Iowa Woman Wins 1.2 Million Lottery Jackpot
Atlantic resident Sue Ripperger used a $50 federal tax refund to buy 50 lottery tickets and won $1.2 million on the Iowa Lottery Jackpot show. She will receive $45,000 a year for 20 years and plans to buy a blue Corvette for herself while keeping her job and two bedroom apartment.
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ES Moines
Iowa
Sue Ripperger
Ripperger
Pye
Cecil R. Ford
Raytown
Jerry Brady
Thornton
Charles Tucker
West Burlington
Ernest Conn
Nauvoo, Ill
Atlantic Care Center
Ronda Burke
Fonda
Ron Robson
Kimballton
William Rickard
Carroll
Independent safety panel urged for space shuttles
A presidential commission urged an independent safety panel to oversee space shuttle travel to end a risky pattern of unaddressed problems. Astronauts and commission members called for expert oversight, with talk of crew safety and potential shuttle modifications including parachute ejections and escape systems.
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Gazette Wire Services
Washington
NASA
Henry Hartsfield
Commission
William Rogers
America
Robert Crippen
Shuttle
John Young
Bomb suspect hunted across nations after TWA crash
Greek and Italian authorities hunt an Arab woman suspected of placing a bomb under seat 10F on a TWA flight from Cairo to Athens. The device exploded over southern Greece, killing four Americans. Investigators say the suspect used a Jordanian passport under a false name May Elias Mansur.
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Gazette Wire Services
Athens
Greece
TWA
Italy
Elias Mansur
Cairo
Rome
Erver
Beirut
ANSA
May Elias Mansur
Hosni Farag
Interior Ministry
Al-Ahram
UC Berkeley Protest Turns Violent as Police Make 90 Arrests
Police moved in to clear a makeshift shantytown blocking a campus building at UC Berkeley on Thursday morning. Protesters hurled bottles rocks and eggs as officers used batons and made 90 arrests with 29 injuries reported.
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University of California In Berkeley
Teleconnect forms directory division with 300 jobs
Teleconnect Co. announced a new telephone directory division employing about 300 people. The Talking Yellow Pages will offer up to date messages via special numbers. larger type. laminated erasable cover and earlier publication. Half the staff will work in Cedar Rapids and the rest in other Iowa cities.
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George C. Ford
Clark McLeod
Teleconnect
John Collins
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Collins
Rubias Hardware
Mike Struck
Illinois
Todays Chuckle Old Fishermen Never Die
A light joke notes old fishermen do not die they simply smell that way. The quip plays on enduring nautical humor and the enduring scent of the sea.
Accomplice sought after bank job arrest
Authorities hunted an accomplice in Wednesday’s Fayette County bank robbery while confirming a Jesup man in jail may have been involved in other heists. Thurman Mills, 44, charged with first degree robbery in Oelwein, is a former Jesup auto repair shop owner tied to a country‑western band. A robber struck the Oran First National Bank of Oelwein injuring two customers and fleeing in a stolen car, later abandoned near an Independence home where Mills was taken into custody after a chase and search connected to the 610 Fourth St SE residence. Police declined to reveal loot.
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Fayette County
Jesup
Thurman
Robert Mills Jr
Oelwein
Mills
Oran
First National Bank of
Stan Kuch
Independence
Fourth St. SE
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