Senate approves farm bill ending price linkage to subsidies
The Senate 64 to 32 vote ends the decades old tie between farm prices and subsidies, replacing them with fixed but declining payments totaling over 40 billion dollars across seven years. Critics label it welfare. supporters tout market flexibility and reduced government control.
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Associated Press and Gazette
Senate
Dick Lugar
R-Ind
Senate Agriculture Committee
GOP
Tom Harkin
Iowa
Kansas
Florida
Harkin
Clinton
Roof collapse blamed for Oxford Centro plastics plant fire
Oxford fire officials say a roof collapse sparked a blaze that leveled Centro Inc. plastics plant at the junction of highways 6 and 109. No injuries, as executives vow to relocate staff to other divisions while monitoring runoff to prevent groundwater contamination. Centro, founded in Oxford, operates plants in North Liberty Horicon Wisconsin and Springdale Arkansas.
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Lynn M. Tefft
Oxford
Centro Inc
John Pelton
Highways 6
Mort Vermace
Vermace
Centro
North Liberty
Horicon
Wis
Springdale
Ark
Baboon marrow transplant fails to take in AIDS patient
SAN FRANCISCO AP doctors report baboon bone marrow implanted in 38 year old AIDS patient Jeff Getty to boost his immune system has not engrafted after two months. The patient remains surprisingly well, possibly due to chemotherapy as researchers plan a repeat transplant using lessons learned.
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San Francisco
Jeff Getty
Steven Deeks
San Francisco General Hospital
Getty
Suzanne Ildstadt
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Clinton visit tickets vanish fast at Iowa City arena
President Bill Clinton drew rapid demand as tickets sold out for his scheduled appearance at the University of Iowa Carver-Hawkeye Arena this Saturday. The event details appeared on page 1B with coverage of the president's Iowa stop.
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Iowa City
Clinton
University of Iowa
Carver-Hawkeye Arena
Salvation Army shelter may be replaced by outreach
The Adult Rehabilitation Center in Cedar Rapids may close as outreach programs replace it. In other notes, 1B reports Hawkeyes men defeating Northwestern 88 to 77 with Iowa’s Jess Settling 29 points.
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Salvation Army
Cedar Rapids
Duct Tape Used in Bohlken Murder Case In Court Documents
Court papers in Jones County reveal Cathy Jo Bohlken was bound with duct tape and found decayed in her Monticello apartment on December 26, 1993. Travis Jamieson, 18, is charged with first degree murder and remains jailed on a 1 million dollar bond amid DNA and autopsy findings.
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Ry Dave Gosch
Vazette
Anamosa
Cathy Jo Bohlken
Jones County
Bohlken
Monticello
Travis Jamieson
Ken Sandy
Iowa
Jamieson
Severe cold to warm up Iowa with rapid temperature swing
A drastic 132 hour cold spell in Iowa ends as a warm-up begins. Cedar Rapids climbs from minus 27 to 43 above zero amid lingering snow cover. Forecasters expect mid 40s to 50s by weekend with potential ice jams and reduced spring flood risk from melting snow.
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Feldt
Midwest
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
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