Arnold Nuclear Plant Back Online After Fuel Upgrade
The Duane Arnold Energy Center near Palo resumed generation after refueling and a new fuel system design. Officials say the higher enrichment bundles will extend operation to 18 24 months, lowering costs though coal and oil capacity cuts trigger layoffs at Prairie Creek Generating Station and other facilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dale Kueter
Bruce Fishwild
Duane Arnold Energy Center
Palo
Iowa Electric Light and Power Co
Horace Webb
Cedar County Jail to be repaired to reopen by June
Cedar County supervisors voted 3-1 to repair the jail after years of fire and safety concerns. Work includes a second exit with alarm, wider bunks, metal frames, and added staff for prisoner checks. Lowest bid of 1,975 from Cook Electric Mechanicsville was accepted with a September review planned before adding deputies.
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Tipton
Cedar County Board of Supervisors
Cook Electric
Mechanicsville
Mary Ann Dolan
Turner funds major Currier and Ives gift to Mount Mercy College
Cedar Rapids businessman John B. Turner II donated 108 Currier and Ives lithographs to Mount Mercy College. The collection will be named the John B. Turner Collection of Mount Mercy College and first shown in February 1984.
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Ethan Allen
Mate and
Dexter
Currier and Ives
Mount Mercy College
John B. Turner II
Turner
Mount Mercy
Currier
Ives
Cedar Rapids
Thomas R. Feld
John B. Turner
Feld
Cedar Rapids-Marion
America
McAuley
Mount Mercy College Plans May 21 Commencement
Mount Mercy College will hold commencement at 10 a.m. May 21 at the Paramount Theatre, awarding degrees to 197 graduates. The Rev. Robert L. Ferring will deliver the address titled Happiness, his final major speech before leaving to take a pastoral assignment in July after serving since 1978 as acting dean, then dean and finally vice president for academic affairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Mercy College
Paramount Theatre
Robert L. Ferring
Ferring
Mount Mercy
Gunpoint Cash Robbery At Twin Town Market Toledo
A white male in his mid-20s robbed the Twin Town Market on Highway 30 at 12 05 PM taking an undetermined amount of cash. The suspect, about 5 11, 175 180 pounds, wore a blue windbreaker and blue jeans and fled east. Police chief Bill Meeker and deputies Bruce Bolin and Joe McBride lead the investigation.
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Toledo
Twin Town Market
Highway 30
Lynn Jesina
Bill Meeker
Tama County Sheriff's
Bruce C. Bolin
Joe McBride
Man shot at Cedar Rapids bar in good condition after surgery
Tommy Chase, 25, of 915 12th St. NE, Cedar Rapids, is in good condition after surgery for a gunshot wound to the right ankle. Police say Chase was told to leave Pink Elephant bar on Third Street SE. owner Arthur Krumbolz fired a shotgun toward the floor when Chase approached. Investigation awaits Chase interview.
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Tommy Chase
12Th St. NE
University of Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Chase
Third St. SE
Arthur Krumbolz
Krumbolz
Laborers Local 43 to decide on strike today at Teamsters Hall
Laborers Local 43 convenes at 6 AM to determine if they strike or send reps back for a new round with Allied Construction Interests. A wage-cut scenario is anticipated as several trades have already agreed to rollbacks. Glaziers Local 581 to vote on a new offer in Rock Island Illinois amid ongoing picketing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laborers Local 43
Building Trades
Teamsters Hall
J St
Allied Construction
Allied
Stiking Glaziers Local 581
Rock Island
Ill
581
Cedar Rapids
Iowa City
Quad Cities
Clinton
Dubuque
Burlington
Galesburg
Glaziers
East Iowa visit by VFW auxiliary national president
Florence Taylor national president of the Ladies Auxiliary to the Veterans of Foreign Wars will visit Eastern Iowa May 22 and 23. She arrives at Cedar Rapids Airport at 4 30 p.m. Sunday May 22 with events at VFW Post 788 and Iowa City, Amana and West Branch stops before departing May 25.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florence Taylor
Binghamton
N.Y
Ladies Auxiliary
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Isle of Honor
VFW
Iowa City
Herbert Hoover
West Branch
Ox Yoke Inn
Amana
Buddy platoon deadline looms for 1983 Iowa Guard
Today is the last day to inquire into the buddy platoon for the 234th Signal Battalion known as Commo Commando II. 50 of 60 positions in the unit have been filled with high school juniors and seniors eligible to join at 17 or older. Members depart Cedar Rapids for Fort Leonardwood Missouri on June 16 return August 15 and earn about 1300 while at training. After training they must fulfill standard National Guard obligations. For more information call 363-9254.
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Prairie Creek
Cedar Rapids
Webb
Prairie Creek Plant
Central Iowa Power Cooperative
Iowa Electric
Iowa National Guard
234Th
National Guard
Commo Commando II
Fort Leonardwood
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Arnold
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
CIPCO
Iowa Falls
Anamosa
de Witt
Fairfield
Eldon
Cedar County
C.R. Man
East
Marshalltown
Des Moines
Taylor
United States
National Auxiliary
Richmond
C.R
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