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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1976
Page
3
Weather report shows high temperatures in the twenties Friday and thirties Saturday with teens Sunday and overnight lows in the teens. Snow chance Friday and Saturday, clearing by Sunday. Separate notices list numerous misdemeanor fines for speeding reckless driving and other traffic and public order offenses with many names and addresses across several Iowa towns.
Two gunmen who seized two women at a South Side currency exchange held three hostages for over four hours. They surrendered after negotiations with newsmen Russ Ewing and Gus Savage. One robber was shot in the shoulder, the other in the buttocks. a patrolman was lightly wounded.
Obituary notices from Cedar Rapids area record the death at birth of an infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Larson. The section lists many cremations and funeral details for local residents, including Elenora C Nurre, Alicin Wink, John A Stavropoulos, and Mary Catherine Ruzicka, with service times, church affiliations, and burial places.
A black man robbed the Union 76 station at 1920 Sixth Street SW just after 9 30 PM Tuesday, taking about $100 after displaying a handgun. A spokesman noted repeat robberies and rising nervousness in the area. The suspect fled on foot.
Louise Lasser, star of Mary Hartman Mary Hartman, had a cocaine possession charge dismissed after she completed a drug education program. She was arrested May 1 following an argument at a boutique and found with a vial of white powder.
Fire swept through a two story frame house in a rural Smoky Mountains foothills community early Wednesday, killing seven members of two families in Maryville Tennessee.
Long outlined a multi year tax cut package to spur growth including a potential April rebate and a 1977 withholding rate cut plus a 2 to 4 percent boost in the investment tax credit for business. He urged watching indicators for a gloomier outlook before Obama Carter takes office. Dole signaled Republicans may push their own tax bill early next year proposing a larger personal deduction. Altman favors job creating programs but hints at possible tax relief.
In Cedar Rapids federal court the Hall Estate executors defeat the IRS on a 2.6 million claim tied to a trust. The ruling hinges on Iowa law allowing partial disclaimer and late-law applicability, permitting recovery of the paid funds plus interest requested since January 1975.
Colbert notes refunds to Iowa Illinois customers from NGPL and says the FPC allowed higher field prices to stimulate exploration and development of new gas sources. He hopes the action reverses rising fees for new gas into the interstate market as US consumption outpaces new reserves. Iowa Illinois serves 46,000 Cedar Rapids 20,000 Iowa City and 111,000 Quad Cities customers.
A 16 year old Cedar Rapids girl told Linn County Sheriff’s deputies she was raped by two men who picked her up on First Avenue while she was hitchhiking and drove to Seminole Valley Park. The pair fled in a yellow two door Chevrolet with a white interior. One man, about 5'10" and 190 pounds with shoulder length black hair, mustache and goatee wore a brown T shirt and blue jeans. The other, about 5'5" and 150 pounds with short dark brown hair and a small mustache, wore a short sleeve shirt and brown slacks. A man named Steve may be involved. She was near the Times Theater around 10 p.m. and treated at a Cedar Rapids hospital before release.
Ronald Carey Schmitt and Joel Eugene Willis, both 15, were charged with larceny in the nighttime after a string of car thefts. The initial charge arose from a CB radio theft from a vehicle owned by Connie Larsen on 1960 Washington avenue SE, with a witness aiding police in the arrest.
Two people were hurt in separate traffic crashes in Cedar Rapids on Tuesday. Jeanette M. Rawson, 29, of 1000 Valley View drive Marion, was listed in fair condition at St. Luke's after a two car crash at Second Avenue SE and Thirteenth Street with Sallie S. Chapman, 19, of 1113 B Avenue NE. Chapman faced a stop sign violation charge. Dennis A. Edaburn, 29, of 502 Crimson Drive NE was treated at St. Luke's and released after a collision involving Kirk E. Henton, 19, of 2533 Wisconsin Street SW and Donald Bonney, 35, of 1623 Wildwood Drive NE at Cavenne and Blairs Ferry Road NE. Henton was charged with an improper left turn.
William J. Tucker, 29, of 500 First Avenue NE, arrested on a city ordinance involving missiles and stones after allegedly throwing a snowball at a police car. He faces charges of intoxication in addition to the ordinance count.
William Lyness 21 of 3500 Center Point Road NE was charged with embezzlement in federal court Tuesday and released on his own recognizance. He was a Merchants National Bank messenger who reported being abducted and robbed of bank mail at gunpoint Saturday. police later called the story a hoax. A state embezzlement by agent charge followed, with a $100,000 bond set but Lyness released on own recognizance. a bank spokesman said recovery of missing funds was not confirmed.
Cedar Rapids residents Kai K Lain and William R Ortega faced separate Linn County charges Tuesday. Lain, 35, is accused of larceny for taking a $150 coat from a Sears on November 23. Ortega, 20, is charged with unlawful use of the telephone after a complaint by Roxanne Emerson.
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