Opening Arguments in Funeral Directors Suit Highlight Pre Need Contracts
In Linn district court the Cedar Memorial Funeral Home Co proceeds against Personnel Associates with The Iowa Funeral Directors and Embalmers Assn. joining as intervenor. Testimony and arguments focus on whether pre need contracts are humane planning aids or self serving competition, with concerns over licensing, insurance, and compliance with Iowa law. Nellie Schillig and David Linge testified as intervenors’ witnesses as the case unfolds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linn District Court
Cedar Memorial Funeral Home Co
Personnel Associates
Iowa Funeral Directors and Embalmers Assn., Inc
Nellie Schillig
Funeral Home
Funeral Directors Association
David Linge
Cedar Memorial Co
Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery Assn
David Elderkin
Harry Wilmarth
Elderkin
Merchants National Bank
Iown
Cedar Memorial
Cedar ‘Memorial
Wilmarth
Military notices and promotions across Iowa cities
The item lists nineteen new enlistees sent to San Diego and Fort Bliss for training, plus Army delayed program entrants. It notes Chaplain Dean A. Morey receiving the Army Commendation Medal in Vietnam, officers promoted in Japan and Vietnam, a fireman home from San Diego, and several air force and Korea to Alaska movements. Also mentions a TV movie and a legal suit over pre need contracts and a temporary injunction against Cedar Memorial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lloydena Taylor
Lloyd R. Taylor
Ninth Avenue
Japan
Dewey A. Petersen
Nellie Petersen
Martelle
Vietnam
Thomas D. Wilcox
George T. Wilcox
Northwood Drive
Patrick Driscoll
Patrick M. Dr
Meeting Tuesday For Renters of Market Spaces
A meeting of all persons wishing to rent space in the city market during the 1968 season will be held at the City Market building Tuesday at 7 30 p m. Leases may be signed and stall rental paid at this meeting. The market opens May 4 and runs each Tuesday Thursday and Saturday 5 a m to noon until November 2. Kelly Melsha will serve as market master. 1967 lessees have priority and first choice on keeping their 1967 spaces. Rental rate remains 100 dollars for the season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kelly Melsha
John N. Nichols
Cedar Rapids Plans Sewage Sludge Dewatering Station
The federal government approves a $392,700 grant for Cedar Rapids to build a fly ash based sludge dewatering facility at the city treatment plant. Commissioner Joe G Moore Jr of the Interior Dept WPCP calls it a demonstration project to test new sludge handling methods. Total project cost is about $1.52 million with much federal funding expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Joe G. Moore, Jr
Department of the Interior
Water Pollution Control Administration
Moore
Public Improvements
Donald Canney
Iowa
Many Florida Teachers Back All in Pittsburgh
Florida's 18 000 striking teachers largely returned to classrooms after a three week walkout. In Duval and Pinellas counties hard core members stayed out awaiting rehiring of resigned teachers. Pinellas reports show about 1500 of 3450 teachers still idle while Duval counts top 1600 of 5200 off work.
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Tallahassee
Fla
Florida
Jacksonville
St. Petersburg
Duval County
Wiley Bowers
Duval County Teachers Association
Fred Cekan
Pinellas County Classroom Teachers Association
Pinellas
Duval
Galloway Sentencing Planned Amid Florida Walkout Fallout
Robert Galloway, 36, of 3023 Waveland Drive NW, pled guilty in Linn district court to forgery and faces sentencing Friday by Judge Harold D. Vietor. The case comes as Florida teachers rally against protest terminations and statewide walkout as unions press for reinstatement and higher school funding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phil Constans
Florida Education Association
Floyd Christian
Robert Galloway
Waveland Drive
Linn District Court
Harold D. Vietor
Galloway
Thunderbird Lounge
Cedar Rapids Teens Charged in Car Malicious Injury
Two Cedar Rapids boys aged 16 and 17 were arrested early Sunday and charged with malicious injury to a motor vehicle. They allegedly knocked out front side and rear windows of a car owned by Ricky C. Maker on Ninth Avenue SW with about 250 dollars in damage. They were processed by the youth bureau and released to their parents, with cases referred to the probation office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Ricky C. Maker
Nineteenth Avenue
Youth Bureau
Four Cedar Rapids Girls Arrested for Larceny Charge
Four Cedar Rapids girls were arrested Sunday night and charged with larceny. Three females aged 18 and 19 remained in the city jail Monday, with one 17-year-old released to her parents. The arrests followed a report that $5 was taken from Kathy Green in the Paramount theater restroom.
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Cedar Rapids
Joyce L. Collins
Tenth Street
Brenda J. Johnson
Ninth Avenue SE
Rhonda D. Knox
Kathy J. Green
Sunrise Trailer Court
Paramount Theater
Work Starts on Two Projects at Hawkeye Downs
Hawkeye Downs begins two improvements led by Manager Billy Greiner. Crews started a $6,000 roof on the main exhibition building and will begin a $10,000 concession area under the grandstand with a 20 by 40 foot footprint and patio. Both projects target completion in April.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hawkeye Downs
Billy Greiner
Greiner
C R Man 21 Faces Three Charges Linked to Assault Case
Ronald L. O'Brien 21 of 137 Nineteenth Street NE posted 110 bond on two assault and battery counts and a resisting an officer charge. He was arrested on warrants Sunday for two counts of assault and battery and allegedly struck his estranged wife Carol on two occasions Saturday. He faced resisting an officer while booked at police headquarters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ronald L. O’brien
Nineteenth Street
O’brien
Iwo
Carol
LaFollette Announces Run for Wisconsin Governor
Atty General Bronson LaFollette 32 announces he will seek the Wisconsin governorship citing a need for a progressive spirit. He is the grandson of Fighting Bob LaFollette and faces Gov. Warren Knowles, who led the GOP sweep in 1966, in the November race. Knowles plans to announce after the April 2 primary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Wis
UPI
Bronson LaFollette
LaFollette
Wisconsin
U.S
Robert M
Bob” LaFollette
Kennedy says candidacy risks splitting Democratic Party
London AP interview cites Senator Robert F Kennedy explaining he did not seek the presidential nomination to avoid dividing the Democrats. He warned a run could fail to achieve goals and risk electing a Republican, while criticizing tactics in Vietnam and urging a peaceful settlement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Robert F. Kennedy
D-N.y
British Broadcasting Corporation
Keith Kyle
Kennedy
Vietnam
Pye
South Vietnam
Johnson
North Vietnam
Kyle
14 Year Old Charged After Elkader Auto Accident
In Elkader a 14 year old boy with an instruction permit is charged with failure to have control of his car after an accident on highway 13 north of Strawberry Point. The vehicle overturned in a ditch injuring George Sadewasser and his parents who suffered cuts and bruises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elkader
George Sadewasser
Walter Sadewassers
Strawberry Point
Ladewassers
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Wellman
Edward L. McDowell
Richard L. Evers
Sharon Lane
Christopher A. Flynn
Iowa City
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Springville
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Charles L. Phillips
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Swisher
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Marvin D. Hopp
Conroy
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Anamosa
Terry L. Schild
Mt. Auburn
Gene E. Mollenhauer
Third Street
Peter A. Rudish
Robert D. Hartman
Eighteenth Street
Robert C. Smith
Parkview Drive
Joseph A. Smith
Dean A. Morey
Marguerite Morey
Park Towne Place
Michael S. Darling
Steve Darling
Tenth Avenue
Dale Potter
Dan Potter
Korea
Scott A. Blume
August W. Blume
Thirty-third Street
Ft. Hood
Deborah Kerr
John Kerr
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the Funerals Company
Davenport
C.R. Dewatering
Pittsburgh
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Claude Kirk
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Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers
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