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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1975
Page
3
Weather note shows calm winds at 6 mph from the BMIE region. Sunrise Sunday at 6 31 and sunset at 6 42. Year ago high 78 and low 54 with .10 inch precipitation. Extended outlook for Monday to Wednesday calls for possible thunder showers with highs in the mid 70s to mid 80s and lows in the 50s and 60s.
Daily Record lists eight ten a.m. to six p.m. events: a defective compressor motor at 2706 Mt Vernon Road SE at 8 47 a.m., a broken gas line at 2300 block of Sixth Street SW at 4 19 p.m., another gas line break at Williams Boulevard and Eighth Avenue SW at 5 41 p.m., and a faulty dryer at 3741 Twelfth Avenue SW at 6 23 p.m. Friday.
Des Moines Iowa Supreme Court in an 8 1 decision held that a judge dismissal of criminal charges does not always shield a defendant from further prosecution. The ruling involved Dennis Buckley in Humboldt County where charges were dropped after a speedy trial limit had not yet become law. Justice Clay LeGrand dissented noting double jeopardy is an unqualified prohibition. The court also overturned two convictions due to mishandling by lawyers and judges, including Kenneth Robert L Hotz who was punched outside a bar and treated at Mercy hospital.
Guadalupe C Gonzales 29 of 1312 Twenty second avenue SW charged with two counts of assault and battery one count each of resisting arrest disturbing the peace and failure to have control of a motor vehicle after an incident Friday afternoon. Police said Gonzales drove off McCarthy road SE negotiating a downhill curve near Twenty fifth street drove over a lawn across a driveway along a field through a guide wire breaking off the top of a utility pole through a fence into a tree. A passenger David William Carlin 33 of 645 Twenty ninth street SE was treated at Mercy hospital when Gonzales allegedly struck Carlin's wife Judy Kaye 33. When officers attempted to apprehend Gonzales he hit the officers and had to be restrained. He was charged with failure to have control in the accident and the other four charges stemmed from the alleged conflict at Mercy hospital. He was held in Linn county jail Saturday in lieu of 125 bond on each charge. Carlin was released from Mercy after treatment.
Illinois health officials reported six new cases of mosquito borne encephalitis in the state. Two reports were confirmed cases of the so called sleeping sickness and four were suspected, authorities said.
Adam Parish 83 of Cedar Rapids died in Huntsville Alabama. Born March 16 1892 in Austria he married Ethel Kyle in 1921. A 50 year Cedar Rapids water department employee Parish was a 45 year member of First Christian church. Mae L Pooler 69 widow of J Wilson Pooler died after long illness. Born January 14 1906 in Williamsport Pennsylvania she came to Cedar Rapids in 1949 and was a Calvary Baptist member. Warren Gelula 59 former auto salesman died at Veterans hospital Iowa City. Born July 28 1916 in New York City he married Harriet Berggen Malnati in 1964. Burial details accompany each notice.
Richard Hayes of 200 K av enue NW told police two men jumped him near the intersection of Thirty-third Street and First Avenue East at about 2 am Friday. They robbed him of a billfold with $50 and stole his car, per police report.
An oil tank exploded at the Toyo oil processing plant in Matsuyama, Japan, on Saturday, killing at least two people and injuring about nine others, police reported.
United Press International reports two deaths over Labor Day weekend. Dennis Gotto, 23, of South Sioux City died after a collision on U S 75 when a car reportedly pulled into his motorcycle. In Luana, Laurens Nordman, a Clarksville area resident, died Friday night after a motor home door unlatched and he was tossed, striking the pavement as the vehicle turned. The Luana driver was Clarence Kuykendall of Waverly.
Five men were arrested in Mahaska County on theft and related charges after two cases of dynamite and 400 blasting caps were stolen from a storage building near a mining site south of Oskaloosa. Richard Fisher and Donald Walker of Ottumwa face marijuana possession charges and bail set at 1,000 dollars. Paul Moore of Ottumwa and John Spring of Oskaloosa are held on concealed weapon charges with bonds of 5,000 dollars. Bill Macelfish of Vinton is held for Benton County on contributing to the delinquency of a minor. State fire marshal officials and the Iowa Bureau of Criminal Investigation aided the probe.
A Polk County jury found Daniel Snethen guilty of first-degree murder for the killing of Timothy Hawbaker of Adel last year. The verdict followed final arguments in which the defense sought insanity, while prosecutors argued premeditation. Sentencing is scheduled for Sept. 26. Hawbaker was found beaten and stabbed in a southeast Polk cornfield on Sept. 2.
The Agriculture Department said prices farmers receive for raw food and fiber edged up about 1 percent from mid-July to mid-August. Wheat milk hogs corn soybeans upland cotton and eggs rose while beef cattle potatoes and tomatoes fell. The report notes drought damage to major grain crops and Soviet grain imports, with an expected 1.5 percent rise in retail food prices this year, lifting overall inflation for 1975.
President Ford argues 11 million new jobs could come with industrial expansion and less regulation. He warns financial limits hamper growth, urges tax incentives, and says Congress should back measures for recovery. The trip, funded by the Republican National Committee, includes stops in Augusta Portland and Newport with a Jetstar flight instead of Air Force One amid campaign finance scrutiny.
The White House signaled a possible short extension of oil price controls while Mansfield reports back on congressional reaction to the phased decontrol plan. Ford shows reluctance to compromise further as the House rejected prior decontrol proposals. Commerce says exports will remain limited through September or 1975 to curb U S oil loss, as gas utilities back interstate pipeline gas purchases and Interior notes 10 firms bidding for 10.9 million offshore acres off New England.
Hurricane Caroline with 80 mph winds is forecast to strike the northeast Mexican coast Saturday night after a slow Gulf motion. Forecasters posted a hurricane watch for Brownsville Texas as the storm could shift toward Tampico and bring swift action needs with limited lead time.
Iowa Supreme Court rules unwed fathers must be located and allowed to contest adoptions. Fathers who have significantly provided for their child and are able and willing to continue support may intercede. Ruling covers direct adoptions and agency foster cases for decisions after the ruling.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette established in 1883 by The Gazette Co. operates daily and Sunday from 500 Third Ave SE Cedar Rapids Iowa 52406. Subscription rates include carrier 1.05 per week and mail options with varying weekly and 52 week prices, excluding areas with Gazette carrier service. The Associated Press holds exclusive republication rights for local news and AP dispatches.
London AP report says IRA guerrillas were aiding British security forces to locate a radical Provisional group blamed for a new three day bombing campaign in and around London. A 40 year old Scotland Yard bomb squad officer was killed defusing a bomb near Kensington Palace. Several bombings wounded dozens and police warned of more attacks as Northern Ireland sectarian violence claimed another youth outside a Belfast bar.
Two workers died and three others remained trapped after a wall failure flooded a 700‑foot sewer tunnel in Niagara Falls New York Friday night. Five men employed by D Mambro and Majestic Construction of Detroit were inside when the cave in occurred complex flood control work continued.
Robert Allen Baldwin 21 of 1300 M Street SW held in Linn county jail after striking officers who tried to arrest him around 5 on Saturday at the Hamburg Inn lot. He faces intoxication assault and battery and resisting arrest, each bond set at 125 dollars. also included: Israeli soldiers killed two Arab guerrillas trying to cross from Lebanon, per military command.
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