Anamosan to appeal insurance penalty
Former Prudential agent John Null of Anamosa faces a $4500 fine and a two year license suspension after a hearing officer recommended disciplinary action for seven misrepresented sales. He plans to appeal, claiming he acted under Prudential guidance and seeks damages in a separate suit.
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Des Moines
Prudential Insurance
John Null
Anamosa
Iowa Insurance Department
Null
Gary Marquett
Prudential Insurance Co
Tom Riley
Cedar Rapids
Insurance
Prudential
Riley
Rick Enyart
Enyart
James Doyne
Robert Doran
Chicago
Glen Grawe
Charles Granger
Iowa City
Grawe
Granger
Kenneth Billick
James W. Platt
Movement to remove gas tanks from Jesup after propane blast
A Friday propane tank explosion in Jesup caused multi‑million damages to homes, businesses, and a church. City officials consider requests to remove tanks in town including anhydrous ammonia at the Greenley Jesup Elevator, while cleanup continues and residents aid each other.
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Deb Wiley
Iowa
Jesup
Buchanan County
Marsha McLaughlin
Greenley Jesup
St. Athanasius Church
Joan Osborn
Osborn
Union seeks to represent 6500 Iowa clerical workers
Petition drive targets 6500 state clerical workers to decide union representation by Iowa United Professionals IUP. About 400 members statewide, 30 percent signatures required to trigger election by the Public Employment Relations Board. Seventeen hundred of 1820 clerical staff in state offices across Linn Jones Johnson Iowa Benton Washington counties are with the University of Iowa.
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Iowa United Professionals
IUP
Barbara Adams
Des Moines
Ployment Relations Board
Linn
Jones, Johnson, Iowa
Benton
Washington Counties
University of Iowa
Tauke amendment limits Radio Marti use of commercial bands
The House Energy and Commerce Committee approved Rep. Tauke’s amendment to bar propaganda broadcasts to Cuba on commercial radio frequencies. The move signals waning House support for Reagan’s Radio Marti plan and pushes broadcasts to shortwave or VOA frequencies. The panel then sent the measure to the full House for floor action as a broader debate over timing and potential Cuban retaliation looms.
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Tauke
Marti
David Lynch
Washington
House Energy and Commerce Committee
Tom Tauke
Iowa
Cuba
Reagan
House
Foreign Affairs Committee
Senate
WHO
Charles Grassley
Edward Zorinsky
D-Neb
Radio Marti
Voice of America
VOA
Matthew Rinaldo
R-N.j
Rinaldo
Fourth man held in Davenport baseball bat beating
Michael S. Martin, 20, of Davenport, was arrested in Virginia after a murder warrant was sent by Davenport police. He is the fourth suspect in the July 17 beating death of Kevin Womack, who died after being attacked with baseball bats and metal pipes outside a friend's home. Scott County deputies will bring him back to Iowa to face charges. Martin was on leave from the U S Navy when the incident occurred.
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Davenport
Michael S. Martin
York County
Scott County
Virginia
Martin
U.S. Navy
Naval Base
Kevin Womack
Court hears bet service case in Iowa injunction
In Des Moines AP report attorneys argued over an injunction issued in Council Bluffs that bars enforcement of a parimutuel betting law provision prohibiting off track betting. Messenger services operating bets to Nebraska tracks contend the law would end their business and should not be enforced.
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DES Moines
Council Bluffs
Messenger Services
Nebraska
Iowa Joins National Racing Records Network
The Iowa Racing Commission will join the National Association of State Racing Commissions to access lists of people barred from racing in other states. The Iowa Executive Council authorized the move.
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Iowa
States’ Racing Group
DES Moines
Iowa Racing Commission
National Association of State Racing Commissions
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Wilbur Mains
Scholtz Medical Center
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Elizabeth Fisher
Allen Hospital
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Norbert Bahl
Cletus Schnoebelen
Jesup Farmer’s Co-op
RED Cross of
Pete Porro
Porro
iRy
Judd
United Feature Syndicate, Inc
Selchow and Righter Co
Led Feature Syndicate, Inc
Baldwin
Kitchetts
Critchett's
Wurlitzer
Kimball
Eee
Thomas
Kutchetts
Cedar Rapids Piano & Organ Co
Lindale Mail
Lindale
Westdale
Lindale Westdale
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