Storm knocks out power and damages spread across Iowa
A severe storm last night left 27 minute outages on Vernon Road SE and East Post Road SE while causing damage across Cedar Rapids, Swisher, Wyoming, and Tama County. Trees fell on lines, winds and lightning sparked outages. two Cedar Rapids youths escaped injury when a mulberry tree split a campers tent. many areas faced downed trees, blocked streets, and property damage including eight wrecked trailers at Lake Iowa and a plane forced to land due to fog near Delaware.
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Tarek Schoner
Cedar Rapids
Tarek
Iowa
Brook Hakill
Norwood Drive
Hukill
Jason Wasek
Jason
Ingrid Kasner
19Th St. SE
John Akers
19Th St
Richard Schoners
Lori Drive
Williamsburg
Mike Gabriel
Maquoketa Valley
AEC
Center Junction
Zwingle
Manchester
Vinton
Iowa City
Coralville
Hills
Carl Pippert
Tama County
Glenn Andrews
Delaware
Andrews
Memphis
Tenn
Troy Mills
Oshkosh
Wis
Highway Patrol
CIA estimates slower Soviet growth through the 1980s
In congressional testimony CIA Director Stansfield Turner says the Soviet Union faces agriculture and energy problems that will create a major economic headache and force changes in foreign trade policy. Growth is seen under 3 percent for the near term and then declining, with Moscow needing more Western imports. ON THIS DATE in 1978 a Belgrade non aligned nations meeting ended without firm positions.
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Washington
Central Intelligence Agency
Soviet Union
Kremlin
Russia
CIA
Stansfield Turner
Turner
Belgrade
Cedar Rapids considers 4 day week for 37 city workers
Cedar Rapids Public Improvements Commissioner Richard Phillips will ask the City Council to approve a 60 day experimental four day work week for 37 employees in the traffic engineering and sewer maintenance departments. The plan would use four 10 hour days and could start August 1 with a 45 day evaluation.
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Cedar Rapids
Phillips
Textbook budgets under fire at education publishing convention
At the three day Pi Beta Alpha convention in New York the education publishing official Robert Rasmussen argued textbooks are cut from school budgets and old books are reused. He warned that in many districts textbook purchasing has fallen to 0.64 percent of budgets and highlighted yearly spending with Proportion 13 concerns and five year renewal cycles. He urged a planned acquisition program and noted textbooks remain a key management system for schools.
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Educational Publishing Association
Roosevelt Hotel
Robert Rasmussen
The
Associa
Tion
American Publishers Inc
New York
Rasmussen
Two Motorcyclists Hospitalized After Weekend Accidents
Arnold D. Deeds Jr., 19, of 1837 B Ave NE and Larry A. Bickel, 27, of 1020 Ninth St NW were hospitalized in good condition at St Luke’s Hospital after separate weekend crashes. Deeds lost control while turning from 19th Street onto B Avenue NE, slid into a curb, and faced licensing charges. Bickel, traveling on Ellis Boulevard NW, ran a stop light and collided with a car driven by Charles O Wilson, who was not injured.
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St. Luke’s Hospital
Arnold D. Deeds Jr
B. Ave
19Th Street
B Avenue NE
Deeds
Iowa
Larry A. Bickel
Ninth St
F Avenue
Ellis Boulevard
Bickel
Ellis
Charles O. Wilson
D Ave
Wilson
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Iowa County
Earl O’brien
O’brien
Solon
Bob Carson
Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Service
Edgar A. Uhl
Council Bluffs
Mercy Hospital
David J. Lighty
Springville
Tom W. Silver
Anamosa
Moscow
Springfield
Richard Phillips
Gelectric
2Nd Avenue
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Thurs
Linda Kay
Shelly Lynn
Shelly Lynn Figure Salon
Center Point Road
Arthur St
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