Des Moines World Trade Center bid meets opposition
Iowa advisory panel questions state losses in John Ryan plan to back a 75 million world trade center. Private investors could gain 10.7 million through 1998 while the state might lose 14.7 million plus 30 million aid. The committee may seek new proposals and bids.
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DES Moines
John Ryan
Ryan
Iowa World Trade Center Advisory Committee
Richard Canella
Fort Madison
Des Moines Convention Center
Art Vogel
Hamburg
Convention Center
Canella
Terry Branstad
Woods sentencing delayed in false imprisonment case
Edward Joseph Woods 36 of Walker pleaded guilty to two terrorism counts and two false imprisonment counts in Buchanan County District Court. Sentencing postponed to Aug 19 by agreement between County Attorney Allan Vander Hart and defense counsel Steven Ristvedt. Woods who is in a Tomah VA hospital faced potential penalties up to five years and fines per terrorism count and up to one year per false imprisonment count. The January 30 incident involved taking Benito Tapia and Cheryl Scott at gunpoint south of Quasqueton and transporting them to Walker.
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Woods
Benito Tapia
Cheryl Scott
Scott
Vander Hart
Des Moines Track Plan Survives Land Deadline
Des Moines developers say they have avoided the Sunday deadline to exercise an option on land for a $45 million Altoona horse racing track and insist the project remains viable. Ken Grandquist faced financing crunches but declined to detail the arrangement, only stating it is still viable.
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DES Moines
Altoona
Ken Grandquist
Grandquist
Branstad Considers Change to Iowa Lottery Rules for Taverns
Gov. Terry Branstad voiced support for allowing taverns to sell lottery tickets, noting the current law bars such sales while state liquor stores may sell them. He urged a legislative review next year and cited a successful trade mission that secured a deal for Fieldstone Cabinet of Lockridge, Iowa, to export wood to Regba Furniture of Israel.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Terry Branstad
Branstad
Middle East
Italy
Germany
Reginn
Israel
Fieldstone Cabinetry
Lockridge
Regba Furniture
Fieldstone
Regba
United States
Amana High School Alumni Reunion Sets 50th Anniversary
More than 600 Amana High School graduates, some from Brazil and the Solomon Islands, will gather at the Middle Amana ballpark for a 50th anniversary reunion. Dennis Schrag reports the event honors decades of community support with a beer and bratwurst picnic, band, polka dance, fireworks, and class photos.
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Amana
Amana High School
Brazil
Solomon Islands
Middle Amana
Dennis Schrag
Schrag
Marietta Moershel
Amana High
Troopers Promote Iowa Tourism With In-Car Guides
Iowa State Patrol officers will carry maps campground guides and Iowa Development Commission guides in their cars and display Tourist Information decals. Gov Branstad will affix the first decal at the Statehouse launching the program. Also noted is that on this date in 1926 the United States Army Air Corps was created.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Iowa Development Commission
Iowa Department of Public Safety
Terry Branstad
Statehouse
United States Army Air Corps
Oversupply of microwaves triggers Amana layoff of 130
Amana Refrigeration in Middle Amana plans to lay off 130 workers at the Radarange plant due to an oversupply of microwave ovens in the U S market. Officials blame a flood of imports from the Far East and say the cuts aim to align production with demand. Layoffs take effect after shifts end July 12, targeting those with least seniority.
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Amana
Far East
Waterloo mayor Del Bowers to not seek re election
Waterloo Mayor Del Bowers who served eight years on the City Council and won the mayoral post in 1983 will not run again this fall. Three candidates have announced their bids Jack Roehr Bernie McKinley and Ernie Klatt all seeking the mayoral seat.
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Waterloo
del Bowers
Jack Roehr
Bowers
Bernie McKinley
Ernie Klatt
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