Deaths and funeral notices from Cedar Rapids area
Obituary notices report Leo J. Arthurs 77 Cedar Rapids resident died after short illness at local hospital. Details include birth in Nebraska, marriage, career at Collins Radio, family survivors, and services at St. Pius Catholic church with Cedar Memorial burial. Infant Michael Wayne Hamilton dies. cremation and Cedar Memorial burial planned. Multiple other memorials, rosaries, and funeral arrangements listed for local residents, with various churches, cemeteries, and memorials.
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Leo J. Arthurs
Fairlane Drive
Cedar Rapids
Cozad
Neb
Florence M. Keenan
Omaha
Collins Radio
Arthurs
Collins Radio Technical Assn
Pioneer Radio Assn
St. Pius Catholic Church
Patricia Ann Leveque
Gresham
Ore
Jean Marie Stampfli
Oakland
Calif
Robert Arthurs
Glen Ellyn
Ill
Roy F. Arthurs
Colorado Springs
Colo
Mary McLaughlin
Grand Island
Bernard G. Collins
Cedar Memorial
Cedar Memorial Funeral Home
Linn County Cancer Society
Michael Wayne Hamilton
Robert L. Hamilton
Sixteenth Avenue SE
Barbara Danielle
Catherine Sexton
Louisville, Ky
John Hamilton
John N. Hamilton
Chariton
Oliver W. Angell
LaVerne F. Stoos
Hillview Drive
Marign
LaVerne Sohler
Randolph, Neb
Joseph L. Stoos
Yankton
S.C
St. Joseph’s Catholic Church
Marion
Caroline Sohler
Randolph
Kevin Tague
Oceanside
Michael Stoos
John
Richard Sohler
Leon Sohler
Norfolk
John Gallagher
Mt. Calvary Cemetery
Murdoch Chapel
Carter Wins Bid to Extend Natural Gas Price Controls
The House voted 227 to 199 to continue federal price controls on natural gas as Carter pushes an energy program designed to curb consumption. The administration plans a new Energy Department to coordinate 50 agencies and crafts a regulatory body to manage energy price rules.
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Carter
House
Howard
Energy Department
Transportation Department
Congress
Department of Energy
Schlesinger
Atomic Energy Commission
Central Intelligence
Defense
Nixon
Senate Energy Committee
Federal Energy Administration
Energy Research and Development Administration
Federal Power Commission
Federal Energy Regulatory Administration
Department
FPC
Ocean survivors recall two weeks adrift at sea
A drifting crew recounts surviving more than two weeks at sea with blood from sea life on board. Navy planes searched 2000 square miles without finding them before a U.S. lancer aircraft with an eagle emblem appeared at midnight. They fired a flare and accepted a wedding invite.
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Bob
U.S. Navy
Campbell
Almond
Calmar Plans Pool and Sewer Upgrades
Calmar will use 258000 in public works funds for a sewer lift station and mains 18000 to extend water and sewer to a community site and 110000 for a swimming pool at the site. A community center may follow. About 50 residents attended the council meeting proposing uses.
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Calmar
Sewet
Tony Orlando Hospitalized Amid Personal Losses
Los Angeles AP reports singer Tony Orlando is under doctor care in a private hospital outside Los Angeles for stress linked to the deaths of his sister Rhonda Marie and friend Freddie Prinze. His press agent says he is physically and emotionally exhausted and his wife is with him. Orlando recently announced he would quit show business.
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Los Angeles
Tony Orlando
Freddie Prinze
Orlando
Frank Lieberman
Lieberman
Rhonda Marie
Correction fixes Cedar Rapids housing loan firm name
The Gazette note corrects a misprint in the bonding program story. The Cedar Rapids firm is Banco Mortgage Co located at 2720 First Avenue NE. It also states Today Brittains Queen Elizabeth is 77 years old.
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Cedar Rapids
Banco Mortgage Co
First Avenue
Britain
Elizabeth
revival of police aide program sparks debate in Linn County
The Gazette reports a revived police aide program in Linn County after opposition from Sheriff Orlie Workman and CETA director Bob Brown. Commissioner Colton claims the program will run with one participant in Kirkwood courses paid at 6000 a year, while Clift says fewer participants and adjusted duties. The affair involved disagreement over consultation with the special committee and affirmative action concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mendation
Linn County
Orlie Workman
Bob Brown
CETA
the Gazette
Colton
Sheriff's Office
Workman and Clift
Clift
Kirkwood
Civil Service Commission
Sheriff Workman
Workman
Special Committee
Sistent
Fred Nordengren
Mark Doolin
The
Human Rights Commission
Affirmative Action Review Committee
Doolin
Bombings in Midtown. 1 Dead, 2 Injured in Two Explosions
A police spokesman described investigators pulling teams from regular work to pursue the case as authorities seek leads on the FALN bombers. Rep. Herman Badillo calls for the death penalty. A 26 year old man, Charles Steinberg of Manhattan, was killed in the Mobil Oil blast after the earlier defense department office explosion.
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Midtown
U.S. Defense Department
Christian Science
43Rd Street
Madison Avenue
Mobil Oil Corp
42Nd Street
Grand Central Station
Charles Steinberg
Manhattan
Power Company Cuts Own Cable
In Colonie near Wolfe road residents watched a Niagara Mohawk Power Corp crew repair a damaged cable after the company admitted they had dug up their own line. About 240 customers lost power briefly. service was restored in roughly 45 minutes.
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Albany
N.Y
Wolfe Road
Colonie
Niagara Mohawk Power Corp
Stewart Continues Career as Character Actor in Big Sleep
Los Angeles AP reports James Stewart extends his film career as a character actor in The Big Sleep for ITC Entertainment. He is cast as General Sternwood, the man who hires private eye Philip Marlowe.
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Los Angeles
James Stewart
ITC Entertainment
General Sternwood
Phillip Marlowe
Bomb threats cause evacuations of major NYC buildings
Police described 200 threats, many hoaxes, prompting evacuations of about a dozen skyscrapers including the World Trade Center and Empire State Building. An FALN note demanded Puerto Rico independence and the release of five Puerto Rican inmates, with UN discussion upcoming. Security at Mobil Oil tightened after a blast injuring a man seen flying through a window.
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Michael Alston
Steinberg
Mobil Oil
Wabc-Tv
FALN
World Trade Center
Central Park
United States
Island Commonwealth
U.S
Harry Truman
Former Plumber Seeks Reinstatement To Bar
Watergate figure Egil Krogh petitions the Washington Bar Assn for reinstatement after disbarment in 1975 for involvement in the Ellsberg psychiatrist burglary. He sought suspension, but the court rejected that plea citing overbearing prestige from superiors. The bar board meets August 31 to review the petition. Also noted is Lizzie Borden’s 1892 arrest for the Fall River murders.
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Seattle
Egil Krogh
Washington Bar Assn
Krogh
White House
State Supreme Court
Daniel Ellsberg
Pete McCloskey
Calif
Cently
San Francisco
Nixon
The
Bar’s Board of Governors
Lizzie Borden
Fall River
Mass
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Roy
Gretchen M
Beatty-Beurle-Murdoch
Dominic A. Loferski
Cedar Memorial Park
Spurrier
Mary Ann
Cedar Memorial Chapel of Memories
Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery
Iowa
Koszta
Ferne Cronbaugh
Hrabak’s
Belle Plaine
London
Paul Wenndt
Trinity Lutheran Church
Chapman’s
Clarence
Elgin
Jack Seitz
Elgin Lutheran Church
Muehlethaler- Wright’s
Oelwein
Selma Zahn
Zion American Lutheran Church
Hintz
Atkins
Elanor DeLant
Downers Grove
Westmount
Gloria Dei Church
Chelsea
Frank A. Seidel
Hrabak’s. Military Services
Stayskel Cemetery
Vining
Butr Oak
Walter E. Marlow
St. Agnes Catholic Church
Steine’s
Decorah
Manchester
Naomi van Voltinbergh
Bohnenkamp’s
Carrie E. Lumsden
St. John
Ford
California
Ronald Reagan
Melvin Field
Reagan
UC Irvine
Field
Prinze
Swellen Florist
Herman Badillo
Bronx
Power Company
Stewart
John E. Lapes
Third Avenue S.E
Empire State Building
Puerto Rico
United Nations
Cemetery Flower Shop
John B. Turner and Son
Turner East
Second Avenue S.E
Turner West
First Avenue West
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