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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1973
Page
4
Senate approval clears a Iowa bill authorizing collective bargaining for about 175000 public employees including teachers. The measure creates a three member PER board, bans strikes, sets final offer arbitration after 95 days, and outlines selection and mediation procedures while excluding certain workers and adding others via amendments.
Davenport Iowa AP Scott county sheriff William Blackie Strout 43 and his son Daniel 19 face two counts each of possession of stolen property in Arkansas Strout has run the county since 1965 A special grand jury will probe the sheriff with the attorney general handling any prosecution and Scott County Atty Ned Wehr will not participate to avoid investigating a colleague The probe begins Monday and aims to be more comprehensive than the initial charges report says
In Des Moines the senate debated a unified court bill amendment requiring magistrates to be lawyers. Proponents argued laymen would be excluded, while opponents cited gender discrimination. Senator Hultman suggested a working knowledge of law could allow some laymen to qualify. Justice Nolin warned that all magistrates being women would not hamper justice.
An Iowa physician and a Mississippi physician seek posts at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Dr. James B. Moore would be associate dean of the school of allied health professions and Dr. William K. Metcalf would chair the anatomy department.
In a special session the Vinton Board of Education accepted resignations of Jerry Staton as athletic director and coach and George Cummins as vocational agriculture instructor. The board approved hiring plans for full and part time staff, reassignments to expand social studies and business education, added a health education element to physical education, and approved a summer band program for fifth to seventh graders with future study of needs.
Commencement exercises for Clear Creek Community School are scheduled for Friday at 8 p.m. on the football field, with a rain contingency moving the program to the senior high gym at 8 p.m. if needed.
The six year term would make the first appointee chairman. Of 14 voting against the bill Republicans Bergman Briles Curtis DeKoster Hultman Lamborn McCartney Schwengels Taylor Tieden Winkleman and Democrats Heying Rodgers Scott opposed. Absent were Republicans Kuhl E Miller Shaw. The bill passed with 14 Republicans and 19 Democrats voting in its favor.
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DES MOINES AP Three Iowa Medal of Honor recipients from Southeast Asia and 13 former POWs join Veterans Appreciation Days events Friday and Saturday. Gov. Ray will give a salute, with Navy Lt Cmdr Larry Spencer delivering the response. Medal of Honor winners Merlyn Dethlefsen Jimmie Howard and John Baker Jr., attend along with the POWs for the parade and banquet.
Sigourney Community high school outlines senior events with class night Friday Baccalaureate Sunday at the high school featuring Rev. Clay Rogers. Commencement Tuesday at 7 p.m. at Shafer field with Dr. Ron Roskins president of the University of Nebraska as speaker.
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