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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1976
Page
5
Extended forecast calls for mostly clear conditions Friday and Saturday with a chance of showers Sunday. Highs in the upper 70s to mid 80s and lows in the 50s to 60s. Flood stage readings show several sites rising or steady with minor changes and Cedar at CR shows a fall in pool level.
Walter Francis Kelly, 76, longtime Cedar Rapids resident, died Tuesday at Shady Lane Rest Home in Cascade after a long illness. Born December 2, 1899, in Van Horne, he lived in Cedar Rapids for 38 years and is survived by his daughter Mrs. Thomas Bemis of Westland Michigan and five grandchildren. Services Saturday at 9 a.m. at St. Matthew's Church officiated by Rev. James Duster, burial at Mt. Calvary Cemetery near Van Horne. Friends may call Friday 3–9 p.m. at Stewart Funeral Home, with Christian Wake service at 8 p.m. Additional notes list services for Wayland, Dr. Byron A. Turner, and Mizpah Lodge AF and AM, plus Cedar Memorial burial. casket not opened after service. All Master Masons to meet Turner East 1:15 p.m. Thursday. Also listed Petrzelka Mary with 10 a.m. Thursday service at Kuba Funeral Home East, burial Czech National. casket not opened.
The air force will not reimburse Northrop Corp for 564000 in fees paid to Washington attorney Frank De Francis for help selling planes overseas. It will reimburse 155000 of 160000 paid to Anna Chennault for consulting. Pentagon list shows consultant fees billed as overhead from 1962 to 1974. The action centers on Northrop's request for partial reimbursement of De Francis' fee amid its lobbying history.
Birth announcements from St Luke's and elsewhere list multiple families welcoming daughters and sons. The section records addresses and kin details for families in Cedar Rapids Greensboro Auburn Heights and Brooklyn Center, plus a list of local magistrate court fines and incidents with times and locations noted.
Richard Adams, 35, of 1048 Thirty-first Street NE, was charged with drunk driving after an early Saturday arrest. The Gazette notes an earlier story omitted his address and could have confused him with a Kalona man of the same name and similar age.
Truman Capote, 51, was fined 165 dollars after pleading guilty to driving while intoxicated in Southampton. He agreed to attend a state rehabilitation program for DUI offenders after a two car crash in Bridgehampton in which no one was injured. The attorney noted refusal to attend would have led to automatic license revocation.
AMES J Patrick Latz director of the IDOT railroad division was fired after being asked to resign by IDOT Director Victor Preisser. Latz left Friday returning to Indianapolis where he previously worked for a drug company.
Gary McClure of 1052 Twelfth Street NE suffered a minor elbow wound when a .38 derringer fell from a sleeping bag and discharged in the sanitation building. He was treated at Mercy hospital and released. McClure guarded the site after a garbage truck damaged a door at 1805 A Street SW.
Kenneth F. Rothmeyer, 45, an inmate from Linn County, died from burns in Cellhouse 20 at the Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison after a fire in his cell early Wednesday. Autopsy planned. officials and the Bureau of Criminal Investigation probe the incident. Authorities say it is likely self-inflicted. access to the cell was unlikely for an outside person.
Jurors asked for guidance on guilt by aiding and abetting self defense and first or second degree murder while deliberations continued at the Cedar Rapids federal building. The panel received the full instruction set after a bomb threat prompted relocation from the inland Des Moines IRS office. they remain sequestered since Monday afternoon.
At the convention Carter drew first, with Ellen McCormack Udall Brown and Foley contenders following in order. Udall pledged to release his delegates before roll call but keep his name for supporters. Archibald Cox will deliver Udall's nominating speech, while Cesar Chavez will nominate Brown and James Killilea nominate McCormack.
Harvard Law School study on the Bartley Fox Law finds it reduced illegal gun carrying and improved licensing compliance but shows little impact on overall violent crime. The report notes no drop in assaults or gun robbery patterns, though firearm use in assaults fell from 25 percent to under 18 percent after enforcement began.
William R. Dabb 38 Ottumwa superintendent of schools was not charged with drunk driving in Linn county after police arrested him for allegedly running a red light in Cedar Rapids. An assistant county attorney said breath test results were below the statutory level for drunkenness but a field test was declined. a traffic signal violation charge remains pending.
Machinists local 831 members at the Weyerhaeuser Co. Cedar Rapids plant ratified a two year contract by a two to one vote. The union official cited wage and fringe benefit adjustments as the contract’s main features.
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