Sudanese Technicians Train at Collins Canada Project
Five Sudanese Air Force technicians attend a six week Collins Division program to operate and repair Buffalo aircraft navigational gear. They praise friendly staff, intensive hands on classes, and English language training amid a cold Toronto winter. They will complete four weeks then a six week session in Toronto before returning home.
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Sudan
Collins Division
Rockwell International
Mohammed Rasmy
Canada
Rasmy
Balla Mohammed
Khadir Said
Sir el Malik
Musa Abdel Rahaman
Russia
England
Collins
Roy Snell
Buffalo
Snell
Khartoum
Air Force
Franco Crane
de Havilland Aircraft Co
Aly
Algeria
Ethiopia
Toronto
Pilots urged to prepare for flying in bad weather
FAA launches recurrent training program to boost general aviation safety. Private pilots must complete yearly refresher sessions with a certified instructor focusing on takeoffs and landings adverse weather flying and spin recovery. Wings issued after completing three pilots train others.
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Federal Aviation Administration
FAA
Roger Clark
Clark
Cedar Rapids
Eastern Iowa Area Aviation Association
Iowa
Life Investors honors 14 Eastern Iowans at awards
Fourteen Eastern Iowans including seven from Cedar Rapids were honored at Life Investors Insurance Co. Mid-America Awards in Waterloo. Highlights include Bill Montignani named rookie sales director of the year and runner-up in overall sales director, George Colthurst top representative service award and near top salesman, and Vern Cooper earning new representative of the year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterloo
Cedar Rapids
Life Investors Insurance Co
Con- Way Center
Bill Montignani
William Niebuhr
Vern Cooper
Wally Zimmerman
Waukon
Niebuhr
Colthurst
Virgil Moser
Armin Becker
Oelwein
Fortunaire
Ultimate Club
Life Investors
Moser
Becker
Zimmerman
Orvis
Hoffman
Cooper, Montignant
Bill Travis
Maynard Holub
Central City
Bill Fieming
Maquoketa
Trailer Fire Damages Otterville Repair Shop Trailer
Independence firefighters battled a Sunday blaze on the west edge of Otterville. An overheated oil furnace caused the fire in a trailer used as a repair shop by Jack Widner. The trailer and tools were extensively damaged with loss value undetermined.
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Otterville
Independence
Jack Widner
Rapids new 423 arrests in week for traffic and other offenses
Cedar Rapids police reported 423 arrests for traffic violations and other offenses in the week Jan 21 through Friday. arrests included 215 speeding, 51 failing traffic signals, 28 license violations, 27 thefts, 2 robberies, and 1 aggravated robbery. additional cases involved drunken driving, un suspend licenses, weapon possession, and assorted infractions.
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Cedar Rapids
Governor’s Steering Committee Names Librarian Trustees Head
H A Schimberg of Cedar Rapids and Dr Carl Orgen of the University of Iowa join a 16 member Iowa Governor’s Steering Committee for Libraries. The panel first meets Feb 17 in Des Moines to plan public information, assess library concerns, and select delegates to the White House conference on libraries in September 1979.
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H.A
Hub) Schimberg
Cedar Rapids
Iowa Library Trustees Association
Carl Orgen
School of Library Science
University of Iowa
Des Moines
Thomas Carney
Cedar Rapids Public
State Library Commission
Carney
Widespread wins at Cedar Rapids Winterland Bridge Tourney
At the Cedar Rapids Winterland Sectional Duplicate Bridge Tournament held over the weekend at the Roosevelt Royale 237 tables were in play with players from Iowa Illinois and Minnesota. In the 52 team Swiss competition a tie for first and second placed winners from Mason City Marshalltown Des Moines Independence Cedar Falls and Cedar Rapids. Earlier winners hailed from Minneapolis Davenport Des Moines Iowa City Tipton and Scotch Grove with newcomers Dean Helgens Scotch Grove first place in Duplicate First and Mickey Sievert Sue Butschi Cedar Rapids second.
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Iowa
Illinois
Minnesota
Cedar Rapids
Roosevelt Royale
Mason City
Marshalltown
Des Moines
Independence
Cedar Falls
Minneapolis
Davenport
Iowa City
Tipton
Scotch Grove
Dean Helgens
Mickey Siewert
Sue Butschi
Betty Andersen
al Stout
Vern Nunnally
Lois Nielsen
Jan Uhler
Bill Kochneff
Beth Tomanka
Waverly
Terry Beckman
Terry Borne
Toothbrush Trade In Event at Lin dale Plaza
Children 10 and under can exchange old toothbrushes for new ones during Dent al Health Week at Lin dale Plaza Mini Mall on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. A continuous show Ruth's Tooth Tells the Truth runs while a Toothbrush Trading Post operates. Sponsored by Linn County Dental Society Cedar Rapids Dental Hygienists Association Cedar Rapids Dental Assistants Society and Linn County Dental Wives.
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Lindale Plaza
Ruth
Linn County Dental Society
Cedar Rapids Dental Hygienists’ Association
Cedar Rapids Dental Assistants’ Society
Linn County Dental Wives
Nixon Refuses to Resign Proposes Swift Watergate Probe End
On this date in 1974 President Richard Nixon pledged not to resign and urged a rapid conclusion to all Watergate investigations, stating that one year of Watergate was enough.
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Richard Nixon
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First Ave. E
First Avenue
Cairo
Egypt
Musa
Collins Road
Africa
U.S
Sahara Desert
Musa Abdel
Tom Fruehling
Iowans
Kedo Rapids New
Schimberg
J. Frederic Benedict
Dave Camp
Bruce Thicher
Ken Hixon
Dixie Teeple
Ron Uilrich
Dave McGee
Betty Anderson
Harry Ross
John B. McCusker
Frank
Frank’s
Preserva
Franks
Ush
Round House Paper Stock Co
Round House Paper Stock Company
4Th St. N.E
Dave Lennox
Lenngx
2Nd Ave
Second Ave
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