Tools to Work With Sees 1969 Traffic Toll Cut
Iowa noted 859 traffic deaths in 1968, second only to 904 in 1966. Safety Commissioner Jack Fulton seeks 100 more highway patrolmen over two years and new VASCAR speed devices to deter speeding. Breath tests aim to curb drunk driving, cited as involved in over half of fatal crashes. Democratic lawmakers dispute party backing for reapportionment plans.
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Des Moines
Jack Fulton
Iowa
Fulton
Bank loan interest boost sought in Iowa
Iowa lawmakers will consider raising the maximum monthly interest on bank installment loans from one percent to one and a half percent. Banking Supt. John Chrystal argues larger credit card networks and small merchants would benefit, while prepaid and out of state systems gain. The change could affect retailers and consumers statewide. Additionally, the state reverses a 1967 opinion on veterans children foster care, with $800,000 approved and expected to reach $1 million annually.
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Des Moines
IDPA
Iowa
Bank Americard
John Chrystal
Bank of America
California
Towa
Chrystal
Bank Card Corporation
Coon Rapids
Marvin Selden, Jr
Attorney General
Annie Wittenmyer
Davenport
Toledo
Selden
Effigy Mounds Inter Film Festival Set
Marquette supt Milton E Thompson announced the sixth annual Winter Film Festival at Effigy Mounds National Monument begins January 18 with wildlife parks and conservation films every weekend through March 24. Showings occur at the Visitor Center with schedules for Saturday Sunday and Monday. printed guides are available by mail.
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Marquette
Milton E. Thompson
Effigy Mounds National Monument
Highway 76
Monument
McGregor
Iowa
Iowas Training Program Criticized by Federal Review
A GAO report to Senator Miller found that Iowa Public Safety training, funded under Manpower Development Act, did not meet federal or contract specs. Two day seminars at a state university and four follow ups failed to advance staff or create entry level vacancies, with $4365 in funds deemed improperly used.
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Washington
Jack Miller
Iowa
U.S. Comptroller
Elmer B. Staats
Iowa Department of Public Safety
Staats
Safety Department
Iowa Manpower Development Council
Department of Public Safety
General Accounting Office
Public Safety Department
GAO
Miller
Department of Labor
Fragmented AP News Teaser From Cedar Rapids Gazette Story
The Cedar Rapids Gazette prints a garbled AP News teaser. It appears to reference Associated Press content and publication rights without clear readable details.
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Associated Press
Head Start Funds Frozen After Missed Federal Deadline
In Council Bluffs head start classes in Council Bluffs Carter Lake and Avoca were suspended for two days after the Kansas City regional Office of Economic Opportunity froze funds due to a missed report deadline on anti-poverty bookkeeping. Southwest Iowa Progress Inc and its centers in Glenwood Hamburg Shenandoah Clarinda Atlantic and Villisca also curtailed their anti poverty activities amid the freeze. Gail Holmes, executive director, cited laxity and a miscommunication with the regional CEO as causes.
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Council Bluffs
Anti-Poverty Agency
Kansas City
Office of Economic Opportunity
Southwest Iowa Progress, Inc
Gail Holmes
Southwest Iowa Progress
Carter Lake
Avoca
Holmes
Glenwood
Hamburg
Shenandoah
Clarinda
Atlantic
Villisca
Two Die in Auto Crash South of Lake Mills
A Minnesotan and a young Iowa woman died Saturday night in a two car crash south of Lake Mills on highway 69. Earl Larimer 64 of New London Minnesota and Carolyn Ann Peterson 19 of Thompson Iowa were killed.
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Iowa
Lake Mills
Highway 69
Earl Larimer
New London
Minn
Carolyn Ann Peterson
Thompson
Washburn
Donald Scott
Waterloo
Scott
Colleen Vesely
Dorothy Boyle
Iowa City
Davenport
Buffalo
George Peek
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Iowa Daily Press Assn
Vascar
State Insurance Department
Com Ricane
Clark Rasmussen
General Assembly
Amet
Pottawattamie County
Effigy Mounds
Inter Film Festival
Rocky Mountains
Pacific Coast
Cape Hattaras National ‘Seashore
U.S
The
Cedar Rapids
Leibsohn
Ack
Lowden
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