Spaghetti salad paves road to peace in Iowa visit
Valerie Madison a secretary in the Iowa Department of Human Services cooked 32 pounds of spaghetti salad for the Soviet American Peace Walk participants during their Iowa stay. About 220 Soviets arrived at the Statehouse and will attend a Living History Farms potluck tonight while 200 Iowans greet them at a welcome ceremony. Madison handed out much of the salad as her son Trevor exchanged political buttons with the walkers including Alexander Katamakin of Moscow. The group, started in Mitchellville, toured to the State Fairgrounds and Capitol before camping at Living History Farms ahead of finishing in Los Angeles.
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Free phone calls home for Soviet peace marchers
In Urbandale, 220 Soviet and 150 American participants in the International Peace Walk will receive free three minute telephone calls home during a three hour potluck dinner. AT&T will provide the calls outside the 515 area code, director Nancy Bishop said.
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End nears for Pig Willard a Villisca Heritage Day relic
In Villisca Iowa the hostage pig Willard is set to be sold at the Montgomery County Fair July 21 24 after a showdown with captors Carolyn Gage and Susie Enarson. The pig has met locals lawmakers and even Willard Scott in a quirky tale that ends with a planned open class swine show.
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Iowan to be questioned in Kansas about D M slaying
Des Moines police pursue Gary Dean Brown of Newton in connection with the stabbing death of Mildred Halley 81 whose body was found at her east Des Moines home. Brown was arrested for failing to pay a toll and running out of gas on the Kansas Turnpike and is held on a 10 000 bond on second degree theft related to Halley property. Kansas authorities planned to question him at a state jail before returning him to Iowa.
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