Metcalf confirms two theater offers in Cedar Rapids sale talks
Cedar Rapids dealer Roy Metcalf confirms offers to sell the World and Times theaters. Proposals aim to finalize next week in Des Moines with Dubinsky Brothers poised to acquire the World and R L Davis Jr planning to buy the Times.
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Metcalf
Cedar Rapids
Roy Metcalf
The
World and Times Theaters
Des Moines
World Theater
R.L. Davis Jr
Times Theater
Dubinsky Brothers
Iowa, Plaza
Stage 4
East Town
R.L. Davis Sr
Marion
Leonard Wood
Dubinsky Theaters
Robinson shifts on balanced budget resolution stance
Des Moines Senator Cloyd Robinson, a Democrat from Cedar Rapids, says he now opposes the constitutional convention approach and may ask the Senate to reconsider, after previously backing a measure urging a balanced budget amendment or convention. He cites concerns over risks to the constitution and party unity. Senator John Culver criticized supporters earlier in the year.
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Zola Marie Turnbull
38Th St. SE
John H. Turnbull
Mount Vernon
Neola
Denison
Cedar Rapids
Turnbull
Tama
Donald Cassaday
Murray
Honolulu
Hawaii
Hazel Morrison
Helen Dewey
Des Moines
Crawford Heights Memory Gardens
Myrle Horner
First Baptist Church
Turner Chapel
Cloyd Robinson
Congress
Robinson
Senate
John Culver
Culver
Iowa
Office equipment stolen in Cedar Valley area
O'Connor reports items including a desk filing cabinet and desk chair valued over 550 dollars taken Thursday from an office at 111 21st Ave SW. Also notes color TV theft at 1546 Bever Ave SE for 425 dollars and other brief notices follow.
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Michael A. O’connor
Parkwood Ave
21St Ave
Tom Stookey
Bever Ave
Centenarian Student Pursues Doctoral Studies at Ball State
Cleo Mills, 86, Ball State University’s oldest student, studies Byzantine Greek and Russian history as a doctoral candidate. She earned a bachelor’s degree at 53, a master’s in 1949, and still travels hundreds of miles for classes. She says learning is slower but memory remains fairly strong.
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Muncie
Ind
Ball State University
Cleo Mills
Portland
Nuclear plant test to drill emergency plan in June
The Duane Arnold plant will test its general emergency plan between now and June end. Horace Webb says post Three Mile Island tests aim to ease public concern by simulating an evacuation with Linn and Benton County agencies plus area hospitals and the public in affected zones. The drill includes door to door notifications that a staged release of radioactive material has occurred and is an NRC required annual exercise with no power disruption.
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Duane Arnold
Horace Webb
Iowa Electric Light and Power Co
Three Mile Island
Pennsylvania
Linn
Benton County
Sheriff's Departments
Linn County Civil Defense
Linn County Health Department
State Office of Disaster Services
Iowa
Hygenic
Iowa City
Webb
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Legislature Nears Adjournment Amid Tax Plan Debate
Lawmakers push through late hours as the session nears adjournment. Key bills advancing include a revised income tax plan, increased standard deductions, and a 7 percent pay raise for state officials and employees. The House sought to quit by daybreak but stalled over three remaining measures.
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House
Senate
Roger Halvorson
R Monona
Don Avenson
D-Oelwein
Thermostat plan advances as diesel fuel worries grow
The House approved a standby conservation measure to control public building thermostats after a rationing proposal. Bergland announced the Energy Department would guarantee all Energydiesel fuel needs for producers, citing farmer shortages and wet weather delaying planting of corn and spring wheat. The Agriculture Department notes diesel fuels about half of farm use for tractors and trucks.
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House
Carter
The
Agriculture Department
Iowa gas dealers delay strike vote in Iowa shortage crisis
The Iowa Gasoline Dealers Association with 400 members votes to delay a national four day strike to allow Gov. Ray and Ed Stanek more time to persuade. Dealers cite product shortages and uncertain allocations while pressuring for a full investigation of gasoline supplies and pricing.
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Iowa
Des Moines
Robert Ray
Iowa Gasoline Dealers Association
Larry Blixt
Association
California
Blixt
Ray
Ed Stanek
Iowa Energy Policy Council
National Congress of Petroleum Retailers
Dalziel
the Gazette
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Mary Emma Maag Schmidt
Watkins
Marengo Memorial Hospital
John A. Schmidt
Norway
St. Patrick’s Catholic Church
Ladies
Henry Becker
Joseph Downes
Delbert Stien
Newhall
Everett Frese
St. Patrick’s Cemetery
Blairstown
Hartwick C
Hart’ Hillgeson
Urbana
Newark
Ill
Ethel Burrell
United Methodist Church
Vienna Lodge No
A.F
A.M
O.E.S
White Shrine
el Kabir
Karen Fristad
Vienna Lodge
Murdoch
Elizabeth R. Grone
E Ave
Fairfax
Joseph C. Grone
St. Matthew’s Church
M.J. Donnelly
Julia Flaherty
Frederick Fangmann
Mount Calvary Cemetery
Stewart Funeral Home
Ernst, A.E
Budd
St. Isidore Catholic Church
Springville
David Remy
Murdoch Funeral Home
Hite
Olga Vivian
Turner Chapel East
Charles Mehaffey
Asbury United
Fort Atkinson
Stella Ondreshek
St. John’s Catholic Church
Chekal’s. Monticello
Harvey Stutt
Wayne Zion Lutheran Church
Goettsch’s
Monticello
Karl Keyes
Clinton
Olin
Nellie Burch
Olan Methodist Church
Hayden’s. West Union
Clinton Humphry
Burnham-Wood’s
Rowley
Paul Jude Leonard
Mason-Howe’s
Independence
Theodore W. Miller
Mason-Howe
Dick Hogan
Gazette
Dubinsky Brothers of
Lincoln, Neb
Davis Jr
Times
the Times
the World
Cedar Valley Rock and Gem Club
REA
16Th Avenue
C” Street
Immaculate Conception
van Horne
Frontier Garden Center City
Palo
Halvorson
Bergland
Department of Energy
Midwest
Federal Energy
James Schlesinger
Representa
Tives
al Dalziel
Emitt Hamed
Washington
President Carter
Hamed
U.S
Tom Tauke
Coe College
Japan
Attu Island
Aleutians
West Berlin
John E. Lopes
3Rd Ave
S.E
Pierson
Avenue Seta
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