Weather and local obituaries mix in December digest
Daily Record weather notes show December totals and forecasts while the notices list numerous funeral services and memorials across towns including Monticello Oelwein Oxford and Wellman with names such as Gary Dasil Michael McDonald and Ronald Simmons plus churches and cemeteries involved. Services include memorial funds visitation times and locations across multiple communities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oelwein
Matha L. Hallberg
Zion Lutheran
Brant. Kern's
Reuben W. Knutson
Madison Lutheran Church
Steine’s
Oxford Junction
Franklin Blahnik, Jr
Monmouth
Hayden
Coralville
Robert Sherlock
Zion Lutheran Church
Visitation
George L. Gay
Oxford
Ralph Dwyer
St. Mary’s Catholic Church
Oxford Chapel
Olin
Linda Harington
St. John American Lutheran Church
Center Point
Loren T Jenks
First Christian Church
Independence
Elsie McMahon
Mason- Hawe
Congregational Church
National Cemetery
Vining
Halverson’s
Franklin F. Blahnik, Jr
Mayflower Cemetery
Hayden's
Marenge
Ronald Lloyd Simmons
Hoover-Valentine Funeral Home
Bethlehem Cuts Steel Price Hike
Pittsburgh AP reports Bethlehem Steel Corp following U.S. Steel last week announced a partial rollback of price increases due to take effect Monday. Bethlehem, the nation’s No. 2 steel producer, dropped hikes for tin plate and steel rail, together about 20 percent of the earlier rise. Tin plate serves mainly the can industry. steel rail is used for railroad tracks.
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Pittsburgh
Bethlehem Steel Corp
U.S. Steel
Bethlehem
Milk Price Support Aimed At 85 Percent Parity
The article explains milk price support policy with parity figures. It notes current parity around 71 to 73 percent due to inflation, and a Humphrey bill proposes raising government support to 85 percent immediately and recomputing every three months starting next March 1. An increased support level would raise prices for processors and eventually for consumers.
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Humphrey
Pigs Hay Lost In Barn Blaze
About 750 bales of hay and a dozen small pigs were lost when a barn on the Fred Gordon farm near Springville burned Saturday afternoon. Firefighters saved several sows and around 50 piglets and protected an adjoining building and equipment. Assistant fire chief Chuck Barnes cited probable faulty wiring as the cause, with the fire starting about 1 15 p.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springville
Fred Gordon
Chuck Barnes
Fragmented Gazette snippet with unclear meaning
Readable bits show a partial Cedar Rapids Gazette fragment with stray phrases about pricing and dates. Key names or events are not coherent enough to identify a clear person, organization, or place. The text appears damaged and garbled.
Ford outlines direction for new economic program
Nessen described a freewheeling White House meeting on the 1975 and 1976 federal budgets and Ford’s planned economic program. He said the discussions included anticipated budget sizes and the impact of energy proposals, with no final decisions, but a general direction indicated for the broader plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nessen
Ford
My. Nessen
Woodward Kopecky Deadlocked on Probe
Garry Woodward and Linn County Attorney elect Eu gene Kopecky remain at odds over which will lead a grand jury probe into alleged illegal activity by Cedar Rapids police officers. Woodward seeks a January grand jury. Kopecky resists his involvement and wants to proceed independently. Both acknowledge past cases and potential indictments of six officers, but disagree on control and scope of the new inquiry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garry Woodward
Eugene Kopecky
Cedar Rapids
Woodward
Jan. G. Kopecky
Linn County
State Supreme Court
Supreme Court
Kopecky
County Attor
Ney
William Faches
Faches
Dewey S. Hepker
Twentieth Street NW
McAllen
Texas
Center Point
Lucy Soukup
Bethany
Grain Millers Union
Penick and Ford
Arthur Schinker
Evelyn Edmonds
James Zamastil
Walter
Albert
Urbana
Turner Chapel
Richard Ernst
Hillside Wesleyan Church
Linwood Cemetery
CIA spy recounts domestic operations against antiwar protests
Former CIA agent details illegal domestic surveillance from the 1960s to early 1970s in New York. He cites thousands of files, wiretaps, break-ins, and psychological assessments of radical leaders. He says officials justified actions as preventing radical activity, targeting students, professors, and activists.
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CIA
New York
Richard Helms
Agency
Iran
Congress
The
China
KGB
Ford Delays Public Comment On CIA Report
In Vail Colorado President Ford will delay comment on CIA domestic spying allegations until after returning to Washington next week. Press Secretary Ron Nessen said Ford will study a report from CIA Director William Colby over the next few days and discuss it after Jan. 2 with Colby and others. An official announcement will follow after those talks.
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Vail
Colo
Ford
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington
Ron Nessen
Nessen
CIA
William Colby
Colby
Gary Myers Hurt In Cycle Mishap
Gary W. Myers 20 of 2060 Sylvia drive NE sustained leg injuries Saturday afternoon when his motorcycle collided with a car in the 1600 block of First avenue NW. He was treated at St Luke’s hospital and released. Police say Kir KB Kirchner 23 of 55 Twenty first avenue SW drove the other vehicle. Kirchner braked as traffic slowed. Myers tried to pass and struck the left side of Kirchner’s car. Myers was charged with failing to stop within an assured clear distance ahead.
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Gary W. Myers
Sylvia Drive
First Avenue NW
Myers
St. Luke's Hospital
Kirby K. Kirchner
Twenty-first Avenue
Kirchner
Kirchner Auto
City Briefs announce soon gold bars at Jerome's
Brief notices indicate gold bars will be available soon at Jerome's followed by an Ady rental ad promising better brand equipment. The snippets are compact items typical of a city page, reflecting local commerce and rental offerings.
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Jerome's
Buresh Rental
Ady
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Thomas E. Haas
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K. A. Nanjappa
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Haysay
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Martin Anderson
Presbyterian Church
Gleim’s
Arlington
Herman H. Hagen
St. Matthew's Lutheran Church
Goettsch's
Gazette
Duane Crock
Jerry Reller
Sixteenth Street
Sage
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Prrier
Richard Turner
the Times
U. S
DOD
FBI
Mark Rudd
Rudd
Columbia «University
Claes
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Martin Laughlin
St. John’s Cemetery
Janeba-Kuba Funeral Home
Clarence A. Engel
Clarence Arthur Engel
Thirty-fourth Street
LaVerne
George and
Emma Tieperman Engel
Stella Frances Starr
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St. Paul’s United
Roy H. Beilharz
B Avenue NW
Dubuque
Agnes Robinet
McKesson and Robbin
Eagles Club
Odd Fellows Club
Cedar Memorial Chapel of Memories
Neville G. Clayton
Cedar Christian Church
Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery
Teahen Funeral Home
Marian Ff
Teahen Owner
Elden B. Rohn Mortician
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