Milk Bread and Beer Top Cedar Rapids Storm Purchases
Cedar Rapids shoppers stocked up on milk bread and beer during the blizzard with stores reporting shortages early in the week and a return to normal by Thursday. Managers cited high beer sales and steady walk-in traffic as essentials moved quickly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapidans
Gazette
Bob Fletchall
Barlow Food
Edgewood Road
Iight
James Hesselmann
A and P Amart
Sixteenth Avenue SW
Cedar Rapids
Don Canfield
Seventh Avenue
Marion
Canfield
Bonebright
Larry Carl
First Avenue SW
Cedar Rapids parents plan meeting over school board decisions
A group calling itself the Concerned Citizens' Committee schedules a 7 p.m. meeting at the Amalgamated Meat Cutters hall to press for superintendent Currie’s dismissal and oppose closing four elementary schools next fall. About 3,000 signatures gathered on petitions since March 22. Discussion will cover districting board seats by geographic areas for next fall’s election.
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Cedar Rapids
Gary Leach
Robert Des Combes
Juveniles Accused of Breaking Window in Cedar Rapids
Two Cedar Rapids juveniles aged 12 and 14 were arrested Wednesday and charged with malicious injury to a building after 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 Declared Critical By Engineer
IOWA CITY Johnson County Engineer O J Gode called the county road system critical saying about 50 percent of gravel roads could be impassable by weekend and embargos would halt most oiled roads. He noted residents face hardship as there is no gravel or funds to buy more and large areas may be cut off to snowmobiles and four wheel drive vehicles with no school bus service. Mud from recent melt coats secondary roads and Gode did not predict when surfaces would firm.
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Iowa City
Johnson County
O J Gode
Gode
Trash Find Earns Sanitation Worker Small Reward
Harry Fleck of 418 Twenty-second Street NE found a jewel box in Bever Avenue SE among trash. He discovered 115 dollars in cash and a 151 dollar check inside before returning the box to its owner who thanked him. The owner had discarded the box unknowingly after February.
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Harry Fleck
Bever Avenue
Fleck
Twenty-second Street
City Sanitation Department
Ghostly officer sighted at New Law Courts twice
A newspaper in Port Elizabeth reports a spectral figure in a policeman uniform seen on two occasions within the New Law Courts buildings. The haunting note adds a local mystique to the courthouse area.
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Port Elizabeth
South Africa
Law Courts
Embezzlement Charge Sends Doris McNulty To Grand Jury
Doris McNulty bound over to the grand jury after a preliminary municipal court hearing on embezzlement by bailee. She allegedly embezzled 4115 dollars from Badgerland Drum Corps Assn between November 6 1969 and December 15 1970.
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Doris McNulty
Badgerland Drum Corps Assn
Danny Alnutt Admits Assault in Municipal Court
Danny Alnutt of 324 Seventh Street SE pled guilty in municipal court last week to assault and battery. He received a 30 day suspended jail sentence. The charge alleges he assaulted Loreen Alnutt on February 24.
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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 dollars 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 for entering Gateway Gardens apartments. He was fined $10 and costs on March 21.
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Donovan Young
Klinger ‘Street
Gateway Gardens Apartments
Young Man Held On Damage Count
Terry Yousse, 18, of 1613 West Post road, held in Linn county jail on $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. damage estimated at $200.
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Terry Yousse
West Post Road
Linn County
Jerry
NEMO Singers to Perform at Washington High
The NEMO Singers from Northeast Missouri State University Kirksville will give a free concert at Washington High School in the school auditorium at 8 p.m. The 51 singers cover traditional classics a cappella and contemporary pieces.
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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
Misssouri
Four Die in Sears Tower Flash Fire
Four workmen were killed when a flash fire swept an unfinished elevator shaft between the 38th and 35th floors of the Sears tower in Chicago. The victims were Leonard Olsen 44 Robert Wiggins 52 William Walsh 22 and Larry Lucas 20. The cause was not immediately determined.
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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 with the City Assessor beginning Monday through May 5. The board of review meets May 1 to organize and handle adjustments limited to value changes for the 1973 assessment year. Petitions must cite inequity, overvaluation, nonassessable property, assessment errors, or fraud and may be filed on official forms at City Hall.
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Cedar Rapids
Piersall
Board of Review
Tein
J. Thomas Hoegen
Leo C. Peiffer
L P Boudreaux
Abbott Lipsky
James W Bowker
Busing Measure Draws Civil Rights Opposition in Senate Hearing
Civil rights advocates urged the Senate Judiciary Committee to reject a proposed constitutional amendment banning court ordered busing. They warned it would undo years of school integration progress and erase equal educational opportunity for children of all races.
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Dale’s Fresh Fruit Market
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C.R
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Spacemaker
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Center Pi
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Your Family Bank
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16Th Ave
F.d.1.c
Grand Jury
Sleep
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Young Man
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Washington High
Clay Dawson
San Francisco
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Continental
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Power Limited
Iowa Department of Revenue
Gia
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Jeans
Slacks
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