Amana Schools Host Bicentennial Exhibit
The Amana schools plan a Day of Amana Community Art event Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the high school auditorium in Middle Amana. Coordinator Gordon Kellenberger invites the public to see works by students, townspeople, and alumni, with potters Mike Finley and John Setzer among those displaying pottery, and Ruth Schmieder and Marie Ratzel contributing paintings at night.
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Amana
Middle Amana
Gordon Kellenberger
Amana Community Schools
Mike Finley
South Amana
John Setzer
Main Amana
Kellenberger
Ruth Schmieder
Marie Ratzel
Iowa opposes FCC ruling allowing customer owned phones
Iowa Commerce Commission chair Maurice Van Nostrand said the panel will oppose the FCC decision allowing Iowa residents to own their phones. The commission cites concerns over customer rates and will file a legal brief backing AT T in its court challenge, noting May 1 as the ruling’s effective date. United Telephone Co. of Newton is the sole Iowa firm to propose rates under the ruling.
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Des Moines
UPI
Iowa Commerce Commission
Federal Communications Commission
van Nostrand
United Telephone Co. of
Newton
Iowa
Iowa legislative bills signed and debated by lawmakers
A Des Moines AP briefing lists bills in the Iowa legislature including HF1040 on high school equivalency diploma fees, HF1226 on credit union director borrowing, HF1361 on short term revenue anticipation, HF1494 on agricultural transactions, HF1495 on hotel bedding, HF1508 pesticide applicator certification timing, SF1139 work release payments, SF1263 milk plant inspection charges, SF1315 real property tax assessment moratorium, SF1316 agricultural property capitalization, HF863 workmen’s compensation revisions, HF362 dissolution of marriage conciliation period, SF1190 attorney general operating funds, SF1268 rural electric coops regulation, HF1565 social services funding. Thought for Today by Fulton Sheen concludes with a quip.
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Attorney General's Office
Iowa Commerce Commission
Iowa Senate blocks 3.5 million prison site plan amendment
Iowa Senate defeated a 3.5 million appropriation to let the Department of Social Services pick a site for a new medium security prison amid constitutional concerns. Sen. Gluba cited Attorney General Turner's opinion that the amendment lacked guidelines and safeguards. The chamber planned further debate on a second proposal to convert Mitchelville girls' training school into a 200-bed prison.
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Des Moines
UPI
Iowa Senate
Department of Social Services
Iowa
Senate
Sen
William Gluba
Ddavenport
Clifton Lamborn
Maquoketa
Appropriations Committee
William Palmer
Social Services
Arthur A. Neu
Gluba
Atty
Richard C. Turner
General Assembly
Turner
Palmer-Lamborn
Palmer
Eugene Hill
Newton
Department
Mt.Pleasant
Mt. Pleasant
Hill
James T. Caffrey
D. Des Moines
Girls’ Training School
Mitchelville
Stay of Marriage Bid in Mark Murder Case
Jerry Mark seeks Iowa Supreme Court stay of a lower court injunction blocking his marriage to witness Marilyn Forrest in the Cedar Falls murder case. The injunction also delays his criminal trial set for May 10. Mark argues the order violates constitutional rights and harms the prosecution's case in the slayings of Leslie and Jorjean Mark and their two children.
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DES Moines
UPI
Jerry Mark
Cedar Falls
Iown Supreme Court
Mark
Black Hawk County
C. W. Antes
Berkeley
Calif
Marilyn Sue Forrest
Keith Uhl
High Court
Iowa
Leslie
Jorjean Mark
Wife Testifies in Seehan Murder Trial
Linda Seehan recounts her husband Thomas Seehan’s restraint during a six hour hold up in Ames and the fatal suffocation of their son Tommy. She says he threatened her and claimed Tommy’s death. Deputy William J. Thomas found the child and a note in the trailer. The eight women four men jury hears the case amid two week proceedings.
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Linda Seehan
Thomas Seehan
Ames
Tommy
Tom
Story County
Ruth Harkin
William J. Thomas
Seehan
Thomas
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