Deaths Jennita Cundiff 22 at Mercy Hospital
Jennita Louise Cundiff 22 a Mount Mercy College nursing student died Thursday at Mercy Hospital from a cerebral hemorrhage. Born December 18 1956 in Watford England she transferred from William Rainey Harper College to Mount Mercy. Survived by parents Ralph T. and Pamela M. Cundiff and three brothers. Services at Kolssak and Son Funeral Home Wheeling Illinois with arrangements by Stewart Funeral Home. Burial Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery. A scholarship in her name established at Mount Mercy. Donations optional to Geneva Tower. Casket to be closed prior to service. Public calling details at Cedar Memorial Funeral Home and church Saturday.
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Mount Mercy College
Mercy Hospital
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Palatine
Ill
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Buffalo Grove
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All Saints Church
Cedar Rapids
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Jordans Grove
Murdoch Funeral Home
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32Nd St
Chicago
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Rockwell-Collins
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Anana Turpin
Earlville
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David Roth
Kenwood Park Presbyterian Church
Woman Helps Boy During Sixth Avenue Assault
A 14 year old on Sixth Avenue SE was attacked by a man who later punched a woman who stopped to intervene. The assailant fled in a nearby car after the youth escaped to a home. The woman received medical care for a bruised nose and expressed resolve to intervene again. Police continue to investigate with no arrest reported.
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Sixth Avenue
the Gazette
Packing plant rezoning OK'd near Waverly
Bremer County Supervisors voted 3 0 to rezone 112 acres near Waverly for a multi million dollar hog processing plant to be built by the George Hormel Co of Austin Minnesota. Construction is expected to start this spring and the plant will employ about 400 at full operation after a seven hour public hearing where farmers raised air pollution property value and traffic concerns.
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Waverly
Bremer County
Olde Towne Inn Catfish Special and Czech Meals Ads
Friday evening 4:30 to 10:00 p.m. catfish special priced at 3.95. Open Saturday for Czech meals and sandwiches starting at 11 a.m. Bunny Bouquets advertised at 9.95 delivered. Peck's Flower Shop advertisement.
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Olde Towne Inn
Bunny
Peck’s
Japan calls industries to cut exports after record surplus
On this date in 1978 Japan urged its industries to cut exports of cars ships steel televisions and other major products after a March trade surplus near 2.5 billion dollars.
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Japan
Big freeway lights to be turned off in seven Iowa cities
The Iowa Department of Transportation will switch off 1,424 freeway lights in Cedar Rapids Burlington Des Moines Council Bluffs Sioux City Davenport and Iowa City starting next Monday. Replacements to high pressure sodium lamps could cut electricity use by about 50 percent, saving over 2.6 million kilowatt hours annually. Urban lighting at interchanges bridges and busy areas will remain. Cedar Rapids will remove 58 lights on I 380 between Sixth Street SW and Crandie Railroad crossing amid council concerns over safety and cost.
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Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Burlington
Des Moines
Council Bluffs
Sioux City
Davenport
Iowa City
IDOT
Sixth Street
Iowa City mayor found innocent in disorderly conduct case
A jury quickly cleared Iowa City Mayor Robert Ververa of disorderly conduct charges after a two day trial. The case stemmed from an incident at the Iowa City Civic Center on May 11 1978 when Grant alleged Ververa threatened him with violence and used obscene language while discussing the Old Jet warplane memorial.
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Robert Ververa
Ververa
Joseph Grant
Riverside
Grant
Civic Center
John Heyek
Heyek
Johnson County Arts Council
Verrera
Iowa Unemployment Bill Passes With 26 Week Plan Change
Debate over a welfare bill ends as the House approves a plan reducing eligibility to 26 weeks and applying a 58 to 70 percent family wage benefit. The unemployment fund gains 20 to 30 million dollars annually, funded by employer tax, with 10 Democrats joining 54 Republicans in support. One Democrat abstains.
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Avenson
Senate
Iowa
Pope
Phil Tyrrell
North English
Tyrrell
Larry Kirkenslager
R-Burlington
Union Electrician
South Africa Expels U S Attaches Over Espionage Claims
The United States faces expulsion of Air Attache Col Gert Coetzee and Defense Attache Col Alvan Crews amid South Africa charges of U S espionage. Beechcraft plane inspected, Botha calls for removal of aircraft from the country as tensions rise.
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United States
Willem du Plesis
Gert Coetzee
Pieter Botha
William Edmondson
Bernard McConnell
U.S
Horace Wyatt
Botha
Edmondon
Kalahari
Nuclear waste truck veers off I 29 near Council Bluffs
A truck carrying low level nuclear wastes went into a ditch on Interstate 29 eight miles south of Council Bluffs. No leakage or danger to the public was reported. The cargo, concrete drums with glass and cover alls from Fort Calhoun, was en route to a disposal site near Barnwell, South Carolina. The rear shock absorber failure caused the accident. driver Jesse Ward was uninjured. The trailer owner is TriState Motor Carriers of Joplin Missouri.
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Council Bluffs
Interstate
William McIntosh
Iowa State Patrol
Atlantic
Fort Calhoun
Omaha
Barnwell
S.C
Fred Peterson
Omaha Public Power District
Peterson
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Pacific Junction
Cedar Rapids air ambulance to fly free for now
Mercy Hospital says the Cedar Rapids air ambulance will continue operating at no charge while legal details are resolved. Three billed patients have been notified not to respond to bills. St Luke’s supports continued free use until FAA waiver, with costs for runs to be underwritten by an anonymous donor. The city received FAA notice about possible regulatory violations. The service began Feb 22 with fees set at 70 dollars per trip plus 1.50 per mile.
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Cedar Rapids
St. Luke’s Hospital
Federal Aviation Administration
St. Luke's
FAA
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