Deaths in Cedar Rapids area include three local figures
Odessa G Turner 43 of 1731 14th Ave SE Cedar Rapids dies after long illness. Services Monday at Turner Chapel East. Lillian Taylor 87 former Cedar Rapids resident dies in South Portland Maine with private graveside service planned. Marielaine Seastrom 54 of Marion dies in Cedar Rapids hospital after short illness. services Sunday in Marion with burial Oak Shade Cemetery.
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Odessa G. Turner
14Th Ave
Milton Turner
Cedar Rapids
Turner
Viola Gibson
Lillian van Arsdale
Juanita Smith
E. Jean Brown
Boston
Mass
Hugh S. Gibson
Deas Rapids
W. George Gibson
Los Angeles
Cali
Turner Chapel East
C.D. Smalls
Bethel Ame Church
Cedar Memorial Cemetery
Lillian Taylor
Arthur B. Taylor
South Portland
Maine
St. Paul
Minn
Marielaine Benedict Seastrom
Ridge Drive
Marion
Seastrom
Elgin
Ill
Lloyd P. Seastrom
James W. Bell Co
Linn Candy Co
Baxter Memorial
Glen W. Lamb
Oak Shade
D.A. Loferski
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Chapel of Memories
Cedar Memorial Funeral Home
Hakespeare
Mary Alice
Cedar Memorial Chapel of Memories
Lloyd Brockmeier
St. Paul’s United Methodist Church
Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery
Icy Gay Baileys
Oklahoma City
Okla
Harrison’s. West Liberty
Cara D. Nevins
First Church United
Oak Ridge
Visitation
Snider
Sigourney
James N. Snakenberg
St. Mary’s Catholic Church
Holmes
Delta
David A. Crane
Reynolds
Harper
Carl
Grace) Wolfe
St. Elizabeth’s Catholic Church
Powell's
Keota
Record Snow Storm Strands Midwest and East, Flood Waters Rise
The blizzard dumped up to 24 inches in Michigan and Ohio while cities like Chicago faced mass transit shutdowns. O'Hare airport closed for the third time in history, and winds toppled power lines affecting over 150000 homes. Flooding forced evacuations in West Virginia and along Gulf Coast and New England as tornadoes claimed a child and injured sixteen.
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Muskegon
Mich
Indianapolis
Toledo
Ohio
Chicago
O’hare International
Kevin Keel
Kentucky
Columbus
Crystal Lake
Citizens Band
Appalachians
West
Radiation detected at westward shift over Canadian site
Canadian radiation readings dropped to lower levels about 50 miles west as search teams from Canada and the United States, including fourteen Canadians and six Americans, used two Chinook helicopters to locate the source of radiation near Baker Lake. The hunt was hampered by bitter cold and five hours of daylight.
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Baker Lake
Canada
U.S
Fort Wayne
Ind
Donald Jamieson
Jamieson
Food price forecasts and farmer share in 1976 market basket
USDA projections show overall food price rise of 4 to 6 percent for this year with middleman charges driving most of the increase. Badger's figures indicate a $1,936 retail value for last year's market basket, of which farmers received $750 and middlemen $1,186. On this date in 1977, NY and NJ governors declared energy crisis emergencies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
USDA
Badger
New York
New Jersey
Springville School Board to discuss tax for school sites
The Springville community school board will meet at 6 30 p m today in the superintendent s office to discuss the possibility of levying a tax for the purchase and improvement of school house sites.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springville
Springville Community
Abortion payment rules spark criticism from anti groups
Washington AP reports new Health and Education and Welfare guidelines for federal funding of abortions claim to follow December law but anti abortion groups say rules practically permit abortion on demand. Pro abortion advocates call rules fair. The most disputed rule allows abortion for rape or incest victims if authorities are notified within 60 days. The report can be mailed and the victim need not report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Congress
Thea Rossi Barron
National
Right To Life Committee
Canal treaty debate seen in two weeks on Senate floor
Senate debate on the Panama Canal treaty likely to begin within two weeks after the Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved the measure. The panel favored the treaty 12 to 1 with two members undecided, while one Republican dissented.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Robert C. Byrd
Dw.va
Howard Baker
R-Tenn
Baker
Senate
John Sparkman
D-Ala
Richard Stone
D-Fla
Robert Griffin
R-Mich
John C White Elected Democratic National Committee Chairman
The Democratic National Committee unanimously elected John C White as its chairman to succeed Kenneth Curtis of Maine. White, a Carter administration choice, has served as deputy secretary of agriculture and was selected after Curtis stepped down after one year as party leader.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
Democratic National Committee Today
John C. White
Kenneth Curtis
Maine
White
Carter
Curtis
Agriculture
Trucks and items stolen from local businesses and homes
Reports list several thefts including three trucks at Zimmerman Ford with a drive shaft and gears valued over 1500, Elvis Lacey's toolbox and tools worth 637 taken from a garage, a color TV worth 350 from Harold Cole residence, and two cameras valued over 600 from Empire Photo display case.
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Zimmerman Ford
First Ave
Elvis Lacey
10Th St
Harold Cole
Washington Ave
Empire Photo
First Ave. SE
Nine Treated After Blaze at Bitumia Store Inc
A fire at Bitumia Store Inc in Marquette Thursday afternoon injured nine with smoke inhalation. Five were hospitalized as sparks from a torch ignited insulation on metal silos used to store hot asphalt. Firefighters helped move equipment to limit losses. owner Bruce Dillman praised the effort. Names of hospitalized include Alton Thornton and Owen Dettman of McGregor Shane Eubanks and Richard Lessar of Prairie du Chien Ed Mabb of Wauzeka, all in good condition Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marquette
Bitumia Store Inc
Bruce Dillman
Prairie du Chien
Alton Thornton
Owen Dettman
McGregor
Shane Eubanks
Richard Lessar
Ed Mabb
Wauzeka
Wis
Decorah couple awarded damages in rear-end collision case
A Winneshiek District Court jury awarded Vern Howden $15,000 and Marguerite Howden $1,000 for loss of consortium after a April 4 1975 rear-end collision near Burr Oak. They sued James Lister of Mitchell County over the accident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decorah
Winneshiek
Vern Howden
Marguerite
Burr Oak
James Lister
Mitchell County
Howden
Fewer Crashes Yet More Deaths In 1977 Aviation Toll
The National Transportation Safety Board says 1977 saw fewer fatal crashes than 1976 but 75 more deaths. Total accidents rose from 4,193 to 4,476 with over half tied to weekend or pleasure pilots.
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Washington
UPI
National Transportation Safety Board
Safety Board
Russian flu outbreak prompts push for vaccine prep nationwide
A panel of 75 flu experts urged developing a vaccine against the AUSSR H1N1 Russian strain for inclusion in next season's immunization programs. They warned it could reach the United States this spring and noted that producing vaccines takes months. Investigators studying the virus returned from Moscow and will brief the HEW panel Monday. The strain appeared first in the Soviet Union and has spread to Europe and beyond, with speculation that it arrived in the United States via Warren Air Force Base outside Cheyenne.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Soviet Union
Europe
U.S
Wyoming
CDC
Warren Air Force Base
Cheyenne
England
Robert Craven
Winter Storm Worsens Iowa Roads with Widespread Closures
Interstate highways across northeast Iowa remained blocked as wind and seven foot drifts hampered plowing. Nine rotary snow units were deployed to aid road crews while governors planned a CBS broadcast trip but postponed due to the severe storm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saunders
State Transportation Department
Iowa
LeRoy Soukup
Linn
Robert Ray
Illinois
James Thompson
Carter
Chicago
CBS
Congress
Lamont
Fred Elsberr
Four-wheelers aid two babies in subzero birth rush
In Independence area, two babies were delivered after emergency four wheel drive help in near zero temperatures. One infant was born at People's Hospital at 2 12 am, the other remained unborn at 1 pm as parents Mary and Steve Berns and Mark and Mrs Palmer faced blocked roads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
People’s Hospital
Independence
Mary Berns
Steve
Littleport
Berns
Buchanan County Sheriffs Department
Bernies
Palmer
Mark Palmer
Central City
Cedar Rapids
Waubeek
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Liam Arquitt
St. Patrick's Cemetery
Father Arquitt
Teahen Funeral
Miller
Gene
Murdoch Chapel
Wyoming Cemetery
Springville School Meeting
John White
Democrat
Pierson’s Florists
Blaze
O’hare
Ozark
St. Louis
Kansas City
Minneapolis
Coralville
Iowa City
Webster City
Iowa Highway Patrol
Hampton
Waverly
Oelwein
Marshall
Cedar Falls
Waterloo
Charles City
Clinton
Onslow
Elkader
Waukon
Norway
Atkins
Manches
John Saunders
Gineer
C.R
Donna M. Peters
Seminole Ave
St. Luke’s Hospital
Edgewood Road
By Dale Kueter
St. Luke’s
White House
Elvis Presley
Parade Magazine
John E. Lapes
Cedar Memorial Park
Pierson’s
Ellis Blvd
N.W
16Th Avenue
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