Iowa snippets mix crime trials and city projects
A Des Moines boy testifies in a kidnapping trial in Cedar Rapids while the city council approves two water tanks costing 4.2 million. Iowa Utilities Board action requires ADM Corn Sweeteners to present cogeneration facility details. Other items note Variety Club funding, Mark McGwire's Series homer, and UNI coach Eldon Miller facing a rebuilding season.
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Tracey Simmons
Iowa
Des Moines
Larry Siemer
Cedar Rapids
ADM
Iowa Utilities Board
Todays Chuckle Women’s Best Years Joke
A light humor item notes that the best years of a woman’s life are the decade between 29 and 30, delivering a playful quip about age and timing.
Congress votes VA into Cabinet and court review
The Senate approved elevating the Veterans Administration to a Cabinet department and allowing veterans to seek judicial review of VA benefit denials. A cost of living increases bill for VA payments also passed, with House action pending. The VA would be the 14th Cabinet seat with a $30 billion budget serving 27 million veterans and 49 million dependents.
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Washington
Senate
Veterans Administration
Cabinet Department
Reagan
House
Department of Veterans Affairs
Murals Hanged at Coe Cee College Stewart Library
Student Melissa Prochaska and gallery director Shirley Donaldson clean glass over Grant Wood murals being hung Tuesday at Stewart Memorial Library. The Fruits of Iowa murals were once in the Coffee Shop at the Montrose Hotel and were donated by the Eugene C. Eppley Foundation.
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Cee College
Melissa Prochaska
Fayette
Shirley Donaldson
Grant Wood
Stewart Memorial Library
Fruits of
Iowa
Montrose Hotel
Eugene C. Eppley Foundation
Non-Farm Income Growth Chart Through Q2 This Year
A chart from the U.S. Commerce Department shows growth in non-farm personal income from Q2 1987 to Q2 of the current year. The data illustrate long term expansion in wage and salary income, proprietors income, and transfer receipts across periods.
Iowa Trails in Growth of Non-Farm Income
Iowa's non-farm personal income rose about 5.5 percent from Q2 1987 to the current year, ranking 43rd among states. Nevada led with 11.2 percent growth, while Wyoming was last at 2.2 percent. The Prairie region posted 6.2 percent growth, behind high-tech New England, with Illinois near 17th at 8.2 percent and neighboring states ranging from 5.6 to 7.9 percent.
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Washington
Iowa
U.S
Nevada
Wyoming
U.S. Commerce Department
New England
Prairie States
Kansas
Minnesota
Missouri
Nebraska
North Dakota
South Dakota
Commerce Department
Illinois
Wisconsin
New Mexico
West Virginia
Oklahoma
Dukakis vows to wipe out 150 billion trade deficit
Former candidate Dukakis pledges to erase the US trade deficit in four years and blasts Bush as lacking convictions. He blames Republican policy for last year’s stock market plunge as Bush campaigns in Missouri with a growing lead. Bentsen denounces Bush’s attacks as vicious and distorted. Dukakis tours Michigan amid rising doubts about Bush.
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Dukakis
Associated Press
Michael Dukakis
George Bush
Bush
Lloyd Bentsen
Bentsen
Los Angeles
Michigan
Four Year Old Survives Five Minute Cold Pool Rescue
Bobbye Howard of Hiawatha recalls nearly losing her son Jeffrey after he fell into a five foot deep outdoor pool at 1190 Rainbow Blvd. Damien Pitcher 5 and Ronda Pitcher 20 fetched help and performed mouth to mouth resuscitation saving the child. Jeffrey is uninjured and recovering with hospital staff noting no ill effects.
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Dick Hogan Gazette
Bobbye Howard
Hiawatha
Bobbye
Jeffrey
Rainbow Blvd
Ronda Pitcher
Damien Pitcher
Damien
Ronda
St. Luke’s Hospital
11Th Ave
Jeff
Karen Pitcher
Howards
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Variety Club of
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Oakland
Page
Eldon Miller
University of Northern Iowa
Miller
Money News
Wall Street
Iowa News
Marion
Congress
Coe
Gazette
Chris Stewart
Is.d
Gazette Grap
U.S. Commerce
Arta
Wis
Mid-Atlantic
Far West
Great Lakes Plains
Rocky Mountain
By Chris Wolt
Boy
Dick Hoga
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