Paperwork woes topic of statewide meetings
Statewide meetings will discuss reducing paperwork with a nine member governor’s task force. Public sessions include Decorah City Hall tonight at 7 30 and Charles City City Hall Thursday at 7 30. A business session is set Jan 17 in Waterloo at the Recreation and Arts Center. Cedar Rapids hosts a testimony session next Monday at 7 30 in Iowa Hall Kirkwood CC. Dr Robert Benton leads the sub committee on state government paperwork. Agencies Health Civil Rights and Conservation will present on reducing paperwork. Businessmen are urged to attend the Waterloo meeting or one of the general sessions.
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City Hall
Charles City
Waterloo
Recreation and Arts Center
Cedar St
Cedar Rapids
Iowa Hall
Kirkwood Community College
Robert Benton
Iowa Department of Public Instruction
President Carter
National Committee
Iowa Department of Health
Iowa Civil Rights Commission
Iowa Conservation Commission
Benton
David Brasher
National Federation of Independent Business
Educator Business Seminars Begin Thursday in GWAEA area
A series of seven evening seminars for educators starts Thursday at the Grant Wood Area Education Agency in Cedar Rapids. Harold Ewoldt, Cedar Rapids Marion Chamber general manager, will present a historical overview of local business and industry since 1836. Panel topics cover finance, agri business, manufacturing, retailing, utilities, and transportation. Preregistration is required. credit is available for a $15 fee.
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Iowa
Grant Wood Area
Sixth St
Harold Ewoldt
Cedar Rapids-Marion Chamber of Commerce
GWAEA
Coe College
Ewoldt
Cedar Rapids- Marion Chamber of Commerce
U.S. Chamber of Commerce Association
Kimm Stastny
Gazette corrects Tru man Elementary misidentification
Cedar Rapids brief notes an error in Sunday's Gazette where a photo labeled for Tru man Elementary was misidentified. The out line apologizes for the mistake.
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Truman
Two Arrests Made In Cedar Rapids Drunk Driving Arrests
Cedar Rapids police reported two overnight drunk driving arrests. Melvin J. Lund, 37, of 900 13th St NW was taken into custody at 2:55 a.m. at 13th Street and First Avenue NW. Robert M. Young, 46, of 4431 M Ave NW was arrested at 9:20 p.m. Tuesday in the 1100 block of Third Street SE.
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Cedar Rapids
Melvin J. Lund
13Th St
13Th Street
First Avenue NW
Robert M.young
M Ave
Third Street
Cable committee to meet with engineers on Thursday
A special committee studying a cable television regulatory ordinance cleared non-controversial topics and set plans for later talks on rates and service. The group will meet Cox CableVision engineers Thursday to review technical matters and aims to have the ordinance ready for review by January 18.
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Cox Cablevision
Don Canney
Decorah man found frozen near care facility
Myron Kjarland, 61, a Winneshiek County Care Facility resident, was found dead Tuesday a few hundred feet from the home after missing during a bed check. Milford Quamn found tracks in subzero weather and traced them to the body. Kjarland wandered in circles before collapsing. Services pending in Decorah.
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Decorah
Myron Kjarland
Winneshiek County
Kjarland
Milford Quamn
Steine
Tax change cuts Iowa farm land value rise
Des MoinesAP reports Iowa farm land values would have surged nearly 50 percent without a tax method change. The State Department of Revenue said agricultural property values rose 7.7 percent, not 49.7 percent, as the Legislature shifted from 50 percent productivity and 50 percent market value to 100 percent productivity. Two years ago values climbed about 52 percent under the old method.
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Des Moines
Iowa
State Department of Revenue
Youth for Christ plans coffee and discussion event
Youth for Christ hosts a public coffee at Immanuel Baptist Church on Thursday at 9 30 a m with the theme Banishing the Blahs The meeting includes teen and staff reports from the Living End convention in Bloomington Minn and a Campus Life magazine feature Free babysitting available and open to the public
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Youth For Christ Ladies Fellowship
Immanuel Baptist Church
Bloomington
Minn
Campus Life Magazine
NBC Signs Louise Lasser To Three Picture Deal
Louise Lasser signer a three picture contract with NBC after leaving Mary Hartman Mary Hartman. Her first film from an original script she wrote titled Just Me and You follows two strangers traveling across the country by car.
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Los Angeles
Louise Lasser
Mary Hartman
NBC
You
Weather Outlook For Another Region
Weather elsewhere reports high temperatures Tuesday and overnight lows with light precipitation. Extended forecast shows partly cloudy skies Friday and a chance of snow Saturday or Sunday. Temperatures range from the teens to the 30s with low temperatures in the teens.
New Year Flu Surge Strikes Cedar Rapids Hospitals
St Luke's Hospital reports 199 flu patients treated Monday at emergency and trauma centers marking new daily and 8 hour records. Mercy Hospital and Family Practice Center also report higher than average flu cases since Christmas, with 183 and 174 trauma patients respectively but no complete breakdowns.
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St. Luke’s Hospital
Mercy Hospital
Mercy
Cedar Rapids
City Employees Sworn In At First City Council Meeting
City employees were sworn in at the first regular meeting of the new City Council. The ceremony filled offices requiring sworn personnel including fire chief and city clerk. Traffic Engineer Mel Meyer took his oath from Public Improvements Commissioner Dick Phillips due to a department move effective January 1.
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Mel Meyer
Dick Phillips
Floyd Bergen
Cedar Rapids GazettePublication Details and Rates
The Cedar Rapids Gazette established in 1883 lists its office at 500 Third Ave SE Cedar Rapids Iowa 52406 and describes its subscription rates by carrier and mail including regional pricing. The paper notes AP news dispatches and exclusive republication rights for local news.
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Gazette Company
Third Ave. SE
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
U.S
Associated Press
Births and marriages and fires reported in Cedar Rapids area
Birth notices from Mercy St. Luke's Cedar Falls and other area locations report births to families including Hootman Goettsch Davis Parker Moenk Gerdes Ivey VanDee Bearns with addresses in Cedar Rapids Solon Swisher and Monticello. Also multiple marriage licenses listed for Cedar Rapids residents and nearby towns. Fire and emergency calls include cigarette and mistaken alarm incidents and possible heart attack events.
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Ave. NE
St. Luke's
Daniel Goettsch
Third St. SW
David Davis
St. SW
Frederick Parker
Clymer Road
Hiawatha
Roy Moenk
Phillip
Collins Road
H Ave
E Ave. NW
Sixth St
Mount Vernon Roa
Manslaughter appeal filed by Youngbear in federal case
Native Ellsworth Youngbear appeals his federal voluntary manslaughter conviction in the 1974 killing of Vin cent Lasley in the Mesquakie Indian Settlement. Cedar Rapids lawyer Fred Dumbaugh seeks to withdraw as counsel as Youngbear faces a separate 10 year sentence after a new federal trial verdict.
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Mesquakie
Ellsworth Youngbear
Youngbear
Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals
Cedar Rapids
Fred Dumbaugh
Settlement
Vincent Lasley
U.S. District Court
Dumbaugh
C.R. man injured in plant accident
T. J. Mayfield an FMC Corporation Crane and Excavator Division employee was listed in good condition at St. Luke's Hospital after an industrial accident Tuesday night. The 47 year old from 98 36th Ave. SW suffered lacerations to both hands when his hands were caught in a press brake.
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T.J. Mayfield
FMC Corporation, Crane and Excavator Division
St. Luke’s Hospital
Mayfield
36Th Ave
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