Mason City Globe-Gazette to Shift to Morning Edition
The Mason City Globe-Gazette, an evening paper since 1861, will become a morning newspaper on August 1. Publisher Gerald Moriarity cites industry trends and research showing stronger morning market growth. The Globe-Gazette is a Lee Enterprises division, with operations in Davenport and newspapers in Muscatine Ottumwa and Davenport.
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Mason City
Mason City Globe-Gazette
Gerald Moritarity
Moriarity
The
Globe-Gazette
Lee Enterprises Inc
Davenport
Lee
Muscatine
Ottumwa
Free entertainment for children set Sunday
A wide range of free summer activities for children and adults will be offered Sunday at Ellis Park as part of the Cedar Rapids Recreation Commission Second Annual Parks and Recreation Day. Highlights include a 9 a.m. four mile run from Manhattan Pavilion, Frisbee golf, free swimming 1 to 5 p.m., music and dancing 2 to 5 p.m., a Frisbee contest for grades K-9 at 2 p.m., a 1 p.m. softball throw for ages 5 to 15, and a 1 to 2:30 p.m. games program by the wading pool. A weekend softball tournament awaits Industrial A,B,C and church leagues with no admission fee. An information booth, equipment checkouts, and no registration required. For more info call 398-5065.
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Ellis Park
Cedar Rapids Recreation
Riverside Pavilion
Ellis Pool
Final arguments in Odem murder case conclude today
Final arguments will be presented today and jury deliberation is expected to begin in the first degree murder trial of Robert Wayne Odem 24 of Alexander. The case concerns the Dec 27 shootings of William Smith 27 and his wife Kimberly in their Latimer home. June Odem testified she never heard her husband mention William Smith.
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Charles City
UPI
Robert Wayne Odem
Alexander
Odem
William Smith
Kimberly
Latimer
June Odem
Summer paving projects hit Johnson County detour zones
Johnson County Iowa will see about 6,200 square yards of pavement repaired in three DOT projects. The largest bid process runs June 23 for 2,900 square yards of patching on US 218 between Iowa City and Cedar Rapids, including 1,600 on the same highway near the Veterans Admin Hospital. Traffic will be restricted to two lanes in work areas. evening patching may affect motorists and priorities target the worst sections first. A second project patches 1,300 square yards near the VA Hospital along US 218, while a third on Iowa 1 south of Iowa City will reduce four lanes to two, with timing to be announced.
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Iowa City
Johnson County
Iowa Department of Transportation
Will Zitterich
Cedar Rapids
Zitterich
Veterans Administration Hospital
Highway 218
Linn County officials back plan for courthouse phones
Linn County officials favor a new courthouse telephone system. Clerk Ken Perry asked supervisors to consider phones for his office. Chairwoman Oxley proposed a cross department meeting with the telephone company. Rinas to arrange bids and specifications, aiming for best value within about three months. Existing county phones include the Administrative Office Building and the engineering building, with most other lines leased from Northwestern Bell.
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Linn County
Sheriffs Department
Linn
Ken Perry
Jean Oxley
Oxley
Joe Rinas
Sheriff's Department
Rinas
Dave Dicken
County Engineering-Conservation
Marion
Northwestern Bell
Center Point senior Polly Carver wins $500 broadcasting award
Polly Carver of Center Point, the 1981 salutatorian at Center Point High School, is awarded a $500 R J McElroy Broadcasting prize. She plans to study vocal music at the University of Northern Iowa and use the award toward her college goals.
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Center Point
R.J. McElroy Broadcasting
Polly Carver
University of Northern Iowa
Carver
Volunteer Alert Community tool library seeks male volunteers
Community tool library requests men to volunteer from 2 to 5 p.m. on Monday Wednesday and Friday in June and July at the HACAP building. Contact Frank McKeehan Marvin Ned row or Don Patterson for shifts, or phone the neighborhood centers for placements. various other Cedar Rapids volunteer options listed with contact numbers.
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HACAP
Eighth Ave
Frank McKeehan
Marvin Nedrow
Don Patterson
St. Luke's Hospital
M. Glass
Council On Aging
Foundation II
Third Ave
Gladys Pike
Thief Steals Goods From Cedar Rapids Coca-Cola Plant
Police report a weekend break in at the Coca-Cola bottling plant 863 33rd Ave SW Cedar Rapids. A refrigerated truck was entered and 120 pounds of Butter-Nut Coffee valued at 320 dollars plus a case of Minute-Maid orange juice worth 30 dollars and seven cases of Hi-C fruit drink valued at 150 dollars were taken.
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Somethief
Coca-Cola Co
Coca-Cola
Cedar Rapids
33Rd Ave
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