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Mar 8, 2021
James (Jim) Cox, 70, of Fort Dodge, passed away peacefully on Thursday, March 4, 2021, at the Paula J. Baber Hospice Home in Fort Dodge. Services will be on Saturday March 13 at 11:00 AM at the Gunderson Funeral Chapel. A time of gathering for family and friends will be from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM prior to the service. Burial will be in Graceland Cemetery in Webster City, Iowa.
James Edgar Cox, the son of Earnest and Elnora (Michael) Cox, was born September 14, 1950, in Centerville, Iowa. After graduating from high school in 1968, Jim served in the United States Army in the 101st Air Borne Division in Vietnam.
When we left the USS
Sway (AM-120) in our last installment, she had just departed Algeria en route to the United States. The
Sway had been in the European/North African theater of operations since 1943. She had participated in operations Shingle and Dragoon, had come under fire in Italy and Southern France, and been involved in a friendly-fire incident with General Mark Clark. Now she was en route to the United States for a major overhaul and refit before reporting to the Pacific Fleet for operations against Japan. My grandfather had joined the ship in May 1944, and as of 1 January 1945 he had risen to the rank of quartermaster third class. (All entries are from the ship s war journal unless otherwise noted.)
If you are a 40-ish lifelong resident of the SouthCoast with a love for reading, there is a chance your love started at Annie’s Book Stop.
Back in the early ’80s, Shirley and Dave Peterson franchised out the popular new and used bookstore Annie’s and opened a location in the JB Byrider plaza off Route 6 in Dartmouth. There were shelves upon shelves of new and used books and many of my peers frequented the store to buy the cult-classic
Babysitters Club books and Super Specials. Back then, reading the newest book was the cool thing to do; a mark of being hip and with it. Paperback books were 25 cents and you got a free Annie’s bookmark to go with it.
board of supervisors is expected to vote on this matter tonight, liz, although they are not required to. we ll have to wait and see whether it does indeed resolve this evening. reporting live in city hall, joe vazquez, cbs 5. thank you. it is still not clear how effective they are but one thing is certain: wherever those red light cameras go, a heated debate is sure to follow. cbs 5 reporter ann notarangelo joining us from oakland where there could soon be a lot more of those cameras on the streets. ann. reporter: yeah, allen, the oakland public safety committee is meeting in half hour to discuss whether or not to add more cameras throughout the city. and it s not really a clear-cut yes or no. reporter: the last light before the freeway entrance is often the last place you want to stop. and the city of oakland knows that and has a red light camera on 27th and northgate, one of 13 cameras in 11 intersections, one that nabbed this driver. i was fixing myself and i was