Largest Iowa City drug raid nets 65000 speed tablets
State narcotics agents and Iowa City police seized 65 000 speed tablets in what officials call the largest drug raid in Iowa history. Three men were arrested, including University of Iowa students Stephen Renk and John Rawlings and Roger Spaulding of Jacksonville Illinois. The case could bring up to five years in prison or a $1 000 fine.
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Iowa City
UPI
Iowa
Roger Alan Spaulding
Jacksonville
Ill
Stephen Carl Renk
Monticello
John David Rawlings
Dallas
Tex
Renk
Rawlings
University of Iowa
Spaulding
Hank Mayer
Mayer
Michael Dooley
South Side
Will Peaberthy
Guard unit earns superior rating at Hawkeye Brigade review
A Washington National Guard unit the 134th Medical Company received the Superior Unit Award for the 1970 71 training year during the Hawkeye Brigade parade at Camp Ripley Iowa National Guard summer training The ceremony honored six field units including the 186th MP Company Des Moines 1133rd Transportation Company Mason City and engineering units from Burlington Ottumwa and Mount Pleasant with visiting dignitaries watching the review
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Camp Ripley
Minn
Washington National Guard
Hawkeye Brigade
Iowa National Guard
134Th Medical Company
Jerry Fryer
186Th
MP Company
Des Moines
1133Rd Transportation Company
Mason City
Burlington
Ottumwa
Mount Pleasant
Iowa Weather Cool Tonight Then Warm Thursday
Clear and quite cool tonight with lows in the low to mid 40s north to near 50 in the south. Partly cloudy and continued cool Thursday with highs in the upper 60s north to mid 70s in the south. Winds will diminish tonight.
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Iowa
Lost boy Kevin Dye found alive on Casper Mountain
Searchers found 9 year old Kevin Dye after 11 days missing on Casper Mountain. He was scratched and dazed but alive and taken by lifter to Wyoba Baptist Church camp for treatment. He wore a blue polo shirt shorts and tennis shoes and had been spotted several times before finally being located.
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Eyo
UPI
Kevin Dye
Casper Mountain
Natrona County
Bill
Colorado
Kevin
Elk Horn Creek
Richard McDougall
Wyoba Baptist Church
Casper
Chuck Demorest
Florida
Buffalo
N.Y
Philadelphia
Governor Ray urges DPI to reconsider Amish education ruling
Gov. Robert D. Ray said he will urge the state Board of Public Instruction to reconsider its decision forcing Amish children in Iowa to have certified instruction rather than religious education. He plans to contact board President James Walter and State Superintendent Paul Annual reports were presented at the Washington County American Red Cross annual meeting.
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Washington County
American Red Cross
Washington
David Miksch
Lawrence Miksch
Jerry Bryan
John Moffitt
Red Cross
Milo Steele Jr
Neil Lampkin
Ralph Martin
William Tweeten
Jerry Scheeler
Richard Adams
Edwin Augustine
Leroy Conrad
Fetterman
W. E. Farrell
Mark Swartzendruber
Gene Stephens
Rex Levert
M. L. Tweeton
Roger Schloss
Johnston
Walter
Ray
Kalona Area
Kalona
Hazleton
Milton
U.S. Supreme Court
Iowa
High Court
Tis
DPI
Griffiths
Noah C. Miller
Katona
Miller
Tobias G Miller
State of
Board of Education
Robias Miller
Two Men Jailed for Break-In in Ainsworth Store Case
Steve Griffin and Thomas Morrison, both of Washington, are jailed in Washington County on breaking and entering charges. Bond set at 9000 dollars each. Officers say the pair were linked to the Ainsworth Store theft of about 400 dollars in food and admitted to several other break-ins in the area recently.
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Washington County
Steve Griffin
Thomas Morrison
Washington
Ainsworth
Variety Night at Washington County Fair Adds Local Acts
Monday program at the Washington County Fair features Highland High School band from 7 to 7 30 on the fairgrounds stage. Indian dancing by St James Catholic Church Boy Scouts follows, praised for authentic dances. The night closes with a joint Washington jazz band and Keotones barbershop chorus performance.
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Washington County
Larry Green
Highland High School
St. James Catholic Church
Washington Jazz Band
Washington High School
Keotones
Keota
Apollo 15 mission steadies for Friday moon landing
Apollo 13 astronauts Worden Scott and Irwin report smooth progress as Falcon prepares at the Apennine foothills. Ground teams monitor a minor circuit fault, plan to clear glass fragments, and expect extended moon surface activity with Worden to orbit longer and conduct a spacewalk. Apollo 19 speeds toward the moon as gravity slows its approach.
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Worden
Falcon
Apennine Mountains
Glynn S. Lunney
Scott
Irwin
Lunney
Moon
Earth
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W. J. Usery Jr
Usery
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