Death notices roundup from Cedar Rapids area
Obituaries detail Maude Ring 91 of Manchester and Elizabeth Murdock 78 of Cedar Rapids, plus Alice Irene Hanson 61 and Laurence A. Davis 68 formerly of Mount Vernon. Includes Frank Cesek 80, Leonard Campbell 88, and others with service dates, burial places, and family survivors across Iowa cities.
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Maude Ring
Meth-Wick Manor
South Dakota
Herbert Ring
Manchester
Ring
Cedar Rapids
Cornell College
Mt. Vernon
Columbia University
New York
Iowa
David Ring
Tiburon
Calif
Edith Taylor
United Methodist Church
Oakland Cemetery
Bohnenkamp Funeral Home
Alice Irene Hanson
Fourteenth Avenue SE
Joseph Hanson
Centerville
Hanson
Mercy Hospital
Calvin Sinclair Presbyterian Church
Air Force
Rock Island Railroad Lodge
George Edaburn
Joyce Merrifield
Marengo
Robert Stefek
Campbell Cemetery
Danish Book World cleared for theater permit despite delays
The Danish Book World at 1601 Sixth Street SW is cleared to receive a theater permit after building and traffic reviews. Officials say inspections are complete and only council authorization remains, with no violations found and no legal barriers anticipated.
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Danish Book World
Sixth Street
Gareth Clift
Tara Enterprises
Ed Winter
Senate blocks funds for Vietnam era pardon program
The Senate voted 44 to 38 to bar administration use of any money to carry out President Carter's blanket pardon for draft resistors. Senator Hatfield had sought to strike the House language in a $7.7 billion funding bill affecting state justice and related agencies, saying it would gut the pardon and violate the president's pardon power.
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Washington
Senate
Mark Hatfield
R-Ore
House
Departments of State, Justice, Commerce
Hatfield
Carter
Man Charged in June 12 Kidnaping
Thomas Albert Congdon aged 23 of 5921 Quailcourt SW was arrested on a warrant charging him with the June 12 kidnapping of Susan McCarville of the Montrose hotel. He allegedly abducted her at knife point and drove to Oak Brook Illinois where police stopped him for traffic violations. McCarville reported the incident to Illinois police who held Congdon until Cedar Rapids police extradited him. FBI officials declined involvement citing criteria not met for kidnapping.
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Thomas Albert Congdon
Quailcourt
Susan McCarville
Montrose Hotel
Congdon
McCarville
Oak Brook
Ill
Illinois
Cedar Rapids
FBI
No Break In Benton Murder Probe
Officials in Benton county reported no new information in the murder investigation of 74 year old Charles Placar, shot at his rural Luzerne home. A sheriff's deputy said investigators had some good theories and expected developments, as the probe continued into Friday afternoon.
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Benton County
Charles Placar
Luzerne
Placar
Ohio Man to Braille School
The Iowa Board of Regents named Dr. Richard M. DeMott as superintendent of the Iowa Braille and Sight-Saving School in Vinton. He will be ratified at the July 1 regents meeting and is set to begin in August after serving as principal of the Ohio State School for the Blind. DeMott holds degrees from Michigan State University and did post‑degree work at the University of Northern Iowa. He previously was associate superintendent at IBSSS in Vinton.
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Vinton
Iowa Board of Regents
Des Moines
Richard M. DeMott
Iowa Braille and Sight- Saving School
IBSSS
DeMott
Charles Woddcock
Perkins School For the Blind
Watertown
Mass
Ohio State School For the Blind
Michigan State University
University of Northern Iowa
Iowa City Man Faces Charges After Early Morning Chase
William R English of Iowa City faces 12 traffic charges after an early morning pursuit ending at the intersection of highways 6 and 218. He is charged with drunk driving driving with a suspended license failing to yield to an emergency vehicle reckless driving three counts of speeding three traffic sign violations and an improper muffler.
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Iowa City
William R. English
English
Linn Jail Escapee Back in Custody
The second of two Linn county jail inmates who escaped June 13 returned to custody Friday. Officials say Michael Bottoms was located in Cedar Rapids and Chase Thom as entered the jail after sawing through a basement window bar. Investigators have not yet interviewed Chase about his surrender.
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Linn County
Linn
Thomas Chase
Michael Bottoms
Chase
Asman
Bottoms
Cedar Rapids
Four charged with drunk driving in Thursday incidents
Deputies report Lonnie Sterner nineteen drove a car into a John Black pickup on route 1 Swisher at 11 35 p m. Sterner arrested at 3000 J street SW for drunk driving. Three others, Milbert Huber fifty three Hugh Ellis and Ronald Sauerbry, were taken into custody for drunken driving at various times and places Thursday.
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Sheriff's
Lonnie Sterner
Route 1
Swisher
John Black
J Street
Sterner
Milbert Huber
Twenty Sixth Street
Wilson Avenue
Rockford Road
Iowa House blocks UNI bargaining reopening amid two year terms
In a clash over collective bargaining the Iowa House adopted an amendment voiding a tentative UNI faculty agreement with the state board of regents. The measure enforces two year contracts with no reopeners and sets March 15 as the negotiation deadline in odd numbered years. The special session followed the 1977 legislature adjournment.
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Ray
Joint Budget Committee
University of Northern Iowa
State Board of Regents
Uni-Regents
Iowa House
Colton and Canney clash over police chief post and city rules
Colton criticized Mayor Canney for fussing over a single civil service status while the city violates state law on civil service for most employees. He accused Canney of misleading citizens on an animal control ordinance and of intimidation in police department matters.
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Colton
Canney
Iowa City
McGuire
Supreme Court splits over parochial school aid across nine opinions
The court ruled eight to one that diagnostic testing aid is allowed and six to three for therapy off campus. It upheld textbook loans and testing but found field trip assistance unconstitutional with five justice majority. The decision allows state aid if therapists work with children off school grounds in a non secular setting.
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William Brennan
Thurgood Marshall
John Paul Stevens
Brennan
Marshall
Warren Burger
Byron White
William Rehnquist
Powell
Pennsylvania
Supreme Court
Sex Slayer Witness Escape Ties to County Ruthless Case
Hart, serving 40 to 140 years for rape kidnapping and burglary, escaped from Mayes County jail while awaiting trial as a witness. He had worked at Granite reformatory with a former prison photographer who helped process wedding photos found near the murder scene, including faded images of the daughter in law of a reformatory employee. The photographs appear to have provided a major break in the investigation.
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Hart
McAlester
Mayes County
Granite Reformato
Burns Blasts Johnson Audit in Iowa City
Former Johnson county supervisor Bob Burns accuses State Auditor Lloyd Smith of ignoring 4357 in illegal claims in a 1975 76 audit. He cites Embree payments to a deputy auditor and says supervisors twice rejected Embree’s hiring while auditor Rogers hired her temporarily.
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Iowa City
Bob Burns
Johnson County
Burns
Lloyd Smith
Delores Rogers
Embree
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Elizabeth B. Murdock
Thirteenth Street
San Antonio
Texas
Springfield
Hobart Murdock
Austin
First Baptist Church of
Betty Ford
Atlanta
First Baptist Church
Laurence A. Davis
Denver
Colo
Hazel Christensen
Blair
Neb
Time
D.C. Trucking Co
Moose Lodge
Francis A. Davis
Anamosa
Cedar Memorial Chapel of Memories
William Harnish
Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery
Cedar Memorial Funeral Home
Frank Cesek
Seventeenth Avenue SE
Czechoslovakia
United States
D.A. Loferski
Czech National Cemetery
Kuba Funeral Home
Leonard Campbell
Waukon
Veterans Memorial Hospital
Allamakee County
Hazel Riley
William
Campbell
Hazel Burke
Mary Goltz
Kathryn Hohwinkle
Marion
St. Patrick’s Catholic Church
Hanson Funeral Home
Hanson’s
Mt. Olivet
Christian Alan
Cedar Memorial
Max I. Hall
Marquette
Leo
Louise) Lucey
Thornburg’s
McGregor
Council Hill
Harry E. Calvert
Powell’s
Carl H. Haltmeyer
Shelly’s
Friends
Chelsea
Charles Kupka
Hrabak’s Independence
Cora L. Johnson
White’s. Olin
Lawrence Bruce
Goettsch’s
Pearl L. Geater
Wesley United Methodist Church
Campbell-Russell’s
Bear Creek Cemetery
Lois Keller
Don Canney
League of Iowa Municipalities
Hal Schaefer
Ed Colton
Tara
Stan Reinis
Winter
Public Improvements
Richard Phillips
Mt. Vernon Rd
Man
Benton
Pierson’s Flowershop & Greenhouses, Inc
Ellis Blvd
N.W
Avenue Floral and Botanicals
16Th Ave. S.W
Johnson
of Embree
John E. Lopes
3Rd Ave
S.E
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