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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

May 16, 1982

Page

2

Deaths in Cedar Rapids Area Honor Multiple Residents

Obituary notices list Katherine Behrens 67 of 201¢ Williams Blvd SW died at St. Luke’s after a short illness. Also noted are Mary Varra Jan 86, Angeline Havlicek 88, Anna McConkey 95, and several others with service times, burial places, and memorial funds. Multiple survivors and church affiliations named. Services set at Turner Chapel West and East, Czech National Cemetery, and local cemeteries. Memorials requested to Camp Good Health and Czech Heritage groups.

Katherine Kate” Behrens Williams Blvd St. Luke’s Hospital Clay County Walter J. Behrens Cedar Rapids The Holy Redeemer Lutheran Church of Virginia Bowers Toddville Delores Gray Carolyn Herdegen Concord Calif Patricia White Center Point Erma LeVene Pocahontas Beulah Walters Storm Lake Mary Aronson Albert City June Hough Mallard Robert Stroup Turner Chapel Cedric J. Lofdahl Holy Redeemer Lutheran Church Cedar Mary Varra Jan Fourth Avenue 13Th St Frank Janu Quaker Oats Turner Chapel East Raymond L. Hess III St. Michael’s Episcopal Church Czech National Cemetery Turner Chapel West St. John’s Episcopal Church 19Th St. SE Angeline Havlicek Heritage Acres Mercy Hospital Podivin Czechoslovakia John Havlicek Marion Western Fraternal Life Karl John Frank Leopold Sukes Michigan City Ind Brosh Chapel Czech Heritage of Czech Fine Arts 16Th Ave Anna McConkey Frank G. McConkey Frank G Lloyd E. Brockmeyer St. Paul’s United Methodist Church William Henry Yates Memorial Drive Omaha Neb Mae Ellen Yates Yates U.S. Railway Mail Service Mount Hermon Lodge No. 263 U.S. Army William N Lorraine E. Yates Eugene F. McDaniel Free Methodist Church Linwood Cemetery American Legion Hanford Post No Mount Hermon Lodge No A.F A.M American Cancer Society 10Th St. SE Belle Plaine Oscar Evelyn) Meade Hrabak’s Kent Cemetery Brooklyn Decatur Wayne W. Miller East Union Mennonite Church Kalona Salem Mennonite Church Leon Peterseim’s Gideon Society Oelwein Shirley A. Weyant Grace United Methodist Church Pleasant Hill Cemetery Lime Springs Brant-Kern’s Walter Thiele Hintz's Longrove Cemetery Maynard Sigourney Debra Kay Bruns Reynold’s. Strawberry Point Roland Prince United Methodist Church Strawberry Point Roberson's

Ballet Gala Showcases Midwest Dance Troupes at Paramount

A gala ballet at the Paramount Theatre featured top Midwest companies in a three day Mid-States Regional Ballet Festival. Highlights included Suki Morrissey and Stuart Weinbrenner in a delicate pas de deux and ensembles from the Michigan Ballet Theatre, Northern Ballet Theater, and F.I.M. Dance Repertory Company with avant garde Penderecki music and Patterns in Sound.

Michigan Ballet Theatre of West Bloomfield Mozart Livonia Michigan Northern Ballet Theater F.I.M. Dance Repertory Company Flint, Michigan Penderecki Springfield Missouri Springfield Civic Ballet Ballet Corp

Falklands conflict updates from the week of May 1982

British Harrier jets attacked the Stanley airstrip as Argentina reported casualties from the Belgrano sinking and a grim tally of dead and missing. Talks in New York showed cautious optimism while Buenos Aires pressed for flexibility and a resolution to the stalemate with Britain.

Falklands Stanley Pebble Island Argentina General Belgrano Sheffield Isla de Los Estados

Local Fire and Medical Log Plus Birth Notices

A Saturday run of incidents includes cigarette to mattress at 110 16th St NE, medical emergencies at 3000 J St SW and 3701 16th Ave SW, alarm fault at Penick and Ford, a grease fire at 1626 Fourth St NW, and a lint in air duct fire at Linn County Jail. May births list several families with newborns in various locations.

16Th St J St Penick and Ford 16Th Ave Fourth St Linn County

Brawl Involving 50 Near Lake Macbride Park

About 50 people fought near Lake Macbride Park late Saturday as Johnson Linn county officers and Iowa Highway Patrol tried to break it up. An ambulance treated injured at the 600 acre government plot. no serious injuries reported and no arrests made at press time.

SOLON Johnson Linn Iowa Highway Patrol Lake Macbride Park Johnson County Macbride

Man's death ruled death by own action

Cedar Rapids authorities ruled Harold Doan 69 died by his own action from a gunshot wound to the head. Doan died after being found at his residence Saturday afternoon and was dead on arrival at St Luke's Hospital after police were alerted at 4 50 p m. He shot himself with a .380 automatic pistol.

Cedar Rapids Harold Doan 16Th Ave Doan St. Luke’s Hospital Dean

Des Moines Man Killed in Early Morning Hit and Run

Polk County sheriff’s investigators probe an early morning hit-and-run that killed 21 year old Allan Azeltine as he walked on a northwest Des Moines street about 1 30 a m. No vehicle description available.

Des Moines UPI Polk County Sheriff's Allan Azeltine

Corrections and Clarifications on April Layoffs

The Gazette corrects an April layoff figure for Cherry Burrell staff noting 220 workers were laid off, not two. Of those, 53 have been recalled. The paper invites complaints about accuracy and will publish corrections in this space. Phone 398 8313.

Gazette Cherry Burrell

Early abolitionist society formed by Philadelphia Quakers

Facts note that the first society for the abolition of slavery organized in 1775 by Quakers in Philadelphia, and that President Abraham Lincoln was shot in 1865 by John Wilkes Booth.

First Society For the Abolition of Philadelphia Abraham Lincoln John Wilkes Booth

Assassination Stuns Tokyo as Premier Inu kai is Killed

On this date in 1932, Japanese Prime Minister Tsuyoshi Inukai was assassinated in Tokyo. The event shocked the nation and led to a decisive shift in postwar Japanese politics.

Tsuyoshi Inukai Tokyo

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Harold G. Dean Iowa Ballet Review Paramount Gazette “Photo By Tom Merryman Lori Lembke Nissen Universal YMCA Franklin Junior High School Lembke Valley of Elgin High School Nissen Ellis Ymca FMC Corp East West Falkland Hernan Massini Ezcurra Buenos Aires U.N Javier Perez de Cuellar Massim Ezcurra New York Telam Leopoldo F. Galtieri Britain Nicanor Costa Mendez London Anthony Parsons Judith Timothy Nollen Ave St. Luke’s Colleen Moser First Ave Sharon Bradley Paulson Brenda Mark Andrews Deborah Tim Witter Council St Kathy Paul Kowalski Blairs Ferry Road Kimberly Wayne Wauters Keystone Daugher Janice Michael Orr 10Th St. NW Lake Macbride D.M. Man Lowa News Daily Peck’ S F.T.D Flom Blairs Ferry Edgewood Rd John E. Lapes 3Rd Ave Turners East Second Avenue Joseph L. Hansen Stewart Funeral Home First Avenue N.E
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