Realty Firm Guilty Over Pick Neighbor Cards in Iowa
Hawkeye Realty Inc of Cedar Rapids was ruled guilty by the Iowa Civil Rights Commission for using "lease your neighbor" style cards in an all white neighborhood. The commission ordered a cease and desist and cited violations of the state civil rights act.
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Cedar Rapids News A
Cedar Rapids Realty
Towa Civil Rights Commission
Hawkeye Realty Inc
Sixteenth Street
Hawkeye Realty
State Commission
Tawkeye Realty
Cedar Rapids
Iowa Real Estate Commission
Civil Rights Commission
Third Street
Retroactive Sewer Aid Is Okayed
Iowa Senate approves retroactive funding for sewer projects in 90 communities, with 25 percent state share and hopes for federal aid to match. Bill funds total retroactive and future costs, amid civil rights scrutiny of real estate practices in Cedar Rapids and Hawkeye Realty.
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Des Moines
Iowa Senate
Senate
States
Robert Ray
Discover
Cedar Rapids
Hill
Hawkeye Realty
Storms Scatter Damage in Iowa Towns and County
Severe winds rain and a tornado season hit Iowa Sunday night into Monday causing scattered damage and power outages across Ames Greene Center Point Independence and Buchanan county. A tornado path damaged farms and barns near Greene while a hotel and drive in suffered roof and window damage in Ames. Transmission lines failed cutting power to multiple towns with restoration hours later.
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Iowe
Douglas Marsh
Greene
Joe Downing
Greene Country Club
Paul Cheney
Reen
Dick Rohrig
Ella Stradhoff
Robert Litel
Hawkeye
Norbert Moore
Eugene
Richard Henn
Independence
Supreme Court preserves one man one vote rules cases
The Supreme Court issued several rulings narrowing the one man one vote doctrine. It reversed a Marion County Indiana panel halting at large state rep elections and rejected a three fifths debt vote rule in West Virginia bond approvals. The court also set standards for libel cases involving public figures and weighed other timely election and civil rights questions.
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Washington
UPI
Supreme Court
Indiana
Marion ‘County
Indianapolis
West Virginia Supreme Court
Towa
West Virginia
Virginias
50 Killed In California Air Collision
A Hughes AirWest DC jet carrying 49 passengers and crew crashed after colliding with a Marine F-4 Phantom east of Los Angeles. The marine interceptor’s radar officer survived by parachuting. One of five crewmen on the military plane also survived. It was California’s worst civilian air disaster and the first crash of a scheduled airliner in over a year.
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Los Angeles
Hughes Air- West
California
U.S
First Cedar Rapids Fire Fatality Of 1971 Reported
An 81-year-old man identified as Proksa from 1952 Memorial Drive SE died after an early morning house fire in Cedar Rapids. Firefighters pulled him from the home and said he perished from carbon monoxide after suffering heavy burns. Authorities noted a kitchen ceiling damage and possible helicopter sighting related to a separate plane crash nearby. Rescue helicopters reported nine bodies found in wreckage of the DC-9 airliner crash in a forested gorge, with officials stating no additional survivors were expected.
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Cedar
Cedar Rapids
Munday
Cédar’ Rapids
Osept Froksa
Memorial Drive
Mercy
Proksa
Mich
Gary Butters
Duarte High School
Butters
Sheriff's
Sheriffs
Moscowelevision
Viktor Patsayev
Rew
Patsayev
Sheldays
Sust
James Kane
Lascoms
Orbital Stations
Angeles County
Nikolai Rukavish
Nikov
Pace
Vladimir Volkov
Volkov
Soviets Link Space Ships In Orbital Docking
Soviet space effort advances with Soyuz 11 docking Salute in orbit, a pivotal move toward a network of space stations. The procedure followed a tense chase and involved transfer of crew, recording a step in manned orbital science.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Ilsino
Space Laban
Space Laboratory
Oratory
Peng
Tong
Soyuz
28 Perish in Conn Mishap at Tweed Airport
An Allegheny Airlines Convair 580 struck a utility line in heavy fog near Tweed New Haven airport and crashed into marshland. Of 31 aboard, 28 perished and three badly burned were admitted to Yale New Haven Hospital. Survivors included copilot James Walker and others. the crash destroyed several summer beach cottages and caused multiple explosions.
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New Haven, Conn
Allegheny Airlines
Tweed
New Haven
Yale-New Haven
James Malarky
Joseph Horowitz
Horowitz
James Walker
Memphis
Janet McCan Buly
Washington
Kelly
Waterford
Conny
Nancy Palmeiri
Hast
Haven
Fire Began In Kitchen, Cedar Rapids House Destroyed
Fire officials found no careless smoking in the kitchen. combustibles ignited there. Earlier theories placed the origin upstairs, but Craig of the fire department confirmed the blaze started in the kitchen. The house was left a total loss and Cedar Rapids noted 13 fire related deaths last year. The body was taken to the chapel in Cedar Rapids.
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Proksa
Ffi
Craig
Cedar Rapids
E& Ne
Gamblers Anonymouss Offer New Odds Cure Claim
A jokey note promotes a fictional outfit named Gamblers Anonymouss promising odds to cure gambling addiction, joking about legalization or cures with a copyright marker.
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