Milk Bread and Beer Dominate in Cedar Rapids Blizzard
During the Cedar Rapids blizzard milk bread and beer topped purchases as stores ran low earlier in the week. Managers from Barlow Food A Mart Hy Vee Eagle Me Too Sun Mart and Dale's Fresh Fruit Market report restocked shelves and a return to normal with walk in customers and large beer and milk sales.
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Cedar Rapidans
Gazette
Bob Fletchall
Barlow Food
Edgewood Road
James Hesselmann
A and P A Mart
Sixteenth Avenue SW
Cedar Rapids
Don Canfield
Seventh Avenue
Marion
Canfield
Terry Brown
Johnson Avenue NW
Bonebright
Larry Carl
First Avenue SW
Carl’s
Sun Mart
Center Point Road
Gary Register
Dale Everett
Dale’s Fresh Fruit Market
Everett
Meeting Tonight Of C R School Protest Group
A Cedar Rapids group named the Concerned Citizens Committee plans a 7 p.m. meeting at the Amalgamated Meat Cutters hall to protest the school board and Supt. Currie over four elementary school closures and discuss electing board members by geographic districts. About 3,000 signatures on petitions urge Currie’s dismissal and more petitions are expected.
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Cedar Rapids
Gary Leach
Robert Des Combes
Juveniles Charged After Window Break at Cedar Rapids Home
Two Cedar Rapids youths ages 12 and 14 were arrested Wednesday and charged with malicious injury to a building for breaking a window at a southeast side residence. They were processed by the youth bureau and referred to a probation officer.
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Cedar Rapids
Youth Bureau
Johnson County Gravel Roads Hit Critical Condition
Johnson County Engineer O. J. Gode described the county road system as critical. He warned about 50 percent of gravel roads becoming impassable by weekend and embargoes on oiled roads to preserve them, citing no gravel and no funds. Snowmelt has left bottomless muds, with no bus service possible and no forecast for road firming.
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Iowa City
Johnson County
O. J. Gode
Gode
Trash Finds Hidden Jewel Box With Cash and Check
Harry Fleck of the city sanitation department on Bever avenue SE found a jewel box amid trash containing a ten dollar bill and, after examining it, $115 in cash plus a $151 check. He returned the box to the grateful owner who said she had not realized it had been discarded.
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Harry Fleck
Bever Avenue
Fleck
Twenty-second Street
Ghostly Officer Seen in New Law Courts
A newspaper reports a ghost in a policemans uniform sighted twice inside the New Law Courts buildings in Port Elizabeth South Africa.
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Port Elizabeth
South Africa
Law Courts
Doris McNulty Bound Over On Embezzlement Charge
Doris McNulty from a northeast side address was bound over to the grand jury after a municipal court preliminary hearing on embezzlement by bailee. She allegedly embezzled 4115 dollars from Badgerl and Drum Corps Assn between November 6, 1969 and December 15, 1970.
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Doris McNulty
Northeast Side
Badgerl and
Drum Corps Assn
Danny Alnutt Pleads Guilty to Assault Charge
Danny Alnutt of 324 Seventh Street SE pled guilty in municipal court to assault and battery. He received a 30 day suspended sentence for an alleged February 24 assault on Loreen Alnutt.
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Danny Alnutt
Seventh Street SE
Loreen Alnutt
Sleep Fined $75 On Trespass Count
Robert Sleep of Hiawatha pled guilty in municipal court to criminal trespass by reason of intoxication. He was fined $75 for entering the residences of Elmer Butterfield at 408 Fifteenth Street NE Douglas Reed at 1444 C Avenue NE and Harry Smith at 1501 C Avenue NE on April 2. He was arrested at the Smith residence.
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Robert Sleep
Hiawatha
Lindale Plaza
City National Bank
Elmer Butterfield
Fifteenth Street
Douglas Reed
C Avenue
Harry Smith
Smith
Young Pleads Guilty To Trespass Charge
Donovan Young of 5544 Klinger Street SW pled guilty in municipal court to criminal trespass. He was fined $10 and costs after being charged with entering Gateway Gardens apartments on March 21.
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Donovan Young
Klinger Street
Gateway Gardens Apartments
Young Man Held On Damage Charge In Linn County
Terry Yousse, 18, of 1613 West Post Road, was jailed in Linn County on a $500 bond for malicious injury to a building. Police say he damaged a door at Jerry's Drive In, 715 First Avenue SW, on Sunday, with damage estimated at $200.
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Terry Yousse
West Post Road
Linn County
Jerry
First Avenue
NEMO Singers To Perform at Washington High
The NEMO Singers of Northeast Missouri State University will give a free concert at Washington High School in Kirksville Missouri Saturday at 8 p.m. Sponsored by the Washington choral department the 51 member choir performs traditional classics a cappella and contemporary music.
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Nemo Singers
Northeast Missouri State University
Kirksville
Washington High School
Washington Choral Department
Charles Ashford
Washington
Cedar Rapids
Clay H. Dawson
Coe College
Iowa
Illinois
Missouri
Flash Fire Kills Four In Sears Tower Worksite
Four workers died in a flash fire that swept an elevator shaft between the 33rd and 35th floors of the Sears Tower under construction in Chicago. Identified victims were Leonard Olsen 44 Robert Wiggins 52 William Walsh 22 and Larry Lucas 20. Cause was not immediately known.
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Chicago
UPI
Sears
Leonard Olsen
Robert Wiggins
Park Ridge
William Walsh
Melrose Park
Larry Lucas
Lincolnwood
Petitions for Review of Assessment Open in Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids residents may file petitions for review of property assessments beginning Monday through May 5 the City Assessor said. The board can adjust values to equalize assessments including new structures and omitted property but 1973 is not a real estate year.
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Cedar Rapids
Board of Review
Dale Piersall
Piersall
City Assesor
City Hall
J. Thomas Hoegen
Leo C. Peiffer
L. P. Boudreaux
Abbott Lipsky
James W. Bowker
Busing Amendment Opponents Question Constitutional Impact
Civil rights advocates testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee that a proposed constitutional amendment banning court ordered busing would erase progress on school integration and strip all children of equal educational opportunity. Senators Ervin and a parallel hearing on a national convention plan were noted.
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Washington
UPI
Congress
Senate Judiciary Committee
Sam Ervin
D-N. C
Gordon A. Martin
Massachusetts
The
Americans For Democratic Action
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