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Former IVH employee wants Local grad Huss
answers about ‘do not hire’ list has role in new
TV drama
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO BY TINA ROWDEN/AMC
Marshalltown native Toby Huss, center, is one of the stars in the
new AMC drama “Halt and Catch Fire.” The show debuts on June 1.
T-R PHOTO BY MIKE DONAHEY
Carol Ray of Albion is shown in the kitchen of her home Thursday, while looking at evaluations she had received from superiors when she
was employed at the Iowa Veterans Home in Marshalltown.
By MIKE DONAHEY
TIMES-REPUBLICAN
Shocked.
That was how Carol Ray of
Albion felt upon learning she
was on Iowa’s “do not hire”
list.
The former Iowa Veterans
Home employee said she was
good at her job as a resident
treatment technician.
Ray proudly showed
copies of evaluations, where
supervisors ranked her “above
average.”
She worked as a resident
treatment technician on two
different occasions for a total
of 25 years.
She liked her co-workers
and the residents she cared for.
Her work was important.
She gave medicines to residents, recorded the time and
date when dosages were
given, and checked on residents every two hours, among
other tasks.
The job also required her to
turn residents in their beds so
they did not develop bed
sores.
Frequently she assisted residents transfer from their bed
to a wheelchair.
The constant, lifting, turning and shifting motions coupled with being on her feet
many hours per shift aggravated her rheumatoid arthritis.
And over the years, she periodically had to miss work
because of the pain, she said.
Ray was able to manage
the condition with medication
and rest for years until it became unbearable.
She frequently worked
while suffering from pain.
The pain and discomfort
increased significantly.
But she did not want to
quit.
She consulted with doctors, and they said it was in her
best interest to resign, which
she did in 1999.
Photos produced by Ray
show supervisors and coworkers at a reception in her
honor.
Ray had resigned from
IVH twice before.
Once was to move to Oregon with her husband.
However, they were unhappy in Oregon and returned
to Iowa.
She re-applied at IVH and
LIST | A3
‘Halt and Catch
Fire’ debuts
June 1 on AMC
The 1983 Marshalltown
High School graduate plays
the role of John Bosworth, a
leader of a company called
Cardiff Electric. The show is
set in 1983 in Dallas as an upstart personal computer company (Cardiff Electric) tries to
compete with IBM. Huss said
it has a pretty unique storyline.
“It’s the first show that
delves into the Wild West
mentality of that time,” Huss
said.
Huss said he landed the
role through an audition and
the show features two of the
same producers of “Breaking
Bad.”
“AMC has had some great
shows and they just have a really good track record,” Huss
said. “They’ve been really
good in letting us be creative
By ANDREW POTTER
TIMES-REPUBLICAN
When it comes to a timeslot to launch a new show, it’s
hard to get much better than
Sunday nights on AMC.
The spot on the channel
which catapulted shows such
as “Breaking Bad” and “Mad
Men” will have local flavor on
a new series this summer.
Marshalltown native Toby
Huss, an acting veteran of
dozens of television shows and
movies, has a role in the new
dramatic series “Halt and
Catch Fire.” The series debuts
at 9 p.m. June 1 on AMC.
HUSS | A3
Branstad, lawmakers: Thousands flee, 25 die in record Balkan floods
Broadband expansion
important
By JOVANA GEC
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
By KOURTNEY LIEPELT
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DES MOINES — Despite
the surprising defeat of a
broadband expansion bill as the
Legislature neared adjournment, Gov. Terry Branstad and
lawmakers said the effort is important to rural Iowa and
should be pursued next year.
The GOP-majority House
defeated the bill last month,
with nine Republicans joining
with Democrats in opposing a
measure they argued included
too many tax breaks to
telecommunications companies
and not enough requirements
for the services they would provide.
Supporters of the measure
responded that without incentives, companies have little
motivation to extend broadband into rural areas.
Branstad spokesman Jimmy
Centers said the governor is
committed to broadband expansion and will try again. He
called broadband expansion essential to creating more wellpaid jobs.
Rep. Guy Vander Linden, a
Republican from Oskaloosa,
voted against the bill but said
there “absolutely” is a need to
increase broadband coverage in
rural Iowa. First, though, lawmakers need to work with
telecommunications experts in
writing a more detailed bill, he
said.
About 24 percent of Iowa
households don’t subscribe to
home broadband service, either
by choice or lack of availability, according to data released
in October 2013 by the Connect Iowa initiative, a partnership that comprises both state
and private entities. More than
113,000 school-age children
don’t have access at home, and
143,000 Iowans are dial-up
users.
“A lot of residences aren’t
using broadband even when access is there,” said Phillip
Brown, Connect Iowa’s director of state and federal policy.
“If it’s not used, there aren’t
any benefits at all.”
Telecommunications companies said offering broadband
to everyone isn’t always financially feasible, given the expense of the necessary
infrastructure.
“We want all our customers
to have the access that they demand, but we build out where
EXPANSION | A3
MAGLAJ, Bosnia — Packed
into buses, boats and helicopters,
carrying nothing but a handful of
belongings, tens of thousands
fled their homes Saturday in
Bosnia and Serbia to escape the
worst flooding in a century.
Rapidly rising rivers surged
into homes, sometimes reaching
up to the second floors, sending
people climbing to rooftops for
rescue.
Hundreds were also evacuated in Croatia.
Authorities said 25 people
have died but warned the death
toll could rise.
Tens of thousands of homes
were left without electricity or
drinking water.
Landslides triggered by the
floods also raised the risk of injury or death from land mines
left over from Bosnia’s 1992-95
war. The landslides swept away
many of the carefully placed
warning signs around the minefields.
Three months’ worth of rain
has fallen on the region in three
days this week, creating the
worst floods since records began
being kept 120 years ago.
Observed from the air, almost a third of Bosnia, mostly its
northeast corner, resembled a
huge muddy lake, with houses,
roads and rail lines submerged.
Admir Malagic, a spokesman for
AP PHOTO
People help old women out of a military truck during evacuation from Obrenovac, some 30 kilometers
(18 miles) southwest of Belgrade Serbia, Saturday. Record flooding in the Balkans leaves at least 20
people dead in Serbia and Bosnia and is forcing tens of thousands to flee their homes. Meteorologists
say the flooding is the worst since records began 120 years ago.
Bosnia’s Security Ministry, said
about a million people — over a
quarter of the country’s population — live in the affected area.
“Bosnia is facing a horrible
catastrophe,” said Bakir Izetbegovic, the chairman of the Bosnian three-man presidency. “We
are still not fully aware of actual
dimensions of the catastrophe ...
we will have to take care of hundreds, thousands of people ...”
Izetbegovic was touring
Maglaj, hard hit by floods. As
the waters mostly withdrew on
Saturday, Maglaj was covered in
mud and debris, with residents
checking damage and bringing
furniture out in the streets to dry.
“Everything is destroyed, but
we are happy to be alive,” said
Maglaj resident Zijad Omerovic.
In the eastern Bosnian town
of Bijeljina, some 10,000 people
were being evacuated Saturday
FLOOD | A3
Turkish miner who survived
says company to blame
Weary crews prepare for
long wildfire season
SAVASTEPE, Turkey — Miner Erdal Bicak believes he knows why so many of his colleagues died
in Turkey’s worst mining disaster: company negligence. | A7
ESCONDIDO, Calif. — Firefighters scoured
charred hillsides north of San Diego on Saturday to
guard against a resurgence of flames that ripped through
the region, while the last of tens of thousands of evacuees prepared to return home. | A5
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