Weather and licenses headline Cedar Rapids area notes
Extended forecast shows partly cloudy days with a Sunday rain chance. Flood stage readings for LaCrosse to Keokuk list minor rises and falls. Marriage licenses issued in Cedar Rapids and surrounding towns include DeGroff, Marston, Strickland, Hagen, Mallie, Burger, Schmidt, Bartels, Chrys tal, Vargason, Lord, Toyne. Local police reports include alarms, odor investigations, and nuisance calls. Numerous fines are recorded for traffic and related offenses with several suspects named.
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Robert DeGroff
Loris Marston
Cedar Rapids
Joseph Strickland
Patricia Hagen
Solon
Steven Mallie
Mr. Vernon
Linda Burger
Allen Schmidt
Vinton
Pamela Bartels
Daniel Chrystal
Walker
Janet Toyne
Hiawatha
Douglas Lord
Debra Vargason
Lisbon
Linn Supervisors Explore Alternative Jail Plan
Linn County supervisors consider an alternative jail for minimum security offenders, outline state funded facilities to ease overcrowding, with a 30 inmate capacity and 15 staff. The program, supported by Judge Vietor and Sheriff Grant, would be run under local boards with state oversight and shared costs.
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State Bureau of Community Correction Services
Linn Board of Supervisors
Harry Woods
Black Hawk
Scott
Polk County
Linn
Woods
Harold Vietor
Sixth Judicial District
Walter Grant
Daniels Named Playboy President and Chief Operating Officer
CHICAGO UPI Derick Daniels has been named president and chief operating officer of Playboy Enterprises Inc. Hefner will remain chairman and chief executive and will continue to set policy for the $200 million publishing and entertainment empire.
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Chicago
UPI
Derick Daniels
Playboy Enterprises Inc
Hugh Hefner
Hefner
Airport unit approves plans for new runway lights
Cedar Rapids airport commission approved plans and specifications for replacing the entire runway and taxiway lighting system. The project is estimated near 300000 dollars with potential 90 percent federal funding. Existing wiring troubles prompted replacement after shorts. lighting will be upgraded over about 11 miles with new fixtures and wiring. A preliminary funding application will be sent to the Federal Aviation Administration.
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Cedar Rapids Airport
Jameson
Federal Aviation Administration
Rites Set For Mineard Smith 69
Services for Mineard Smith aged 69 will be held Friday at 10 a.m. at St. Patrick's Catholic church. Smith died Tuesday after being trampled and gored by a bull on his farm north of here. Born January 21 1907 he married Delia Woolstrich on January 3 1939. Surviving are a son Mineard F Watkins two granddaughters and two sisters Elizabeth Etscheidt and Cleo Smith. Rosary is Thursday at 8 p.m. at T W Van Beck's Blairstown.
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Rosary
T.W. van Beck’s
Blairstown
Obituaries Chronicle Multiple North Iowa Funeral Notices
Obituaries list numerous services across towns including Hayden Wyoming Turner east Cedar Memorial First Christian Westminster Presbyterian St. Pauls Iowa City West Branch Tipton Traer Cedar Falls Immanuel Lutheran Belle Plaine and Elkader. Names include Elizabeth Jean Bronson Ida Belle Wolfe Cynthia Mastain Hazel Knott Wilem Potek Jeanne Kane Lloyd Castle Phyllis Toledo Jesse Arends Dr Christian Radcliffe Dora Sullivan William Ohlert Emil Best Delia Gates William Glandorf Herman Staffenbeal Selma Stemmer and more with dates times churches cemeteries and memorial fund notes.
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Wolfe
Ida Belle
Turner Chapel
David Polk
First Christian Church
Ridgeway Cemetery
North Liberty
Mastain
Cynthia
Arnold Herbst
St. Paul's United Methodist Church
Cedar Memorial
Turner East
Leukemia Foundation
Toledo
Jesse
Phyllis) Arends
Henderson’s
Iowa City
Christian E. Radcliffe
George L. Gay
Dora M. Sullivan
St. Mary’s Catholic Church
George L
Barker’s
Masonic Cemetery
Tipton
Belle Plaine
Emil C. Best
Mondovi
Wis
T.W. van Beck
S. Traer
Delia V. Gates
Traer
Kimball Avenue Methodist Church
Waterloo
Erickson’s
Nottger-Erickson’s
Cedar Falls
Mercy hospital creates therapeutic recreational services director
Steve Russell 1616 Arizona Avenue NE has been named director of Mercy hospital’s new department of therapeutic recreational services. He will plan activities for orthopedics pediatrics and chemical dependency unit patients Hallmar residents and Mercy and Hallmar staff. Russell earned a master of arts in therapeutic recreation from the University of Iowa in 1968 after graduating from Iowa State University and previously worked at the Mental Health Institute Independence and Jane Boyd Community House.
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Steve Russell
Arizona Avenue NE
Department of
Mercy Hospital
Hallmar
Mercy and
Russell
Iowa State University
University of Iowa
Mental Health Institute
Independence
Jane Boyd
Mercy
City Briefs Pension Board Meeting Planned
The fire department pension board will meet Friday at 4 30 p m at central station to act on requests for pensions.
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Pension Board
Fire Department Pension Board
Central Station
Mao Tse-tung remembered in sweeping obituary overview
A long biographical tribute recalls Mao Zedong born December 26 1893 in Hunan province his role as founder of the Chinese Communist Party and leader of the Long March. It notes his rise to power in 1949 the Korean War era and China’s shift toward rapprochement with the West in 1972.
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Shaoshan
Hunan Province
Sun Yat-sen
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Shensi
Chiang Kai-shek
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Forbidden City
Peking
Joseph Stalin
Republic of Korea
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Yalu River
People's Republic
Stalin
Chou
West
Nixon
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Ridgeview Drive
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Marlin Drive
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Toddville
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Twenty-seventh Street
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Selma) Stemmer
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