Alternative Jail Planned To Start Operating Jan 3
The Cedar Rapids Gazette reports an alternative jail set to open Jan 3 at the Green Square boarding home site 518 Fourth Avenue SE. Lary Nelson, director of the Sixth Judicial District corrections, says a lease is signed, equipment purchased, staff hired and trained, and the center will handle work release and other non jail detention. County and state funding details remain under negotiation with nearby counties and the plan aims to alleviate overcrowding while housing inmates who work or study during the day.
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Lary Nelson
Department of Adult Corréctions
Sixth Judicial District
Peala
Ie Community Corrections Center
Tim Board of Supervisors
Ling County
Tisritt
Johnston
Iowa
Benton
Tania
Jones
Nelson
Perhans Hell
Nelgon
Mie
Megha Bren
Polk County
Four Arrests On Drunk Driving Counts
Four people were charged with drunk driving Thursday night and Friday morning. Lauren D. Just, 27, of 6503 Crnnnell Street NE, was arrested at 10 18 p m near the intersection of First Avenue East and Twenty seventh Street. Steven D. Rolph, 21, Marshalltown, was arrested at WLE pit west of Cedar Rap fuls ort highway 30. George J. Vantrease, Jr, was arrested at 1 Friday on highway FY east of the West Post road. Paul A. Hyder, 22, of 3915 Terrace Fil drive NE, was arrested at lass am al Ue intersection of Meadow Dr and Forty second Street. None of the arrests was prisched by traffic accidents.
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Lauren D. Just
Crnnnell Street
First Avenue
Steven D. Rolph
Marshiditown
Wle Pit
Cedar
West Post Road
Paul A. Hyder
Terrace Fil
Lass Am
Meadow
Probe of Rape and Assaults in Iowa City
Iowa City police seek a white male about six feet tall with reddish hair and a mustache who allegedly assaulted a woman on a downtown street Thursday night and may have sexually assaulted another woman in a nearby apartment early Friday. Description matches in both cases and he wore square framed glasses.
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Iowa City
Colton Plans Debt Collection Policy With Treasurer
Safety Commissioner Ed Colton said he will work with the treasurer's department to collect about 15 to 20 thousand dollars in bad debts. Treasurer Bill Heins noted most debts originate from uninsured motorists damaging traffic signals and proposed a formal collection system with interest. Colton volunteered to outline the policy once figures are supplied and adopt tougher collection measures.
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Colton
Bill Heins
Heins
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Trent
Aspirin Whisky Better Than Vitamin C for Cold
London UPI reports a British Medical Research Council six month study finds large doses of vitamin C show no improvement for colds. Dr Tom Meade says aspirin and whisky help his own symptoms while results are still analyzed. A 20 year old note recalls an Egyptian fraud involving a mummy cage.
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UPI
British Medical Research Council
Tom Meade
Meade
Ex Marine Trapped In Red Tape After Traffic Cop Stop
Ex Marine captain Robert Redfield, 47, of Crowley Texas, faced jail over a traffic citation he had already paid more than a year earlier. A sheriff deputy in Tarrant County flagged his car during a routing investigation caused by a faulty records system. Redfield said he was en route from dropping his wife at work when stopped. His license number had been processed in the error.
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Fort Worth
Texas
Acros
Crowley
Tarrant County
Robert Redfield
Heilfield
Redfield
Tin
John Clements
Clements
Hedfield
Crdling Wood
Cleburne
Reifield
Farthy Kuisner
Danton County
Ludwig Finalist For School Post In Michigan
Merlin Ludwig, superintendent of Iowa City Community Schools, is one of three finalists for a Kalamazoo Michigan position. He was chosen from 83 initial candidates and confirmed his candidacy, declining further comment.
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Owa
Jawa City
Merlin Ludwig
Kalamazoo
Mich
Ludwig
Iowa City Community
Ludivig
Wheater
Rental sex discrimination investigated in Iowa City
Iowa City authorities probe possible landlord discrimination with rental directory agencies suspected of screening tenants by race and sex. The city human relations commission and civil rights commission seek information from those with knowledge of such practices and urge contact with Linda Ragland, the vigil rights specialist.
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Iowa City
Towa City
Iowa City Human
Iowa Civil Rights Commission
Iowa
Linda Ragland
Krugers Charged With Grand Larceny In Downtown Theft
Raymond V. Kruger and Sharon Rae Kruger, both of All Vernon, are charged with grand larceny for allegedly stealing six items from the Me Too store at 1625 J Street SW on November 2. Deputies arrested them on a warrant and they were released on bond.
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Raymond V. Kruger
Sharon Rae Kruger
Vernon
Me Too
J Street
Amin Calls Cambridge Death Punishment in God’s View
Ugandan President Idi Amin labeled the death of American actor Geoffrey Cambridge as punishment from God. Cambridge, 43, died of a heart attack in California while working on the film Victory at Entebbe about Israel’s alleged raid on Uganda. Amin said God would punish others involved in the fictitious invasion portrayal. In 1944, World War III notes mention Allied troops crossing the Saar.
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Nairobi
Kenya
Idi Amin
Guifrey
Uganda
Cambridge
California
Entebbe
Amin
Israel
Two Escape Serious Injury in Train Crash
Brenda King and Roxante Feickert escaped serious injury after a car collided with a train on the Milwaukee road tracks at Ninth Street SW. King, 26, and Feickert, 15, were treated at Mercy Hospital and released. King faced a charge of failure to yield to a train.
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Brenda King
Ninth Street
Milwaukee Allroad
King
Roxante L. Feickert
Pawnee Drive
Mercy Hospital
Liz Ray Refuses Photos and Interviews
Elizabeth Ray in Las Vegas for a Union Plaza audition for Hanky Hanky refused to be photographed or speak to reporters invited by hotel officials. She sat in a Union Plaza showroom booth and would not go on stage until reporters and photographers left. She said she did not want to answer any questions.
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New
Elizabeth Ray
Union Plaza
Uitft
Miss Ray
Chicago
Union Maza
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