Iowa Legislature Bills Digest Highlights Several Measures
DES MOINES AP reports Iowa lawmakers consider SF404 allowing travel expense payments for education seminars for county officers and employees. SF2044 prevents the Conservation Commission from setting a mourning dove season. SF2066 exempts prosthetic device rental receipts from sales tax. SF2105 requires legislative budget review of state agency federal fund applications. SF2106 creates solar energy easements. SF2107 establishes three bidding procedures for county building work. SF2108 uses state or local standards to define obscenity.
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Iowa Conservation Commission
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Iowa Senate Backs Ban on Mourning Dove Season
The Iowa Senate voted 38 to 5 to prohibit the Conservation Commission from establishing a mourning dove season. The move follows a previous year rule the court struck down, with debate over hunting rights and wildlife management. Senator Miller proposed a crow season which was ruled out of order.
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Iowa geologist warns drought cycle may persist into next year
Des Moines reports that Iowa may remain in a dry pattern as Stanley Grant, state geologist, cites southern hemisphere droughts as a factor. He notes sun spot cycles and recent heavy snow complicate 1978 forecasts, suggesting one more year of below normal moisture could occur before drought ends.
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ERA hearing sets gallery limits and speaker swaps
Des Moines lawmakers outline rules for the ERA state constitutional amendment hearing in the Iowa Senate chamber. Galleries will be emptied hourly to seat overflow, and speakers will be rotated every three minutes within nine minutes total per person. The hearing runs 5:30 to 10 p.m. on Monday Feb 27.
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Ustinov Directs Banditen in West Berlin Stage
Actor Peter Ustinov made his debut as a director in West Berlin with Jacques Offenbach’s operetta Banditen. The show, first seen in Paris in 1869 as Les Brigands, was praised for its lively charm and witty music though described as a puffed up state theater farce by critics.
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UPI
Peter Ustinov
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Retired Army General Beightler Dies in Ohio
Columbus Ohio AP Retired Army Gen Robert Beightler who led a National Guard division in World War II died Sunday at Riverside Methodist Hospital He was 85 and the only National Guard officer to command an Army division during the war.
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Columbus, Ohio
Robert Beightler
National Guard
Riverside Methodist Hospital
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