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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1975
Page
24
Weather overview lists temperatures for multiple cities with an extended forecast and rain chances. It also records local incidents including grass fire, mattress fires, and magistrate court fines for speeding and other violations, along with traffic and safety notices from Cedar City and Coralville Lake readings.
Cavil E Fellendorf 72 widow of Albert Fellendorf died in an Iowa City nursing home after a brief illness. She lived in Cedar Rapids since 1946 born February 18 1896 in Westchester and was a United Methodist member. She leaves a son Carl A and daughters Lana and Vivian along with ten grandchildren. Services 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Turner Chapel East. Burial at Cedar Memorial. Friends may call Turner Chapel East until 1 p.m. Saturday.
Births announced from Mercy St. Luke's and Boone Ames Cedar Rapids South areas include many families with new daughters and sons. Notable entries list Hinaman Langton Blozvich Larrimore LeFevre Voss Carroll Berry Roemi g Dunkel McCarty Rommel nberg Knutsen Bremer Detert Schaeffer Van Zetten McNeal and Coleman. Also report marriage licenses for King Brake Bremer and Detert along with dissolved marriages and local alarm incidents.
Apollo astronauts Vance Brand Thomas Stafford and Donsid are returning from a Hawaii recovery stay after exposure to poison rocket gas two weeks ago. They have been given a tentative clean bill of health and are set to end their unscheduled vacation Thursday night.
Washington API chairman Frank Ikard said recession inflation taxes and regulation depressed oil company profits in Q2 1975. He noted 26 firms saw $1.2 billion drop from a year earlier and six month profits fell 36 percent to $4.5 billion. Second quarter earnings for 25 companies totaled $2.3 billion versus $3.6 billion in 1974.
Indonesia signs contracts totaling 40.86 million dollars for color television studio equipment and repair of radio studios. Slayton will brief newsmen in Washington Saturday on the mishap in the command module after returning from the Agollo-Soyuz mission on July 24. Doctors at Tripler Army Medical Center report astronauts in similar health to before spaceflight. NASA surgeon Nicogossian cautions a month is needed to confirm absence of complications from nitrogen tetroxide exposure, with fibrosis in lungs as a possible but unlikely risk.
Roger Torrey age 32 of 1014 Bowler sheds Hiawatha is in fair condition at St Luke s hospital after a motorcycle truck collision Wednesday afternoon in Hiawatha. Torrey was riding a cycle west on Blairs Ferry road when a pickup driven by David Kubik 16 of rural Walker pulled from a stop sign on Second avenue. Torrey suffered multiple fractures of the mouth and foot in the crash. Kubik was charged with failure to yield at a stop intersection.
Authorities arrested two men Wednesday on drunk driving charges. Eldon Keith Ecklund, 33, of rural Toddville, was stopped speeding north across the Edgewood road railroad viaduct near the city limits and released to his attorney after booking in Linn county jail. Jimmie Hampton, 28, of St. Paul Minnesota, was arrested one mile west of Cedar Rapids on Highway 30 by state patrolmen and is held in the county jail.
The 62-year-old former labor leader Hoffa has not been heard from since a reported meeting with allies and rivals. Corroboration places Giacalone at a Southfield club. others cited deny attendance. Hoffa’s fate remains uncertain as authorities treat him as possibly alive.
Senate inquiry questions Feltner over food stamp reach as officials discuss rising participation and eligibility. Buckley and Percy press for clarity while Feltner hints at broader expansion, though some allege memory lapses and misstatements regarding program growth and timing.
Stebbins recalls the five hostages freed by Japanese guerrillas and states that the terrorists would have killed them if demands were not met. He says the captors claimed their sole aim was to free friends from Japan and refused to answer why they seized the consular office.
Linn County Attorney Eu gene Kopecky will meet Cedar Rapids police Friday to clarify issues in the new gambling law set to take effect Aug 15. He called several provisions unclear and potentially unenforceable, notably the 50 dollar per 24 hour limit and the meaning of total and any period of 24 consecutive hours. The meeting will also cover changes in allowable games on premises selling liquor, with bingo barred even if adjacent to such locations.
The Brazilian Coffee Institute lifted its export suspension on instant coffee and announced price increases up to 40 percent. Spray dry coffee rises to $1.75 per pound, freeze dry to $2.60, with planned hikes to $1.77 and $1.89 in September and October, while freeze dried coffee climbs to $2.95 and $3.10 respectively. Also notes the frost damage that cut next year’s crop forecast.
A youth armed with a .22 revolver attempted to rob the Clark gas station at 4334 First Avenue NE near midnight Thursday. The attendant James D. Usher said the money was locked in a safe and the gunman fled after being told the keys were missing. The suspect, a white male about 19 or 20, 5 feet 5 inches, 135 pounds with black hair, escaped empty handed.
King Hussein said he would buy a Soviet air defense system if he cannot obtain 14 Hawk missile batteries from the United States. He ruled out Britain or France and suggested Soviet advisers might be stationed in Jordan, with limited on site training if needed.
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