Iowa House OKs education standards bill
The Iowa House approved a bill requiring all school districts to meet state standards by 1989, giving the Department of Public Instruction power to set them. Districts failing to meet by July 1, 1989, could be consolidated with neighbors. some lawmakers urged only recommendations and no deadline.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Iowa House
Iowa Department of Public Instruction
House
Richard Warn
D-Solon
DPI
Farm kids in crisis stress from farm losses and grades
Rural stress hits students as farm families face income pressures and changing roles. High schoolers miss school to help on farms and drink to cope while peers report low spirits and declining grades. Peer counselors from eight schools gathered for a workshop on coping with rural stress.
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Randy Henry
Loyd
Henry
Keystone Area Education
Raccoon Emerges From Chimney Stuns Florence Renner
A raccoon poked its head from a chimney at 2316 D Ave NE Tuesday morning, shocking Renner and neighbors after a boy spotted the animal. Animal control plans to remove it today from its insistent rooftop den.
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Florence Renner
Renner
D Ave
House approves 1.5 billion for 21 MX missiles
The House voted 219 to 213 to fund 21 MX missiles, a slim victory for President Reagan and a reversal for House Speaker Thomas O'Neill. The price tag dominated debate as Aspin defended the missiles as essential for Geneva arms talks amid opposition from many Democrats. A second vote was planned under the compromise legislation.
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Washington
House
Reagan
Thomas O'Neill
Dmass
O’neill
White House
Geneva
House Armed Services Committee
Les Aspin
Wisconsin
Soviet Union
Aspin
Congress
Jim Wright
Texas
Wright
Riverside Declares Itself Captain Kirk’s Future Birthplace
Riverside Iowa bills itself as the future birthplace of Captain James T Kirk after a 4 0 Riverside City Council vote. The plan places the marker behind the old white barber shop on town’s western edge.
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Tom Walsh
Johnson County
Iverside
Washington County
Riverside
James T. Kirk
Scotty” Kirk
William Shatner
Gene Roddenberry
James Kirk
Iowa
Steve Miller
Riverside City
Miller
Kirk
Today’s Chuckle Raisin to Live
A light humor item titled Today’s Chuckle ponders life as a bowl of cherries and wonders how to find a raisin to live, delivering a brief, playful pun.
Roosevelt addition planned for life care project in Cedar Rapids
The Roosevelt Place life care retirement venture plans a 10 story addition to the Roosevelt Hotel on Second Street in Cedar Rapids this summer. James W. Young of CSS Enterprises says 145 units will be added for Roosevelt Place tenants with potential future atop the parking garage. Peter Bezanson notes rapid progress converting the Roosevelt into a life care facility with initial tenants possibly moving in late spring.
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George C. Ford
Young
Roosevelt Place
Roosevelt Parking Garage
Peter Bezanson
Roosevelt Hotel
Bezanson
Roosevelt
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