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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1970
Page
9
The New York stock market opened 1970 with a rise as the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 8.84 points to 809.20, a 1.1 percent increase. Trading volume totaled 8.06 million shares, far below the prior session, with many traders absent from the market.
The Democratic Study Group reports that federal anti-pollution efforts are scattered and underfunded across nine agencies and multiple committees. It cites fragmented policy, inconsistent enforcement, and calls for a single joint congressional committee to streamline action. The issue gains urgency with President Nixon’s push for the Council on Environmental Quality and a forthcoming State of the Union address.
Chicago and Des Moines roundup shows wide price ranges for hogs cattle and sheep. Hogs include various weight classes with prices from about 20 to 30 dollars per hundredweight and boars 19 to 20.50. Cattle lists cover steers heifers and cows with primed and choice grades chiefly in upper 20s per hundredweight. Sheep notes cite choice slaughter lambs at 29 and limited ewe data. Des Moines report notes steady steer beef and mixed pork cuts with various cut prices and seedless belly figures.
Cedar Rapids market reports show Saturday hog prices steady with Friday’s bulk delivery pork at 25.25 to 25.75 per cwt for 200 to 230 lb butchers. sows 22.00 to 22.50. weight-based discounts apply. Packers incur further downgrades by weight class. Lambs and ewes priced, grain and egg rates listed. Notre Dame UCLA basketball game promo ends the report.
The Pilot column Driftwood by Msgr George Casey asks the church to rethink birth control as a chance to lead humanity. Casey notes the world faces a new situation contrasting with Genesis command to multiply and argues for guidance beyond preserving church authority. He also pastored St Brigid's in Lexington and has urged civil rights, school changes, and nun modernization.
Des Moines Iowa Supreme Court Chief Justice C Edwin Moore ordered four photos from Grinnell college strip in protest withheld from the other justices while a ruling is sought on whether the full court should view them A Des Moines attorney Dan Johnston represents eight Grinnell students convicted of indecent exposure He asked that Turner destroy the brief containing the images and require submission of a new brief without the photos The upcoming hearing will decide if all nine judges see the pictures or if they remain out of the case
Washington AP reports the post office department began higher charges for newspapers magazines and other second class mail on Friday. The rise adds about 15 million dollars in yearly income and shifts per piece minimum from 1.2 to 1.3 cents, about a 6.25 percent jump as the final step of a rate series begun in 1968.
Senator Hughes of Iowa asks the Nixon administration to reverse the decision to end advance payments under the feed grain program. He warns the move tightens farmers finances amid high interest rates and could reduce participation or push some from farming. He criticizes inflation rhetoric and notes advances totaled about one third of 1969 payments.
Spencer A Artz, 18, appeared in Linn district court on breaking and entering charges related to a burglary at J and R Motor Supply at 427 Second Avenue SE. About $655 cash, three weapons and a radio-record player were stolen. A 16-year-old co defendant is also charged. Bond set at $1000. Artz released without security.
Five year old David Williams drowned at Lake Manawa when a patch of ice on a dock gave way. He fell into about eight feet of open water while returning from picking up mail for his mother. Relatives and County Ambulance attendants described the accident near the lake’s north end. Floating mail envelopes were found nearby.
Official reports say at least 26 people were killed and tens of thousands left homeless by Ceylon's worst floods in a decade. Unofficial figures put the death toll as high as 35, with the southern province hardest hit.
Mr and Mrs Art Van Woert of 700 Thirty-fifth street departed today for a three month visit in Mesa Arizona.
A compiled schedule shows numerous Bethel churches with service times and pastors. Bethel Baptist, First Baptist, Grace Baptist, St Josephs Catholic, Christian, Ascension Lutheran, Lutheran Church of the Resurrection, St Pauls Lutheran, First United Methodist, Prairie Chapel United Methodist, First Presbyterian, Reformed Presbyterian, Church of God Seventh Day, United Seventh Day Brethren and pastors named with worship and Sunday school times.
Boone parents learn from the defense department that Spec.4 Michael Duffy of Boone was wounded in Vietnam. An artillery unit in firing position had a round accidentally detonate, resulting in the loss of part of his right hand.
Henry Niblock, a police statistics officer in Albuquerque, used a city data center computer on New Year’s Day to prepare a yearend crime report. The machine suddenly output pages and printed a taunting line, suggesting a friend in the center tampered with the system before leaving.
AP Des Moines report states Ozark Air Lines will abandon four daily flights Feb 1, cutting two daily connections for Fort Dodge Des Moines Mason City Clinton and Iowa City. Iowa City may see no change, per an Ozark supervisor. Remaining routes include Des Moines Waterloo Rochester and Minneapolis.
Gov. Mills Godwin pardoned Frank LaVarre, a former University of Virginia athlete and Nashville native, who was sentenced in February to 20 years for possession of marijuana. LaVarre will be released to relatives and supervised on probation for five years after the governor found no evidence of trafficking and acknowledged the mandatory sentence was excessive under Virginia law.
Bing Crosby hosts Sergio Franchi Mary Costa and The Establishment on The Hollywood Palace at 8 30 PM Saturday in color on Channel 9.
Ray Huff of Cedar Rapids appeared in municipal court on a robbery charge. The 38 year old, living at 37466 Avenue NE, posted ten percent of a $500 bond and was released. He allegedly robbed a Clark Super 100 attendant at 3324 First Avenue NE of $25 Thursday night, with a preliminary hearing set for Feb 9.
TV listings show Newlywed Game at 7 30 followed by Lawrence Welk and My Three Sons in a prime time block. Details indicate a lineup pairing popular game show with classic family entertainment.
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