Agent Telling of Slaying Stewardess Gives Self Up
In Dallas AP dispatch, federal barcode agent James Lander, described by Sheriff Bill Decker as a good boy and officer, surrendered Sunday after confessing to killing Mary Morris Mead, a 20 year old Continental Airlines stewardess based in Dallas. Mead was shot in her Dallas apartment Saturday. Lander, originally from Arcadia, California, turned himself in at a Foreston public telephone booth.
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Agent Telling
Self
Dallas
Barcodtes
Bill Decker
James Lander
Mary Morris “Mead
Continental Airlines
Arcadia
Calif
Continental
Lander
Tom Barker
Foreston
Barker
Waco
H. A. Beckerell
Beckemell
Miss Mead
Credit Life Rate Slash Proposals In Iowa
Iowa Insurance Commissioner Lorne Worthington proposes a reduced credit life rate of 65 cents per $100 of debt per year, with a $2 rate for accident and health insurance, but admits there is no enforceable authority to compel adherence and questions the law’s adequacy while urging responsible insurers to consider the rates in filings. The situation follows a 1969 legislative directive and a public hearing.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Lorne Worthington
Worthington
Nebraska
Three Bankruptcy Petitions Filed in Federal Court
Three bankruptcy petitions were filed in federal court. Henry Day Davis of 268% Fruit and Boulevard 8W listed debts of 9 745.04 and assets of 725 with 475 exempt. Davis stated occupation as Lucker. Reinhard Join Eggers and Anamous listed debts of 4 047 and assets of 1 050 with 1 900 exempt. Eggers occupation listed as maintenance laborer. Monty and Wuanilit Volker of 1206 First Street SW listed debts of 6 368 and assets of 025 with 900 exempt. Both occupations listed as laborers.
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Henry Day Davis
Fruil
Boulevard 8W
Davis
Lucker
Reinhard
Eggers
Anamous
Jones
Absentee Ballots Available for Cedar Rapids Election
Cedar Rapids voters may obtain absentee ballots for the November 4 general election at City Hall third floor voter registration office. City Clerk Harold Schaefer said ballots are available weekdays 8 am to 5 pm through Friday and Monday, November 3. Absentee requests must be postmarked by October 31.
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Cedar Rapids
Harold Schaefer
Clly Hall
Three Cedar Rapids youths face drug charges dropped or reduced
In Cedar Rapids Municipal Court on Thursday, Thomas J. Huggins 18 pled guilty to an amended charge of marijuana possession for personal use and received a six month suspended sentence. Harry P. Lekin Jr 20 and Glenn Forristall 19, both of 327 Twelfth Street SW, had charges dismissed on the state’s motion after police raid found a large quantity of narcotics believed to be marijuana.
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Cedar Rapids
Thomas J. Huggins
Twelfth Street
Harry P. Lekin, Jr
Glenn Forristall
Welfth Street
Hearings Set November 10 for Tharp and Phelps
Two Vinton men, William Tharp and William Phelps, appeared in municipal court on charges of operating a motor vehicle without the owner's consent. Their preliminary hearings were scheduled for November 10 at 2. The pair were arrested October 12 for allegedly taking a panel truck from Young's 66 Service Station without the owner's knowledge.
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Vinton
William ‘Tharp
William Phelps
Young
Arraignment Set on Marijuana Charges
In Kingstown St Vincent three residents face arraignment in a district court on marijuana possession for public sale charges. The trio Stephen McCurdy Timothy Griffith and Barbara Blair were arrested Aug 9 after a sheriff’s search found a large quantity of marijuana on a farm south of Iowa City. They remain free on bond and the case proceeds this week.
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Kingstown
Vincent
St. Vincent Johnson County - District
Stephen McCurdy
Timothy Irtain
Griffith
Barbara Blair
Billalh
Iowa City
Ticketing of Sanitation Trucks Called Routine
Cedar Rapids officials say issuing weight violation warnings to two sanitation trucks last week was routine. Town highway chief Dennis Ehlert noted maximum axle weights at 18 000 pounds and said all vehicles face the same rule. State officers halted three sanitation trucks en route to the landfill, two receiving warnings, the third to be reviewed.
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Cedar Rapids
Sanitation Department
Ehlert
Burglar Flees as Family Returns near Cedar Rapids
A burglar fled the Roy Bindler residence northwest of Cedar Rapids when the family returned home about 7 p.m. Sunday. An entry was made by prying a rear window to a safe that held no money, and the burglar departed after the Bindlers alerted a neighbor. A separate Johnson district court suit seeks 205000 damages from Town City and the Rock Island railroad over a September 1968 motorcycle collision on Maiden Lane, causing permanent injuries to Arvin Stalk.
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Roy Bindler
Cedar Rapids
Bindlers
Linn County, Sheriff's Office
Town City
Iowa City
Johnson District Court
City of
Street Closed For Resurfacing On Waconia Avenue
Waconia avenue SW was closed Monday for asphalt resurfacing between the highway 218 intersection and the Crandie railroad tracks. City officials expect completion by Thursday afternoon weather permitting.
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Waconia Avenue
Crandie
Ove Roe, Former Legislator, 83 Dies in Waukon
Ove T. Roe, long time Allamakee County farmer and former state legislator, died Sunday in Waukon hospital aged 84. A 1932 elected representative, he served three terms and held posts with Paint Creek Telephone Co. and Waukon Cooperative Creamery. Born Sept. 4, 1886, he married Emma Kolsrud in 1916 and left four sons and a daughter among survivors.
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Waukon
Ove T. Roe
Notable Roe-Warkon clan with large family network
Alert notes Roe and Warkon families totaling 23 grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren. Lives and relations highlighted, indicating a sizable extended family footprint across generations.
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Alert
Roe
Warkon
Burglars Break Into Dairy Queen and Store
Cash was stolen from the Dairy Queen at 2100 Sixth Street SW and from Rw M and J Feed and Seed at 1011 Eighth Avenue SW. Entry at Dairy Queen came by breaking a rear door glass. about $87.20 disappeared from a cash drawer and shelf. At the feed store burglars broke a basement restroom window and sliced open the safe with an axe, taking about $100 from a safe and cash box between Saturday and Monday.
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Dairy Queen
Sixth Street
Eighth Avenue
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Kirkwood College
College Community — School Board
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Ambassador Lounge
East Imarion
Ady, Ek
Frank Miller
Thirteenth Street
Mercy
Kenwood House
In Hospital
Clifford Hageman
Veterans Hospital
Qld
Nate Kazebier
Reno
Nev
Benny Goodman
Gene Krupa
Pierson’s Florists
Ellis Blvd
Ady. Ok
David Rillegers
B Avenue NE
Lester Means
Terrace Hill Drive
Ove Roe
Tia Haris Eer
Interbank
Northwestern Bell
Imade
Reaseveltate
Cand
Dows
Ozark
DALLAS/FT. WORTH
Love Field
St.Louis
St. Louis
Ozark Air Lines
AIR Lines
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