Legislative Notes Gut feeling hints at end of session
In Des Moines State Rep. Willis Junker notes his yearly gut instinct signals adjournment near. He says this year the sign arrived May 4, with adjournment expected the following week. Senator Edgar Holden muses on a Gazette filler about Great Lakes freighters carrying grain and farm land yields.
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Des Moines
Willis Junker
Sioux City
Junker
Iowa
Edgar Holden
Davenport
The
Gazette
Great Lakes
Weekend highway crashes kill seven in Iowa
A series of fatal weekend crashes across Iowa left seven dead. Victims include James Rivera 17 and Lisa Moody 15 in a Muscatine area double fatality on Iowa 38, and others: David Ellerbach 19 near Holy Cross, Timothy Weyant of Center Point, Bryan Schupbach 4 of Boise, Randall Lewis 31 near Muscatine, and Michael Crosby 26 near Grandview.
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Muscatine
James Rivera
Lisa Moody
Iowa
David J. Ellerbach
Holy Cross
Dubuque
Hiawatha
Timothy Weyant
Center Point
Bryan Schupbach
Boise
Idaho
Des Moines
Altoona
Iowa City
U.S. 6
Johnson County
Randall Lewis
Lewis
Michael Crosby
Grandview
Louisa County
Crosby
U.S. 61
Iowa 305
Iowans claim palm reader bilked her after rooster death
Gertrude D. Knight of Pacific Junction Iowa says an Omaha palmist convinced her to pay hundreds of dollars in staged rituals to remove a hex. She followed steps including tying threads and placing money in a handkerchief before a live rooster was killed and burned with the bills.
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Omaha, Neb
Pacific Junction
Iowa
Omaha
Gertrude D. Knight
Des Moines murder suspect moved from Little Rock jail
Daniel R. Munro 46, an Alabama prison escapee, was moved from Pulaski County Jail to Alabama after waiving extradition. He is wanted for questioning in the Feb. 19 Des Moines killing spree. Munro, arrested by FBI in Little Rock on April 28, led agents to a gun believed used in the four murders. The revolver was seized from a Springfield Missouri pawn shop. Ballistics results from Des Moines police have not been released.
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Little Rock
Alabama
Pulaski County
Daniel R. Munro
Munro
FBI
Copper shipments halted as Tanzania Zambia line curbed
In a Zambia AP report Mines Minister Kingsley Chinkuli said curtailment of freight on the Tanzania Zambia Railway stranded about 100000 tons of copper bound for foreign markets. Officials cited poor maintenance and spare parts shortages on the TanZam line built by China. Today writer Theodore Sorenson is 50.
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Lusaka
Zambia
Kingsley Chinkuli
Tan Zam
Shoot-out relief in Iowa House caucus clash
In Des Moines a furious clash between Rep. Don Avenson and Rep. William Griffee over an open meetings bill escalated to a water squirt duel after a closed Democratic caucus. Tempers flared as insults flew and the dispute threatened to spill into other legislation.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Don Avenson
Oelwein
William Griffee
Nashua
Avenson
Griffee
School Board Association
Jerry Fitzgerald
D-Fort Dodge
Democrats
Lawmakers Parade Tactics Over Transportation Bill Exchange
Iowa lawmakers wrapped up the year with a smooth open meetings bill while bargaining over transportation appropriations. A staged exchange of bills between chambers used teen pages Holly Riggins and Jane Wright as custodians, guarded by escorts, in a mock prisoner exchange at the rotunda.
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Iowa House
Tom Tauke
R-Dubuque
Joe Rinas
D-Marion
Rep
Rinas
Senate
House
Checkpoint Charlie
Holly Riggins
Traer
Jane Wright
Des Moines
Holly
Aronson
Joe O'Hern
Democrats
Princeton
Jane
Panel probes blind unit conflict questions in Iowa
Des Moines AP reports a governor’s committee on the Iowa Commission for the Blind questions its status as a state agency and discusses potential conflicts of interest. Marilyn Staples notes the panel may be rethinking practices as Kenneth Jernigan’s private business ties and the commission’s grievance procedures come under review.
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DES Moines
Iowa Commission For the Blind
Marilyn Staples
Kenneth Jernigan
Iowa Blind Commission
Jernigan
Commission
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United Press International
Theodore Sorenson
Feee Equal Housing Lender
Bohemian
Lowon
Smulekoff
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