Marion Post Opens Amid Stamp Error Sale
About 150 to 200 people queued for the Marion post office opening at 8:30 am to buy 400 sheets of a PTA commemorative stamp with a inverted yellow number, a marginal error that draws collector interest. Several sheets remained after the initial rush and Marion was the only regional office to receive the sheets. Also noted are YMCA schedule items at the Marion branch, Linkletter Insurance move, and local notices including a 40th wedding anniversary for Mr. and Mrs. Milo Vanderlinden at First Baptist Church with open house.
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Marion
PTA
YMCA
Marion Branch
Linn-Mar
Jessons
Milo Vanderlinden
Seventeenth Strest
Marleni First, Baptist Church
Robert Vanderlindens
Stefven
Vanderlindens
Othoffs Marion
Retired Minister John Hamstra Dies
The Rev. John H. Hamstra a retired Presbyterian minister died Thursday in San Antonio Texas. Surviving are three sons Kenneth J Howard and R Holtis Hamstra. Services 2 p.m. Tuesday at a borrowed chapel by Chaplain Kenneth Hamstra. Burial Oak Shade cemetery Friends may wait at the chapel after 1 p.m. Tuesday.
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John H. Hamstra
San Antoni
Texas
Thret
Kenneth
J. Howard
R. Holtis Hamstra
Kenneth Hamstra
Oak] Shade Cemetery
Bridge Collapse at Penafancia Festival Tragedy
At the Penafancia Festival in Naga City, a 180-foot wooden bridge collapsed under crowd weight from revelers and worshippers, killing and injuring dozens. Police say the bridge fell into the Bicol River as the Virgin of Penaflor statue was to pass, with several hundred trapped or rescued by authorities and bystanders.
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Manila
UPI
Justina de Jesus
Naga City
Bicol
al Naga City
Penin- Tranvia
C R Man Sought For Overstaying Prison Furlough
Fort Madison authorities search for 22 year old inmate David Lefay Pierson who did not return after attending his grandfather's funeral in Cedar Rapids. Pierson, serving 10 years for breaking and entering and assault with intent to commit great bodily injury, had been released on furlough to attend the services.
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Fort Madison
UPI
State
David Lefay Pierson
Cedar Rapids
Pierson
Red tide blamed for shellfish poisoning along New England coast
Public health officials in Massachusetts linked a Maine red tide outbreak to at least seven shellfish poisoning cases near the Rhode Island border. Mass bans on imported and frozen clams spread to quahogs mussels Cape scallops and other shellfish. Officials warned delayed treatment risks fatal respiratory paralysis while monitoring economic impact from the closure and embargoes.
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Boston
Maine
Sachusetts
Rhode Island
Cape Elizabeth
Massachusetts
New England
Massachusetts Marine Fisheries
Massaclant
Heachusetts
New Hampshire
Enid
Esa
Casarla
Protests Turmoil in Larne and Belfast Violence
AP reports a Protestant siege near Larne and Belfast, 300 Protestants marching in Belfast, one man killed in Larne, a British soldier shot, and widespread looting and arson against Catholic homes. Police say Catholics did not shoot. several Catholic families barred indoors as rioters attacked stores and a hotel. Meanwhile a Protestant man, Marion Larame, faced a disturber count and was fined after helping to drive rioters away.
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Belfast
Portal Larne
Irish Republican Army
Larne
Ulster Defense Assn
UDA
Sinclair Johnston
Central City Rites For Lester C Bolton
Lester C Bolton 55 lifelong Central City resident died in a Cedar Rapids hospital He was born March 7 1317 at Whittier Married Esther Woukowski on June 1 1941 in Central City Bolton served in the army air corps during World War III and worked as a farm equipment dealer He was a member of Level Indge No 284 AK AM Central City Chapter 10 RAM Marion Centralia council Booneville Mo and Khir shrine Cedar Rapids Surviving are his wife two sons Larry and Cary two daughters Mrs Avlyn Voss Mrs Gale Falkenbury father Earl Bolton six grandchildren four brothers Leonard Archie Junior Guy and Donald five sisters Lillian Waters Carol Covington Bessie Bowers Fay Monning and Joan Buschkeetter Services 1 pm Tuesday at United Church of Christ Friends may call at Murdoch's casket not to be opened after the service Donations may go to the cancer fund
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Central City
Lester C. Bolton
Cedar Rapids
Whittier
J Esther Woukowski
Ram
Marion
Centralia Council
Booneville
Junior
Central
Guy
Donald
Fountain Valley
Galif
Lillian Waters
Carol Covington
Winthrop
Bessie Bowers
Troy Mills
Fay Monning
Anamosa
Joan Buschkeetter
Denver
Conn
United Church of Christ
Murdoch’s
Cancer Fund
Nomination list for Iowa first district judgesrobed
Gov Ray receives judicial nominees from a nominating commission listing Dennis Damsgaard 65 Cedar Falls and Robert Braun 34 Watertown as possible successors to First District Judge Georget Heath. Heath sits on the district court bench with counties Buchanan Fayette Black Hawk Howard Grundy and Chickasaw in the district. Fy
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Ray
Des Moines
Robert Ray
Dennis Damsgaard
Cedar
Falls
Robert “Braun
Waterton
Georget. Heath
Heath
Yi Jleaye Noy
Phoenix Bank
Buchanan
Fayette
Black Hawk
Howard
Grundy
Chickasaw
iFirst
Coggan Man Fined on Drunk Driving Charge
Two men appeared in municipal court on drunk driving charges. Lynn Merrifield of Coggan pled guilty and received a $300 fine. Francis Lyman of Vernon View addition was bound over to the grand jury after an arrest on June 17. Home freezers sold quickly in a low cost ad.
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Belfast
Marion
Thomas Lariame
Pot Guiliy
Lynn Merrifield
Coggan
Guily
Francis Lyman
Vernon View Addition
Americans on Everest film feature tops the world
A Monday showcase highlights climbing lore with the first peak films and the first bivouac above 28,000 feet. The program celebrates the ascent without shatter or supplemental oxygen and highlights historic footage of the high peak.
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Iowa City
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