Weather Update Cedar at C.R. and Coralville Lake
Extended forecast shows fair conditions from Saturday to Monday with highs from the mid 70s to low 80s and lows in the 40s. Sunrise Friday at 7 05 am and sunset at 6 45 pm. Year ago today high 54 and low 30 with no precipitation. Cedar at C.R. reports 3 02 and fall 0 03. Coralville Lake pool level Thursday.
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Births and cases steady in regional Daily Record notes
Births listed from Mercy St. Luke's and Cedar Rapids area with families named. multiple police calls and traffic citations across Marion Cedar Rapids Mt Vernon and surrounding towns. incidents include downed power lines faulty fans overheated catalytic converters and speeding violations with fines ranging from 10 to 100 dollars and related notices.
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Third Avenue SE
First Street
Thompson Drive
Switch Charge In Garbage Hauling Case
An indictment charging Herbert Schaffron of New York with conspiracy and false pretenses in an Eastern Iowa garbage hauling caper has been dismissed. Linn County Attorney Eugene Kopecky filed a new Iowa true in formation at the request of Assistant Iowa Attorney General Garry Woodward, who helped with the grand jury. The move follows an Iowa Supreme Court ruling that would nullify the prior indictment, delaying the case due to legal technicalities and the defendant’s illness.
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Herbert Schaffron
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Cedar Rapids
Schaffron
Man Charged With Impersonating Officer in Iowa Incident
Larry D. Jones, 25, of Des Moines, was charged with impersonating an officer and resisting arrest after telling Cedar Rapids detectives he was a state police officer. Arrested near 11 p.m. at the Kory Inn, he was held in jail Thursday on a $425 bond.
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Des Moines
Cedar Rapids
Jones
Kory Inn
First Avenue
British officer John Andre hanged as spy in 1780
On this date in 1780 Major John Andre the British officer who negotiated Benedict Arnold's surrender of West Point was executed for espionage.
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West Point
John Andre
Man Struck In the Face With Bottle At East Side Maidrite
William McCoy, 25, of 1265 Fifth avenue SE, was struck with a bottle after an argument over a chair at the East Side Maidrite. He was treated at St Luke's hospital and released. The assailant fled in a car after the second clash. no arrest.
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William McCoy
Fifth Avenue SE
East Side
First Avenue SE
McCoy
St. Luke’s Hospital
Cedar Rapids Obituaries Cover Local Notables and Farewells
Obituaries from Cedar Rapids memorialize Jeannette Wolfe Josselyn widow of George S. Josselyn with services at St. Michael's Episcopal Church and cremation. Lewis John Nass a railroad retiree dies at 63. other notices include Manus Dale Kime and Donald Svendal with service details. various memorials and burial plans listed for multiple Iowa towns.
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Twenty-third Street Drive
George S. Josselyn
Cedar Rapids
St. Michael's Episcopal Church
Delta Delta Delta Social Sorority
Home For Aged Women
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Grant High School
Thomas C. Aycock, Jr
Turner’s East
Memorial Film Library
Cedar Rapids Art Center
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Center Point Road
Illinois Central Railroad
Waterloo
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Memphis
Manus Dale Kime
Cottage Grove
Minn
Rock Island Railroad
Lorena
James Walden
Dayton
Ohio
Lori
Mike
Edna Werner
Oskaloosa
Evelyn Polansky
St. Paul Park
Fort Snelling
Minneapolis
Linn Magistrate Court Concludes Case Dispositions
The Linn magistrate court disposed of cases including Dale E. Newell guilty of assault and battery with 30 days jail to run concurrently with Fort Madison sentence, Emma J. Williams pleading guilty and receiving 30 days jail with suspensions, Robert Graves drunk driving charge dismissed, Frederick Share pleading guilty and receiving 60 days jail with 30 suspended, Irene Brown assault and battery dismissed, Terry Treat fined 300, Guadalupe C. Gonzales pled guilty to assault and battery with 30 days in Linn County jail on Sept 30, 1976, plus mercy-disturbance dismissals, Gary Lee Warner charges dismissed, Benjamin Bradshaw guilty of overloaded vehicle and fined 116, and William Kennedy fined 30 for vehicle damage.
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Second Avenue SW
Beth Schappert
Iown
Fort Madison
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Tenth Avenue SE
Isaac Pledge
Robert Graves
Eighteenth Avenue
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Marengo
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Robins
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Terry Treat
Big Flat
Ark
Linn
Guadalupe C. Gonzales
Twenty-second Avenue
Cedar Rapids
Linn County
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Mercy Hospital
Judy Carlin
Gary Lee Warner
Sixth Avenue SE
Benjamin Bradshaw
Springville
William Kennedy
Kent Tisdale
Two Prisoners Escape Iowa County Jail
Maregio UP I reports two inmates cut bars with a hacksaw blade in a second floor cell at the 83 year old Iowa county jail and escaped on foot. Sheriff William Spurrier named the escapees as Michael A. Gasper 22 of Wautoma Wisconsin and Jerome George 20 of North English. Gasper faces motor vehicle theft charges and George a parole revocation hearing on burglary charges.
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Wautoma
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North English
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George
Cedar Rapids man seeks state psychiatric exam in rape case
Donald Turner 22 of 617 Ninth Ave SE has asked for a state funded psychiatric examination after being charged with rape of a 63 year old woman on Sept 9. He faces additional counts of sodomy and aggravated burglary in the same case with a hearing set for Friday. On this date in 1804 England mobilized to resist Napoleon Bonaparte invasion.
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Donald Turner
Ninth Avenue SE
Turner
England
Napoleon Bonaparte
Bayh Urges Expanded Role To Heal Economy Energy Woes
Birch Bayh calls for party unity and leadership to tackle the nation’s economy and energy crisis. He accuses Ford of passing buck over oil prices and seeks a breakup of major oil firms to restore free enterprise. He spoke in Des Moines and Cedar Rapids amid campaign plans and timing concerns. In other notes, labor reports show September price rise across energy and metals while annual adjustments and decontrol steps loom for natural gas pricing.
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United States
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Schulz Peanuts creator rises from art school to syndication
Schulz, a Minneapolis instructor with five children from a previous marriage, conceived Peanuts at United Features Syndicate. The strip now runs in 1,655 papers including The Gazette, drawing on a fountain pen from art school days. Initial month earnings were 90 dollars. by 1966 annual income neared 300 thousand, with spinoffs totaling 150 million in 1971. Current income figures were not released.
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Art Instruction
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Armand Hammer Pleads Guilty to Election Violation
Armand Hammer, 77, pleaded guilty in Washington to illegally concealing 54000 in campaign contributions for Nixon in 1972. Judge William Jones delayed sentencing, Hammer released without bond, and prosecutors cited an apparent cover-up linked to Watergate probes.
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Injury charge dropped in Linn County court
Thomas E. Stalkfleet of 485 Grand Avenue Marion had a charge of malicious injury to a building dismissed in Linn district court on a county attorney motion. He was found innocent of assault and battery in the same case. County Attorney Eugene Kopecky said there was insufficient evidence that he kicked a neighbor's door.
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Grand Avenue
Marion
Linn
Stalkfleet
Eugene Kopecky
Workers unearth iron age Hun graveyards in Yugoslavia
In Belgrade the Politika Ekspres reports workers digging a dam on the Tisa river in northern Yugoslavia have uncovered graveyards of Huns dating from the Iron Age. The discovery highlights ancient nomadic burial sites along the river.
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