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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1975
Page
3
High Saturday and a detailed February precipitation total. Numerous birth notices list families and newborns across multiple towns with specific names and addresses. Burial and funeral details for several local residents follow in scattered notices.
Clarence Simpson reports $44 in losses from his garage including oil a radio coveralls jacket and sunglasses. Pam J Freeman says stereo speakers worth $20 were stolen from her car. Lloyd E Chaplin notes four hubcaps valued at $50 taken from his pickup. James D Usher reports a $40 tape player and speaker stolen from his car.
Gov. Robert Ray announced Iowa will get 1,631,535 to create about 220 jobs across 87 counties under the Emergency Jobs and Unemployment Assistance Act of 1974. Funds cover conservation, public works, quality of environment, community projects and entry to professional positions. local employment services will screen applicants.
A 17 year old boy faced charges after an armed robbery Thursday at United States Bank on Sixteenth avenue SW. Police say the suspect confronted cash and checks totaling about 4 000 dollars in the bank’s night deposit area while two employees Dennis Schmitz and John Terpkosh were present. The youth held the area with a shotgun and was also charged with possession of a controlled substance.
A fog bound Autobahn between Munich and Stuttgart in southern Germany saw a chain reaction crash involving more than 80 vehicles on Friday night. One person died as a passenger trapped in a burning car, and 26 others were injured, according to police.
On this date in 1942 the former French liner Nor mandy burned and capsized at a New York pier during outfitting as a troop transport.
Tax expert Sylvia Porter begins a nine part series in The Gazette detailing time and money saving strategies and how to qualify for tax rebates. Porter works with the Research Institute of America to examine obscure rules IRS rulings and court decisions. Readers are urged to clip and save for future reference.
A Times report details an alleged plot to export Hughes company documents for ransom. An anonymous intermediary offered $500,000 for the return of stolen Hughes files, with subsequent attempts to sell the materials to Der Spiegel and other outlets. The San Fernando Valley man says he advanced $4,000 and later saw the two large footlockers said to contain the documents.
Two people sustained minor injuries in separate Saturday crashes in the city. Milton Overly, 46, was treated for a chin laceration after his pickup struck a parked car on Forty-second Street NE and was cited for license violations. In a three-vehicle collision at First Street and Eighth Avenue SW, Charles Cox, 64, refused hospital care after a cut forehead as Veneta Jones, 61, drove north, crossing the yellow line and hitting a second car driven by Norman Wylie, with Jones later charged for loss of vehicle control.
A 28 year old Belle Plaine man, Daniel L. Kent, was killed in a one car accident east of Chelsea on Iowa highway 212. His west bound car skidded into a ditch and struck a utility pole after he lost control on a curve shortly after noon Saturday. Kent was alone in the vehicle.
Sarah S. Keller 88 widow of Steward A. Keller of Troy Mills died Saturday in a Marion nursing home. Born February 1 1887 at Troy Mills she married Steward A. Keller July 31 1907. She was a charter member and former organist of Troy Mills United Methodist church. Surviving are two sons Wayne and Wilbur Keller eight grandchildren twenty great grandchildren and two great great grandchildren. Services 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Troy Mills United Methodist church with Rev Danny Lemons presiding. Burial in Troy Mills cemetery. Friends may call Murdoch funeral home Walker after 3 p.m. Sunday.
The discussion notes Ford may push oil import quotas by presidential proclamation if Congress balks. Analysts weigh whether a one million barrel per day cut is feasible without Ford’s congressional program and how deeply the quota would need to go.
The Cedar Rapids Consumer Credit Association will sponsor a motivation program Tuesday night after a 6 15 dinner at the Montrose hotel. Speakers include John A. Jermier assistant athletic director at the University of Iowa and Bill Windauer former Iowa football player now with the Baltimore Colts.
In 1683 The Genome Co issues a Cedar Rapids Gazette daily with Sunday editions, printed at 500 Third Ave SE Cedar Rapids IA 52406. Postage paid in Cedar Rapids. subscription rates shown for weekly and yearly plans. AP owns republication rights for local news and AP dispatches.
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