Obituaries and Death Notices
Deaths listed for Anna Maria Rammelsberg 65 of Marion and Dean LeRoy Mills 61 of Iowa City. Other notices include David Walderbach 42 and Norris Paul J. with services planned in Cedar Memorial Cedar Rapids and Rock Island respectively. Multiple services across Iowa locations with family memorials and church burials scheduled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anna Maria Rammelsberg
24Th St
Marion
Austria
Mary Angela Fairmeadow
Turner Chapel East
Dean LeRoy Mills
Allison Hotel
Veterans Administration Hospital
Iowa City
Illinois
Rock Island National Cemetery
Rock Island
Ill
George Gay Funeral Home
Norris
Paul J
Cedar Memorial Chapel
Calvin Devries
First United Presbyterian Church
Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery
Cedar Memorial Funeral Home
Cornell College
Mount Vernon
Teachers union oppose tuition tax credits at NEA meeting
NEA President Willard McGuire warns public schools face unprecedented attack from Reagan administration and critics. He vows a strong political push in 1982 and 1984 to oust supporters, linking school quality to political power while unions debate tax credits and other issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
National Education Association
Willard H. McGuire
Teachers’ Union
New York
Reagan
AFT
Ernest R. Gibson
Washington
Albert Shanker
NEA
Jane Fonda
Ms. Fonda
Arthur Flemming
U.S. Civil Rights Commission
McGuire
Treasury
America
Floods wash out rail line in Melrose area in Iowa
Flood waters washed out large sections of track near Melrose Iowa delaying the westbound Zephyr and forcing bus shuttles between Chicago and Omaha. Eight families evacuated and Monroe County reports major damage to the three block business district with no injuries.
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Associated Press
Iowa
Amtrak
Melrose
Edward Myers
Chicago
Fort Madison
Kansas City
Ottumwa
Zephyr
Omaha
Neb
Helen Batten
Parley Batten
Monroe County
Dennis Carr
Dennis Lee
Vinton
National Weather Service
Albia
Monroe
Helen Keller Life and Achievements Through Adversity
The Alabama girl Helen Adams Keller lost sight speech and hearing at 19 months and learned sign language braille and a typewriter with help from Anne Sullivan. She graduated from Radcliffe College and campaigned for the handicap through lectures writings films and vaudeville. She established a foundation endowment for the American Foundation for the Blind.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Adams Keller
Anna Mansfield Sullivan
John A. Macy
Perkins Institute For the Blind
Boston
Alabama
Radcliffe College
Miss Keller
Helen Keller
Green not for Deere only ruling in color case
U.S. District Judge Donald O'Brien ruled Deere and Co lacks exclusive rights to John Deere green for farm equipment. The decision found Farmland copied the design and color but customers would not likely confuse the loaders, ending Deere’s 1979 injunction bid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
UPI
U.S
Deere and Co
John Deere
Donald O’brien
Deere
Train Derailment Spills Soybeans On Cedar Rapids Line
A six car derailment on the southeast side disrupted Otis Road SE near Cargill's 16th Street plant. Six soybean cars left the main line about 6 p.m. Saturday causing over 25 thousand dollars in damage. two cars tipped onto their sides. Cause under investigation by Chicago and Northwestern Railroad officials.
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Cedar Rapids
Chicago and Northwestern Railroad
Otis Road SE
Cargill
16Th Street
Gary Gelzer
Gelzer
Man charged after high speed chase in Tama
Grinnell man 35 was charged with resisting arrest assault and failure to report an accident after an incident that left Tama police chief with a broken collarbone. Landuyt reportedly fled after striking the sign and was pursued over eight miles at high speed. Deputy Kriegel and the chief were treated for injuries. Additional charges expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Azette Corre Tama
Grinnell
Tama
Wayne Edward Landuyt
Berna van Vlerah
van Vlerah
Landuyt
Highway 63
Cedar Rapids Gazette publication data and rates
The Cedar Rapids Gazette, established 1883, lists address at 500 Third Ave SE Cedar Rapids IA 52406. Subscription rates show carrier $1.65 weekly and mail options with various weekly and yearly prices, with restrictions on areas served and AP republication rights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
The
Gazette Company
Third Ave. SE
Iowa
U.S
Associated Press
Six birth notices and weekend emergencies in local area
July births announced for Christina Bennett Donna Rock Sherry Reimer Joyce Bowers Emmy Stout Gina Lockwood Cheryl Chumley at several addresses. Weekend medical emergencies listed from 1615 Park Town Court NE to 1010 10th Ave SW plus a 1977 note about a Kennedy Airport bus hijacker who killed two hostages before surrendering.
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Sherry
Gary Reimer
25Th Ave
Marion
Joyce Bowers
Council St
Emmy
Timothy Stout
Bradbury Drive
Gina
William Lockwood
Palo
Cheryl
Glenn Chumley
Fifth Ave
Park Town Court
F Ave
Fourth Ave
A Ave
30Th St
Kennedy International Airport
New York
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the Gazette
David C. Walderbach
Anamosa
Linn County
Comstock Park
Mich
Goettsch
Belle Plaine
Emil A. Stanek
St. Michael’s Catholic Church
St. Joesph’s Cemetery
Chelsea
Hrabak’s
Colesburg
Burley Funk Mauseth
Appleton-Vernon’s
Edgewood
Oak Hill Cemetery
Coralville
Mildred Ellen Rowe
University of Iowa Foundation
Eve
Hopkinton
Esther V. Neil
First Presbyterian Church
Hopkinton Cemetery
Goettsch’s
Independence
Nicholas P. Steier
St. John’s Catholic Church
White’s
Tipton
Adeline
Addie
First United Methodist Church
Tipton Masonic Cemetery
Sheets and Son Funeral Home
O.E.S
Waukon
Leonard Shurtleff
Oakland Cemetery
Martin’s
Gazette
Tom Merryman
Jim Loecke
Jackie Stansfield
Sheriff's
Mike Lawrence
Carr
Man
Chase
van Vierah
Tama County
Nick Kriegel
Kriegel
Mallory
Peck
Blairs Ferry
Rat
Christina
Michael Bennett
Seventh Ave. SE
St. Luke’s
Donna
George Rock
Dalewood Ave
Ninth Ave
16Th Ave
D Ave
19Th St. NW
First Ave
10Th Ave
Center Pt. Rd
Claude Rains
the Invisible Man
John E. Lapes
Third Avenue S.E
Kuba Funeral Homes
James F. Stewart
Cicero
Maeterlinck
Blue Bird
Stewart Funeral Home
First Avenue N.E
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