Legislature debates 4.7% budget cut for special session
Iowa legislators clash over a possible special session to enact selective budget cuts. Senate and House leaders criticize timing while Avenson proposes multiple measures including a 5 percent cut across state budgets and shifting funds to the general fund.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Branstad
Senate
Cal Hultman
Red Oak
House
del Stromer
Rgarner
Hultman
Stromer
Donnybrook
Lowell Jenkins
Montrose
Jenkins
Donald Arenson
D-Oelwein
Blue Cross
Blue Shield
Mall plan outlined with 1986 construction targets
Bezanson discusses a two story mall with about 40 stores and a ramp connected skywalk linking to the Banc Iowa and Iowa Illinois Gas and Electric buildings. The project aims to tear down current structures within 30 days and start new construction by winter with completion planned for late fall 1986.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bezanson
Armstrong
Bane Iowa
Banc Iowa
Iowa Illinois Gas and Electric Co
Third Street
Fourth Avenue
Sanford
Des Moines mother denies selling her 2 year old daughter
Betty Louise Cross 20 says she did not sell her child after taking $3,000 from a confidential informant as bait for her jailed fiancé. Police say she accepted the cash for an adoption arrangement but failed to report it to authorities. Cross claims the money was lent to trap her partner, not to relinquish custody.
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DES Moines (Ap
Des Moines
Betty Louise Cross
Jack le Croy
Cross
Glen Walker
Bedell proposes farm price freeze with referendum plan
The Bedell plan sets non-recourse loan rates for corn and wheat and a 20 percent corn, 30 percent wheat set aside. It calls for a referendum by Feb 1 1986 to approve the basic farm bill or default to a frozen price path with gradual reductions. The proposal costs $1.7 billion less than the committee bill and faces political opposition from the Reagan administration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bedell
Secretary of Agriculture
House Committee
Cooper Evans
Arown
Reagan
House
Senate Agriculture Committee
Senate
El Salvador KidnappingRaises Guerrilla Suspicions
Salvadoran sources report the kidnapping of Duarte campaign figure Duran with no immediate group claiming responsibility. A security captain suggested guerrilla involvement, noting a past rebel attack killed 13 people at two restaurants, including four U.S. Marines, as students watched from afar.
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Radio Liberty
Duarte
Presidential Security Office
U.S
el Salvador
Duran
Toledo reviews plans for sewage plant project
Toledo officials face charges over a deficient sewage plant and plan a Sept 19 meeting in Des Moines with Iowa Department of Water and Waste Management officials. The aim is to outline actions to correct deficiencies as the state demands improvements by 1988.
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Toledo
Des Moines
Iowa Department of Water, Air and Waste Management
Victor Kennedy
Dennis Appelgate
Robert Frederick
Howard R. Green & Co
Cedar Rapids
Frederick
Kennedy
Ernest Mayo
Appelgate
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Avenson
Clude
Department of Corrections
Woodward and
Glenwood
Sen
Perpetual Savings and Loan
Paul Pink and
Roosevelt Place
City National Bank
MorAmerica
Federal Deposit Insurance
Morris Plan
Iowa
Cedar River Tower
Stouffer’s
Roosevelt Hotel
Stouffer
Paramount Office
Paramount Theatre
YN Eye
Bellini
Supe
Navy
Westdale
Iowa City
Senate Committee
Salvador
Ken Carson
Paul Hunter
Harry Gardner Jr
South Elm Street
Gardner
Woodlawn Cemetery
Land Exchange
Layne-Western Co
Ames
Jordan Well No
Public Works
Duane Upah
Community Bible Church
Gazette
Traders Point
Seiferts and
Wintet
Seiferts
Lindale
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