Debates over long hair stall at Washington school
Roundup of brief items notes students Rosenkild and Stevenson out of classes while others return. Also reports corn display at American Legion convention in Atlanta from Don Radda farm and Iowa July unemployment drop with job losses. Include deaths in Bettendorf and wealth of Ailsa Mellon Bruce, plus a village school closing standoff in St Andrew England.
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Washington
Jim Rosenkild
David Stevenson
Don Radda
National Convention of the American Legion
Atlanta
Marty Whittaker
Legion
Convention
St. Andrew, England
UPI
Mark Jeffrey
St. Andrew Village
Mark
Walkout at John Deere Plant Near Dubuque
About 3,500 UAW production workers at the John Deere plant in Dubuque engaged in an unauthorized strike after union officials urged a morning shift walkout. Reported unauthorized pickets blocked plant access while office staff continued work. Union leaders blamed lack of good faith bargaining for two years of grievances. Company spokesman called the action illegal and contract-violating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dubuque
Ray Short
Deere and Co
Iowa teachers to pursue year long improvement program
Davenport report says the Iowa State Education Association will lead a year long project to boost creativity and improve teaching statewide. Led by Mike Fleming, 18 teachers will run mobile in service labs in Mason City Council Bluffs Mount Vernon Indianola and Storm Lake with seminars at Buena Vista College Storm Lake and Coe College Cedar Rapids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davenport, Iowa
UPI
Iowa State Education Association
ISEA
Iowa
Jack L. Hudson
Davenport West High School
Hudson
Mike Fleming
Des Moines Hoover High School
Midwest
Hudson Said
Mason City
Council Bluffs
Mount Vernon
Indianola
Storm Lake
Buena Vista College
Coe College
Cedar Rapids
Oakland
Mount Ayr
Ames
West Union
Gowrie
Mount Pleasant
Spencer
Iowa State University
Ho Chi Minh dies at 79 and Vietnam calls week of mourning
North Vietnam orders a seven day mourning period for Ho Chi Minh who died of a heart attack at 79. Hanoi urges citizens to turn grief into revolutionary action to defeat the United States and liberate South Vietnam. Hanoi leadership signals a power shift among four men while Paris talks resume after Ho’s death.
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Saigon
UPI
North Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh
United States
South Vietnam
Hanoi
Vietnam
Paris
Nguyen van Thieu
Pham van Dong
Communist Party
le Duan
National Assembly
Truong Dinh
Vo Nguyen Giap
Hanoi Radio
U.S
South
Uncle Ho
Indochina
Nixon calls Cabinet meeting at California White House
President Nixon summoned his full Cabinet as Ho Chi Minh’s death shadowed global events. He planned a big cutback in federally funded construction starts to curb inflation while discussing Vietnam affairs and domestic policy with Melvin Laird, William Rogers, and top advisers.
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San Clemente
Calif
Henry A. Kissinger
Europe
Asia
Nixon
United States
Probate of wills and executors named in two estates
Notice lists probate of wills and appointment of executors for the estates of John A. Huber and Floyd H. Edmondson. It also notes a regular school election for the Mid-Prairie district.
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John A. Huber
Floyd H. Edmondson
Mid-Prairie
Stanley Cleared Of Ethics Charge In Iowa Senate
Iowa Senate Republican leader David Stanley of Muscatine was cleared Wednesday of violating the new ethics code by the Senate Ethics Committee in a 4-3 vote. The panel said a state agency violation would have been serious, but local boards are not state agencies, and the matter was dismissed with a warning. The committee also voted to exclude newsmen and the public from the hearing. Continued on page 2.
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Xuan Thuy
Hanoi
North Vietnam
Moscow
Peking
China
Chouen-lai
Alexei N. Kosygin
Southeast Asia
London
Russia
Mao
Des Moines
UPI
Iowa
Senate
David Stanley
Muscatine
Senate Ethics Committee
Stanley
Adrian Brinck
Dwest Point
Brinck
Washington County
Newton
Board of Review
Arthur Neu
Carroll
Senate Code of Ethics
Neu
Jefferson
Eugene Hill
D-Newton
Bass van Gilst
D - Oskaloosa
Richard Stephens
Crawfordsville
Nell
Sen
Stanley Muscatine Close Call Sparks Wintry Comment
Senator Stanley from Muscatine reacts to a near miss with a lighthearted note urging resilience. WEJ closes with a personal sign off.
Deluge Hits New York Metropolitan Area
Record rainfall snarled highways disrupted electricity and rail service in the New York metropolitan area. By Wednesday morning 5.6 inches had fallen in parts of New York and New Jersey, flooding tunnels and key arteries. LIRR suspended Brooklyn service, Holland Tunnel flooded, Turnpike slowed, and many lines remained out.
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New York
UPI
New Jersey
Weather Bureau
Long Island
Brooklyn
Manhattan
Holland Tunnel
New York City
Hudson River
George Washington Bridge
Lincoln Tunnel
New Jersey Turnpike
New York Telephone Co
Madison Avenue
Viet Cong to Observe Three Day Cease Fire for Ho Death
The Viet Cong announced a three day pause in military offensives in South Vietnam to mourn Ho Chi Minh. A clandestine NLF radio broadcast said a Viet Cong congress met at an undisclosed location and issued concrete orders within 24 hours. The move comes amid broader war news including allied losses in Cambodia and a US helicopter crash.
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Saigon
UPI
Viet Cong
South Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh
National Liberation Front
NLF
Hanoi
U.S. Command
Cambodia
Green Berets
Kien Tuong
USS
Iowa Weather Outlook From United Press International
Mostly cloudy tonight with scattered showers or thundershowers possible in the southeast and extreme east. Light southeast winds. Lows in the 60s. Warmer on Friday with highs 85 to 90. Saturday outlook calls for scattered showers or thundershowers and locally cooler.
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Iowa
Administration urges changes to tax reforms in Senate
The Nixon administration urged the Senate to cut back the House tax cuts for middle income workers and to add 1.6 billion in annual relief for business. Kennedy and Cohen pressed for broad revisions, arguing the House bill is overly generous and could spur inflation, while Gore attacked the plan as shifting relief from low income taxpayers to corporations. The administration backed reducing the 9.87 billion 1972 income tax cuts to 7.34 billion and endorsed the House 20 percent oil depletion allowance, with continued state and municipal bond exemptions and the removal of state gasoline tax deductions.
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Washington
UPI
Nixon
Senate
Albert Gore
D-Tenn
Treasury
David M. Kennedy
Kennedy
Gore
House
Finance Committee
Russell B. Long
D-La
Cohen
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Iowa Employment Security Commission
Ollie Death
Bettendorf
Delbert A. Fye
Ollie
Davenport St. Luke’s Hospital
Fye
R.W. Dunteman Co
Bentonville
Ill
Chicago
Lincoln Park Zoo
Pamela
John Deere Co
Stanley Muscatine
Wej
Cong
United Press International
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