Mormons to Note Pioneer Day in Cedar Rapids
In Cedar Rapids area near Coralville a handcart expedition of 1 200 converts in 1856 linked to Utah Pioneer Day is commemorated. A group will meet at Noelridge Park to mark the 1849 Utah event and the handcart journey from England funded by Brigham Young and counselors. The article recalls Iowa City detachment details amid the 1856 trek.
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Gazette
L. W. Ward
Camp Wapsie-Y
Wapsipinicon
Central City
Coggon
Cedar Rapids
Salt Lake City
Clearcreek
Coralville
Highway 6
Iowa City
Noelridge Park
Utah
England
Young
Salt Lake Valley
Plains
Stone Capitol Building
Iowa River
Five Mormon Pioneers Memorial Resting Spot on Highway 6
One thousand two hundred pioneers began the trek from Iowa City toward Salt Lake Valley with delays and ill equipped carts. By the time they reached the valley in November two detachments survived while 225 were buried along the way. A marker near Coralville commemorates the five companies.
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Willie
Martin
Salt Lake Valley
Iowa City
Florence
Neb
Salt Lake City
Highway 6
Coralville
Oxford doctors build valve bank from crash victims
A team at Oxford University is collecting human heart valves from auto crash victims with relatives' permission. The valves are harvested soon after death and used to replace diseased aortic valves in older patients.
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Oxford
England
Russia increases overseas radio broadcasts in 1962
UPI reports from the U S Information Agency showing Soviet broadcasts to Africa rising from 734 to 112 hours weekly, to the Far East from 117 to 180 hours, and to Latin America from 4544 to 1014 hours. Total international broadcasting reached 1205 hours weekly, with Red China second at 780 and VOA third at 761 hours.
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Congress
Africa
Far East
Latin America
Russia
Soviet Union
Red China
U.S
Voice of America
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