Carter Ford plan for final debate and campaign push
President Ford and Jimmy Carter prepare for a final Williamsburg Va debate with a 10 day closing campaign. Dole and Mondale press Midwest voters while Carter touts lead shifts and fund use. Polls boost Carter after foreign policy win and Illinois straw poll shows strong Carter edge.
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United Press International
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al Smith
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Carter
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Gallup
Chicago Sun-Times
Illinois
Voter registration deadline nears in Iowa counties
Final week to register for the November 2 general election with Saturday October 23 as the deadline. Washington County auditor Walter Schroeder says the courthouse will stay open to sign up voters until 5 p.m. and mobile registrars are available countywide. In Keota, volunteer firefighters have fought multiple blazes including on Leonard Sieren Jim Snakenburg Bob McDowell farms a car at Mike Flynn home and a tree at Harper.
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Washington County
Walter Schroeder
Keota
Leonard Sieren
Jim Snakenburg
Bob McDowell
Mike Flynn
Harper
Where's 016163 Washington Mt Pleasant ball unclaimed
The Evening Journal reports ticket stub 016163 won the game ball bestowed by the De-Mon Booster Club after the Washington Mt Pleasant football game on Friday night. WHS Athletic Director Tom English says the球 remains unclaimed and is available at the high school office to the bearer of the winning number.
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Evening Journal
Washington-Mt. Pleasant
WHS
Tom English
English
Snow Likely Across Iowa By Tuesday
A weather system moving from the Plains could bring rare October snow across much of Iowa by Tuesday. Temperatures were in the 20s to 30s with early light flurries reported in extreme northwest Iowa as the National Weather Service warned of potential record snowfalls.
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Ol’ Man
Iowa
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Plains States
Dakotas
Mississippi Valley
NWS
Des Moines
Fourteen named to 4-H Council from Washington County
Ten new 4-H Washington County Council members were elected at the 4-H Convention Saturday evening at the Washington Community Center. The ceremony included installation by Carl Knupp of Washington and remarks by 1975 council president Deanna Bohr. The slate included Deanna Bohr Wellman Patty Jones Cindy Marek Carrie Mineart Mary Beth Wittetoe Dennis Pacha Washington Mike Beranek Greg Horn Andy Hora Riverside Lindsay Greiner Keota.
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Washington County
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Washington Community Center
Julia Gamon
Carl Knupp
Washington
Deanna Bohr
Wellman
Patty Jones
Cindy Marek
Carrie Mineart
Mary Beth Wittetoe
Americans win 1976 Nobel prizes in physics and chemistry
UPI reports two Americans, Burton Richter and Samuel Ting, win the physics prize for work on a new heavy subnuclear particle, while William Lipscomb of Harvard wins the chemistry prize for borane compound research. Lipscomb notes potential cancer therapy applications. six Americans have won prizes this year across categories.
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Sweden
UPI
U.S
Burton Richter
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Stanford
Calif
Samuel C. C. Ting
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
European Center For Nuclear Research
Lipscomb
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Goesta Ekspong
Academy
Richter
Harvard
Tank car explosions force evacuations in Clifford Michigan
A Chessie and Ohio freight train derailment near Clifford Michigan triggered two tank car explosions releasing Acrynite a flammable poisonous chemical. Authorities evacuated a 10 square mile area sending 472 residents to North Branch with ongoing measures including bus evacuations and road closures as chemical experts prepared to respond and Civil Defense aided the operation.
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Clifford
Mich
UPI
Sanilac County
North Branch
Lapeer
Port Austin
Port Hope
Chessie & Ohio
Saginaw
Port Huron
Jury seats five men seven women for Adcock trial
A five man seven woman jury was chosen in the Homer R. Adcock federal trial in Des Moines. Judge William C. Hanson discussed a defense bid to dismiss charges due to pretrial publicity, settling on a motion tied to UPI investigative coverage of the Iowa Liquor Control Commission. Prospective jurors indicated minimal prior exposure and all stated impartiality.
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Des Moines
UPI
Homer R. Adcock
Iowa Liquor Control Commission
U.S
William C. Hanson
Adcock
United Press International
Hanson
Keota sisters injured in Saturday one car crash
Two rural Keota youths were hospitalized Saturday after a one car accident on a gravel road six miles southwest of Keota. Angie Horning 18 and Crystal Horning 8 were treated at Keokuk County Hospital in Sigourney for head injuries and facial lacerations. They are the daughters of Charles and Mrs. Horning.
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The
Evening Journal
Keota
Angie
Crystal Horning
Keokuk County Hospital
Sigourney
Charles Horning
Crystal
Weather turns to snow overnight into Tuesday
Occasional rain is likely tonight with a mix of rain and snow possible late tonight and Tuesday. Low temperatures dip to the mid 30s, with highs Tuesday in the upper 30s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Rain chances are around 70 percent tonight and on Tuesday.
Jail Breaker Allen Chance Recaptured After Escape
Allen Lee Chance was returned to Washington County jail after escaping from the work release section Saturday morning. He broke through a jail window and was found nearby near the McCreedy Building. Chance, held on a 20 day term, faced a felony charge with possible up to one year in a reformatory or state penitentiary.
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Allen Lee Chance
Washington County
Yale Jarvis
Chance
McCreedy
Reformatory
Break-in at Gamble Store in Brighton Under Investigation
Saturday morning officers investigated a break-in at the Gamble Store in Brighton. Entry was gained through the roof Friday night, with about $2,500 in merchandise cash and checks taken. Guns and tools were found stacked inside, suggesting the thief planned to return but fled abruptly.
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Gamble
Brighton
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