Iowa Beef narrows pork plant sites to Stanwood or Sheffield
Iowa Beef Processors has trimmed its pork plant site search to Stanwood Iowa and Sheffield Illinois after excluding Low Moor Iowa due to water and utility concerns. Construction slated to begin in early 1982 would employ about 600 workers and process four million hogs annually, with site decisions to be announced by month end.
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Sheffield
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Low Moor
Charles Harness
Brooks Haesemeyer
Union Trust and Savings Bank
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Layhee Named President of IBP International Inc
David Layhee, first vice president for sales at Iowa Beef Processors, was named president of IBP International Inc, a wholly owned subsidiary. He and Armand Hammer of Occidental Petroleum will visit the Soviet Union in coming months to explore beef sales while a spokesman says no negotiations have occurred.
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Sioux City
Neb
David Layhee
Iowa
Wednesday
IBP International, Inc
Layhee
Armand Hammer
Occidental Petroleum
IBP
Soviet Union
Iowa Beef
Charles Harness
Carbon monoxide kills Villisca family in their home
A rural Villisca family perished from carbon monoxide poisoning when a bird nest blocked a chimney exhaust at their propane floor furnace. David Allen Palm 27, Susan Palm 25, and 10 month old Jacob David were found in the home by Norman Hansen. Sheriff Herrell urged residents to check chimneys to prevent similar deaths.
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Villisca
Montgomery County
David Allen Palm
Susan
Jacob David
Dick Herrell
Iowa
Bathtub drowning of Keokuk boy told
A 1-year-old Keokuk boy, Mark Hoenig, drowned in a bathtub after his parents briefly left the room. Officials said the death was an accidental drowning and attempts to revive him at a Keokuk hospital failed. Dr. Frank Richmond, the medical examiner, ruled it accidental.
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Keokuk
Mark Hoenig
Martin Hoenig
Frank Richmond
Keokuk County
Boy from Salix Dies After Hunting Accident
Scott Smith, 12, of Salix, was accidentally shot in the neck during a Thanksgiving hunt near Sioux City and pronounced dead. Hospital staff keep vital organs functioning as his parents donate his organs to science awaiting a specialist arrival.
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Sioux City
Scott Smith
Salix
Leary Smith
Scott
Vinton plant closing delayed to December 12
Dubuque Packing Co will postpone the ham canning plant closing in Vinton by one week to December 12 to work out orders and inventories. The plant employs about 100 workers and future use of the machinery and buildings is undecided. Separately a federal judge ordered Dubuque Packing officials to appear December 11 in Rockford, Illinois as the NLRB seeks an injunction over labor organizing at the Rochelle, Illinois plant.
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Vinton
Clifford Less
Less
Dubuque Packing
Rockford
Ill
National Labor Relations Board
Rochelle
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