Obituary notices list local deaths and funeral details
Alfred F. Ebsen 71 a Marion resident died Tuesday in a Cedar Rapids hospital after illness. Survived by wife Dorothy, children Fred Butch, Jan Spear, Joanna Ebsen, Judy Wallace, siblings and grandchildren. Services Friday at Baxter Memorial Chapel. Additional notices for Carpenter Lafely Emerson Lebol Marshall Nehring McGeough Hoon Petermeier Kynoch Rollins with respective funeral details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred F. Ebsen
Washington Drive
Marion
Cedar Rapids
Chicago
Ill
Dorothy A. Flemming
Oak Park
Associated Machine Tool of Iowa
Ebsen
American Society For Metals of
N.E. Iowa
Society of Manufacturing Engineers
American Society of Tool Engineers
American Society of Carbine Engineers
Masonic Lodge
AF & AM
R.A.M
Apollo
Judy C. Wallace
van Horne
Hans
Baxter Memorial Chapel
Otto Zwanziger
Cancer Fund
Children’s Shrine Burns Hospitals
Corinne Millicent Marshall
First Ave
Cecil F. Marshall
Cape Girardeau
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church
Kathryn Nesper
Herbert Ainsworth
Oceans
Waukon
Vincent McGeough
St. Pius of Cherry Mound
Visitation
Hanson’s
Tipton
Lara M. Hoon
Sheets and Son’s
Tama
Maud Mae
Witness information helps arrests in two burglaries
Police credited witness information with aiding arrests in two Tuesday burglaries and reported a third case under investigation. Poorman, 20, was arrested on burglary and escape warrants after a late Tuesday incident at 1020 11th St. NE, where stereo equipment two shotguns a rifle and a stolen car linked to the case were noted. Additional arrests were possible as investigators pursued a second burglary at Louise Kegler’s home and a separate Marion Township break in, with items including a microwave oven a color TV and a sewing machine among the stolen goods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacob J. Poorman
Linn
Charles Jones
11Th St. NE
Jones
First Avenue SE
Poorman
Third Avenue SE
Louise Kegler
34Th St. SE
Frank L. Trimble
Clifton St. NE
Trimble
Linn County
Linn County Sheriff's Deputies
Zane M. Sharp
Route 1
Marion
Sheriff's Department
Arlene Prevas
Ridgeway Terrace SE
Rezoning OK'd and contracts set in Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids City Council approved rezoning across from Westdale Mall on Highway 149 West to commercial for a new Target Store. It also okayed a $1.2 million foundation construction and a 100000 square foot store. Rinderknecht Associates bid $43,834 for a park restroom and shower building. James T. Fox Contracting bid $116,931 for Riverside Park Road SW project under the engineer’s estimate.
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Cedar Rapids
Westdale Mall
Target
Rinderknecht Associates Inc
Seminole Valley Park
Rinderknecht
James T. Fox Contracting Corp
Marion
Riverside Park Road
C Street
Riverside
Fox
Supreme Court orders separate state and city charges for Hadjis
DES MOINES The Supreme Court ruled that state criminal trespass and city resisting an officer charges against Demetrios Hadjis should not be consolidated. The decision also gave Hadjis access to statements he made to Cedar Rapids police on January 18, 1978. Proceedings paused as rulings were issued.
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Des Moines
Supreme Court
Demetrios Hadjis
29Th St. Drive
Hadjis
Cedar Rapids
Gregory’s
Roosevelt Royale Hotel
Consoli
Convent Holds On After Arcadia College Era Ends
In Arcadia Missouri about 25 nuns remain at the former Arcadia College now run by the Sisters of St. Ursula since 1877. Once a Civil War soldiers hospital and girls boarding school the campus was sealed in 1971 with antiques inside. Nuns aged 43 to 96 run a day care serving roughly 30 children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arcadia, Mo
UPI
Sisters of St. Ursula
Arcadia College
Iran Diplomatic Immunity Claim Besets Kraus Case
Officials argue Kraus may claim diplomatic immunity as embassy staff, shielding him from trial though not expulsion. Separately, an Iranian Marxist guerrilla group retreated from a direct clash with Khomeini, canceling a capital march and calling for a rally instead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kraus
Iran
Khomeini
Marxist People’s Fedayeen
Iran Sees March by Fedayeen Amid Revolution Tensions
The Fedayeen call a Friday march inviting moderates and leftists to join in lament over martyrs and revolution gains. Iran’s chief of staff says talks with the United States over weapon transfers remain intact and no F-14 jets have left Iran, with no pledge to export arms to the PLO or others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fedayeen
Mohammad Vali Qarani
United States
Amana Society Wins Land Use Battle Over Colony Businesses
Judge Chapman rules Amana Colonies retain control over land use despite a 1965 state use statute. The court voids the statute applying to unrecorded collateral agreements and upholds the Society’s power to halt the Kitchen Sink gift shop and revoke permits at Colony businesses. Defendants ordered to pay court costs. appeal likely.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Colony Inn Inc
James Roemig
Roemig
Colony Inn
Donald
Eunice Krauss
Society
Chapman
Amana
Board of the Society
Public Rights Commission reports rising back pay recoveries
Three women filing complaints and six others receiving checks mark progress by the Human Rights Commission. The agency notes back pay and benefits settlements have risen from 15 000 to 31 000 in recent years and about 80 000 this fiscal year as of June 30. A second case involved a Seventh day Adventist student denied Saturday classes. the school paid 413 in a conciliation and changed its policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mark Doolin
The
Human Rights Commission
Seventh-day Adventist Church
Commission
Icy Streets Trouble C R Iowa City And Surrounds
Icy roads across Iowa City and Cedar Rapids prompted police roadblocks on hills and several accidents on Interstate 80. Crews cleared catch basins to drain melted snow, while weather continued in the 30s with more precip expected. A Cedar Rapids power outage possibly caused by a lightning strike affected Sixth Street SW before service was restored.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dale Kueter
Bill Lockhart
Cedar Rapids
Iowa City
Points West
Grinnell
City Landers
North Dubuque Street
Washington Street
University of Iowa
Dubuque
First Avenue
Williams Boulevard
Ronald Hoffman
Ridgeview Drive
St. Luke’s Hospital
Sixth Street
27Th Avenue
Highway 30
Pat McPartland
Iowa Electric Light and Power Co
McPartland
Bed believed royal sleeps in Wales owners refuse sale
A Welsh couple, Ron and Wendy Martin, bought a four poster bed for 240 dollars 20 years ago. They learned it likely came from the Royal Palace of Westminster and may bear Queen Victoria’s VR arms. The bed, used to welcome their son born 16 years ago, will stay in their family museum near their woolen mill in Maesllyn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Ron
Wendy Martin
Royal Palace of
Westminster
Houses of Parliament
Maesllyn
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Mark Riggins
Green Cemetery
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Billy Wilson
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Walker Cemetery
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Murdoch Funeral Home
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