Vinton County Men Die in Crash Near Highway 101
Two Vinton area men died in a wreck early Sunday at the gravel road and Highway 101 intersection, Dennis Carter 27 of Vinton and Bryant Walker 17 of rural Vinton. Carter, president of the International Speedway Association, was returning from a race in Winthrop and worked at Hawkeye Racing News. Walker, born October 10 1959, was a junior deacon at Prairie Creek Church and a student at Washington High School. Services for Carter are set at Phillips Funeral Home, with burial at Crown Hill Cemetery Jolley. Walker’s services will be at Prairie Creek Christian Church. Memorials have been established to the American Diabetes Association.
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Vinton
Benton County
Highway 101
Here
Dennis Carter
Bryant Walker
University Hospitals
Iowa City
Walker
International Speedway Assn
Carter
Winthrop
Hawkeye Racing News
Winton
Fort Dodge
Marshalltown
University of Northern Iowa
Big Brothers Group
Edward Carter
Phillips’ Funeral Home
Crown Hill Cemetery
Jolley
American Diabetes Assn
Robert Walker
Prairie Creek Christian Church
Washington High School
Bruce Walker
Waterloo
Gary Behn
Des Moines
Michael Bennett
Lawton
Okla
Peggy Walker
Luetta Walker
Brandon
Campbell-Russell Funeral Home
Exhumation Hearing Set for Wednesday
In Des Moines a Wednesday hearing in Minneapolis will consider exhuming the body of a former YMCA janitor, Albert Bowers, linked by Williams' attorneys to a sex murder. Williams faces a July 5 trial in Cedar Rapids for the 1968 killing of Pamela Powers, with the Supreme Court ordering a new trial.
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DES Moines
Minneapolis
Des Moines Ymca
Robert Anthony Williams
Albert Bowers
Williams
Cedar Rapids
Pamela Powers
Urbandale
U.S. Supreme Court
Bowers
YMCA
Independence Officers Elected at VFW Convention
Independence officers were installed at the VFW convention in Burlington June 9 12. Mary Byam and Bob Hummel joined as state officers with Byam named state junior vice president and Hummel ninth district commander. Bob Little from Fort Dodge was elected state commander and Shir ley Nation of Cherokee became state auxiliary president. The Independence post and auxiliary earned community services third place press book second place and Americanism work sixth place with individual citations to Anna May Pentecost Jean Burke Maurice Pentecost and Margaret Fratzke.
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Independence
Mary Byam
Bob Hummel
Bechter-Boies
Veterans of Foreign Wars
VFW
Burlington
Byam
Hummel
Bob Little
Fort Dodge
Shirley Nation
Independence Post
Anna May Pentecost
Jean Burke
Maurice Pentecost
Margaret Fratzke
Iowa Supreme Court Hears Cedar Rapids Safety Unit Dispute
The Iowa Supreme Court heard a dispute over Cedar Rapids airport safety forces with the firefighters union as interveners arguing against classifying the special force as nonfiremen. The court will rule in coming months while oral arguments also covered a suit by 249 Cedar Rapids area residents against the Imperial Hawaii hotel and two travel agencies over February 1975 Hawaii hotel bookings.
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Des Moines
Cedar Rapids
Iowa Supreme Court
Cedar Rapids Airport
Linn County
James Carter
Carter
Union
Civil Service
Supreme Court
Cedar Rapids Area
Iowa
Imperial Hawaii
Honolulu
Universal Travel Inc
Holidays Holidays International
Robert Osmundson
Fisher Perjury Trial Underway in Delaware County Court
The perjury trial of Dennis Fisher, 31, Anamosa, began in Delaware county district court. Convicted of murder in 1976, Fisher faces perjury charges from allegedly lying at a pre sentence hearing about the 1975 killing of Masonville farmer Howard Miller. The second trial is set for September in Clayton county Elkader. Bond set at 50,000 dollars.
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Manchester
Dennis Fisher
Anamosa
Delaware County
Fisher
Masonville
Howard Miller
Iowa Supreme Court
Miller
Myra
Michael Carr
Iowa
Ber
Clayton County
Elkader
UNI Bargaining Deadline Set for Faculty and Regents
UNI faculty and the state board of regents face a Monday night deadline to reach a collective bargaining agreement. If unresolved, issues may go to a fact finder next Saturday, though negotiator David Crownfield expresses cautious optimism after a breakthrough on appeal procedures for tenure promotion and dismissal.
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Cedar Falls University of Northern Iowa
State Board of Regents
David Crownfield
UNI
Crownfield
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Tiger Campbell
Albia
C.R. Safety Unit
Gazette
American Independent Party
George Wallace
Alabama
Rauter
Ireland
Italy
Portugal
Shannon
Jonn
Ryan
France
Vatican
Spain
Limerick
Dublin
Naples
Lisbon
Winston
Salem
Kent Seman
FIC
Kent Golden Lights
Kings
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