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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1977
Page
2
UPI reports fighting raged for hours at N'djamena's presidential palace as troops and guards clashed using machine guns and mortars. Eight people died including a top army officer. President Felix Houphouet? unhurt per dispatch.
White House energy chief James Schlesinger says President Carter will deliver an energy package by April 20. The plan may include tax rebates to energy savers and higher auto mileage standards, with a potential new gasoline tax. He calls the effort the moral equivalent of war on energy waste.
The Carter administration urged Congress to transfer all mine health and safety enforcement from the Interior Department to the Labor Department. It backed legislation to move the Mine Enforcement and Safety Administration to Labor, consolidating oversight under one agency.
U S District Judge Edward J McManus approves a government backed move to place Scott Voeltz on probation for involvement in a phony business operation. Voeltz 25 now resides in Florida and was linked with Glenn McClintic in a 1975 fraud scheme.
On this date in 1964 François Duvalier secured lifelong rule in Haiti by proclaiming himself president for life, consolidating dictatorship as political authority shifted under his regime.
Wind at 10 a m southeast at 21 mph. Sunrise Saturday 5 48 am sunset. Year ago today high 51 low 29 no precipitation. Extended forecast mostly clear Sunday through Tuesday with highs in the 30s and 40s and lows in the teens and 20s. Mississippi river stages Friday with flood bracket levels and changes for LaCrosse Lansing Dam 9 McGregor Guttenberg Dubuque Davenport Keokuk Cedar at C R.
Two men were arrested and charged with drunk driving. Donald Burdick, 44, of 1015 Third Street SE, was taken into custody at 11 p.m. Thursday in the 1200 block of First Avenue SE by Cedar Rapids police and faces speeding and disobeying a traffic signal charges. Blaine Munson, 18, of 3025 Twelfth Avenue, Marion, was arrested at 3 a.m. Friday at First Avenue and Nineteenth Street NE by the Iowa Highway Patrol.
William Zahn of Cedar Rapids filed a $150,000 federal suit against Heil Co of Milwaukee claiming negligence in design and manufacture of a garbage truck after his foot was caught in a blade on May 13, 1975, while employed by the city sanitation department.
A preliminary hearing is set for April 5 for C Wayne Springfield 29 of 1812 Jana Drive SW on two counts of lascivious acts with a child. Springfield is charged with acts involving boys ages 10 and 13 and held on $25,000 bond on each count after arrest by Linn County Sheriff’s Department.
Ronald Baldwin, 18, of Iowa City was sentenced to 25 years in the Iowa Men's Reformatory at Anamosa after pleading guilty to the January 7 rape of a 19 year old woman. Police say the attack followed a ride request from the University Hospitals parking ramp.
Birth announcements list a son for Mercy April 1 to Paul and Mrs. Rammelsberg of 3420 Twelfth Ave SW and daughters for St. Luke's March 31 to Sherman E. Crites of 2023 D Ave NE, for Paul J. Lubbock of Shellsburg, for Robert Miller of 346 Thirty‑second St NW, for Michael Nollen of Box 164 Marion, and for Stephen Wood of Vinton, plus a daughter for Jim Ware at Mound, with Ware child’s maternal grandfather Everett Fulmer of 3020 Eastern Ave NE and paternal grandfather Robert Ware of 1600 Ninth Ave SW. A Sabula birth to Richard E. Dickinson Jr. and Mrs. Dickinson is listed, with 1620 Second Ave Marion as reference. incidents include several fire, rescue, and accident calls: defective water heater on Summer Circle NE, open flame to tar vat on Bowling Street SW, mutual aid on Blairs Ferry Rd NE, extrication at Tenth Ave and Eighteenth St SW, food in oven on Ridgeway Dr SE, gas flush and extraction near 6th Ave and Eighteenth St NW, and wiring short on First Ave SE.
Cedar Rapids woman files a 75000 lawsuit against Bar low Foods alleging negligence after a fall outside the store on August 16 1975. Plaintiff Berenice Schaefer 1012 E Avenue NW suffered a broken hip and ongoing pain and seeks interest and costs.
ISU announces Sarah Morgan of 644 Staubcourt NE has graduated from Iowa State University with distinction. She earned separate bachelor of science degrees in foods and nutrition related science and foods and nutrition dietetics. Her name was not listed among ISU graduates in a recent Gazette issue.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette established in 1883 by The Gazette Co. prints daily and Sunday at 500 Third Ave SE Cedar Rapids Iowa 52406. Subscription rates vary by method with weekly and yearly options, and no mail subscriptions in areas served by Gazette carriers. The Associated Press retains exclusive republication rights for local news and AP dispatches.
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