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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1972
Page
6
A Saturday weather summary shows high and low temperatures, rainfall, humidity, barometer, and wind at the Gazette weather station. The page lists numerous obituary notices and funeral details with names, ages, locations, services, and burial sites across multiple towns.
Neurotics Anonymous meets Monday 7 30 p m at Grace Episcopal Berger Furrier Marion 1303 Adv Exchange Club Cedar Rapids program Tuesday noon at the Montrose College Community School new phone 848 4121 Adv Christian Club Tuesday meeting cancelled next Jan 2 YMCA When you think of food think Food Center Grocery 866 5th Ave SE 363 6414 Adv VA Veterans Admin rep on first floor federal building Friday to meet veterans and dependants Arrested Roy A Harris 22 1235 Fourth Ave SE arrested Saturday charged with larceny accused of taking a black and white television from Becky Blair 863 Fourth Ave SE Friday Theft Robert C Grandy 423 K Ave NW reported Saturday a black and white TV set lamp and a radio record player valued at 229 stolen from his home Friday.
Survivors describe near total destruction across Managua after the quake. Pan American Airways reports the airport usable but terminal and control tower damaged by gas leaks and broken glass. Witnesses recount rubble filled streets, burning districts, and vast portions of the city leveled with hundreds of bodies in the streets.
Time magazine selected President Nixon and Henry Kissinger as its 1972 Men of the Year for their partnership that reshaped global power amid the Cold War, calling it an odd couple achieving the most profound world order changes.
UPI reports show over 300 Navy airframes bombing North Vietnam while 100 B 52s did not. Two B 52 formations struck central highlands. SAM 2 missiles fired at U S planes rise to over 100 per day. Ground fighting near Kontum City yields 42 enemy killed as government troops plan a Christmas cease fire in Saigon.
County officials outline extensive work proposed for Route 149 and the V-66 corridor to improve routing west of Parnell north to I-80 and east toward Amana. Plans include widening shoulders, upgrading grades, and possible downtown North English bypass to remove sharp curves and steep hills. Public hearing to hear citizen views is planned as the five year improvement schedule runs 1974–1978 with right‑of‑way purchases and paving phases noted.
Radio Hanoi reported U S planes struck a Hanoi detention camp housing U S POWs twice, damaging detention rooms the shower house and library. The broadcast cited Wednesday and Thursday as attack dates and noted bomb fragments and wounded fliers.
A tear gas canister set off on the Lyric Opera House main floor disrupted a Shenyeng Acrobatic Troupe performance in Chicago. The nearly 3,000 seat auditorium was evacuated. several attendees received oxygen, but no serious injuries were reported. The show resumed after about an hour.
Two people were treated at local hospitals after Saturday afternoon auto crashes. Michael M. Mitchell suffered a leg injury when his westbound car on Williams collided with Nancy Kvach's vehicle at Wilson and Williams. Kvach faces a failure to yield charge. May Meader sustained a facial injury as a passenger in a car driven by David E. Koshatka after a collision with a truck driven by Duane Now. no charges were filed.
About 200 protesters gathered outside President Nixon's Florida residence, with roughly half of them elderly, carrying antiwar placards during the Saturday rally in Key Biscayne.
The State Department proposes transferring civilian aid programs in South Vietnam from CORDS to civilian International Development to place social and economic work under civilian control. The plan targets war victims relief and follows criticism of Pentagon led pacification including refugee care and police training.
Moscow radio said General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev and Fidel Castro signed new agreements Saturday for further Soviet economic aid to Cuba. The accord covers development of agriculture transport and certain industries in Cuba with most politburo members as witnesses.
A compact line explains that want ads function like a computer to quickly find buyers, urging readers to dial a telephone number for service.
In southeast Cedar Rapids Patrolman Robert Goldsberry reports witnessing a drunk driver strike three parked cars on Nineteenth Street SE and Bever Avenue, then back into the police car. Patrick Kelly Roe, 32, of 1841 Washington Ave SE, is held on $610 bail on four charges including drunk driving, resisting an officer, and leaving the scene of two accidents. Police estimate damages at $100 to the patrol car and $300 to one of the cars, with no figures for the remaining two incidents.
Snow and freezing rain caused slick roads across Cedar Rapids and surrounding areas. Police reported several minor accidents but no serious injuries as four sanding trucks and on call crews cleared bridges and streets. Temperatures fell from 34 to 31 degrees by evening, with icy patches persisting on viaducts.
The official described North Vietnamese demands tying POW releases to South Vietnamese political prisoners as unacceptable to the President. Kissinger, Haig, and Ziegler left for Washington for the holiday as Nixon remained with his wife and a single aide. The first family’s daughters Tricia Cox and Julie Eisenhower are spending Christmas in Europe with their husbands.
A classifieds note invites readers to sell unused items and free space through a want ad. It promotes turning clutter into storage by advertising available storage options to interested buyers or renters.
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