Democrats Open To Equal State Employee Benefits
Iowa Democrats show little pressure from AFSCME to favor organized state workers. They will treat nonorganized employees comparably if funding covers bargained contracts, though some fear political optics. Speaker Cochran notes minor cost gaps and plans careful adjustments to avoid over or under.
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Des Moines
Robert Ray
Mary O’halloran
Cedar Falls
Iowa
American Federation of State County and Municipal Employes
Afscme
Dave Williams
Robert Anderson
D-Newton
Anderson
Dale Cochran
Eagle Grove
Ray
Cochran
Taxpayers Unit Clashes Over Keokuk Records Access
At a Monday hearing in Sigourney two state appeals board members heard Keokuk County Taxpayers Assn. and County Auditor Ron Merz discuss access to public records. Merz cited lacking records and no 1976 77 general fund breakdown, with revenue sharing funds earmarked for roof repairs jail work and voting machines. No decision made due to the comptroller's absence. county audit copy to Sigourney library as public record.
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Sigourney
Keokuk County
State Appeals Board
Maurice Baringer
Lloyd Smith
Merz
Marion Selden, Jr
Smith
Humboldt Education Association urges release of juvenile names
Humboldt Iowa representatives from the Humboldt Education Association recommended making public the names of juveniles involved in vandalism. The move was reported to the Humboldt school board by a study committee of teachers and citizens. The committee also urged publicity on the $1 000 parental liability for acts by juveniles and rejected curfew patrols or rewards. Committee spokesman Gerald Christensen noted drinking by young adults is a bigger issue than drug use and cited 18 year olds legal drinking and lack of open container rules as contributing factors.
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Humboldt
Humboldt Education Assa
Humboldt School Board
Iowa
Gerald Christensen
Christensen
Dean’s List omission corrected for Dan Brady
MT VERNON The Gazette notes an inadvertent omission of Dan Brady of Onslow from the Cornell college dean’s list for the spring semester in last Sunday’s edition. The Family Focus feature highlights include Eastern Iowa recipes and other notes in the section.
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MT. Vernon
Dan Brady
Onslow
Cornell College
Iowa
Sunday Gazette
Family Focus
Lawsuit Seeks 450000 in Death of 3-Year-Old Debra Thomas
A lawsuit filed in Independence seeks 450000 in damages from the Buchanan County Fair and Livestock Assn over a fatal March fire at the Herschel Black pavilion. Debra Kaye Thomas died after a propane stove fire in a trailer. injuries also to Shannon Summers and Robert Estes.
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Independence
Buchanan County Fair and Livestock Assn
David Thomas
Debra Kaye Thomas
Herschel Black
Shannon Summers
Robert Estes
Louis Nachholz
Debra Thomas
West Union farmer in tractor upset injures
West Union man Sid Tope, 56, farming four miles north of West Union, was listed in fair condition at Palmer Memorial hospital after a late Monday tractor overturn. He sustained back injuries multiple cuts and bruises and a burned hand while spraying weeds. his son Randy drove him to the hospital.
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West Union
Sid Tope
Palmer Memorial Hospital
Tope
Randy
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