Ellen Dahl testified in Chicago that Abbie Hoffman told demonstrators to bring bottles bricks and weapons for a Hilton hotel clash ahead of the 1968 Democratic National Convention. She described plans to storm Grant Park and the Hilton, with hundreds injured as police cleared streets near the hotel. The trial of eight conspiracy defendants paused for defense prep and other testimony aimed at Rubin identification.
United Press International reports cloudy conditions with a chance of rain spreading across Iowa tonight and Sunday. Lows range from the 50s in the northwest to the 60s elsewhere. Monday outlook calls for mostly cloudy and cooler weather.
South Vietnamese forces killed 42 Communist soldiers in three Mekong Delta battles 130 miles southwest of Saigon. U S B52s hit areas near the DMZ as Gen Earl G Wheeler visited Saigon. A U S 82nd Airborne clash northwest of Saigon left one paratrooper dead and four wounded. Viet Cong ambushed a jeep southwest of Saigon killing two American advisers.
An intercepted memo references ENRICO ENERIO and W.HLS with a courteous closing. The note wishes pleasant experiences and signs as WEJ. It reads as a brief personal communication rather than official business.
Rick Enrico a Philippine senior at Ateneo de Manila University is the American Field Service exchange student living in Washington. He carries seven subjects this year, taking some college level courses not offered in the Philippines and adjusting well. He speaks English fluently, sang in the chorus, and played basketball back home. He attended St. Paul College Dumaguete on Negros Island where the school runs K-12 and beyond, and he held top class ranks plus leadership roles in student government and preparatory military training.
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