Opinion-tribune (Newspaper) - July 19, 1978, Glenwood, Iowa V Iowa A growing community Volume 114 Tribune Number 29 July 1978 Murder suspect out on reduced bond Lions Club members are working on the track south of town for entries are expected for the held across the road from the their second annual tractor pull About 100 or 150 Swift Tractor pull to be Saturday By Mike Anders editor One suspect in the recent double murder is free on reduced bond because the prosecution does not have enough evidence to charge him with according to the county Frank Council was released early Wednesday afternoon after posting twentyfive or 10 percent of his County attorney Walter Green said the prosecution did not object to the reduction of bond from The other two and Gayle both of Council not guilty on Monday to two counts of They are being held on bond in Council The case in regard to Bode is not strong enough for me to file a true information against him at this said Green on Assistant state attorney general Bob who is helping Green with the said Bode was not arrested He was arrested with probable The county attorney said the investiga tion is only about threequarters and that he is awaiting though he would not say what The three are charged in connection with the deaths of 82yearold Ben Johnson and his 42yearold son on July Both lived at a rural Pony Creek who has claimed innocence since he was will be back in Glenwood on July 28 for a preliminary originally scheduled for The change was made by mutual agreement between the prosecution and Bodes Green Against Bode is an open murder the degree of which has not been the county attorney Instead of preliminary Green filed an information against Gosnell and both of whom appeared before district judge Leroy Johnson on After protest by the judge refused to grant reduction in On the cover of the the state accuses Gosnell and elder Johnsons of two counts of It lists 20 whose testimony is contained within the information but is not open to the Witnesses include state and local service station a store a real estate agent and Charles Bens surviving son who lived with The court administrator in Council Bluffs will set a trial date for Masters and Green An intensive investigation by the Iowa Bureau of Criminal Investigation and the local sheriffs department led to the arrest on July 7 of Gosnell and Masters in Council Bode was arrested the next Ben who had been shot sevea times in the was found at his home late in the afternoon on July His son was found beaten and drowned in a shallow pool near Pony Creek later that The three suspects appeared before magistrate John Watson on July Green filed the information early Monday Masters and Gosnell appeared individually before judge Johnson on When asked his Masters absolutely innocent Gos nell not Tim Markel of asked the judge that a pair of shoes be brought to the suspect in The judge ordered that it be Authorities said her shoes had been kept for Between 100 and 150 garden tractors to hotrod tractors and modified expected for the second annual Lions Club Tractor Pull The pull will begin at noon and run or seven hours on grounds the Glenwood Swift The proceeds of which are donated to local fire and rescue units and sight drew 102 entries last About spectators This the club will give out programs listing the various classes of competition and their A admission fee will be charged those under 12 will get in Mills County youths may enter a special class for stock garden for a entry The competition is open to those between the ages of 10 and and parents must sign a release Entry fees for all other 19 classes will be The weighin will be from 8 to 11 at Glenwood Lumber 511 First Competitors in each class will pull in the order in which they Trophies will be given for the first two in each and the first three will divide the prize money for the Food and drinks will be available after 10 on the Competition will be divided into four classes of garden two classes of tractors with V8 two hotrod classes large tractors with V8 engines and large six classes of pickups including two modified and six classes of stock On the inside Four teams from the Glenwood area those from the Western Mills County little league allstar teams are preparing for tournament For team see page Record 2A 3A 5A 12A Classified 7A11A Area 7B 2C 7C News roundup Engineers workers vote to unionize Members of the county secondary roads department in the county engineers office voted 28 to 1 in favor of unionizing last The about threequarters of the engineers will be represented by the American Federation of County and Municipal County engineer Nord Sorensen said 33 persons were eligible to and that there are 10 days for objections to be filed before the vote will be Jail work The county who last week rejected a contractors bid to remodel the Mills County will meet Tuesday with a representative of the Liblin Construc tion Supervisors say that Liblin will review its bid and go over specifications for the job to see if something can be cut to reduce the The work is to prepare the jail for a communication On the county board rejected bid of because it was too supervisors The county has budgeted for the Water grant The City of Silver City has received a grant for the construction of a new well and pumping from the Farm and Home School election The deadline to file for the Silver school board seat is and the election will be Persons interested in being on the Glenwood Community School board may get nomina tion papers from the county auditor or the school board Escapees Two men who escaped earlier tnis month from the county jail are back at the but on the second Sheriff Merle Brown said he is keeping and Fred in cells above the one from which they escaped on July That cell still isnt ready for Dyke and Bartles were arrested Wednesday afternoon in the hills near The other three who escaped the same day have not been Michael who released from jail shortly before the others has been charged with aiding the He was released after posting Harkin van The mobile office of Tom Harkin will be in Pacific Hastings and Henderson and will be staffed by district representative Dick In Pacific the van will be on Main Street from 10 to 11 in it will be across from the Cafe Mills from 2 to 3 in it will be on Main Street from 4 to 5 Fireworks Those who donated money for a community fireworks display at Glenwood Lake Park include Dick Lipsett Glenwood State Mills County State Hillside Mills County Ambassadors and the state Lake restocking The Iowa Department of Conservation recently stocked 800 largemouth bass fingerlings at the Glenwood Lake completing the lakes Oxygen depletion last summer killed most of the fish Last bluegill fingerlings and channel catfish fingerlings were Area fisheries biologist Bruce Adair said the bass stocked probably will not be of fishable size for a couple of seasons but the bluegill may be fished some time We should see very good growth and body condition on all these Adair County fair Its almost here You know the county fair is coming because plans are being made for Cleanup day to get everything at the fairgrounds Boy 4H club members and their fathers are invited by the county extension office to beginning at 9 July 28 at the Helping will be youth committee members and the county 4H council The extension office urges everyone to bring spades and other tools for the The annual fair will begin on July 31 and run through Tractor driving County youths who are at least 16 years of age and have a drivers license or tractor training certificate are eligible to participate in the tractor driving Trophies will be awarded details will be posted during the Superintendents The following persons will be superintendents for the and will take entries on July as well as assist throughout the week 4H division Hen derson Rob Washburn Hillyer com Harold Sker ritt Edwin Leu Arnold Williams garden and old Louis Walter Stille mechanics and Raymond Morrical Bass home Arnold Alan Russell Open class division Arnold Williams Louis Walter Stille home econom Alva Henderson general textiles and clothing Blanche Clay Roland Randal Crystal Larry Pantry store and Carl Hurst hobbies and Arno Nancy Mulholland farm gadget exhib Judges These persons will be judges at this years for which a record number of entries is expected Home Hollister Carol Dorothy Brenda Nor ma Bonnie Cheryl Helen David Arington beef Ken Johnson McAlpin White Jontz Gehrman poul Scott Wallace garden and Mc mechanics and Dunn Mary Goe tsch Hale edu Dan Merrick clothing construction and clothing Fair queen The county fair queen committee reminds area young women that the deadline is July 26 to enter the county fair queen Applications are available from committee members listed in last weeks OT and at the county extension Citys airport study draws first public criticism Rather than its own Glenwood needs a taxi service to Omaha and Council Bluffs said one airport critic last We are too darn close to said Glenwood resident Kenneth We dont need an airport between Red Oak and Council Bluffs or The recently completed city airport study drew its first sharp criticism on July at the final public fearing the City Council an said money better could be used for a hospital or a new the state Gene Schatz is the only councilman who said anything during the chairman of the airport study said he had hoped more persons who had been opposed to an airport would have come sooner than the fourth and final But the three who came last week were clear about their After listening to a summary of the studys Graves listed his turned to the citys consultant and issued his own summary Your study is no Graves stood up and used consultant Tom own maps to illustrate his Among Graves concerns about the proposed airport site four miles east of town were fog and turbulence created by heavy trucks on Ive got a said Graves as he began his He questioned whether Glenwood would benefit by industry an airport may draw and whether studies had shown that adequate fire protection could be provided the Leo Daly has been studying land on the northwest corner of the 275 intersection as a possible airport The citys share of the study is about or 25 percent of the The mayor stressed that to build an voters would have to approve a bond issue for the local share of about Daly esti mates that a basic airport would cost 80 percent of which would be paid by federal A representative of the Iowa Department of Transportation said an airport is among the top three priorities of an industry considering where to He said a Glenwood airport likely would be eligible for state but that requests for money were about three times as much as the DOT has Cost estimates in the Daly study also assume that Mills County would pay 25 percent of the local share of airport The study says that with county participation and renting nearby yearly costs would be about Daly assumes that the federal government would pay 80 percent of the construction Glenwood 15 percent and the county 5 If a Glenwood airport drew one industry worth million to the taxes alone would pay the local annual operating the study Critics at last weeks meeting asked what benefit would be derived if an industry built outside the Graves asked councilmen how many firm they had horn Another Glenwood Park Mc It seems like youre counting your chickens before theyre He said priority should be to build a new bridge across the Keg Creek to replace the closed Vine Stree With employees at the state that route to their place of work should be McManigal You might have to fly them in from this
