Iowa Liquor Profits Dip After 1977 Revenue Peak
Iowa’s 1977 liquor profits totaled 28,013,066.75 from 104.8 million in sales, down 696,000 from 1976. Self service stores drove 80.3 million of 116 total sales. Beaverdale led with 2.8 million, Eldon the lowest. Audit urged tighter Wine Advisory Board controls to align samples and records.
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Des Moines
UPI
of Iowa
Lloyd Smith
Iowa Beer and Liquor Control Department
Smith
State Treasury
Iown
Liquor Department
Beaverdale
Eldon
Wine Advisory Board
Department
Advisory Board
Waterloo Police Chief Beener Announces Retirement
Waterloo Iowa police chief Robert Beener 55 said he will retire from the force on June 30 after 32 years on the job and an appointment as chief in 1970. No reason was given. Mayor Leo Rooff said applications for police chief would be accepted immediately.
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Waterloo
Iowa
UPI
Robert Beener
Beener
Leo Rooff
Pigs Stolen From Center Point Farm In Linn County
Linn county deputies report 31 Hampshire pigs weighing 40 to 45 pounds valued over 1200 dollars were taken from the Casper Bowers farm Route 1 Center Point. Bowers noted reduced feed and counted 31 missing from an inventory of 144 last week. The last theft at this farm occurred five years ago when 50 pigs bound for market were stolen.
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Hampshire
Casper Bowers
Route 1
Center Point
Linn Sheriff's Deputies
Bowers
Bowers Farm
Peters
Ruth Reckling
Mount Vernon
Linn County Social Services
Rail officials cool to IDOT grain car allotment plans
Des Moines AP report on Iowa IDOT hearings where railroad leaders oppose rigid grain car distribution rules. Executives argue a fixed rule would prove unworkable given 1,284 elevators on the Milwaukee line and shifting needs of large and small shippers.
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DES Moines
Midwest Railroad
Iowa Department of Transportation
IDOT
Interstate Commerce Commission
F.B. Cederholm
Milwaukee Railroad
ICC
Cederholm
Iowa
Gary Smolik
Orchard
Dan Pick
Remsen
Terry Voss
United Purchasers Association
Voss
Ray Kassel
Marvin Cassell
Rock Island Railroad
Cassell
W.L. Scharnberg
Cargill Inc
Cedar Rapids
Mount Vernon considers water rate hike and IE franchise
Mount Vernon City Council prioritized a 10 percent increase in city water rates and discussed the IE gas and electric franchise expiry in 1979 with a 25 year renewal on the November ballot. Councilwoman Dumbaugh proposed franchise changes and an annual IE energy conservation report.
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Mount Vernon
Gas and Electric
Iowa Electric
Janet Dumbaugh
Reading IE
Dick Peters
Cecil Damn
David Osterberg
Jack Edmunds
John Zachar’s Gallery of Homes Newhall Listing
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Newhall
Joe Downey
Sharyl Achilles
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