Weather Forecast for Co. R and Elsewhere
Extended forecast shows partly cloudy Thursday with a chance of rain Friday and Saturday. Expected highs in the 80s and lows from the upper 50s to mid 60s across the region including Co. R and adjacent areas.
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1976
Page
4
Extended forecast shows partly cloudy Thursday with a chance of rain Friday and Saturday. Expected highs in the 80s and lows from the upper 50s to mid 60s across the region including Co. R and adjacent areas.
Birth announcements list Mercy and Thomas Pape and Patrick Henry as parents to newborn sons, with addresses in Cedar Rapids and surrounding SE areas. The page also notes multiple wedding and marriage pairings, a series of local crime and traffic fines in Cedar Rapids, and a short blurb about a 1975 Ford Sadat peace talks reference.
May Laura Long 67 of 153214 Ellis boulevard NW died Sunday in a Cedar Rapids health care center after a long illness. Born April 16 1909 in Indianola she lived in Cedar Rapids 30 years. She attended the University of Oregon and graduated from Simpson College. A former schoolteacher she also worked in Sears Roebuck catalog department. She belonged to St James United Methodist church American Business Women's Assn and Star of Maine Rebekah lodge. Survived by sister Geraldine J Maag of Cedar Rapids. Services Wednesday at 9 a.m. Stewart Funeral Home with Rev Stephen R Root. Burial Indianola Cemetery. Visitation Tuesday 3 9 p.m. and Wednesday 8 a.m. until service. Casket will be closed at 8:45 a.m. and not opened after. Due to paving on First Avenue NE use the doctor parking lot entrance on 19th Street NE after 5 p.m.
Cedar Rapids Mayor Don Ald Canney urged the city council to oppose a 10.3 percent rate increase sought by Iowa Electric Light and Power Co. The plan would raise average residential bills by 1.44 dollars, farms by 2.93, and small commercial by 4.20, with refunds possible after state commission ruling.
A Cedar Rapids host accused city officials and media of slighting 122 Indian visitors during a weekend bicentennial visit arranged by the Mid-American Bicentennial commission. The visitors had no planned itinerary and no local officials present to greet them, prompting calls for better communication with bicentennial organizers.
Western diplomats link Syria’s planned intervention to Soviet premier Kosygin’s visit. Officials note it would be harder to deploy troops during the visit, while a Syrian source says treaties would be signed and Syria’s regional stance would strengthen. Israeli sources say escalation has not tipped the scales yet.
The court upheld that USDA food stamp rules deny equal protection for a woman with no extra income and weighs potential federal cost increases. It will also decide if EPA can force states to set air pollution controls for private vehicles under the Clean Air Act, with mixed circuit rulings on state enforcement authority.
In 1972 McGovern says Carter allies pressured him to fire Alan Baron and Jack Quinn amid a bid to deny his nomination. Carter replies that he supports McGovern’s unity move as Baron and Quinn deny Carter pressure. Baron criticizes Carter and associates as a “positive evil.”
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