Green Bay man walks 1085 miles protesting abortion
Paul Litkey of Green Bay Wisconsin walked from March 7 to June 13 covering 1085 miles to protest legalized abortion. He spoke at a Linn Area Knights of Columbus hall event in Iowa supported by Pro-Life groups while not belonging to any organization. He plans a book about the journey and says the trek was divinely inspired.
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Paul Litkey
Green Bay
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Litkey
Iowa
Knights of Columbus
716
Avenue NE
Linn Area Life
Pro- Life Council
Washington
Pro abortion protester Lukey tours Midwest with cross
The article profiles Lukey Litkey and his nine foot cross protest against abortion. He began the Iowa walk on August 8 and cites faith as guiding his anti abortion stance while criticizing government policy and urging Bible based guidance. He contrasts his personal outreach with Senator Dick Clark's public abortion position.
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Litkey
Iowa
Dick Clark
Clark
Deferred Sentences Issued In Linn District Court
Sentences deferred in Linn district court for Steven M. Edgar forgery case. Edgar received a suspended sentence up to ten years in the reformatory and two years probation. He allegedly forged a $377.50 check passed at a Cedar Rapids bank on March 29.
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Linn District Court
Steven M. Edgar
Reformatory
Cedar
Judd A. Toll
Cedar Rapids
Alan W. Cave
Darrell L. Rinehart
Owner's Opinion on Noisy 1977 Lincoln Versailles
Phyllis O'Donnell of 629 Grant Wood Drive SE describes the loud power pump noise of her 1977 Lincoln Versailles and its lemon status as neighbors stare before she decorates it. She reports a malfunctioning power pump causes a hideous screech on turning. a replacement part promised 16 days ago is awaited ahead of a planned trip to visit her daughter.
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Phyllis O'Donnell
Grant Wood Drive
Course Set In Keeping Records For Child Care
A short course in record keeping for child care centers starts Oct 12 in Cedar Rapids. Kirkwood Community College sponsors the class for workers and directors with weekly Wednesday meetings from 7 to 9 30 p.m. at Lincoln Learning Center. Registrations by phone at 398 5673 or 398 5675. Tuition 15 dollars. 30 years ago the agriculture department saw little hope for quick price relief.
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Cedar Rapids
Kirkwood Community College
Kirkwood
Lincoln Learning Center
Eighteenth Avenue
Ninth Street
Mrs Fletcher Leads Linn County Sight Saving Drive
Mrs. Robert Fletcher of 357 Forest Drive SE will chair the 1977 Linn County Sight Saving drive for the Iowa Society for the Prevention of Blindness. The effort promotes glaucoma awareness, eye safety, and children’s vision issues, with 12 Cedar Rapids Marion industries in the Wise Owl club reporting 78 workers saved from blindness. Volunteers conducted statewide preschool vision screenings totaling over 22 000 Iowa children ages 3 to 6 last year. The Iowa Society, founded in 1958, seeks to prevent avoidable blindness and is affiliated with the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness.
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Robert Fletcher
Forest Drive
Linn County
Richard C. Ilgen Fritz
Des Moines
Iowa Society For the Prevention of Blindness
Cedar Rapids-Marion Industries
Wise Owl Club
Fletcher
Iowa Society
Iowa
The
Iowa Society For the Prevention of Blind
Ness Was
National Society For the Prevention of Blindness
American Jazz Concert Aboard Carrier Independence Off Genoa
Visitors to northern Italy in September can hear American jazz performed by the Peter Cole group aboard the aircraft carrier Independence moored in the Gulf of Genoa off Allasio. The floating concert is planned for September 17.
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Allasio
Italy
API
Gulf of Genoa
Peter Cole Roup
Independence
U.S. Navy
Workers and Allies exhibit on women in American unions
An exhibit titled Workers and Allies: Female Participation in the American Trade Union Movement 1824 1976 runs at the Education al Service center 346 Second avenue SW through Oct 12. It features 39 panels tracing women's roles from New England textile mills to major unions and is free daily 8 am to 4 30 pm, sponsored by Cedar Rapids schools multicultural education project and on loan from the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service.
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Educational Service Center
Second Avenue
New England
Cedar Rapids
Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service
Four Names on C R Ballot But Only Three Candidates
Cedar Rapids Community school board election ballot lists four names for district four though only three candidates exist. Walter Merz appears though ineligible due to living outside the district, his name still on ballot as he announced late. Ronald Moore is the only official candidate for district four and Merz will precede Moore on absentee ballots. name order will vary by precinct. Curran Rosser and Robert Weinhardt run unopposed for at large posts. In 1565 a Spanish expedition founded St Augustine, Fla.
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Cedar Rapids
Ronald Moore
Curran Rosser
Robert Weinhardt
St. Augustine
Fla
North America
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