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2A towa (Sty PresStiM-ednsdiy, January 1ST Amtrak coupon offer takes off By ROGER HEDGES Ssjn Affairs in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and by the American Bus Association. The bus group charged that the promotion constituted unfair competition, and the federal agency complained that the tie-in would result in the consumption of more cereals high in sugar content A congresssional committee and the Federal Trade Commission are studying the health effects of high sugar foods such as pre-sweetened cereals. "Until legislation takes effect and something happens, we can't discriminate against a product," Michaud said. "We're in the consumer goods business and we have to compete with everyone else in the marketplace." Officials of Kellogg's and Amtrak have scheduled simultaneous press conferences Friday in New York and Chicago to plug the new promotion. a U.5JL Railpass, which can be used to travel anywhere in the nation on Amtrak.

Two other campaigns involving nationally distributed food products are being planned for 1979. "We didn't expect the Kellogg thing to take off this fast," Mkhaud said. "We thought we'd have to wait for people to eat the cereal Getting all this in January is a plus for us. This isnt a good travel month. Apparently people are ripping them (the coupons) off and running down because they want to go somewhere." Michaud said Amtrak decided to tie in with Keuogg's in the promotion because "What better kind of advertising can we have than something that is sitting on the kitchen table for a whole week where roe whole family can see it?" The promotion was attacked early this month by the Office of Consumer cereal boxes with the coupons on mem didnt go into the stores until Jan.

1 and we didnt expect anything until after the advertising started. "Our market studies show these coupons are generating an average of IS paid fares," Michaud said. "We believe this means that more than two people who probably wouldn't have been riding Amtrak are buying tickets because they can get one free fare." As a result of this early success, he said, plans are under way for a similar promotion later this year in connection with a new "personal care product that will have a name appropriate to the railroad industry." He said he cannot reveal the name of the product or identify its manufacturer. He said the product, which is being test marketed now, will be mailed out with a coupon that can be redeemed for 1 WASHINGTON Spurred by the unexpected early success of a cooperative promotional campaign with the Kellogg officials of Amtrak said today they are planning -similar campaigns using other nationally distributed products. Coupons on Kellogg cereal boxes -allow a child to ride free on Amtrak if accompanied by a fare-paying adult Although the tie-in with Keuogg's wont officially begin until next Sunday, when the giant cereal manufacturer is scheduled to, begin national newspaper 'advertising, about 100 people a day have been using Kellogg coupons for free rides since Jan.

1. "This is much better than we expected," said Al Michaud, Amtrak's vice president for marketing. "The Old miners face pension cutoff AP laserptioto WASHINGTON (AP) "I have worked in the coal mines for 36 years and now I am 65 years old. I am not able to work at anything. I have black lung, astnma ana empnysema.

"Now yon want my pension." These grieved words from Abingdon, Va wot written hv rpHnod nvrnhH Power line protest Minnesota state troopers drag away an unidentified protester after he alledgedly interfered with workers constructing a controversial power line across west-central Minnesota. College promotion rule upheld by Iowa court of the United Mine Workers union one of 80,600 retirees who wont be getting their $250-a-month February pension The loss of the union pension payments has set generation against generation within the union, evoking angry charges from the retirees that they are being forgotten. "Remember if you live long enough," wrote one pensioner to the trustees. "You will all be old some day and you are no better than us men who made this union from the beginning." Another pensioner from Rinesville, W.Va., complained of "a raw deal" and said, "You younger fellows never went through what we older men did. You walked into the gravy, roe table was already spread, now you don't have the guts and respect to give us a fair deal." "The retirees of the 70s should be the ones out of the pension as they made more money, they should have a savings," said the wife of an 83-year-old retired miner in Lovington, EL "Our doOar doesnt buy any more than theirs." checks because of the 43-day-old coal strike.

"What if I was sitting behind the desk telling you you would be cut out of your living? Would you like it? How would you live?" he wrote. "After you are too old to work, we will just put you out to pasture like a horse to starve to From Lick Creek, to Lower BurrelL from the drab mining camps of Appalachia to the coal towns of the Midwest have come the angry and desperate letters telling of hardship and suffering ahead. The complaints have poured into the pension fund office since letters went out Dec 21 iniorming the retirees that their February checks would probably be halted. It became official Tuesday when the trustees announced the funds were without the 820 million reserve needed to pay next month's benefits. The industry-financed trust funds' income is based on coal production and hours worked.

No contributions have been made since the UMW struck the industry Dec. 6, when its contract expired. Bargaining on a new contract is continuing this week, but little progress is reported. February will mark the first time in more than 27 years that pension payments have been missed. The only other time in the 31-year history of the fund that similar action was taken was in 1949 when lack of money forced suspension of benefits for six months.

While the retirees will not receive their $250 pension checks, about three-fourths will receive a $225 monthly check from a government program for miners disabled by black lung. Many of the retirees also qualify for Social Security benefits. deeitfhs Rose Gottsehallr Mrs. Rose Gottschalk, 92, died at a local nursing home Tuesday following a lengthy illness. Services will be at 10:30 am Friday at the George Gay Funeral Home vKaM fVionric mot' t11 nfrAr Oam resolution.

The modifications required one year of college for promotion to sergeant, lieutenant or captain after Jan. 1, 1974. It required two years of college for promotions to captain after Jan. 1, 1977. The changes came after a 1968 study by the International Association of Chiefs of Police that recommended college training for police officers.

To make it easier for officers to get the education required, the council in 1970 provided tuition reimbursements of up to $400 a year for officers attending college. That was increased to $600 in 1974. DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) The city of Des Moines may require policemen to complete college courses to be eligible for promotion, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled today. "The city's theory is not that college training necessarily makes good police officers, but that it makes good police officers better," said the 54 opinion. Seven Des Moines officers sued the city in 1975.

They contended that promotion criteria unfairly discriminated against them. The lower court upheld the promotion policy and the officers appealed. In 1969, the Des Moines City Council modified job specifications by Federal funds suit proposed Thursday. Burial will be in Elm wood Cemetery at Minburn. She was born July 18, 1885, in Danville, to William and Cassandra Bohanon Bryant She married Stephen Gottschalk, Dec.

4, 1907, at Danville. She was a member of the First Christian Church at Minburn. Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Laurence (Helen) Smith of Corahille, and Mrs. Larry (Virginia) Stralev of Clinton: eudit erandchildren: and 19 greatgrandchildren.

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"Term insurance builds no eijuity. You need hole life insurance. "Huy as much whole life insurance as you can get. At the DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) Rep. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, asked Attorney General Richard Turner Tuesday to sue for nearly $3 million in federal revenue sharing money he says Iowa small towns have coming.

Turner said his office will "forge Supervisors receive bids on jail bonds A Des Moines bank was the apparent low bidder today in Johnson County's sale of $1 million in bonds for a new county jail and sheriffs department building. Submitting roe lowest of six bids was the Carleton D. Beh Co. and Mercantile Trust of Des Moines. The net interest rate bid by roe firm was slightly less than 4i percent The bond issue, approved by county voters last November, will be paid off over 10 years by taxpayers.

Construction on the new facility, to be built on the hill southwest of the courthouse, is to start this spring. The other bids ranged up to more than 4.6 percent interest The bidders were the Continental Illinois National Bank Trust Co. of Chicago, the First National Bank of Chicago, the Harris Trust and Savings Bank and lowa-Des Moines National Bank and Associates, the Northern Trust Co. and Associates and the United California Bank. County officials had earlier expressed hopes for an interest rate of about 4.7 to 4 percent and projected tax levies were calculated on the basis of 5 percent interest However, with the tower interest tax levies in each of the 10 years of the bond issue will be tower.

County officials had projected an average levy of about 27 cents per $1,000 assessed valuation on the basis of 5 percent interest That would have meant the owner of a home assessed at $40,000 would have paid an added property tax averaging slightly less than $11 per year for 10 years. ahead" with research on roe case. But whether a lawsuit against the federal government results and what kind will depend the information developed. Grassley contends Iowa small towns were shortchanged on revenue sharing in the 1975-76 fiscal year because the U.S. Census Bureau and revenue officials "used the wrong methodology" in figuring their population and per capita income for 1974.

Those are the two most important factors in the formula used for distribution of revenue sharing money. The year 1974, said Grassley, was a time when farm income was highest in history after the big 1972 grain sale to Russia. But the 1974 federal income tax form asked taxpayers to list only their mailing address without specifying whether they were rural residents or lived in town, Grassley said. Concealed weapons charge filed A 24-year-old Moline, EL man is in the Johnson County jail on $5,000 bond after being charged with carrying a concealed weapon early today by Iowa City police. Willie Russell Parks was arrested about 1:40 a.m.

by officers who had noticed a .25 caliber automatic pistol sitting on the floor of his car after finding it parked on a no-parking zone near College and Clinton Streets. Woman hospitalized after argument A 25-year-old Iowa City woman is listed in good condition at University Hospital today with slab wounds she apparently suffered during an argument with her husband over who would cook supper. Doris Rea, 25, of 611 S. Clinton St, was hospitalized about 5:30 p.m. Her husband told police she stumbled and fell on a kitchen knife during the argument He said this resulted in a "guesstimate" that was highly inaccurate as to the actual population and per capita income of Iowa small towns.

"When we started checking this out, the Census Bureau at first told us there was no chance of any substantial errors," Grassley said. "After we got them to acknowledge there might be errors, they agreed to recheck 10 towns in my district They found two where there definitely were errors and two others with possible errors. That's a possible error factor of 40 percent" He said the result was that Iowa small towns received $1860,784 less in 1975-76 than roe year before. Grassley said he dropped in to see Turner to be brought up to date on progress Turner's office has made in investigating the case. Assistant Attorney General Kevin Maggio said a decision to sue would be "premature" because the state hasn't enough information.

He said the General Accounting Office has "promised to give us a synopsis of the rationale" used by the government in determining how much revenue sharing money Iowa small towns would receive. "They say it will take about two months to develop that information for us," Maggio said. "It's hard to believe, but this thing is so complicated that there is no one person who has all the information in one file." Grassley said Turner's office had better speed up the investigation because the deadline for filing suit is next October. Turner agreed, but said several other problems besides the GAO report need to be resolved before a decision can be reached. He urged Grassley to do all he can, and to enlist the aid of Gov.

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The couple moved to Iowa City in 1975. Survivors include his wife; one daughter, Mrs. Bonnie Tripses of Iowa City; four grandsons; and one sister, Mrs. Lucille CroweH of Ottumwa. Ralph John LONE TREE Ralph John, 89, of Nichols died this monung at the Lone Tree Care Center following a lengthy illness.

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A Masonic service will be held at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. He was born March 13, 1888, in West Liberty, to William R. and Margretha Rolfs John. He married Jessie Smith April 29, 1913, in Nichols.

He was a graduate of Muscatine Business College. For 30 years be was employed by S.W. Woolworth Construction Department of Minneapolis. He was a member of Local Union 904 in Sioux City, a 57-year member of Mount Calvary Masonic Lodge, a member of Masonic Lodge No. 95 of West Liberty and First Christian Church in Sioux City.

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