Iowa plans statewide crackdown on drunken drivers
Iowa Department of Public Safety will expand a statewide drunken driving crackdown aided by about 1.4 million in federal grants. Polk Woodbury Pottawattamie Linn and Dubuque counties receive most funding with 150 000 in three counties and 60 000 in two others. The initiative includes more patrol training, added breath testing equipment, and 20 new troopers.
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Des Moines
UPI
Iowa Department of Public Safety
Howard Miller
Department
Polk
Woodbury
Pottawattamie
Linn
Dubuque
U.S. Department of Transportation
Black Hawk
Cerro Gordo
Webster
Scott
Miller
Public Safety
Charles Larson
Larson
Three Iowa men charged in Ottumwa kidnapping case
Three southeast Iowa men John Spring 20 of Oskaloosa Billy Macelfish 18 of Ottumwa and Dave Collins 21 of Ottumwa were charged with robbery with aggravation in the alleged abduction of Melvin Johnson 25 of Ottumwa Aug 26. Macelfish also faces breaking and entering amid theft of dynamite and blasting caps near Oskaloosa. Collins was jailed in Ottumwa and the others in Mahaska County jail.
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United Press International
Ottumwa
Johnson
U.S. 34
Eldon
Macelfish
Oskaloosa
Collins
Wapello
Spring
Mahaska County
Judge Ira Morrison’s car destroyed in arson blaze
The 1974 automobile of Judge Ira F. Morrison of Washington, who sits in Fairfield on Wednesdays, was gutted in broad daylight near the Jefferson County courthouse. Investigators found paint thinner and a railroad fuse in the front seat. no records were harmed, and the trunk folder suffered only minimal damage.
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Fairfield
Iowa
UPI
Jefferson County
Ira F. Morrison
Washington
Morrison
Lawsuit Seeks Strike Down Of Iowa Helmet Law
Geryn Lynn of Des Moines has filed in Polk County District Court to declare Iowa's new motorcycle helmet law unconstitutional. The suit argues the Iowa Constitution forbids an administrative body from setting helmet and eye safety standards.
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Des Moines
UPI
Polk County
Iowa
Geryn Lynn
Lynn
Weather outlook shows thundershowers through tonight
Forecast calls for showers and thunderstorms continuing tonight with a shower threat ending Friday. Lows tonight near 60 to 65, Friday highs in the low to mid 70s. North to northeast winds 5 to 15 mph. Rain chances 70 percent tonight and 50 percent Friday.
Wealthy aunt Susie Slaughter funds fire trucks and more
Fort Worth Texas reports Aunt Susie Slaughter a wealthy widow known for giving away money has funded a new fire truck with a 92000 check after pledging to help. Requests flood in for everything from football stadiums to life incomes including a 600000 stadium project. She also bought another truck for an undisclosed Colorado town while denying publicity and stressing pleasure in giving.
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Fort Worth
Tex
UPI
Susie Slaughter
Susie
Colorado
Water shortages hit Trenton as valve fails and hoses run dry
In Trenton New Jersey about 250 000 residents and four suburbs faced a day four water shortage with only eight million gallons supplied daily by hoses and tank trucks far below the 35 million needed. Water from Civil Defense and National Guard trucks reached curbsides from Philadelphia while state officials expect repair by Friday and residents cope with sponge baths and limited cooking.
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Trenton
N.J
UPI
Pennsylvania
State Transportation Department
Civil Defense and
National Guard
Philadelphia
State Supreme Court
Lilian Britschge
Berkshire Mountain Water Inc
Connecticut
West Trenton
Ewing Township
Delaware River
Morrisville
White House writer to address IDPA in Des Moines
Des Moines hosts the 32nd Iowa Daily Press Association clinic with more than 400 editors, photographers, and advertising staff from 39 daily papers Friday to Sunday at the Savery Hotel. Richard Growald will discuss Middle East talks with Kissinger. Bob Nandell will cover photo usage. Justice Mark McCormick will lead a panel on Iowa’s unified trial court system. William Fahy and David Elder hold top posts in the association and journals.
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Des Moines
Iowa Daily Press Association
Savery Hotel
Richard Growald
White House
United Press International
Iowa News
Middle East
Growald
Henry A. Kissinger
Grand jury may report soon in shooting death case
The Washington County grand jury probing the Aug. 19 shooting death of Leslie E. Smithburg, 26, may conclude by Friday with four more witnesses including Iowa BCI agent Larry Goepel and acting county medical examiner Dr. E. M. Ahart. Reports from autopsy and BCI lab will be reviewed as testimony continues. a final report could be issued Friday or delayed to late next week. officer Rodney Strabala, 22, shot Smithburg in an alley near an all-night grocery.
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Washington County Grand Jury
Washington
Richard Bordwell
Grand Jury
Larry Goepel
Iowa
Bordwell
Leslie E. Smithburg
Rodney Strabala
Bellmon lashes at Meany over grain policy and Soviet sales
Senator Henry Bellmon accuses AFL-CIO President George Meany of steering U S foreign policy by backing dockworkers in boycotting grain shipments to the Soviet Union. Secretary Earl Butz defends recent grain sales but urges delaying further Soviet sales until labor disputes ease.
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Washington
UPI
Henry Bellmon
R-Okla
Afl-Cio
George Meany
Bellmon
Senate Agriculture Committee
Earl L. Butz
Soviet Union
Butz
Buzz
Meany
United States
U.S
Auto insurance rates rising in Iowa reports state official
Des Moines based report says State Insurance Commissioner William Huff notes widespread rate increases in auto insurance due to repair costs and inflation. He cites about 20 percent hikes and rising claims for deductible policies, with hearings set on malpractice rate changes for physicians and hospitals in Des Moines.
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Harrison Weber
DES Moines
IDPA
William Huff
Huff
Huff Sai
Insurance Services Office
New York
Laura Sullivan
Insurance Department
ISO
Iowa
Israel Egypt sign second interim peace pact in Geneva
Israel and Egypt signed their second interim peace accord in Geneva after a Soviet boycott and U.S. observer withdrawal. The ceremony featured no speeches or handshakes, with Lt Gen Enso Siilasvuo as official witness and the pact tying Israeli withdrawal from Sinai to canal access and oil-field withdrawals.
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Geneva
Switzerland
UPI
Israel
Egypt
United States
Henry A. Kissinger
Sinai Peninsula
Soviet Union
U.N
Russia
Ensio Siilasvuo
Sinai
Silvasvuo
Silasvuo
Yitzhak Rabin
Middle East
Anwar Sadat
Congress
Suez Canal
Abu Rudeis
Gidi
Mitla
Blind leader pushes for equal rights of sightless fliers
Kenneth Jernigan, president of the National Federation of the Blind, decries airline policy allowing blind passengers on an ad hoc basis. He notes FAA findings that blindness is not a flight handicap but says airlines restrict blind travelers, calling for stronger guidelines and equal treatment.
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Des Moines
UPI
Kenneth Jernigan
National Federation of the Blind
Blind Federation
Federal Aviation Administration
FAA
Air Transport
Jernigan
Iowa Commission For the Blind
Agi Hal
Continental
Trans World Airlines
Ozark
United Airlines
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