AMES, Iowa (AP) — Part of Iowa State University’s history will be auctioned off next week. Des Moines television station KCCI reports that the contents of the Hotel Memorial Union, which closed earlier this month, will be sold a public garage sale on Thursday. The 29-room hotel was closed to make room for more student housing. The top three floors of the Union will become student housing.

Among things for sale will be king and queen bed sets purchased last year, bed frames, night stands, twin roll-away beds, dressers, desks, tables and lamps. Also going will be coffee makers, irons, hair dryers, ice buckets, foldable luggage stands, clock radios, bed pillows, bath towels and bedding.

Buyers must pay by cash or check; credit cards will not be accepted.

Police in Glenwood made a traffic stop early Saturday morning and ended-up arresting two people on drug charges. Officers pulled over a pickup truck driven by John Leroy Adams, of Glenwood, at around 12:50-a.m. A check of Adams’ license revealed he was barred from driving. The man was arrested on the aggravated misdemeanor charge.

Following his arrest, an active Methamphetamine lab was found inside the vehicle. Adams was then charged with Manufacturing Methamphetamines, a class B Felony. His bond was set at $27,000. A passenger in the pickup, Danielle Rene Evans, of Glenwood, was also arrested and charged with Manufacturing Methamphetamines and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia. Evans’ bond was set at $25,300.

Glenwood Police Department were assisted at the scene by deputies with the Mills County Sheriff’s Office, and officers with the Southwest Iowa Narcotics Taskforce.

Local, state and federal agencies are hosting an amnesty program in Omaha-Council Bluffs today (Saturday) during which people can turn over various types of guns and explosives without fear of prosecution. The bi-state event is being overseen by Sergeant Matt Manhart, director of the Omaha Police Department’s Bomb Squad. Manhart says, “If you have an unused consumer fireworks, illegal fireworks, any firearms or ammunition, it can be taken to any one of the three locations where our amnesty is being held.”

Those locations include the Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s office in Council Bluffs, Omaha Fire Station number-43 and Seymour Smith Park in Omaha. Manhart says the whole point of the event is to make our streets and homes a little safer from dangerous explosives and lethal weapons. He stresses, no questions will be asked. “Especially something illegal, there’s not going to be any issues, just bring it in,” Manhart says. “I’d rather have the stuff get off the streets are realize nobody’s going to get hurt by those items.”

These amnesty days are held in the metro area at least once a year and organizers say, they work.  “We average 800 to 900 pounds of fireworks, anywhere from 500 to probably 700 or 800 pounds of ammunition is brought in every single time,” Manhart says. “They’ve always been very successful.”

The amnesty runs from 9 A-M to 3 P-M. The drop-offs involve all local law enforcement agencies in the Omaha and Council Bluffs area, the Nebraska State Fire Marshal’s office and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

(Radio Iowa)