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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1972
Page
3
Highs and lows across cities with precipitation totals, barometer and humidity readings. Dam updates, births, and local obituaries alongside traffic violations, grease fires and missing dam reports. Notices cover Monticello Hopkinton Fairfax Vinton and nearby towns with service times and call details.
Rich notes dozen eggs grade A large cost farmers 28 cents to produce in Iowa, subsidizing buyers by 10 cents. He cites light at tunnel end and break-even goal by Sept 1, with processors seeking half a cent per dozen profit. Retailers aim for 1 to 1.5 percent margins to cover costs.
Anamosa Jones county farmer and his son are receiving a series of rabies shots after contact with a rabid beef heifer. Joe E. Legg, county extension director, advised farmers to watch for signs like lack of coordination vomiting and abnormal voice and to isolate suspicious animals and call a veterinarian for diagnosis.
The Oriskany joined four U S carriers off Vietnam with 50 fighters ordered into the Quang Tri drive as U S bombers dropped over 1 500 tons on troop concentrations and 900 tons near Hue amid reports of a possible attack. Navy pilots targeted Kep airfield near Hanoi while 240 strikes were logged.
Saigon AP reports two Americans killed in action last week, 10 dead from non hostile causes, 21 missing in action and 22 wounded. Overall totals since the offensive began show 45,792 killed in action, 303,167 wounded, 10,222 dead from non hostile causes, and 1,630 missing or captured.
Carlyle U Trader 49 of Forty-first avenue and Bowling street SW died Thursday in Iowa City after a long illness. Born October 9 1922 in Gifford Missouri he lived in Cedar Rapids since 1967. A construction worker and World War II veteran he belonged to Amvets and VFW. Survived by wife Dorothy born May 3 1943 in Chicago a son Ronald parents Mr and Mrs Arthur Trader Kirksville Missouri a sister Mrs Roy Waters Huntsville Missouri and two brothers Orland Trader Independence Missouri Leo Trader Sierra Vista Arizona Services 130 PM Saturday Kuba funeral home east officiated by Rev Gilbert M Field Linwood Cemetery Military graveside by Amvets post 50.
Henry C Cambridge 76 of 5025 First Avenue SW Cedar Rapids died Wednesday after a brief illness He was born February 28 1896 in Solon and married Olga Krobe February 11 1920 Surviving are his wife two daughters Sister Mary Marjorie Honolulu Hawaii and Mrs John Erger Cedar Rapids four sons Howard Rockford Ill Capt David San Antonio Texas Dennis Satellite Beach Fla and Michael Darien Ill 19 grandchildren two great grandchildren and a sister Clara Michel Solon Services at St Jude s Catholic Church Monday 9 30 a m Rev John Gregory Burial Mt Calvary Cemetery Wake 7 30 p m Sunday Teahen Chapel friends may call Sunday
Jason Allen Kelley six week old son of Mr and Mrs Thomas P Kelley of 201 Nineteenth Street NW died Wednesday in Iowa City after heart surgery. Born May 11 in Iowa City, he leaves grandparents Mr and Mrs Robert Moore of Cedar Rapids and Mr and Mrs Thomas Kelley of Palm Springs California and great grandparents Jerry Shultz and Oscar Moore of Cedar Rapids. Services at Kuba funeral home east Friday at 1 30 pm with Rev George White of Coralville United Methodist church. Burial at Czech National. Friends may call at Kuba funeral home east after 5 pm Thursday.
Obituary notices list service times and locations for W Paul Keller at Chapel of Memories with burial at Cedar Memorial by Cedar Memorial funeral home. Timothy J Shea and Leonard D Shea at St Patrick's church with burial at Mt Calvary cemetery. Nellie Pearl Schloeman at Turner chapel west with burial at Lennox cemetery near Norway.
Larry Wright a Linn county board of supervisors hopeful will begin a countywide walk Friday to reach voters. The Troy Mills resident says the walk will help the supervisors meet the needs of Linn county residents.
The Supreme Court split on capital punishment with a ruling that challenges the Eighth Amendment. In other actions the court held newsmen must answer grand jury subpoenas, allowed a congressman to be tried for bribery, questioned aides in the Pentagon Papers case, allowed barring foreign lecturers, and upheld professor tenure rules.
The Senate approved a $9.6 billion anti poverty bill on a 74 to 16 vote defeating a GOP bid to strike the independent corporation running the legal services program for the poor. The measure authorizes three years of Office of Economic Opportunity programs with allocations about $1 billion above Nixon’s request and goes to conference with the House.
Marsha Scott 9 and Jeanine 7 of 3325 Susan Drive NW were treated at Mercy hospital after running into the side of a moving car operated by Ernest Mahan 30 of 1246 Eighteenth Avenue SW at Edgewood Road and Dennis Drive NW. Both girls sustained chest and shoulder injuries and were released. no charges filed. Authorities say the sisters and two other children were crossing from a private drive when the incident occurred.
Iowa Governor Robert Ray welcomed the supreme court ruling that capital punishment is unconstitutional and said he was not surprised and pleased. He noted he never advocated taking a life for another and expects the decision to clear the air on capital punishment. The legislature outlawed it in 1963.
Isaac Shaver of Cedar Rapids was fined 250 and costs in district court for giving gifts and gratuities to Iowa county supervisors. He had been indicted with three supervisors in 1971. the supervisors pled guilty and were fined 250 each. Shaver claimed he only took the officials to lunch and said he did not know of the law.
McGovern winds five state Southern swing praising moderates as potential running mates and threatens to campaign against Nixon if nominated. Carter, Bumpers, Askew, and West are considered assets. AFL CIO signals labor may back McGovern to defeat Nixon. Strass exits as party treasurer. Dole accuses platform of aiding radical proposals to fit party policy.
In Naples Florida police investigate the theft of 3200 dollars from a cabinet safe in the court clerk's office located at police headquarters. The incident is under local law enforcement review with no arrests reported.
A judge suggests creating a law to set deliberation time while noting no apparent illegality in approving both final and proposed project segments by the city planning commission. He points out the June 6 resolution may not have been clear to the public.
A federal judge granted an injunction limiting Iowa state fair officials from using undercover agents to police midway gambling. Attorneys for fair operators welcomed an imminent trial while county and city officials weighed enforcement and plan commission procedures in Cedar Rapids and Linn County.
Ten years ago Linn County Republicans denounced the New Frontier for attempting to push its programs through Congress and endorsed a broad voluntary land retirement program.
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