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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1976
Page
4
Odd musings on canine speech and singing dogs stir debate among owners and experts. Veterinarians doubt dogs can talk while show seekers push talking canines as entertainment. Notable quotes from National Geographic and Robertson Davies frame the debate.
Johnson County Supervisors approved an agreement with Youth Homes Inc to operate two juvenile facilities the Girls Group Home and the Youth Emergency Shelter with a boys facility planned. The move shifts funding from county to state as state child care licensing rules require private operation. The board also denied Max Yocum's rezoning bid for 2.75 acres east of Iowa City but approved Joseph Marak’s request to rezone two acres for a ready mix concrete plant. They set the county’s collective bargaining consultants’ monthly salary at 700 and extended the Congregate Meals contract for three months.
Mark Berry son of Mr and Mrs Moses Gerry of 1118 Maplewood drive NE will be installed as master councilor of the Cedar Rapids DeMolay chapter Sunday at 4 PM in the Scottish Rite temple consistory. Senior councilor Mo Sheronick and junior councilor Mike Conner also installed. Cantilena Jazz Co. from Washington High School to perform after the ceremony. Reception in the dining room follows. Open to the public.
Cedar Rapids police arrested Iva Mae Johnson 23 on forgery and related charges. Bond set at 2500. She allegedly helped forge a $45.50 Younker's check belonging to Mary Ellen Hamilton on November 12.
Johnson County district court held a secret session to review the grand jury report in the James Halls murder case. Hall, a former University of Town football player, was convicted of second degree murder in May 1974 for the Sarah Ann Ottens campus death in March 1973. The Iowa Supreme Court upheld the conviction but ordered a joint review by prosecution and defense attorneys. The review was not completed, and a new meeting date was not announced.
An open house Sunday will showcase a newly completed four unit apartment complex for moderate income seniors in Ossian. The project cost 58000 and was financed by the Farmers Home Administration. The site is at the northeast corner of town, a block north of Highway 52. Rev Duane Marion is chairman of Ossian Housing Inc, the nonprofit group overseeing the project. Frudden Lumber Co was the chief contractor. The Want Ad Office is open 8 to 5 daily until noon Saturday.
A 12 man NSF crew at Siple Station in Antarctica is evacuated and the facility closed after one member shows hepatitis symptoms. The team experienced two weeks of intermittent nausea vomiting and diarrhea with jaundice and bilirubinuria. NSF aims to minimize contact as they pass through McMurdo on the way home, with winter isolation at McMurdo planned. The outpost, built 1969 70 and opened as a winter station in 1973, conducts upper atmosphere physics studies on a featureless snow plain at the base of the Antarctic peninsula.
On this date 1870 John D. Rockefeller incorporated the Standard Oil Company in Cleveland marking the start of a major refining enterprise. The move established a storied corporate lineage that would shape American industry for decades.
Recreation open gyms will be offered in Linn-Mar and Marion Independent school districts in cooperation with the city parks and recreation department. High school gymnasiums will be used to run the program starting in Marion Independent.
First Presbyterian church offers a series titled Senior High Contemporary Studies starting Sunday at 9 15 am in the library lounge of Westminster house. Five weekly courses cover current topics related to church life, with two weeks of expert-led instruction followed by three weeks of in-depth discussion. The first course examines The Zodiac and the Church with three participants including an astrology student and a science teacher.
Clarence Knapp 78 lifelong Central City resident died Friday at Central City. Born February 1897 in Prairiesburg he married Gertr Glass in 1916. A retired farmer he belonged to First United Methodist Church. Survived by five daughters and two sons. memorial fund to church.
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