Vacation ends for Marion Linn-Mar districts
School districts Marion Independent and Linn-Mar end classes Friday for Christmas holidays and resume January 2. St Joseph's Catholic School ends Friday at 2 p.m. and resumes January 3. Various local ads note holiday activities, sales, and events across Marion including YMCA schedule, visits, dinners, and gift ideas.
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Marion Independent
Linn-Mar
St. Joseph’s Catholic
YMCA
Marion Branch
Collins Radio
Linn- Mar
Drinking Test Proves Wife Right in Germany
In Merneberg Germany a 50 year old man arrived at a precinct by taxi demanding a blood test to prove to his wife he was sober. Police said the test showed beyond a doubt that the wife was right and the man was a drunken bum.
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Mernberg
Germany
UPI
Mrs. W. H. Grant Rites Wednesday
Ruby Marie Grant 56 wife of Linn County Sheriff Walter H. Grant died Monday in a Cedar Rapids hospital. She served in the navy nurse corps in World War II and held several civic roles. Surviving: husband, daughter, three sons, five grandchildren, a brother and two sisters. Service 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at Springville United Methodist Church. burial Cedar Memorial cemetery.
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Springville
Ruby Marie Grant
Linn County
Walter H. Grant
Cedar Rapids
San Diego
Eugene Ball
Lester Johns
Tustin
Calif
Independence Crash Claims Neck Injury in Rear-Impact
Mitchell Gericke, 17, of Walker was charged with failure to stop in the assured clear distance ahead after his car hit the rear of an auto driven by Mrs. Don Parrish, 45, of Independence. Parrish paused on an Independence street waiting for traffic to pass before turning into a driveway and suffered a neck injury.
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Gazette
Independence
Mitchell Gericke
Walker
Don Parrish
Household Finance Grants Support Four Iowa Colleges
Household Finance Corp. distributed grants to four eastern Iowa colleges including Coe Cornell Grinnell and Mt. Mercy. Grants ranged from 100 to 1000 dollars depending on full time enrollment, with total checks amounting to 132150 dollars sent to 728 privately supported liberal arts colleges and universities nationwide.
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Eastern Iowa
Household Finance Corp
Coe College
Cornell College
Grinnell College
Mt. Mercy College
Man 20 Charged In Morals Case On Indecent Exposure
Jeffrey Kadlee aged 20 was arrested Saturday night on indecent exposure. The incident occurred about 3 15 am Friday in the 200 block of Thirteenth street SE. He posted 110 dollar bond and was freed. Kadlee is due in municipal court at 9 am Thursday.
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Jeffrey Kadlee
Kadlee
Thirteenth Street SE
Cedar Rapids Man Robbed After Tavern Visit
A Cedar Rapids man reported four bandits robbed him of a $30 watch and $136 in cash outside the Nineteenth Hole tavern at Center Point Road NE early Sunday. Police were investigating Monday. the victim was Donald L. Peterson.
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Cedar Rapids
Nineteenth Hole Tavern
Center Point Road
W. F. Douglas
Maplewood Drive
Donald L. Peterson
First Avenue NE
Welfare Group Leader Resigns to form Economic Justice Move
George Wiley, 41, head of the National Welfare Rights Organization, resigns as executive director after seven years to launch a broader Movement for Economic Justice. The new group aims to unite diverse segments of society formerly hostile to welfare recipients.
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Washington
National Welfare Rights Organization
NWRO
George Wiley
Wiley
Movement For Economic Justice
Two Persons Hurt In Two Car Mishap
Two persons were injured Sunday in a two car accident near the intersection of Third avenue and Twelfth street SE. James M. Hynes, 39, was treated at Mercy hospital for a nose laceration and released. Marilyn Hynes, 40, was admitted with possible head injuries. her condition was listed as good Monday. The collision involved a parked car owned by Louis R. Arbour, 1050 Third avenue SE. no charges were filed.
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Third Avenue
Twelfth Street SE
James M. Hynes
Regent Street NE
Mercy Hospital
Marilyn
Mercy
Hynes
Louis R. Arbour
Third Avenue SE
Needlepoint tips for DIY gifts and quickpoint ideas
The piece offers practical guidance for making DIY gifts through small stitch projects like bookmarks and eyeglass cases. It explains two speeds of needlepoint, quickpoint with large-holed canvas, and suggests creating personalized monograms, kits, and self designed motifs using pastel chalks and waterproof markers.
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Vogue
Caroline
Above Freezing In Iowa for First Time Since December
The National Weather Service predicts a warming trend in Iowa through Tuesday after temperatures climbed above freezing for the first time since December 3. Highs ranged from the mid 30s to mid 40s in various towns with lows from the teens to the 30s, followed by mostly clear skies and gradual warm conditions across the state.
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Associated Press
Iowa
National Weather Service
Spencer
Lamoni
Ottumwa
Cedar Rapids
Man Faces 2 Counts After Accident
Elmer Klein a 37 year old of 310 Zelda Drive NW was arrested Sunday on intoxication and striking an unattended vehicle charges. He caused a two car crash on Third Avenue SE damaging a parked car owned by Carolyn Hird. Klein was treated for a lip laceration at St Luke's hospital, released and jailed with no bond set for his municipal court appearance at 1 30 p.m. Monday.
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Elmer Klein
Zelda Drive
Klein
Third Avenue
Carolyn Hird
St. Luke’s Hospital
Linn County
Christmas Trees Banned by U N
United Nations order bans real Christmas trees at headquarters. Only artificial trees of metal or plastic marked as slow burning allowed. No dried greens or resinous material permitted by Fire and Safety Section.
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United Nations
U.N
Lowan Gets Life for Fatally Beating Father
Harvey Rumph, 57, was sentenced to life imprisonment in Wayne County District Court for first degree murder in the March beating death of his father, Clarence Rumph, 80. The body was found in living quarters behind the pool hall operated by the elder Rumph in Allerton.
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Corydon (Ap
Harvey Rumph
Wayne County
Rumph
Clarence Rumph
Allerton
Fire Damages Marvin Broker Residence South of Mt Vernon
A blaze at the Marvin Broker residence south of Mt Vernon broke out twice. Firemen were called around midnight Saturday to fight the first fire and again about 6 a.m. Sunday to extinguish a second outbreak.
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MT. Vernon
Marvin Broker
Here
Israel Arrests Two More Arabs in Syrian Espionage Network
Police said two additional Arab suspects were arrested in a Syrian espionage probe, increasing custody to 39. Four of the detained are Israeli Jews.
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Tel Aviv
UPI
Henry Kis Named Man of the Year by Beirut Paper
Beiruts An Nahar named Henry Kis singer man of the year. The Beirut newspaper, a leading regional publication, highlighted Kis as a top cultural figure and influential personality in the Middle East.
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Beirut
Henry Kissinger
An Nahar
Middle East
Leader of Gang That Killed Iowan Nabbed in Afghanistan
The alleged gang leader who killed John Eunst from Clear Lake Iowa and wounded his brother David last October was arrested December 10 in Shiwa District near Jalalabad. Mohamed Jan known as Machoo admitted the crime and surrendered a camera and a watch stolen from John that night.
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Kabul
Afghanistan
API
John Eunst
Clear Lake
Iowa
David
Dee
Shiwa
Jalalabad
Mohamed Jan
Machoo
John
Kunst Brothers
Calmar Men Injured In Decorah Collision
Two Calmar men Valerian Kuboushek and Gaylan Benda both 34 received lacera tions Sunday after their car collided with another vehicle at the Highway 52 Pole Line road intersection in Decorah. They were treated at Winneshiek Memorial Hospital and released. The other driver was Gerald Schacht 40 of Decorah who pulled onto the highway from a stop sign and was struck by the Kuboushek car.
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Gazette
Calmar
Highway 52
Pole Line Road
Decorah
Valerian Charles Kuboushek
Gaylan Benda
Winnesnick Memorial Hospital
Gerald Schacht
Kuboushek
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