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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1977
Page
2
Administration officials say a planned meeting between President Carter and Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin aims to bridge deadlocked arms control talks. It will be Dobrynin’s second session with a top U.S. official after a Moscow deadlock.
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance plans a late year trip to Peking to advance U S policy toward normalized relations with China an administration spokesman said.
An appellate court in San Francisco invalidated a judge’s 30 day conservatorship order placing five Sun Myung Moon followers with their parents for deprogramming. The ruling affects two Moon followers as three later renounced the church after the March 24 decision.
The city seeks judicial review in Linn district court to overturn an interim TRB order and to argue that state law on train blockage six exceptions does not apply to preexisting ordinances. It asks for a stay of enforcement and challenges TRB jurisdiction and proof requirements.
The Cedar Rapids city briefs cover band auditions at the Senior Citizens center Greene square Sunday at 2 pm and a missing power lawnmower theft from Gary D. Bixby at 4420 Bowling St SW valued at 140 dollars. Also notes Ellen Axline joining Mam'selles Beauty on Bowling St SW and hospital update for Mrs John Lyon at Mercy hospital with visitors allowed.
Linn county deputies report a break in at Toddville fire station last week. An unlocked door allowed entry and bandages and smelling salts were taken. Separate thefts include a $250 Brady stock chopper hitch from Wayne Endecott and $600 worth of stereo equipment from Edward Lee Seiler both in Central City.
Kirkwood Community College board negotiator Ken Kupka and Kirkwood Faculty Assn chair Hanna Weston said a fact finding hearing is headed up after requesting fact-finders from the PER board. The process remains at impasse with salary and fringe benefits as remaining issues.
At 10 a.m. winds from SSW at 16 mph with gusts to 24 mph. Wednesday sunrise 5 30, sunset 6 45. Forecast calls for chance of rain Friday, partly cloudy Thursday and Saturday. Highs in the 70s, lows mid 50s. cooler Saturday with 60s and 40s. Mississippi River flood stages listed for several towns with rises and falls noted.
Venezuela will hold a 13 week seminar on modern Jewish writers from May 2 to July 25. Experts will discuss Marcel Proust Franz Kafka Norman Mailer and Saul Bellow during the program.
Listings show births on April 9 and April 11 for several families in Cedar Rapids Hiawatha Iowa City and Marion including Nolan Duggan Packingham Watson Enos Ward Williams Zaruba Stiles VanHouten Doughterty Rafferty Brewer Nolan Easter and Spinks Harris Fee and other couples. The entry also notes multiple married pairs dissolving and a sequence of ambulance and fire related calls with times and locations in Cedar Rapids Fruitland and surrounding streets.
Cedar Rapids police report a charge of false uttering of a check against 23 year old Patricia Lynn Kelley of 2418 Reynolds Avenue SW. Authorities say she allegedly wrote a check on a closed checking account.
On this date in 1606 the Union Jack was adopted as England’s national flag marking a significant moment in British heraldry. The new design united crosses of St George and St Andrew reflecting the union of kingdoms under James I.
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