Iowa News Roundup Highlights Health and Sports
The task force report on the Katie Beckett issue goes to Congress and HHS. Iowa denies a sewer water grant for a Williamsburg McDonald’s on I 80. Six Davenport women walk to Des Moines for welfare reform. Hayden Fry seeks a new kicker for Hawkeyes. Ford pays $247.9 million in bonuses to 5,166 executives. Dow hits a post crash high above 2100 as computerized buying drives gains.
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Davenport
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Today’s Chuckle Jokes About Aging Sleep Time
A light humor item notes that growing older means the only time you get down is when you go to sleep. The quip plays on common aging jokes and everyday routines for a brief chuckle.
White House outraged by Speakes quotes
The White House said President Reagan was upset and called it an outrage that former spokesman Larry Speakes made up quotes attributed to Reagan. Marlin Fitzwater said Speakes created statements for 1985 Gorbachev summit and the 1983 Korean Air Lines incident, a charge Speakes later described to reporters.
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Washington
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Larry Speakes
Marlin Fitzwater
Speakes
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Quick Fire Destroys Barn at Blackford Farms
Firefighters battled a fast moving blaze at Blackford Farms Corp on County Home Road north of Marion. The loader exhaust ignited dry straw and corn stalks, engulfing a barn, shed, truck and house while a grass fire spread. Fire crews saved the shed, truck and house.
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County Home Road
Marion
Jim Ford
John Sauer
Iowa Legislature Caps Off Year With Malpractice Fund Plan
Final actions send nearly two dozen bills to Gov. Branstad including a medical malpractice fund for doctors and hospitals. The measure would start with a $5 million liability cap, funded by a 1 percent hospital billing surcharge, though opponents warn of potential state financial exposure and taxpayer bailouts.
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Judy Daubenmier
Ken Sullivan
Des Moines
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Senate
Robert Show
D-Guthrie Center
Shaw
Iowa
William Hager
Hijackers Free 12 Hostages Fly to Algiers
A Kuwait Airways Boeing 747 carrying about 30 hostages arrived in Algiers after the gunmen freed 12 more passengers. The hijackers vowed not to surrender the plane while negotiations circulated involving Algeria and the PLO.
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Yasser Arafat
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Iowans Favor Lottery Sales Rise Amid New Lotto America Push
Iowa Lottery officials report ticket sales are about 25 million dollars ahead of last year with 1987 sales at 99 million. Officials attribute the gain to better pull tab and lotto sales and new Lotto America revenue, while noting Lotto America accounts for 18 percent of regional game sales. A rule change will boost the jackpot pool and fuel sales, and a new three for a dollar pull-tab game is planned. A regional look-alike contest for the High Card poster cowpoke offers 1500 dollars to the top entrant with regional and final rounds set in Cedar Rapids and Des Moines.
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Marjorie Dennison
Gazette
Des Moines
Lotto America
Stanek
Westdale Mall
Cedar Rapids
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Prairie High project rejected a second time
Voters in College Community School District defeated a 4.5 million general obligation bond to renovate Prairie High School. Officials report 584 in favor and 616 against with a 60 percent threshold needed, turnout was light compared with February 1987.
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Vanessa Shelton
College Community
Prairie High School
Sheryl Quillin
Linn County
Linn Board of Supervisors
Quillin
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