Marion United Way Leaders Named for 1975 Campaign
Herman and Bernie Cooper named co chairs of the Marion United Way drive with Armeth Gertson heading major firms and Greg Hapgood leading intermediate firms. Al Wardenburg handles small firms, Don Hoskins professional gifts head, Bill Strogoe oversees special gifts. Charles Beahmi directs government and schools. Associate chair to recruit volunteers. Dickey's Cleaners closed August 7–10. Retailers meeting set for Thursday at 9 30 a m. quarterly Chamber meeting canceled and to be rescheduled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herman
Bernie Cooper
Marion
United Way
Armeth Gertson
Maria Drive
Greg Hapgood
al Wardenburg
Don Hoskins
Bill Strogoe
Sjrichal
Charles Beahmi
Cedar Rapids- Marian Area
Marion Groups Erecting Sign At Cedar Rapids Engineering Plant
Marion civic groups collaborate to install a 12 foot sign at the Cedar Rapids Engineering Co. plant site on the east edge of Marion. A dedication ceremony is set for Tuesday at 5 30 p.m. with company and local officials in attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion Division Chamber of Commerce
Marion Jaycees
Cedar Rapids Engineering Co
Chamber
Jaycee
Marion
Farmers Sponsor Hotline On Food Price Hikes
Washington reporters outline a nationwide toll free hotline run by farm spokesmen to report uses of Soviet grain purchases as a pretext for higher food prices. ACA leaders defend grain sales as beneficial while urging the public to call in with any abuses and facts from grassroots sources.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Agriculture Council of America
Haxter Freese
Wellman
ACA
Recoutsa
Freese
Thureman Gaskill
Corwith
Don Woodward
Pendleton, Ore
National Assn. of
Defense Rests In Davis Trial Amid Expected Testimony
SPIRIT LAKE AP The defense in the Jimmy Cox Davis trial posted Monday without calling Davis wife Mary Margaret as expected. Davis, a Des Moines radio personality, is being tried in Dickinson County district court on a charge of attempting to hire someone to kill his wife. The trial was moved from Polk County on a Change of Venue. Davis testified most of Friday as prosecutors and defense argued over next steps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spirit Lake
Jimmy Cox
Davis
Mary Margaret
Des Moines
Dickinson County
Folk County
Too Young To Drive Nabtsd in Car Theft
Two Cedar Rapids youths aged 12 and 13 were charged with larceny of a motor vehicle after police stopped them in the 100 block of Sixth Street SE at 4 am Sunday while driving a stolen car. The car belonged to Lois Hanson of Carter Street NW and was reported stolen from Lee's Skelly station on First Avenue SW. The boys were released to their parents.
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Cedar Rapids
Sixth Street
Lois Hanson
Carter Street
Lee's Skelly Station
First Avenue
Enquirer report on Kis singer trash fuels Secret Service probe
The National Enquirer says a Kis singer trash story prompted a Secret Service inquiry into why sensitive documents were found in Henry Kissinger's garbage. The Enquirer cites a Secret Service spokesman stating the agency investigates potential leaks and asks for the return of any materials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Enquirer
Henry
Kissinger
Secret Service
Jack Warner
Hoover Days at West Branch Honors Hoover Birthday
An old fashioned Hoover Days festival is planned for Saturday and Sunday at the Herbert Hoover National Historic Site. The event features a wreath laying Sunday at Hoover’s grave with Sen. Barry Goldwater as main speaker and Gov. Robert D. Ray to introduce Goldwater. Sunday marks the first anniversary of Hoover’s birth at a small cottage on site.
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UPI
U.S
Herbert Hoover
Barry Goldwater
R-Ariz
Hoover
Goldwater
The
Hoover Presidential Library Assn
Robert D. Ray
Probation of White Revoked and Prison Ordered
A former Johnson County attorney, Jack C. White, 62, has probation revoked and is ordered to serve up to 15 years in Port Madison penitentiary. He must report to Sheriff Gary Hughes for transfer as of August. White pleaded guilty in 1974 to eight counts of embezzlement and surrendered his license, with restitution required.
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Iowa City
Port Madison
Jack C. White
Johnson County
Gary Hughes
White
Johnson County District Court
August. F. Hansell
Wedelstedt Firm Ordered To Pay Back Wages
International Amusements of Cedar Rapids owned by Edward J Wedelstedt must pay back wages totaling 2440 dollars to 16 warehouse employees for overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act. U.S. District Judge Edward J McManus ordered the payment after the company failed to respond to government allegations. The suit, filed September 1974, covers overtime from January 1973 to March 1974 at the Nipth Avenue warehouse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International Amusements, Inc
Cedar Rapids
Edward J Wedelstedt
U.S
Edward J McManus
U.S. Department of Labor
International Amusements
McManus
Orger
Nipth Avenue SE
Wapes Tangel
Ten People Injured in Weekend C R Accidents
Weekend traffic crashes in the city injured ten people. At First avenue and First street SW a two car crash sent Karen Michael 25 Barbara Bealby 20 and Chris Jennings 24 to Mercy hospital. McCullough 37 was charged with failure to control after the crash. A second two car crash on Twelfth avenue and Sixth street SE injured four people treated at St Luke s hospital. Lillian Moore 23 Richard Bauman 19 Mark Stone II 14 Lucille Stone 26 were involved along with Arnold Volkmann 62 charged with left turn violation. A third crash near Sixth street and Twenty eighth avenue SW sent Sheryl Ann Graham 14 to Mercy hospital with license restrictions. Additional accidents involved Kathleen Doyle Barbara Mayer and others with details limited. ON THIS DATE in 1805 the United States concluded a peace treaty with Tripoli.
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Ue City
Lica Gm
First Avenue
First Street
Mercy Hospital
Karen Michael
Seventeenth Street SE
Barbara Bealby
Chris Jennings
Bever Avenue SE
Michael
Russel P. McCullouph
Golfview Drive
Twelfth Avenue
Sixth Street SE
St. Luke's Hospital
Lillian Moore
Volkmann
Moore
Michael Johnson
Tenth Street SE
Sixth Street
Twenty-eighth Avenue
Sheryl Ann Graham
Piercer Avenue
Jobin R. de Sotel
Avenue NW
Dennis W. Fryer
South Eleventh Street
Marion
Graham
Kathleen Doyle
Kenmore Street
Barbara Mayer
Third Avenue
Magistrate Court Actions Involving Pleas and Sentences
Three defendants pled guilty in magistrate court including Melvin Inwin of 402 Tenth Avenue SE who was fined 25 and costs for affray. James Yeultr with an assault and battery plea given a 10 day suspended sentence. Frank Wells of Springville pled guilty to trunk driving and was fined 300 and costs. William Harmon’s possession charge was dismissed. William Rose waived preliminary hearing on possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance. Don Washington waived on resisting execution of process. Elbert Wilson of Waterloo pled guilty to drunk driving and received a 30 day suspended sentence.
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Melvin Inwin
Avenut SE
James Yeultr
Richard Hamlin
Cedar Rapids
Frank Wells
Springville
William Harmon
Hiawatha
William Rose
Long- Wood Drive
Don Washington
Grande Avenue SE
Elbert
Wilson
Waterloo
Gailty
Corrupt Hiring in U S Agency Involve SBA Personnel
The Civil Service Commission released a 1974 report alleging top SBA officials were illegally hired for political reasons during the Nixon era. It found district directors appointed for political ties and non merit factors, with disciplinary action possible for those involved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
LIP
Small Business Administration
Nixon
Civil Service Commission
CSC
SBA
Foumnd
Thomas Kleppe
Bernard Rosen
David Henderson
D-N.c
House Civil Service Subcommittee
Man Arrested After Fight over a Dead Body
Douglas Dean Besler 25 of 314 Sixth Avenue SR is jailed in Linn County on assault and battery and resisting an officer charges after scuffling with police over a non existent dead body. Officers were called to Besler residence for a report of a body inside another apartment and he allegedly struck Officer John C. Huston when officers refused to break in. Police found no one home. later, occupants returned and police checked the apartment for the body.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Douglas Dean Besler
Sixth Avenue
Linn County
Besler
John C. Huston
Pobody
Cedar Rapids Briefs Burglary and Theft Recap
Multiple residential and vehicle thefts reported across Cedar Rapids over the weekend. Items stolen include a hair dryer radio watch refrigerator and a variety of valuables from homes and cars. A priest will lead a marriage seminar at Immaculate Conception Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gene Jakubek
Jesuit Seminary Guild of
Milwaukee
Immaculate Conception Catholic Church
Brazil Reports 70 Percent Coffee Loss From Frost
Brazilian experts say about 70 percent of the coffee crop in southern Brazil was destroyed by a killer frost. The frost scorched Parana and other states, threatening Brazil's one third of global coffee exports and an estimated 1.2 to 1.5 billion dollar earnings next year.
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Londrina
Brazil
Parana
Rio de Janeiro
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Farmers Safe Bank
Teom
Indian House
Chamber of Commerce
Baresh Rental
Ady
YMCA
Marion Ymca
Bever Park
West Branch
Mon
Jerry Herbert Wenzal
Oakland Road
Chuck Wagner
Wenzel
Wedelstedt
C.R
United States
Tripoli
Oguyette
10Th Street
Marin
Gail Wilson
Europe
Center Point NE
Paul D Olmstead
Fifth Avenue
Marton
Second Agenus SE
John T. Anderson, Jr
Martha Rose
Second Avenue SE
Vickie Fisher
Fifteenth Street
Snow White Laundry
First Avenue NE
7Th St. S.E
Adv
Robert Zamastil
Hillside Drive
Abel Island
Guttenberg
Iowa
Gehmann Realtors
Kck
Louldis M. Hood
Bowling Street
Fifth Street
Bob
Eugene McIntosh
Mex Temple Judah
Lindsay Lane S
Cee
Wright
Fourteenth Street SE
Twelfth Avenue SE
Eastern
Hearing Aid Service
2Nd Ave
S.E. Dahlberg
James Sixta
du Twenty-first Avenue
Jerome's
Carrisia Pope
J Avenue
Giants
Merian Alexander
Eighteenth Avenue SW
Heh Ky
Wort
Weaver’s Fine Meats
Streat
S.E
Armour
Western
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