Deaths: N Abodeely and others in Cedar Rapids area
Obituary notices list Nellie Abodeely 74 of 1006 34th St SE Cedar Rapids died after brief illness in a local hospital. Born July 7 1903 in Jib Janine Lebanon she married George Abodeely June 6 1920 in Sioux City. Surviving husband three sons two daughters seven grandchildren two great grandchildren. Services planned at Turner Chapel East and St George Orthodox Church with burial at Wagner’s and Hrabak’s pending. Additional notices include Mikal Bjella 76 and many others with services in Cedar Rapids Dyersville Dysart and surrounding towns and memorial funds.
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Nellie Abodeely
34Th St. SE
George Abodeely
Cedar Rapids
Jib- Janine
Lebanon
Abodeely
Sioux City
St. John’s
Turner Chapel East
Father Nasr
Mikal Bjella
Fifth Ave
Rouse
Norway
United States
Bjella
Minneapolis
Minn
Alice M. Andersen
Biella
St Mark’s Lutheran Church
Minnehaha Lodge
Norwegian Glee Club
Harold Bjella
Corpus Christi
Texas
Leonard Bjella
Olga Schultz
Lina Hammersboen
Harold
Lars
Hokan
Andreas Bjella
St. Mark's Lutheran Church
David Larson
Shiloh Cemetery
Des Moines Register press fire prompts evacuation and print adjustments
Fire at the Des Moines Register and Tribune Co. basement pressroom sent smoke through the 13 story building while workers were evacuated. The afternoon Tribune edition would still publish, using a second press if needed, with extra advertising for Washington's Birthday.
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DES Moines
Des Moines Register and Tribune Co
Tribune
Michael Gartner
Register and Tribune
Iowa
Gartner
Ued
the Tribune
Washington
the Gazette
Register
Eastern storms force Amana plant shutdown
Amana Refrigeration will suspend production for today and Friday due to severe eastern weather and power shortages disrupting parts from Ohio Michigan Indiana and Kentucky. Workers paid hourly will not be paid during the shutdown while other plant areas remain operating.
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East
Amana
Merlin Morris
Ohio
Michigan
Indiana
Kentucky
Morris
Second surplus Huey helicopter obtained by Linn County
A second military surplus Huey helicopter has been acquired by the Linn County Civil Defense. The craft is a spare parts source for the first Huey obtained earlier from an Air Force base in Arizona. Both helicopters carried a $500 paper work fee.
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Linn County Civil Defense
Arizona
Boone
Quaker Oats Talks Open as Labor Talks Continue
Union and company officials met at Quaker Oats to discuss a new labor agreement. A Quaker official said no resolution was reached by early afternoon. Nearly 1,000 production workers at the plant are on a temporary contract extension after the expiration last Friday.
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Quaker Oats
More Fatalities Reported in Civil War Gap
United Press International notes that during the Civil War the Union Army suffered 100000 more fatalities than the Confederacy. The statistic highlights the scale of Union losses in the conflict.
Restructuring light density lines and grain network
Ingram discusses restructuring light density lines and the grain gathering network with potential mainline consolidations and better railroad terminal coordination. He notes agricultural railroading will not be high density and compares the corn and wheat belts to Detroit and Pittsburgh, adding that larger grain elevators using unit trains improve efficiency though hauling grain costs five cents per bushel for ten
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Ingram
Iowa
Rail Freight Costs Limit Midwest Grain Reach
A rail meeting examines haul costs from Iowa to Gulf ports at 50 cents per bushel for 1200 miles. Conference led by Robert E. Gallamore with DOT and ICC officials. aims to restructure Midwest railroads including Milwaukee, Rock Island, Chicago and Northwestern, and Illinois Central Gulf to improve farm access.
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Iowa
Gulf of Mexico
Ingram
Robert E. Gallamore
DOT
Interstate Commerce Commission
Alan Fitzwater
ICC Rail Service Planning Office
Con
Fitzwater
Midwest Farm
Milwaukee and
Rock Island
Chicago and Northwestern Railroad
Illinois Central Gulf
Chicago
Omaha
Milwaukee
Coal strike escalates as TVA warns of outages and layoffs
The TVA forecasts further industrial cutbacks and rotating blackouts if the coal dispute deepens while American Electric maintains a coal stockpile and urges conservation. President invites 12 state governors to White House to discuss the strike. About 65 miners are arrested near the Virginia Kentucky line amid a rock throwing incident. 300 miners protest at Charleston West Virginia Capitol.
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TVA
American Electric
White House
Carter
Jody Powell
Virginia-Kentucky
Charleston
W.va
Haldeman recounts Nixon's Watergate actions and tape fears
The Washington Post reports from Haldeman’s book that Nixon sought retaliation against Lawrence O’Brien in 1972 and may have orchestrated the Watergate break-in. Haldeman claims Nixon told Colson to “get the goods” on O’Brien and pressed erase-by-tape motives as Kissinger logged discussions. Colson denies the account and notes his lie detector test. The book’s latter sections were to be serialized in major papers with Newsweek also planning excerpts.
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Haldeman
White House
the Post
Lawrence O’brien
Watergate
O’brien
Howard Hughes
Post
Richard Nixon
Charles Colson
O'Brien
Colson
Abc-Tv
America
The
National Security
Henry Kissinger
Nbc-Tv
Kissinger
Washington Star
New York Times
Los Angeles Times
Newsweek
Students Cherish Letter Writing After Kapplan Visit
Fifth and sixth graders at Van Buren School recall writing letters inspired by Gabe Kaplan's visit. They learned to indent paragraphs use commas and question marks and hope to send thank you notes to Landmark Grey Seas Productions Steve Graci.
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Evy
Dennis
Williamson
Steve Graci
Landmark Grey Seas Productions
Kaplan
Terry Gerlach
Hickory Drive
Gabe Kaplan
Firefighters protest fire marshal merger in Iowa
A delegation from the Iowa Firemen's Association told a joint subcommittee that access to the state fire marshal may be blocked after the merger of his office into a new Division of Investigations under the Department of Public Safety effective Jan. 15. IFA leaders said they must go through multiple parties to obtain help in arson cases, losing direct contact with Fire Marshal Wilbur Johnson and regional inspectors. The IFA represents 9,000 volunteers in 400 departments and 1,000 paid firefighters in 26 departments. Rep. B. Joseph Rinas urged patience, noting the division is only a month old and promising to monitor its operations.
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Des Moines
Iowa Firemen’s Association
Department of Public Safety
IFA
Wilbur Johnson
Iowa
Mike Schechinger
Westphalia
Schechinger
the Gazette
City Briefs and Local Notices
City briefs note rare Jim Beams antique glassware with contact 363 1421. Shaklee natural skin care offers complimentary facials call Lila Hegland at 366 1427. Alcoholics Anonymous hosts 7 30 a m breakfast Sunday at 225 35th St Marion with meeting at 8 30. Mrs Ann Fick former Cedar Rapids resident dies Feb 2 burial in Waconia Minnesota. she was wife of the late John Fick.
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Jim Beams
Shaklee
Lila Hegland
Alcoholics Anonymous
35Th St
Marion
Cedar Rapids
Ann Fick
Waconia, Minn
Moore family tragedy notes sister of Mary Tyler Moore
Elizabeth Moore sister of actress Mary Tyler Moore died Wednesday at a relative's Bur bank apartment in Los Angeles police said. She was 21.
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Los Angeles
Elizabeth Moore
Mary Tyler Moore
Burbank
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Schultz's
Monona
Wagner's
Belle Plaine
Frances Duda
Hrabak’s
Dysart
Woodlawn
Toledo
Petersburg
Leander Bruggemann
SS. Peter and Paul Catholic Church
Kramer's
Dyersville
Vinton
Louis P. Herger
Campbell-Russell’s
Evergreen
Farley
Jeremy J. Merkes
Louis Rogers Merkes
Reiff's
St. Joseph’s Cemetery
Decorah
Roy J. Bigler
Stevie’s. Manchester
Edna E. Sutton
Shelly's
Evergreen Cemetery
Christensen
E.H
Claude Jones
Cedar Memorial Cemetery
Turner East
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Seidel
William J
St. Paul’s Catholic Church
Spartanburg
S.C
Greenlawn
American Cancer
E.H. Christensen
Shelley Rae
Lutheran Church of the Resurrection
John Huber
Oak Shade
Murdoch Chapel
Faith Lutheran Church
Core
Dean R
Brush Chapel
William Harnish
Oak Hill
Williamsburg
Passet
Jene
George Koch
Fairfield
Long
Lowell Coburn
Carl H. Berhenke
First Lutheran Church
North English Cemetery
Cancer Fund
Foster
Lillian Mae
Turner Chapel West
Gordon Packard
St. James United Methodist Church
Linwood Cemetery
Turner West
Des Moines Register Press
Associated Press Bureau
Omaha, Neb
Steve Daugherty
Morning Register
United Press International
Haldeman Book
van Buren
Kaplan’s
Kotter
UPI
Senate State Government Committee
House
Minnette Doderer
Iowa City
Iowa State University Athletic Council
Iowa Supreme Court
Robert D. Ray
Senate
Sen
E. Kevin Kelly
Kelly
Bargain Hunters
B. Joseph Rinas
D-Marion
Rinas
Larson
MTM
John E. Lapes
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