Two Held on Drunk Driving Pleas in Washington County
Two Washington residents faced fines and license suspensions after pleading guilty to driving while intoxicated in Washington County District Court. Jimmy E. Tolander and Patsy D. Gearin each paid 300 dollars. Gearin’s license was suspended 120 days and Tolander must complete a drinking drivers course. Edward L. Kleinberg of Brighton was ruled a habitual traffic violator with a one year license suspension.
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The
Evening Journal
Washington County
Jimmy E. Tolander
Patsy D. Gearin
Washington
Gearin
Tolander
Edward L. Kleinberg
Brighton
Ankeny man eludes manhunt as child stolen case unfolds
Ankeny man Steven R. Howell 23 sought for child stealing after police pursuit. His 3-year-old son was found unharmed in an abandoned car near the Saylorville Reservoir. Howell’s ex-wife De Anne D. Howell reported the incident after Howell threatened to kill himself and the child. Police continued the search for Howell Friday.
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Des Moines
UPI
Steven R. Howell
LaPetite Academy
Howell
de Anne D. Howell
Saylorville Reservoir
Bus Overturns as Iowa Driver Faces Charge
Le Mars resident David Kruse, 29, was charged with failing to keep his vehicle under control after the district bus he was driving tipped into a ditch. Of 44 students aboard from kindergarten to 12th grade, a few sustained minor scrapes and bruises, with no serious injuries reported. The 72 passenger bus suffered about $5,000 in damage.
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LE Mars
Iowa
UPI
David Kruse
le Mars Community
Pleasant sunny day with mild highs across regions
The forecast calls for sunny and pleasant weather today with highs from the upper 60s in the northeast to the upper 70s in the southwest. Clear tonight with lows in the 40s east and 50s west. Sunday will be partly cloudy with a few possible showers and highs in the 70s.
City and county leaders attack Iowa tax reform at meeting
Cedar Rapids Mayor Donald Canney and officials at the League of Iowa Municipalities denounced HF 332 as impossible to implement and harmful to city services. They warned of a shift of the tax burden to urban areas and possible local option taxes to replace lost revenue, while officials noted unclear effects on budgets, personnel, and computer needs.
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Des Moines
UPI
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Donald Canney
Canney
League of Iowa Municipalities
Ray RK Ray opts to delay Senate bid in Iowa politics
Des Moines Iowa Governor Robert Ray signals no immediate Senate run delaying a clear re election plan. The announcement stirs GOP hopes and nerves as potential successors surface including Tom Whitney Jerry Fitzgerald Neal Smith Tom Harkin Mary Louise Smith Don Johnson Marv Pomerantz Maurice Baringer Richard Turner and Tom Stoner with Axel noted as possible but not eager.
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DES Moines
IDPA
Robert Ray
Ray
U.S Senate
Iowa
Neal Smith
Tom Harkin
Senate
Mary Louise Smith
GOP
Don Johnson
Veterans Administration
Marv Pomerantz
Maurice Baringer
Richard C. Turner
Tom Stoner
John Axel
Republican State Central Committee
Muscatine
Speck denied parole again in eight-nurse killings case
Richard Speck, convicted of eight nurse murders in Chicago in 1966, has had parole denied by the Illinois Parole and Pardon Board for a second straight year. The board cited the crime's severity and public protest as reasons, with a September 1978 hearing potential but unlikely early release. Speck did not attend the hearing.
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Springfield, II
James Irving
Speck
Irving
Stateville
Ernie Morris
Chicago
Massey faces possible second trial in Des Moines prostitution case
Des Moines authorities say more names from credit patrons may surface if Ronald A. Massey is tried again on charges of operating a house of ill fame. Massey was convicted in Polk County of running Leisure Spa for prostitution and lewdness, tied to a raid that also involved the Buccaneer Inn. Credit card records linked to Master Charge and BankAmericard were used to identify patrons, with potential evidence from those accounts to refile charges.
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Des Moines
UPI
Ronald A. Massey
Massey
Polk County
Marvin R. Selden Jr
Donald Starr
Polk County Attorney's Office
Roger Stephens
Iown
Vice Enforcement
Buccaneer Inn
John S Taylor
Iowa Marine
Iowa City motorcyclist killed in Wis collision
Mrs Sharon A Ackerman 28 of Iowa City died instantly when a pickup crossed into her lane on Highway 78 two miles north of Mt Horeb. The driver Edward Devlin 31 of North Fort Myers Fla faced charges including homicide by negligent use of a vehicle and driving after license suspension.
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MT. Horeb
Wis
UPI
Iowa
Highway 78
Sharon A Ackerman
Iowa City
Edward Devlin
North Fort Myers, Fla
Iowa Daily Press Association picks McCormally president
John McCormally editor and publisher of the Burlington Hawk Eye was elected president of the Iowa Daily Press Association at the group's annual clinic He succeeds William Woodward of the Dubuque Telegraph Herald as head of the 39 daily newspapers in the state
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DES Moines
UPI
John McCormally
Burlington Hawk Eye
Iowa Daily Press Association
McCormally
William Woodward
Dubuque Telegraph Herald
Park denies ties to O'Neill in Korean questioning
Tongsun Park, central figure in a congressional influence peddling case, says he told Korean prosecutors that House Speaker Thomas O'Neill had nothing to do with him. He attended parties with O'Neill but denies any relationship beyond social, calling the indictment a surprise and unfair.
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Seoul
South Korea
UPI
Tongsun Park
House
Thomas
Tip
Park
United States
Anh Kyung-Sang
O'Neill
D-Mass
Legislative Branch
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