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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1976
Page
11
A cluttered OCR shows television listings, movie titles, times, and network labels for stations including WAT, KWWL, WKET, and KCRG Rochester. It references March films, schedules, and show prompts with numerous misreadings yet preserves names like Ocean, Hartman, and Invasion of Annual People.
Frank Sturgis says Fidel Castro and Jack Ruby discussed Kennedy removal at a Havana meeting. He alleges the gathering included Raul Castro Che Guevara and other Cuban officials and that arms sales drug trafficking and an assassination plan were discussed with possible foreign government involvement.
Ottumwa Community School District Superintendent William R. Dabb, 38, was charged with drunk driving and disobeying a traffic signal after being stopped near First Avenue and Sixth Street West. He was held in Linn County jail on a bond of $10,000. Also jailed Friday on a drunk driving charge was Donald Mastin, 29, of 1432 Sixth Avenue SE, after a high speed chase on Fifi avenue SE. He faced multiple counts including steering and helmet violation. held on $75,000 bond.
Base bids for six McKinley junior high athletic and physical education facilities came in higher than a $423,000 estimate at a Thursday bid opening at the Educational Services Center. The lowest base bid was $29,000 above the estimate, with Blahnik Construction Co at $45,618 and Zabac Construction Co at $500,082.
Des Moines reports a UPI story describing an early effort to monitor and deter gypsy moth incursions into Iowa. Secretary Loveberry and others discuss deploying pheromone traps, inspections of vehicles and camps, and potential chemical controls to prevent spread from neighboring states.
Kent Mingotholt, infant son of Mrs Rose Kent of Belle Plaine, was treated Friday at St Luke s hospital Cedar Rapids for a fractured left leg and multiple abrasions after being struck Thursday when a neighbor s driveway was being backed from a vehicle driven by John Staffenbeal. Authorities say the child appeared in the roadway. no charges have been filed.
Linn-Mar ends year with a general fund balance of 73 055.16 marking the district’s first back-year in the black since 1966 67. Supt Glen Easterday credits principals and a leavy and secretary balance for improved cash flow as board sets depository, officer designations, and outlines grants and dropout programs.
Linn-Mar school board member Blaine Gibson submitted a verbal resignation effective Thursday night at a regu lar meeting. The board appointed Margery Scheie to finish the current year. Scheie, a Marion homemaker with four children, has not served on the board before but has six years on the Marion park board. She may seek one of the three board seats in the September election. Nomination petitions with signatures must be submitted to board secretary Charles Farris by August.
Independence police investigate harassment and vandalism at Harald G Niswonger residence in northwest Independence. Incidents include a tarpaper outhouse in the driveway, rotten eggs, lawn chemical dumping, and fireworks. Niswonger says acts began after a May complaint about a city employee based home occupation permit sparked protests.
Final event in Marion bicentennial week is a Saturday parade at 1 pm winding from Twenty sixth Street down Seventh Avenue to Sixth Street. Eighty five units include floats bands Shrine units and horses. City road closures and detours set. parade lasts about two hours rain or shine. Also final Gide Barn Players Cherry Sisters show Friday at 9 pm in Linn-Mar High auditorium.
Marion park board on Thursday approved a revised contract with Kulchera Construction Co for a suitable play area on the tennis courts at Thomas Park. The board also authorized a pay telephone installation near a security light for summer trial. They reviewed plans for rest rooms in Marvin's Park with consultant Herman Thompson. A contract for coin meter box and security light at new tennis courts in Willow Park was approved, with completion expected in ten days.
The Marion Independent school board approved the latest roofing offer from the architect and contractor for the Mentzer building. The contractor will be paid 35000 for insulation work, replacement, and finishing, plus 1400 for prior repairs and a ten year roof guarantee. The architect will supervise and arrange an emergency basis with no bids. Aug 18 completion target. Emergency authorization by Grant Wood AEA superintendent Dr. Dwight Bode.
Deadline for amateur artists to enter the fifth annual Marion County fair art show is Monday. Open to locals replying to the fair committee invitation and registering by Monday. Show runs next Friday and Saturday at city park southwest side. Contact Marion Division Chamber of Commerce at 760 Eleventh Street or 377-6316 for an entry blank. No entry fee. Oils, watercolors, pastels and acrylics welcome. No handcrafts allowed.
New York reports David Eisenhower will write a two volume set on his grandfather Dwight D. Eisenhower. Publisher Random House will release Going Home in Glory as the tentative title. Eisenhower notes his grandfather was powerful friendly and stern with a temper that inspired fear. He has finished law school and is studying background material for the work.
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