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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1976
Page
2
Anamosa High School drama presents A Thurber Carnival a collection of James Thurber skits on Thursday and Friday at 8 p m The Gentlemen Shoppers scene features Dirk Downing and Craig Fortune attempting to buy gifts for their wives with Kathy Bonifazi as saleswoman and Tim Swartz as floorwalker Owen Domer acts as a newspaper reporter while Brant Mayer plays a hermit
The 49th UI Parents Weekend features the presentation of the US Mother of the Year at Saturday noon in the IMU main lounge, honors convocation in Hancher Auditorium, and performances by US Seals club, Opera Theatre, Scottish Highlanders, Baroque Players, and more. Events span Friday to Sunday with free museum hours and a Thieves Market art sale on the riverbank Saturday morning.
IDOT commissioner Allan Thoms criticizes a 9800 dollar mass transit campaign urging awareness. Transit chief Terry Fritz defends the effort aiming to shift public perception, while a proposed 2 million dollar state aid bill awaits Senate action. Ottumwa and Des Moines systems face serious funding strains.
Iowa officials told the IDOT commission it would be cheaper to construct a downstream 1,200 foot lock and dam for about 330 million dollars rather than repair the dilapidated Alton lock and dam near St. Louis at an estimated 400 million. The debate centers on keeping river traffic open during work and potential delays for grain shipments from the upper Mississippi Valley.
After hearing 11 witnesses in two days the Scott County special grand jury recessed until next week. It probes the Davenport firm Hynes and Howes and related securities operations with the Iowa attorney general's office. Assistant Atty. Gen. John Perkins said the panel will reconvene at 9 am next Wednesday to hear more witnesses and likely complete work in one to two days.
Mrs. Gloria Sowards, 24, is ordered to appear July 12 in Buchanan county circuit court for trial on a second degree murder charge in the beating death of Sandra Beam 21, a Job Corps trainee from Ute Iowa. She is the third woman charged in the Jan 9 incident.
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