Old dams long stood amid Linn County water power
The Cedar River's Brown dam and its 1918 concrete successor near Linn County will be removed with a bid later this year. Engineers Dave Johnson and Shire-Hattery outline approvals from the Army Corps of Engineers, Iowa agencies and the EPA, and describe the planned work to retain water for boats and Quaker Oats while demolishing both dams and the nearby bridge.
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Nicholas Broadhead Brown
Cedar River
Nick Brown
Brown
Linn County
Dave Johnson
Shire-Hattery and Associates
Brown Dam
F Avenue
Johnson
Ellis Park
Quaker Oats
B Avenue NW
F Avenue NE
Coe Lecture Explores The Gospel According to The Wall Street Journal
Dr. Carnegie Samuel Callan, professor at Dubuque Theological Seminary, will lecture at 8 p.m. Monday in Cherry Auditorium on the Coe College campus. The talk covers the newspaper’s success and real world philosophy, with discussion of values in a business oriented society.
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Carnegie Samuel Callan
The
Theological Seminary of the
University of Dubuque
Wall Street Journal
Cherry
Coe College
Coe
Callan
Calian
United Presbyterian Church
U.S.A
New Jersey
California
Interstate Power and
Dubuque Packing
John A. Marquis
Sarah Marquis
Seminar set on woman executive at Kirkwood College
A two day seminar titled The Effective Woman Executive is scheduled for April 26 and 27 at Kirkwood Community College in the Amana Room of Iowa Hall Cedar Rapids. Sessions run 8 30 a m to 4 30 p m with topics on moving up motivation culture and management led by James Morrison and Dr Lillian O Hearne. Cost 90 includes notebook lunches and breaks enrollment limited to 35 on a first come first served basis.
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Kirkwood Community College
Amana
Iowa Hall
James Morrison
Lillian O’hearne
Morrison
Lawrence Leiter and Co
Kansas City
O’hearne
International Transactional Analysis Association
University of Missouri
J.P. Jones
S. Kirkwood Community College
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Coe College Gets NSF Grant for Methadone Offspring Study
Coe College received a 14 450 grant from the National Science Foundation for a 12 week summer study on behavior and brain development in offspring of methadone treated pregnant rats. The project led by Dennis Q McManus will force feed methadone to pregnant rats and compare offspring to a control group, with brain biogenic amine tests and statistical analysis.
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Coe College
National Science Foundation
Coe
Dennis Q. McManus
McManus
Edward J. McManus
Country Club Parkway SE
United States
Michael D. Morris
Morris
Researchers baffled by Legionnaires disease trigger
CDC researchers say eight outbreaks and over 200 sporadic cases have been confirmed in the United States. The pneumonia like infection caused 29 deaths after the 1976 Philadelphia American Legion convention.
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Atlanta
National Center For Disease Control
Brenda Politi
U.S. Public Health Service Professional Association
United States
American Legion
Philadelphia
U S and Soviet Union Reach Agreement on Nuclear Test Limit
On this date in 1976 the United States and the Soviet Union agreed on the proposed text of a treaty to limit the size of underground nuclear tests for peaceful purposes.
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United States
Soviet Union
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Mike Deupree
Gazette City Hall
United States Army Corps of Engineers
Iowa Natural Resources Council
Iowa Historical Society
Iowa Department of Environ
Mental Quality
United States Environmental Protection Agency
Corps of Engineers
Historical Society
T.R. Warriner
Cleary-White Construction Co
Chicago
Dubuque
C-S
Bruce H. Eichacker
Hubler Realtors
Blairs Ferry
Hiawatha
Panasonic
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