Unfair Visiting Policy Claims Stir Cedar Rapids Jail Debate
Cedar Rapids officials defend jail rules after Mrs. Love, wife of Joe Lee Love, complains she was barred from bringing her infant to visit her husband at Silas county jail. Sheriff Walter Grant cites state policy allowing only parents or spouses to visit. Cedar Rapids Human Rights Commission Director William Cotton says the policy should be enforced evenly. The case follows Love’s pending trial in Sioux City on an armed robbery charge with federal notice of possible venue moves.
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Cedar Rapids Human Rights Commission
William Cotton
Cedar Rapids
Silas County
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Fifth Avenue St
Colton
Walter Grant
Love
Dick MelKin
Linn County
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Commuters Flee Fire in Boston Subway Tunnel
About 250 passengers moved to the surface after a fire broke out in a downtown Boston subway tunnel. Several people were hospitalized for smoke inhalation, one man on the danger list, as MBTA officials reported passengers aboard the stricken train and a following train had reached the surface. one employee was missing, and firefighters extinguished the blaze in a three car train near Broadway station, about 500 yards from South Station.
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MBTA
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South Station
Court Rejects Eggleston Move For Particulars
A motion for a bill of particulars filed by former Cedar Rapids sanitation department official Gerald Eggleston 41 of 1611 Alleghany Drive NE was overruled in Cedar Rapids municipal court. Eggleston was charged in December with embezzlement by a public officer and was given until January 7 to decide on preliminary hearing after three rulings on the motion. He is accused of diverting about 20 dollars from office funds.
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Cedar Rapids
Gerald Eggleston
Alleghany Drive
Ceder Rapids
Eggleston
Senate Democrats Back Immediate War Funding Ban
In Washington Democrats push for an immediate halt to Vietnam War funding. The Kennedy backed measure requires safe troop withdrawal, return of POWs, and accounting for Americans MIA, aligned with a House vote earlier.
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Democratic Conference
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Mass
Henry Jackson
Nixon
Congress
North Vietnam
Missing Tampa cabbie found asleep in taxi
Ray Oliver, a yellow iCab driver dispatched to Tampa International Airport after picking up two fares around 2:20 a.m., was reported missing Thursday but located asleep in his taxi shortly after. Police had started a search when the company reported no contact.
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Tampa International
Polite
Ray Oliver
Services Planned for Leone Rascher at Murdoch Chapels
Leone Rascher 74 died Tuesday from injuries at her home northeast of Whittier. A resident for 50 years born June 14 1858 in La Place Illinois, she married James Rascher September 22 1917 in Colorado. Surviving are her husband a Portland Oregon daughter four grandchildren ten great grandchildren and a sister Faye Isham Marion. Services 10 a m Saturday at Murdoch chapels Marion Burial Jordan's Grove Cemetery. Friends may call after 6 p m Thursday.
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Marion
Murdoch Chaps
Jordan's Grove Cemetery
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Commission Delays Action on Bids for Roof Repairs
The Cedar Rapids City Commission deferred a contract for roof repairs on 16 720 square feet after bid amounts varied. Cedar Rapids Roofing bid 11 les a but excluded sheet metal work while D C Taylor Co Cedar Rapids bid 25 472 and Es sie Roofing Co Davenport submitted bids for review. First bids were deemed too high and the commission took bids again.
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Essie Roofing Co
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Gas Masks Ordered for Marghera Factory Workers
Venice area faces severe pollution as labor inspectors require all 50 000 workers in Marghera to wear gas masks at work. Factories, mainly chemical and petrochemical, must fund the initiative after past hospitalizations from inhaled gas. The industrial zone sits on drained mudflats, blamed for Venice’s environmental decline and marble erosion nicknamed marble cancer.
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Dead Man On Senate List Adds Former Senator
Washington AP reports Thursday morning’s Congressional Reward lists 101 senators including one who died almost two years ago. The late Winston Prouty, a Republican, is named among the current tally in the official roster. The error prompts confirmation from Senate clerks and calls for correction.
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Winston Prouty
Senator misprint corrected in official records
VI was listed as the state's senior senator though he died in 1071 and was succeeded later in the year by Republican Robert Stafford. An aide in the senate secretary's office said the error arose from using an old list to tie names of the senators and that the mistake would be corrected in the permanent copy of the Rec ord.
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Robert Stafford
Senate Secretary's Office
Fires Destroy Garages and Car on Cedar Rapids Northeast Side
Two garages and a car burned in separate Wednesday night fires in Cedar Rapids. A two stall garage at 1309 E avenue NE, at Fred Waddell residence, burned after 10 p.m. vacant at the time. Roy Bowman's garage at Mr. Vernon’s residence burned around 11:30 p.m. Kathy Thompson’s garage at 1323 B avenue NE housed her car, which was destroyed. Cause undetermined.
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Cedar Rapids
Fred. Waddell
E Avenue
Roy’ Bowman
Vernon
Kathy Thompson
B Avenue
Doctor Barnard Leaves Hospital After Accident
CAPE TOWN AP Doctor Christiaan Barnard was discharged from Groote Schuur Hospital three weeks after he and his wife were struck by a truck. He walked unaided with his wife at his side and declined to speak to newsmen. Barnard, a pioneer of heart transplant surgery, suffered eight broken ribs a collapsed lung and additional injuries in the crash.
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South Africa
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Croot Schuur Hospital
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Milwaukee Striking City County Employees Ripple Services
Nearly 1,000 Milwaukee city county and school board workers walked out at 12 01 am after mediation stalled. The strike targets AFSCME contracts seeking a 3.3 percent economic package with talks paused until the afternoon. Critical county hospital outpatient care was cut while emergency service remained. sewerage and county services faced reductions. school operations depended on teacher participation.
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UPI
City Sewerage Commission
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County General Hospital
Earthquake Forecasts Seen Within Ten Years
A report from Menlo Park and San Francisco experts discusses quake forecasting, noting progress in prediction methods and the need for public involvement. Researchers cite computer models, laser instruments, and fault analysis while acknowledging no reliable forecast exists yet.
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Menlo Park
Jerry
Eaton
Eaton Ia
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Alaska
Motorist Charged As Drunk Driver
Francis J. Walker, 48, of Prairieburg, is charged with drunk driving after Ronald Roeiker, 25, of Dyersville, reported being forced off a county gravel road near Central City by Walkers car. A truck overturned spilling grain. Walker was held in county jail awaiting arraignment.
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Francis J. Walker
Prairieburg
Ronald] Roeiker
Dyersville
Central City
Walker
Welker
Koelker
Terrorists Leave Hotel Bill In Bangkok
AP reports four Arabs who occupied the Israeli embassy and held six Israelis hostage for 19 hours left a hotel bill of 324 dollars. Amarin hotel manager Somnuk Sinhabaedya refuses further bookings from Arabs, citing the stay of four rooms for five days with four suitcases, three flight bags, and three paperback books.
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Amarin
Aras
Somnuk Sinhabaedya
Somnuk
First Hearing on Vietnam Becomes A Battle of Words
Congress's first Vietnam hearing devolved into a partisan clash as Rep Rosenthal called for witnesses while Rep Feilinghuysen accused him of a sham. Debate centered on U.S. Europe relations and whether the hearing had a clear purpose before Nixon's second term begins.
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Washington
Congress
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House
Ong
Nixon
Benjamin Rosenthal
Tony
State Department
Peter YH. B
Prelinghuysen
Rosenthal
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