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Thurs.,Oct. 14, 1976 H DES MOINES REGISTER / 3A REGISTER PHOTO RY JERVAS BAl DWIN with her daughter and Calvert from Testifies Scovel about 6 p.m. to 9:45 p . m . that day. GRASSLEY TOPS Although he has not testified at tho trial, Emmanuel Lacsina, the deputy room broken Polk County medical examiner who CANDIDATES IN performed an autopsy, has said hr into earlier believed Scowl was slain sometime between 6 and 7 p.m. on that d a y . FUNDS RAISED By NICK LAMBERTO Rc>ster staff Wrltpr Des Moines Police Sgt. Gerald R By JOHN HYDE The owner of the building where the Limke told the court that he took pho MtOittr Staff WrIMr body of Mary Ann Scovel was found tographs of the dead woman, but he Third District Republican Congress- last Apr. 15 testified in Polk County conceded there could be distortions in man Charles Grassley is no conserva- District Court Wednesday that the the enlargements used as court exhibits tive when it comes to campaign apartment where she lived had been because the pictures had not been financing. broken into earlier and that some keys taken from measured distances or Figures on file at were apparently missing. angles. the Iowa Secretary of Donald LaPorte, 36, the owner of the Limke also said there were no fin- State's office indicate building, also said the locks were not gerprints taken at Scovel apartment Grassley has gathered changed on the apartment after the until the day after the body was d i s c o v - a war chest of break-in. ered. He said none of Calvert's finger- 1166,105 to finance his prints was found in the apartment. reelection drive. Calvert Charged Grassley's treasury .Jeffrey Robert Calvert, 22, who lived Earlier, Lively, 27, of 1434 H a r d i n g far exceeds that of in the apartment next door to Scoval at Road, testified he had discovered any other Iowa con- the time of the strangulation slaying, Scovel's body when he returned home gressional candidate, has been charged with murder in con- from work about 1 a.m. Apr. 15. and is more than two nection with the death. He said both the front and back doors and one-half times the money gathered LePorte said a previous tenant had of the apartment were locked, and that by his opponent, Democrat Steve Rapp. reported a break-in at the apartment a fire door between his apartment and Although Grassley has amassed a before Scovel, 18, and Terry Lee the Calvert apartment next door was huge reelection fund, he had spent only Lively, 27, moved in about Mar. 1 5 . locked only on the Calverts' side. 150,594 as of Oct. 1, according to his He also testified that the front door report. That left him $115,511 to spend lock on the apartment occupied by Police Lt. Frederick Carson testified in the closing month of his campaign. Calvert apparently had been broken that a kitchen water faucet was Rapp had received a total of $59,359 sometime before Calvert moved out. running when he arrived at the and had spent $51,805 as of Oct. 1, Calvert and his wife, Patricia, apartment, and that water had filled according to his reports. moved to the home of his parents, Mr. the sink and overflowed, spreading to The biggest spender to date has been and Mrs. Lester E. Calvert, al 3213 the living room and bathroom. Republican Jim Leach, who is trying to Beef swings too far Forty-eighth St. shortly after the unseat Democratic Congressman Ed slaying. The elder Calvert is president Heard Nothing A truck load of beef carcasies lies in median on Interstate 80 of another glow-moving semi that had just pulled out of a Mezvinsky in the First District in of Calvert Realty, Inc. Carson said he tried to rouse the east of Des Moines Wednesday, as a crane begins to clean up rest stop. That track spilled some of its load, live beef cattle, Under cross-examination by southeastern Iowa. which had to be rounded up In the darkness Wednesday occupants of the apartment next door Leach reported that he had received the damaged trailer, a total loss. The driver was slightly Lawrence Scalise, a defense attorney, injured in the accident, when his truck collided with the rear morning. The accident is still being Investigated. and, after gaining entrance to the $130,595 as of Oct. 1, and had spent LaPorte testified it was possible to get apartment, found Mrs. Calvert in bed. $122,388. Leach, a millionaire Betten- into Scovel apartment through a He said she told him she had heard dorf businessman, is also the only party organizations, including $5,000, kitchen window. And he said there had nothing from the Scovel apartment. candidate to report substantial con- from the Iowa State Democratic Party Handicapped children been complaints about "people peeking tributions to his own campaign. Leach and $3,000 from the Democratic Con- BCI ASKED TO AID sought, aid a v a i l a b l e into apartments" there. The jurors were sworn in Wednesday had given $17,950 to his campaign as of gressional Campaign Committee. And Talked to Daughter morning and Judge A. B. Crouch Oct. I.- the congressman received contribu- A State Department of Public In- excused one of them — Cindy Laughlin Leach had outspent Mezvinsky-by tions ..from, a... w i d e range_ of....other, IN FUNDS PROBE struction (DPI) project .entitled "Child Everett Scovel, 46, of 4320 N.E. — "for personal reasons" Wednesday special interest groups, including the Find" is seeking to identify hand- twenty-seventh'st] father of the slain afternoon. Laughlin was replaced by more than $44,000 at the time the By MARGARET ENGEL reports were filed. Mezvinsky reported Northwestern Officers Trust Account icapped persons ranging in age from girl, testified that he talked to his alternate Anita G u s t a f s o n . ($1,000), the Coal Miners PAC ($500), Rnltttr Stiff Wrltw infancy to 21 years who are eligible for daughter on the telephone sometime receiving $87,381 and spending $78,297. SIOUX CITY, IA. - State Auditor The least costly congressional Title Industry PAC ($500), Internation- special education assistance. between 4:35 p.m. and 4:50 p.m. on the The other jurors are Ruth Abuhl, al Ladies Garment Workers Union PAC Lloyd Smith Wednesday asked Emphasis is being placed on the day before her body was found. Nancy Morris, Terry Lee Marsh, campaign was being waged in the Woodbury County Atty. Zigmund Fourth District. ($700), the National Education As- location and identification ofcthe He said his daughter did not have a Charlotte Kraai, David Shirk, June sociation PAC ($3,000), the United Chwirka to call in the Iowa Bureau of severely and profoundly handicapped telephone in her apartment. Mogensen, Mabel McDaniel, Maxine Democratic Congressman Neal Criminal Investigation to try to Smith had gathered $30,788 for his ree- Auto Workers V-CAP ($5,000), the and the pre-school handicapped, And Eloise Ann Stewart of 1326 E. Cross, Henry Clark, Allie A. Plude and Buildings and Trades Department determine what happened to funds and according to Mark Feustel, special Twenty-ninth St., the mother Of- Nathaniel Gilbert. The only remaining lection bid, more than half of that equipment apparently missing from a amount coming from a fund-raising Political Education Fund ($1,000), the education consultant for the DPI. Calvert's wife, testified that she was alternate is Richard Treman. AFL-CIO Iowa COPE ($5,000), the Sioux City alcoholism center. "Children may receive the educa- Committee for Low Cost Electrical A recent state audit indicated that tional and support services they need if CAMPAIGN '76 Energy ($1,000) and the National $487,000 cannot be adequately traced they are. brought to the attention of Committee for an Effective Congress and that $2,250 worth of equipment their resident school district and Area PITTSBURGH PAINTS ($2,611). owned by the American Indian Council Education Agency and are found to be on Problem Drinking and Drug dinner held earlier this year in Des Democratic incumbents Mezvinsky, handicapped," Feustel said. "Programs Blouin and Harkin all received $500 Addiction apparently is missing. •• and services now are available to help Moines. Smith had"spent $11,794 as of The agency, which was started in INTERIOR-EXTERIOR Oct. 1. from the Thomas P. O'Neill, jr., Con- them achieve their fullest potential." gressional Fund. O'Neill is running for 1974, was closed Oct. 1. The Iowa The "Child Find" project is being im- Smith's challenger, Republican Division on Alcoholism suspended Charles Minor, had received $10,403 speaker of the U.S. House of Represent- plemented through Iowa's 15 area atives. funding for the center in June after in- education agencies and 449 community and spent $5,369 when the reports were spectors had termed it a "misadven- filed. More than 80 per cent of Minor's Wide Range ture into treatment." school districts. money came from the Iowa Republican Jeff Voskans, head of the Iowa State Central Committee. Grassley's money came from an equally wide range of special interests, Division on Alcoholism, said 68 per Iowa City doctors elected Low-Budget Campaigns on the other end of the political cent of the center's funds was spent on to medical group posts In northwest Iowa's Sixth District, spectrum. overhead and only 11 per cent on both candidates have run rather low- Grassley received money from the treatment.