Iowa City Cracks Down on Speeders Tire Squealers
Iowa City council vows crackdown after resident complaints about drag racing and noisy cars near City High School. Police report 23 speeding and noise tickets issued. residents had supplied license numbers of chronic offenders. Plans include morning and afternoon enforcement and possible sewer line projects in Tanglewood area and Prairie du Chien Old Dubuque road area with cost estimates per property owner. Public works study of Ralston creek to be completed by January 1972.
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Iowa City
City High School
George Nicholsburger
Nicholsburger
Court Street
Ralph Speer
Public Works
Tanglewood
I- 80
County Board of Health
Prairie du Chien-Old Dubu
Speer
Prairie du Chien
Old Dubuque Road
Everett Winborn
Johnson Soil Conservation District
Ralston Creek
Usda Soil Conservation Service
Smiley
Tim Brandt
Iowa City Police Department
Conference on Aging Told Modify Retirement Rules
Iowa State Sen. Tom Riley urged changes to mandatory retirement policies at the White House Conference on Aging. He called for allowing 65 plus workers with ability to keep jobs and for expanded Social Security, higher benefits, broader Medicare coverage, and cost of living increases. Riley cited a survey of elderly Iowa residents showing health care costs as the top concern, with property taxes and transportation also noted.
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Washington
Iowa
White House
Riley
Iowa State Commission On Aging
Governor’s Advisory Committee On the
Kent State President Cancels Iowa Speech
Glenn Olds president of Kent State University cancels his talk at the University of Iowa Model United Nations opening session slated for 8 p.m. December 1. He cites Ohio budget issues and the Kent State 1970 disorders trial investigations as reasons. The Model UN program committee seeks a campus authority on the UN to replace him.
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Iowa City
Glenn Olds
Kent State University
Ohio
University of Iowa Model United Nations
Olds
Kent State
Model UN
U. N
Des Moines Attorney Sentenced for Tax Evasion
David J. Delaney, 41, an attorney from DeWitt, was sentenced in U S district court to six months in federal prison for tax evasion. He admitted failing to report income in 1966 while earning over $10,000. He changed plea from innocent to guilty October 29. Two counts for 1965 and 1967 were expected to be dropped.
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Des Moines
David J. Delaney
DeWitt
Delaney
U.S
Not Running Scared Says Sen Miller
Senator Jack Miller of Iowa rejects New York Times and Robert Dole claims he was running scared when he opposed Earl Butz for agriculture secretary. Miller, ranking Republican on the Senate Agriculture Committee, cites concerns about Butz's views on small farms and prior interview answers, stating his duty to Iowa agriculture remains constant through electoral cycles.
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Washington
Jack Miller
Iowa
Senate Agriculture Committee
Earl Butz
New York Times
Robert Dole
the Times
Dole
Miller
Iowa Agriculture
Senate
Agriculture Committee
Butz
Purdue
Vichy government yields to German demands in Africa
A foreign report notes that the Vichy regime agreed to German control of air and naval bases in French North Africa, extending across the Mediterranean and Atlantic fronts. The move marks a significant tightening of collaboration with Germany in the region.
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French North Africa
Mediterranean
Atlantic
Two Year Okay Sippi Nuclear Plant Plan
DES MOINES AP Commonwealth Edison of Chicago seeks a two year operation permit for a $200 million Mississippi River nuclear plant near Cordova Illinois, with Iowa Illinois Gas and Electric of Davenport. They propose new measures to address prior environmental objections and would shut down if tests show harm.
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Des Moines
Commonwealth Edison Co
Chicago
Iowa Water Pollution Control Commission
Mississippi River
Cordova
Ill
Iowa- Illinois Gas and Electric
Davenport
Pollution Control Commission
Robert Buckmaster
Waterloo
Commonwealth
Commission
Dennis The Menace Gazette Classified Section Appears Daily
Daily listing notes appear in the Dennis the Menace Gazette with small ads and notices. It highlights local items for sale services and announcements in a compact classified page format.
Winneshiek Hires Hanzlik As Engineer
Winneshiek county board hires George E. Hanzlik as county engineer effective Jan. 1. Salary now 17,500 with a 5.5 percent increase planned if the federal wage board agrees. Hanzlik leaves Delaware county to succeed Nels Fardahl, who has served part time since Oct. 12, 1970. The board also approves Winneshiek’s $303.62 share of the crime library project and accepts a $31,093 bid from Hermann Brown Co. for a Galion motor grader.
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Decorah
George E. Hanzlik
Winneshiek
Rodney Vlotho
Fardahl
Winneshiek County
Crime Law Library
Town Crime Commission
Winneshi
Waukon Backs Dogleg Route for I 380 Project
Waukon to support a dogleg routing for Interstate 380 from Cedar Rapids to Waterloo via Independence. The resolution aligns Waukon with Cedar Rapids Center Point Walker Elkader Oelwein Dubuque and Quasqueton. Winneshiek county supervisors endorse the dogleg while Waterloo backs the Palo route from Cedar Rapids to Waterloo.
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Waukon
Cedar Rapids
Waterloo
Independence
Center Point
Walker
Elkader
Oelwein
Dubuque
Quasqueton
Winneshiek County Board of Supervisors
Rites Set for Retired Tama Business Man
Walter C. Fuller 67 a retired Tama business man died Sunday in Marshalltown hospital. Services will be at 1 30 p m Wednesday at United Methodist church with burial at Oak Hill cemetery. He was born Oct 4 1904 in Van Wert. He married Mildred Merryman and had a career as a car salesman in Des Moines and a radio TV shop owner in Winterset and Tama. Surviving are his wife a daughter two grandchildren his mother three brothers and a sister.
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TAMA
Walter C. Fuller
Marshalltown
United Methodist Church
Oak Hill Cemetery
Harrison Funeral Home
Mr. Fuller
van Wert
Mildred Merryman
Norwalk
Des Moines
Rock Island Arsenal
DX Oil Co
Winterset
Walt’s
Dallas Hotchkiss
Grace Fuller
L. M. Fuller
Harold
Oskaloosa
Ronald
Troy Wheeler
Iowa Suit Challenges Northwestern Bell Rate Increase
Six Des Moines area residents sue in Polk County to halt Northwestern Bell’s $15 million annual rate hike set to begin. They argue ICC lack of due process and seek temporary and permanent injunctions plus a ruling that the rate change is unconstitutional before hearings. Hearings start January 24 and may take months.
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Des Moines
UPI
Polk County
Northwestern Bell Telephone Co
Bell
Iowa
ICC
Northwestern Bell
George Wittgraf
Joseph R. Gaylord
L. Lee Archibald
Virginia Schaefer
Paul Kent Crafts
Iowa City
Davenport
Bill Myers
Commerce Commission
United States
Phone Co Says Rate Shift Not Discrimination
Northwestern Bell Telephone Co. says recent rate changes do not discriminate against households. Iowa rate supervisor N. J. Sears testified that residential users are not financially affected by the business rate cut, as the commission probes the shift under an order to show cause. Sound Inc. argues Bell cut competitive rates, hurting its Cedar Rapids business.
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Des Moines
Northwestern Bell Telephone Co
Iowa Commerce Commission
Bell
Iowa
N. J. Sears
ICC
Sears
Sound, Inc
Cedar Rapids
Commission
Black Protesters and Grinnell Officials Plan Further Talks
Grinnell college officials pledged to resume talks with black students after twenty eight protesters chained the library doors Monday. The group demanded higher black enrollment, revamped financial aid, black representation on committees, and decision power over housing for black students. Officials called the scene peaceful and promised to discuss soul food in the cafeteria and other demands. At present, 62 of 1250 students and four of 130 faculty are black.
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Grinnell
Grinnell College
Glenn Leggett
East Cedar Rapids parking lot opens near Fourth Street
Ten years ago the East Shoppers parking lot located east of the Fourth Street railroad tracks between Fourth and Fifth Avenues SE in Cedar Rapids opened to the public, marking a milestone for local shoppers and commuters.
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Fourth and
Fifth Avenues
Cedar Rapids
Fire damages two units at Coralville Sunset Motel
In Coralville, an early morning fire damaged two units of the Sunset Motel on First Avenue. Fire Chief Russell Slade said the 3:45 a.m. blaze likely began in insulated heat tape, with an electrical short in the sub basement igniting the wooden floor. Motel staff moved furniture and nearly extinguished the fire before firefighters arrived. damage estimate not yet set.
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Coralville
Sunset
First Avenue
Russell Slade
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Conference On Aging
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Sen. Miller
Hiltbrunner
Second Street
Sippi Nuclear Plant
Hanzlik
Rites
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