Stone City Finds Its Historian
Stone City gains a historian in Clay Bauske a Michigan PhD student who is producing the first in depth documentary on the town. He notes quarrying boom from the 1860s with 1000 workers and a 1845 military road built from local stone. Grant Wood’s 1930s art colony and the Green mansion loom in the town’s limestone legacy as modern quarrying resumes.
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Stone City
Clay Bauske
Ames
Cornell College
Jones County
Bauske
University of Michigan
Ing
Dubuque
Iowa City
Marion
Henry Dearborn
J. A. Green
John Rowe
Grant Wood
Wood
Green
William Weber
Stone City General Store
St. Joseph's Catholic Church
Ann Arbor, Mich
National Endowment For the Humanities
Regent Employees Call for Higher Merit Increases
Ames Iowa UP I Mer it system employees at a public hearing Saturday called for larger increases in a pay plan proposed to the state board of regents. The plan would raise merit salaries by 6 percent across the board with 5 percent merit step increases for eligible workers and boost IPERS health fund contributions.
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Ames
Iowa
UPI
State Board of Regents
Regents
Cedar Falls
Wayne Richey
Ipers Health Fund
University of Iowa
Iowa State
University of Northern Iowa
Merit
Calls for Arms Sale and Trade Reduction in Iowa City
Iowa's First district Rep. Edward Mezvinsky urged cutting U S military aid and restricting arms sales abroad during a Sunday speech at the First Christian church. He cited about 110 billion dollars in postwar arm transfers and urged a world conference of arms exporters to restrain sales to high tension areas in the Middle East and Africa.
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Iowa City
Iowa
Edward Mervinksy
U.S
First Christian Church
Mezvinsky
Middle East
Fire Officers Named At West Bertram
West Bertram volunteer fire department declares 1976 officers John Stewart chief Gary Spina president Mike Stark vice president Darrell Ferreter secretary Roger Borne treasurer. Eleven members completed Red Cross advanced first aid and emergency care course. On this date in 1974 Greece voted to become a republic ending the monarchy since 1832.
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Bertram
West Bertram Volunteer Fire Department
John Stewart
Gary Spina
Mike Stark
Darrell Ferreter
Roger Borne
The
Red Cross
Greece
Prisoners Escape Iowa State Penitentiary
Two men serving 10 year sentences for breaking and entering escaped from the Iowa state penitentiary and remained at large Monday. Darrell Duane Farley and Donald Morgan, both 23, of Sioux City, were discovered missing about 7 p.m. Saturday, authorities said.
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Fort Madison
UPS
Iowa State Penitentiary
Darrell Duane Farley
Donald Morgan
Sioux City
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Tom Melloy
Mt. Vernon
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Anamosa
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Cedar Rapids
Gazette Co
Third Ave. SE
U.S. Territories
Associated Press
City Telephone Information Service
West Bertram
Bell Territory
Minnesota
Nebraska
North
South Dakota
Northwestern Bell
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