Car rolls into NW side house in residential crash
Donna Haase's car rolled backward from a driveway at 230 Wiley Blvd NW and struck the Dieck home at 235 Wiley Blvd NW. Firefighters contained a ruptured fuel tank and gasoline leak after the collision, while the Dieck family reported plant stands knocked over inside the house.
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Cedar Rapids
Gary Dreck
Wiley Blvd
Donna Haase
Wiley Boulevard
Drecks
Haase
Dieck
Ex-queen plans to attend North Carolina pageant as spectator
Debbie Shook Miss North Carolina, who angrily threw her crown and said she would attend the 1979 pageant as a spectator, despite the Jaycees terminating their contract after reports of her financial and technical problems. She blamed Jaycees for wardrobe and scholarship issues and said she has tickets.
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Raleigh
N.C
UPI
North Carolina
Debbie Shook
North Carolina Jaycees
Miss Shook
Jaycees
Cedar Rapids Candidate For 1980 State Democratic Convention Site
Cedar Rapids is named as one of three cities under study for the 1980 Democratic Party state convention. Des Moines Hilton Coliseum Ames Five Seasons Center Cedar Rapids are options with a decision due at the next meeting in September. Republicans already eye the Five Seasons Center for their June 6-7 event.
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Des Moines
Cedar Rapids
Hilton Coliseum
Iowa State University
Ames
Five Seasons Center
Iowa
Ten finalists named for Sixth Judicial District judgeship
Ten lawyers from Cedar Rapids Iowa City Monticello were listed as finalists for a vacant Sixth District judgeship created by Judge Harold Vietor’s elevation. Three already hold judicial posts. Judge Eads said two will be nominated and Gov. Ray will pick one. The nominating commission meets Friday at 9 a.m. in Linn County Courthouse.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa City
Monticello
Lynne E. Brady
Brent G. Harstad
John F. Liebenmann
Gerard Glaza
Thomas M. Horan
Gene Kellenberger
Henry Keyes
Emmit J. George
L. Vern Robinson
C. J. Matthiessen
William R. Eads
District Judicial Nominating Commission
Harold D. Vietor
Federal District Court
Eads
Robert Ray
Linn County
Mayors urge gas to cities
The U S Conference of Mayors urged the federal government to consider special allocations for cities and states amid a nationwide gasoline shortage. A survey of 100 cities shows gas lines, odd even sale rules, and cutbacks in service potential, with higher public transit use and new contingency measures.
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Washington
U.S. Conference of Mayors
U.S
Newark
N.J
Cedar Rapids gas price survey shows wide station differences
A Cedar Rapids telephone survey finds regular gas as low as 80.9 cents and premium unleaded at 1.03 dollars a gallon. Prices vary by station with Champlin on Center Point Road listing 80.9 for regular and 84.9 for unleaded, while Mars stations in Des Moines run 1.05 to 1.13 dollars.
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Cedar Rapids
Champlin
Center Point Road
Center Point
33Rd Ave
Agriculture Department
Iowa Agriculture
Robert Lounsberry
Lounsberry
Standard Oil
Des Moines
U.S. Department of Energy
Mars
AAA Motor Club of
Iowa
Ernest Arnold
DOE
Kansas City
Fourth quake in 3 days hits Southern California
A series of quakes centered near Big Bear Calif shook Southern California with the fourth tremor in three days. The late Friday 3.4 magnitude quake and early Saturday 4.5 magnitude event followed a 4.8 magnitude blast reported by Caltech and USGS. Scientists cautioned about ongoing fault strain and uncertain aftershocks.
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S. California
Big Bear
Calif
California
Dennis Meredith
California Institute of Technology
Index of sections and pages in the Iowa paper
A listing of the newspaper's sections with page ranges and section labels including Deaths Editorial Marion Iowa Politics Notes Sports Stocks Finances Trend Farm Show Scrabble Classifieds Horoscope Crossword Focus Home Arts Garden Books Travel Town and section designations for D and E zones
Facts Pack: Victoria Act, Canada, Doyle Birth and Gretna Disaster
Queen Victoria gave royal assent to the British North America Act on May 22 1867 and Canada became a dominion on July 1. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, was born in 1859. The Gretna Green rail disaster of 1915 killed 227 and injured 250 across three trains in Scotland. A bamboo species in India reaches about 120 feet.
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Victoria
Canada
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Creator of
Sherlock Holmes
Gretna Green
Scotland
India
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C.R
Iowa Daily Press Association
Bode Eyewear Ltd
Marion
Los Angeles
Meredith
Caltech
U.S. Geological Survey
Golden
Colo
Tate News
C.hall
Pol
R.card
Focus Food
Ar d.Town
Times Camera
First Avenue
Times
Joens Brothers
Thurs
Brothers Interiors
16Th Avenue
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