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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1978
Page
6
Center Point and Monroe Township firefighters battled a Saturday blaze that consumed a Toddville farm house owned by Ernest Yarbrough and rented by Enoch Smith. No occupants were home. roof collapsed before arrival. Cause and damage estimates pending. Adjacent garage was saved.
Iowa City Youth Orchestra to perform its final concert of the season at 8 p.m. next Sunday in Clapp Recital Hall. Selections include Korsakov Russian Easter Overture Mozart Regina Coeli Williams Flos Campi and Schwanda the Bagpiper. Tickets $1.50. children under school age admitted free. Various notices include public meetings shopping ads and a correction on a purse theft.
The article analyzes Center Point Road in Cedar Rapids, detailing intersections, drive counts, and crime estimates. It discusses traffic flow changes after I-380 opening prospects, accident figures, radar locations, and officials’ views on widening or left-turn eliminations.
A barn on the Kenneth Everman farm near the junction of highways 18 and 52 burned late Friday night into Saturday morning. Twelve sows and about 160 feeder pigs perished, along with several round bales of hay. The blaze, 18 feet from the highway, interrupted traffic for over an hour as Postville firefighters responded around 11:30 p.m. Town Marshal Darwin Ellis reported the incident, with officials noting a heat lamp may have touched off combustibles.
Two 17 year old Independence boys were arrested Friday on second degree burglary charges for a break in at the Jack and Jill Grocery Thursday night. They were released to their parents. Shirley Temple Black is 50 today.
Five individuals faced drunk driving charges Friday and Saturday. Alfred W. DeMarr, 44, was arrested at 3 a.m. Saturday on Highway 30 west. Timothy C. Patterson, 17, of Fairfax, arrested at 2:20 a.m. Saturday east of Highway 149 on County E-70. Gary D. Frazier, 22, of Marion, arrested at 2:09 a.m. Saturday in the 1900 block of Fifth Avenue. George L. Adams, 53, of Marion, arrested at 9:44 p.m. Friday in the 400 block of L Street. David M. Sever, 28, of Mount Vernon Road SE, arrested at 5:54 p.m. Friday in the 2700 block of Mount Vernon Road SE.
Cedar Falls Dr. Karl E Goellner a retired Coe College biology professor at 1764 Sherbrook Dr NE was installed Friday as president of the Iowa Academy of Science. He succeeds Dr. Lois Tiffany a botanist from Iowa State University who was the first woman to serve as academy president.
Joseph Beuter of rural Walker fell from a building about a mile south of Walker Saturday night. He was taken first to Mercy Hospital in fair condition before transfer to University Hospitals Iowa City for further treatment. No other details were released.
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