Belle Plaine depot to lose its only full time worker
The Belle Plaine depot in Eastern Iowa will close after ending Clarence Fisher’s tenure as the sole full time employee for the Chicago and North Western Railway Co. Once a bustling station with hundreds of staff, the facility will cease most operations and shift work to Cedar Rapids while portions serve as storage and for crews.
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Belle Plaine
Iowa
Clarence Fisher
Chicago & North Western Railway Co
George Preston
Belle
C&nw
Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids woman wins Calibur Award for government service
Carroll Roy a social worker at Veterans Hospital Iowa City received the Calibur Award from House Speaker Tip O Neill in Washington D C for improving life quality of chronic kidney patients. She organized nationwide dialysis travel for patients and a 244 day mini vacation for 25 patients nurses and a doctor to Adventureland and Lake Okoboji.
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Cedar Rapids
Carrol Roy
Woodview Drive
Tip O'Neill
Washington, D.C
Congress
Veterans Administration
Michael D. Barnes
Armed Services
Roy
Veterans Hospital
Lake Okoboji
Burglars Hit Central City Cabins and Cedar Rapids Homes
Weekend burglaries across Central City and Cedar Rapids targeted cabins, stores, garages and residences. Items stolen included cash, vehicles, tools, firearms, ice cream and groceries, with several burglaries discovered Monday morning. Authorities report multiple locations: Claude Swarts and Orville Broxey cabins, Walker Lanes and Cafe, Dairy Queen, Surplus Store, Smith Garage, Hardman residence, Peebles residence, and Evarts residence.
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Central City
Cedar Rapids
Claude Swarts
Orville Broxey
Swarts
Broxey
Walker
Dairy Queen
Sixth St
Shotgun Call Sparks Cedar Rapids Attack Suspects Flee
A Cedar Rapids man, Steven R. Frendle, awoke to pounding at his door early Saturday. After a brief encounter a man hit him with a gun butt and another man joined in. Frendle shouted for his wife to bring the shotgun and the attackers fled in a car. Police seek two Black men in their 20s. no description of the woman was given.
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Steven R. Frendle
12Th St. NE
Frendle
Michael Bottoms
Cedar Rapids
Anaheim
Calif
California
Bottoms
Virginia
97 Visa cards mailed in error to Illinois couple
Bonnie and Larry Dallas received 97 Visa credit cards after a computer error at Commerce Bank of Kansas City. The Cards, issued in Bonnie Dallas's name, arrived despite a closed account. The couple cut up and returned the cards and noted two more cards arrived weeks later.
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Bethalto, Ill
Bonnie Dallas
Larry
Commerce Bank of Kansas
Dallas
Continued fight seen against abortion measure
The Supreme Court upheld the Hyde Amendment limiting federal funding for most welfare abortions drawing reaction from Cedar Rapids and Iowa City clinics. Barb Buchanan of the Cedar Rapids Clinic for Women said the decision hurts low income women and predicts more term pregnancies or adoptions as options. Paula Klein of Emma Goldman Clinic echoed concern noting most Medicare funded abortions ended decades ago and urging continuation of the fight to repeal Hyde.
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Barb Buchanan
Cedar Rapids
16Th Ave
Buchanan
the Gazette Today
Henry Hyde
R-Ill
Paula Klein
Emma Goldman
Iowa City
the Gazette
National Abortion Rights Action League
Klein
Supreme Court
Five bar patrons charged after Chappie's Tap beer incident
Five patrons face charges for violating business rules after police found beer on the counter at Chappie's Tap in Des Moines. LaDonna Rich Janet Mullin Dennis Ferch David Stevenson and Dan Watson were arrested and released after promising to appear in court.
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F Ave
LaDonna F. Rich
G. Ave
Janet J. Mullin
Concord Lane
Dennis A. Ferch
Des Moines
David L. Stevenson
C. Ave
Dan L. Watson
Second Ave
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C.R
Emilie Hoppe
Gazette
Ing
Fourth St
Smith Garage
16Th St. NE
Wesley W. Hardman
38Th St. Drive SE
Rona K. Peebles
Fifth Ave. SE
Terry J. Evarts
14Th St
Stokely Carmichael
Harmon Killebrew
U.S. Supreme Court
Metro Roundup
Ronald C. Stivers
Summer Circle NE
Mercy Hospital
Stivers
Five Seasons
Mount Vernon
Mark A. Graber
Lisbon
Graber
Robert A. Raim
Raim
Cleveland
Wayne Murdock
29Th Street
First Avenue West
27Th Street
Murdock
First Avenue
Council
Cleveland Street
Edgewood Road
Edgewood
Walcott
UPI
Interstate 80
Department of Transportation
Ernesto Jeminez
Glendale
Jeminez
Walcott Exchange
Sta
Davenport
Church of the Four Square Gospel
First Ave
U.S
Cambodia
Paene
Westdale Mall
Penney
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