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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1970
Page
18
Vinton hosts a grand opening for Holling Hills winter sports camp with over 200 snowmobile enthusiasts, while a new area near Dulin's Camping Area east of Vinton offers an open house and free rides. Officials remind about state snowmobile laws including registration, operation rules on roads, lighting, and age restrictions amidst busy winter activity.
Grant City Missouri AP reports a five year old prisoner, Carl Ray Davidson of Blockton, broke from Worth County Jail then hid in an old hotel before returning and surrendering after holding Sheriff Trustin Wilkinson at gunpoint. Davidson and Richard Hull, both from Blockton, were held in a spree of 44 burglaries across Northern Missouri with $2,000 stolen.
State Labor Commissioner Jerry L. Addy announced a 9 a.m. public hearing January 18 in Des Moines to refine rules for the 1970 child labor law. The panel proposes seven changes including work week definitions and hazardous occupation definitions.
Bobby Seale's lawyer seeks urgent psychiatric evaluation for the Black Panther chairman, saying prison officials deny private psychiatry. Seale, jailed at Montville during his kidnapping and murder trial in New Haven, faces a drawn out jury selection. Co defendant Ericka Huggins testifies about tighter surveillance and restricted reading material at Niantic.
In Jules Witcover’s book The Resurrection of Richard Nixon former Texas Governor John Connally is described as aiding Nixon’s 1969 campaign. Connally reportedly lined up Texans to support the Republican candidate and considered a future cabinet role, possibly defense secretary if Nixon won Texas. He allegedly faced late backing decisions as Humphrey approached victory in Texas.
After months of discussion Southeastern Iowa Area Community College may get a new name if the state board approves. A committee proposed Vat Allen Community College in honor of the Mt. Pleasant family including space scientist James Vai Allen, but the board rejected it. Students and faculty voted Monday night for Southeastern Community College as the new name.
Winneshiek county board approved 228607.93 for November. Major items include 9408.66 for county road, 43114.88 for the state institution fund, 91186.15 for the education fund, 30410.93 for the county general fund, and 17365.76 for the poor fund. The state institution fund was raised to 170000 and the road claim fund to 38000. Ervin Inglett was appointed to the conservation board. The board accepted 0.119 per gallon LP gas bid for 1971. A pilot program to counsel problem drinkers was approved, with funding and site details involving UCS, Quaker Oats, and Kirkwood Community College rehabilitation facilities.
In Kansas, volunteers led by Harry Welch and local editors launched a fund drive to fly eight Vietnam veterans home for Christmas. Donations exceeded three thousand dollars as residents of Olathe Gardner and nearby towns pledged support, with nine men eligible for roundtrip air travel.
Pentagon sources say lower ranks will soon be allowed three by five foot beige rose or green rugs in bar racks, a change from previous sergeant-only floor coverings. The move follows broader personnel living standard reforms across the armed services, with the Navy and Air Force already advancing comfort measures such as barracks cleaning.
The senate approved a tax reform measure in Caracas hiking rates to a record 0 percent for U.S. and other foreign oil companies. The report mentions an appeal to advertise farm equipment in want ads with the phone number 369-1234.
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