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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1975
Page
3
Saturday high 43 low 0 with no precipitation in April. Birth notices list many newborns across Marion Keota Oxford Junction and nearby towns. Funeral services set for Kinross Keota Independence and other towns with multiple burials and visitations.
The statewide Iowa infant program expanded to cover care from conception to 28 days old. It notes a drop in infant mortality from 19.2 in 1968 to 14.2 in 1974, alongside hospital visits, staff training, and creation of intermediate and intensive care units at University Hospitals. Dr. Erenberg and officials sought $92,000 for nurses to staff the enlarged unit.
City police report three theft incidents. Plates stolen from vehicles of James J. Miceli and Earl D. Huber, with times of theft provided. A .25 caliber pistol valued at $100 was taken from Mervyn Cousins home. Mrs. Walt Hill reports $35 missing from a Lindale Plaza locker.
Neighbors tossed flower pots onions dishes and even bullets from windows when four masked men tried to kidnap Ercole Carini 65 near his Milan home. Carini resisted and shouted as the street erupted with shouting shots and thrown objects forcing the bandits to flee.
Saudi Arabia's Ahmed Zaki Yamani announced a unified draft agenda for the upcoming talks with the United States Japan and the Common Market. Delegates from Algeria Iran Venezuela India Brazil and Zaire agreed on topics covering energy and raw materials for a mid summer full conference. The United States and Western Europe resist broadening the conference to raw materials.
In Belfast two pubs were struck by terrorist bombs killing six people and injuring about 70. The first blast hit McLaughlin's bar during a Grand National viewing, harming mainly Catholics. A second explosion at Mountainview bar on Shankill Road killed at least four and wounded about 55.
A 16 year old male juvenile was jailed in Linn county after a disturbance at the Woolworth store on Second Street SE. Police say he used loud language threatened an officer and refused to move. He was charged with loitering resisting an officer and intoxication.
Kissinger, in a somber news conference, urged the United States to honor a moral obligation to aid Saigon as Saigon had agreed to the 1973 Paris peace accords with continued U.S. arms support. He dismissed Thieu’s warning of treachery if aid ends, noting the goal then was troop withdrawal and prisoner repatriation from North Vietnam. He framed the aid debate as arising later. 30 YEARS AGO Admiral Baron Kantaro Suzuki named Japan's premier.
The piece analyzes how U S backed Taiwan under Chiang Kai shek shaped Asia policy from the Korean War to the 1970s. It notes Taiwan's strategic protection by the U S 7th Fleet and economic rise while China and the Soviet Union recalibrated power. It suggests a potential deal unifying Taiwan with mainland China while granting autonomy to ease trust and trade.
Margaret Jean Kapucian 53 of 4960 Harriet Ave NW Cedar Rapids died Friday after a long illness. Born March 22 1922 in Belle Plaine she married Nov 5 1942 in Lancaster MO. Surviving husband mother two sisters two brothers Funeral Tuesday 1 30 pm Fellmers Keystone Burial National Cemetery Vining. John George Kruber 79 of 1335 O Ave NE Cedar Rapids died Saturday in hospital after long illness. Born June 24 1895 in Chicago married Mollie Run June 14 1922 Cedar Rapids. Former Armstrongs Clothing salesman veteran World War I American Legion Burial Cedar Memorial with Legion funeral. Alice Elaine Walters Turner Chapel West burial Linwood Cemetery. Steven L Stolba Bearle Chapel burial Oak Hill Cemetery Graveside Hanford Post 5 American Legion. Casket to be closed at 1 pm Monday.
One Kansas representative was absent for a Saturday session as Marian Reynolds gave birth to a six-pound thirteen-ounce son at Stormont Vail Medical Center in Topeka. The House noted the event with humor, a Democratic member joking the child could become the first Democratic speaker of the house in state history.
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