Liquor Council to Decide Gallagher Fate in Iowa
Gov. Ray says the liquor council that hired Rolland Gallagher will decide if he remains as head of the Iowa beer and liquor control department. Gallagher faces a misdemeanor charge for accepting a gift from a business associate. Polk County grand jury indictments accuse state liquor officials of bribery and conspiracy over liquor store leases, with trial dates set in August.
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Des Moines
Rolland Gallagher
Iowa Beer and Liquor Control Department
Liquor Council
Robert Ray
Gallagher
Council
Ray
Donald Bell
Embassy Club
Rollie Gallagher
Polk County
Leslie D. Pinckney
Iowa
John O. Paine
Maquoketa
Pinckney
Liquor Department
ICC To Study Electrical Rates In Iowa Utilities
The Iowa commerce commission orders a comprehensive review of rate structures for all regulated electric utilities. The study aims to determine cost-based pricing, potential rate reductions, and whether time of day pricing or metering changes should be implemented.
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Des Moines
Iowa Commerce Commission
ICC
Iowa
Maurice van Nostrand
van Nostrand
Commission
Governor Signs Pay Raise and Land Use Bills
Gov. Robert Ray signed 18 bills including a $93 million two year state employee pay raise and a new land use law creating land preservation committees in 99 counties and an 18 member state commission. The measures also adjust salaries for officials and fund education and aging services while other actions include court clerk investments and motor vehicle law changes.
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Des Moines
Robert Ray
Ray
Judiciary
Iowa General Assembly
Iowa
Regents Ratify UNI Two-Year Contract
The Iowa state board of regents unanimously ratified a two year collective bargaining agreement with the University of Northern Iowa faculty. The pact provides a 6.4 percent first year salary increase with a second year reopener to renegotiate salaries this fall.
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Ames
State Board of Regents
University of Northern Iowa
UNI
United
Regents
R. Wayne Richey
Iowa
United Faculty
David Crownfield
Crownfield
Lawrance Pope
Drake University
Columbus man named head of Iowa Braille and Sight-Saving School
Richard DeMott of Columbus Ohio was chosen by the state board of regents to lead the Iowa Braille and Sight-Saving School in Vinton. He will start in mid August with a $25 000 salary and a campus house, succeeding Charles Woodcock who left to head the Perkins School for the Blind. DeMott, a former associate superintendent, holds a doctorate in special education and has post graduate work at UNI. He is married with three children.
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Ames
State Board of Regents
Columbus
Ohio
Iowa Braille and Sight-Saving School
IBSSS
Vinton
Richard DeMott
Ohio State School For the Blind
Mary Louise Peterson
DeMott
Regents
R. Wayne Richey
Richey
Charles Woodcock
Perkins School For the Blind
Watertown
Mass
Michigan State University
Dean's List honors for Dennis E Schuster of Montana
Dennis E Schuster of 1160 Tenth Street earned a 4.0 GPA on the University of Montana spring quarter and made the dean's list. First National and Farmers State Banks will close Monday July 4 for Independence Day observance. Security Savings and Loan Association offices also close July 4. Marion Tastee Freez advertises a frozen yogurt deal and a Band Paper Drive with a call to action at 377-4184.
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Dennis E. Schuster
Tenth Street
University of Montana
First National
Adv
Security Savings and Loan Association
Clear Iowa City Man in Killing
Michael D. Remmers formerly of Iowa City now in prison for an Iowa City murder was ruled acting in self defense in a Fort Madison penitentiary stabbing on February 27. The grand jury found he acted without being the aggressor and believed imminent danger of death. Tommy Cunningham, already serving three life terms for Davenport killings, was the victim. Remmers, 31, is serving 70 years for a January 10, 1976, murder in Kaye Messner’s shooting.
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Fort Madison
Michael D. Remmers
Iowa City
Lee County
Remmers
Tommy Cunningham Cunningham
Davenport
Kaye Messner
Iowa
Richard Williams
Restaurant Planned at Former Armar Site
Permits issued in the last week authorize four new houses a factory and a restaurant. Ju-Li Corp. builds the Marion boulevard restaurant costing about 80000 dollars. John Parke begins offices and a factory at 4600 Eighth avenue with an estimated 125000 dollars. Additional house permits go to Welch and Welch Construction Ed Meader and John Tudeen with totals of 18720 26110 26110 and 10620. Other permits include several garages and a patio deck with modest costs.
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Ju-Li Corp
Marion Boulevard
Armar
John Parke
Eighth Avenue
Welch and Welch Construction Co
First Street
Ed Meader
Twenty-ninth Avenue
John Tudeen
Thirty-first Street
Charles Miller
Cattle Shed Fire Stops Short of Damage
Firemen extinguished a blaze in a cattle shed on the Clark Sod farm east of Marion Thursday evening. The 7:45 p.m. fire was confined to a straw stack with no reported damage. Sorg Pharmacy closed July 4 for emergency prescriptions. call 377-1533 for service.
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Marion
Clark
Sorg
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Treasury
State Commission
van Buren County
Iowa Public Broadcasting Network
Board of Regents
Commission On Aging
Wayne County
Gents
Marion Tastee Freez
Hillview Drive
John Ketelson
Fifty-seventh Street
Carey Krull
Donald J. Boots
Fifteenth Avenue
Rick Siefken
Ss Fine Home Furnishings
Orland
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