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JEANETTE ARDIS CLEMONS, 78, of Harlan (Svcs. 12/11/14)

Obituaries

December 8th, 2014 by Ric Hanson

JEANETTE ARDIS CLEMONS, 78, of Harlan, died Sun., Dec. 7th, at the Elm Crest Retirement Community. Services for JEANETTE CLEMONS will be held 10:30-a.m. Thu., Dec. 11th at the Bethlehem Lutheran Church, in Jacksonville. Pauley-Jones Funeral Home in Harlan has the arrangements.

Visitation will be held at the funeral home from 5:30- until 9-p.m. Wednesday, with the family greeting friends from 6-to 8-pm.

Burial will be in the Jacksonville Cemetery.

JEANETTE CLEMONS is survived by:

Her husband – Marlow Clemons, of Harlan.

Her sons – Craig (Sandy) Clemons, of Harlan, & Calvin (Jenifer) Clemons, of Winona, MN.

Her daughter – Nancy (Mark) Ehrecke, of Davenport.

6 Grandchildren

RUTH E. OLER, 90, of Atlantic (Svcs. 12/10/14)

Obituaries

December 8th, 2014 by Ric Hanson

RUTH E. OLER, 90, of Atlantic, died Sun., Dec. 7th, at Creighton Medical Center, in Omaha. Services for RUTH OLER will be 10:30-a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 10th, at the Roland Funeral Home, in Atlantic.

Online condolences may be left at www.rolandfuneralservice.com.

Burial will be at the Atlantic Cemetery.  A luncheon will be at the United Church of Christ in Atlantic, following the burial.

RUTH OLER is survived by:

Her daughter – Julie (Craig) Mead, of Omaha.

Her daughter in law: Joyce Oler, of Rogers AR

4 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren.

Corning man arrested on alcohol & assault charges

News

December 8th, 2014 by Ric Hanson

Sheriff’s officials in Adams County say a Corning man was arrested Saturday afternoon on alcohol and assault charges. 41-year old Carroll Flowers was taken into custody at around 3:30-p.m, after deputies in Adams County were called to 808 Adams Street in Corning, with regard to a domestic issue. Upon arrival, they found Flowers standing in the street. A further investigation determined the man was allegedly under the influence of alcohol. Flowers was placed under arrest and charged with Domestic Assault, as well as Public Intoxication. His bond was set at $500.

Pallet falls on a woman’s head at an Underwood snack facility

News

December 8th, 2014 by Ric Hanson

A spokesman for a beef jerky distribution facility in western Pottawattamie County says an accident at the facility Saturday, resulted in a female being transported to the hospital. According to Omaha television station KETV, the statement about the incident at Jack Link’s Beef Jerky in Underwood, says the unidentified woman was transported to Mercy Hospital, where she was last reported to be in critical, but stable condition.

Authorities say the accident involving a pallet that fell on the woman’s head, happened at around 5:30 p.m., Saturday. Officals with Link Snacks, Incorporated, said in a statement “..safety is our top priority,” and that they are “thoroughly investigating” the cause of Saturday’s accident.

Harkin has no regrets about retiring from Senate, but he may revive the Steak Fry

News

December 8th, 2014 by Ric Hanson

As congress faces a Thursday deadline to pass a federal budget plan, Senator Tom Harkin is in the middle of the negotiations, focused on health-care-related spending, but he’s not regretting his decision to retire at year’s end. “Yeah, I’m going to miss it, sure, because I enjoy this. I enjoy being a enator. I love the senate, It’s dented a little bit, banged up a ittle bit, but it’s still functional,” Harkin said. “…But, again, it’s time for me to move on. It’s time for me to retire. It’s time for young people and new people to come in.” The current federal spending plan expires this Thursday, December 11th.

Harkin thinks congress may vote for a one-week delay that keeps the current spending levels in place, then vote next week on a long-term, comprehensive spending plan. Harkin’s voluntary exit from the senate comes 42 years after he first sought to enter congress. Harkin ran for the U.S. House of Representatives in 1972, but lost. He ran again in 1974 and won. “In my first political campaign I spent $20,000. Now that was kind of a wave year. That was an anti-McGovern wave year. Two years later the wave went the other way with Watergate. I think in that year I spent a little over $100,000 in winning a congressional seat,” Harkin said. “Think about that compared to today.”

Nearly 62 million dollars was spent on this year’s battle between Joni Ernst and Bruce Braley to claim Harkin’s seat. After 10 years in the U.S. House, Harkin won the Iowa senate seat in 1984 and defeated three Republican congressman along the way to stay in the senate. He’s served as chairman of the Ag Committee and lead drafting the Farm Bill and he’s currently chairman of the committee that helped draft the Affordable Care Act, but Harkin says the “premiere” accomplishment of his political career is gaining passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

“I’ve been very blessed and the people of Iowa have given me the opportunity to stay there long enough to see what it has done to this country,” Harkin says. “It’s amazing the changes that have been made.” Harkin plans to take a two-month long vacation, then return to Iowa in March for work at the Harkin Institute which was established at Drake University last year “The Institute at Drake is totally bipartisan. We have a bipartisan board. In fact, I have a former chair of the Iowa Republican Party on the board. I have Republicans on the board,” Harkin said. “I want it to be a totally non-partisan entity and Drake has set it up that way.”

One of the Harkin Institute’s panel discussions this past summer featured both Harkin and Republican Governor Terry Branstad. Archivists from Drake University and the U.S. Senate have been working in Harkin’s office over the past few months, starting the process of converting Harkin’s work papers from 40 years in congress to a digital forum.  “Once in a while they come across some very interesting tidbits, shall we say, of legislationa nnd letters and things like that that I had forgotten about long, long ago,” Harkin said. “I’m sure there’ll be some surprises.” All that material will be stored at Drake and a semi will transport between 400 and 500 boxes of documents from D.C. to Drake at the end of this year.

The Iowa Democratic Party faces big decisions after election losses last month, but Harkin — who has been the party’s top elected official — plans to focus on what he calls the “bipartisan” work at the Harkin Institute rather than steer selection of a new party chairman in January. “I am a Democrat and I love my party and I want them to have good policies and good candidates, so I hope to be supportive in some way, but I don’t intend to be any kind of ‘godfather’ or something like that,” Harkin says. Harkin’s annual “Steak Fry” fundraiser has been a launching pad for Democratic presidential candidates over the years. Bill and Hillary Clinton were the speakers this past September at what was billed at the time as the final Harkin Steak Fry.

“People are talking to me about maybe revisiting that, ‘Never again,'” Harkin said. “…Stay tuned on that one.” If Hillary Clinton runs for president in 2016, Harkin believes she’ll have competition from people like former Virginia Senator Jim Webb and Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley. Harkin’s wife, Ruth, endorsed Hillary Clinton in 2008 and Harkin says he has offered Clinton some advice about running in the 2016 Iowa Caucuses. “I said: ‘Don’t just go to Des Moines or Waterloo or Cedar Rapids or Dubuque. Go to the rural areas. Start out in smaller communities in Iowa,'” Harkin said. “‘Let them know you care about rural America and small towns and communities. You can get to the cities later on, but plant your flag in rural Iowa.'”

Harkin ran for president himself in 1992. He says the experience taught him what a “complex country” we live in and it made him a “better senator.” “Honestly, I really wasn’t prepared to run for president. I hadn’t really spent a lot of time thinking about it before. I’d thought about being a senator or being a congressman and I was really just focused on Iowa,” Harkin said. “…I think I could have been a pretty decent president, but I wouldn’t have had another happy day in my life.” Harkin made his comments during a weekend appearance on Iowa Public Television’s “Iowa Press” program.

(Radio Iowa)

Drug czar says hash oil showing up in Iowa

News

December 8th, 2014 by Ric Hanson

Iowa’s drug czar says a new marijuana derivative is showing up on the streets in Iowa. Steve Lukan leads the Iowa Office of Drug Control Policy (ODCP) and says marijuana is reduced to a product known as hash oil or wax. He says it has a high percentage of the psychoactive compound known as T-H-C. “That then is used in the electronic cigarette, much like you might add a flavored nicotine product, instead they’d be adding the high-potency oil,” according to Lukan. Lukan says the hash oil is likely arriving in Iowa from states which have liberalized their marijuana laws:

“If you’re in states like Colorado there’s been an explosion of products with very little regulation, oil, food products, candies,” Lukan says. Iowa has approved the use of a low T-H-C cannabis oil for limited medical use, but the more potent oil is illegal in the state. Hash oil is produced by boiling down marijuana leaves. Lukan says some of the product is showing up in Iowa schools. He recently made his comments to the governor’s budget panel.

(Radio Iowa)

Weather forecast for Cass & area Counties: 12/8/14

Weather

December 8th, 2014 by Ric Hanson

330 AM CST MON DEC 8 2014 (NWS/Des Moines)

EARLY THIS MORNING…CLOUDY. PATCHY FOG. WEST WIND 10 TO 15 MPH.

TODAY...PARTLY SUNNY. PATCHY FOG THROUGH MID MORNING. HIGH IN THE LOWER 40S. NORTHWEST WIND 10 TO 15 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 25 MPH.

TONIGHT...PARTLY CLOUDY. COLDER. LOW IN THE LOWER 20S. NORTH WIND 10 TO 15 MPH.

TUESDAY…SUNNY. HIGH IN THE MID 30S. NORTHEAST WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.

WEDNESDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGH IN THE UPPER 30S. SOUTHEAST WIND 5 TO 10 MPH.

THURSDAY...PARTLY SUNNY. HIGH IN THE LOWER 40S.

Iowa early News Headlines: Mon., Dec. 8 2014

News

December 8th, 2014 by Ric Hanson

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — Iowa cattle and hog producers are working to comply with new state rules that are designed to keep animal waste from polluting nearby waterways. The Sioux City Journal reports Craig Moss and his family created new concrete drainage systems with grates to ensure rain can leave their feedlot without carrying manure with it. Moss says his family wants to make sure that fresh water flows around the feedlot and dirty water from the feedlot is directed through terraces into a field.

MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa (AP) — Iowa authorities are investigating a suspicious death after a body was found this weekend, but two men have been arrested in connection with the case. Marshalltown Police say a deceased man was found inside a home around 8 p.m. Saturday. Police did not immediately release details of the death or identify the victim yesterday. Police arrested two suspects in the case on Sunday.

WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — Waterloo police have identified the young man who was killed in a weekend shooting. Waterloo Police said yesterday that 23-year-old Orintheo Campbell was fatally wounded near a Prime Mart convenience store around 1:30 a.m. Saturday.

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Tennessee and Iowa will meet January 2nd in the TaxSlayer Bowl in a matchup of Southeastern Conference and Big Ten foes. The game will be played at EverBank Field in Jacksonville, Florida. Tennessee is 3-2 all-time in the game formerly known as the Gator Bowl.

Williams, Stanton lead Cardinals by Chiefs 17-14

Sports

December 7th, 2014 by Ric Hanson

GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Kerwynn Williams rushed for 100 yards two days after being elevated from the Arizona practice squad and the Cardinals rallied to beat Kansas City 17-14 on Sunday in a matchup of teams that had lost two in a row. The NFC West-leading Cardinals (10-3) took the lead when Drew Stanton threw a 26-yard touchdown pass to Jaron Brown in the third quarter.

Jamaal Charles scored two first-half touchdowns on a 63-yard run and 18-yard pass from Alex Smith, but the Chiefs (7-6) were shut out in the second half. Arizona won a crucial call reversal when it challenged that tight end Travis Kelci fumbled deep in Cardinals territory late in the fourth quarter.

Hawks to play in the TaxSlayer Bowl Jan. 2nd

Sports

December 7th, 2014 by Ric Hanson

HawkeyeSports.com reports the University of Iowa has accepted an invitation to participate in the 2015 TaxSlayer Bowl in Jacksonville, Florida. The TaxSlayer Bowl is scheduled for 2:20 p.m. (CT) on Friday, Jan. 2. The game will be televised by ESPN from EverBank Field. The Hawkeyes are making their second appearance in the TaxSlayer Bowl, having lost to Florida (14-6) following the 1983 season. The attendance for that 1983 contest, 81,293, still ranks as the fourth highest attendance in the history of the event. Iowa has posted a 14-12-1 record in 27 previous bowl appearances.

Iowa posted a 7-5 record in 2014, including a 4-4 record in Big Ten play (West Division). Four of Iowa’s five losses were by a touchdown or less. Tennessee (6-6) finished its conference slate 3-5 and tied for fourth in the SEC East Division.

Iowa and Tennessee have met twice previously, with each team earning a victory. The Hawkeyes beat the Volunteers, 28-22, in the 1982 Peach Bowl played in Atlanta. Tennessee registered a narrow, 23-22, win over the Hawkeyes in the 1987 season opener played in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
The Hawkeyes are 4-2 against current SEC teams in bowl games under coach Kirk Ferentz having beaten Florida (2004 Outback), LSU (2005 Capital One), South Carolina (2009 Outback) and Missouri (2010 Insight) when the Tigers were members of the Big 12. Iowa lost to Florida and LSU in the 2006 and 2014 Outback bowls, respectively.

Iowa ranks third amongst Big Ten teams in bowl appearances and is bowl eligible for the 13th time under coach Kirk Ferentz. Iowa has posted a 6-5 bowl record under Ferentz, including wins in four of seven January bowl games. Since the 2001 season, no Big Ten team has won more bowl games or has a higher winning percentage in bowl games than Iowa.

Fans interested in purchasing tickets to the game are encouraged to make their purchase through the UI Athletics Ticket Office. By doing so, fans of the Hawkeyes will help the UI Athletics Department meet its obligation to the bowl game by selling the full allotment of ticket it assumes responsibility for as a participant. You can make your ticket purchase online, now. The UI Athletics Ticket Office will also begin accepting orders over the phone at 1-800 IA-HAWKS and over-the-counter at its location in Carver-Hawkeye Arena at 8 a.m., Iowa time, Monday.

The UI Athletics Ticket Office will limit orders for game tickets to 12 ticket per order. Fans interested in purchasing more than 12 tickets should call Eric Heinkel, group ticket sales coordinator for the UI Athletics Department, at (319) 384-4299 for priority handling of their order. The UI Athletics Ticket Office will assign seat location based on ticket orders received by the priority deadline of 5 p.m. Iowa time on Friday, Dec. 12. The UI Athletics Ticket Office will continue to accept orders for tickets beyond the priority deadline as long as it has ticket inventory available. The UI Athletics Ticket Office expects to mail tickets by Dec. 16.