Cedar Rapids Customers Get New Phone Numbers
About 1,500 southwest side Cedar Rapids customers will receive new numbers starting Monday and finishing by April 22 as lines switch to Northwestern Bell's electronic call handling at 411 Wiley Boulevard NW which opened in March 1975. Dial tone will be lower and new phone books arrive the week of April 25, delayed one month to include new listings.
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Cedar Rapids
Jerry Schaub
Northwestern Bell
Wiley Boulevard
Schaub
Belin to Speak at Coe on Kennedy Assassination
David W. Belin, a Kennedy assassination expert and Warren Commission veteran, will lecture at Coe College Cherry auditorium April 18 at 8 p.m. The talk covers history rewriting and current inquiries into Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. assassinations. Belin, a Des Moines lawyer, has held prominent national investigatory roles and wrote You Are the Jury.
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Belin
Coe
David W. Belin
Kennedy
Commission
CIA
United States
Coe College
Mr. Belin
Cherry Auditorium
Martin Luther King, Jr
Des Moines
Herrick, Langdon
Drouth Hurting Florida Dade Groves Face Record Dry Spell
The Florida drought stretches into spring with 30 straight days without measurable rain in Dade county. Groves south of Miami, critical for limes and avocados, face damage as forecasters note abnormal dryness for March and April. The National Hurricane Center forecaster calls the lack of rain unusually prolonged.
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Homestead
Fila
Dade County
South Florida
Miami
Ralph Pendleton
National Hurricane Center
On This Date 1874 Matthew Perry born
The passage notes the birth of famed explorer Matthew Perry on this date in 1874. It highlights the newspaper’s front page index covering local state and national news, weather, court, sports, TV, theater, consumer, family, farm, and financial items.
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Marion
Matthew Perry
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Cedar Rapids Gazette, Sun
Cedar Hells
Crestwood Acres
ziKka AV
Ellis Park
Eaical Society
New York Times
National Review
Ford
Rockefeller Commission
Supreme Court
Entsminger
Kruidenier
Drouth
Florida
Smulekoff’s
Saxony
1St Street
Iowa
Ilona
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