Weather summary and readings across major cities
The report lists high and low temperatures for Wednesday and overnight, expected rain, and April totals for several cities including Atlanta, Miami, Minneapolis, Chicago, New Orleans, Denver, New York, Duluth, Phoenix, Houston, Seattle, Los Angeles, Washington. It notes cooler than normal conditions, various hourly readings, rainfall traces, barometer, humidity, wind at Gazette weather station, sun and moon times, and Mississippi River flood stage figures for several towns.
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Traffic Fines and Announcements From Cedar Rapids Area
Local notices list traffic fines for numerous residents including Leonard Black Gary Black Harold Hardt and Michael Hackbarth with amounts from 10 to 40 dollars. Announcements include births annulments and obituaries for families across Solon Cedar Rapids Marion and Anamosa with service details and addresses.
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Leonard Black
Thirty-third Street
Gary Black
Teresa Drive
Harold Hardt
Meadowbrook Drive
Michael Hackbarth
Ozark Street
Roger Peyton
Walker
Gary Meeks
Mt. Vernon
Harleth Reisner
Eighth J Avenue
Marion
Randall Herold
Sixth Street
Belva Kinne
Ohio Street
Charles Knight
M Street
Catherine Hurych
Fifth Avenue
Vincent Christopherson
Sixteenth Avenue
Dorothy McDaniel
Eighth Street
Shirley Harger
William Grow
Fairlane
Robert Hainey
F Avenue
Marilyn Rathbun
Valleyview Drive
Cheryl Shaul
Richard Charlson
Miami Drive
Marilyn Schneiderman
Monticello
Cindy Swore
Western Drive
Samuel Hunt
Iowa City
Gloria Schumacher
Bever Avenue
Donald Emerson
Lynnbrook Drive
Jeanette Dyball
Richmond Road
James Thomas
Rubye Gaborda
Glass Road
Becky Everly
Center Point Road
Milver Klouda
Wesley Drive
George Medford
Hillview Drive
Rita Kacher
Fourteenth Avenue SE
James White
Second Avenue
Frieda Black Cloud
Seventh Street
Barbara Musgrave
Thirteenth Street
George Marsh
Third Street NW
Howard ‘Sampson
Fourth—avenue SE
Katherine O’brian
K Avenue SW
Robert Coffman
Grande Avenue SE
Wayne Giske
Oakland Road
Donald Carnicle
Lindale Drive
Luther College protests shift to four demands during convocation
Protesters who seized the administration building at Luther College planned a 10 am convocation as department heads met in the library. The group lowered demands to four while classes moved to alternate rooms and no official statement had been issued by noon.
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Kent
Luther
Glen Nelson
Luther College
Rhodesia Aims New Push to End Independence Deadlock
Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith announced in Salisbury a fresh effort to win Britain over on the 1971 settlement terms. A British survey found blacks opposed the proposal, while the white minority government says the plan is acceptable but would be phased for black majorities. Smith offered no specifics of the new approach.
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Salisbury, Rhodesia
Ian Smith
Britain
Smith
Nixon Budget Fight Signals Pressure on Spending Controls
The article outlines White House efforts to impose mandatory spending controls while allow exceptions for equity. Budget Director Roy Ash criticizes a bill restricting impoundment, warning it invites waste and weakens tax-cut chances. Peter Flanigan says a full balance-of-payments fix is unlikely this year but progress is being made. Senate Republicans urge Nixon to block 25 percent pay increases for top officials, asking to hold any recommendations through year end.
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House Rules Committee
House
Ash
Congress
Peter Flanigan
House Foreign Affairs Committee
United States
Flanigan
Senate Republicans
Nixon
Peter Dominick
Rcolo
Wencil Stodola, Cedar Rapids Native, Dies at 81
Wencil C Chine Stodola 81 a Cedar Rapids lifelong resident died Thursday in a local hospital after a brief illness. Born May 12 1891 he married Albia Andrie Nov 2 1921 in Cedar Rapids. He played semi pro baseball as a pitcher umpired in the M1 league and served on Cedar Rapids Baseball Club board. He retired from Penick and Ford and belonged to multiple fraternal and civic groups. Surviving wife son William two grandchildren and brother Charles. Funeral services Saturday at Turner Chapel East with burial at Cedar Memorial. Military rites will be conducted by VFW and American Legion. Friends may call at Turner Chapel East.
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Albia Andrie
Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids Baseball Club
Penick and Ford
Eagles Club
IOOF
American Legion
VFW
South Side Civic’ S Club
Crescent Masonic Lodge
William Stodola
Charles Stodola
Turner Chapel
Anti North Viet Amendment Tangles Rural Electrification Bill
The House attached an anti North Vietnam amendment to a rural electrification lending reform bill after a 244 to 162 vote on a Nixon administration substitute. Rep. John R. Rarick urged blocking aid to North Vietnam. Rep. Gerald Ford criticized the move as redundant. The full bill passed 317 to 92 with party lines in play.
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Washington
America
House
John R. Rarick
D-La
North Vietnam
Gerald Ford
Michigan
Rarick
United States
Car Wash Break-In Takes $560 From Filing Cabinet
Police report a lock cabinet theft at Thunderbird Car Wash 4620 First Avenue NE. About $460 in bills and $100 in change were stolen between 3:30 and 4:00 am on the early Wednesday incident.
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Thunderbird Car Wash
First Avenue
Oelwein Man Hurt After Fall From Diesel Engine
Lyle Haught, 54, of Oelwein, was listed in good condition Thursday at St Luke's hospital Cedar Rapids after falling from a diesel engine Wednesday at the Northwestern diesel shop in Oelwein.
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Oelwein
Lyle Haught
St Luke's Hospital
Cedar Rapids
The
North Western
Widow Mrs Albert Burkart dies at Cedar Rapids aged 91
Mrs Albert Burkart Jennie Burkart 91 of 1236 Twenty seventh Street NE Cedar Rapids widow of Albert Burkart lifelong Cedar Rapids resident died Wednesday Born October 9 1881 married April 27 1900 in Cedar Rapids Survived by two sons Allen Burkart Spokane Wash Charles Burkart Cedar Rapids a daughter Mrs David Hirs chorn Scarsdale NY seven grandchildren and 17 great grandchildren Services 1030 a.m. Saturday at Murdoch chapel Marion by Rev Don R Martin Burial Oak Shade Cemetery Marion Friends may call at chapel after 5 p.m. Thursday
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Jennie Burkart
Twenty-seventh Street
Albert Burkart
Cedar Rapids
Allen Burkart
Spokane
Wash
Charles Burkart
David Hirschorn
Scarsdale
Murdoch Chapel
Marion
Don R. Martin
Oak Shade Cemetery
Miller William E. Millerdies in La Jolla at 74
William E. Miller 74 former Cedar Rapids resident died in La Jolla California March 22. Born January 3 1899 in There are no immediate survivors. Graveside services set for 11 am Friday at Oak Hill cemetery conducted by the Very Rev Canon D A Loferski Turner chapel east handling local arrangements.
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William Elmer Miller
Cedar Rapids
la Jolla
Calif
Oak Hill Cemetery
Canon D A Loferski
Turner Chapel East
Memorial Services for Three Local Residents Planned
Memorial services listed for Sadie Lee Pumphrey at Stewart funeral home chapel and for Anna McDermott at St Patrick's church with burials set at Pleasant Ridge and Mt Calvary cemeteries. A service for Mrs John W is set for 10 am Friday at St Wenceslaus church with burial at St John's. Burial details note Rev Clarence Frana and Rev Wayne A Shireman officiants.
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John W
St. Wenceslaus Church
Clarence Frana
St John's
Kuba Funeral Home
Pumphrey
Sadie Lee
Stewart Funeral Home
Wayne A Shireman
First Baptist Church
Pleasant Ridge Cemetery
Weston
McDermott
Anna
St Patrick's Church
Paul J Maguire
Mt Calvary Cemetery
Obituary of Ben Pospisil 1878 Cedar Rapids Resident
Ben Pospisil 94 of 47 Nineteenth Avenue SW Cedar Rapids died Thursday after a long illness. Born near Swisher Sept 28 1878 he was a retired carpenter and contractor. Survived by wife Anna Bohac four grandchildren four great grandchildren a sister Mary Serbousek Onida ND. Services Brush chapel 11 am Saturday Rev T Washington. Burial Czech National cemetery. Friends may call at the chapel after noon Friday.
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Ben Pospisil
Nineteenth Avenue
Cedar Rapids
Swisher
Anna, Bohac
Jerry Machacek
Cedar ‘Rapids
Mary Serbousek
Onida
D.D
Brush Chapel
National meat boycott impacts labor and prices in 1940s markets
Report from Chicago headquarters estimates 20 000 butchers and packinghouse workers jobless due to reduced meat demand. Retail grocers cite a 40 percent drop in meat sales while total spending shifts to poultry and fish. Industry leaders warn profits falter but consumer spending remains steady.
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Chicago
Frank Register
The
National Assn. of
Register
Patrick Gorman
International
Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen Union
Ira Goodman
Chicago Seafood Council
Harold Miller
Poultry and Egg Institute
Cooling-off period sparks meat boycott debate across states
Florida counties push a four week voluntary meat layoff as leaders urge discretionary buying to balance supply and demand. Governors split on participation while agriculture officials note rising beef and pork exports and tight domestic supplies driven by large Soviet sales.
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Florida
Marge Milner
Thomas Qualtere
Schenectady
Qualtere
Associated Press
Agriculture Department
U. S
Soviet Union
Nixon
Moscow
First U.S. Diplomats Cross Into Red China
Veteran U S diplomat Alfred Jenkins and five aides crossed into China headed for Peking to establish the first American liaison office in the Communist capital. Jenkins said the office could be set up by May 1 when David K Bruce is expected to lead the mission.
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U.S
Red
China
Hong Kong
Alfred Jenkins
Peking
Jenkins
David K . Bruce
Prices Rise Sharply as Inflation Fears Grow
The March price index shows a 12 percent increase, the sharpest since January 1951, with farm products and processed foods up 53.1 percent in the first quarter. AFL-CIO President George Meany calls for strict food price controls as Herbert Stein hints at possible further measures to curb inflation.
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George Meany
Afl-Cio
America
Herbert Stein
Council of Economic Advisers
Courthouse Year Sentences for Weibling Escape and Check Charge
Dennis O Weibling received one year in the Anamosa reformatory after pleading guilty to escape. He also got a concurrent one year in the Linn county jail for false uttering a check, forged with another man’s name, drawn in Cedar Rapids. He was 26 and arrested in Salt Lake City Utah.
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Dennis O. Weibling
Reformatory
Anamosa
Linn County
Ansel Chapman
Weibling
Cedar Rapids
Salt Lake City
Utah
Sound system diverts whales from salmon farms
Researchers lowered loudspeakers into the ocean and broadcast killer whale sounds to deter whales. The tactic aims to keep whales away from schools of young salmon and reduce predation.
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