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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1975
Page
14
Cedar Rapids finance official Harold Schluefer criticized State Senator Cloyd Robinson over statements about city finances. Robinson claimed city budgets rose 50 percent amid tax law discussions, while Scheefer urged accuracy and urged the senator to get facts straight.
Two men faced drunk driving charges with guilty pleas and fines in Linn County magistrate court. Randall Maher paid 300 dollars plus costs after pleading guilty to an Aug. 4 offense. Delmar Waggoner received a suspended 189 day sentence and costs for an Oct. 20 DUI.
Thieves looted radios from five vehicles over Monday and Tuesday, totaling about 800 dollars in losses. John Bell reports a radio, police scanner, and PA system taken from his Cayenne NE vehicle. Kevin Cassensa, Richard L. Scott, J Vincent Heuer, James Matthews, and others also reported thefts of radios and small gear from cars and vans across several NE and SE streets.
Frazer 25 of Oelwein pleads innocent in Buchanan county district court to first degree murder in the death of 16 year old Sheila Foley of Hazleton. Trial date to be set at pre trial conference. Frazer held without bail in Black Hawk county jail.
Des Moines reports that H B Wallace of West Des Moines has donated 250000 in Pioneer Hibred International stock to the Living History Farms Foundation. The gift funds a Henry Wallace Farm of Today and Tomorrow showcasing 200 years of agricultural progress with demonstrations and new buildings.
Gregory James Behrens, 21, of Atlantic, faces federal bank robbery charges for the Tipton United Federal Savings and Loan heist on Monday morning about 10 50 am. He also has state armed robbery counts. Behrens was captured after his car left a county road four miles south of Tipton. He is jailed in Cedar County on 25000 bond. A Monday hearing is planned in Cedar Rapids federal court.
Rep. Peter Rodino chairman of the house judiciary committee praises President Ford for leadership in curbing narcotics flow. Ford outlines diplomatic efforts against exporting countries and urges Congress to impose mandatory minimum sentences for drug traffickers.
A mediator from the federal mediation service was appointed by the PER board to aid contract talks between the Kirkwood Faculty Assn and Kirkwood Community College board. Ken Kupka said Les Johnson was named after the KFA filed a notice of impasse by December 15. The mediator has urged both sides to meet without full mediation, while the parties have yet to schedule a joint session and a board consultant has slowed progress.
Linn deputies arrested two persons and charged them with drunk driving Monday night. Michael W. Jones, 25, Monticello, was arrested early Tuesday after allegedly driving erratically on Eighth avenue bridge in Cedar Rapids. John M. Murphy, 19, 1422 Thirty second street NE, was arrested late Monday after allegedly driving erratically on Sixth street SW. Both remained in the Linn county jail Tuesday in lieu of 3800 bond.
Nancy E. Krabbenhoeft 41 of Solon died at home after a long illness. Born December 10 1934 in Estherville she was married to Julius A. Krabbenhoeft April 14 1956 in Elkhart. She was a 1955 St Luke’s nursing graduate licensed practical nurse for 20 years and a member of St John Lutheran Ely. Surviving: husband two daughters Julie Iowa City Caral at home a son Dale foster mother Evelyn Purdy father Howard Waterman Cumberland Furnace TN mother Nellie Barstow Yakima WA two sisters Bertha Hurst Olive Dunlap two brothers Roscoe Waterman Darrell Waterman foster brother Dale Purdy. Services: Chapel Memories Cedar Rapids Friday at 1 Burial Cedar Memorial Cedar Rapids. Friends may call Cedar Memorial after noon Thursday and at chapel after 9 am Friday. Memorial fund established.
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