Should the U S save penny from extinction
Ellen Goodman argues the penny has lost value and usefulness, suggesting the dollar become a coin with Columbus and the penny phased out. She notes inflation, rising costs of making cents, and public polls showing opposition, while urging a broader shift in currency to reflect modern economics.
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Banking Committee
Treasury Department
Christopher Columbus
Susan B. Anthony
Savings and Loan
Muslim clerics condemn women’s education in Afghanistan crisis
In Peshawar a group of 80 mullahs issued a postered edict denouncing schooling for women and prescribing strict conduct including submissive dress and restricted public behavior. A spokesman for a U S backed guerrilla coalition rejected the policy as not representing his group.
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Peshawar
Pakistan
Duffy's hosts Great American Race pit stop in Cedar Rapids
About 120 prewar cars arrive at Duffy's Collectible Cars for a Great American Race pit stop expected to draw thousands. The event features a brass band, cheerleaders, carhops, a rooftop reception, and a chance to win a city library hospitality award from a $10,000 prize. The 4,000-mile endurance race spans 13 states, ending in California.
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Chamber of Commerce Red Coats
Emerald Knights
Duffy. Schamberger
Duffy
Schamberger
Duffy’s
Harrison
N.Y
Disneyland
California
Kenworth
Interstate Batteries Inc
Medical kit plant to open in Decorah by July
Ed Swanson of Heartland Medical Inc rents a Decorah building and plans a med kit plant in the Freeport Industrial Park area. The project aims for 20 to 35 initial jobs with up to 135 later, but financing and scale are currently reduced and operations will occur at a smaller facility with kits mailed for sterilization. Swanson will speak to media in mid July.
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Decorah
Sarah Gazette
Mike Donahey
Decorah Area
Donahey
Swanson
Decorah Jobs Inc
Area Industry Promotion Group
Correction fixes starts for Mercy/Stouffer race event
A Saturday morning bicycle road race will start and finish at Center Point as part of the Mercy/Stouffer Challenge. The U S Cycling Federation event adds street sprints on the Second Avenue bridge in Cedar Rapids and a Criterium Sunday in downtown Cedar Rapids beginning at 9 a m with registration at 8 a m. The Gazette will publish corrections if reports are wrong or incomplete and welcomes complaints at phone 398 8313.
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Center Point
U.S. Cycling Federation
Second Avenue Bridge
Cedar Rapids
The
Gazette
Fumigation Firm Pleads Guilty in Iowa Manslaughter Case
W B McCloud and Co pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter charges in the 1988 methyl bromide poisoning death of Terry Ray Schneider, 19, an assistant manager at Village Inn Pancake House in Iowa City. Co-worker Stephen Plath received a two year suspended sentence.
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Gazette
Johnson County Bureau
Iowa City
W.B. McCloud and Co
Schaumburg
Village Inn
Terry Ray Schneider
Sturgis Corner Dr
Schneider
Johnson County
J. Patrick White
McCloud
Stephen Plath
Bettendorf
Plath
Davenport
University of Iowa
New Kids' Iowa City show to go on after injury incident
The New Kids on the Block will perform July 6 in Iowa City as scheduled despite drummer Donnie Wahlberg suffering chest bruises and facial cuts when a trapdoor collapsed during a Sunday concert in Saratoga Springs. Wahlberg is hospitalized in stable condition. the tour continues with a revised show in the interim.
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Iowa City
Gazette Wire
Aratoga Springs
N.Y
Kids On the Block
Donnie Wahlberg
Saratoga Raceway
Skip Carlson
Carver-Hawkeye
Rogers & Cowan
New Kids
Crosby Stills and Nash Cancel Cedar Rapids Show
Crosby Stills and Nash cancel the Cedar Rapids date at Five Seasons Center due to Stephen Stills throat problems. The Ames concert remains on schedule with refunds or exchanges at purchase points. The tour is being rerouted with additional postponements as a precaution during the long run. The band performs Monday in Louisville Kentucky instead of Cedar Rapids.
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Stephen Stills
Los Angeles
Crosby, Stills and Nash
Louisville
Cedar Rapids
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