City Briefs and Advertisements Summary
City briefs list meetings and events including UAW retirees potluck at Ellis YMCA at noon Thursday and various association gatherings at the Roosevelt and city hall. Local notices cover obituaries, service plans for Ida Doty and Katharine Stevens, and business ads for dining, car parts, and office space. Also noted are travel ads, scholarships, and a notable theft report at Heiken Garage along with Ruth Warren’s honors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
UAW
Ellis Ymca
House Bill Tops Nixon's Request By $461 Million
The House appropriations committee sent a $19 billion fiscal year bill to the floor, $461 million above Nixon’s request and $1.78 billion below the current year's total. Major boosts target community development programs, with $682.5 million added and a revised $842.9 million total. The panel warned against a one year gap if revenue sharing replaces existing programs and urged continued funding until Congress acts. It also called for greater FCC, SEC, and Veterans Administration resources and criticized talk show sensationalism.
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Appropriations Committee
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Space and Science Agencies
Veterans Administration
Nixon
Congress
Federal Communications Commission
Securities and Exchange Commission
FCC
SEC
Nixon Gives '73 Lincoln Auto To Brezhnev
President Nixon has donated a 1973 dark blue Lincoln Continental to Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, to be delivered on his return to Moscow. This follows Nixon previously gifting a Cadillac during Brezhnev's Soviet visit. The White House did not immediately disclose the new gift.
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Washington
Nixon
Leonid Brezhnev
Brezhnev
Moscow
Soviet Union
Biscayne Bay
Florida
White House
Himself
Pat
Deadline July 1 on Personal Tax Credits
City Assessor Dale Piersall announced that applications for personal property tax credits must be signed by July 1. The credit is a flat $2,700 against personal property assessed value, with potential savings up to about $366 for eligible taxpayers.
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Dale Piersall
Piersall
Britain Extends Stay For Howard Hughes
London AP Britain will issue a permit extension for Howard Hughes beyond June 27 though he has not applied yet. A British official expressed confidence he will receive the extension after his arrival in London without a valid passport on December 27. Hughes, 68, later obtained a valid U S passport and showed identity and means of support.
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London
Britain
Howard Hughes
Hughes
U. S
Caravelles to be featured at Cedar Rapids band concert
The Caravelles a women’s barbershop quartet will headline the Cedar Rapids Municipal band concert at Jones park on Wednesday night. Members from Marion and Cedar Rapids will perform five songs and a Cedar Rapids dedication piece. The nine band selections include works by Mozart Losey and Bock with no admission charge.
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Caravelles
Cedar Rapids
Jones Park
Darwin Kohl
Marion
Lawrence Priske
Fourth Avenue SE
Guy Gooch
Maplecrest Drive
Wayne Decious
First Avenue
Sweet Adelines, Inc
Washington, D. C
Daddy
W. C. Pickart
Panella
Mozart
Jewell
Chance
F. von Blow
R. B. Hall
Fiddler On the
Bock
Gloria
Losey
Czechs Welcome Yanks After Delay at Border
The Youth Orchestra of Greater Fort Worth Texas faced a five hour delay at the Czechoslovak border but was warmly received in a village concert. The stop disrupted plans yet the performance boosted spirits among the group and locals.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Greater Fort Worth
Texas
Floyd Emmons Named Linn County Sheriff Supervisor
Ten years ago Floyd Emmons, a Marion farmer, was appointed Linn County supervisor to replace Miles Sutera, formalizing a local leadership shift.
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Floyd Emmons
Marion
Linn County
Miles Sutera
Local Graduates Earn Degrees Across Week of Commencement
Robert J. Schmitz graduates from the University of Chicago with a BA in economics. Kathleen Gobidas earns a BS from Northeastern University Boston. Robert Foster Wilson Jr. earns a BS in pre medicine from Penn State University with high distinction. Stanford graduates include Denise Dallas MA in Education, Ronald Meyer BA in economics, Raynard Bosserman II MS in civil engineering, Paul Mc Cauley BS in civil engineering and BA in human biology.
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Robert J. Schmitz
Tanager Drive
University of Chicago
Kathleen Gobidas
Thirty Seventh Street
Northeastern University
Boston
Robert Foster Wilson, Jr
Ridgeway Terrace
Pennsylvania State University
University Park
Stanford University
Denise L. Dallas
Forest Drive SE
Ronald K. Meyer
Decorah
Raynard E. Bosserman II
Iowa City
Paul S. McCauley
Second Mt Vernon road section may start next week
Mt Vernon road SE from Nineteenth street to Memorial drive could begin next week as work resumes under the TOPICS grant. The first section must reopen to traffic before the second starts. If weather holds, the earlier section may close Monday. through traffic will detour around the construction.
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Mt. Vernon Road
Nineteenth Street
Memorial Drive
Dick Jensen
Public Works
Jensen
Request To Delay Senate Bugging Hearings
Washington AP reports a Monday letter from Senate leaders Mansfield and Scott to Ervin requesting a one week postponement of the Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities hearings. They cite the Brezhnev state visit overlapping with hearings and aim to allow Nixon and Brezhnev to reconcile differences for potential broader foreign policy gains.
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United States Senate
Select Committee
Leonid Brezhnev
Nixon
Brezhnev
Scott
Haldeman Moves Out of Limelight to California
H R Haldeman and family moved from Washington to Newport Beach California last weekend lawyer John Wilson said Mrs Haldeman does not plan to return to Washington where crews camped on the doorstep after his resignation as White House chief of staff on April 30 The displaced home in Washington is on sale priced around 100000 Haldeman still must testify before the senate Watergate Committee and faces possible indictment while denying involvement in the scandal
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Haldeman
John Wilson
Newport Beach
Calif
Los Angeles
Wilson
Washington
White House
Senate
Watergate Committee
Watergate Grand Jury
Eisenhower approves Rosenberg death sentence for atomic spies
Twenty years ago President Eisenhower refused clemency and ordered Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to die as atomic spies, with the decree set for 6 p.m. local time. The ruling solidified the wartime espionage case as a landmark capital punishment instance amid Cold War tensions.
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Eisenhower
Julius and
Ethel Rosenberg
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Oakland Road
Spain
Portugal
Travel and Transport
Roosevelt
William B. Pohorsky
Radio Club
Civil Defense
City Hall
Bishop Buffet
Lindale Plaza
Five Seasons
Embassy Club
Dan Coffey
John Pierce
John Sangster
Ida Doty
Clarksville
LaVonne McElrath
Twenty - Sixth Street
Stickney
Johnny’s Parkway
Ellis and “F
Don Stevens
Eastland Drive
Kansas City
Katharine Stevens
Central United Methodist Church
Dean Metcalf
Care Armstrong’s
Marie A. Blum
St. Pius X School
University of San Francisco
Deborah van Cleve
Park College
Parkville, Mo
Viking Lounge
Heiken Garage
Eighth Street
Hardi Garden Center
First Ave
Warren Smith
Staubcourt NE
Rockford College
The
Dial
New York
John Barker
Carlton Press, Inc
Fifth Avenue
N.Y
Paramount T
Limelight
California
Washington Ys
H. R. Haldeman
Watergate
Peoples’ Auto LoanMakers
Earl Caywood
Steve Allison
Peoples Auto LoanMakers
Peoples Financing
Peoples
and Trust Company
Peoples East
Town & Country
Peoples West
May’s City
Newhall
FDIC
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