Iowa Tax Check-Off Funds Audit Confirms 1974 Party Use
Iowa's 1974 income tax check-off funded 153246 to the Democratic and Republican parties. The audit found no evidence of illegal use, with 92376 to Democrats and 60870 to Republicans for candidates, payrolls, ads, offices, and canvassing. Commission urged stronger accountability and detail on expenditures.
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Des Moines
UPI
State
Campaign Finance Disclosure Commission
Iowa
Marvin Selden
Democratic Party
Commission
Selden
Central Committee
Van Nostrand Calls for Bus Ridership Push at Conference
Iowa commerce commission chair Maurice Van Nostrand urged officials to promote bus riding at this week's Nebraska Iowa White House conference. He praised the event but warned that new buses alone fail without riders.
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Omaha
Iowa Commerce Commission
Maurice van Nostrand
Nebraska-Iowa White House
van Nostrand
William Coleman
Council Bluffs
Hollowell Acquitted in Murder Case
A Polk county jury acquitted Ter rance Hollowell, 26, of the August 22 1974 Holiday Inn motel double murder during a downtown Des Moines robbery. The defense challenged key witness Kenneth Hunter who testified under immunity. Hollowell had been serving a 25 year sentence for another armed robbery.
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Des Moines
API
Polk County District
Terrance Hollowell
Hollowell
Toledo
Ohio
Louis Trujillo, Jr
Danny L. Peters
Kenneth Hunter
Hunter
Riverview
Newton
Holiday Inn
Fort Madison
Ky wife calls U S a paradise for women
Tuyet-Mai Ky wife of former South Vietnamese premier Nguyen Cao Ky told reporters at Drake University in Des Moines that the United States is a paradise for women and that she is very happy with American women’s progress. Her husband quipped that he is ready to go home. Ky plans a farm purchase during a speaking tour in Iowa and other farm states.
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Des Moines
United States
Nguyen Cao Ky
Tuyet-Mai Ky
Drake University
Iowa
Stapleton Pleads Guilty to Lesser Murder Charge in Iowa Prison Slaying
The Iowa state penitentiary inmate William Robert Stapleton pleaded guilty to manslaughter for the stabbing death of fellow inmate Lee Hawkins. He faces up to eight years in prison with sentencing set after a presentence investigation by Judge D B Hendrickson in Lee County District Court. Stapleton had been serving a life sentence for murder from Blackhawk County prior to the incident.
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Fort Madison
UPI
Iowa State Penitentiary
William Robert Stapleton
Stapleton
Lee Hawkins
Lee County
D. B. Hendrickson
Blackhawk County
Eldridge man charged with kidnaping and lewd acts
Dana Klever twenty five pled innocent in Scott county court to charges of kidnaping and committing lewd acts with a child. He is charged in connection with the alleged gunpoint abduction of a twelve year old Davenport girl Tuesday.
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Davenport
UPI
Eldridge
Dana Klever
Scott County
Replaced Dubuque Priest At Holy Ghost Parish
Controversial priest Rev Mark McGovern has left Holy Ghost parish in Dubuque after a dispute over religious teaching. He is on leave and will not return, replaced by Rev Keith Birch formerly of St. Joseph’s Farley. Birch takes over as associate pastor. McGovern expressed desire to return but church officials offered no comment.
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Dubuque
UPI
Holy Ghost
Archdiocese of Dubuque
The
Witness
Mark McGovern
Keith Birch
Father Birch
St. Joseph’s Parish
Farley
Father McGovern
Archdiocesan Education
Gina Moorehead Chosen Tri County Band Queen in Oktoberfest
Gina Moorehead daughter of Mr and Mrs Max Moorehead What Cheer has been selected as band queen for Tri County by the Trojan marching band. The junior will represent the school in the 1975 Ottumwa Oktoberfest parade and be interviewed for the Miss Oktoberfest 1975 title alongside other band queens as the marching band led by director Gene Bell marches in the parade Saturday at 10 30 a m.
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Gina Moorehead
Max. Moorehead
Tri-County
Trojan
Gene Bell
Ponds drained in Iowa City search for missing woman
Iowa City police drained two ponds near Jane Wakefield’s home after a tip from Lyon County Kansas deputies suggested a motel room discussion of disposing a woman in an Iowa City sewage lagoon. No body or evidence found after a nine and a half hour operation. Wakefield, a Penn school teacher, was last seen Sept 6 after cycling with friends.
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Iowa City
Jane Ellen Wakefield
Lyon County
Kan
Emporia
Kansas
David Epstein
Epstein
Miss Wakefield
Penn School
North Liberty
Farmer Dies After Truck Vehicle Crash on Waterloo Street
Carl Helms age 52 an Aurora farmer died of an apparent heart attack while driving a hog truck on a Waterloo street authorities said the vehicle ran off the road struck a sign and the body was found Services are pending at Fawcett's in Winthrop
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Waterloo
Carl Helms
Aurora
Waterloo Street
Helms
Fawcett’s
Winthrop
Services Saturday For Mrs Lillis Orf
Mrs Lillis Orf 68 widow of Raymond Orf died Wednesday in a Cedar Rapids hospital. Born August 21, 1907 in Norway she married May 8 1934 also in Norway. Survived by daughter Mrs Ray Meade Walker son Raymond Jack Orf six grandchildren brother Clifford Pickart Norway and sister Mrs Jerome Sonka Atkins. Services Saturday 10 at St Pauls Catholic Church Newhall burial in SS Patrick and Paul cemetery Watkins. Visitation Friday after 1 at George Brush residence Norway Rosary Friday at 8.
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Newhall
Lillis Orf
Raymond Orf
Cedar Rapids
Norway
Ray Meade. Walker
Raymond
Jack) Orf
Clifford Pickart
Jerome Sonka
Atkins
St. Paul
Midwest Silo Plant Destroyed by Fire in West Union
A 60 by 95 foot Midwest Silo plant building burned Thursday night in West Union. Fire Chief L T Philips said a passerby Howard Whitcher alerted firefighters at 9 20 p m. Firemen fought the blaze over more than two hours and suspect an electrical fault at the rear started the fire. Owner Frank Kraft reported destruction of manufacturing equipment two trucks a fork lift and other gear with damage estimated at 40000 for machinery and 25000 for the structure. Kraft plans to rebuild with some insurance.
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West Union
L. T. Philips
Howard Whitcher
Philips
Silos
Frank Kraft
Kraft
Staggered Terms For Vinton City Council Proposed
Vinton voters will decide November 4 on changing council terms from two to four years via a staggered term plan. If approved, odd wards elect four-year terms and even wards two-year terms starting 1977, with at large seats and mayor term details noted. The council also formed a collective bargaining committee chaired by Chuck Johnson with Win Watson and Jim Kelly.
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Vinton
Chuck Johnson
Win Watson
Jim Kelly
Johnson
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Paradise
Annie Southers
Macon
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Polk County
Dick Clemens
State Campaign Finance Disclosure Commission
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