Six Dead on Iowa Highways In Weekend Crashes
Six people died in Iowa weekend crashes including Aldene Joyce 41 a Morning Sun tractor operator killed when her machine overturned near Wapello. Other victims were Herman Ullrich 65 near Tripoli Raymond LaValley 61 and son Loren 35 near Polk City Janice Keeler 16 near Washington and Florence McGuire 69 hit by a mail truck in Ottumwa.
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United Press Internetional
Iowa
Morning Sun
Aldene Joyce
Louisa County
Wapello
Waterloo
Iowa 93
Tripoli
Madrid
Polk City
Herman Ullrich
Avoi
Raymond LaValley
Loren
John Deere
Ankeny
Janice Keeler
Ainsworth
Washington
Florence McGuire
Ottumwa
Randy Russell Is Awarded Eagle Scout At St James Gym
Randy Russell son of Mr and Mrs Frank Russell received the Eagle Scout Award in a ceremony at the St James school gym Sunday afternoon He belongs to Scout Troop 242 St James has completed four and a half years of Scouting He has earned the Ad Altare Dei award the 50 miler award Brotherhood in the Order of Arrow and other patches and has served as patrol leader quartermaster and librarian Currently he is senior patrol leader and a first aid instructor while in ninth grade at St James junior high and parish member.
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Randy Russell
Frank Russell
St. James School
Randy
St. James
Order of Arrow
Paul Bunyan
St. James Parish
Iowa counties to share migrant education grant funds
HEW officials announced a 20 433 dollar federal grant to the Iowa Department of Public Instruction for 300 children of migratory agricultural workers in 13 counties. The Title I Migrant Education program will focus on oral language development next summer across Cerro Gordo Emmet Floyd Franklin Fremont Grundy Louisa Mitchell Muscatine Scott Tama Winnebago Worth.
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HEW Office of Education
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Iowa Department of Public Instruction
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HEW
Region VII
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Cerro Gordo
Emmet
Floyd
Franklin
Fremont
Grundy Louisa
Mitchell
Muscatine
Scott
Tama
Winnebago
Worth
Revenue sharing bill allocates $444,220 to Washington County
The Senate approved general revenue sharing totaling 444220 to be split among Washington County, cities over 2500, cities under 2500, and the City of Washington. A House Senate Conference Committee will finalize final figures. County share is 328,966 with city allocations of 85508 and 49746 respectively.
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Washington County
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U.S
Jack Miller
A-Iowa
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Weather holds fair with warm spell into Tuesday
Forecast calls for continued unseasonably warm conditions through Tuesday with tonight lows 65 to 70 and Tuesday highs in the lower 90s. Southwest winds rise to 10 to 20 mph this afternoon and diminish tonight with a 10 percent rain chance tonight and Tuesday.
Kalona Hosts Two Day Fall Harvest Festival
Kalona historical group stages a two day festival September 22 and 23 at the Historical Village on Highway 22. Visitors can tour restored sites, view crafts demonstrations, buy homemade foods and goods, enjoy old time music and an auction closing Saturday.
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Paul McAndrew
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Historical Society
Four Waterloo men charged in Dunkerton farmhouse shootout
Black Hawk County Sheriff says Gregory Bell William Haughton Donnie Moore and Roosevelt Nabors faced murder aggravated robbery and conspiracy counts after a Sunday farmhouse shootout near Dunkerton left Kenneth Backens dead and three others wounded. Authorities traced the violence to an armed robbery at the house the prior Thursday.
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Black Hawk County
Robert Aldrich
Dunkerton
Aldrich
Gregory Bell
William Haughton
Donnie Moore
Roosevelt Nabors
Kenneth Lee Backens
Waterloo Hospital
Ronald Wendt
Steven Johnson
Parkersburg
Gordon McDowell
Fairbank
State Bureau of Criminal Investigation
Black Hawk
Local TV reception blamed on atmospheric conditions
A Washington area dealer says poor television reception over several days is due to atmospheric conditions not faulty sets. Cedar Rapids Channel 11 and 2 report transmitter trouble causing two upward lines on the picture. A distraught owner even threw a hammer at a TV, but the dealer urges viewers not to try drastic cures.
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Washington
Cedar Rapids
Escapee David Pierson Sought After Funeral Exit
Fort Madison authorities hunted 23 year old David Leroy Pierson after he failed to return to the State Penitentiary following a grandfather's funeral in Cedar Rapids. Pierson, serving a 10 year term for breaking and entering and assault with intent to commit great bodily injury, had been on furlough for the service.
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State Penitentiary
David Leroy Pierson
Cedar Rapids
Pierson
Agriculture Officials Defend Wheat Export Policy Change
At a House subcommittee hearing, Agriculture Department officials testified exporters were notified in advance of a policy change affecting wheat sales to Russia but offered no specifics for profit. NFU claimed traders could have earned windfall profits by timing purchases and subsidies. Brunthauer and Pence described Aug 24 notices warning of subsidy risk, with retroactive Aug 23 policy.
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Washington
UPI
Agriculture Department
House
Carroll G. Brunthauer
Agriculture
International Affairs
National Farmers Union
NFU
Fire damages home from overheated wax in candle making
Fire touched off by overheated wax used for candle making caused smoke damage at the Ray G. Enfield residence 514 South Third Ave. Firefighters answered at 10 83 a.m. and contained the small blaze in the kitchen extinguishing it quickly.
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Washington
Ray G. Enfield
South Third Ave
University of Hawaii offers survival 494 course
The University of Hawaii replaces a surfing credit with survival 494. To pass and earn two credits, students must attend all semester without using a car. One ride causes failure. Instructor Tony Hodges says the class, approved by the Board of Regents, demonstrates how essential students view automobiles.
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University of Hawaii
Tony Hodges
Hodges
University
Board of Regents
Soviet denies tax aimed at Jews amid emigration uproar
Moscow rejects claims the new emigration education tax targets Jews arguing the levy applies to all citizens who leave the USSR. Tass cites 105,000 Jews in higher education and notes no brain drain, while claiming emigrants are issued travel with proper procedures.
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Soviet Union
Ussr
France
Sweden
West Germany
Tass
Tax sharing could keep levies down in Iowa plan
Des Moines reports a federal revenue sharing plan could provide Iowa about 28 million dollars annually for the state and 49 million for local governments over five years. Officials note the plan may ease tax pressures while the state faces a 700 million plus budget next year. The proposal also offers a voluntary mechanism for the federal government to collect Iowa's state income tax, with admin costs borne federally.
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