Two Hundred Years of Extinction Exhibit Opens at UI Museum
The University of Iowa Natural History Museum debuts a bicentennial show July 3 titled Two Hundred Years of Extinction the Right to Exist. Museum Director George Schrimper presides over a two part display examining vanished species such as the passenger pigeon ivory bill woodpecker heath hen Eskimo curlew and related environmental change. The exhibit uses Audubon Thoreau and Beebe quotes to frame wildlife loss and includes a preserved passenger pigeon specimen from the 1880s near Coralville.
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Iowa City
United States
University of Iowa
Natural History Museum
George Schrimper
Schrimper
America
Coralville
North America
Phillips announce birth of daughter Kara Lynn
Mr and Mrs Marvin Phillips of Selma announce the birth of their daughter Kara Lynn born Monday June 14 at Jefferson Co hospital weighing 8 lbs 11 oz Grandparents are Mrs Josephine Mullikin Brighton and Mr and Mrs Rex Phillips Selma Great grandparents are Mr and Mrs Clarence Brown Washington and Mrs Gertrude Kerr Douds The article notes visiting relatives and a later community meal cancellation due to a funeral and gospel music students Randy Mullikin and Pam McGuire leaving for Murray Ky for three weeks.
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Brighton
Marvin Phillips
Selma
Kara Lynn
Jefferson Co. Hospital
Josephine Mullikin
Rex Phillips
Clarence Brown
Washington
Gertrude Kerr
Douds
John Magnuson
John
Nokomis
Fla
Emily Farrier
Dell Farrier
Columbus Junction
Delbert Lowe
Randy Mullikin
Don Mullikin
Pam McGuire
Kenneth McGuire
Burlington
Murray, Ky
Stamps-Blackwood School of Gospel Music
Macksburg to host skillet throwing day
Iowa small town Macksburg hosts a national skillet throwing contest on June 26. Bill Sanders, postmaster and organizer, notes Iowa won hosting rights for 1976 after states including Illinois, Minnesota and Missouri joined the event. Contestants throw cast steel skillets 30 feet at a dummy, with separate men and women heats and a final.
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Des Moines
Illinois
Minnesota
North Dakota
Missouri
Iowa
Sanders
Hartford
Grimes
Cedar Rapids
West Des Moines
Gerald Boyle
Dexter
Connie Schutz
Macksburg
Boyle
Schutz
Notice on Homestead Tax Credit and Veteran Exemption
Homeowners who reside in their own house and have not filed for the Homestead Tax Credit this year must submit their application to the County Assessor by July 1 to secure taxes payable from July 1, 1977 to June 30, 1978. Veterans Military Tax Exemption requires annual applications by July 1 with the County Assessor.
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C. William Beebe
Joe Meder
Robert Barrett
Gary Moss
Country Club
Washington Country Club
Goodwill Club
Sunset Park
Mrs. Laton Schooley
Dean Rich
Brighton United Methodist Church
Harry Wentworth
Edgar Rotzinger
Robert Mineart
Walnut Creek
Calif
Elizabeth Mineart
Highway 78
Richland
Westinghouse
Fred and
Geneva Hurley
Eddie Edwards
Cipating HY Vee
Cash
Sherry Sabin
Mary Vittetoe
Keota
Jeanne Widmer
S.E. Mangold
Elma Rice
Clara Rathmel
Faith Plank
Wellman
Harvey Timmins
Virginia Batterson
Joe Krabill
Tom Hahn
Keith Stewart
Mer Sherman
Mabel Rankin
Jim Basien
Robert Becker
Dayton Crim
Omer Adam
Instany
Margaret Ables
Mr. Pleasant
Ruth Ahrens
K.H. Simmering
Gussie Ivory
Elmer Wulf
Mary Crossett
Esther M. Vincent
Shirley Kuhns
Phebe Lillie
Lyle Brock
Oran May
John Young Jr
Paul Anders
Karyl Flander
Ezra Jones
Ann Cherryholmes
E. J. Schroll
Wayland
John S. Wagler
Ivan Rhodes
Muriel Simmering
Ronald Scott
Helen Schenefelt
Jay Sellers
Elwyn Corey
Helen Schneider
Pleasant
C. Hensel
R. Stewart Bell
Dorothy S. Morgan
Russell Hemerick
Connie Cheney
Ainsworth
Ed Shoemaker
Dubuque
Ill
Marie Crandall
Earl Simpson
Janet Peterson
George Bond
John Gattey
Merle E. Blieu
Terry Jensen
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