Cedar Rapids Plans Metering to End Water Loss
Cedar Rapids water department launches citywide effort to meter fire protection lines at about 200 businesses after discovering 17 percent of water revenue loss from unmetered lines totaling nearly one billion gallons annually. The program targets large industries first, with letters giving compliance deadlines and meter installation requirements.
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Cedar Rapids
Water Department
George Lee
Lee
Ed Burrell
Burrell
City Water Department
Eagles at Cassville River Watch Ends as Human Appears
Photographers get an early morning glimpse of eagles along the Mississippi river at Cassville. Birds fish and perch on broken limbs as they prepare to swoop on prey. The sighting ends when a human figure appears, ending the eagle watching.
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Mississippi River
Cassville
Chicanos push bid for ethnic party in California
Mexican American leaders in California press a political bid for a purely ethnic party after a disappointing election showing. They backed Ricardo Romo of the Peace and Freedom party and say a 2 percent California vote was the goal, though Romo earned just over 1 percent. Leaders insist the effort is a start toward broader Chicano political power.
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San Francisco
UPI
California
Ricardo Romo
Peace and Freedom Party
Romo
Democratic Party
Abe Tapia
Mexican American Political
Assa
Eagle Award To Klappholz
Mike Klappholz 17 son of Mr and Mrs Fred W Klappholz 724 Thirtieth street SE will become an Eagle Scout in a court of honor Thursday at 7 p.m. at All Saints school He is a member of troop 100 at All Saints joined the Boy Scouts in 1964 became a Star Scout in 1967 and a life member in 1968 He is a member of the Order of the Arrow Klappholz is a senior at Regis high school.
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Mike Klappholz
Fred W. Klappholz
Thirtieth Street
All Saints School
All Saints
Boy Scouts
Order of the Arrow
Klappholz
Regis High School
Deer with eight point antlers shocks Invercargill crowd
A red female deer in the far south of New Zealand's South Island surprised hunters by bearing eight-point antlers. Dismissed as remarkable by zoology professor K K Westerkov, the animal stands out amid widespread deer plagues in the region. Venison works receive the carcasses from professional hunters. Little want ads do big jobs. Dial 369-1234.
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Invercargill
New Zealand
South Island
K. KK. Westerkov
Dial
Left Handed Shop Aims To Serve Sinistrals Worldwide
London entrepreneur William Gruby runs Anything Left Handed Limited in Beak Street Soho, offering 90 plus left handed items from can openers to scissors. The store operates by mail order with Claudia and Peter Broom handling daily work, drawing 300 million lefties into a venture earning over 1,500 dollars monthly.
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London
Soho
William Gruby
Beak Street
Portside
Michael Barsley
Gruby
Claudia
Peter Broom
Broom
Bill Gruby
Marshall Street
Carnaby Street
Portland Cement Named After Portland Quarry Stone
Joseph Aspdin patented Portland cement in 1824. He created the name to evoke the stone from a quarry in Portland England and to market a durable cement resembling natural rock.
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Portland
Joseph Aspdin
Aspdin
England
Cow birth saves farmer and helpers from crash fate
Arthur Griffin and two helpers were spared death when Tiny the cow gave birth late in the barn avoiding a collision that would have placed them in a field beneath two RAF jets that crashed in flames in mid air nearby.
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Sutton-In-Ashfield
England
UPI
Arthur Griffin
Tiny
Nature
Griffin
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