The Clearing School of Healing Arts Emerges in Iowa City
Dan Cheeseman and Carol Bridges co-founded The Clearing with four friends to offer meditation guided fantasy money past life regressions and spiritual healing in a modest Iowa Ave house. They claim a cured illness for a woman after six months and say the group formed to provide positive problem solving through reflexology yoga psychotherapy and communal energy.
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Iowa City Enterprise
Dan Cheeseman
Carol Bridges
Iowa Ave
Cheeseman
Bridges
The Clearing Founders Build a Spiritual Community
In April 1977 she and Cheeseman formed The Clearing a non-profit, tax-exempt group aiming to host a new spiritual community. They offer body work and psychology to help members shed mental clutter. About 25 regular members pay $100 yearly dues, ages 18 to 65, with varied religious beliefs.
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Cheeseman
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The Clearing Offers Self Discovery Through Healing Arts
Nellie Kremenak and Janice Nepon Halliburton share how The Clearing helps them quit smoking and explore self awareness through massage meditation and group support. The program includes psychic readings guided fantasy and workshops with sessions priced at 15 monthly and 10 hourly. Events include a December talk by astronaut Edgar Mitchell and various free meditation and youth programs with registrations at 337 5405. After December 15 the venue moves to 525 Oakland Ave Iowa City.
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Phillips Hall
University of Iowa
Edgar Mitchell
Iowa Avenue
Oakland Ave
Iowa City
Jordan unearths Roman vault beneath Salt sewage plant
In Jordan near Salt, workers uncover a third century A D Roman family vault during ground work for a new sewage purification plant. The site holds three sarcophagi, six burial chambers, and skeletal remains suggesting about 80 individuals. The tomb includes a stone bust of the pater familias and will be preserved on site.
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Catholics Hold Top Capitol Hill Share in New Congress
The 1970s religious composition shows Roman Catholics at 129 members in Congress 116 House 13 Senate with Catholics and Presbyterians steady. Protestants 364, Jews 30, Eastern Orthodox seven and Unaffiliated six. Governors include Catholics 12 Episcopalians eight and Presbyterians eight. Rev. William H. Gray III joins House, Rev. John Danforth sits in Senate. Wisconsin Catholic priest Rev Robert J Cornell loses seat.
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Christianity Today
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Pennsylvania
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Alabama
District of Columbia
Buchanan
John Danforth
Missouri
Wisconsin
Robert J. Cornell
Toby Roth
Falls second in fatal mishaps
Falls in the United States rank second to motor vehicle accidents in accidental deaths. The Texas Agricultural Extension Service urges careful footing, clear walkways, and the use of approved climbing devices to prevent such incidents.
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College Station
Texas
UPI
United States
Texas Agricultural Extension Service
Communion age lowered by Ascension Lutheran church
Ascension Lutheran Church in Marion voted to lower first communion age to first grade. The decision echoes debates from the Lutheran Church in America and American Lutheran Church on infant communion, marking an 85 percent local victory despite national defeat. The church also approved a building fund and expansion planning.
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Ascension Lutheran Church
Grand Avenue
South 22Nd Street
Marion
Lutheran Church In America
American Lutheran Church
Ascension
Word origin: the term fans from St. Louis club
UPI reports that 19th century saloonkeeper Chris Von der Ahe who owned the St. Louis Browns coined the term fans by referring to his team’s followers as fanatics and later shortening it to fans. The origin ties the word to baseball culture in St. Louis.
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UPI
St. Louis Browns
Chris von der Ahe
Gard ner, Fed vice chairman Stephen Gardner dies at 56
Stephen Gardner, vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, died Sunday at his home after a cancer battle. He was 56.
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Stephen Gardner
Federal Reserve Board
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