Fire damages Marion tire firm in multi-building blaze
A large fire heavily damaged the Triangle Bandag Tire Co. in Marion near downtown. Fire crews from multiple cities battled thick rubber smoke as 50,000 pounds of rubber burned in the central building. no injuries were reported. The firm retreads commercial and farm tires for Dubuque, Waterloo, Marshalltown and Des Moines.
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Triangle Bandag Tire Co
Marion
Bill Mungoven
Triangle Bandag Tire Company
Second Ave
Mungoven
Dubuque
Waterloo
Marshalltown
Des Moines
Cedar Rapids
Robins
Alburnett
Hiawatha
Education and arts funding face further cuts under draft budget
The Reagan administration circulated a draft budget resolution for 1982 proposing about 700 million dollars in deeper cuts to elementary and secondary education and cuts to arts and humanities. It includes a mechanism to enforce lower spending when House and Senate bills differ, and notes it reflects president's original March plan in some cases. Officials call it technical with no policy decisions, while aides see it as a possible first step toward broader reductions to close the deficit and balance by 1984.
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Washington
Reagan Administration
Capitol Hill
Congress
House
Senate
Office of Management and Budget
Edwin Dale Jr
Appropriations Committees
Dale
Congressional
Alice Rivlin
Gazette drug series wins 1981 Community Service Award
The Cedar Rapids Gazette earned the 1981 Community Service Award from the Iowa Daily Press Association for a comprehensive 10 part series on drugs and their impact on children and families. Journalists Wallace Rogahn and others produced local perspectives and education reports tied to AP writer John Barbour.
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The
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Iowa Daily Press Association
Associated Press
John Barbour
the Gazette
Christie Wallace
Kurt Rogahn
Barbour
Wallace
Rogahn
Rural Iowa water main repairs trigger mass bathroom trip
In Wellman Iowa a water main break halted supply and prompted a district to reroute students to Kalona schools for restroom access. About 265 elementary pupils and high school students boarded five buses to Kalona for bathrooms as crews stopped water for two hours to connect new lines.
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Wellman
Mid-Prairie
Iowa
Kalona
Doctor faces action over methadone death at MHI
Iowa officials seek suspension or revocation of Dr. Robert Pucelik license after six charges tied to the March 6 death of Daniel Lee McKinney at the Mental Health Institute in Independence. A public hearing is set for 9 a.m. Nov 4 in Des Moines.
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Des Moines
Independence
Cedar Rapids
Ron Saf
Iowa Board of Medical Examiners
Robert
McKinney
Iowa Department of Social Services
MHI
Pucelik
Alcohol and Drug Abuse Unit
The
Gazette
McKin
Man Buys Used Car Finds Tiger in the Tank
A man purchasing a decades old used car discovers a tiger figurine or emblem hidden in the fuel tank area, prompting questions about the car’s history and potential safety concerns. The incident highlights the odd surprises found in aging vehicles.
Stanwood at center of hog processing plant talk
Iowa Beef Processors Inc of Dakota City Nebraska eyes three sites for a $100 million hog processing plant that would slaughter four million hogs yearly and employ about 600 workers. Stanwood is among the possible locations alongside Low Moor Iowa and Sheffield Illinois.
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Stanwood
Iowa Beef Processors Inc
Dakota City
Neb
Harness
Iowa Beef
Nebraska
Low Moor
Clinton County
Clinton
Iowa Reef
Sheffield
Ill
Chicago-Atkinson Livestock Terminal
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Marion Tire
Jonathan Reed
New York Times Service
Gazette Drug Series
David Toma
New Jersey
Toma
Judy Daubenmier
Dale Kueter
Enee
al Swegle
Karen Rouse
Mike Rouse
Rouse
Charles
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