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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1979
Page
3
Notices report the deaths of Kirk Patrick Morris and several others across Cedar Rapids and nearby towns. Included are service details, birth dates, survivor lists, and burial arrangements for each, with call times and locations at Cedar Memorial Chapel, Brush Chapel, St. Patrick’s Church, and other cemeteries.
William D. Davis funeral is 2 p.m. Saturday at Cedar Memorial Chapel of Memories with burial at Cedar Memorial Funeral Home tonight and again after 9 a.m. Saturday. The service will have a closed casket. He is survived by his father Russell H. Davis of Cedar Rapids and a daughter Sara Henslee. Donations may go to the School of Ozarks in Point Lookout Missouri. Also listed is Walter Howard with a 1:30 p.m. Saturday service at Turner Chapel East. Burial follows at Oak Hill Cemetery. Family may register at the funeral home.
In Music City a four room Tennessee home hosts ten pianos, cluttering every room including the kitchen and bath. Larry Wolff, a year into living there after moving from Erie Pennsylvania, complains the mess prevents play. Salvage dealers show little interest. some instruments are being burned for firewood while owner Walter Sears directs Wolff to dispose as he wishes. Some pianos remain potentially antique or playable.
The nude body of Sid Vicious was found in a Greenwich Village apartment by his mother and a girlfriend. Police said a syringe, spoon, and possible heroin residue were nearby, suggesting a heroin overdose. He was 21 and had been released from jail hours earlier on bail related to Nancy Spungen's stabbing.
A recent survey by the American Council of Life Insurance finds more than 10 million widows in the United States and a widows to widowers ratio of five to one. Women outlive men by about eight years and often marry men several years their senior.
Kepler and IE officials discuss cause of a blockage at the Palo nuclear plant as threats of sabotage loom after a threatening letter. Radiography is inconclusive and repairs delay restart beyond 1978. TE has bought $21 million in power from other utilities to meet demand and is charging customers.
Edward Elgar and George Bernard Shaw star again as Malvern Festival returns for May 21 to June 9. The event, famed for Shaw world premieres in the 1930s, was revived in 1977 with Elgar music, reflecting his ties to the district where he was born and died.
The Iowa Senate approved a resolution urging Congress to propose a constitutional amendment for a balanced federal budget or convene a convention. The measure, passed 31 to 16, moves to the House for action with 26 states already on board toward a convention if 34 states approve.
Allen Smith of Waverly died at about 8 this morning at the Viking Pump Iron Foundry in Cedar Falls when an iron casting fell on him. Authorities report a fatal industrial accident.
In Rochester Minnesota Bill and Sharon McAuliffe shoveled nearly two feet of roof snow into their basement through a driveway window. The couple found a spot to dump it without walking far, and the plan worked.
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