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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1977
Page
3
Memorial services are set for 1:30 p.m. today at the Murdoch chapel in Marion for Mabel B Carrington. A memorial fund has been established to honor her.
Tama Anna Prusha 83 died Monday at St Patrick's Catholic Church funeral services set for Monday with rosary Sunday at 7 at Mason-Hand’s. friends may call.
The Senate voted 73 to 7 to extend deadlines for cleaning polluted urban air by up to 10 years and to require steady progress toward clean air. The major revisions to the 1970 Clean Air Act set up a confrontation with the House, which had recently acted on related measures.
Neal E. Hirsh, 20, of Deerfield Illinois, a University of Iowa freshman engineering student, receives 45 years in Anamosa for a February armed robbery at a Coralville Green Pepper with a masked shooter. He gets 25 years on robbery with aggravation plus two 20 year terms for assault while masked, to run concurrently.
The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners confirms Cedar Rapids residential bills for 500 kWh rose 8.7 percent to $23.40 in the year ending April 1, ranking ninth among 20 cities. New York City remains highest at $43.29, with several cities showing double-digit increases. Local Iowa cities show varied rates, with Cedar Rapids outperforming several peers.
Readout of Friday morning and early afternoon performances at the Cedar Rapids Charity Horse Show with top placings across disciplines. Moonlight Bay earns multiple wins including Pony Hunter and Pony Handy Hunter, while Trail of riders from Des Peres, Belleville, Des Moines, Muscatine and Chicago claim top spots in Hunter Seat Equitation and over fences events.
The Cedar Rapids NAACP gave qualified support to a CETA funded police aide program while urging faster civil service testing and broader black applicant outreach. Colbert defended the program but acknowledged salary and unemployment rules limit participation. critics warn it skirts full police entry and civil rights concerns persist amid an LEAA discrimination inquiry.
A truck parked at 502 E avenue NW reported missing items including a chain saw valued at 235 dollars and tools valued at 135 dollars belonging to Dale Larimer of 1923 Twentieth street NW. At 1136 Thirty-third street NE two shotguns valued at 100 and 50 dollars were reported stolen from the Jean Hurley residence. Also noting a 1976 assassination attempt on Idi Amin in Uganda during a parade of police recruits.
In a St Luke's June 10 notice a son is reported for Mr and Mrs Timothy Canterbury of 2047 North Towne Court NE and another son for Mr and Mrs Roger Hines of Clarence. Weather data lists SSE wind at 14 mph and sun times. Extended forecast projects scattered showers with highs in the 70s to 80s and lows in the 50s to 60s. Multiple incident times note gas leaks, a car fire, smoke odor, a false alarm, and other small events across city streets and addresses such as 428 Third Avenue SE 508 Thirty-fourth Street and 1206 Sixteenth Street SW.
Northwestern Bell faced an Iowa Commerce Commission order to cut rates and issue refunds, now corrected to $21.5 million for about 670000 Iowa customers. The commission’s action remains the largest refund in state history, with residential refunds around $30 on average.
The defendant says his attorneys railroaded him and that a man named Raoul, a suspected gunrunner, pressured him into taking the blame for King's killing. The government argued Ray killed King with a rifle through a bathroom window, the weapon later found in a bag near the flop house. Repeated denials of a new trial were issued despite unresolved questions about his flight and finances.
A man impersonating young football figure Youngblood allegedly walked out of the Mad Hatter with about $3200 from Wed Fri nights. Milwaukee police found an Ohio license identifying him as a former Toledo officer wanted on nine forgery counts. Charges pending in Florida Indiana Michigan.
In dawn light firing ceased and armored vehicles pulled away toward the train. The train appeared undamaged while many passengers emerged and walked to a Red Cross post as ambulances arrived to aid them.
A federal court jury began deliberations Friday night on the fate of two members of a tax resistance organization charged with aiding and abetting 15 Dubuque area men in tax fraud two years ago. No verdict had been reached when jurors recessed at 10 p.m. The case against defendants Charles Dodge, Mosinee Wisconsin, and Gordon Buttorff, Duncanville Texas, went to the jury late Friday afternoon.
Anamosa couple Neman and Vera Meyer died Friday when their southbound pickup collided with an eastbound truck driven by 43 year old Robert Eugene Henning of Bernard at an unmarked intersection about four miles north of Monticello. Henning was listed in fairly good condition at a Monticello hospital. State highway patrol investigated the crash. Rise Stevens, an opera singer, is 64 years old today.
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