Neighborhood film shoot turns dreams to boring pay
In Agoura California a feature film crew used Edgeware Drive neighbors as extras for the George Harrison Co. production Checking Out starring Jeff Daniels and Michael Tucker. The author recalls a day of dawn to dusk filming, 30 dollar wages for 12 hours, and a street filled with equipment, poles, and waiting as reality of movie making sinks in.
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Arlington Heights
Agoura
L.A
Gus
O'Hare
Santa Monica Mountains
Hollywood
Sally Field
Lennon Sisters
Brian Keith
Sally
Janet Lennon
California
Robert Foxworth
Peter Strauss
Edgeware Drive
Caryn
Carlos
George Harrison Co
Beatle
Jeff Daniels
Cairo
Michael Tucker
Hewitt
Jeff
Saratoga Hills
Arington Heights
Mary
Nita
Avenue of Saints highway eyed from St. Paul to St. Louis
Iowa officials face a lukewarm reception as supporters push a four lane Avenue of Saints from Minnesota to Missouri. The plan aims to connect Cedar Rapids and other cities with a corridor that could attract federal funding for a feasibility study in two years, with state and tri state backing uncertain.
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Donna Lee Olson
Otzette
Iowa
Ames
St. Paul
Minn
St. Louis
Town Road
Idot Commission
Bob Rigler
New Hampton
Commission
Rigler
IDOT
Gederal
Corning
Congress
Tim Jones
Cedar Rapids
George Latimer
Cedar Rapids Woman Names New Racetrack at Prairie Meadows
ALTOONA AP Turning down names like Alfalfa Park and the Best Little Horse House in Iowa, the Central Iowa Racing Association chose Prairie Meadows for the state’s first parimutuel thoroughbred track opening next spring. Carrol Roy of Cedar Rapids won 4000 and two reserved seats after submitting the winning name with others including Kevin O Malia of Des Moines and Tom McElree of Truro receiving prizes.
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Altoona
Tall Tassel
Iowa
Central Iowa Racing Association
Prairie Meadows
Carrol Roy
Cedar Rapids
Midwest
Roy
Kevin O'Malia
Des Moines
Tom McElree
Truro
O'Malia
Prairie Meadows to Open Next March in Altoona
The Racing Association of Central Iowa unveiled the logo for Iowa's first pari mutuel track. Twenty six thousand two hundred twenty seven entries were received from eight thousand eight hundred ninety people. Fifty entrants are drawn for free tickets with another fifty paid seats announced for the new facility near Adventureland in Altoona.
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Adventureland
Altoona
Suit alleges negligence over gauze left in abdomen
A former area man, Lawrence E. Joslin now of Tucson, sues Cedar Rapids physicians and nurses for leaving a gauze like foreign object during surgeries in 1974 or 1975 and alleges a 1977 X-ray and 1987 surgery failed to disclose. The complaint names Cedar Rapids hospitals and doctors including T J Schueller and F B Goslin with multiple operations cited and seeks unspecified damages for the couple.
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Holana Krexeier
Cedar Rapids
Lawrence E. Joslin
Tucson, Ariz
Linn County
T.J. Schueller
Sur
Veterans Administration Hospital
Iowa City
Joslin
Schuell
St. Luke's
F.B. Goslin
Schueller
K. Gretter
R. Johnson
Goslin
William Finn
Gretter
P. Bildstien
Mercy
J. Dyball
T. Meir
Jos Ain
Nassif moved for eye treatment in federal facility
Shaker Nassif 42 of Cedar Rapids has been moved from Linn County Jail to the Federal Correctional Institution at Rochester Minnesota for eye problems including loss of sight in one eye and retinal infection. He faces 12 counts of alleged heroin smuggling from Lebanon to Cedar Rapids with possible life sentences on three counts and is held without bond.
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Joe
Nita Anzivino
Agoura
Calif
Harlem Globetrotters
Abe Saperstein
Globetrotters
Nita
O'Hare
Hollywood
Iowa
Terry Branstad
Richard Gere
Cedar Rapids
Lebanon
Minnesota
Shaker Nassif
13Th Ave
Linn County
Federal Correctional Institution At
Rochester
Nassit
Ing
Robber robs Marion Kentucky Fried Chicken during late shift
Marion police search for a white male about 5 foot 10 with dark hair and acne marks who herded six employees into a cooler at gunpoint and stole unknown cash. The suspect fled in an older gold or brown van after a 9:30 p.m. visit to the restaurant on Seventh Avenue.
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Marion
Joe Neuhaus
Seventh Ave
Neuhaus
State Department of Public Safety
Des Moines
ISU President Undergoes Calcium Surgery at Iowa City
ISU President Jonathan Eaton underwent exploratory head and neck surgery at the University of Iowa Hospitals for a calcium balance gland enlarged during the operation. The gland was removed and his prognosis remains undetermined. This marks a second U of I Hospitals procedure for Eaton after prior eye surgeries last June.
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ISU
Iowa
Jonaton
Iowa State University
University of Iowa
Eaton
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Illinois
Hartwick
Mount Pleasant
Ernie Hayes
Avenue of the Saints
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Ssouri
Lele Eather
Fort
New Racetrack
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Margaret
Consortium
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Nassif
Jack Riharaph
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