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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1977
Page
3
Obituary notices for Rose Hanson aged 84 and numerous other individuals from Cedar Rapids and surrounding towns. Details include birthplaces and dates, survivors such as spouses and children, wake and funeral times, and burial sites across multiple cemeteries.
A Cedar Rapids union official says members are angrier at the union for accepting the Bell system offer than at the company, though he predicts the contract will be approved. The tentative deal includes an 8 percent raise, with pension and work-week changes rejected. About 2,000 Northwestern Bell workers in Des Moines walked out in a wildcat strike over the contract.
Dent damages totaled 67 cars at Rapids Chevrolet while 30 percent of Bruce McGrath Pontiac stock suffered hail harm. Allen Imports showroom roof collapsed. steel beams delayed repairs 60 to 90 days. Iowa Electric reports 10,000 service outages, crews restoring power. Red Cross offers aid. Welch Congregational church steeple destroyed. highway bluff slides near Muscatine and Davenport.
Schlesinger defended a standby gasoline tax while noting controversy. The House Ways and Means Committee killed the administration's gasoline tax proposal and rejected smaller increases. Critics cited inflation, unemployment, and weak energy supply promises, urging greater production incentives and fewer exemptions.
The article notes Ray’s guarded attorney meetings after recapture and describes Playboy’s polygraph with John E. Reid and Associates. The test questioned King’s death. the machine marked some answers truthful while Ray admitted guilt for the murder and claimed solo escape involvement. Ray defends the escape as an isolated act.
A Linn district court jury awarded Paul Critchlow 3600 in damages after finding salesman John Connally and Cornally Auto Co. liable for fraud in selling a 1974 Mustang II Ghia. Critchlow claimed 3401 purchase price plus 300 to keep the car usable, while the defendants argued he knew of prior wrecks from the title.
The rules committee faces possible court action over a dove hunting season but seeks a quick legislative fix next year. Meanwhile U S diplomat Vance met Israeli leaders Begin and Dayan, signaling a push to reconvene Geneva talks and debating possible PLO inclusion.
U S Secretary of State Vance arrived in Israel amid a bomb scare after Israeli police said a timed grenade was found attached to a hand grenade set to detonate in a supermarket. Police linked the attack to an Arab guerilla group as Dayan welcomed Vance and called for friendly, frank talks.
Officials said an extra ton of bomb-grade uranium may be trapped with four tons of less-enriched uranium in two gaseous diffusion plants. The report cannot prove no diversion occurred, but safeguards make loss unlikely. The Apollo plant operated in the 1960s turning gaseous uranium into solid compounds for reactor fuel.
A city spokesman says looters damaged 10 clothing stores 8 shoe shops 7 liquor outlets 7 department or variety stores and 4 auto supply shops. Mayor Beame demands stern action as arrests proceed. 22 percent of those charged pled guilty to misdemeanors, 1 percent dismissed, with 350 to 400 felony indictments expected.
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