City seal coat project closes two major streets
The city will seal coat starting Wednesday with two main streets closed for six days. Eighth avenue from Sixth to Twelfth streets excludes the Sixth intersection. Tenth street from Eighth to Indian Creek road excludes the Indian Creek intersection. McGowan boulevard from Tenth to Country Club drive. and Country Club drive from McGowan to Sixteenth street. Closures run Wednesday 9 a.m. to Monday 7 p.m. weather permitting, after a prior postponement due to material delays.
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Sixth
Twelfth Streets
Sixth Street
Tenth Street
Indian Creek Road
McGowan Boulevard
Country Club Drive
Sixteenth Street
Murder Charge In Booby Trapping Incident
AP reports a suburban Pittsburgh homeowner Sylvester Shaw, 71, is charged with murder after a shotgun booby trap fatally wounded an intruder, Steven Kayalas, 22, of New Kensington, who entered Shaw's Creighton home. Police say the trap was set after multiple burglaries.
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Pittsburgh
Allegheny County
Steven Kayalas
New Kensington
Sylvester Shaw
Creighton
Shaw
Marion Court Cases List And Mead Rites In Marion
Marion magistrate court heard cases including Do lan, Toms, Lehew, Emig, Heiderscheid, Belden and Elekar with fines ranging from 15 to 30 dollars. Services for Joseph Lee Mead Jr. set for Wednesday at Turner chapel east with burial at Cedar Memorial. Shriners hospital contributions requested. Marion American Legion auxiliary earned multiple state convention honors including best district report and outstanding poppy sales plus a national Livewire Unit award for membership gains.
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Marion
James D. Belden
West Eighth Avenue
Edward L. Elekar
Twenty-seventh Street
Marion American Legion Auxiliary
Des Moines
Marge Davin
Ruth Etzel
State Department
Clark Hatfield Seek Hearings on Lid Shortage in Canning
Sen. Richard Clark and Sen. Mark Hatfield urged the Senate small business committee to hold hearings on the current shortage of lids for home canning. In a letter to Chairman Gaylord Nelson they said the hearings would identify causes and possible relief measures. The lawmakers noted current budget tightness and high food prices worsen the hardship for families.
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Washington
UPI
Richard Clark
D-Iown
Mark Hatfield
R-Ore
Senate
Small Business Committee
Gaylord Nelson
Clark
Hatfield
Eight Checked For Link to Recent Breakins
IOWA CITY The Friday night arrest of four adults and four juveniles from Cedar Rapids may have led to solving four prior break ins and the theft of a motor vehicle. Sheriff Gary Hughes said the eight were questioned about breakins in North English, Vinton, Amana and Cedar Rapids, including gas stations and a pharmacy.
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Cedar Rapids
Johnson County
Gary Hughes
North English
Vinton
Amana
Cases Continued In Tama County On Drug Counts
TOLEDO The cases of Terry W. Anderson and Kent E. Peters, both 20, of Waterloo, were continued until 9 a.m. Thursday by Magistrate George Stein. They faced charges of manufacture in tent to deliver and possession of controlled substances after a rural Tama county raid with BCI and state narcotics officers. A third suspect, an out of state citizen with chemical knowledge, is expected to surrender. Bond is set at $10,000 for the two men, held in Marshall County jail.
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Terry W. Anderson
Kent E. Peters
Waterloo
George Stein
Bureau of Criminal Investigation
State Narcotics Division
Tama County
Tama- Black Hawk
FBI Snooping on Envoys Cables Reportedly Probed
New York Daily News reports the FBI and NSA monitored commercial cable traffic for at least five years including messages between foreign embassies in the U S and their governments. The paper says this was done possibly in violation of federal law with tacit approval of cable firm personnel.
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UPI
FBI
National Security Agency
U. S
New York Daily News
Washington
New York City Slips Twice In Fiscal Fight
New York City loses two rounds in its bid to raise revenue and cut costs. An arbitration panel finds Mayor Beame violated a city contract by suspending summer hours for 100,000 white collar workers. Municipal bonds fall sharply affecting the Big MAC rescue plan and the city’s August and year end debt issues.
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New York
New York City
Abraham Beame
Wall Street
Municipal Assistance Corp
Big Mac
Janitor finds two bombs in San Francisco building
Janitor Mario Lopez discovered two bomb boxes in a women’s restroom in the Tishman building on Market Street. He carried them to the freight elevator before they exploded, causing over 250000 dollars in damage and minor injuries to a security guard.
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San Francisco
Mario Lopez
Financial District
Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
Lopez
Tishman
Market Street
Charles Nixon
Federal Agency
House Votes To End Fair Trade Laws Across States
The House approved 380 to 11 a measure backed by the Ford administration and consumer groups to repeal anti trust provisions allowing states to grant manufacturers the right to set minimum retail prices. Iowa and 24 states currently have fair trade laws, with 46 having done so at some point. Representative Barbara Jordan argues the practice raises consumer costs by about 2 billion dollars annually. Rep Lionel Van Deerlin cites price disparities caused by Maryland’s fair trade laws.
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Washington
House
Ford Administration
Senate
Iowa
Barbara Jordan
Dtexas
Lionel van Deerlin
D-Calif
Maryland
District of Columbia
Speed policing linked to lower highway death toll
The department of transportation reports stricter enforcement of reduced speed limits has coincided with a drop in highway fatalities. June deaths fell to 4,142 from 4,201 a year earlier, marking a 1.4 percent decline from June 1974 after months of higher death rates.
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Washington
Department of Transportation
Department
District of Columbia
Solzhenitsyn Says No Basis for Ford Talks
Exiled author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, irked by President Ford attending a 35 nation European summit, said there is no basis for a conversation with Ford. He warned that signing a treaty to end the European security conference could divide Europe into Communist and non Communist nations.
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Valley Cottage
N.Y
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Ford
Aleksandra Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
Solzhenitsyn
Helsinki
Europe
White House
Washington
Slim Chance for Revenue Sharing Paints Gloom in DC Visit
Cincinnati dispatch reports White House adviser James Cannon telling the Midwestern Governors Conference that the odds of renewing the federal revenue sharing law are under 50 percent. He urged governors to press Congress, noting the clash between lawmakers and the program's main beneficiaries. The meeting also covered Iowa’s growth policy Iowa 2000 and a blunt economic warning from economist Albert H Cox who called politicians the No 1 threat to recovery.
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UPS
White House
James Cannon
Congress
Albert H. Cox
Cox
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