IDOT debates $100000 highway study by consultants
Iowa IDOT Chairman Rob ert Rigler balks at spending about 100000 for an independent study on state highway policy while commissioners debate funding priorities for road projects. Thoms pushes for the study as a basis for policy discussion, others favor using funds for overlays and maintenance.
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Ames
Iowa Department of Transportation
IDOT
Robert Rigler
Allan Thoms
Dubuque
Thoms
Raymond Kassel
Rigler
Commission
Transportation Agency
Cludes
ISU research reactor to close due to federal funding cuts
ISU Ames laboratory will shut down its five megawatt reactor by December 31 because federal funding for nuclear sciences and neutron scattering has been reduced. Reactor operations will end, with related equipment moved to Brookhaven and Oak Ridge. about 30 scientists remain active while 29 staff await fate.
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Hansen
Ment
Ames
ERDA
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
ISU
Ames Laboratory
Fayette Court Sentences Three Men in July Court
Fayette county district court Judge Roger Peterson sentenced three individuals. Timothy William Nichols of Sumner received 45 days in jail with work release for larceny in the nighttime over $20 tied to the March 22 incident at Youngblut Feed Mill. Leo Vondal of Dubuque, 51, was fined 300 dollars for drunk driving and ordered to enroll in a drinking drivers program with indefinite license revocation after arrest on March 28. Leonard Joseph Smith, 27, of Marion, was fined 500 dollars for second offense drunk driving with indefinite license suspension and requirement to attend a drinking drivers school after arrest May 7.
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Timothy William Nichols
Sumner
Fayette County
Youngblut
Oran
Vondal
Leonard Joseph Smith
Marion
Smith
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