Lobby groups oppose mandatory bottle deposit bill in Iowa
Iowa lobbyists from the Soft Drink Association and allied groups form a 100000 dollar budget to counter a mandatory 10 cent bottle deposit. The House passed an anti litter bill with a litter tax and redemption center provisions while Governor Ray supports, but Kennedy calls the bill abominable in its present form.
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Harrison Weber
Iowa Daily Press Assn
Des Moines
Gene Kennedy
Iowa House
Senate
Kennedy
Dubuque
Iowa Soft Drink Association
Soft Drink Association
Iowa Manufacturers Association
Iowa Retail Food Dealers Association
Organized Labor
Beer
Oregon
Washington
Iowa
Robert Ray
Ray
House
McDonald's
Board of Supervisors
Dairy Sweet holdup in Columbus Junction nets 450 dollars
A masked thief held up the Dairy Sweet on Highway 92 in Columbus Junction around 11 p.m. last Wednesday, taking 400 dollars in cash and a Mrs. Boyer billfold containing 50 dollars. The break in occurred with customers inside as the culprit entered through a back locked screen door and brandished a gun. An investigation is underway.
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Columbus Junction
Homer Boyer
Highway 92
Boyer
Julia Hawkins
Ernest Ford
Cedar Rapids
Howard Huston
Kenneth Peters
Larry Wrede
Peters
Lyle Weber
Kathie Myers
Los Angeles
Ireland
John Dillon
Harry Todd Haver
Plainfield
Ind
Paul Smith
Claude Ross
San Francisco
William Price
Huston
Thomas Cyr
Aimee
Chris
California
Dean Duncan
Frances Lowe
Kent Wollenhaupt
Ryan
Dennis Stoutner
Keota
L.B. Dempsey
Murphys Return From Mississippi Visit
Mr. and Mrs. George Murphy returned home from Southaven Mississippi after days with their daughter and family. Their grandson Johnnie Elliott came home after fifteen months in Turkey with the Air Force. his next assignment will be in the States. Marie Whetstine has a new great grandson Benjamin Dean born to Donald Zahs and wife weighing 7 pounds 11 ounces.
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Dean Zahs
Marie Whetstine
Bernice Darby
Blair House Players
Old Threshers Theater
Mt. Pleasant
Viola Schroeder
Joan Venzke
Don Miller
Washington
Herman Venzke
Linda Orris
Cotter
George Morgan
Coralville
Mike Zahs
Donald Zahs
Tony Zahs
Loretta Dawson
Hampton
Virginia
Brighton area honors two mothers on milestone birthdays
Mrs. W. L. Dickinson celebrated her 90th birthday at Parkview Care Center Fairfield with 39 attendees including her children and grandchildren from Fairfield Ottumwa Millersburg Cedar Rapids Iowa City Richland and Keosauqua Also honored was Mrs. Nettie Chuck for her 75th birthday at a supper in Mason City and Keota area reunions and visits highlighted by a gospel concert at the fairgrounds and a Brighton High School Class of 1952 25 year reunion with attendees from several towns.
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Laton Schooley
Brighton
W.L. Dickinson
Francelia Farrier
Parkview Care Center
Fairfield
California
Kenneth Farrier
Brad
Janie Farrell
Iowa City
David Clark
Savannah
Ill
Elmer Lervald
Oakland
Calif
Claire Hoekstra
Richland
Nettie Chuck
Ralph Dickinson
Ed Chuck
Marcy
Mason City
Emma Supalla
East Pleasant Plain
N.L. Chuck
Francis Mottet
Ken
Ray Mottet
Jeff Dickinson
Rodney Schadt
Lee Schooleys
Laton
Rebecca Mullikin
Don Mullikin
Dean Humphrey
Keosauqua
Randy and
Robbin
Josephine Mullikin
Bill Crists
Mullikin
Fairgrounds
Brighton High School
Jack Hamilton
Rennie Farrier Wakeland
Rock Island
Charlotte Jackson Dovoryst
Des Moines
Trilly Cole
Dennis
Norma Gowey
Tyhursts
Rock Island Arsenal
Joe
Julie Ott
Marion
On This Date August 8 1977 Births and History
Witte via United Press International notes today August 8 1977 the 220th day of the year with 145 to follow. It marks Leo birth dates for Charles Bullfinch Connie Stevens and Esther Williams. Historical events include Luftwaffe daylight raids on Britain in 1940 Russia declaring war on Japan in 1945 and Nixon securing the Republican nomination in 1968.
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United Press International
Venus
Mars
Jupiter
Mercury
Saturn
America
Charles Bullfinch
Connie Stevens
Esther Williams
Britain
Russia
Japan
Tokyo
Richard Nixon
Hubert Humphrey
George Wallace
Edsel fans gather for ninth annual car club meeting
OVERLAND PARK Kansas UPI about 100 Edsel fans and owners met this weekend for their ninth annual meeting to discuss their car produced by Ford from Sept 4 1957 to Nov 11 1959. An expert Edsel Henry Ford said the Edsel was the luxury car of the future but price blamed for its demise with cars now valued up to 4500 after renovation.
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Overland Park, Kan
UPI
Edsel
Ford Motor Co
Henry Ford
Ford Automotive
Ford
California
Edsel Club
Stevenson Earns UNI B A With High Honors
Mark Stevenson of Washington earned a bachelor of arts degree in art with high honors at the University of Northern Iowa ceremony in the UNI-Dome Cedar Falls Friday July 29 He was among 92 B A graduates and 305 total degrees conferred. Bryan E Keegan 18 Belle Plaine was charged Saturday with failure to stop in the assured clear distance after crashing his car into a parked vehicle on East Third Street causing about 950 in damage No injuries reported.
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Bryan E. Keegan
Belle Plaine
East Third Street
Lucille K. Smith
Washington
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Mary Wiseley
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Perry Bell
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Joe Deutsch Sr
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Petra
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Houston
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Dallas
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Robertson
Cleo Jones
Ralph Mann
Homer Mann
Pepper Smith
Ames
Clarence Smith
Hope Lutheran Church
Germanville
Jefferson Co
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Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America
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