Revoke Licenses of 1 874 Drunk Drivers
Iowa last year revoked 1,874 drivers licenses for drunken driving. Polk County led with 117 revocations, followed by Scott 69 Linn 63 Story 63 and Black Hawk 48. First offenses accounted for 1,651 cases with penalties including 60 days to one year license suspension and fines up to 1,000 dollars.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Polk County
Scott
Linn
Story
Black Hawk
State Safety Department
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Black Hawk Buchanan Ee
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Clayton Seereeereeeenes
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Johnson
Schwengel Laments Delay in Social Security Hike
Congressman Fred Schwengel spoke at Williamsburg luncheon calling the 13 percent Social Security boost long overdue. He noted about 24 million Americans receive benefits and urged linking benefits to cost of living while warning inflation must be halted.
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Williamsburg
Fred Schwengel
Schwengel
Wapello bond issue for new high school fails by one percent
The Wapello Community School District failed to approve a $675000 high school bond on Thursday with 59 percent support, short of the required 60 percent. A prior $575000 measure for the same purpose failed in 1966.
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Dysart-Geneseo
Dysart
Wapello (Ap
Wapello Community
Sell Iowa Trip To Mexico Set
More than 75 Iowans will join a Sell Iowa trip to Mexico February 11 through 16 headed by Gov. Harold Hughes. Executives from at least 43 industries banks farm groups and educational institutions will seek business contacts for direct sales licensing agreements and representation. Each participant pays own expenses.
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Des Moines
UPI
Iowa Development Commission
Iowa
Mexico
Harold Hughes
Iowa to field 300 member emergency police force
Waterloo Iowa sheriff William Blackie Strout said the Iowa Sheriffs Association will have a 300 member emergency police force ready within six to eight weeks. The plan divides the state into four training districts with civilian volunteers who will be deputized and fund their own uniforms and sidearms.
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Waterloo
UPI
Iowa
Strout
Wanted Ad Seeks Unusual Item
A classified notice seeks an unusual item, inviting owners or sellers to contact the paper. The ad frames a discreet search for a rare object and urges readers to respond with details or offers.
Space detective probes Van Allen belts mysteries
Dr James A Van Allen and associates at the University of Iowa seek answers to how the outer Van Allen radiation belt forms a giant loop 10 000 to 20 000 miles above the equator what feeds the belts how whistlers relate to particle movement and what role solar wind plays Injun 5 satellite instruments promise clearer data on low energy particles and belt dynamics as scientists expand space exploration built on Explorer 1 and OGO 3 findings.
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Iowa City
James A. van Allen
Globe
Equator
van Allen Belt
van Allen Belts
Space
Injun 5
van Allen
University of Iowa
Physics Research Center
America
Iowa
Drs
Gurnett
OGO-3
Orbiting Geophysical Observatory
Injun 4
Explorer 33
Earth
Sun
Krimigis
Peninsula Area Development Plan Sparks Planning Discussion
Iowa City officials reviewed highly tentative ideas for a 205 acre peninsula at the tip of the Iowa River. Proposals cite 650 to 1,000 housing units with no current commercial plans and a Park Road bridge access, while cautioning against a Park Road to Coralville arterial.
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Iowa City
Iowa City Planning and Zoning Commission
William Meardon
Iowa River Peninsula
Park Road
Coralville
Foster Road
Meardon
Regents OK School Ceiling Repairs and UNI Projects
Iowa Regents authorized a 12000 repair package for the Iowa School for the Deaf high school ceilings in Council Bluffs with 4000 state funds and 8000 from unallocated capital. funds must come from regent sources after executive council rejection. The panel named Cedar Rapids firm Brown Healey and Bock as architects for a 424000 Sabin hall renovation at UNI Cedar Falls and approved a 305900 steam tunnel to the new UNI student union funded by state and federal sources.
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Des Moines
State Board of Regents
Iowa School For the Deaf
Council Bluffs
State Executive Council
Regent
Ford Engineering of
University of Northern Iowa
Brown, Healey and Bock
Cedar Rapids
Sabin
UNI
Cedar Falls
Christie Named Radiology Head At U of Iowa
Dr. James H. Christie 48 of Cleveland was named head of radiology at the University of Iowa College of Medicine with a 20000 dollar annual salary. He will assume the post July 1, succeeding Dr. Eugene F. Van Epps after regent approval. Christie has been on Western Reserve faculty and led radiology at Highland View hospital.
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Des Moines
James H. Christie
Cleveland
University of Iowa College of Medicine
Christie
Western Reserve University
Iowa
Eugene F. van Epps
State Board of Regents
University
Edwin B. Allaire
Department of Philosophy
ABC To Film Hughes Evy Hunting Trip
Gov Harold Hughes of Iowa hunts elk on the Jicarilla Apache reservation in northwest New Mexico for an ABC sports show. The trip includes University of Iowa Athletic Director Forest Evashevski and runs through next Wednesday with a visit planned to Gov David Cargo in Santa Fe.
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Dulce
N.M
UPI
Harold Hughes
Iowa
Jicarilla
David Cargo
Santa Fe
Cargo
New Mexico
Tom Bolack
Farmington
Iowa Democrat
Bolack
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