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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1978
Page
8
Seven fires in two weeks in Oskaloosa Iowa prompt a $3,500 reward and heightened vigilance. Merchants patrol alleys and carry guns while investigators probe arson as the cause and police withhold details as fire crews respond to multiple blazes.
Merchants describe near misses as flames leapt 25 30 feet at Merle Boughton’s office and Wal ters realty. owners run makeshift offices, plan patrols and brighter street lighting while awaiting recovery. Buyers log loans on sidewalks.
Iowa accidents and crashes over the weekend left 15 dead including Epworth man Phillip McDermott 22 in a Dubuque County rollover. Other victims were from New Hampton Forest City Monticello Olin Wheatland Clinton County and Keosauqua with crashes at Lawler Jones County and near Brighton plus a drowning near Sioux City.
In Paris at Boucicault Hospital doctors reattached the hand of 24 year old Maurice Bottin. The hand was severed during a fight in Le Havre over a woman. Friends applied a tourniquet and ice before rushing the limb to the hospital for operation.
Des Moines police urged authorities statewide to help locate three robbers who killed Lawrence Shinko and raped a woman in a north central Des Moines house near Drake University. Shinko, 39, was shot in the neck during a 3 am break in, as assailants searched for money. The car description was not released.
Iowa welfare rolls are down to their lowest in two years but overall costs rise due to cost of living increases. Social Services official Don Kassar notes a 7.5 percent July 1 boost lifted the average monthly benefit for a family of four from 369 to 395 dollars, while tighter controls reduce cheater payments.
Lou V. Brewer, warden of the Iowa State Penitentiary at Fort Madison, faces a potential reassignment to the Mount Pleasant state medium security facility. Officials expect his replacement to be Jack L. Baughman, a Mason City administrator and former Anamosa deputy warden. Brewer will discuss the move with family and may pursue a post at Stateville Penitentiary in Joliet, Illinois.
Two additional ruptures discovered during testing of the 110 mile Mid-American Pipeline System line linking Birmingham to Farmington Illinois. The Aug. 4 explosion killed two and injured five, with high pressure water used to locate defects near Howard Leisy farm west of Franklin.
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