Deaths of multiple Cedar Rapids area residents dated notices
Obituary notices summarize deaths of Joseph Tomasek 79 of Cedar Rapids Rose Tichy married 1929 in Ely and memorials at Brush Chapel. Other obituaries include Phil Underwood 40s Springville, Albert Goeldner 62 Sigourney lawyer and Republican, Lester Webber Marion, John H Horn Madison former Quaker Oats executive, Amalea Rezabek Freemont ex Mason City, and extended list of interment details, services, and burial sites across Iowa towns.
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Joseph Tomasek
Sixth Ave
Cedar Rapids
Czechoslovakia
United States
Rose Tichy
Ely
Tomasek
Merchants National Bank
Hus Memorial Presbyterian Church
Mizpah Lodge
Albert Friedrich Goeldner
Sigourney
University of Iowa
Air Force
Maytag Co
Newton
Gwendolyn Latimer
First Christian Church
Webb Lodge No
Court of Honor
Kaaba Shrine
Davenport
Aspasia Chapter
Order of Eastern Star
Rainbow Girls
Goeldner
Boy Scouts of America
Republican Party
Sigourney Library Board
Keokuk County
John
Iowa City
Alice
Kathy
Ralph
Webb Lodge
Reynold’s
Sigourney Library Fund
John H
Jack) Horn
Madison
N.J
Barry
Quaker Oats Company
Paterson
Mr. Horn
New Lebanon
N.Y
Princeton University
U.S. Army
Chattanooga
Tenn
St. Joseph
Shiremanstown
Elizabeth
Virginia
Nancy
Gray
Henry
First Presbyterian
City Briefs Update From Memorial Day Activities and Local Notices
Burglary report cites $250 stolen from Becky Leischner residence at 1050 Third Ave SE. Red Cross offers water safety instructor course June 1 2 5 6 7 at Lakeside School Pool with 10 am to 4 30 pm sessions. age 17 and life saving card required. register with Amana High School at 622 3116. Memorial Day closings include Cedar Memorial offices and Chapel of Memories. banks close May 29. Camp Campbell Cemetery ceremony at 9 30 am led by Rev Dennis Tevis. Other items note local ads for flowers and jewelry promotions and a Cedar Rapids escorted motorcoach tour June 24 to July 3.
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The
Red Cross
Middle Amana
Call Amana High School
Mayor Koch's cook faces dismissal over interview
Rozanne Gold, 24, a cook for Mayor Ed Koch, was threatened with firing after acknowledging to a reporter she gave an interview in February. Koch aides say staff must not grant interviews, preserving the mayor's privacy. Gold's future remains unresolved as requests for comment were not answered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NEW York
Edward Koch
Rozanne Gold
Koch
Maureen Connelly
Miss Gold
Police officers become godparents after saving newborn
In Harlem on March 14, Officers Louis Torrellas and Joseph Tegano rescued a premature baby girl named LaToya Hall after she was strangled by the umbilical cord. They delivered life saving care and rush to a hospital, where the infant cried for the first time. The mother Donna Hall later asked the officers to be godparents, praising their continued hospital visits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Harlem
John Williams
LaToya Hall
Louis Torrellas
Joseph Tegano
Torrellas
Tegano
LaToya
West 151
Donna Hall
Joe
Louis
Poll shows slight presidential edge in 1978 race
The May 25 1978 Cedar Rapids Gazette notes ABC News places the president ahead Ford and Reagan with a 3 percent margin of error from about 1 500 interviews of 1976 voters and newer voters. Brookings criticizes Carter for slow enactment of reforms while inflation and wage pressures persist.
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The
Cedar Rapids
Ford
Reagan
Kennedy
Carter
ABC News
Helicopter escape attempt linked to Marion prison incident
Three men involved in a jailbreak drama at Marion prison were separated from other inmates. One may have been serving time for hijacking, another for air piracy, and the third for bank robbery. An earlier 1975 escape at Southern Michigan Prison influenced by a helicopter hijack was recalled. The Marion facility, opened in 1963, houses about 500 inmates and had a prior escape in October 1975 using a garage opener device.
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Son
St. Louis
Wilkinson
Ronald Beal
Southern Michigan
Jackson
Dale Otto Remling
Remling
Charles Bronson
Marion
Federal
Alcatraz Island
San Francisco Bay
Spy's Wife Linked to Triple Agent Case Amid Disappearance
Mrs. Shadrin pursues government answers as evidence links her husband Shadrin, a Soviet naval captain and defector, to CIA FBI KGB operations. Copaken notes Shadrin may have been recruited from day one and warns the disappearance could be tied to his recruitment. Disclosures show surveillance withheld on a 1975 Vienna meeting while earlier encounters were monitored.
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KGB
Copaken
Shadrin
Igor
CIA
FBI
McLean, Va
U.S
Vienna
Washington
Montreal
Energy package nears final vote with oil tax in doubt
President Carter’s energy bill edges toward final passage but the crude oil tax faces strong opposition and may not pass this year as lawmakers focus on elections. A House-Senate compromise on natural gas pricing moves forward amid uncertainty over tax prospects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Carter
Senate
U.S
House
James R. Schlesinger
Thomas P. O'Neill Jr
Senate Energy
Sen
Howard Metzenbaum
Ohio
Cedar Rapids man misidentified in Texas carnival accident
A Gazette wire service report wrongly identified victim James Craig 57 of Cedar Rapids as a Houston resident. The actual deceased was Shenandoah native James Craig. His Cedar Rapids brother suspects a phone-number mixup caused the error as investigators say Craig crawled under a ride to close a door and another worker started the ride.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
Texas
Cedar Rapids
James Craig
Shenandoah
Craig
The
Gazette
Senate approves $19 million wildlife bill for non game programs
Sen John C Culver D Iowa sponsors a bill authorizing the Interior Secretary to provide 19 million dollars through 1981 for non game programs in habitat acquisition census education and wildlife law enforcement. The 75 percent federal share aims to support Iowa and other states amid rising non game conservation needs. Iowa Conservation Commissioner Carolyn Lumbard backed the measure noting an estimated 250000 annually is required for non game management in Iowa while similar House action continues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
D.C
Iowa
Senate
John C. Culver
Secretary of the Interior
Culver
Carolyn Lumbard
Hawkeye
House
World oil reserves eyed at five trillion barrels
World Bank official Efrain Friedmann reports estimates suggesting oil reserves could total around 5 trillion barrels, far above earlier 2 trillion barrels figures, though extracting new oil would be costly.
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Washington
World Bank
Efrain Friedmann
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Phil L. Underwood
Springville
Anamosa
Dolores Binley
Lowdon
Mr. Underwood
Steel Products Company of
Mary Underwood
Mount Vernon
Steven
Katherine
William L. Underwood
Greenbush
Mich
Donald D. Underwood
Calvin Main
Ernie Appleby
Langworthy
Richard Foote
Palatine
Ill
United Methodist
Murdoch Chapel
Webber
Lester L
Route 1
Baxter Funeral
Amalea G. Rezabek
Donald Rezabek
Mason City
Stanford
Calif
Louis Gazes
Sam Gazes
San Andre
Katherine Andory
Michigan
Immaculate Conception Catholic Church
William Leonard
Cedar Memorial Cemetery
Turner Chapel East
Nash
Della
Chapel of Memories
Calvin DeVries
First Presbyterian Church
Cedar Memorial Funeral Home
Pirie
Ethel B
Allen S. van Cleve
Central Park Presbyterian Church
Turner East
Hodge
Hollis E
David Nelson Roth
Kenwood Park Presbyterian Church
Cascade
Francis William Koppes
Maquoketa
St. Peter’s Catholic Church
Temple Hill
Visitation
Devaney-Reiff's
Dyersville
Mary M. Byers
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
Waterloo
Calvary
O’keefe and
Towne
Kramer's
Farley
George W. Freeze
Reiff's
Belle Plaine
Richard Lee Spading
Hrabak’s
St. Joseph’s
Chelsea
Emily E. Erdman
White’s. Fairbank
Lucy Williams
Brant-Kerns
Oelwein
Becky Leischner
Third Ave
Betty Jean Milden
Blake Blvd
Harry Frick
Fort Myers, Fla
Washington, D.C
Colonial Williamsburg
Frontier Garden Center
Campbell Cemetery
Dennis Tevis
Bertram United Methodist Church
Charles
Marion Beverage Store
Food Service
Adv
Murray’ S Grocery
Siebke Hout Jewelers
Stickney
Pierson’s
Ellis Blvd
16Th Ave
First National
Farmers State
Saigon
Butch and
Sundance
Claudia Townsend
White House
Brookings
Short
Joseph Pechman
Pechman
Brookings Institution
Pentagon
Alyst
Pete Domenici
R-N.m
Mark Hatfield
Oregon
James McClure
Idaho
John Dingell
D-Mich
Ewellen
Florist
C.R
Sfoowers
John E. Lapes
Third Avenue S
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