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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1973
Page
3
California state police arrested Robert Simpson, 93, for the 234th time Sunday during a Sacramento picket. Simpson, dean of capitol protesters, makes it a point to be arrested for demonstrations at the Capitol.
A group of 12 American Peace Corps volunteers, guarded, were released after Mobutu Sese Seko mediated with Idi Amin. Amin said East African authorities must clear similar flights in the future. Kampala and East African radio reports confirm Mobutu’s intervention and Tanzania’s Nyerere planned inquiry.
Watergate committee members doubt President Nixon will be subpoenaed to testify. Debate over access to presidential papers continues as Archibald Cox processes on the assumption Nixon will turn over all Watergate related files. The panel plans public hearings to begin Tuesday.
The 1973 MEIgwatal closed Sunday night with attendance topping last year and reaching the third largest tally since 1961. Manager Charles Decker cited better grandstand variety and more free entertainment as reasons, despite heat and lower final day attendance.
Washington officials firmly deny any possibility of gasoline rationing. Treasury Secretary William Simon says the administration will not consider rationing even during current shortages. The President’s economic plan may include price controls as a fallback, but rationing is ruled out.
Boots Randolph drew crowds Sunday as he performed under the grandstand at Alltona Air. A fan asked for an autograph with only a 2 cent checkbook in hand, hoping for a signature for his daughter starting saxophone lessons.
European central bankers signaled possible intervention to support the dollar but offered no concrete plan. The dollar firmed briefly on hints of action, then faded as no formal move emerged. Gold prices slid in Zurich and London with cautious trading across markets.
Kelley took the oath as FBI director in a ceremony attended by President Nixon. He pledged to uphold justice and keep politics from influencing the bureau, saying public funds would be used to serve the law. Nixon spoke in his first public appearance in about a month.
The National Weather Service warned Monday that high heat and humidity pushed Iowa livestock into danger on a prolonged heat index. Temperatures ranged from 8 to 4 degrees at Spencer Davenport and Cedar Rapids respectively, with overnight lows 63 to 75. Showers and thunderstorms hit much of northern Iowa while the south stayed partly cloudy. A garage and car at the Mental Health Institute near Independence were destroyed by a Monday fire likely caused by lightning.
In Saigon the Viet Cong said captives Capt. Tan Patten of Toronto and Capt. Fletcher Thomson are alive and well after vanishing June 28 during a patrol. Canadian delegates said they will not be sedated until the officers are returned, amid criticism of South Vietnamese artillery fire near the search area.
Eleven Iowa deaths occurred in weekend crashes and drownings. In Hazleton area a vehicle collision on Highway 150 near Hazleton left Robert Jolit Lea 31 and passenger Denille Cecil Arthur 28 of Colwein injured. Lea died at Waterloo Hospital after surgery. Arthur remained in critical condition. Witnesses say the cycle and car were traveling fast. neither rider wore a helmet. Services set for Wednesday at Brant Funeral Home in Colwell.
The Rev Lloyd Kahl 24 and William Ralph David Abernathy 24 both from Davenport resigned as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Center. They were killed when the car they rode in collided with another vehicle driven by Rex Larson 25 Davenport who was hospitalized in serious condition.
GAO assigns blame to the mass wheat sale to the Soviet Union for rising U S food prices arguing the Agriculture Department bungled the sale while large firms profited and subsidies totalled $900 million. The report notes higher costs for bread beef pork poultry eggs dairy and related products due to feed grain and transport costs.
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