Memorial for Frank Conroy Set at Iowa University
Public memorial for author and teacher Frank Conroy will be held at 4 p.m. April 22 in Macbride Hall Auditorium at the University of Iowa. Conroy, 69, who led the Iowa Writers' Workshop for 18 years, died Wednesday of colon cancer. Writers John Irving and T. C. Boyle plan to speak and read. An new workshop director likely to be named soon.
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Traffic signals to rise at 13 151 intersection
The Iowa Department of Transportation says temporary signals will be placed at the 13 151 intersection to control traffic during a two week wait for reconstruction. The project by L L Pelling Co. at a cost of 1,151,234 dollars widens the intersection and adds turn lanes and permanent signals.
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Red Cross Volunteers Depart for New Jersey Relief
Four Grant Wood Area disaster volunteers left Thursday to aid relief efforts after flooding in New Jersey New York and Pennsylvania. Diane and Leo Mark of Swisher and Phyllis Hillers and Diane Miller of Manchester will serve in New Jersey providing food clothing shelter and emergency relief to victims.
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Seniors debate social security plan and private accounts
George W. Bush promotes diverting social security withholdings to private stock accounts drawing opposition from AARP. At an Iowa City senior center Merrill Sparks, 82, worries about private accounts and lost investments while mainline churches issue a pastoral letter to followers on social security budget priorities.
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Fired Iowa teacher loses bid to reclaim job
The Iowa Supreme Court upheld the Edgewood Colesburg school board firing of Carol Walthart after a party at her farm led to the death of four students who had been drinking. The ruling focused on whether she knew the students and failed to monitor or protect them.
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Court revokes ex Nazi guard citizenship in Des Moines
U S District Judge Robert Pratt orders 80 year old John Hansl to relinquish naturalization papers and passport after finding he was a Nazi Waffen SS guard at Sachsenhausen and Natzweiler camps. Hansl lied about his wartime role when immigrating to the United States in 1955. DoJ says about two dozen similar cases are in litigation.
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