Marines Vanish in Iraqi Canal Drowning Tragedy
In Nasiriyah area on March 24 during the Iraq war Marine Sgt Bradley Korthaus from Davenport Illinois and Cpl Evan James of LaHarpe Illinois drowned while swimming the Saddam Canal to reach the north bank. Fellow Marines Alden Conrad Joel Graves and Joshua Lukehart joined a rescue effort as divers later retrieved their bodies from thick mud.
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Des Moines
Bradley Korthaus
Saddam Canal
Iraq
Korthaus
Davenport
Illinois
Evan James
LaHarpe
Nasiriyah
William Leonhardt
Peoria
Ill
6Th Engineer
Alden Conrad
Princeville
Joel Graves
University of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign
James
Graves
Conrad
South Bank
Cpl
Joshua Lukehart
Chillicothe
Lukehart
Navy
Ramblin on cell phones and etiquette in daily life
A reader and columnist shares snippets about cell phone use and etiquette. The notes reference interruptions in dance and driving, quotes about phones as electronic leashes, and readers’ frustrations with modern handheld devices. Dave Rasdal’s column runs Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays.
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Dave Rasdal
Rasdal
Gazettecommunications.com
GazetteOnline
Verlon adopts plastic tile method in Tipton area
Verlon, working for Tony Schroeder of Tipton, switches to long plastic tile tubes in the early 1970s after demonstrating their durability in a sandy Howard Baxa field near Sutliff. He notes plastic tiles have a 100 year guarantee and warns clay tiles must be buried below the frost line to avoid freezing and disintegration.
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Tony Schroeder
Tipton
Verlon
Schroeder
Donalee Weaver
Howard Baxa
Sutliff
Howard
35 year old letter arrives in Iowa from 1968
A San Francisco stamped letter mailed June 11 1968 to Donald E Gallagher arrives at a Council Bluffs clinic 35 years late. Clinic workers opened it and learned it was written by Chet Gallagher to his family with news of his move to California and military service.
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Iowa
San Francisco
Council Bluffs
Tammy Welch
Donald E. Gallagher
Chet Gallagher
California
Chet
Tom Gallagher
Jerry Keller
Cuts Threaten ISU Agriculture College Funding
Iowa State University faces major budget cuts of 2 million in the College of Agriculture. The reductions hit Extension Service and state research farms, with the Ames dairy farm slated to close and faculty vacancies unfunded. Wendy Wintersteen calls the move necessary despite impacts on dairy genetics education.
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Ames Dairy Farm
Atlantic
Rhodes
United States
ISU
Wendy Wintersteen
Agriculture College
Lost Davenport soldier's battalion comes home
In Peoria Illinois two Marines from Davenport and LaHarpe were honored at a welcome home parade for C Company 6th Engineering Support Battalion. The service remembered Sgt Bradley Korthaus and Cpl Evan James who died in a March drowning in Iraq.
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Peoria, Ill
Iraq
Bradley Korthaus
Davenport
Evan James
LaHarpe
Peoria
Ill
C” Company
Korthaus
James
John Sullivan
D-Rushville
Pat Quinn
Ray LaHood
R-Ill
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Shirley
Brucemore
Nancy Mortimore
Julie Fowler
Pam Satern
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Don
Red Green
Collins Road
K-Mart
Marion
Seventh Avenue
Narlene
Lucas
Inwry
Center Point Rd
Ed Abry
LaHood
Joanne Garlisch
Manito
Lance Cpl
Jared Garlisch
C’ Company
Maj
Michael McCarthy
Steve
Marilyn Korthaus
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