Cedar Rapids outbreak threat ends and public plans rise
The salmonella outbreak in Towa Cedar Rapids appears to have run its course, with Linn County Health Department sanitarian Tom Hart noting the end. Local housing and downtown Cedar Rapids improvements are slated for public hearings, with universities seeking lottery funds for next year and basketball playoff action featuring the Dallas Mavericks against the Los Angeles Lakers.
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Cedar Rapids
Tom Hart
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Iowa
Chuckle Reflects on Donkey as Political Symbol
A lighthearted quip notes the Democratic Party symbol may fit yet jokes a donkey cannot convert a Democrat. The line playfully contrasts symbols with political identity, leaving readers amused by the imagery.
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Cedar Rapids wins stop smoking funds in lucky spin
Cedar Rapids, Davenport win as pair in National Cancer Institute campaign. Cedar Rapids becomes intervention city with resources for four years, funding estimated around 100000 dollars annually. University of Iowa College of Medicine coordinates study under Dr Paul Pomrehn Jr. The spin used a sealed roulette process to assign the intervention status.
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Washington
Cancer Institute
Iowa
Colombian jet hijacker ends bold odyssey with escape
A mentally unstable man seized a Avianca Boeing 727 with 135 aboard, forced a path to Panama and Aruba, then returned to Medellin where all but crew disembarked. He fled during taxi to the Cartagena airport as police searched nearby. No injuries reported.
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Aruba
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Venezuela
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T Chain
Caracol
Cuba
Rafael Nunez
Gutierrez
Memorial service honors two students after plane crash
Washington High School Principal Ralph Plagman addresses students during a memorial in the school courtyard for Jamie Harder and Andy Andrews. Two trees and four others were planted in memory of the students killed last month in a plane crash as family members comfort one another, including Jenny Harder and Jodi Buch.
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Washington High School
Ralph Plagman
Jamie Harder
Andy Andrews
Jenny Harder
Jamie
Jodi Buch
Iowa non farm jobs top 1979 boom in April
Iowa employment data show non farm jobs at 1,139,200 in April, the highest for the month since April 1979’s 1,133,600. The gain from a year ago is 35,200 and 12,700 above March, with Des Moines adding 2,000 jobs, Davenport 1,400, and Cedar Rapids and Waterloo 1,000 each. Cedar Rapids rose to 90,500, largely from non manufacturing work, while construction and trade added 600 jobs and manufacturing 400. Town City was the sole metro area to fall, down 400.
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Des Moines
Iowa Department of Employment Services
Davenport
Cedar Rapids
Waterloo
Town City
Iowa faculty to get 10 percent raises in state budgets
Iowa three public universities plan July 1 raises averaging 10 percent, aiming to attract top faculty. University of Iowa officials caution that raises alone won’t close gaps with peer institutions, while salary figures for full, associate, and assistant professors vary by campus.
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Hadley case recovery of 800000 questioned
An Houston attorney projected that over 800000 of 1130000 embezzled from John Deere Credit Union in Waterloo may be recovered. Fay Morisseau of CUMIS Insurance Society traces Hadley’s investments and seeks full accounting before any settlement. He fled to Friendswood and assumes the name Rick Finley while divorcing and remarrying.
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Waterloo
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Cumis Insurance Society
Madison
Wis
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Hadley
Friendswood
Rick Finley
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