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Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jan 07, 1985

Page

3

King Commemoration Honors Hayes at MLK Birthday Event

Charles Hayes, Illinois congressman and civil rights figure, will be guest speaker as United Food and Commercial Workers Local P-3 marks Martin Luther King Jr. birthday. Hayes helped elect Harold Washington Chicago mayor and calls to public invited audience.

Two area teachers win NEA poetry fellowships

Cornell College English professor Robert Dana and former U of I visiting lecturer William K. Knott are among 100 writers awarded $20,000 NEA Fellowships for Creative Writers. The awards total $2 million across 30 states, aimed at letting authors devote time to writing, research, or travel. Dana, 55, has published in The New Yorker The Nation Paris Review Harvard Magazine and others. Knott taught at U of I and is now at Emerson College in Boston.

Cornell College University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop National Endowment For the Arts Robert Dana William K. Knott Emerson College Boston U of I Dana NEA New Yorker The Nation Paris Review Harvard Mount Vernon Coralville Knott Jayne Anne Phillips Andre Dubus Harold Brodkey David A. Leavitt Lynn Sharon Schwartz Toby Olson Robert Coover Craig Nova Frank Conroy

Tauke presses action on rural hospital Medicare report

Rep. Tom Tauke urges immediate HHS action on a completed report alleging underpayments to rural hospitals. The study could shift Medicare wage base rules retroactively to 1983, boosting rural payments while forcing urban hospitals to repay funds, risking trust-fund impact.

Tauke David Lynch Washington Tom Tauke Iowa Department of Health and Human Services HHS Margaret Heckler Heckler Midwest

Diet Center Promises Fast Weight Loss Program

An advertisement outlines a Diet Center plan offering a tailored weight loss program with confidential counselor support and daily follow ups. It promotes safe fat loss, a Diet Center Supplement to curb cravings, no high pressure sales, and a maintenance program to keep pounds off.

Diet Center

Virus linked to long-lasting flu-like illness in two reports

Two studies suggest a herpes family virus, Epstein Barr, may trigger a prolonged flu-like syndrome with fatigue fever and swollen glands. Researchers caution routine tests miss the condition and that many cases resemble chronic fatigue with other illnesses.

New York Stephen Straus Bethesda National Institutes of Health Straus James F. Jones National Jewish Hospital Denver Jones

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