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Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Dec 09, 1982

Page

15

Refugees cleared of marijuana possession charge in Iowa case

Two Lao refugees Sychanh State Phamanivong and Sing Vongchanh were acquitted by Clinton County District Court Judge Charles Pelton after claiming they did not know harvesting khansah was illegal. They planned to use the plants for soup and tea and were arrested while gathering about 50 pounds along a county road north of Clinton.

Clinton UPI Clinton County District Court Charles Pelton Sychanh Phamanivong News Hanover Park Ill Sing Vongchanh Iowa United States Laos Vongchanh Illinois Somaak Saythomgochet Des Moines Pelton

New Reagan program to retrain Iowa jobless

Iowa officials announce up to 40 million dollars in federal funds for next year to retrain more than 15 000 unemployed workers under the Job Training Partnership Act replacing CETA. The plan targets thousands of Iowans with 32 million for training 4 1/2 million for summer jobs and 2 million for displaced workers.

Gazette Wire Services Des Moines Iowa Edward Stanek State Office For Planning and Programming Reagan

Cass County Sheriff Resigns. Deputy Named to Succeed

Cass County Board of Supervisors accepts Sheriff Tom Pope resignation and appoints Deputy Larry Jones as interim sheriff. Pope, hospitalized for psychiatric tests after an November incident involving alleged wife assault and shots fired at a neighbor’s house, was taken into custody and charged with terrorism and going armed with intent. Jones will serve until the 1984 general election.

Atlantic Iowa UPI Cass County Board of Supervisors Tom Pope Larry Jones Pope Council Bluffs Jones

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