Panel weighs keeping Juvenile Home open in Toledo Iowa
Iowa advisory panel heard Toledo residents push to keep the Juvenile Home open amid state plans to close three facilities to cut costs. The commission will decide and report to the Legislature by January 15 with options, including moving girls from Mitchellville to Toledo, raising staff and residents, and weighing institutional care versus group homes.
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Iowa Capitol
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the Gazette
Bill Shaw
Tama Chamber of Commerce
Robert Ray
Richard E. George
Iowa Crime Commission
Three Men Drowned In Hudson Bay Canoe Trip
RCMP report three young men likely from Independence drowned while canoeing in the Hudson Bay area north of Winnipeg. They left Leaf Rapids August 18 for Churchill via the Seal River Route. one more companion remains missing. Autopsies scheduled in Winnipeg.
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Canada
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
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Brad Esmoil
Brian
Mason
Myron
Lucille) Chapman
Esmoil
Walter Esmail
California
B.W. Phillips
Leaf Rapids
Manitoba
Churchill
Seal River
Seal Rapids
Phillips
Churchill River
Bay
Trooper Suspended for Writing False Warnings
A Cherokee trooper, Harlan Wichtendahl, received a 30 day suspension for writing false warnings to pad points under the Iowa State Patrol system. Maj. Frank Metzger said he is likely the first suspension since 1979. Wichtendahl, 22 years on the force and Trooper of the Year in 1973, can appeal.
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Cherokee
Maj
Frank Metzger
State Department of Public Safety
Harlan Wichtendahl
Fort Dodge insurer found innocent in major fraud trial
Dan Stephenson, 55, an insurance agent in Fort Dodge, was acquitted on all 30 charges including 29 counts of false use of a financial instrument and one count of first degree fraud. A Webster County jury deliberated two days before returning the verdict around 3 p.m. Stephenson had been accused of writing bogus loan contracts to drain millions from Iowa Premium Service Co. of Des Moines, which claimed $8.3 million in losses. The case was billed as the state's largest fraud trial of its kind. Stephenson declined to comment.
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Dan Stephenson
Webster County
Stephenson
Iowa Premium Service Co
Des Moines
Arthur Johnson
Fisher
Jury Awards Burlington Woman $1 Million in Fire Case
A federal jury awarded Marjorie Dabney of Burlington $1 million after a seven day trial against Montgomery Ward & Co. alleging a defective wall furnace caused a 1977 house fire that burned 36 percent of her body. The verdict followed a three hour deliberation. Ward may appeal.
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Burlington
Montgomery Ward & Co
Marjorie Dabney
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