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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1972
Page
6
In east Belfast a street battle erupted after gunfire wounded two Protestant workers at Sirocco Engineering. Barricades formed as Protestants sealed a Catholic enclave and British troops acted as a buffer amid ongoing IRA gunfire and predawn bombings in Belfast and Londonderry.
A 34 year old crewman from a Russian fishing ship broken left leg in two places was admitted to Columbia Memorial hospital in Astoria Oregon.
Linn County June savings bond sales total 465641, lifting six month tally to 3595911, 53 percent of a 1972 quota. Statewide six month total 48877457, 58 percent of goal, with Taylor County at 92 percent lead and Ringgold 90 percent.
Lincolnway Development Co faces delay as planners table the proposed 5600 block Kirkwood Boulevard SW development amid residential covenants and drainage concerns. Residents claim covenants bar multi dwelling units while company insists units are single family townhouses. Commission to study covenants and drainage before voting. Three plats received routine approvals including Mitralsky first addition north of Wilson avenue SW and Timberline tenth addition footings at St Luke's hospital.
Decorah senior investment counselor and city councilman C. Tofte, aged 60, won the Republican nomination for the 16th district seat with 1 865 votes to 862 for Jesse Wepler. He will face Democrat Donald D. Wurtzel in November. Wurtzel was unopposed in the Democratic primary. District results split by county show Wepler leading in Fayette and Howard and Tofte dominating Winneshiek.
Anamosa 21 year old college student Scott D. Newhard won the Democratic nomination for the 23rd district representative. He received 830 votes to Ed Luett 390. Newhard will face Republican Winston Wessel in November. Wessel was unopposed in the primary. County results show Newhard leading in Cedar, Clinton, Jackson, and Jones counties.
Upper Iowa college will hold commencement for 58 seniors this Friday at 10 a.m. in the Garbee Complex main dining hall. Lt. Col. William H. Spencer Jr. will speak, praised as commanding officer of the college's ROTC contingent and a former advisor to the Vietnamese Central Training agency now at University of Wisconsin Platteville.
About 50 women from Women Against Rape marched into Iowa City council chambers to demand action on rapes described as epidemic. They pressed for better downtown lighting, police foot patrols, midnight bus service, release of rape information, female rape victim advocates, and free high school self defense courses funded by the city. Council debated limited funding, with a study ordered and a mayoral suggestion to hire policewomen. an overall budget of 10.3 million dollars for 1973 was approved amid talks on street lighting and parking ramps.
Acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray III said he has been actively soliciting views of field directors and staffs since taking over from J. Edgar Hoover. He visited Albany to inspect the local office and spoke with reporters. He denied Hoover had a phobia about communism and said the agency remains alert to all isms while making organized crime its top target.
Ten years ago Britain refused political asylum to Dr. Robert Soblen and ordered his return to the United States to begin serving a life prison term for espionage for the Soviet Union.
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