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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 2003
Page
9
A northbound I 380 exit car ran a red light at Blairs Ferry Road causing a chain collision with an eastbound car and a toppled vehicle next to railroad tracks. Four people were hospitalized with non life threatening injuries. No names released.
Fred Bissen 83 of Stacyville recalls taking over the family farm after his parents died in 1940. He spent 60 plus years farming 380 acres with corn beans cattle hogs and poultry while watching the Cedar Valley Threshers Reunion's old equipment. He notes his evolution from reluctant youth to lifelong farmer and offers a simple career motto to others.
The Pleasant Hill home at 370 34th St SE in Cedar Rapids, designed with Grant Wood involvement, remains in the planning stage for conversion into a presidential manse for Coe College. Esther Armstrong left the estate to the Esther and Robert Armstrong Charitable Trust. the Phifer family plans to move in once renovations finish, with no firm timeline.
East Iowans share fond recollections of the Beetle as the last Bug rolled off the line in Mexico. Readers recount 1960s to 1970s ownerships with humor and grit, noting quirks like heat, 6 volt batteries, and fearless roadwork stories in Cedar Rapids and Hopkinton.
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