Free Medical Clinic Aims to Provide Care for Low Income
At Iowa City’s free clinic volunteers, doctors and students offer family practice to the poor. In six months they checked 312 blood pressures, saw 211 alcoholism cases, 124 upper respiratory infections, and 83 hypertension. The clinic relies on public and private funding, emphasizes confidentiality, and notes it cannot provide emergency trauma care.
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Carylyn Christensen-Szalanski
Muscatine
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Free Clinic
Seattle
Wash
Iowa City
Iowa City Clinic
Johnson County Board of Supervisors
United Way
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Sealanski
Town City
Cleveland
Carol Raab
Raab
U of I
Free Medical Clinic
Susan Minchin
Minchin
Europe
Mercy Hospital
King Tower Cafe Still There Lets Truckers Find Coffee
Retired state patrolman Jim Smith recalls long nights at the King Tower cafe on Lincoln Highway. He notes a shift from 16 000 vehicles daily in the pre interstate era to about 3 500 now while truckers seek a friendly greeting and a warm cup at 2 a.m. The cafe remains a roadside beacon, with old truckers and travelers sharing stories of highway life.
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Jim Smith
King Tower
Linn County
Des Moines
Leonard Taylor
Smith
Texas
Tama
Busy Lady Stew featured as holiday prep begins
Anamosa Journal-Eureka columnist Marge Hummel notes cooks face a rush as holiday season starts and shares a recipe dubbed Busy Lady Stew or Gone All Afternoon Stew. The piece contrasts domestic bustle with a milkweed seed portrait by Vid Johnson of West Branch Times and a Dial-A-Story ad from Brooklyn Chronicle with librarian Joyce Morgan.
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The
Anamosa Journal-Eureka
Hummel
Vid Johnson
West Branch Times
Brooklyn Chronicle
Joyce Morgan
Randy
Caucus Calendar Iowa Week Campaign Schedule
Campaign staff list appears for presidential candidates in Iowa with events across multiple cities. Entries include BHUCE BABBITT 11:15 am conference on long term care Regal Towers Council Bluffs and a noon luncheon Scottie's Renwood Anwsuay 09 pm annorum Hoyt Sherman Auditorium Des Moines 6 30 pm reception Mr K's restaurant Ankeny. Friday 8 30 am speech Dordt College Sioux Center 10 am agricultural issues dialogue tristate event Rock Rapids State Bank conference room Rock Rapids.
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Regal Towers
Council Bluffs
Scottie's Restaurenwood
Anwsuay
Annorum
Hoyt Sherman Auditorium
Des Moines
Mr. K's
First Street
Ankeny
Dordt College
Sioux Center
Minnesota South Dakota
Iowa
Rock Rapids
Jack Kemp
Cherokee
Plymouth County
Student Union
Morningside College
Sioux City
Aarp Forum
Seneon
Eagle
Clinton
Coffe
Windrow Cate
Creston
Shaw Center
Graceland College
Lamont
Polk County
Tour Courthouse
Cartwright Hall
Drake University
Regional hearing on children in poverty listed at multiple Iowa sites
Des Moines hosts a regional hearing on poverty among children with Jesse Jackson and Jack Kemp scheduled at venues across Cedar Rapids Des Moines Sioux City and nearby colleges. Events include sessions at First Lutheran Church Herrick Chapel Dordt College and Morningside College with receptions planned in Cherokee and Des Moines venues.
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Third Ave
Cedar Rapids
Herrick Chapel
Ivinnell College
Isimuen
Des Moines
Paul Simon Saye and Local Events Schedule
A condensed itinerary lists Paul Simon Saye with multiple stops including Muscatine Clinton Ottumwa Grinnell Des Moines and West Des Moines. Events include breakfasts lectures fund raisers meetings tours and university campus visits across Iowa with times from morning to evening.
Congress Votes On Poll Closings And Nuclear Waste Plan
Lawmakers report weekly on November votes. The House narrowly approved a uniform poll closing bill requiring most states to close polls at 9 PM EST on election nights, with Alaska and Hawaii exempt. The Senate kept a nuclear waste dump amendment in the fiscal 1988 energy bill, directing DOE to focus site search in Nevada, Texas, and Washington with $100 million yearly incentives for hosting a repository.
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United States
Alaska
Hawaii
Senate
Energy and Water
DOE
Nevada
Texas
Washington
Amend ‘Ment
Chares Grassiey
Tom Harkin
Tough Choices Stall Budget Talks as COLA Debate Rages
President Reagan frames Social Security COLAS as non negotiable amid a high stakes budget summit now in its fourth week. Tauke and Rep. Tim Penny urge a bipartisan freeze and tax package to curb the deficit, while critics say negotiators fear taking tough actions and entitlement reform remains off the table.
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Ram Paye
Reagan
Tauke
Tim Penny
Dminn
White House
State Charity Regulations Briefly Described by Iowa Expert
An Iowa expert notes only six states lack charity regulation, with Iowa's rules historically unenforced and later struck down. The Consumer Protection Division can act only when a product is sold. otherwise enforcement is limited. Consumers are guided to the Better Business Bureau for charity information and spending patterns. The BBB does not award seals but provides data to help donor decisions.
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Iowa
Secretary of State
Cleland
Better Busines Bureau
BBB
Better Business Bureau
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