Iowa district hit with record back salary award
Lewis Central Community School District ordered to pay Linda Sheeran 53 813 in back pay after firing her in 1975, tying contract validity to salary rights. Four years of denied employment plus 5 percent interest and court costs. Sheeran later pursued nursing training.
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Lewis Central Community
Linda Sheeran
Lewis Central
Kenneth Pfile
Iowa State Education Association
Iowa
Pfile
ISEA
James Smith
Iowa Supreme Court
Smith
Sheeran
Department of Public Instruction
Pottawattamie
Iowa Court of Appeals
Harold Martin
Engle Among Poets Honored At White House Reception
Cedar Rapids poet and University of Iowa founder Paul Engle joined about 120 poets at a White House reception with President Carter and Mrs. Carter. Engle noted readings by 21 alumni and said the event felt like a large reunion of the Writer's Workshop.
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Engle
White House
Washington
Paul Engle
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
University of Iowa
Carter
Iran
Afghanistan
China
Engles
Walter F. Mondale
Iowa City
Simon Ortiz
Lawson Inada
Phillip Levine
Fresno Calif. State
Marvin Bell
Roger Stevens
Kennedy Center For the Performing Arts
Livingston Biddle
National Endowment For the Arts
New York
Fire destroys barn on Ossian area farm
A 36 by 45 foot barn on the August Hageman Jr. farm three miles west of Ossian burned this morning at about 6 30 a.m. Two silos and 2 000 bales of hay were lost. Firefighters from Ossian Calmar and Fort Atkinson battled the blaze. cost estimate not yet released.
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Ossian
Hageman Jr
Calmar
Fort Atkinson
Rural Iowa formed to aid rural communities across state
Des Moines based Rural Iowa unites farmers, small towns, and rural residents to influence policy. Vice president Curt Sorteberg says current policies miss the rural community as a whole and the group will partner with existing organizations like PURE to diversify programs in housing health churches energy conservation education and extension services. Harold Riedel of Creston leads the group which has about 200 members including farmers store owners and officials. Sorteberg remains with the Iowa Farmers Union.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Curt Sorteberg
Sorteberg
People United For Rural Education
PURE
Rural Iown
Harold Riedel
Creston
Iowa Farmers Union
Two Iowans Die In Separate Thursday Crashes
Involving Carl Lovelace a 17 year old from Dubuque who died in a one car crash on US Highway 52 two miles north of Durango Dubuque County. Gary Challen 30 of Mount Pleasant died in a separate crash on US Route 34 as Michael Kranda 20 faced drunk driving charge. Dana Westerberg 15 of Forest City died Monday after losing control on a Winnebago County road. A prior report misstated Gretchen Bolstorff 15 as killed. she is listed in critical condition in Minnesota.
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Forest City
Winnebago
Gretchen Bolstorff
Bolstorff
St. Mary’s Hospital
Ester
Minn
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Richard Hutchcroft
Rollyce Smith
Mediapolis
James Ryan
Illinois
UPI
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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