Easter bunnies visit Mercy hospital moment differs
Hundreds of Easter rabbits visit area hospitals yearly. at Mercy in Cedar Rapids one stop went to Hallmey nursing home. Pat Ingels wore rabbit ears and whiskers while delivering meds to residents, including Floy O'Meara. Patients received paper cups with Easter coney, sparking funny ribbing about the RN initials.
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Mercy Hospital
Cedar Rapids
Hallmey Nursing Home
Pat Ingels
Twenty-first Street
Hallmar
Floy O'Meara
Hospital Plans Fund Drive for Palmer Memorial Hospital
West Union area launches a campaigns to raise 30000 equity for a 150000 FHA guaranteed loan to form Palmer Memorial Hospital Inc. The nonprofit will lease the city hospital and operate it, replacing the Quad Samaritan Society which ended its lease in January. Regional chairmen cover Waucoma St Lucius Hawkeye Fayette Eldorado Randall and Elgin with Darwin Schrage as general chairman.
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West Union
Palmer Memorial Hospital, Inc
Nwew Corporation
Quad Samaritan Society
Good Samaritan Society
Farmers Home Administration
FHA
Darwin Schrage
Conrad Smith
Waucoma
Mark Mihi
St. Lucius
Gerald Guenther
Wallace Sarchnger
Lee Papo
Rosemary Hyman
Hawkeye
Mary Ellen Paul
Fayette
Don Winter
Rosina Wauts
Predicts Delay Of Iowa Spring Tornado Season
National weather service official Allen Pearson expects a slower Iowa tornado season due to heavy snow cover and wet ground. He notes dry ground and temperatures in the 70s are needed to get tornado activity underway, with May the most dangerous month.
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Iowa
Kansas City
National Weather Service
Tews
Allen Pearson
Pearson
NWS
Ankeny
Andover
University of Iowa Press Halts Manuscript Acceptances
The University of Iowa Press, created in 1969 to publish scholarly and literary works, suspends new manuscript acceptances due to lagging finances. It costs about 80 thousand dollars annually to operate, with one third from federal grants. Despite 20 thousand dollars yearly from the Iowa Foundation and nearly 40 thousand dollars in revenue, the press may be phased out, with 11 manuscripts slated for 1976 publication, including Twain speeches.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa Press
University of Iowa Foundation
Mark Twain
Horrors Reported on Da Nang Sea Evacuation Ships
AP reporting from Da Nang describes mass killings and chaos as South Vietnamese marines allegedly killed around 25 people on the Pioneer Contender and aboard the Pioneer Commander during frantic attempts to evacuate civilians. Overloaded barges, looting, rapes, and shootings were reported as refugees endured four days at sea with scant food water and shelter. The Contender carried roughly 8,000 aboard from Da Nang to Cam Ranh Bay, while U.S. observers noted gunfire directed at reporters and the ship’s improvised hospital.
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da Nang
South Vietnam
Fallen
U.S
da Nang Harbor
Pangway
Hoapital
David Kennerly
Ford
Pioneer Contender
Cam Ranh Bay
Saigon
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Dag Hammarskjold
Sweden
United Nations
U, of J. Press
da Nang Sealift
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Eve
Kennerly
Nha Trang
Moncrieff Spear
Ally
White House
Army
Frederick Weyand
Klagenfurt
Austria
Ecs
Ethel Horowitz
Ares
Dionne
Warwicke
Lauder
Aphemian Lauer
Lauders Seuren
Frigg
Richman Brothers
Richman’ Brothers
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