Iowa law changes proposal roils 1963 session
Iowa legislators plan to overhaul law enforcement abolishing county sheriffs and forming multi county districts with a three member commission. They seek non profit bingo, liquor by the drink, reapportionment plans, tax and highway funding shifts, and four year terms for some offices. Reforms target assessment power and driver license tests.
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DES Moines
Associated Press
Chalupa
Law Enforcement Commission, of Public Safety
Dietz
Board of Assessment
Tax Commission
Lawrence Carstensen
Clinton
Katherine Falvey
Albia
Denman
Six Hurt In Two Car Crash East Of What Cheer
Six persons injured in a head on collision on a narrow county road two miles east of What Cheer. Dennis Meldrem 16 What Cheer and Austin Lemley 26 Davenport drove the cars with Sigourney youths Francis Glandon and Ronnie Jackson 16 and Leroy James 21 riding. Glandon hospitalized others bruised or with minor injuries. Lemley potential internal injuries. Greenslade 17 What Cheer passenger minor injuries.
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Sigourney
What Cheer
Dennis Meldrem
Austin Lemley
Davenport
Meldrem
Francis Glandon
Ronnie Jackson
Leroy James
Glandon
Lemley
Leslie Greenslade
Train Hits Car Left on Tracks After Accident
In Melcher Iowa a car driven by Eugene Wright 23 plunged through a viaduct fell 25 feet and overturned. He walked to a farmhouse and summoned an ambulance to Knox ville hospital. About 90 minutes later a Rocky Island passenger train from Kansas City to Des Moines struck the car pushing it a quarter mile down the track. Deputy Sheriff Lee Shives contacted Knoxville after arriving at the scene and learned Wright was in the hospital.
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Melcher
Eugene Wright
Knoxville
Rocky Island
Kansas City
Des Moines
Lee Shives
Wright
Plane Lands in Ditch After Clinton Airport Runway Slip
An Ozark Airlines plane skid off a snow slick runway and into a ditch at Clinton airport. All 21 passengers remained uninjured as a wingtip was damaged. The flight from Milwaukee to Rockford was diverted to Clinton due to bad weather in Rockford.
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Clinton
Ozark Airlines
Rockford
Milwaukee
These Santa Clauses Wear Blue Suits
In Fort Madison Iowa UPI reports that some Lee county children recall Santa in a blue suit. Disabled children received toys and clothing from Iowa penitentiary prisoners who bought items with prison wages. The gifts were signed simply men in blue.
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Fort Madison
UPI
Lee County
Santa Claus
Iowa
Des Moines Woman Charged With Shoplifting
Sharlean Margie Ropes, 41, of Des Moines, facing a municipal court shoplifting charge after store owner C. J. Feldmann said she hid two suits under her coat. She was jailed in Polk County with $600 bond. Ropes, paroled in June from Rockwell City reform school after part of a five year sentence for receiving stolen property, is the former wife of ex Iowa Commerce Commissioner John M. Ropes.
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DES Moines
Iowa Commerce Commission
Sharlean Margie Ropes
C. J. Feldmann
Polk County
John M. Ropes
Iown
Rosner Surrenders to FBI After Mexico Escape
James William Rosner of Fort Madison Iowa turned himself in to FBI agents in Laredo Texas after claiming he fled Mexican police at Nuevo Laredo and swam the Rio Grande to reach the United States. He is held in Webb County jail on a 2000 dollar bond awaiting extradition.
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Laredo
Texas
Iowa
Des Moines
FBI
James William Rosner
Fort Madison
Rosner
Nuevo Laredo
Rio Grande
Webb County
Mexico
Christmas Eve Services From First Lutheran Cedar Rapids
A TV listing notes Christmas Eve services from First Lutheran Church in Cedar Rapids to air on KCRG TV 9 Monday at 11 PM.
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First Lutheran Church In
Cedar Rapids
Kcrg-Tv
Five Weekend Traffic Deaths Listed in Iowa
Five people died in Iowa traffic crashes during the Christmas holiday weekend from Friday evening to Tuesday midnight. Victims include 22 year old William John Klages near Lacona whose overturned car was found, 16 year old Leonard Goettsch near Mechanicsville, 16 year old David Risdall and 15 year old Jack Mead in Cole in a collision with a freight train, and 21 year old Wendell Philips near Davenport.
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Iowa
William John Klages
Lacona
Warren County
C.J. Richards
Klages
Leonard Goettsch
Clinton
Mechanicsville
Goettsch
Eldora State Training School
David Risdall
Jack Mead
Cole
Chicago and North Western
Wendell Philips
Buffalo
Davenport
Iowa Family Injured In Minnesota Crash
Valerie Kroells seven of Waterloo Iowa suffered a skull fracture in a crash in Wabasha Minnesota. Ron Shreeve twenty two of Tomah Wisconsin was killed. The girl's father Alvin Kroells thirty and her mother and two brothers were in satisfactory condition at a local hospital.
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Wabasha, Minn
Valerie Jean Kroells
Waterloo
Rochester
Ronald Shreeve
Tomah
Wis
Shreeve
Alvin ‘Kroells
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Republican State Central Committee
60Th General Assembly
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Walcott
William Denman
Alvin Meyer
Dwinterset
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Turner
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Sioux City
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New Hartford
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Muscatine
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Falvey
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Tive
State Industrial Credit Corporation
Howard Repert
Charles F. Balloun
Toledo
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Francis Messerlly
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Larry Janda
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