Wall of ice smashes boats and docks on Lake Delhi
A 14 foot high wall of ice and water roars across Lake Delhi in Delaware County, smashing docks and boats especially in the Maples Resort area. Dam operators and residents fault slow response and rising flood waters, with warnings the ice could threaten more shoreline as rains return.
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Delhi
Delaware County
Maples
Willie Covey
Cooey
Covey
Mother Nature
Oscar Hodrige
Dubuque
Cedar Rapids
Pat Schuetzle
Crest Ridge Drive
Mrs. Schuetzle
House panel blocks probate fee reform bill
Des Moines reports a Democratic lawmaker, Rep. Stephen Rapp, faces defeats as a probate reform bill to let judges set hourly probate fees is buried then revived briefly before being sent back to subcommittee. Holt officials move to reconsider. Rapp calls it special interest politics. public hearing planned April 4, though bill appears dead.
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Des Moines
Stephen Rapp
Waterloo
House
Judiciary Committee
Rapp
Lee Holt
R-Spencer
Holt
Nancy Schimanek
R-Monticello
Betty Jean Clark
Rockwell
68Th Assembly
Tauke urges keeps Kansas City energy office open
Rep. Tom Tauke urges Energy Secretary Schlesinger to reconsider closing the Kansas City office of hearings and appeals. He notes the office handles a workload 25 percent greater than Chicago's and cites Iowa gas wholesalers facing supply delays. Tauke warns energy policy could raise summer oil allocations and affect weekend gasoline sales and public building temperature rules. An ON THIS DATE note recalls a 1970 postal strike spreading from New York.
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Washington
Tom Tauke
Iowa
Department of Energy
Joseph Schlesinger
Energy Department
Kansas City
Schlesinger
Tauke
Chicago
New York
Iowa to distribute 1.5 million tourist maps in 1979 80
The Iowa Department of Transportation announced public distribution will begin in late March for 1.5 million tourist size transportation maps. The first copy was presented to Governor Robert Ray at a Des Moines press conference earlier this week.
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Ames
Iowa
Iowa Department of Transportation
Robert Ray
Des Moines
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Victor
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Dorothy Williams
Washington Correspondent
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Ames Division Photo, Inc
First Avenue
Secedar Rapids
Deere
John Deere
John Deere Insurance
U.S
RCA
RCA ColorTrak
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First Street
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