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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1979
Page
6
An early morning trial run tests the Cedar Rapids Air Ambulance from St Luke's Hospital. Tim Trosky and Jim Myers assist a volunteer patient from Center Point as the Huey helicopter shuttles between Mercy Hospital Center Point and St Luke's landing pad. The service, officially operating today, will serve 13 Eastern Iowa counties.
A twin engine Cessna 421 registered to Phillip Moss Co of Des Moines crashed in fog over a residential area north of Kansas City downtown airport. Two people aboard were killed, a third injured, and officials noted loss of radio contact before the crash. Local officials reported heavy fog and crash damage to a house and wooded area.
The Cedar Rapids Federation of Teachers files a PROB complaint with PERB against the school district and CREA over pay roll dues deductions. CRFT says the current contract favors CREA by only allowing CREA members to have dues deducted, claiming discrimination against CRFT as the smaller group.
Neighbors at 1400 Fourth Ave SE welcomed news from Cedar Rapids officials that the burned and vandalized house will be demolished after an abandonment hearing set for February 28 in Des Moines. Recovery of ownership to the former owner should follow, with demolition in March pending council approval.
Dr Wesley A Drahos of Route 2 Mount Vernon told Linn County sheriff deputies that 35 feeder pigs weighing about 75 pounds each are missing from his herd. The pigs, Reds Hampshires and Yorkshires, are valued at over 2300 dollars. About 40 pigs were stolen from his farm earlier this year.
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