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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1975
Page
5
Linn-Mar school board set September 9 as the bond election date for 295000 dollars to fund Novak Elementary repairs and hard surface work at the educational services center high school junior high complex and bus barn. funds would also pay for lighting curbs and sidewalks plus parking improvements.
Marion firemen answered two calls Thursday. In the late afternoon they were summoned to a roadside ditch northeast of the city for a grass fire started by a boy playing with matches. No damage reported. In the evening they fought a cooking pot fire at the Don DeVault residence 2601 Third Avenue. The pot burned dry but flames stayed in the kitchen. the house had smoke damage throughout. The Hublers sold their house at 1610 James Drive to Roger Cottrell of Marshall Minnesota with possession July 15. They moved to 2981 Ninth Street while the new house on Twenty eighth Avenue is completed. Sale by Jack Hubler Realtors with John Zachar Jr and Co.
Daniel W. Boyle 42 Iowa City attorney announced Thursday he seeks a three year term on the Iowa City board of education. A high school graduate he earned his degrees at the University of Iowa and has practiced locally since 1860. Other candidates include Margaret Scholz and incumbent John Dane for the four posts to be filled September 9.
President Ford defends his support for a Helsinki Pact with 34 other leaders, saying it will foster independence for Eastern European peoples under Soviet control and reflects U.S. policy to back freedom and national independence by peaceful means. He rejects charges the agreement abandons Eastern European aspirations.
Chrisma a coeducational vocal group from Judson College Elgin Ill will present a concert Sunday at 7 pm at the First Baptist Church 2895 Fourteenth Avenue. The group will sing contemporary and folk religious music. The concert is open to the public. Marion Jaycees family picnic has been postponed to a later date.
Old Capitol Associates, Iowa City's urban renewal developer, doubles its committed capital for four new buildings this year. Total capitalization rises to 1 million dollars, with completion hoped within six days. Planned structures include Plaza Centre One an elder housing project a drive in facility for Iowa State Bank and Trust Co and an additional office building of undetermined size.
Washington AP Interior Secretary Stanley Hathaway, hospitalized last week for exhaustion, is also diagnosed with a mild case of diabetes. Doctors at Bethesda Naval Medical Center say treatment is with medication and Hathaway remains in satisfactory condition.
Police say a United Parcel Service terminal blast injured 17 and was caused by a commercial shipment of methyl nitrate rather than a bomb. Detectives say the package that exploded fell in the West Side loading area and contained the volatile chemical. no bomb apparatus was found and the shipper’s name was not released.
U.S. beef prices jumped to a near 1.58 dollar per pound in June, 10 cents above May and well above February 1974's 1.50 level, with pork average at 1.31 a pound. Agriculture economists expect 6 to 8 percent annual rise if grain crops are strong and meat demand cools.
Democratic presidential hopeful Fred Harris will tour Council Bluffs in a camper Aug 13. He is likely to camp near Lake Manawa and attend a reception hosted by the West Pottawattamie County Democratic Women's Club.
The July 1 corn supply stood at about 1.15 billion bushels, 21 percent below a year earlier and the smallest for that date since 1952. Wheat reserves totaled 318 million bushels, up 29 percent from last year but down 27 percent from two years ago, also near a 1952 low. The report excluded the new 1975 wheat crop and fall corn harvest projections.
Norbert Jankowski, manager of the Oelwein Chamber of Commerce since June 1973, resigns effective August 1 to become area administrator with the state office of planning and programming in Waterbury Tea. The chamber faced controversy with declining membership though it was reported financially solvent this spring. On this date in 1799 Napoleon Bonaparte defeated the Turks in Egypt.
Philadelphia report notes the Continental Congress voted to print an additional one million dollars in thirty-dollar notes. It also states 6.5 tons of gunpowder arrived for the army at Cambridge with an escort of thirty riflemen provided.
Linn county medical examiner rules Joseph Franklin Floyd 46 of Ely took his own life. Found in a shed at his residence, death attributed to hanging. A longtime Iowa Steel and Iron Works employee, he was born April 8, 1928, in Cedar Rapids and married to Doris Finch. Burial at First Presbyterian cemetery near Ely with Ely American Legion providing graveside services. He leaves four daughters, two brothers, and a sister. Services set for 3 p.m. Saturday at Turner Chapel West Cedar Rapids.
Marc Allison, 20, of Springville, suffered a facial knife wound requiring 13 stitches after a name calling incident at the Twin West drive-in on a Thursday night. Four unidentified men attacked him. he was treated at Mercy hospital and released.
Walter Heineman a 65 year old man was found dead in a farm pond near Garrison after an overnight search by local fire departments police and rescue units. His body was seen floating under the pond surface early Friday morning. Authorities ruled out foul play and planned services in Inkinton.
Michael Lee McKnight 20 of Milo an inmate at the Iowa state penitentiary in Fort Madison pled innocent in Lee county district court to a kidnapping charge. He is accused of kidnapping and imprisoning Melvin D. Smith a penitentiary officer last May 23 Smith was held in cell house 19 then released and escorted to the door by other prisoners. No trial date has been set.
London reports the British government will end detention without trial in Northern Ireland and release all 246 detainees by Christmas. Secretary Merlyn Rees said the aim is to dismantle detention and would apply new law if armed action resumes. A cease fire since February has complicated the IRA campaign for partition.
UPI reports U S Gypsum Co. attorneys will appeal the Iowa Supreme Court ruling that upheld a Webster County jury award of 1.05 million dollars to Michael Fritz for injuries from a 1973 forklift incident at the U S Gypsum plant in Fort Dodge. Fritz sought 1.25 million. He was with Umthun Truck Line of Eagle Grove at the time.
A 17 month old Cedar Rapids girl received head lacerations and was treated at St. Luke's hospital before being released after a two car crash at the First avenue and Fifteenth street west intersection. Amy S. McNeal 17 Avenue NW rode with Emma Paulette Wenzel 19 when Wenzel rear ended a car stopped for a light driven by Rose Mary Moyer 40 of 107 Eleventh Street NW. The cars were eastbound. no charges filed.
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