Wall-Lift Begins on May's Island River Wall
Cramer Brothers Construction of Des Moines started rebuilding and underpinning the May's Island river wall. Dave Novotny and Willie McColl oversee the project funded by a federal grant from the Economic Development Administration. Total cost is 599000 with 580000 funded. work must begin before year’s end and finish by next summer.
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Dave Novotny
Willie McColl
Harold Drive
Cramer Brothers Construction Co
Des Moines
May's
Economic Development Administration
Cedar Rapids Police Offer Free Rides Home on New Year’s Eve
Cedar Rapids police will provide free rides home for intoxicated individuals on New Year’s Eve to prevent drunk driving. Persons seeking a ride from a tavern or party may call the Police Department to request the service, which has been offered for at least four years.
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Cedar Rapids
City briefs note multiple thefts and a military assignment
City briefs report thefts at three locations including a residence on 21st Ave SW and a break in at 521 Seventh Ave SE totaling over 1300 dollars plus a Goodyear building break in with ovens and a TV valued above 1700 dollars. Also a clerk of court reported a 30 dollar check stolen from a cash drawer. An Airman, Michael D. Quinby Jr., is assigned to Chanute AFB Illinois after basic training.
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Timothy C. White
Seventh Ave
Goodyear
Second Ave
Linn
Ken Perry Jr
Robert Osmundson
Michael D. Quinby Jr
Frances K. Davidson
Michael D. Quinby
Hiawatha
Chanute Air Force Base
Ill
Rape charge dropped in Fayette County case
Judge Frank Elwood suppressed a statement in the Gary Sheppard rape case. The 24 year old from Fayette had faced a July incident involving a 16 year old in Dubuque. rape and stolen property counts were dropped. He remains sentenced on a weapons charge after pleading guilty.
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West Union
Fayette County
Frank Elwood
Gary Sheppard
Fayette
Dubuque
Sheppard
Light Snow Forecast For Iowa At Year’s End 1977
The Associated Press reports a likelihood of light snow across Iowa at year end. Partly cloudy conditions today give way to snow this evening and Saturday with a chance of more snow Sunday. Overnight lows range from five to twenty degrees, with a cold front and low pressure system bringing snow risk into the central plains and mid Mississippi Valley.
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Waterloo
Lamoni
Central Plains
mid-Mississippi Valley
Iowa
New York New Year To Ring In With Lombardo’s Band
For the first time in nearly three decades the country will begin the year without Guy Lombardo. His Royal Canadians under his brothers will play Auld Lang Syne from the Waldorf Astoria at midnight. Inner details show couples paying up to 150 dollars to dance to the music. Split Screen TV will show Waldorf interior and Times Square ball drop as Ben Grauer, longtime Times Square ball narrator, is noted as deceased in 1977.
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New York
UPI
Guy Lombardo
Lombardo
Royal Canadians
Waldorf-Astoria
Heaven
the Waldorf
Times Square
Ben Grauer
One Times Square
Decorah Crash Injures Woman In Two-Car Collision
A Postville woman, Ruth Devenport, 55, sustained injuries in a two car crash one mile east of Decorah at Iowa Highway 9 and a blacktop road. She was a passenger in a vehicle driven by her husband James Devenport, 56, which rear ended a car making a left turn. The other driver was Susan Kittlesen, 20, of Decorah. The Winneshiek County sheriff's office investigated the incident.
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Postville
Decorah
Iowa
Ruth Devenport
Winneshiek County Memorial Hospital
James
Susan Kittlesen
Winneshiek County
Oelwein Police Probe Pharmacy Break-In
Oelwein police investigated a overnight break in at Keating Pharmacy. Workers found entry during the night and drugs valued at several hundred dollars and an unknown cash amount were stolen.
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Oelwein
Keating
Vital statistics births and marriages in Mercy St Luke's area
Birth announcements list.Mercy hospital and St Luke's report births on December 25 28 and 29 to multiple families in Marion Cedar Rapids Mechanicsville Iowa City and other locales. The notices include names and addresses of new parents and newborns plus a list of marriages dissolved and guardianship filings and financial debts and assets. Also included are recent EMS calls and a fire department incident log with times and locations.
Paralegals Offer Free Help in Area Towns This January
Heritage Agency on Aging dispatches legal aides to multiple towns for free counseling on Social Security Medicare Medicaid housing insurance and consumer issues. Open 9 am to 3 pm with no appointment needed, appointments accepted at 1 800 332 5934, schedule lists numerous locations and dates across Cedar Rapids Iowa City and surrounding communities in January.
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Heritage Agency
Central City
HACAP
Iowa City
Gloria Dei Lutheran Church
Vinton
Anamosa
Center Point City Hall
Monticello
Marion Activities Center
North English Community Center
Hawthorne Hills
Cedar Rapids
Weather Outlook For Nearby Areas
Forecast shows high temperatures in the teens to low 20s and lows from five below to five above zero. A chance of snow on Sunday with mainly clear and very cold conditions on Monday and Tuesday.
Sparse turnouts at farm strike meetings across Iowa
The farm strike movement touched Eastern Iowa with small turnouts in Wyoming and Washington as Bud Hirst of Longville and Jerry Boyle of Dexter spoke to about four attendees and a similar crowd in Wash ington. The meetings were part of seven held across Iowa on Thursday with more planned for Friday and a larger statewide policy meeting set for Wiota.
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Iowa
Washington
Wyoming
Bud Hirst
Longville
Memorial Hall
Jerry Boyle
Dexter
Knights of Columbus
Hirst
Adel
Denison
Nevada
Bedford
Perry
Hampton
Bridgewater
Manilla
Doyle
Pat
Wiota
Atlantic
Agriculture
Bob Bergland
Omaha
Pat Doyle
Bergland
Time Magazine Executive Thomason Dead at 74
James Augustu Thomason, Time magazine general manager from 1964 to 1968, died Tuesday at age 74 at his home on St. Simon's Island Georgia.
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New York
James Augustus Thomason
Time Magazine
St. Simon’s Island
IPBN chief offers to repay slush fund cash
Thomas Ditzel, former head of the Iowa Public Broadcasting Network, offered to repay 1680 dollars drawn from a slush fund used for NAEB dues. Interim director Hugh Cordier balked at a monthly 30 dollar repayment plan, noting it would take four years eight months. The fund held 3500 dollars. 1680 covered unapproved trips. Cordier halted Ditzel’s last three paychecks pending audit. Ditzel left IPBN November 30 1974 to start a new job.
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DES Moines
Thomas Ditzel
Iowa Public Broadcasting Network
Hugh Cordier
Ditzel
National Association of Educational Broadcasters
Naeb Educational TV
IPBN
Cordier
State Auditor’s Office
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Dial
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Center Point Road
N.E
Lombardo Band
Gary Steffens
Oxford Junction
Donald Johnson
St. On
David
Marion
St. Luke's
Steve White
Highview Drive
Dharan Singh
Sixth St
Carl Riel
Midway Drive
Dan Ter
Ted Bey
38Th St
Michael Merck
Ninth Ave
Gary King
London
Linda Davison
12Th St
Kenneth M. Cook Jr
Rebecca A. Cook
Gary L. Axline
Joan M. Gates
Charles R. Franks Jr
Mechanicsville
Judy K. Novak
Ely
Clifford L. Barker
Lisa M. Binner
Michael L. Hopkins
Tami S. Boyles
Karl W. Ellerbeck
Washington, D.C
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Jon R. Stanek
Peggy J
Karen D
Cary E. Feick
Carol J
Robert D. Hansohn
Esther Lynne
David Wayne Oliphant
Eo Banghart
Spyglass Hill
Achilles Heal, Inc
Columbia
Arnold and
Carol Deich Jr
Golfview Court
Mark V, Ltd
Debra Coleman
Eldridge
David and
Linda Jones
Eldora
Kevin
Darla Luppen
Iowa Falls
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First Ave
Amana Mnb
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Mount Vernon City Hall
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Parnell Cap Center
Washington Ymca
City Close
Wellman Municipal Center
Geneva
Urbana City
Ladora Augustine Insurance Agency
Palo
Jane Boyd
Atkins City Hall
Newhall Town Hall
Cedar Rapids Lincoln Learning Center
Lone Tree Presbyterian Church
Coggan
Belle Plaine
Riverside Community Center
van Horne City Hall
Wyoming Memorial Hall
West Branch Methodist Church
Stanwood Union Trust Bank
Clarence City Hall
Bennett State Bank
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al Swegle Gazette Farm Editor
NO York
Keck-Fm
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Time
Slush Fund
Eisenhower
Lowa
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