Death notices compiled for Cedar Rapids area
Obituaries note deaths of Clifford W. Frank 61 of Cedar Rapids linked to World War II service and long local service, and Dr Etheiel J. Amish 80 of Cedar Rapids with dentistry and business career. Also listed are multiple funeral details, survivors, burial sites, church affiliations, and calling hours across Linn County including Marion and Shellsburg.
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Clifford W. Frank
Thirteenth Avenue
Pueblo
Colo
Cedar Rapids
Lavon Reynolds
Rochester
Minn
Trinity Lutheran Church
Hanford
American Legion
Frank
Linn County
City
Yellow Cab
Jim A
Jon D
Mark
Rolfe
Iowa
C. Lee
U.S. Navy
Lorrie Hopkins
Patricia Little
Dorothy Frank
Diane Shelton
Lake Charles
Vonnie Andrie
Fairfax
Clyde Pray
Tulsa
Okla
Esther Frank
George M. Brousseau
Richard L. Thompson
Shellsburg Cemetery
Turner Chapel West
Etheiel J. Amish
Lone Tree
Gretchen K. Nusser
Iowa City
Dr. Amish
Coast Guard
Roy L. Chopek
IOOF
Eureka Lodge
Central Park Presbyterian Church
Leo E. Burger
Marvin L. Amish
Dallas
Texas
Roscoe O. Amish
Turner Chapel
Allen S. van Cleve
Oakland Cemetery
Turner East
Johnson
Bernice C
Chapel of Memories
Arnold Herbst
St. Paul’s United Methodist Church
Cedar Memorial Cemetery
Cedar Memorial Funeral Home
Fred Diserens
Ellen Pauline Bowers Rammelsberg
Tenth Street
Bruce Rammelsberg
Mr. Rammelsberg
Isabelle Orton
Higbee
Buddy Luther Buchanan
Hazel Bowers
Margaret Warner
Frank Bowers
Toddville
Fred Bowers
Turner Chapel East
Don Martin
Grace Baptist Church
Marion
Oak Hill Cemetery
Innocent Prisoner Freed After 30 Years in Indiana
Ralph Lobaugh, jailed for three Fort Wayne rape murders in 1944 45 despite officials declaring his innocence 25 years ago, is released at age 60. He spent decades in prison after a botched confession and later rehabilitation. Freelance job placement at Indianapolis Fort Wayne or South Bend centers to follow.
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Michigan City
Ind
UPI
Ralph Lobaugh
Lobaugh
Indiana
Indianapolis
Fort Wayne
South Bend
Henry Schricker
Franklin Click
Robert Christen
John Lundquist
State House
Otis Bowen
Cedar Rapids Law Officers School Planned at Police Academy
Cedar Rapids police and Linn county officials plan a seven session law officers school at the police academy. The program will cover Iowa Code revisions from the last legislative session with sessions starting October 3. Attendees will include officers from a 35 mile radius and instructors from the sheriff and police departments and the county attorney’s office.
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Cedar Rapids
Sheriff's
Police Departments
Des Moines
Forgery Charge Filed Against Independence Youth
A 16 year old from Independence was charged with forgery and marijuana possession after writing four checks totaling 247 dollars to Independence businesses. He signed another person’s name and made checks payable to himself. He was released to his parents. The date references Iran invasion in World War II.
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Independence
Utah to sue IRS for unclaimed tax refunds
Utah plans a lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service to recover unclaimed federal income tax refunds estimated at 100 to 180 million dollars. Auditor Richard Jensen notes state law transfers unclaimed property after seven years and could yield 50 to 100 million for 1959–1969 and 5 to 10 million annually after.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Richard Jensen
Internal Revenue Service
Jensen
IRS
Thai drugs burned to show crackdown on illegal traffic
Prime Minister Tanin Kraivixien ordered destruction of more than three tons of heroin and other illicit drugs in Bangkok to demonstrate the government’s resolve to stamp out illegal traffic.
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Bangkok
Thailand
Tanin Kraivixien
Ray Unveils Employment Organization in Iowa
Gov. Robert Ray announced formation of the Iowa Association of Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Professionals. The group aims to recruit hire and promote minorities and women, and to develop a skills bank for career advancement. Sixty charter members from private firms government agencies and educational institutions joined.
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DES Moines
Robert Ray
Ray
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Rockwell International
Nissen Corp
Linn County
Thomas Jones, Jr
Iowa Department of Transportation
Bankers Life
Blue Cross of Iowa
Northwestern Bell Telephone Co
Maytag Co
E. M. Duesenberg Co
Des Moines Register and Tribune
Departments of
Insurance, Public Instruction, Public Safety, Revenue and Transportation
Iowa Development Commission
Attorney General’s Office
Merit Employment Department
Iowa City rabies test mixup foils cats disposal incident
Three Iowa City children bitten by cats were notified after a mixup at the animal shelter led to the disposal of the suspected animals before rabies testing. The cats were destroyed and packed for shipment to University hospitals. the disposal was carried out while staff were away. A city probe will review the disposal.
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Iowa City
Sweetheart Serenade Ends With Shooting In Mexico City
Jose Sacramento Hernandez Montes arranged a serenade by mariachi musicians in front of his fiance Estefania's home in Mexico City after two years sending money from Los Angeles. A pistol-wielding husband, Pablo Mercado Diaz, shot Jose after asking who the serenade was for. Police detained Diaz, who said he did not know his wife had a boyfriend in the United States.
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Mexico City
UPI
Jose Sacramento Hernandez Montes
Los Angeles
Estefania
Jose
la Villa Hospital
Pablo Mercado Diaz
United States
Park ties with U S lawmakers under scrutiny in Korea bribery probe
The Christian Science Monitor reports Park and South Koreans had dealings with 58 current U S House members, with 42 admitting contact. The list guides congressional investigators after Jaworski succeeds Laco vara as special counsel. Progress: hearings likely after the probe concludes, possibly early next year.
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Park
Christian Science Monitor
the Monitor
Vance China Visit Signals Slow Push for Ties
The Shanghai Communique of February 27 1972 states progress toward normalized relations with the United States benefits all nations while promising Taiwan withdrawal of U S forces. Vance’s talks with Huang Hua Hua Teng Hsiao-ping show China reluctant to fast track closer ties and keep Politburo control.
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China
United States
Shanghai
U.S
Taiwan
Taipei
Vance
Hua
Huang Hua
Teng Hsiao-ping
Teng
Huang
Netherlands
Tanzania
Carter Names Lance to Head Budget Office Amid Finances Scrutiny
President Carter announced Lance as head of the Office of Management and Budget on November 24. A Washington Post survey found Congress and state leaders discussing Lance's finances, with Rep. David Stockman noting concern over a perceived double standard and the public reaction to a $49,000 overdraft.
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Calhoun Bank
Lance
Office of Management and Budget
Calhoun
Carter
Washington Post
Congress
Post
David Stockman
R-Mich
Officials expand drug enforcement with local cooperation unit
Law enforcement notes improved local agency cooperation under a new local assistance unit. Separately, early Thursday officers responding to a noisy party at 4101 Sixteenth Avenue SW found a mobile home room with a bag of what authorities believed to be freshly cut marijuana. Arrested were Jerry Lee Chase 21 Iowa City William Jay Gardner 19 120 Seventeenth Street NE and Melvin R Osborn 23 Iowa City.
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Sixteenth Avenue
Jerry Lee Chase
Iowa City
William Jay Gardner
Seventeenth Street
Melvin R. Osborn
Oklahoma State freshmen housed in hotel due to delay
About 100 OSU freshmen will receive bellman luggage service daily maid service clean sheets towels and private bathrooms as they stay in the Student Union hotel. Officials moved students from Bennet and Stout halls to the hotel because Bennet and Stout rooms construction was delayed until Sept 7, as per manager Winsel Bilyeu.
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Stillwater
Okla
UPI
Oklahoma State University
Student Union Hotel
Truman
Bob Hope
Haile Selassie
Winsel Bilyeu
Bennet
Stout
Last Brownsville Survivor Dies
Dorsie Willis, 91, the last survivor from a Black soldiers unit expelled after the 1906 Brownsville Incident, died Wednesday in Minneapolis. The item notes the 1944 Paris liberation date as historical context.
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Brownsville
Minneapolis
Dorsie Willis
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Brush
Thomas Giles
Immaculate Conception Church
William P. Leonard
Mt. Calvary Cemetery
Father Leonard
St. Margaret’s Circle
Stewart Funeral Home
Hanson
Edith D
Charles Keyes
First Church of the Nazarene
Spring Grove Cemetery
Covington
Mary G. McBride
Fourth Avenue
Mary Seidler
Chicago
Ill
Willis C. McBride
McBride
St. Joseph’s Catholic Church
Larry Yauslin
Liverpool
N.Y
Robert Yauslin
Jacksonville
Fla
Harry Yauslin
Margaret Gunzenhauser
Violet Suchan
David Pepper
Murdoch Funeral
Ada Ralston
Vernon
Cedar Manor
Tipton
Ralston
Louis Ralston
St. Luke’s Hospital
Mary Sublett
Lois Woods
Maxine Tarlton
Wadesboro
N.C
Leon
Hot Springs
S.D
Louis
Birmingham
Mich
William
Dearborn Heights
Buell Pieper
Amber Strohl
Morgan
Mt. Vernon
Ossian — Otto Anfinson
Stavenger Lutheran Church
Schmitz
Decorah
R. Dahle-Melswether
Arlington Heights
Steine’s. Elgin
Irene Kiple
Lincoln
Neb
Elgin
Muehlethaler- Wright
Law Officers School Slated
Iran
Ray Unveils
Poewellen
Florist
Seoul
Jaworski
Philip Lacovara
Committee
John Flynt
D-Ga
Flynt
Ber
Sawer
John E. Lapes
Third Avenue S.E
Paris
Ine
Cedar Memorial Park
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