Regents consider UNI faculty constitution power shift
Cedar Falls Iowa United Press International The Town Board of Regents spent the second half of its two day meeting addressing administrative matters before considering a UNI faculty proposal. Executive Secretary R Wayne Richey said the draft constitution would disrupt legal relationships among the board the university and other regents institutions and would give faculty too much power in university policy decisions.
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Cedar Falls
Regents
Richey
Iowa Attorney General blocked from using funds for plane
Polk County District Court Judge Harry Perkins ruled Attorney General Richard C. Turner lacks authority to spend 58 627 of state funds for a 1973 Cessna and cannot sue the governor or comptroller. Turner indicated possible appeal and said he hoped the legislature would act. The judge dismissed Turner's July 1973 funding challenge against Gov. Robert D. Ray and Comptroller Marvin Selden Jr.
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Des Moines
UPI
Polk County
Richard C. Turner
Turner
Harry Perkins
Robert D. Ray
Marvin Selden Jr
Attorney General's Office
Delays hearing in Mason City on Carmody case
A preliminary hearing for John Carmody Jr. 36 a used car salesman was delayed as Illinois and Minnesota authorities prepare further charges. He is held on 220000 total bond or 20000 on each of 11 counts for rape malicious threats to extort and related crimes. The victims alleged threats extortion and rape across Cedar Falls Elkader West Union Mason City and Mankato Minnesota since July.
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Mason City
Iowa
UPI
Illinois
Minnesota
John Carmody Jr
Carmody
Cerro Gordo County
Cedar Falls
Elkader
West Union
Mankato
Minn
West Des Moines man sentenced for embezzling nearly thirty three thousand
Roger L. Goodwin, 35, former Great Plains Bay Corp. executive, was given five years in the Iowa Men's Reformatory at Anamosa by Chief Judge Gibson C. Holliday after being found guilty of embezzling about $33,000. He must turn himself in by Monday or post a $5,000 appeal bond as attorney Martin Dun seeks a motion for a new trial.
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His Moines
UPI
Polk County
West Des Moines
Roger L. Goodwin
Great Plains Bay Corp
Iowa
Goodwin
Indirect powers clash in Angola civil war struggle
US officials deny sending troops to counter Angola's Soviet backed MPLA but hint at indirect actions. Kissinger warned against one party gaining dominance as Cuban and Soviet forces aid MPLA, while FNLA and UNITA unite to oppose them after independence.
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Washington
UPI
United States
Angola
Africa
Henry A. Kissinger
Brussels
Popular Movement For the Liberation of Angola
MPLA
National Front For the Liberation of Angola
FNLA
National Union For the Total Independence of Angola
UNITA
Halcyon House to Break Ground on 1.1 Million Expansion
Ground will be broken Wednesday for a two-project expansion at Halcyon House in Washington. A 22 bed health care center costing 363000 will join the main building, and a 33-apartment retirement complex costing 733500 will add to the facility. Total project cost is 1100000 with completion expected within a year.
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Halcyon House
L P.m
Washington
South Town Avenue
United Methodist Church
Stanley F. Woeste
Muscatine
Iowa
Harold Johnson
Edmund D. Morrison Jr
South Iowa Methodist Homes Inc
Roland Wehner
Berger Construction Co
Lillian Dehne
Jack D. Tharp
South Iowa Methodist Homes, Inc
Hal
Robbers Loot Two Iowa Banks in Worth County
FBI agents and northern Iowa officers hunted two men after weekend bank robberies at Hanlontown and Joice in Worth County. The pair used a sawed-off shotgun and a pistol, taking an undetermined cash amount from Citizens Savings Bank in Hanlontown around 6 10 p.m. and entering Farmers Savings Bank in Joice about 6 30 p.m. Both banks were near the Minnesota border and no injuries were reported.
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FBI
Iowa
Joice
Hanlontown
Worth County
Citizens Savings Bank
Lowell Hall
Farmers Savings Bank
R. M Christianson
Christianson
Minnesota
Senate leader urges tax relief bill without spending ceiling
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Russell Long urged President Ford to let a tax relief bill take effect without a spending cap in return for Congress promising to cut the 1977 budget by the same amount as any future tax cut. Ford refused to concede a specific fiscal 1977 spending ceiling as a condition for extending 1975 tax cuts. A White House spokesman said officials had not yet seen Long's proposal.
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Washington
UPI
Senate Finance Committee
Russell Long
Ford
Congress
Long
White House
Ray Urges Less Government in Iowa 2000 Vision
Iowa Governor Robert D. Ray urged cutting government at all levels to restore public confidence. At the Commonwealth Conference he warned against overreach, while Sen. Minnette Doderer urged efficiency and a governor with power to appoint directors. John Culver linked Iowa 2000 to a voyage of discovery and called for long range planning.
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Iowa City
Iowa
UPI
Robert D. Ray
Ray
Sen
Minnette Doderer
Diowa
Joseph Tate
Doderer
Cornelius Bodine
Iowa Beef Processors
Sioux City
John Culver
Washington
Spain
Culver
Boys lead popular home economics class at Washington Junior High
Eighth and ninth grade boys enroll in the new two class home economics offering at Washington Junior High School. They focus on cooking with about 30 boys, enjoying meals prepared in class and microwaved for eating. Teachers note boys are noisier but show good measuring skills and enthusiasm. Some expect next year to be coed under a new law.
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Sheilan Alape
Washington Junior High School
Debbie Cornick
Ms. Cornick
Pitea
Dave Moeller
Randy Jones
Journal
Charged in murder of Hazelton girl
An Oelwein man, Gary Lynn Frazer, 25, was charged with the murder of 16 year old Sheila Lynn Foley whose nude body was found along a Buchanan County dirt road south of Oelwein. Frazer is held in Black Hawk County Jail in Waterloo on the murder charge. Foley had been missing since December.
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Oelwein
Iowa
Sii
Hazelton
Iowa Bureau of Criminal Investigation
Craig Beck
Gary Lynn Frazer
Black Hawk County
Waterloo
Sheila Lynn Foley
Buchanan County
Here
Miss Foley
Delay in Hoffa burial search stalls at dump site
FBI agents await Washington orders to dig at Moscato's Dump near Newark Bay as investigators pursue a possible Hoffa burial section while also weighing leads in Detroit. Authorities previously extended a warrant and faced difficulties scanning the 47 acre site. a grand jury in Detroit recessed as fresh leads emerge.
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Jersey City
UPL
FBI
Washington
Teamsters Union
James R. Hoffa
Armand Faugno
Teamster
Hoffa
Newark
Justice Department
Newark Bay
Detroit
Weather Outlook: Cloudy With Showers Through Sunday
Continued cloudy conditions with a chance of showers and thundershowers late tonight and again Sunday. Lows tonight around the 40s, highs Sunday in the mid 40s. South winds 10 to 20 mph tonight. Measurable precipitation chances rise to about 50 percent tonight and Sunday.
Start final push for Community Chest campaign
The Washington Community Chest reports $33,200 in pledges toward a $39,750 goal with over 85 percent of the drive complete. Campaign chairman Jim Kauffman urged a closing solicitations push to raise the remaining funds to meet the 1976 budget.
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Washington Community Chest
Jim Kauffman
Kauffman
Red Feather
Washington
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