Soybean Producers to Vote on Half Cent Deduction
Washington County soybean producers will vote September 8 at the County Extension office from 10 am to 4 pm on whether a half cent per bushel deduction for market development promotion and research should start. Voting is statewide in extension offices for those with 250 bushels produced and marketed between September 1 1970 and August 31 1971. If approved the deduction lasts four years with a new referendum. Funds go to a 12 member producer elected board with at least 75 percent spent on market development after costs.
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Washington County
Iowa
Thieu awaits Ky threat clarification in tense Hanoi standoff
South Vietnam leader Nguyen Van Thieu said he awaited clearer declarations from Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky after Ky warned he would destroy Thieu if a dictatorship emerged. Ky boasted he could act tonight or tomorrow, signaling a looming political crisis amid warfront updates and regional aggression.
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Saigon
UPI
Nguyen van Thieu
Nguyen Cao Ky
Thieu
Hanoi Radio
Tan Son Nhut
Bunker
Ellsworth Bunker
Phnom Penh
Am Rong
Kompong Thom
Lincoln Elementary Hosts Experimental School Strategy Program
Mrs. Susan Christensen of the Coralville Educational Resource Center works with Lincoln Elementary teachers to identify academic and adjustment problems in students. The federally funded program, first in the Washington Community School system, aims to keep students in mainstream classrooms and tailor materials to individual needs.
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Washington Community
Susan Christensen
Coralville
United States
Christensen
Iowa City
Mt. Vernon
College Community
Washington
Coralville Center
New Mexico
Pennsylvania
New York
Oregon
Utah
Mike Robbins
Lincoln
Pork industry names reshuffle at Meat Board session
Gordon Cooper Jr of Lambert Mississippi re elected regional director and PIC chair at the Meat Board annual meeting in Columbus. Donald Sheetz of Washington Iowa becomes PIC vice chair. Updated Memorandum of Understanding aims to coordinate NPPC MB PIC activities to avoid duplication as NPPC and PIC grow.
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Chicago
Gordon Cooper, Jr
Lambert
Miss
National Livestock and Meat Board
Pork Industry
Pork Industry Committee
Meat Board
Columbus
Ohio
P.I. C
Cooper
Donald Sheetz
Pork
Washington
Iowa
Kenneth E Harris
Wilmington
PIC
National Pork Producers Council
N.P.P.C
NPPC
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Mb-Pic
Cooper, Sheetz and Harris
Roy. B Keppy
Davenport
Albert Gehlbach
Lincoln
Harold Boucher
Peoria
Donald Clark
Brook
Scott Detrick
Louisville
James Halsey
Marshall
Calvin Ichendahl
Tamaroa
John Larick
Austin
Minn
Patrick J. Luby
Madison
Wis
Paul McNutt
Iowa City
Big Perkins
Prophettstown
James Volk
Battle Creek
One killed in Muscatine County car crash
Gerald Dee Gilleland 18 of Muscatine died in a one car crash on Iowa 22 four miles west of Muscatine. Ray C. Jarr 21 and another passenger Robert Butler 22 were taken to Muscatine General Hospital. Jarr was home on leave from the Marine Corps. deputies said investigation continues.
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Muscatine
UPI
Gerald Dee Gilleland
Iowa 22
Sheriff's Deputies
Gilleland
Ray C. Jarr
Marine Corps Jarr
Robert Butler
Muscatine General Hospital
Briggs eases county assessors order on property valuations Iowa
Iowa Revenue Director Donald Briggs revised an earlier revaluation order affecting 63 counties and seven cities. The new plan lowers drastic hikes by targeting a 10 percent standard deviation around 27 percent, delaying big changes and allowing hearings from taxpayers. Briggs says equalization is long term and aimed at fair treatment statewide.
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Des Moines
UPI
Iowa
Donald Briggs
Briggs
Boards of Review
Methodist pastor ends Mt Shasta protest after three months
Rev. Douglas Smith, a 35 year old Methodist clergyman, vows to stay atop Mt Shasta for a year to protest the Indochina war. He began June 12 and will descend next Friday due to looming winter storms, calling the war malignant madness and offering his faith as protest.
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Mount Shasta
Calif
UPI
Mt. Shasta
Douglas Smith
Smith
Nixon charts better times for nation amid trade shift
In Chicago, President Nixon urged a new prosperity with higher import duties and a renewed competitive spirit. He cited Japan the Soviet Union and China as rising rivals and pledged action to keep the U.S. atop world trade.
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Chicago
UPI
Nixon
United States
Commerce Department
California
Washington
Japan
Soviet Union
China
Associated Milk Producers Inc
Air Force
Dayton
Ohio
Washington school election faces unopposed incumbents and tax extension
The Sept 13 election in Washington Community School District has no major races with incumbents in three director seats running unopposed. A .75 mill extension for Kirkwood District will be on the ballot along with treasurer and Joint County Board posts. Polls run 12 pm to 8 pm with eligibility statements required.
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Washington
Kirkwood Community
the Board of Education
James FE. Lloyd
Washington County
Joint County Board of Education
Kirkwood
Keith Lord
Ralph Kleese
Joint County Board
Carroll Hall
Brighton
Davenport man killed in downtown collision
Davenport police investigate a fatal car pedestrian crash that killed 71 year old Lino Lara as he crossed an intersection two blocks from the police station. The driver Otto Andresen 81 of Walcott reportedly jumped a curb and struck a fire hydrant before crashing into a nearby apartment building.
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Davenport
UPI
Lino Lara
Otto Andresen
Walcott
Andresen
Lara
Iowa Weather: Showers Likely Central East Sunday
Forecast for Iowa calls for showers or thunderstorms tonight with lows from 55 to 60 in the northwest to around 70 in the southeast. Rain is likely in central and eastern areas on Sunday with cooler temperatures west tonight and Sunday. Highs Sunday reach the upper 70s in the northwest to the mid 80s in the extreme southeast.
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Iowa
Nixon Rejects Excess Profits Tax Amid Wage Price Freeze
The Nixon administration rules out an excess profits tax on corporations as a bad idea that would curb efficiency. Labor leaders argue the plan penalizes workers while profits rise, urging shared sacrifice and tighter business controls during the wage price freeze. A voluntary dividend freeze appeals to corporate chiefs, while teachers face pay limits under the policy.
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UPI
Nixon
White House
I. Abel
United Steel Workers
AFL - Cio Industrial Union Department
Abel
Frank E Fitzsimmons
Teamsters Union
Cost of Living Council
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