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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1970
Page
3
The page lists Saturday temperatures for multiple cities with precipitation, plus barometer and wind readings and sun events. It continues with birth notices from St. Luke's, Jan. 2 to Jan. 3, naming many families and newborns, followed by funeral service details for numerous individuals in towns including Chelsea, Decorah, Dysart, Mt. Vernon, Shellsburg, Traer, Urbana, Murdoch's Point, Victor, and Vinton.
Robert C. Davis aged 18 of 259 Twenty-seventh avenue SW was arrested Saturday afternoon on charges of breaking and entering the J and R Motor Supply store at 427 Second avenue SE from a burglary last Wednesday. Davis is jailed on a 5000 dollar bond as detectives recovered three guns a record player and part of 655 dollars in cash. Earlier suspect Spencer A. Artz also 18 was arrested in the case and released without security.
Two brothers, Cary Seeman 15 and Michael Seeman 17, were treated at Mercy hospital after their car struck a utility pole at Edgewood road and Johnson avenue NW around 10 50 p m. Authorities said accelerator sticking caused the crash. The brothers reside at 1700 Twentieth street NW.
Burglars broke into the Hanson service station in Earlvile early Saturday, stealing 350 dollars in cash. This marks the fifteenth burglary at the station in the past twelve years.
An alleged burglar called police Saturday night after allegedly firing a pistol he had stolen from a southeast side residence. Harold Dodson, 18, was found with a gunshot wound to his finger and later booked for breaking and entering at the Donald Nietert home. Detectives also charged Terris Guyette, 26, with receiving stolen property. both suspects remained in the city jail.
The 1556 event in China caused an estimated 830 thousand deaths, making it one of history’s deadliest earthquakes.
David Stodolsky of Toms River and 12 other men filed a Dec. 22 legal challenge in Madison arguing the Wisconsin lottery was not random. A chart of monthly averages shows January to April above 200 and December at 122, suggesting a systematic distortion in the Dec 1 drawing.
Center Point teen Linda Hines 17 was treated and released from St. Luke's after a two car crash at Blairs Ferry Road and Center Point NE. Passenger driver Marcene A. Hines 20 Center Point faces a police charge. In Marion Verna Bristol 56 remained in good condition after a morning crash at Ninth Avenue and First Street with driver Lyle E. Kesterson of Coralville.
Alvin W. Block 53 Benton county Farm Bureau president died Friday. Services scheduled Tuesday at 1:30 PM at Parkers Grove church near Shellsburg with graveside military rites by Shellsburg American Legion post. Survived by wife Marjorie three sons Randy Stephen Jim two daughters Teresa and others. Memorial fund established. Friends may call Campbell funeral home in Vinton after 1 PM Sunday.
A survey of Iowa Second District residents by Congressman John C. Culver shows housewives as the largest single respondent group among 12,672 returns. Demographics reveal age, party, and occupation patterns with broad agreement on foreign policy and domestic spending, plus strong support for continuing current farm programs and cautious views on social security cost of living increases.
U.S. officials acknowledge land reform in rural areas under Saigon strengthens the Thieu government’s political viability while warning that the program will require time to show effects. They fear growing opposition, rebel assembly, multi-party pressures, and alienation over war, inflation, and corruption. Repression against dissent may undermine Nixon’s Vietnamization policy.
The Golden Gate Bridge construction completed in 1937. Its main span measures 4200 feet connecting San Francisco to Marin County, a defining achievement of New Deal era engineering.
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