Death notices and obituaries from Cedar Rapids area
Obituaries and funeral notices for multiple individuals including William Gene Burd, Ellen L Rae, and others from Cedar Rapids area papers. Details cover ages, birthplaces, survivors, service dates and locations, burial places, and suggested memorial donations. Additional items note moves between Marion and Florida and memorials to various funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Gene Burd
Marion
Tavares
Fla
Mr. Burd
Delta
Colo
Burd Hardware
Lillian
Steverson Funeral Home
Senate Committee Okays Squaw Creek Expansion Probe
Des Moines Iowa Senate Natural Resources subcommittee advances two inland water plans. Squaw Creek would replace Lake Macbride expansion with a study and a moratorium on Macbride acquisitions until report. Volga river plan would add three lakes with up to 1.5 million dollars funding and possible start next fiscal year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Linn County
Squaw Creek
Lake Macbride State Park
Senate Natural Resources Budget
Fayette County
Senate
Macbride
James Redmond
Cedar Rapids
Lake Macbride
State Conservation Commission
The
Conservation Commission
Macbride Park
Volga
Volga River
Robert Ray
Lake
$300000 Claim Filed Against Linn County Officials
A notice of a claim seeks 300000 for physical and mental injuries filed Wednesday against Linn County supervisors and sheriff. Brad Duncan Schubert, 20, alleges he was beaten by inmates while jailed on grand larceny and prescription drug charges on Feb 12. He seeks 100000 actual damages and 200000 punitive damages to cover broken jaw teeth and emotional harm. Filing preserves right to sue later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linn County Supervisors
Brad Duncan Schubert
Avenue NE
Schubert
Court Order Keeps Oil in Tank in Linn
The Linn County court barred Schmitty's Road Oiling Co., Cedar Falls, from disposing of oil in a county shop tank north of Marion. Contaminated by a cancer-causing substance, two tanks were found. one under county control, one under Schmidt's. DEQ sought the injunction to prevent improper handling as disposal plans move to Canada amid funding shortages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Schmitty
John Dent
Schmidt
State Department of Environmental Quality
DEQ
Canada
Dent
Fort Dodge
HUD Defends Flood Insurance Finances as GAO Criticizes
HUD says the finances of the $40 million-a-year flood insurance program are straight despite a GAO report accusing both HUD and the private insurers of lacking financial control. A HUD spokesman rejects the charge and asserts corrective steps were taken.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Department of Housing and Urban Development
HUD
General Accounting Office
U.S
Water saving tips list from Northern California booklet
A six page East Bay Municipal Utility District guide offers 95 tips to conserve water during drought. Tips range from quirky to practical, such as showering with a friend and a rug to wring out water, collecting rainwater, brushing teeth with cold water, using aerators, and turning umbrellas upside down in rain to save showers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oakland
Calif
Dead Moose Dilemma in Alaska Narrows to Red Tape
In Eagle River, Alaska, Robert Krall faces a four day struggle to dispose of a 900 pound dead moose after authorities say private property owners bear responsibility. State law blocks feeding meat to dogs and local dumps reject dead animals, forcing him to hire a wrecker and haul the carcass to Merrill Field in Anchorage with help from neighbors and friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eagle River
Alaska
Robert Krall
Krall
Federal Aviation Administration
Alaska Department of Fish and Game
Anchorage
Merrill Field
Sadat urges dialog with Palestinians for Middle East peace
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat told a Washington press conference he urged President Carter to begin a dialogue with Palestinian leaders as part of a broader peace settlement. He stressed that sovereignty is indivisible and rejects Israel border proposals beyond Arab lands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Anwar Sadat
Carter
Middle East
Sadat
Israel
Bob Bergland
John Gilligan
Agency For International Development
Geneva
Africa
Zaire
Fidel Castro
Ethiopia
Angola
Sudan
Egypt
White House
Jody Powell
United States
Gulf of Suez
U.S
World Bank
Regents plan for Lindquist Center funding sparks campus debate
Iowa legislators clash over funding for Lindquist II as Horn proposes a broad capital plan. Supporters urge completing the Lindquist Center and expanding campus facilities while critics caution against tying education funding to a basketball project. Data on alumni gifts for capital projects is detailed for ISU UNI and UI.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Horn
John Patchett
North Liberty
Wally
Patchett
House
University Hospitals
Minnette Doderer
D Lown City
Small
Lindquist Center
University
College of Education
Regents
UNI
Iowa Braille
Vinton
Iowa School For the Deaf
Council Bluffs
State Educational Television Facility Board
ISU
U.S. Weighs Global Nuclear Power Cooperative Concept
The Carter administration contemplates a worldwide energy cooperative giving all nations access to peaceful nuclear power. It would share ownership and management of nuclear installations, aid poor nations, and potentially curb nuclear weapons spread if partners accept nuclear fuel cycle access. Experts caution the plan remains only a concept.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.S
West Germany
France
Brazil
Pakistan
Fred Waring Keeps Going At Sixty Two Anniv Concert
Fred Waring and his Young Pennsylvanians, a Chicago era group, recall Hollywood openings and Paris meetings with Gershwin and Porter. Now 77, Waring vows to perform until the undertaker arrives, during a Sioux Falls anniversary concert that ties to his mother’s birthday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux Falls, S.D
UPI
Fred Waring
Grauman
Hollywood
George Gershwin
Cole Porter
Paris
Sioux Falls
Waring
Legionnaires Disease Ties to Environment and Past Outbreaks
Health officials discuss a Legionnaires disease case linked to lupus like symptoms and a patient in Flint. Tsai notes the organism adapts to air and environment and can cause pneumonia of varying severity. Hospitals' cultures help track spread as CDC connects outbreaks from Philadelphia Washington DC Pontiac and Philadelphia again.. Three of five isolated victims died.
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Tsai
McLaren General Hospital
CDC
Philadelphia
Washington, D.C
Pontiac
Mich
Missing Check Printing Affects Multiple Iowa Towns
Wood noted checks may not have printed and listed affected communities including Anamosa Alburnett Amana Atkins Belle Plaine Blairs Town Brooklyn Center Point Coggan Conroy Coralville Clut ter Chelsea Central City Deep River Dysart Elberon Ely Fairfax Garrison Hartwick Hiawatha High Amana Hills Homestead Keystone Ladora Luzerne Keota Harper and others in Dubuque Marshalltown and Ottumwa areas.
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Ing
Anamosa
Alburnett
Amana
Atkins
Belle Plaine
Blairstown
Brooklyn
Center Point
Coggan
Conroy
Coralville
Clutter
Chelsea
Central City
Deep River
Dysart
Elberon
Ely
Fairfax
Garrison
Hartwick
Hiawatha
High Amana
Hills
Homestead
Keystone
Ladora
Luzerne
Keota
Harper
Record Cold Hits South Pole in 1976
The National Science Foundation reports 1976 as the coldest year at the geographic South Pole since 1957. Daily averages reached 58 degrees below zero, with August the coldest month and August 8 the coldest day at minus 104.8 degrees. January 17 marked the year's warmest point at minus 3.1 degrees.
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Washington
South Pole
United States
National Science Foundation
Geographic South Pole
American Scientific Station
Street renamed Dick Gregory Place
Dick Gregory returned to St Louis to help workers install signs on a street renamed in his honor Dick Gregory Place. He joked this is the first thing named after him that doesn’t eat and noted he has ten kids.
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ST. Louis
UPI
Dick Gregory
Gregory
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George P. Engel
Milwaukee
Polly Norment
Glen Ellyn
Ill
North Lake
Wis
Lee Engel
Connie Oddson
Madison
Carol Engel
William
Davis
Paul E
Brandon United Methodist Church
Brandon
Kuba Funeral Home
Shaver
Craig G
Teahen Funeral Home
Paul Ryan
Mt. Calvary Cemetery
Eugene Kutsch
Minnesota Medical Foundation
University of Minnesota
Reece
Dale O
Salem United Methodist Church
Spring Grove
Troy Mills
Beatty-Bearle-Murdoch
Sargent
Iowa
Brush Chapel
Aaron Koskamp
County Corners
Strawberry Point
Lustick
Bertha
Brushchapel
William Harnish
Czech National Cemetery
Ellen L. Rae
Fairview Drive
Woodbine
St. Joseph’s Catholic Church
Leslie McCann
Gilbert
Mark Rae
Cedar Falls
Russell Rae
Camp Pendleton
David Rae
Mary Rae
Garth Powers
Dennis Null
Storm Lake
Kathleen Rae
James Henderson
John McCann
Ames
Joe McCann
Audubon
Dean McCann
Colorado
Bill McCann
Minnesota
Murdoch Chapel
John Gallagher
Father Gallagher
Eastern
Hawkeye
Anna Wenthe
Trinity Lutheran Church
Emerson-Milnes
Linn
Roland Krekeler
Gazette Courthouse
Gazette
Iowa City
William Hargrave
Macthehall
Eastlawn
Worldwide Power Co-Op
Wood
Dubuque
Marshalltown
Ottumwa
John E. Lapes
Third Avenue
Aecistoni
Fro
Cedar Memorial Park
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