No POWs remain in Southeast Asia says U S official
Kenneth M. Quinn a former Dubuque native and foreign service veteran, says there is no evidence that U S servicemen are held prisoner in Southeast Asia. He notes several hundred bodies may be returned, but a complete accounting is unlikely.
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Southeast Asia
Foreign Service
State Department
Kenneth M. Quinn
Quinn
Dubuque
Loras College
Richard Holbrooke
Henry Kissinger
National Security Council
Vietnam
Woodcock
Hanoi
Robert Ray
International Trade Bureau
Cedar Rapids
Asia
Europe
East
Nixon
North Vietnam
Paris
Cambodia
Youth on trial for cab driver robbery linked to KFC stickup
Cedar Rapids youth Daniel Hodges, 17, on trial for a January shotgun holdup of a cab driver was arrested again for a second robbery. He pleaded guilty to robbery in the first degree, with a plea bargain dropping the KFC hold up charge and limiting charges for a Big Apple Tapes incident. Hodges faces sentencing Friday and is jailed on $25,000 bond along with Eddie Carey, 20, booked on second degree robbery.
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Cedar Rapids
Linn District Court
Daniel Leroy Hodges
Center Point Road
Hodges
Big Apple
Linn
Eddie Lee Carey
Bill Gill
Kentucky Fried Chicken
Gill
Carey
Coe Road
Robert Seely
Two youths plead in Cedar Rapids cab driver robbery case
Hodges pleaded guilty to taking part in the January 6 robbery of cab driver Larry Crowley. Officials say he sat in the front seat while an accomplice used a shotgun and about 50 dollars was taken. Hodges previously pleaded guilty to a 1977 service-station robbery with a suspended sentence. Carey faces arraignment on a Kentucky Fried Chicken robbery charge with bond set at 10000 dollars. Hodges remained jailed after the plea as bond was ordered secured.
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Gill
Hodges
Larry Crowley
Crowley
Cedar Rapids
Sinclair
Anamosa
Carey
Linn
First Avenue District Court
Louis Schultz
Detour Debate Over Oelwein Bridge Plan Aims for Compromise
Iowa IDOT Director Don McLean suggests a compromise to the plan to remove a bridge north of Oelwein and impose a several mile detour. A Thursday hearing in West Union will set whether to keep the detour or add a shorter local route via other county roads.
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Iowa Department of Transportation
Oelwein
IDOT
Don McLean
Uled
West Union
McLean
City halves chance of police ambulance service change
Mayor Don Canney said a policy change allowing police to transport injured people to hospitals is unlikely. At a City Council meeting Craig Harmon urged a study after aiding a 69 year old woman who slipped and cut her face. He said police declined transport and recommended calling an ambulance.
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Don Canney
Craig Harmon
Oakland Road
Third Avenue
Harmon
Gareth Clift
Floyd Bergen
Cedar Rapids
Canney
City bids exceed engineer estimates on two projects
City Council opened bids for two construction jobs this morning. Sanitary sewer west of Edgewood Road to 33rd Avenue drew William Hennessey and Son Inc. at 84 695 80, above the 79 322 estimate, with Dave Schmitt Construction Co. at 92 862 , while the Westdale Mall highway reconstruction bid of 321 322 84 by Quad City Construction Co. topped the 268 294 40 estimate. Cedar Valley Corp. bid 331 874 90. The highway project will use state standards and private escrow funds from mall developers.
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William Hennessey and Son Inc
Edgewood Road
Beverly Road
33Rd Avenue
Dave Schmitt Construction Co
Westdale Mall
Quad City Construction Co
Cedar Valley Corp
Waterloo
Phone worker seeks council push to keep Cedar Rapids operators
A spokesman for Local 7101 of the Communications Workers of America urged the City Council to oppose Northwestern Bell plans to cut 100 Cedar Rapids operators and move work to Des Moines. He warned the move would affect service and erase about $1 million in payroll. No council comment was recorded. Also noted is a separate civil suit: Gwendolyn and Ronald G. Bird filed a $275,000 claim in Linn County District Court against Betty Morningstar over a January 12, 1977 Cedar Rapids traffic crash.
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Ronald G. Bird Rave
Betty Morningstar
Cedar Rapids
Linn County
Linn District Court
Bird
Morningstar
Norman E. Hopkins
Ravenwood Terrace
Communications Workers of America
Northwestern Bell
Des Moines
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