Deaths noted in Iowa area including Differding and Hunte
Obituary notices report Loraine J. Differding 68 of Hiawatha died at Cedar Rapids Care Center after long illness. Joseph F. Hunte 21 of Springville died from self-inflicted gunshot in Springville with services planned at United Methodist Church. Additional death notices list Jennie R Diehl Shirley L Nielsen Bessie Starman Tiffany Gott and others with service details and memorial funds.
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Loraine J. Differding
Robins Road
Hiawatha
Cedar Rapids
Fifth Ave
Walker
Eroyle McQueen
Independence
Differding
Collins Radio Co
The
Christian Church
Keith
Esther Schomberg
Buffalo
Paul
Indianapolis
Ind
Murdoch Chapel
Marion
Merle A. Pederson
Walker Bible Church
Cedar Memorial Cemetery
Joseph F. Hunte
Springville
Linn County
Quaker Oats Co
Bessie Starman
Edgewood Manor Care Center
St. Luke's Hospital
Janeba-Kuba Funeral Home
Tiffany Diane Gott
Janet L. Gott
First Ave
Jack Gott
Gloria Dei Lutheran Church
Charles G. Schultz
Turner Chapel West
Anamosa
Orville
Frances) Lindley
Goettsch’s
William J. Leonard
Goettsch’s. Brooklyn
Leo Rhinehart
Nevenhoven’s. Calmar
Harlow Platt
Calmar Lutheran Church
French's
Farmington, Minn
Delta
Blanche Malone
Pennington Cemetery
Sigourney
Reynolds. Holbrook
Ann R. Gaffey
St. Michael’s Catholic Church
Church Cemetery
Uhlmann’s
Williamsburg
Keystone
Victor W. Kruckenberg
Eldridge
Trinity Lutheran Church
Davenport
Memorial Park Cemetery
Range Mortuary
Davenport Lutheran Home
Oxford
Martha Wiebold Krofta
St. John's Lutheran Church
Homestead
Oxford Cemetery
George L. Gay
Oxford Chapel
Hawkeye Area
Reynolds Chapel
Pleasant Grove Cemetery
Waukon
Emerson Hager Toney
First Presbyterian Church
Martin's
Ida E. Russell
Leach urges Reagan to seize chance for arms control
DES MOINES AP Iowa congressman James Leach leader of the moderate Ripon Society calls on President Reagan to adopt a restrained arms strategy and push for U S Soviet limits. He warns excessive defense spending and mergers drain capital and hinder recovery while urging cautious diplomacy and human rights balance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DES Moines
Iowa
James Leach
Reagan
Leach
Davenport
Ripon Society
America
Soviet Union
Dwight Eisenhower
Carter
Otis Road Bridge Closed Near Cargill Plant
Otis Road SE between 17th Avenue and Memorial Drive SE is closed for about two weeks due to an aging wooden bridge south of the Cargill Plant. Public Improvements Commissioner Wayne Murdock said the unsafe bridge will be replaced with twin concrete culverts by the Street Department, with crane rental as the only extra cost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Otis Road
17Th Avenue
Memorial Drive
Cargill
Commis
Murdock
Vesely Convicted of Voluntary Manslaughter in Iowa City
Robert Vesely, 32, found guilty by a six man six woman jury of voluntary manslaughter in the April shooting of his estranged wife Laura Vesely, a verdict carrying up to 10 years in prison with potential parole. The case followed alternating testimony about alcoholism, marital strife, and a fatal fishing trip. Vesely faces sentencing October 29 while in Johnson County Jail on $50,000 bond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa City
Robert Vesely
Vesely
Laura
L. Vern Robinson
Mildred Freel
Leon Spies
Jack Dooley
Kevin Struve
Dooley
Arlene Bacon
Mrs. Vesely
Toni Jolley
Johnson County
China presses for unification after Taiwan rejection
Peking urged new thinking to unify Taiwan on National Day as Ye Jianying proposed a peace plan allowing Taiwan to keep armed forces and partial leadership posts after reunification. Taiwan dismissed the plan as propaganda and vowed to resist any loss of autonomy and democracy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peking
UPI
China Today
Taiwan
Communist Party
People's Daily
China
National People’s Congress
Ye _ Jianying
Kuomintang
Nationalists
Armed car stereo theft as Cedar Rapids police investigate
Cedar Rapids police investigate an armed robbery in which a man with a gun took a car stereo from Roger Abraham's car around 3 p.m. A shop owner saw the suspect loading the cassette player and warned him to drop it. A separate early morning auto theft may involve the same man, who allegedly forced Carol Ann Detrick into her Buick LaSabre and drove off. The suspect is described as a Black male in his late teens or early 20s, about 155 pounds, wearing a maroon shirt and blue jeans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Roger Abraham
Fourth Ave. SE
Abraham
Madeline Hillsman
Sixth Ave. SE
Hillsman
Carol Ann Detrick
Eighth St. SE
Derrick
Noah Webster and the Speller and Copyright Law
Before compiling his dictionary Noah Webster produced the Blue Back Speller. Unscrupulous publishers pirated the Speller without payment or credit. This spurred Webster to advocate for federal copyright law enacted by Congress in 1790 to protect authors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Noah Webster
Webster
Inmate Arrested on Cedar Rapids Burglary Theft Warrants
Mark Gomez, 21, held at Johnson County Jail on two Cedar Rapids warrants charging first degree burglary and first degree theft. Police say a Sept. 12 incident involved a southwest side woman struck with a beer stein after discovering an intruder in her apartment. The attack occurred at 11:25 p.m. through a cut window screen. A purse was later reported stolen from Dorothy Smith at a local motel restroom. Bond set at $35,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnson County
Cedar Rapids
Mark Gomez
Southwest Side
Dorothy Smith
28Th Ave
Gomez
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Southeast Asia
Sioner
Wayne Murdock
J. McCauley
Flansburg Gazette
Johnson County Bureau
C. Joseph Holland
Spies
Bob
United Front
James Soong
Soong
Ninth Avenue SE
Gazette Company
Third Ave
U.S. Territories
Associated Press
John E. Lapes
Dial
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