Weather and notices from the Daily Record
Extended forecast shows fair to partly cloudy skies with a warming trend into Saturday. Daytime highs mid 80s Thursday rising to low 90s by Saturday. overnight lows from the low 60s to mid/upper 60s. Also includes births, obituaries, and a list of local police and traffic notices with names and addresses.
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Linn County approves 1972 budget of 11.2 million dollars
Linn County supervisors approve an 11.207 million dollar budget for 1972, about 900 thousand more than this year, with a four tenths mill tax levy increase. A public hearing drew over 35 farmers and taxpayers raising questions on taxes and new equipment funds and a proposed data processing program.
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Board of Supervisors
Linn County Property Taxpayers Assn
Floyd Emmons
Linn County
Linn County Health Center
Health Center
Ed Hanlon
Emmons
George Clifford
Joint County Budget Adopted Reflects Education Spending Shift
The Joint County school system adopts a 4,505,912 budget for 1971-72, about 330,000 higher than the prior year, with 70.6 percent directed to special education. The board also approves a three year 4,600 lease to place a portable classroom for a computer guidance program across high schools.
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Joint County School System
Dwight Bode
Joint County
South Koreans protest village off limits to American troops
About 500 Koreans mainly prostitutes blocked access to Camp Humphreys in a sitdown to demand Anjong-Ni village be restored to off limits status for Americans. Major General Joseph Perdirtz met with Korean officials as about 400 women tried to breach the gate. MPs used tear gas to push them back. The village whitewashed its income from nearby troops and was placed off limits after July racial clashes involving U.S. troops.
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Seoul
Camp Humphreys
Anjong-Ni
Joseph Perdirtz
Korean Support Command
U.S
Surveying the Seventies Special Drug Crisis Preview
KCRG TV 9 presents a special program titled Surveying the Seventies on drug crisis. The feature airs Wednesday at 7:00 PM and examines prevalence detection causes and treatment options in search of solutions.
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Kcrg-Tv 9
Obituary: Bernard L. Vokolek 1944 1967
Bernard Lee Vokolek 27 of 1702 Twelfth Avenue SW Cedar Rapids died from a self inflicted gunshot at 1 40 a m Tuesday. Born April 1 1944 he was an electrician with Acme Electric and a Vietnam veteran member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Survived by parents Leonard and Mrs Vokolek Cedar Rapids a brother Dennis Lincoln Neb grandmother Lydia Vokolek. Services Thursday 1 30 p m Janeba Kuba funeral home west with Rev A L Zachar St Ludmila’s burial Czech National Cemetery with military honors Hanford American Legion post. Friends may call after 7 p m Tuesday.
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Bernard Lee Vokolek
Cedar Rapids
Acme Electric Co
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Leonard Vokolek
Dennis Vokolek
Lincoln
Neb
Lydia Vokolek
Janeba-Kuba Funeral Home
A. L. Zachar
St. Ludmila’s Church
Czech National Cemetery
Hanford American Legion Post
Obituary notices for Langer Wathan and McCarthy families
Funeral details list Langer at Brosh chapel 9 and 9 30 a.m. Wednesday with burial at Blain cemetery near Swisher. Edwin L Wathan funeral 10 30 a.m. Wednesday at Chapel of Memories with burial Cedar Memorial cemetery. McCarthy William Edward service 10 30 a.m. Wednesday at Turner West with burial Linwood and viewing until 10 15 a.m. The casket will not be opened. Family requests cancer fund donations.
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William P. Leonard
Immaculate Conception
Linwood
Turner West
Cancer Fund
Ireland violence erupts as civilians flee Ballymurphy
Protests and fighting intensify as Catholics and Protestants clash across Northern Ireland. A Protestant family flees as houses burn in a scorched earth retreat. Father Hugh Mullan, 30, dies near Ballymurphy amid artillery fire from British troops. In Londonderry, 11 soldiers are wounded after hours of combat.
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Hugh Mullan
Londonderry
Northern Ireland
Bean of History Lost in a Mediteranean Riddle
A fragment suggests a reference to the horse bean nicknamed the bean of history. It hints at locating a lost Mediterranean region and mentions a telephone number 369-1234 as a prompt to find it.
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Dial
Militon W Fleisher Dies After Brief Illness at 78
Milton Wilbur Fleisher 78 of 1124 Twenty-first Street SE Cedar Rapids died Tuesday after a brief illness. Born September 21 1892 in Marion he was a World War I veteran and member of Central Church of Christ. Surviving: daughter Mrs John Lee Newton Toddville son Melvin Fleisher rural Marion sister Mrs Frank Luse Marion three brothers William Albert Fleisher Marion and Robert Fleisher San Diego. Services 1:30 p.m. Wednesday Turner Chapel West Gerald Matheny Center Point. Burial Dunkard Cemetery. Friends may call at Turner Chapel West.
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Milton Wilbur Fleisher
Twenty-first Street
Cedar.Rapids
Marion
Central Church of Christ
John Lee Newton
Toddville
Melvin Fleisher
Frank Luse
William
Albert Fleisher
Robert Fleisher
San Diego
Calif
Turner Chapel West
Gerald Matheny
Center Point
Dunkard Cemetery
Wreaths Placed At Hoover Gravesite Ceremony
Elderly spectators in summer dress and families watch as Nixon wreaths and several groups including the Boys Clubs of Des Moines Minneapolis and Ames place memorial wreaths. Henry Hoover birthplace Foundation and Herbert Hoover Birthplace Foundation participate as Lyndon B. Johnson Library director reads a letter recalling the Hoover library bill. Allan Hoover, the former president’s son, attends with his wife and grandson.
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Stolen Money Orders and Check Reported in Port M. Stickle Incident
Port M. Stickle of 1200 Twentieth Avenue SW reported two money orders totaling 5000 dollars and a 170 dollar check, all payable to himself, stolen from his home between Wednesday and Sunday.
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Port M. Stickle
Twentieth Avenue SW
Airport Sets Budget No Tax Needed
Cedar Rapids airport commission approves 1972 budget of 318951 dollars with no tax support for expenses. Roy Jameson projects 360000 dollars in revenue, more than enough to cover costs amid a downturn in airline business.
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Cedar Rapids Airport
Son
Iowa
Jumbo the elephant killed in train accident at St Thomas
Barnum's famed elephant Jumbo died in 1885 after being struck by a locomotive in St Thomas Ontario freight yards. He was 24 years old and his skeleton later went to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
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Jumbo
St. Thomas
Ontario
American Museum of Natural History
New York City
Council Weighs Move Of Houses Along Ditch Area
Cedar Rapids officials consider a resolution to restrict new construction along a city ditch area from Jacolyn Park to Nineteenth Street as homes slated for relocation to higher ground face protests from neighbors. A developer plans four houses near Midway drive NW close to Alma street, amid flood concerns and a potential retention basin.
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Cedar Rapids
Jacolyn Park
Nineteenth Street
Jensen
Twenty-seventh Street
Sue Lane
Vinton Ditch
Public Services
Richard Jensen
Council
One Foundation
Midway Drive
Alma Street
David McGuire
Dollar Dips to Two-Year Low Across Markets
The dollar traded at 3.4115 marks in Frankfurt, down from 3.4242 and off its Monday high. In Paris the dollar opened just above its official low, while in New York Dollared at 43.40 compared with Mondays 43.70. The official world gold price stood at 35 an ounce. Monday's low marked a 7.8 percent devaluation versus the mark.
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Paris
Viet Officials Seek to Keep Minh in Race as Thieu Favored
Viet Namese sources say Bunker pressed Minh on Aug 3 to stay in the presidential contest while Minh shows little interest in politics. Thieu, seeking a two candidate race to avoid minority status, is favored to defeat Minh in both two and three way contests, though 50 percent may not be reached in a triangular race.
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Bunker
Minh
Thieu
Unemployed Blind Machinist Appears on TV Morning Show
Joe Fleming, a Kirkwood Community College graduate who is unemployed and blind, appears with Jack Neuzil, head of the Trade and Industrial program at Kirkwood, on TV 9 Morning Show at 9:30 a.m.
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Joe Fleming
Kirkwood Community College
Jack Neuzil
Kirkwood
TV 9
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