Decorah girl chosen as US delegate for Moscow peace festival
Decorah teenager Lauren Macdonald 14 15 will attend the 12th World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow from July 27 to Aug 3 as one of 300 US delegates among 17 500 from 140 countries. She applied via the U S National Preparatory Committee and will join Sa ida Thomas of Delhi in representing the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decorah
Moscow
United States
Lauren Macdonald
Macdonald
U.S. National Preparatory Committee
Washington, D.C
Sa’ida Thomas
Delhi
Budapest
Berlin
Bucharest
Warsaw
Vienna
Helsinki
Sofia
Havana
U.S
Congress
Soviet Union
New York
Action For Nuclear Disarmament Organization
Decorah High School
Alan and
Ellen Macdonald
Route 2
Buckskinners Rendezvous At Usher's Ferry This Weekend
Buckskinners from Iowa and surrounding states gather at Usher's Ferry in Seminole Valley Park for an 1880s frontier trade fair. The village features 40 plus tepees, crafts, costumed families, demonstrations, games, and a Sunday 11 a.m. worship service.
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Iowa
Usher’s Ferry
Pioneer Village
Seminole Valley Park
Two Cedar Rapids men charged after car theft
Two 18 year olds Ronald Dean Mitchell and Edward Quinn O'Brien were arrested after allegedly taking a car from a west side 7-Eleven lot. O'Brien was caught at Kilimanjaro Drive NE and Mitchell fled but was later arrested at his home. Both men were charged with operating a vehicle without owner consent and released on their own recognizance.
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Cedar Rapids
Ronald Dean Mitchell
21St Ave
Edward Quinn O’brien
Edgewood Rd
Howard Brown
Edgewood Road
E Avenue NW
Linn County
Kilimanjaro Drive
Sheriff's Department
O’brien
Mitchell
Assault charge in Cedar Rapids dispute ends in arrest
Mark Lang 33 of 3345 Blairs Ferry Rd NE was arrested for assault with injury after a family dispute. Cedar Rapids police took him into custody at his home following a complaint from his wife Sally of 6702 Inwood Lane NE. Lang allegedly pushed her face into a wall causing facial cuts.
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Mark Lang
Blairs Ferry Rd
Cedar Rapids
Lang
Sally
Inwood Lane
Marion Briefs Advertise in Gazette and Jewelers Ad
The Marion brief notes easy advertising via the Gazette phone lines and lists Crowley Bentley Jewelers in Marion with their contact numbers. It also reports Lang jailed in Linn County with bond set at 1150 dollars and Toledo Tama County cases involving Larry and Caren Rhoads with specific sentences and probation.
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Marion
Lang
Linn County
Toledo
Traer
L. Vern Robinson
Tama County
Larry Rhoads
Caren Rhoads
PDP poised to ride shuttle on Spacelab 2 mission
University of Iowa physicists prepare to launch the Plasma Diagnostic Package aboard the space shuttle Challenger during the Spacelab 2 mission. The PDP will detach, fly untethered for about seven hours to study how the shuttle disturbs plasma and magnetic fields, with 20 UI researchers at Mission Control.
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Gazette
Johnson County
Houston
University of Iowa
Mission Control
Johnson Space Center
Kennedy Space Center
Florida
University
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Columbia
Challenger
PDP
Shuttle
U of I
Gerry Murphy
Murphy
U of I’s
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Official: 14 died of child abuse in Iowa last year
Fourteen Iowa children died of abuse during the year ending June 30, matching a record set in 1983 and exceeding the decade’s average. Officials cite economic hardship and rising reports, from 10,364 in 1979 to about 17,000 this year, as contributing factors.
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Iowa
DES Moines
Tim Barber-Lindstrom
Iowa Department of Human Services
David Schor
University Hospitals
Iowa City
L A company agrees to refund Iowa firms in prize scheme
Los Angeles based Meddock and Sons agreed to refund Iowa businesses misled by a promotion offering prizes with office supply and ad novelty purchases. The Polk County District Court filing ends an investigation into a scheme that charged $94 shipping and handling for a small gemstone set. A jewelry expert labeled the gems as store rejects. Businesses owed refunds contact Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller's office.
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DES Moines
Los Angeles
Iowa
Tom Miller
Meddock and Sons of
Polk County
Meddock and Sons
Miller
Miller’s Office
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Usher
C.R
East Iowa
Crowley-Bentley Jewelers
Thaang Ap
U Orcraft
By Tom Walsh
Bill Kurth
Kurth
David Zalaznik
Clarence Ferry
C St. SW
Third Ave. SE
Ferry
St. Luke’s Hospital
Exercisi
New Life Fitness World
Smule
Smulekoff
Teres
3Rd Avenue
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