Longtime Cedar Rapids machinist dies at 74 in home
Melvin Glen Weber of 514 Sixth St SE dies at home from apparent heart attack. Born Aug 9 1905 in Riverside he lived in Cedar Rapids 27 years and worked 17 years at Quaker Oats before retiring in 1970. Survived by two daughters two stepdaughters ten grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. Services Saturday 10 a.m. at Stewart Funeral Home with burial at Mount Calvary. wake service 7:30 p.m. tonight and casket closed at 9:45 a.m. Saturday. memorial fund established.
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Melvin Glen Weber
Sixth St. SE
Riverside
Cedar Rapids
Quaker Oats
Dennis Schissel
Thomas Maronde
Belvedere
Ill
Barron Gottry
Warren Schakey
Waterloo
Stewart Funeral Home
Robert Cizek
Mount Calvary Cemetery
John Thomas Sheets
Indiana St. SW
Americana Care Center
Corydon
Sanitary Dairy
Sheets
Vera Jeffries
Asbury United Methodist Church
Richard L. Schafbach
Barron, Wis
Jon L. Dytrt
Scottsdale, Ariz
Lara Cobb
John de Brewer
Des Moines
Everett Clark
Mitchellville
Turner Chapel East
Charles Mehaffey
Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery
Family endures bone marrow transplant for teen leukemia
Elizabeth Novak, 16, undergoes a bone marrow transplant at University of Minnesota after chemotherapy and radiation. donor Maureen Novak provides marrow to Elizabeth while family support, blood and platelet transfusions, and a hospital stay shape their ordeal. Elizabeth aims to return to school and later work with families of sick children.
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Maureen
Elizabeth
Iowa City
University of Minnesota Hospital
Minneapolis
University of Iowa
Mary
Ben
LaSalle
Iowa City West
Studio 54 faces tax charges tied to cocaine inquiry
In New York, Johnny C. Conaghan pleads innocent to narcotics charges amid a probe linking Studio 54 to cocaine rumors. The NY State Liquor Authority seeks to cancel the club license by filing drug and tax evasion charges, while a Justice Department source says the tax case is separate from the cocaine inquiry.
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Jordan
Justice Department
Washington
New York
John
Johnny C
Conaghan
Studio 54
New York State Liquor Authority
Rubell
Schrager
Weather and river reports with flood threats across the Carolinas
The bulletin notes light rain and flood threats in the Carolinas with flash flood watches. It cites heavy rain in Jocassee and Rosman North Carolina, plus rainfall totals in Daytona Beach, Asheville, and other towns. Mississippi River stages show several rises and falls across locations like LaCrosse and Dubuque. The forecast calls for partly cloudy skies Sunday and a chance of showers early next week with highs in the mid forties to mid fifties.
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Carolinas
Appalachians
Ohio Valley
Great Lakes
Jocassee
South Carolina
Anderson
North Carolina
Rosman
Asheville
California
Oregon
Washington State
Daytona Beach
Fla
N.C
Bristol
Philipsburg
Minnesota
Amarillo
Texas
Rockies
Central Plains
Mississippi Valley
Alamosa
Colo
el Paso
Large Iowa medical malpractice award sets leg loss record
Waterloo couple awarded 646,860.90 in Black Hawk County District Court. Marvin Merbach receives 521,860.90 for leg amputation after podiatrist care. Magda Merbach awarded loss of consortium. Attorneys David M. Elderkin and David A. Elderkin represented the couple. Judge Lybertt struck down a new statute barring insurance payments in malpractice cases.
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Cedar Rapids
Waterloo
Iowa
Black Hawk County
Marvin Merbach
Magda
Consortium
Merbachs
David M
David A. Elderkin
Lynn Lybertt
Elderkins
City Briefs and Local Ads Highlight Services and Sales
A compact page lists items from Czech Cottage offering a large Oriental screen and carved ivory to The Food Factory with giant tender loins and chicken fillet sandwiches. Dental East announces fall and winter hours plus 24 hour emergency service. Merle Norman Cosmetics promotes a 42nd Anniversary Sale with 10 percent off through November. Downtown parking options and Moose Members breakfast noted.
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Dennis Schuller
Duane Schmidt
Dental East
1St Ave. SE
Merle Norman Cosmetics
Dows
Second Street SE
Nuclear fuel tests spark NRC review of Palo plant safety
NRC officials weighed whether Westinghouse fuel bundles meet requirements under accident conditions. Strasma said backup documentation is needed even as Westinghouse seeks more time to present. If the company fails to prove compliance, Palo plant operations could face power reductions. General Electric produces the Palo bundles.
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NRC
Strasma
Westinghouse
Commission
Darrell Eisenhut
Horace Webb
Iowa Electric Light and Power Co
Cedar Rapids
Palo
Webb
General Electric
Births and incidents reported in Mercy area notices
Births list multiple families from Cedar Rapids areas including Mueller Horstman Reed Burnham Hagen Jensen and Fish with grandparents named. Followed by long string of resident pairs across Cedar Rapids Anamosa Cedar Rapids Marietta and Belle Plaine. Then times and brief alerts: airport alert 8 55 am. fires medical and gas incidents and an investigation across several blocks.
Thinnes elected president of bankruptcy judges group
Marion bank ru p tcy judge for the northern district of Iowa has been elected president of the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges. About 230 of the nation's 240 federal bankruptcy judges are members. Thinnes has served since March 1965 and is the first Iowa judge to hold the one year post. The conference aims to foster cooperation and education and to promote uniformity in bankruptcy cases and helped pass the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1878.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Thinnes
Marion
Iowa
National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges
Thinnes
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