Citizen Advocacy Parenting Program aids mentally disabled parents
The Association for Retarded Citizens of Linn County launches the Citizen Advocacy Parenting Program to teach six week parenting and independent living skills to 48 mentally disabled parents with hands on home visits by trained volunteers. Six hour volunteer training and an $8,915 Governor’s Planning Council grant fund the effort.
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Linn
Paul
Governor's Planning Council For
ARC
Linn County
Beavers
Alabama Hobo crowned king at national convention
Horace Hampton known as the Alabama Hobo was crowned king at the National Hobo Convention in Britt. Heat kept attendance low with about 1,500 servings of mulligan stew served by Boy Scouts and later sent to the hobo jungle near the railroad tracks. Emperess Hobo Lump of Memphis was elected queen by acclaim.
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Alabama
Britt
Horace Hampton
Harold Boekelman
Steve Olmstead
Olmstead
Hampton
Attalla
Ala
Hobo
Memphis
Tenn
Norwest Bank Loan Quiz Promises Quick Installment Credit
A promotional quiz invites readers to self score for installment loan eligibility. It claims Norwest Bank can provide funds for vacations boats kitchens cars and other desires and urges sending in or mailing the quiz form, even if the score is slightly short of 15.
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Norwest Bank
Credit Interchange of America, Inc
Phila
St Luke's NICU celebrates 10th anniversary with families
St Luke's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit marks ten years of care after helping 3,500 infants. Head nurse Carol Hagen notes about 2,300 babies are born yearly and 13 percent benefit from the NICU. An open house drew 70 families including Bruce and Barb Hamous whose sons stayed in NICU.
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St. Luke’s Neonatal
Carol Hagen
St. Luke’s
Bruce
Barb Hamous
Fifth Ave. SE
Brandon
James
St. Luke’s Nicu
Barb
Hagen
Emergency landing by Cedar Falls pilot near Oelwein
Cedar Falls pilot George Sadler aged 29 and four Cedar Falls Waterloo area passengers escaped injury when their single engine plane lost power and landed in a corn field north of Oelwein. Sadler called Waterloo airport and another aircraft guided responders from the air. The group had been returning from an air show in Wisconsin around 10 p.m.
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Oelwein
Cedar Falls
Iowa State Patrol
George Sadler
Sadler
Waterloo
Waterloo Area
Wisconsin
Generation X Receives National Top Achievement Company Honor
Junior Achievement group Generation X sponsored by Rockwell International earned national recognition as a Top Achievement Company. Student president Dan Martin will be honored at the National Junior Achievers Conference in Bloomington Indiana. The group created adjustable book racks and posted over 2395 dollars in student company sales with advisers Rodney Larson John Persick and Richard Rauch from Rockwell Air Transport Division.
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Generation X
Rockwell International
Dan Martin
Rodney Larson
John Persick
Richard Rauch
Rockwell
Air Transport Division
Linder to speak on US foreign policy in Cedar Rapids
John Linder brother of Benjam in Linder speaks at 7 p.m. Friday at Peoples Unitarian Church Cedar Rapids part of a national tour to discuss his brother life and death and U.S. policy in Central America The Linn County Pledge of Resistance sponsors event in Cedar Rapids Iowa.
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John Linder
Benjamin Linder
Peoples Unitarian Church
Third Ave
Portland
Ore
Niaragua
Cedar Rapids
U.S
Central America
The
Linn County Pledge of Resistance
Woman claims pregnancy led to firing by Cedar Rapids nursery
Linn County woman Robin Cahill sues Baumhoesener Nursery Inc. in Cedar Rapids claiming wrongful discharge due to pregnancy. She says she was hired in fall 1985 and fired April 1, 1986 after a brief rehiring in February 1986, seeking reinstatement back pay and punitive damages. The note about the Challenger orbit appears as unrelated context.
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Linn County
Cedar Rapids Plant Nursery
Robin Cahill
Baumhoesener Nursery Inc
Johnson Ave
U.S. District Court
Cedar Rapids
Cahill
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