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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1969
Page
2
Police note two suspects left tracks on the back nine in dew as dog barked through the night. Total damage estimated at $900. Parks Commissioner Charles Decker commented on the incident and wiring color TV 9.
Damage totaled about 500 dollars with seven trees costing about 50 dollars each to replace. Labor to restore playable greens runs 50 to 60 dollars. An electrician will try to finish lighting repairs by Friday night, with possible temporary wiring. Exclusive Jim Ryan interview by Howard Cosell on ABC Wide World of Sports at 4 00 PM Saturday.
Wernher von Braun cautions about risks in the Apollo moon mission while predicting Apollo 11 will succeed. He foresees 2 or 3 moon landings annually after Apollo 11 and sets 1985 as a favorable target for a manned Mars landing.
City briefs report a Sunday indoor picnic at Mohawk pavilion from 4 to 10 p.m. Bring a covered dish and table service. Other items note hospital admissions, car thefts, store ads, and local events including library story hour and a UCT picnic postponed to July 27 due to high water.
Roxanne Robinson, 21, of North Liberty, swerved to avoid another car and left the highway, ending in a ditch. She was discovered about 6:15 a.m. near Holiday Trailer Court and taken to Mercy Hospital in Iowa City in satisfactory condition.
Outflows from the Coralville reservoir rose to 8000 cfs at 10 am and will reach 10000 cfs tonight as low river flood flows from the Marshalltown to Belle Plaine area drive the spill. If discharge rose further, water could overtop the spillway, threatening Iowa City and other downstream communities.
A listing of columnists and contributors including Marquis Childs Evans and Novak Russell Baker Leonard Lyons Rick DuBrow Suzy Knickerbocker Abby Van Buren Dr Andelman The Jacobus bridge column Art Buchwald and the associated picture page highlights.
Local 831 Machinists will vote Sunday at 10 a m at Arm ar ballroom on a proposed contract with Iowa Manufacturing Co Negotiations resumed after a one day break another session is set for Saturday The union has about 1150 members and workers have been on strike since July 1.
Sofia reports Bulgaria and Hungary signed a new friendship and mutual assistance pact to expand economic ties. The agreement replaces a 20 year old treaty that expired in 1968.
Kenneth Hamer 22 said his car was fired on by a man with a shotgun while he was turning at First avenue and Thirteenth street SE. He described a confrontation with youths brandishing knives and guns near Coe college and along Twelfth street NE. an unfired shotgun shell was found nearby.
Charles Cejka, 54, of North Liberty, was beaten and robbed of $50 on the southeast side near Tenth avenue and Sixth street SE early Friday. Police said he could not describe his attacker and was hospitalized at St. Luke's for a heart condition.
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