Marion City Council bans storage mobile home for feed
Warren McCray of Midwest Chicks faces removal of a mobile home used to store 30 tons of chicken feed after Marion council denies a temporary permit. Officials offered July 1 as a deadline, with legal steps pending. McCray plans a fast feed sale to resolve the storage crisis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Fruehling
Jazette
Marion Bureau
Warren McCray
Marion City
McCray
Midwest Chicks
Marion Blvd
Marion
Linn County
Bob Johnson
Mary Lou Pazour
Local arrests and school board actions across Iowa
Ernest Burton, 36, was arrested after a camera theft from a Des Moines businessman. charged with third degree theft and held in Linn County Jail. The Auxiliary of Hanford Post No 5 will distribute veteran poppies in Cedar Rapids today and tomorrow. Amber Lindsey reported theft of a 35mm camera set from Voorhies Hall, value over 850 dollars. Iowa Falls Roofing Co reported four industrial drills stolen in a burglary, fifth at the firm in a month. Linn-Mar school board authorized up to 15000 dollars for microcomputer equipment with GWAEA staff to assist. Easterday seeks shared hardware programs and adds a half teaching position in Learning Disabilities for 1982-83 funded by carry-forward. Marion Independent board called back Lois Blankenship, 0.3 time physical education teacher, with more to follow as resignations occur. Budgets amended to carry over unspent funds.
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Ernest Burton
15Th St. SE
Des Moines
Burton
Linn County
Easterday
GWAEA
Marion Independent School Board
Lois Blankenship
Explosion at Penick and Ford Dryer Building
A small explosion occurred Thursday in a product dryer atop a Penick and Ford Ltd. building at 1001 First St SW Cedar Rapids. Debris and burned gluten scattered into the street as vents failed to vent due to a choke-up in the wet grain feed causing the dryer to recycle and overheat. Firefighters arrived at 9 45 a m. no fire was reported.
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Penick & Ford Ltd
First St
C.M. Widmer
Cedar Rapids
Linn and Johnson Consider Joint Public Defender Office
Linn and Johnson County supervisors discussed forming a joint public defender office at a North Liberty meeting. They cited rising indigent defense costs with Linn budgeting 675000 this year and Johnson at 90000, planning a grant application and a June 24 study in Iowa City with Sixth Judicial District judges.
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Linn
Johnson County
Purple Cow
North Liberty
Jean Oxley
Crime Commission
Oxley
Linn County
Iowa City
Dram shop suits filed over stabbing incident in Iowa City
Two men injured in a 1981 Iowa City bar stabbing sue four bar owners under the dram shop act. Timothy Gradford 26 Cedar Rapids allegedly caused the incident by intoxication. Damages sought exceed 1.3 million for Mildenstein 31 North Liberty and Tucker 23 Iowa City with claims of negligence and emotional distress.
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Iowa City
Johnson County
Timothy E. Gradford
Bever Ave
Cedar Rapids
Gradford
Thomas Tucker
Roosevelt St
David Mildenstein
North Liberty
Mildenstein
James E. Burmeister
Gilbert Court
Charles Christensen
E. Washington St
Orville van Eck
Ronald Donovan
Veterans of
Six arrested in Linn and Benton counties for drunk driving
Five Linn County residents were charged with drunk driving early Thursday and a sixth in Benton County. Margaret Crosby 28 of Hiawatha was also charged with driving left of center. Gerald Duff 20 of Brentwood NY, Robert Goheen 22 of Cedar Rapids near 21st Street NE, Lori Glover 24 of Lisbon, and Brenda Nelson 18 of Mount Vernon Road SE faced drunken driving charges plus traffic offenses. Larry Flee ner 46 of Benton County arrested Wednesday on Highway 30 charged with drunk driving and speeding after waiving hearing.
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Linn County
Benton County
Margaret J. Crosby
Arbor Lane
Northwood Drive
Hiawatha
Gerard E. Duff
Brentwood
N.Y
Third Avenue
Robert J. Goheen
Fourth Ave
21St Street
Lori S. Glover
33Rd Ave
Kirkwood Avenue
Highway 30
Lisbon
Brenda S. Nelson
Harold Drive
Mount Vernon Road
Larry D. Fleener
First Ave
Iowa State Patrol
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C.R. Poppy Sale
Hanford
American Legion
Amber Lindsey
Coe College
Voorhies Hall
Iowa Falls Roofing Co
North Towne Lane
Linn-Mar Computer
Linn-Mar
Glen Easterday
Grant Wood Area
Vernon Village
Mt. Vernon Road
S.E
James F. Landenberger
Jim
Merchant's National Bank
Ratcliff's Revco
Zachariom
Four Seasons Flower and Garden
Don Lehr
Betty Ockenfels
Foreign Wars
Tucker
James Burmeister
Burmeister
U.S
Smulekoffs
3Rd Ave
Edar Rapids
Linn County Nursery
Charles X Ludwig Spaeth
Madam Lemoine
Wering Almond R
Sat. & Sun
Center Point
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