Des Moines Man Convicted in First Iowa Obscenity Trial
A 32 year old Des Moines man was found guilty of showing a Playboy magazine to a minor in Polk County’s first test of the 1978 obscenity law. The judge ruled the January 1981 issue obscene when shown to a child by someone other than a parent. Lamp received a two year deferred sentence and two years probation.
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Des Moines
Playboy
Polk County
Rodney Ryan
Iowa
Ryan
Gordon Elliott Lamp
Lamp
Ronald Wheeler
Man charged with beating pair at Mesquakie settlement
Federal magistrate sets Carl Jefferson bond at 2000 dollars after he allegedly assaulted his sister Ginger Jefferson and Gary Davenport with an aluminum bat on August 13 at the Mesquakie Indian Settlement near Tama. Preliminary hearing scheduled for September 4.
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Carl Jefferson
Mesquakie
Tama
Jefferson
Cedar Rapids
Ginger Jefferson
Gary Davenport
Judith Whetstine
FBI
James Whalen
Carl
Davenport
Whalen
Marshalltown Area Community Hospital
Whetstine
James Hodges Jr
Hodges
UNI ROTC Privacy Clash Over Student Grade Release
Cedar Falls residents oppose a UNI ROTC unit and plan to complain to federal authorities after 500 UNI students' grade-point averages were reportedly shared with ROTC recruiters in Iowa City. UNI officials defend the release as permitted by federal law for legitimate educational interests.
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Cedar Falls
Reserve Officers Training Corps
University of Northern Iowa
ROTC
Randy Martin
UNI
Iowa Board of Regents
Iowa City
University of Iowa
Thomas Hansmeier
Perjury Charge Filed Against Waterloo Man
Ernest Bradford, 52, of Waterloo, faces perjury charges after denying he witnessed the July 12 slayings of patrol partners Wayne Rice and Michael Hoing. Authorities say other witnesses placed him at the scene. no hearing date was set. James Michael Taylor is charged with two counts of first degree murder.
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Waterloo
UPI
Black Hawk County
Ernest Bradford
Wayne Rice
Michael Hoing
Bradford
Dennis Damon
James Michael Taylor
Moser Named Acting Director of University of Iowa Museum of Art
Joann Moser senior curator of collections at the University of Iowa Museum of Art has been named acting director to replace Bruce Chambers who resigned effective Sept 1. The appointment goes to the State Board of Regents for approval at the Sept 16 17 meeting in Council Bluffs.
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Iowa City
Joann Moser
University of Iowa Museum of Art
Bruce Chambers
Moser
State Board of Regents
Council Bluffs
Kenneth Moll
Museum of Art
Museum
Trust fund probe leads to resignations in Iowa City
Iowa Solicitor General's office prompted two long time trustees Jay Oehler and Glenn Muller to resign from the Wagner Murphy Foundation Gertrude M Murphy Trust established in 1965 to aid University of Iowa Law School. Rolland Grefe and Francis O Connor named successor trustees to review thousands of pages of accountings and determine next steps.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa
Iowa Attorney General
Iowa Solicitor General
Mark Schantz
Wagner-Murphy Foundation
Gertrude M. Murphy Trust
Iowa City Law
Jay Oehler
Glenn Muller
Oehler
Muller
Howard Hagan
Rolland Grefe
Des Moines
Francis O’connor
Dubuque
Hagan
Grefe
O’connor
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O.C
Odeneus
Portland
Cen
Southeastern Iowa
U of I Trust Fund
U of I Law School
Mondale
Nina Totenberg
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