Metric gas converts in Cedar Rapids station sales
Gas prices appear low as Cedar Rapids Koch Marketing Service Station on Blairs Ferry Road NE begins metric sales. Station uses liter pricing about 27 to 28 cents per liter and provides conversion charts. Hudson Oil/Koch Companies say metric switch began six to eight months ago with voluntary current compliance and a 1998 federal deadline possibly altered by pending legislation.
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Blairs Ferry Road
Cedar Rapids
Koch Marketing
Cice
Jerry Sheriff
Hudson Oil Company of Delaware
Glen Shore
Koch Industries
Shore
Odd Iowa Tales From 1979 Highlights and Mixups
Iowa stories recount a Davenport blizzard faith call surge as Dial a Prayer rose to 275 daily. Ayrshire and Bede Twin Rivers basketball mixups caused route confusion. Keosauqua’s new addition finally brings restrooms. Ames workers mistake IBM gear for trash worth 5000. A humorous December wedding links pot roast romance of 79-year-olds Orville Burgett and Bonnie Cummings.
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Quad Cities
Fred Marsh
Davenport
Marsh
First Christian Church
Orville Burgett
Bonnie Cummings
ICC rejects New Milwaukee Road rescue plan
The Interstate Commerce Commission rejected the New Milwaukee Road plan to cut track by half and form a debt free, self financing system. It cited insufficient financing and overly optimistic traffic projections, ruling abandonments may proceed under bankruptcy law. The DOT had already deemed the plan financially unfeasible. The proposal avoided lines in Iowa and included the Seattle to Louisville corridor.
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Milwaukee Railroad
The
New Milwaukee Road
ICC
Milwaukee Estate
Commission
U.S. Department of Transportation
DOT
Thomas McMillen
Chicago
Seattle
Wash
Louisville
Twin Cities
Iowa
Cedar Rapids mayor eyes more federal offices downtown
Mayor Don Canney seeks to attract additional federal agencies to Cedar Rapids central business district, possibly within the Ground Transportation Center. He notes the agencies might move from other Iowa cities and stresses space needs for the Defense Contracts Administration and others, with some relocation to Iowa Electric Light and Power Co plans.
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Don Canney
Cedar Rapids
Canney
Iowa
Defense Contracts Administration
General Services Administration
IE Tower
Washington
Defense Contracts Agency
Iowa Electric Light and Power Co
William Wait
Rockwell-Collins
Pig entrails mistaken for body spurs police hunt
Cedar Rapids police feared a dead body floated in the Cedar River Saturday but the mass proved pig skin and entrails. Upstream finds show pig fetuses and more entrails left by a butcher. detectives seek the anonymous butcher.
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Cedar River
Local defendants face burglary and driving charges in Benton County
David Eugene Carpenter, 23, Cedar Rapids, pleaded guilty to second degree burglary and received a sentence of up to 10 years. He remains in custody under sheriff’s custody until directed for delivery by the Division of Adult Corrections. Bond was $10,000 after the July 19 1979 burglary of the Thomas S Long residence in Palo. John Francis Hurych, 26, Shellsburg, pleaded guilty to drunken driving and received a $300 fine, court costs, two days in jail with one day credited, and an indefinite license suspension beginning January 8 subject to Kirkwood Community College driving-while-impaired course completion. Bond $500. arrested July 28. Gary Joseph Haage, 20, Norway, pleaded guilty to second degree burglary and received a 10 year suspended sentence with three years probation. must serve 120 days at Cedar Rapids Community Corrections Center beginning February 8 and make full restitution. He allegedly burglarized Florence Clark’s residence in Norway July 16. arrested August 28. Bond $5,000.
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David Eugene Carpenter
Cedar Rapids
Benton County
Division of
Adult Corrections
Carpenter
Thomas S. Long
Palo
John Francis Hurych
Shellsburg
Cense
Kirkwood Community College
Gary Joseph Haage
Norway
Haage
Florence Clark
State Receives $1.17 Million Drug Abuse Grant
The Iowa Department of Substance Abuse earned 1,174,975 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. With state and local matching, total funds reach 1,958,292 to fund 12 subcontractors delivering treatment to up to 748 drug abusers across Iowa.
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Des Moines
Iowa Department of Substance Abuse
National Institute On Drug Abuse
Alcohol and Drug Abuse Services Inc
Area Substance Area Council Inc
Cedar Rapids
Chemical Dependency Services of
North Iowa
Mason City
Cherokee Mental Health Institute
Cherokee
Quint Cities Drug Abuse Council Inc
Davenport
Siouxland Council On Alcoholism
Sioux City
Iowa
Council On Alcohol and Drug Problems Inc
Burlington
Youth
Former Luana Man Dies in Wisconsin Car Crash
Stanley Glenn Palas 29 formerly of Luana died in a single vehicle accident near Dickeyville Sunday. Funeral services are Wednesday at 11 a.m. at St. Patrick's Catholic Church Monona. Schultz Funeral Home handles arrangements.
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Wis
Stanley Glenn Palas
Luana
St. Patrick’s Catholic Church
Monona
Schultz Funeral Home
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Larson and Unzeitig Inc
Smulekoffs Furniture Co
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Smulekoff
County Recorder’s Office
Lowa
Illinois
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North Central Alcoholism Research Foundation
Fort Dodge
Northeast Council On Substance Abuse
Waterloo
Northwest Iowa Alcohol and Drug Treatment Unit
Spirit Lake
River Bluffs Mental Health Center Inc
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