Obituary notices from Cedar Rapids area residents
Merrill R Lund 76 of 1039 16th St NE dies after short illness at St Luke's Hospital. Born June 13 1905 in Clinton County he married Margaret Henniger in 1930. He worked 30 years at Rockwell Collins retiring 1971. Survived by wife and brother Ross. Services 1:30 p.m. Tuesday Beatty Beurle Murdoch Cedar Rapids. Burial Cedar Memorial Park. Various other Linn County deaths listed with services and burial details.
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Merrill R. Lund
16Th St
St. Luke’s Hospital
Clinton County
Margaret Henniger
Cedar Rapids
Lund
Rockwell International
Collins
Collins Radio Technical Association
Collins Credit Union Board
Cedar Boat Club
Ellis Boat Harbor
River Front
Orvel Cress
Linn County
Hallmar
Toddville
Ruth Snodgrass
Walker
Church of Christ
Dorothy Meekins
Reading
Valera Schnell
Darris
Kenai
Alaska
Mildred McGowan
Marion
Pearl Ward
Curtis
Center Point
Murdoch Chapel
Eugene F. McDaniel
Toddville Free Methodist Church
Dunkard Cemetery
Fred T. Carstensen
Bettendorf
Lisbon
Mercy Hospital
Davenport
Olin
J.J. Case
U.S. Army
Lyn Marie Carstensen
Princeton
Iowa
Albert
Molly Jo Zach
Lou Ann Reydons
Mount Vernon
Marie Mitchell Schueler
Willow Gardens
Fairfax
Albert J. Schueler
Atkins
Alburnett
Central City
First United Presbyterian
Defense official accused of leaking defense cost estimate
Dallas paper reports the Defense Department seeks action against John C. Tillson director of manpower management for allegedly telling a reporter that Reagan era costs could exceed official figures by 750 billion. Pentagon denies knowledge of the matter as civil service proceedings proceed.
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Dallas
UPI
Defense Department
Dallas Times Herald
John C.F. Tillson
Tillson
Reagan
Pentagon
Administration
Civil Service
Man charged after high speed I 380 crash
Richard J. Sloan, 1972 Pontiac, allegedly drove about 80 mph on Interstate 380 northbound after 10 p.m. Sunday, rear ending Ronald J. Lutz's 1981 Dodge Aries at 217 Chatham Road NE. Sloan faced drunken driving and leaving the scene charges. several vehicles were nearby as the collision occurred.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion
Interstate 380
Richard J. Sloan
Ronald J. Lutz
Chatham Road
Sloan
Lutz
Two-car crash ends with arrests and injuries in Iowa
In Mechanicsville and Marion area events police reported a Sunday crash on Wilson Avenue SW involving a compact car driven by Ronald Lutz passenger Diane Lutz suffered neck injuries. Sloan 32 of Marion faced multiple charges after fleeing and was jailed pending arraignment. The National Guard Bureau ordered Iowa to eliminate one battle group.
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Wilson Avenue
Sloan
Seventh Street SE
Diane Lutz
St. Luke's Hospital
Ronald Lutz
14Th St
Marion
National Guard Bureau
Iowa National Guard
Ant control tip using vinegar water cleaner
Before spraying for ants with strong poisons, clean countertops cabinets and floors with a equal mix of vinegar and water to reduce ant trails and attractants. The home remedy emphasizes sanitation and non toxic preparation prior to chemical use.
Decorah Crash Sends Two To Hospitals
A one car crash near Decorah left Ricky L. Torxelson and Gordon Kallis injured. Torxelson, 21, of Mabel Minnesota, was taken to Winneshiek County Memorial Hospital and later transferred to St. Mary’s in Rochester. Kallis, 23, was admitted in satisfactory condition. Investigation ongoing.
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Decorah
Winneshiek County
Gordon Kallis
Winneshiek County Hospital
Bare Headlines Country Show At Five Seasons Center
Nearly 5 000 attended KHAK's third annual Country Concert at the Five Seasons Center Sunday night headlined by Bobby Bare. He performed old hits and new songs from Ain't Got Nothin to Lose including the title cut and Praise the Lord and Send Me the Money. The crowd, familiar with Bare's phrases, praised the raunchier country style while opening acts The New Relations Redwing and Donny Gabriel's group mufftars impressed with energetic sets and inventive guitar sounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Radio Khak
Five Seasons Center
Bobby Bare
Bare
Jeannie Pruitt
Pruitt
New Relations
Cedar Rapids
Leach and Jepsen clash over nuclear freeze plan
Iowa senators Jim Leach and Roger Jepsen spar over the Kennedy Hatfield U S Soviet nuclear weapons freeze proposal. Jepsen calls it simplistic and dangerous while Leach defends a verifiable freeze as a responsible approach to halt the arms buildup.
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Leach
Jepsen
Washington
UPI
Iowa
United States
Soviet Union
Jim Leach
Roger Jepsen
Kennedy
Iowa Public Broadcasting Network
U.S. House
U.S
Artificial gene correction targets fatal blood disorder
Scientists led by Dr. Yuet Wai Kan report correcting defective human gene messages that cause beta thalassemia. They identified the malfunctioning subunit among 438 and used artificial counter orders in frog egg cells. Safety and medical usefulness in patients remain to be proven over the next two years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times Service
NEW York
Yuet Wai Kan
University of California
Kan
Spe
Cialist
Nature
Man 22 Dies in One Car Crash East of Burt
AP report says Neil E. Hanson 22 from Titanka was killed in a one car crash early Sunday east of Burt in Kossuth County. He was westbound on County Road B-19 when he lost control, left the road, struck a culvert and was ejected from the vehicle.
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BART
Burt
Kossuth
Bills pass on final day of 1982 Iowa Legislature
On Saturday the 1982 Iowa Legislature completed its session with bills approving a land use inventory and right to farm protections for farmland, expanded retirement benefits for 141 000 public employees, and a tougher drunk driving law. Revisions allow temporary licenses for treatment visits, six year revocation for third offenses, and magistrates to handle guilty pleas with counsel. Other measures fund state agencies, permit revenue bonds for on farm storage facilities, reorganize water management, extend substance abuse operations, and impose a 10 percent surcharge on fines. A windfall profits tax deduction repeal raises about 5.5 million in state revenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
Asama Volcano Erupts Spreading Ash Over Tokyo
Mount Asama erupted early today sending a 4500 foot ash column skyward and blanketing metropolitan Tokyo with fine ash. Police reported no damage or casualties, while a National Earthquake Center spokesman called the dawn eruptions medium-sized. The last eruption was February 1973 with crop damage but no deaths.
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Tokyo
UPI
Mount
Asama
National
Earthquake Center
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Clara M. Archibald
Springville Manor
Anamosa Community Hospital
J.E. Archibald
Archibald
Springville
Springville United Methodist Church
John Lippincott
Murdoch Funeral Home
Ryan Allen Sillick
Brian
Pamela Sillick
Southland St
Donald Gatewood
Vernon Sillick
Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery
Cedar Memorial Funeral Home
Kidney Foundation
Donna M. Tuel
15Th St. SE
Turner Chapel West
Garber — Howard
Buster” Hansel
Colesburg United Methodist Church
Brown Cemetery
Colesburg
Appleton-Vernon's
Edgewood
Independence
James “Raymond” Murphy
Mason Funeral Chapel
Mount Hope Cemetery
Iowa City
Arla Andersen
George L. Gay
Belle Plaine
Manchester
Walter R. “Duke” Hamblin
Shelly's
Lester F
Annie) Strickell
First Lutheran Church
Buffalo Township
Aurora
Marengo
Nellie
Traer
Mabel Allen
United Methodist Church
Buckingham Cemetery
Overton's
West Liberty
Nellie F. Devore
Snider's
Oak Ridge Cemetery
Washington Post
James Heller
Times Herald
Heller
St. Luke's
Lonnie
Harold Wood
Mechanicsville
Barbara
Thomas Matuska
Underwood Ave
Judy
Donald Williams
Evelyn Drive
First Ave
Second St
20Th Ave
16Th Ave
Dennis Murphy
C.R. Music
Oak Ridge Boys
Alabama
Donny
Doug Gabriel
Gabriels
Mark Maerschalk
Chris Brown
Redwing
Georgia
Kurt Rogahn
Educatior Reporter
Leonid Brezhnev
Senate Armed Services
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Edward Kennedy
D-Mass
Mark Hatfield
R-Ove
Man
John E. Lapes
3Rd Ave
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