Water Improvements Funding Moves Ahead in Marion
Marion water department trustees authorize Dave Johnson of Shire Hattery and Associates to begin engineering for the first phase of a 2 million dollar capital program. Completion is set for mid 1977 with bond sales six months away. Also approved: Barber Excavating Co. contract for maintenance bond and waivers for water main work, customer rate increase notice, tank maintenance contracts, and policy on moving mains before sewer work. The board also discussed bus purchase for the district.
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Marion Water Department Board of Trustees
Dave Johnson
Shire Hattery and Associates
Volved
Johnson
Barber Excavating Co
Marion Fire Fighters Approve Tentative City Contract
Collective bargaining teams from the city and the Marion Fire Fighters Assn reached a tentative agreement late Wednesday with a federal mediator. Terms were not disclosed but City Manager Joe Painter said a cost-of-living salary adjustment was included. The nine-member union met Thursday morning and unanimously voted approval.
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Marion Fire Fighters Assn
Joe Painter
Two Hurt in Marion Iowa Car Crash Near Country Club Entrance
Two 19 year olds, Jeffrey A. Stotler and Deborah L. Stueland, were injured in a head on collision near Indian Creek Country Club in Marion. Stotler, later moved to University Hospitals Iowa City, suffers possible head injuries. Stueland remains in St Luke's ICU with facial injuries. The crash occurred as Stotler attempted to pass, both drivers were freed from vehicles and the incident remains under investigation.
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Indian Creek Country Club
Indian Creek Road
Jeffrey A. Stotler
Thirty-fifth Street
Deborah L. Stueland
St. Luke’s Hospital
Stotler
University Hospitals
Iowa City
Miss Stueland
St. Luke’s Intensive Care Unit
Marion
Alaska's First Black Representative Bowman Dies at 56
Anchorage AP report states State Rep. Willard Bowman the first Black elected to Alaska's legislature died Wednesday from bone cancer at age 56. He served as a longtime legislator and community figure in Alaska.
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Anchorage
Alaska
Willard Bowman
Iowa Man Escapes Iowa Prison Arrested Near Clovis New Mexico
Laverne Lewis Zaehinger, 46, who fled from Iowa’s Ft. Madison prison in 1973 after a life sentence for murder, was captured near Clovis in Curry County. He faced a federal charge of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution and was jailed in Curry County on $150,000 bond after appearing before U.S. Magistrate Calvin Neumann.
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Iowa
FBI
Curry County
R.B. Boney
Zaehinger
Clovis
U.S
Calvin Neumann
Building Permits Issued by City Building Department
Permits issued in the last seven days include John Leefers for a four plex apartment at 280 Eighth Avenue costing 21 888, John Martinson for bathroom and kitchen remodel at 2788 Eleventh Avenue costing 2 000, R K Home Improvement for an added room at 1800 Twenty seventh Street costing 3 240, and Eugene De Young for an added garage at 1225 Starry Drive costing 300.
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John Leefers
Eighth Avenue
John Martinson
Eleventh Avenue
R. K
Twenty-seventh Street
Eugene de- Young
Starry Drive
Four Sentenced in Linn District Court Plea Deals
Patrick Kinney received 120 days in county jail and a suspended up to ten year reformatory sentence with three years probation on two breaking and entering charges. Jerome C. Peterson got 60 days jail and two years probation plus a year near Averill halfway house for forgery. Donald F. Chaffee got one year suspended jail for first offense drunk driving with two years probation. Julia A. Collins Hodge faces up to seven years reformatory for false uttering of a check and four years for a Cedar Rapids department store check court.
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Linn
Patrick Kinney
Reformatory
Cedar Rapids
Jerome C. Peterson
Averill
Donald F. Chaffee
Atkins
Julia A. Collins Hodge
Life Insurance Agency Sets Winter Meeting in Cedar Rapids
The annual winter agency meeting of the Thomas S. Redford general agency of Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co will be Friday in Cedar Rapids with about 60 agents expected. Featured on the program is David L. Roeder regional director of agencies for Northwestern Mutual. also scheduled are Stanley W. Nelson Dean A Kehrli John M. Leland and George N. Justice all of Cedar Rapids.
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Thomas S. Redford General Agency
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co
Cedar Rapids
David L. Roeder
CLA
Milwaukee
Northwestern Mutual
Stanley W. Nelson
Dean A. Kehrli
John M. Leland
George N. Justice
CLU
Amvets Sponsor White Clover Sale In Cedar Rapids
Amvets Post No 50 of Cedar Rapids will sponsor a white clover sale this Saturday to honor Pearl Harbor's attack 34 years ago. Proceeds aid hospitalized veterans disaster victims destitute families and war widows and orphans with sellers across the city. A weather note recalls a Midwest blizzard from 20 years ago with heavy snow in Nebraska.
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Amvets Post No. 50
Cedar Rapids
Pearl Harbor
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