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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1978
Page
8
A Cedar Rapids woman in fair condition at Mercy Hospital after a Thursday stabbing at the Allison Hotel. Police seek an early 20s assailant. Also a 7-Eleven robbery at Mount Vernon Road SE and multiple local arrests for assaults and harassment.
The Linn County court handed sentences and probation to multiple defendants. Joseph Tamayo Jr. received one year in the county jail for assault with intent to inflict serious injury after a Feb 4 stabbing at a Cedar Rapids tavern. Arthur Contreras got 30 days for a reduced theft charge involving about $230. James Bohannon received a suspended sentence up to five years with three years probation on receiving stolen property and a $200 fine for simple cocaine possession. Alex Fender and Frederick Share received suspended sentences with probation on conspiracy and larceny charges respectively. Walter Nieland’s probation was revoked, and he must serve six months in jail.
Iowa Electric Light and Power Co officials reported about 1 000 homes and businesses in the southwest quadrant were without power this morning. A squirrel caused damage at a substation near Hawkeye Downs. The outage began at 10 40 a m and restored by 11 25 a m affecting Sixth Avenue SW to Highway 30 north and 33rd Avenue SW. Rolling Greene and the fairgrounds were affected.
In Clayton County a jury again refused damages to Wallace and Juanita Marting in a February 1975 collision with a Fassbinder vehicle on Iowa Highway 13 ten miles north of Elkader. The couple sought 19 300 and had previously been denied. They won a new trial on appeal.
Lincolnway Village Park's preschool play site is closed after low attendance and vandalism. Cedar Rapids Recreation Director John Foens cites nine registrations and ongoing damage as reasons. A new lot opens near St Jude's Church while Jones Park remains the closest alternative two miles away. Parents will receive $5 refunds.
City Council again defers approval of the Boyson Road paving project to explore using a special assessment deficiency to ease the Lentz property's $21,900 levy. The 14 acre farm in the city zoning faces roughly $2,100 yearly payments for 10 years unless a deferral adjusts the assessment.
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