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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1982
Page
2
Obituaries list Lester Nieland 73 of Marengo and Harry Birky 85 of Cedar Rapids among several local deaths. King, Miller, Clough, Todd, Bayer and many others are noted with service times and burial sites across Cedar Rapids Marion Monticello Oelwein and surrounding towns.
The nuclear aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson was commissioned at Newport News amid tributes to Carl Vinson and warnings of budget battles. Navy officials note the carrier count rising from 12 to 13 as protesters circle the yard. In Groton, Connecticut, the USS Albuquerque was launched at Electric Boat with Nancy Domenici christening the 360 foot, 6,900 ton sub.
A Cadillac speeding on Crenshaw Avenue rear ended a compact car then broadsided a second vehicle and rammed a Rapid Transit District bus, injuring 26 with 3 in critical condition. Police investigated PCP involvement. driver and female passenger detained for drugs.
An 18 year old Cedar Rapids woman reported an assault by a man near a pay phone at A Avenue and 16th Street NE around 7 p.m. Detectives arrested 29 year old Albert B. Whiteside of 116 16th St NE two hours later on charges of assault with intent to commit sexual abuse. He is jailed in Linn County. The assailant grabbed the woman, pinched her, pulled her hair and threatened to slit her throat as she finished a call and walked away.
Samuel C. Poole 24 is missing and presumed drowned after a fishing boat overturned in high winds below Lock and Dam 16 on the Mississippi River. James A. Carlson 29 swam to shore, was treated at Muscatine General Hospital, both men lacked life jackets, rescue efforts paused at 3 p.m. due to wind and to resume next morning.
A West Union truck driver James B. Foote 34 was killed when his semi trailer went out of control on a Pennsylvania road near Sommerset Friday. In a second incident a Lisbon man Claude Benedict 42 was hospitalized in Cedar Rapids after a Monticello crash. a passenger Steven Michael King 36 was killed when their pickup struck a tree.
Actress Rita Tushingham is 40, newspaper columnist Russell Baker is 57, and Monaco heir Albert Grimaldi is 24.
March births listed for Chris and Tim Callahan Denise and Jean Marie Duppong Monica Rhinehart Patricia Procok Cathy Morri son Kerry Randolph. Grandparents Len Biella noted. Fire calls logged Friday and Saturday across Cedar Rapids area with medical emergencies stove odor water heater malfunctions and false alarms. Column by Carl Kane, three times weekly.
The Gazette notes a typographical error in Dining Out on serving hours at Tic Toc restaurant. Correct hours are 11 a.m. to 1 a.m. weekdays and 5 p.m. to 1 a.m. on Saturdays. complaints about accuracy will be addressed by a correction space reference phone 398 8313.
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