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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1972
Page
1
Officials say Chef Quik Co will relocate operations to Nashville after a February fire devastated Kalona's plant. Despite raising 56 250 and planning 925 000 in financing, rumors and a bank shortage halted rebuild, leaving the town’s 100 employees without a reopening date.
Richard E. Bartlett sues Armstrong Rubber Co and two employees for 120000 in Polk County District Court alleging wrongful discharge in July and malicious blacklisting by contacting other firms to deter future employment. He seeks 20000 personal and 100000 punitive damages.
Former Kansas governor and 1936 GOP presidential candidate Al Landon turned 85 today. He will follow his birthday routine with a beer tenderloin dinner, morning newspaper scan, and radio broadcasts of Kansas vs Washington State and Kansas State vs Tulsa games. If weather allows, he will ride six miles along the Kaw River and offer coaching tips to the Kansas teams.
The Wyre Conqueror, a 398 ton trawler, avoided boarding after Icelandic patrol boat Aegir tried to stop and board it outside Britain’s 12 mile limit but inside Iceland’s 50 mile limit. The incident marks the first such action in the current Cod War.
Larry Carstensen resigned as Iowa's ombudsman two years after the state post was created to renew his Clinton based private law practice. He told Governor Ray he will remain in the job until a replacement is named and he will end his tenure after serving as citizens aide since October 1970.
Israeli air force says it intercepted a Syrian warplane armada over the Golan Heights, downing three Sukhoi 7s and damaging one. No Israeli losses or casualties reported. The attack followed Israel's raids on guerrilla camps in Syria and Lebanon after the Munich killings.
Washington County Historical Society mobilizes under Michael Zahs to compose a county history up to date for the 1976 Bi Centennial. Township coordinators from Lime Creek to Crawfordsville gather community facts, pictures, diaries, and scrapbooks for compilation.
State Public Safety Commissioner Michael Sellers announced a crackdown on habitual traffic offenders. Under new rules, the department will revoke driving privileges for those judged incompetent to drive.
Increasing cloudiness in the southwest today gives way to partly cloudy skies across the state tonight and Sunday. A chance of rain remains in the southwest late tonight and Sunday as a warming trend brings highs around 85 in the west to the upper 70s in the east. Lows tonight range from 60 to 65 in the southwest to the mid 50s in the northeast. Sunday highs will reach the 80s.
A 26 year old Kenyan reporter guest of the Day family tours Iowa farms and Washington landmarks while preparing to return to Northridge California. He praises local people and soccer, weighs Kenyan citizenship issues, and notes weather and hospitality as he plans future teaching and reporting roles.
Democratic candidate George S. McGovern railed at the Nixon administration for favoring grain firms over farmers during a three hour Iowa visit. He pledged to raise prices to 90 percent of parity and to appoint working farmers to key posts while blasting grain deal insiders and the revolving door at the agriculture department. He urged tax relief for rural Americans and noted farmer outmigration threatening small towns as he spoke at a Broderick farm and at an airport rally before heading to Albuquerque.
Oklahoma City report says state securities chief William G. Fisher urged a prospective investor in Glenn W. Turner Enterprises to sell her body to a medical school to raise capital, calling the act a potential option for funds.
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