Impacted testimony linked to 1972 Peterson case
Iowa Bureau agent Terry Johnson testified about questioning a Storm Lake man not named in the 1972 manslaughter trial of Michael Dean Peterson. Jeanine Christensen, 18, was found strangled in Storm Lake in 1971. Peterson and Christensen were engaged. Defense says omitting Bruce Grieme questioning helped overturn the conviction.
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Fort Dodge
Iowa
UPI
Michael Dean Peterson
Iowa Bureau of Criminal Investigation
Terry Johnson
Storm Lake Area
Jeanine Christensen
Storm Lake
Peterson
Lawrence Scalise
Bruce Grieme
Iowa Supreme Court
Iowa farmers face delayed harvest as drought persists
Des Moines reports show drought delaying fall plowing across Iowa and rain this late season would not hasten crop development. Only about one third of corn is in good or excellent condition, with potential for more silage to be cut than hoped. Also, three Iowa congressmen received 25500 from dairy PACs, amid debates over campaign contributions and partisan budget critiques.
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Des Moines
UPI
Iowa
Iowa Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Federal Election Commission
FEC
Michael Blouin
Blouin
Debate dates set for Ford Carter debates this fall
Washington officials announced the second and third nationally televised debates between President Ford and Jimmy Carter would be held on October 6 and October 22 at undetermined locations. Organizers said that Senators Bob Dole and Walter Mondale would conduct their previously scheduled debate during the week of October 11.
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Washington
UPI
Ford
Jimmy Carter
Robert Dole
R-Kan
Walter Mondale
D-Minn
Journal urges Ford to veto complex tax reform bill
The Wall Street Journal editorial calls the 1500 page conference bill one of the most complex in memory and says even a team of eminent economists cannot determine its effects. It urges President Ford to veto, arguing the bill’s net impact on the economy remains unknowable.
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New York
UPI
The
Wall Street Journal Today
Ford
House Senate Conference Committee
the Journal
Wall Street Journal
Cambridge
Chicago
MIT
U.S
Gloor Becomes Physician Assistant at Washington Clinic
James M. Gloor, 25, joins Washington Medical Clinic as a physician's assistant, performing many medical tasks under doctor supervision to ease local care. He assists Drs. Ahart Nemmers Sidney Tam and has worked at Washington County Hospital, with prescriptions needing co sign and treatment plans approved by a physician.
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James Gloor
Terry Reschly
Washington
Washington Medical Clinic
Gloor
Journal
The
Evening Journal
James M. Gloor
Ahart
State Board of Medical Examiners
Burlington
University of Iowa
Iowa City
U of I
Dubuque
County Hospital
Washington Clinic
Jim
UAW Chief Says Ford Strike Now Certain
United Auto Workers President Leonard Woodcock declares a Ford contract agreement by the midnight deadline is absolutely impossible. The union moves to mobilize 170,000 workers across 22 states for a potential economy impacting strike as Ford offers were rejected and talks remain stalled before the deadline.
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Detroit
UPI
United Auto Workers
Leonard Woodcock
Ford Motor Co
Woodcock
No. 2
Ford World Headquarters
Dearborn
UAW
Ford
James Scearce
Auto
USDA cuts soy reserves forecast amid drought revised outlook
USDA projections show soybean carryover may fall to about 100 million bushels by late summer 1977, a one month supply, with no export controls expected. Corn reserves are seen rising to around 421 million bushels after Oct 1 1977 as use for livestock feed adjusts following drought. Don Paarlberg cautions markets will stay open.
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Washington
UPI
Agriculture Department
Don Paarlberg
Butz defends policy amid Democratic farm plan in Iowa
UPI reports Agriculture Secretary Earl L. Butz told the Iowa Grain and Feed Association that a Democratic farm policy would end America’s conditions of plenty. He cited 1972–75 net farm income averages and noted government payments in 1968 and 1975, defending the current program as the most positive food policy in decades and predicting peanut payments reaching $200 million while urging farmers not to apologize for public aid.
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Des Moines
UPI
U.S. Agriculture
Earl L. Butz
America
Iowa Grain and Feed Association
Butz
Central Iowa Medical and Surgical Associates Form TV plan
A newly formed Des Moines Centerville medical group seeks a $300,000 federal grant to create a telecommunications consulting system. Sixteen specialists in Des Moines and five general practitioners in Centerville form Central Iowa Medical and Surgical Associates Inc to connect big city specialists with patients in small towns.
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Des Moines
UPI
Corporation of Doctors
Centerville
Central Iowa Medical and Surgical Associates, Inc
Weather Outlook: Clear and Cool Tonight
Mostly clear and cooler tonight with light and variable winds. Partly cloudy Wednesday with a low in the 50s and a high in the 70s.
Low tar cigarettes cut death rates in major diseases study
Cancer scientists report first definitive evidence that low tar and low nicotine cigarettes lower death rates from lung cancer and heart disease over 12 years in a population of more than one million. High and medium nicotine tar levels show smaller benefits. never smoker death rates remain lowest.
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Cold Spring Harbor
N.Y
UPI
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
E. Cuyler Hammond
The
American Cancer Society
Hammond and Associates
Tobacco Institute
Washington
D.C
Hammond
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