Gas prices rise as wholesale costs climb in Cedar Rapids
Local distributors report steady or rising wholesale prices with several allotment cuts affecting Prachar Oil and other dealers. Independent stations like Deep Rock and Apco note price adjustments while large chains see smaller pump increases and delayed deliveries.
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Cedar Rapids
Marvin Prachar
Prachar Oil Co
Prachar
Conoco
Mobil
James Chadek
Allen
First Ave. SE
Phillips
Bruce Nunemaker
Bruce
Phillips 66
Center Point Road
Nunemaker
Jerry Mahring
Jerry
Hawkeye Downs
Pester Derby
Vickers
Kerr McGee
Pat Howell
Hawkeye Downs Deep Rock
Sixth St
Deputy Sheriff Injured In Three Car Linn County Crash
Deputy Sheriff Richard Yoder 27 of Mount Vernon was hospitalized in satisfactory condition after a three car crash at Edgewood Road and Highway E-70. Yoder suffered mouth lacerations and bruises when Edmund 20 failed to stop at a stop sign and collided with Yoder, pushing his car into Reardon 19 who was about to turn onto Edgewood Road. Edmund was charged with failure to have control of his vehicle.
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Linn County
Edgewood Road
Cers
Edmund
Yoder
William Reardon
21St St
Reardon
Springville
Linn
Iowa
Fayette
Highway 150
Roy R. Armstrong
Eva L. Armstrong
Steven A. Evans
Oelwein
Armstrong
State of Iowa
Evans
Bureau of Adult Corrections Services
Anamosa
Wayne Chapman
Harkin Tours GPS Project With Rockwell Collins
Fifth District Rep. Tom Harkin reviews Rockwell Collins work on a satellite GPS system with potential broad civilian and defense uses. The Defense Department contract funds the project, with four firms competing and a $50 million award expected next summer. Initial Collins testing data reportedly excellent.
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Tom Harkin
Rockwell-Collins
Harkin
Subcommittee
Transportation and Aviation
House Science and Technology Committee
Defense
Defense Department
Collins
Snow Parking Ban Aims Faced By Cedar Rapids Officials
City officials weigh emergency residential parking ban during heavy snows as legal staff flags enforcement and signage hurdles. Mayor would issue declarations, violations listed as misdemeanors, with concerns about consistency, enforcement burden, and public acceptance.
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Cedar Rapids
Public Improvements
Richard Phillips
Public Safety
Floyd Bergen
Phillips
David McGuire
McGuire
Mel Meyer
Soviet WWII General Issa Pliev Dies at 75 in Moscow
Soviet army leader Gen Issa Alexandrovich Pliev, a prominent World War II commander, has died at age 75 in Moscow, Tass reported.
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Moscow
Issa Alexandrovich Pliev
Tass
Out-of-court settlement ends $300000 Bowman suit in Linn County
A Linn County jury heard three days of testimony before John G Bowman and Sylvia Bowman reached an undisclosed $300000 settlement with Richard Lee Bascom and Marilyn Ruby over a June 1977 collision on Johnson Avenue NW. The Bowmans sought 175000 and 125000 respectively for damages.
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Linn County District Court
John G
Sylvia Bowman
Richard Lee Bascom
Marilyn Ruby
Johnson Avenue NW
John Bowman
Bascom
Him
Ruby
Cedar Rapids Woman Arrested Over Massage Parlor Rule
Paula Pike, 25, of 3201 H Avenue NW, was arrested Thursday night in Cedar Rapids on unlawful acts and massage parlor ordinance violations. Police say she advertised an outcall massage at the Ramada Inn. the arrest occurred shortly before midnight after an officer placed the call. Lincoln birthday holiday announced with offices closed. library open and garbage pickup, buses run.
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Paula Pike
H Ave
Cedar Rapids
Pike
Ramada Inn
Lincoln
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Iowa Association of Plumbing
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Tedar Rapids
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