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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1981
Page
7
History repeats in Cedar Rapids as Kenny Rogers fans line up days early for tickets to the July 15 Five Seasons Center show. By noon today about 30 fans waited outside with a 20 ticket limit per buyer. Debbie Davis of Marion will be first to buy when box office opens.
On this date in 1811 the American novelist Harriett Beecher Stowe was born. She wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, a work cited for its anti slavery stance and its impact on the abolitionist movement.
Peter Wickham of the Cedar Rapids Audubon Society says the proposed Linn County road through Squaw Creek Park near Marion would destroy its wild character. He plans to ask the Linn County Conservation Board to consider alternatives at a Monday 7 p.m. meeting. The board and Linn County Supervisors have approved over 70,000 dollars for construction, which would route south of Squaw Creek Lodge toward camping areas while bypassing the lake. Wickham urges keeping interior park areas wild and proposes developing only outer sections to limit automobile access.
At 12:15 p.m. Thursday a car driven by Elfrieda Matthias 53 of Fairbank pulled from a stop sign on Fayette County Road V-62 and struck the left front of a westbound truck driven by Lee Okones 50 of Palo at the intersection with Iowa Highway 3 about a mile north of Oran. Damages were estimated at 2000 with no injuries. Matthias was charged with failure to yield.
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