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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1978
Page
4
The Indekofer brothers of General Services Corporation, detasseling contractor for Pioneer Hybrids, Marengo, strive to issue paychecks amid employee discontent. Steve says they worked late into the night to distribute checks and resolve the issue.
The Gazette reports Monticello based General Services owned by Steve and Jeff Intekofer hired about 250 area youths to detassel seed corn for Pioneer in July. Many workers claim insufficient wages and delayed checks while some balances remain unpaid. Local parents and workers weigh in as state labor officials note no formal complaints.
C R man Carl M. McDonald, 34, president of McDonald Oil Co., was fined 1000 dollars on one count of failure to file state income tax returns and given concurrent suspended six month jail terms on four other counts. He was sentenced in Linn District Court for tax returns due 1971 through 1975, placed on probation for a year, with restitution as condition. The Iowa Department of Revenue claims about 1200 dollars due for 1972 to 1975 plus interest and penalties. Four counts of failure to pay taxes were dismissed.
Kevin Tighe of Los Angeles, famed as Roy DeSoto on Emergency, visited Mercy Hospital's Trauma Center and Area Ambulance Service signing autographs for staff. Pictured with him is Mercy employee Jean Yanecek of Fairfax, a relative, with family plans to visit his uncle Joe Skala and aunt Mrs. Bill Neff in Cedar Rapids.
A Linn District Court jury fixed the 155 acre Frank Dolezal farm value at 683653.96 after a trial that began last week. The city of Cedar Rapids condemned the property for the Municipal Airport and offered 680000. The land was condemned April 17 1977 and the jury determined value as of that date.
Leonard and Evelyn Dolezal, Ken neth's parents, are set to receive 66,747 from a property award based on a lease through 1985. Disparities in land value stem from opinions on development potential for commercial or industrial use. On this date in 1977 the first space shuttle test flight occurred, launched from a Boeing 747 in the Mojave Desert, California.
Rangoon court sentences former Transport Minister U Tun Lin a life term for misusing 2000 in Burma Socialist Program Party funds and property. Four other senior officials receive similar life sentences from the same Rangoon
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