Multiple local arrests and incidents across Iowa roundup
Independence resident Darrel Lee Canfield, 20, charged with second degree burglary for $5,000 theft from Ken McManigle’s home. Michael R. Johnson, 20, Waterloo, arrested for drunk driving after 74 mph on US 20 near Independence. Gary Crawford, 35, Independence, faces assaulting an officer at Buchanan County Jail. James Kruse, 40, rural Postville, charged with failure to have control after semi struck by Milwaukee train in Luana, 42,000 pounds of powdered milk damaged. Edward Frees Jr., 19, Tama, jailed six months for operating vehicle without owner’s consent related to Buck Hammer Trucking disappearance. Thomas J. Cilek elected Mercy Hospital Foundation president. $60,000 allocated for hospital equipment. Steve Brelge, Hiawatha, wins prize at Iowa Science Symposium. scholarships and national contest path. Henry Nelson, 79, former Iowa House speaker, dies in Forest City. services Monday.
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Independence
Darrel Lee Canfield
Stanley
Buchanan County Sheriff's Department
Canfield
Ken McManigle
McManigle
Country Ken’s Sales and Service
Michael R. Johnson
Waterloo
Buchanan County Sheriffs Department
Johnson
Gary Crawford
Buchanan County
Ron Connolly
Mark Tarpy
Sixth Street
Crawford
Luana
James Kruse
Postville
Iowa Highway Patrol
Kruse
Iowa City
Edward Andrew Frees Jr
Tama
Buck Hammer Trucking Co
Oxford
Frees
Johnson County
Thomas J. Cilek
Mercy Hospital Foundation
Cilek
Charles A. Kelly
North Liberty
Flo Beth Ehninger
Ben E. Summerwill
Forest City
Henry Nelson
Iowa House
Nelson
Winnebago County
Vinton Bike-A-Thon Leads CF Foundation Drive
Craig Downs of Vinton appointed to organize a spring Bike-A-Thon for the Iowa Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Funds raised will support CF research programs and medical care for patients across the region.
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Vinton
Craig Downs
Iowa
The
Postville School Chief Recommends 110000 Budget Plan
Postville School Superintendent Richard Smith will urge the board at the March 3 meeting to cut about 1980 81 teaching positions to free roughly 110000 for the upcoming budget year. A Friday special session authorized Smith to present a staff reduction plan due to declining enrollment.
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Postville
Richard ‘Smith
Smith
Clarence-Lowden approves 1980-81 school calendar
The Clarence-Lowden school board adopts a calendar for 1980-81 with classes starting August 27 and ending May 28, 1981. It includes three one day holidays a two day Thanksgiving break and a 10 day Christmas New Year break.
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Clarence
Clarence-Lowden
Diseased swine suit to be filed by Iowa AG
The Iowa Attorney General will file a consumer fraud lawsuit Monday against Allied Mills Inc for selling and leasing diseased swine to 36 hog producers from 1968 to 1977. The suit seeks about 250000 in damages in Dallas County District Court and centers on the Better Bill Gilts program, alleging infection with atrophic rhinitis.
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DES Moines
Allied Mills, Inc
Iowa
Tom Miller
Dallas County
Allied Mills
Miller
Continental Grain Co
Bennett trail reset in grasp of bank theft case
In Des Moines the Merle Bennett trial on nine counts tied to a $62,000 bank theft and the killings of Dawn Kriegel and her husband Dan is moved to April 28 in federal court. Bennett, 36, of Brooklyn, had been set for March 3.
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Des Moines
UPI
Merle Bennett
Grinnell State Bank
Bennett
Brooklyn
Dawn Kriegel
Dan
Change of venue request overruled in Tama County case
District Judge Thomas M. Horan ruled Wednesday that dismissed South Tama Superintendent Joel L. Wedergren cannot have a change of venue. Wedergren seeks 1.75 million dollars in damages and reinstatement, naming the South Tama board, district, president Verna Lacina, and board members Leo Benda Raymond Coleman and Jerry Koster as defendants. He argued publicity around termination taints a Tama County trial.
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Toledo
Thomas M. Horan
Tama County
South Tama
Joel L. Wedergren
Wedergren
Verna Lacina
Leo Benda
Raymond Coleman
Jerry Koster
Tama
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Mercy Foundation
Steve Brelge
Hiawatha
Kennedy High School
Iowa Science, Engineering and Humanities
University of Iowa
Julie Crouch
Decorah
Albert Leung
Jennifer Haerer
Muscatine
Sandra Williams
Marshalltown
Brelge
University of Iowa Foundation
University of South Carolina
United States
London
England
Thomas Plumbing Service
15Th Street
Hart Schaffner
Far
Hart Schaffner & Marx
Dacron
Armstrong Men's Clothing
Kos Hwo
Troy
Armstrong
Liuyl
Second Avenue
Cedar Rapids
Pullman
Armstrong Sports Center