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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1980
Page
4
The 800 block of First Street SW is being cleared for a corn milling operation. A company official said the construction timeline will be finalized in about a month. Milling had stopped at Penick and Ford in 1977 and plans now call for resuming at about 30,000 to 35,000 bushels daily, about half the prior rate.
Merle M. Price seeks 400000 from William D. Mahnke and Michael and Tracey Srebnicki after a July crash involving a motorcycle and two cars on Interstate 380. Price alleges Mahnke failed to secure a box blown from a rear truck and Srebnicki stopped in the highway, causing Price to be thrown from the motorcycle with permanent injuries.
Six medics including the Marengo division manager threaten to end service unless the Iowa County Board of Supervisors arranges a solution. The mass resignation follows ongoing harassment claims by Keith and Elsie Young who lease the county ambulances. The supervisors planned to review the issue, while the crew urged a third party to oversee operations.
Eastern Iowa CAP agency HACAP coordinates local meetings to form a Poor People's Congress with 16 delegates. Low income participants register at HACAP centers. sessions include parliamentary procedures, voter registration, and panels from Social Services and Legal Services Corp. of Iowa. Des Moines hosts the statewide congress September 19–20.
Paul Gade, 22, a University of Iowa student from Whittemore, was ordered to undergo psychiatric testing at Oakdale. He pleaded not guilty to second degree burglary in a car theft from Cedar Rapids, tied to incidents June 26 and 27, including stealing two vehicles, damaging cemetery headstones, entering two homes nude, a hit and run, driving the wrong way, and disobeying a traffic signal. Trial on the burglary charge is set for Sept. 29.
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