Jepsen Supports Returning to Draft Registration
Iowa Senator Roger Jepsen, ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee, says young adults nationwide may soon need to register for a military draft though they might not be drafted. He argues the voluntary system isn’t working and that the subcommittee should consider resuming registration and some screening.
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Des Moines
Roger Jepsen
Iowa
Senate Armed Services Committee
Vietnam
Iran
Jepsen
Ilona
State employees seek 7 percent pay hikes over two years
Iowa state employees could see average raises of 7 percent each of the next two fiscal years under tentative contracts awaiting ratification by 18 000 workers including 600 troopers 7 300 technical workers and others. Troopers would get 4.9 percent July 1 plus about 2.1 percent merit, lifting starting pay from 12012 to 12592.
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DES Moines
State Police Officers Council
American Federation of State
Mount Vernon weighs another bond vote for school project
Mount Vernon school board votes to reattempt a $580000 auditorium bond issue. Officials compare official canvass 646 yes 494 no to 673 yes 467 no on election night. July 31 is set for the next vote with potential fall construction and savings of 40000 to 50000.
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Mount Vernon
Mount Vernon High School
Tom Ipson
Winston Addis
Howard Clark
Lisbon
Paul Christiansen
Charles Litts
Clark
Fort Madison guard believed to have fallen to death
Lee County medical examiner Dr. Frank Richmond Sr said Officer Gerald Featheringill, 61, likely died from injuries from a fall of 30 feet or more at the Fort Madison prison stockade. An autopsy is planned as union probes rail safety in the area from which he fell.
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Fort Madison
Lee County
Frank Richmond Sr
Gerald Featheringill
Richmond
Featheringill
Teens Run Iowa House Model Session In Des Moines
Floyd Millen relinquished the speaker gavel for about an hour to Newell High School student Steve Smith who was elected speaker pro tempore as Iowa students from across the state joined the Model Session. Barb Knutson Beth Miller Brooke Samuelson and Thomas Fisher filled leadership roles for other representatives during the day as they considered about 60 bills in a simulated legislature. The session concluded with remarks from Gov. Robert Ray.
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Des Moines
General Assembly
Floyd Millen
Farmington
Iowa House of Representatives
Millen
Newell High
Steve Smith
Newell
House
Iowa
Smith
Rich Groth
Albert City
Barb Knutson
West Union
Tofte
R-Decorah
Beth Miller
Tanager Drive
Cedar Rapids
Regis High School
Leah Eskin
Jeannette Cazin
Cazin
Eskin
Johnson County
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John Anderson
Illinois
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U.S. Supreme Court
Ine Coun
Office of
C.R. Kitchen
Optometrist
Ken Sullivan
Myron Oxley
D-Marion
Brooke Samuelson
Jewell
Sonja Egenes
Story City
Thomas Fisher
Norm Jesse
D-Des Moines
Chamber
68Th General Assembly
Robert Ray
Bishops
Lindale Mall
Meh
Per
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Aegis
Perpetual
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Board of Education
National Honor Society
State of Iowa
National Forensic League
Boys State
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