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Pssst, Hey Buddy I JPant To Bay A Bridge? SMM. Sip on I ll il'I rrJ f' 'tin Ily John WillanI Historic London Bridge found a now home in Arizona when the aging struc-ture was dismantled and sold after it could not longer accommodate heavy traffic over the River Thames. Now Scott County officials are looking for a new home for the Maysville-Mud Creek bridge that is scheduled to be sold at a public auction next week along with several other unusual pieces of county equipment. THE 45-FOOT long bridge that has provided access to farms that lie beyond the winding Mud Creek since 1894 is sagging with age. With its northern abutment washed out by heavy rains, the "pony truss" iron structure and its weatherworn floor and stringers awaits continued use, perhaps as a private bridge on a farm.

Persons fearful of tales of the unsuspecting New York tourists signing up to buy the Brooklyn Bridge can rest assured that there are no strings at tached to the Maysville bridge, only rusting iron cables. "We know people are interested in it since we've had at least two inquiries," said Scott County Supervisor Wil- 7l' definitely rusty, if not rustic9 liam Sloan, chairman of the building and grounds committee of the board of supervisors. "It's definitely rusty, if not rustic," County Engineer Elmer Clayton jokingly describes the bridge. Along with the bridge, Clayton intends to auction off the old county gasoline storage tank in Eldridge that has been replaced with underground tanks and the motorgrader shed and lot in Blue Grass. THE AUCTION is scheduled to start at 11 a.m.

June 27 at the motorgrader shed in Blue Grass. Other pieces of equipment to be sold include "miscel laneous junk" and old furniture left from the county General Health Care Facility, according to Sloan. Persons who plan to rush out and bid for the gasoline tank and the motorgrader shed should keep in mind certain factors, county officials say. For example, Clayton notes, whoever purchases the fuel tank will have to negotiate another lease with the Milwaukee Road which owns the land occupied by the tank. He said a farm supply company has expressed interest in storing liquid fertilizer in the tank.

Use of both the fuel tank and the motorgrader shed will have to comply with local zoning ordinances, Clayton said. The city of Blue Grass has expressed interested in using the grader shed, which is being replaced by a more centrally-located shed, for storage. The old bridge also will be replaced by another bridge in better condition that lies a short distance downstream, Clayton said. A new bridge will be constructed in place of the "replacement bridge" he said. The 80-year-old Mad Creek bridge near MaysviUe will be sold at a public auction June 27.

(Photo By Harry Boll) fin MO3 MUCOID3 mu. ui.wa..'.. 28 Pages 10 Cents Davcnport-Bettendorf, Iowa inula June 17, 1971 Bomb London Landmark its first nuclear explosion last month. But Kissinger said India's nuclear program was aided by Canada, and Canada's safeguards are not as good as those of the United States. THE UNITED STATES helped Israel build a five-megawatt research reactor in 1959 south of Tel Aviv and signed an agreement then to cooperate in the research program.

Israel has a second reactor on the Negev Desert that can produce plutonium. The Israeli government has denied repeatedly that it is producing nuclear bombs or warheads. But foreign experts are convinced that Israel's scientists and engineers could manufacture nuclear, weapons speedily if they were or- dered to do so. Nixon meanwhile told Israel it must be prepared to compromise further in Middle East peace efforts if it is to avoid another war with the Arabs. In a lengthy toast at the conclusion of a state dinner in Jerusalem Sunday night, Nixon praised the Israelis for their courage in the four wars they have fought with the Arabs in the last quarter of a century.

But "it also takes courage, a different kind of courage, to wage peace," the President said. "It requires risks, just as war requires risks, and the stakes are high just as the stakes in war are high." NIXON FLEW to Israel from Damascus, where he and President Hafez Assad announced that Syria and the United States were resuming diplomatic relations, which Syria broke during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. Of the seven Arab nations that broke with the United States then, only Iraq has not restored the ties. AMMAN, Jordan (AP) The United States today promised Israel the same help in developing nuclear power that it plans to give Egypt and reaffirmed its commitment to long-term arms shipments to the Jewish state. President Nixon made the announcement in a joint communique with Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin in Jerusalem, then flew to Amman for talks with King Hussein.

The President arrived on the last stop of his five-nation Middle East tour to the tightest security he has encountered in any Arab country. NIXON AND Rabin said their two governments "will negotiate an agreement on cooperation in the field of nuclear energy, technology and the supply of fuel from the United States under agreed safeguards. "This agreement will in particular take into account the intention of the government of Israel to purchase power reactors from the United States" to provide electricity for Israel's rapidly growing economy, the communique said. Israel has had an agreement with the United States covering joint nuclear research for the past 15 years, and the communique said a provisional agreement would be made this month "on the further sale of nuclear fuel to Israel." The wording of the communique paralleled that in which Nixon announced in Cairo three days ago that the United States would supply nuclear reactors and fuel to Egypt for peaceful purposes. The agreement had been forecast, earlier today at a news conference by Secretary of Stte Henry A.

Kissinger. Kissinger also sought to quiet suspicions in Israel and the U.S. Congress Blaze In Parliament President Nixon looks on solemnly during a wreath laying ceremony at the Had Vasehem Martyrs and Heroes Memorial In Jernselum. Under Jewish religious law a hat must be worn at all times in places of worship. (AP Photo) Another Picture: Page 2 that the Egyptians would use the U.S.

nuclear aid to produce nuclear weapons. He said the U.S. government would "make doubly sure there aren't any loopholes" in its agreement with Egypt. The secretary said there never were any such questions about the similar agreements the United States has with nearly 30 other nations until India set off Lid On Jar Sales Will a. A' H- V.

ff it 'J. I rmiiaiwnirn to y. I LONDON (AP) A bomb believed set by Irish terrorists exploded in an annex of the House of Commons durin the morning rush hour today, setting Parliament on fire and injuring 11 persons, officials said. There was considerable damage to Westminister Hall, oldest of the buildings in Westminster Palace, which houses Parliament. It was the first such attack since Guy Fawkes' abortive gunpowder bomb plot in 1604.

AS PART OF a Roman Catholic plot against the Protestant King James 1, a band of conspirators decided to blow up the House of Commons when the king went there to open a session. Barrels of gunpowder were stored in the buildings's cellars and Fawkes was supposed to set them off. But the authorities were tipped off to the plot, searched the cellars and found Fawkes. Shortly before today's explosion a man with an Irish accent telephoned the Press Britain's domestic news agency, to warn that a bomb would go off in the House of Commons in six minutes. Scotland Yard's bomb squad was racing to the building when the the blast occurred.

A police spokesman said the bomb fractured a gas main and started a fire that sent flames shooting high above the 14th century St. Stephen's Chapel, near Westminster Hall. Dense smoke enve-lnH'd Big Ben for a time. The police said the bomb went off near a ground-floor canteen adjacent to the hall. WESTMINSTER HALL, built in 1097, is the oldest part of the palace and was originally the seat of Britain's highest court.

It was the scene of the trial of Charles 1, of coronation feasts and debates of early parliaments. It also is the place where Britain's sovereigns lie in state after death. Windows at the front of the hall were blown out. but the giant stained-glass windows at the other end appeared undamaged. However, it was feared there was considerable damage to the hall's unique 13th century timber roof.

Mure than a dozen fire engines fought the blae as hundreds of persons stopiied on their way to work to watch. The fire was reported under control an hour after the bomb blast. One police explosives expert told a memlKT of Commons that the bomb contained iM'tween 15 and 20 Munds of explosive material. Members of Parliament stood in pools of water amid a tangle of fire hoses and gazed in dismay at the fire damage. "We been awfully busy here today in Boston, celebrating Bunker Hill.

Daniel Webster made the most famous Bunker Hill address, so I was really pinch hitting for him. He spoke good English, too. The Websters wrote all their own. Yon give me a chance to write my own dictionary and make a word mean anything I want it to, and I will show you some English. "They are broad-minded people up here.

They celebrate a victory that the British won, and the monument Is not on Bunker Hill It's on Breed's Hill." June 17, 1930 Quad-Cities were reserved rapidly during the early part of spring and vegetable gardens at Quad-City residents are becoming more and more apparent as crops begin to come up from the ground. But jars in which to can the products are becoming a slim commodity and merchants sec little hope of getting large supplies to offset the feared shortage. 'We ordered an allotment of the jars months ago," a store manager said, "and various sizes have been coming in on a hit and miss basis this time instead in a single shipment as in the past." Home canners "are buying up the jars just as soon as we get them," he said. "They are buying them up a lot faster than they did in other years." One merchant said he anticipated it would be "very difficult or impossible for us to supply the jars to customers in this area by the time the canning season js in full swing perhaps in August or September." Ky Joe Sheridan Quad-City residents who planted gardens this spring with an eye toward canning their productsto see their families through the winter months, may be in for problems when harvest time arrives. A shortage of canning jars has hit stores in the Quad-Cities and across the nation in recent weeks and few, if any, such jars will be available to customers later this summer, area merchants reported today.

The shortage is attributed mostly to a demand from housewives and others who are canning the products of their gardening in an effort to offset food prices, a hardware store spokesman said. The boom in home gardens has been larger than ever this year in the Quad-Cities. The increase has been attributed to both a desire to beat high food prices and an increased interest in "getting back to nature." Garden plots offered throughout the Smoke pours from the roof of the historic Chapel of the House of Commons In London as a statue of the late Sir Winston Churchill appears to view the blaze, cause by an apparent IRA bombing. (AP Photo) Jean, Joan Beef Jean Bollhoefer, the new Miss Iowa, and Joan, 'The Reluctant -read portraits of these two beautiful women on today's Petple Paget. Warmer Fair and cool tonight.

Mostly sunny and warmer Tuesday. Page 3. Angry Cattlemen Withhold of cattle signed the following pledge: "As a concerned cattle feeder. I hearby agree not to sell any choice grade steers weighing 1,200 pounds or less for less than 40 cents per pound or for a comparable price in the beef and to sell other classes and weights of cattle accordingly. "All cattle sold are to be delivered to the packer within 72 hours of the time of sale.

"This agreement is in effect mid night Sunday, June 16, 1974, until further notice." What prompted the cattlemen to lake such action in an emergency meeting here Friday night? Many are in the same situation Emmet Ascherl, a cattle feeder from Fort Dodge, Iowa, finds himself. "We fed 300 head of cattle last year. We bought 150 in July and 150 in Octo- CATTLEMEN Continued On Page 2 ing, about 6,000 lower than an average Monday and down 13,000 for a week ago. Cattle feeders say they are at the end of the line. THEY ARE LOSING $150 to $200 a head.

Some are going out of business. Those who are still in operation are walking the line on bankruptcy. The future of the livcstm-k industry itself is on shakey grounds. On this premise, U.S. cattle feeders representing more than one million head By Asnnciated I'renn Cattle receipts were down sharply today at Iowa's interior markets and terminals in apparent reaction to a pledge signed by cattlemen who say prices they get for cattle are so kiw they are going broke.

"Offerings are extremely limited on the interior market," a U.S. Agriculture Department marketing specialist said. Terminal receipts for Iowa markets were estimated at 17,000 Monday morn Elsewhere QuadOty News Classified Editorial Markets Obltaartes Sports Pages IS, It Vim 23 28 Pw i Page IS Page IS Pages Zl 22 i.