Prospects brighten for placing men in Cedar Rapids halfway house
The Cedar Rapids area halfway house facing closure still has openings and potential help. Lt. Edwin E. Seger notes three non transient beds exist with more can be created. Local groups and residents offer placements, while other facilities report varying availability as the effort to rehouse 28 residents continues amid staffing challenges.
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Wayne Mead
Citizens’ Committee On Alcolism and Drug Abuse
Mead
Mike Lawson
Lawson
Dick Sparck
Uphoff
City hosts open house on Cedar Rapids zoning plan
City planning officials invite residents to an open house about the proposed zoning ordinance and new map. The session runs 1 30 p m to 9 p m Thursday December 15 in the Civil Defense training room City Hall basement with staff available to answer questions.
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Cedar Rapids
Department of Planning and Redevelopment
Civil Defense
City Hall
May’s Island
Second Avenue
Johnson City jury convicts Nathan Hamilton on cocaine delivery
A Johnson County jury in Iowa City spent about 30 minutes finding Nathan Lowell Hamilton guilty of delivering cocaine for profit. He allegedly sold about 100 dollars worth of cocaine to Patricia A. Methe, an Iowa City police officer, while she acted as an undercover agent on August 1, 1977. The trial began last Monday in Johnson County District Court before Judge Clayton Shaffer.
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Iowa City
Johnson County
Nathan Lowell Hamilton
Hamilton
Patricia A. Methe
Cedar Rapids
Methe
Johnson County District Court
Clayton Shaffer
Center Point Store Hit Under Investigation
Deputies probe theft of four TV sets, a microwave, and two vacuum cleaners from Craig's Appliance Store at 822 Main St Center Point. A witness saw a white over red truck leaving southbound around 3 25 a m. Loss valued about 1000 with window damage increasing the amount.
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Main St
Center Point
Three-Car Crash Injures Cedar Rapids Man
A 25 year old Cedar Rapids man Randy K Coe is listed in serious condition at St Luke s Hospital with internal injuries from a three car accident Wednesday evening. The crash at 33rd Street and First Avenue East involved Coe s van and two vehicles driven by Michael A Davenbaugh and Michael C Deitrich.
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St. Luke’s Hospital
Randy K. Coe
Meadowbrook Drive
Coe
Michael A. Davenbaugh
Wisconsin Ave
Michael C. Deitrich
Fourth Ave
33Rd Street
First Avenue East
Davenbaugh
Deitrich
More Senators to Panama Visit to View Canal Area
Washington reports a second group of U S senators will visit Panama and the Canal Zone to inspect the area before voting on a treaty to return the waterway to Panama in 2000.
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Washington
Panama
Canal Zone
United States
State to honor heroic officers and firemen
Governor Ray announced an award of valor program to recognize police officers and firefighters who risked death or serious injury in the line of duty. A special committee will review nominations, with winners receiving a plaque medallion and lapel pin.
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Robert Ray
Public Safety
Charles Larson
Patrick O’brien
Red Cross
Iowa Association of Sheriffs and Deputies
Iowa State Policeman’s Association
Joint Fire Services Council
Iowa Association of Police and Peace Officers
Ray
Government delays enforcement of new computerized truck brakes
Washington AP report says the Transportation Department will not enforce the computerized brake rule until January 1979. Kenneth Pierson, deputy director of the Bureau of Motor Carrier Safety, cites a need to verify practicality and improvement over older air brakes before starting enforcement.
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Washington
Transportation Department
Kenneth Pierson
Department
Bureau of Motor Carrier Safety
Cold Weekend Forecast With Snow Chance For Backcountry Areas
Cool weather continues with high temperatures near zero on Saturday and rising to the 20s by Sunday and Monday. Lows range from 5 to 10 below zero Saturday and Sunday, 10 to 15 Monday. Mississippi River stages show mixed changes across LaCrosse Lansing Dubuque and Keokuk with several readings near flood thresholds.
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Lansing
Dam
McGregor
Dubuque
Keokuk
C.R
Johnson report finds no county home wrong doing
Iowa City The Johnson County attorney office released a lengthy report finding no evidence of wrongdoing at the Johnson County Care Facility. It notes no crime, urges immediate steps to meet Health Department rules on resident work programs, and calls for physician certificates on outside work limits.
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Chet Casali
YMCA
CCA
Mead
Northeast Council On Alcoholism At
Waterloo
Johnson
Iowa City
Johnson County Attorney’s Office Today
Johnson County
Johnson County Care Review Committee
Kathryn R. Peck
Richard
Doris Kelley
Kelley
Health Department
Vital statistics births and marriages and incidents
Birth notices list Mr and Mrs E Keenan of 1017 Harold Drive SE for a son and Miss Sherril Squires of 821 20th Ave SW for a son. Out of town birth in Park Ridge Illinois to Rev and Mrs Carl Malin of Des Plaines IL a daughter Nov 18. Marriage licenses include six Cedar Rapids couples. Marriages dissolved involve Coty Grubich Carney and Steggall II. A sequence of local incidents with times and locations follows from 10:53 a.m. to 9:02 p.m. Wednesday.
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E. Keenan
Harold Drive
Sherril Squires
20Th Ave
Park Ridge
Ill
Carl Malin
Des Plaines
Malin
Raymond Bohman
Carrousel Drive
Cedar Rapids
City Errata Corrects Snow Clearance Time to 10 Hours
The Gazette corrects a previous story stating residents have 10 days to clear snow. The city ordinance actually allows 10 hours, not 10 days. The correction clarifies the required sidewalk snow removal period.
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Gazette
the Gazette
Two Men Arrested for Drunk Driving Early Morning
Freddie D. Frederick, 21, of 2715 Bever Ave SE, was arrested at 2 45 a.m. near 16th Ave and 18th St SW for drunk driving. David O. Schneider, 32, of 285 Clymer Rd Hiawatha, was arrested at 12 07 a.m. near E Ave and Eighth St NW for the same charge.
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Freddie D. Frederick
Bever Ave
16Th Avenue
18Th Street
David O. Schneider
Clymer Road
Hiawatha
E Avenue
Eighth Street
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