Bones Taken to University Hospitals for Examination
Cedar Rapids police sent three bones found after a dog brought them home to Dr. Earl Rose at University Hospitals for analysis. The bones were stored in a police fridge while photographed and cataloged, with detectives unsure if they are human or animal.
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Cedar Rapids
University Hospitals
Iowa City
Jim Barnes
Police
Earl Rose
Barnes
William Kettelkamp
St. Luke’s Hospital
Kettelkamp
Quin Bowman
Avenue NW
Bowman
Thomas H. Poole
Sue Lane NW
Gazette
Council Takes No Action on Farming Out Parking Facilities
City council discusses private operation of municipal parking but takes no action. National Garages proposes running the Fourth Fifth avenue lot and Armstrong's facility with shared staff. Revenue questions and higher meter rates feature in debate, with a consultant suggested before any change. The ramp project and revenue system purchase are decided separately.
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Council
National Garages
Ed Colton
Fourth and
Fifth Avenues
Fourth Street
Armstrong's
Mel Meyer
Meyer
Five Seasons
Mount Vernon School Board approves 1977 budget rise and reappoints officials
Mount Vernon officials confirm a 121000 increase in expenditures for fiscal 1977 mainly for salaries and benefits. Supt. Winston Addis notes 75 percent of the budget funds salaries. John Wilch is reappointed secretary, Rose Ellison treasurer, and Guy Booth attorney for 1978. Regular election notices declare Christiansen and Lee running again. Litts not seeking re-election. Filing deadline Aug 4. Benson Ford mentioned separately.
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Mount Vernon
Mount Vernon Community
Paul Christiansen
Ken Lee
Charles Litts
Christiansen
Litts
Franklin Township
Johnson County
Lee
Linn Township
Jones County
Wilch
Warning boards to alert Oakland drivers at Twenty-ninth street
Motorists on Oakland road NE will see three warning boards at the Twenty-ninth intersection. The one-foot by three-foot signs warn of a curve beyond a slight rise after a rise in the road. Two residents urged action after several accidents and near misses blamed on drivers missing the curve.
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Oakland Road
Twenty-ninth Street
Twenty-ninth
Second Sanity Exam Ordered For Wildasin
Gary Wildasin a 36 year old Tipton man awaiting trial in Cedar Rapids federal court on 11 counts of using the mails to convey threats received a court ordered second psychiatric examination. Judge Edward J McManus ordered up to 90 days of study to assess historic and current competence. Wildasin has been in custody since April 15 arrest by U.S. marshals.
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Tipton
Carter
U.S
Edward J. McManus
Gary Wildasin
Cedar Rapids
Wildasin
Missouri
Rezoning Protest Over Harstad Westwood Drive Proposal
A protest gathers around Kenneth R Harstad s plan to re zone Westwood drive and avenue NW from R-2 to R-3 to allow multi family housing. About 40 residents signed objecting to the change and a public hearing is set for Aug 10. A petitioner claimed planning dept misinformation led to unnoticed planning commission and zoning committee discussions.
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Kenneth R. Harstad
Westwood Drive
Avenue NW
Planning Commission
Zoning Committee
Planning Department
River Pool Levels and River Stage Readings
River stage updates show city readings for Tuesday with flood brackets. LaCrosse 4.9 rising 0.4, Lansing 8.2 up 0.9, Dam 13.0 rising 0.4, McGregor 6.9 up 0.3, Guttenberg 4.8 up 0.1, Dubuque 9.0 rising 0.9, Davenport 6.8 up 3.2, Keokuk 3.1 rising 1.0, Cedar at C.R. 2.82 up 0.26.
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LaCrosse
Lansing
Dam
McGregor
Guttenberg
Dubuque
Davenport
Keokuk
C.R
Cedar Rapids Fire Log Highlights Monday Incidents
A sequence of fire log entries shows multiple alarms on Monday including lightning strikes to a house at 373 Twentieth Street SE and to a panel at 371 Twentieth Street, a transformer short at 5264 Council Street NE, rekindled fire at 2242 Twenty-sixth Street NW, and an overloaded circuit at 905 Seventeenth Avenue SE, plus alarms at 4:42 a.m. Tuesday for a malfunction at Tenth Avenue and First Street SW.
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Twentieth Street
Council Street
Twenty-sixth Street
Worthington Drive
Seventeenth Avenue
Tenth Avenue
First Street
Etna Erupts in Violent Display for Tourists
Mt Etna belched dense acrid smoke and lava on Sunday marking its most violent eruption in 18 months. Lava from the northeast crater streamed down treeless slopes for over half a mile as thousands of tourists watched from the east coast resorts. The 10 707 foot volcano last surged in February 1976 and November 1975 with widespread lava and brimstone eruptions.
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Etna
Catania
Mount Etna
Births and marriages listed in vital statistics
Birth notices list numerous families with birth dates and locations in Iowa including Mercy Burns Swisher July 18 and Bates, Rob ertson, Coch, Steel, Paterson, Decker, Walker, Archibald, Giannetto, Gorecki, Buelow, Delzel with various addresses. Marriage licenses granted to pairs in Cedar Rapids Marion Ely Central City and Poplar Bluff Missouri.
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St. Luke's
Donald Bates
E Avenue NW
Paul Robertson
Grand Avenue
Marion
Kenneth Coch
Fifth Avenue
Timothy Steel
Twelfth Street
Richard Paterson
First Avenue NE
Joel Decker
Second Avenue
Steve Walker
Twenty-seventh Street
James Archibald
Twenty-seventh Avenue
Harold D. Sisco
Nancy K. Sheriff
Mitchell W. Christensen
Deborah A. Sanders
F. Wallace Brown
Leila M. Curran
Patrick C. O’banion
Virginia R. Smith
Jack D. Strother
Dion P. Flanders
William E. Boots
Rebecca A. Schmidkonz
Cedar Rapids
Ronald G. Achey
Mary J. Johnston
William H. Fitzpatrick
Linda L. Bunting
Craig C. Cooper
Nancy A. Bergstrom
Cedar Rapids Gazette Subscription Rates and Address
The Cedar Rapids Gazette established in 1883 by The Gazette Co publishes daily and Sunday at 500 Third Ave SE Cedar Rapids Iowa 52406. Second class postage paid at Cedar Rapids Iowa. Subscription rates by carrier 1.05 per week by mail Afternoon Edition and Saturday and Sunday morning 7 issues 4.29 four weeks 46.00 52 weeks. Other states and U S territories 70.00 52 weeks. No Mail Subscriptions accepted in areas having Gazette carrier service. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all local news printed in this newspaper as well as AP dispatches.
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The
Gazette Co
Third Ave. SE
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
U.S
Gazette
Associated Press
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South Avenue
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Buelow
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