Solar energy movement grows after Iowa conference
About 150 attendees from solar, plumbing, and construction fields at Stouffer's Five Seasons Hotel heard tutorials and project results. Mary O’Halloran, DOE regional rep, urged unified national effort and discussed Carter proposals including a 20 percent solar goal by 2000 and tax credits, while noting funding uncertainties and political divisions.
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Stouffer’s
Five Seasons Hotel
Carter
O’halloran
Energy Security Trust Fund
Congress
Love given concurrent prison terms for murder and attempted murder
Willie Love, 34, of Cedar Rapids, received concurrent sentences for second degree murder and attempted murder. The judge set the terms as up to 25 years and 10 years respectively with no fine, ruling concurrent service. The case involved Ernest and William Gibson at a Cedar Rapids tavern where Ernest died from wounds.
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Willie Love
Cedar Rapids
Linn District Court
August Hansell Jr
John Ehrhardt
Love
Henry Nathanson
Ernest Gibson
William Gibson
Gibson
Nathanson
State grant approved for Vinton airport
The Iowa Department of Transportation approved a 186 200 grant to grade the proposed east west runway at Vinton airport. The project aims to replace a discontinued east west sod runway and a north south asphalt runway with a 4 000 by 75 foot paved strip. Engineering should finish by autumn and grading could start afterward.
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Vinton
Iowa
Airport Commission
Gary Thudium
Thudium
Boy Pulled From Pool In Cedar Rapids Rescue
A five year old Cedar Rapids boy was hospitalized in good condition at Mercy Hospital after being pulled from Cherry Hill pool Friday afternoon. Lifeguards cleared his throat and he began breathing again. His mother and pool staff acted quickly to prevent a drowning.
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Cedar Rapids
Mercy Hospital
Cherry Hill
Devin Stauffacher
Stevan C. Stauffachers
First Avenue
Doug Parsons
Iowa City
Stauffacher
Parsons
Patriarch Elias IV Remembered at St George Antiochian Church
St George Antiochian Orthodox Church at 1202 10th St SE holds a memorial service for Elias IV Patriarch of Antioch and all the East who died in Damascus Syria at age 65. Born in Lebanon he was enthroned September 27 1970 and became the first Orthodox patriarch to visit the United States in 1977.
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St. George Antiochian Orthodox Church
St. SE
Elias IV
Antioch
All the East
Damascus
Syria
Lebanon
United States
Stevenson files to run for city council at large
Robert Stevenson 56 of Iowa City has filed papers to run for city council at large in the November 8 election. A minister of the Universal Life Church and former Cedar Falls Waterloo area resident, Stevenson previously ran for mayor in Waterloo. Filing deadline is September 13, with a October primary if field is crowded.
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Iowa City
Robert Stevenson
Stevenson
Universial Life Church
Cedar Falls
Waterloo
York given 25 year term on sex abuse charge
Ricky York, 21, University of Iowa student from Chicago, was sentenced to 25 years in Johnson County District Court for second degree sexual abuse in an March 4 attack on an Iowa City woman. He fled Iowa City after the verdict and was later arrested in Chicago.
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University of Iowa
Ricky York
Chicago
Johnson County
Robert Osmundson
York
Iowa City
Cook County
Emmet Clark
Supreme Court
Minnesota joins in cement price fixing suit
Minnesota joins a multi state antitrust suit accusing 45 cement manufacturers of illegally fixing prices. The Minnesota petition was filed in U S District Court in St Paul and aligns with actions from Arizona California Colorado Kansas Nebraska and Missouri. Defendants include Northwestern States of Mason City Iowa and Lehigh of Pennsylvania active in Iowa.
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Minnesota
Arizona
Alan Maclin
Antitrust
Maclin
Northwestern States
Mason City
Iowa
Lehigh
Pennsylvania
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Gazette
West Branch
Mary O’halloran
Department of Energy
Kansas City
Mary O'Halloran
Defense
Gerald Kucera
Hansell
Vinton Airport
Barlows
Barlow
Edgewood R. S.W
1St Avenue
Armar Drive
Lindale Plaza
St. George's
Edgewood Road
Denen
Henry Witwer
Witwer Insurance
Pioneer
Sony
Technics
Garrard
Advent
Sony Onkyo Polk Audio
Polk Audio
Third Ave
Dennis, John & Gordon P
BankAmericaid
VISA
ONKYO
Bang
Olufsen
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