Inmate Panel Discusses Bad Checks and High Pressure Sales
Four Cedar Rapids inmates described by Warden Charles Haugh as well adjusted spoke at a Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce clinic on bad checks and counterfeiting. They described methods used by high pressure salesmen and universal checks, noted license and identification vulnerabilities, and noted counter checks as a temptation. Cedar Rapids police and County Attorney Jack Fulton attended along with Reformatory staff and the Protestant chaplain.
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Cedar Rapids
Jack Fulton
Matias
Chamber of Commerce
Reformatory
Charles Haugh
Haugh
Checkwriters Anonymous
Calvin Auger
Robert Bowman
Walter Wigger
Anamosa
Hughes cites election tide in new Iowa politics
Gov. Harold Hughes said Democrats were overwhelmed by a tide of reaction after the November 8 election. He returned from a Canada hunting trip to issue a six page preinaugural position statement and said he will cooperate with newly elected GOP officials. He noted difficulties in a divided administration but expressed confidence progress will continue and denied immediate plans for a U.S. Senate run in 1968.
Fiat Firm Will Aid Flood Damaged Vehicles
Fiat Automotive plans to aid owners of cars damaged in Italy floods by offering 40 percent off the purchase price of new replacements until January 31. The program aims to replace or refit destroyed or damaged vehicles and includes repair arrangements for damaged cars. Direct contact is available at 369-1234.
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Turin
Iap
Fiat Automotive Company
Fiat
Italy
Iowa
Verwoerd to Appear on South African Coin 1967
Pretoria AP reports Mint Director J Gronewald announced that assassinated Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd will appear on the 1967 South African coinage replacing Jan van Riebeeck who led Dutch colonization in 1652.
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Pretoria
South Africa
Hendrik Verwoerd
J. Gronewald
Jan van Riebeeck
Car Hits School Bus, Rowan Dies in Iowa Crash
A pickup rammed the rear of a halted school bus on a foggy highway 142 miles west of Marcus on Route 3. The driver Dale H. Lynn of Marcus escaped injury while his veterinarian passenger Tyler J. Stowater, age 5, sustained a minor ankle hurt and Dr. Virgil E. Bohnenkamp, 33, the first passenger, was killed.
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Dale H. Lynn
MarCus
Remsen
Lynm
Tyler Day
J. Stowater
Fogey
Miles Bow
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Pleyel
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Armstrong Womzen
Buster Brown
Armstrong's
Armstrong’s Children's Shop
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