Acquittal for Marine Drill Sergeant in Recruit Death
A court martial acquitted S Sgt Harold Bronson in the fatal beating of Pvt Lynn McClure at the San Diego recruit depot. The trial found him not guilty of involuntary manslaughter assault mistreatment and violating training drill rules. McClure died March 13 from injuries after a December 6 mock bayonet drill with padded staffs.
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San Diego
Harold Bronson
Lynn McClure
Bronson
McClure
Marine Corps Recruit Depot
Freeport
Fla
Daniel Hunter
John Ullman
Ullman
Henry Aguilar
Motivation
Henry Wallrath
Cecil Taylor
Special Training Branch
Taylor, Altman
Col
Rufus Seymour
Instant Trial could curb innocent pleas in Linn county
The Linn district court in Cedar Rapids implements an instant trial plan for traffic offenders. Officers assign a monthly court day, enabling a defendant to plead innocent and obtain an instant trial if the ticketing officer appears. Early results show few innocent pleas and a lighter magistrate docket as officers schedule tickets weeks ahead.
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Anthony Scolaro
First Avenue
Linn District Court
Scolaro
Gazette
Youth Sentenced On Nine Linn Traffic Counts
A Marshalltown youth on his fourteenth birthday faced nine traffic counts in Linn district court. Kevin Kroener received 30 days per count with most served concurrently, allowed to serve up to 60 days at Eldora training school. Multiple drunk driving cases were also before the court with various pleas and sentences. Today black militant Stokely Carmichael is 35 years old.
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Marshalltown
First Avenue
Linn District Court
Kevin Kroener
Eldora Training School
John Climer
Third Street
Charles Baker
Thirty-fourth Street
Joseph Proostgaard
Sixth Avenue SE
Richard Barnes
Thirty-fifth Street
Marion
Mark Olsen
Brockman Avenue
Delbert Edwards
Schools OK Doubling Bender Pool Use Fee
Cedar Rapids school board approves a contract with the city for use of Bender swimming pool at a rental of 17 499, about double the current 8 400. District uses the pool 1 350 hours yearly and plans to expand usage for summer school, special education, and Saturday swim classes. Also approved is an agreement with the Community Theater of Cedar Rapids totaling 3 000 in benefits and printing services for theater services to district students and seminars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Mercer Island, Wash
Craig Currie
Paul Diaz
Diaz
Marvin Maire
Schulz
Community Theater of
Libya Threatens Lebanon Intervention Over Palestinian Camps
Libyan Premier Abdel Salam Jalloud warned in Beirut Radio that Libya would join the nationalist and Palestinian factions if Christians seize the Tal Zaatar and Jisr al Bash a camps, threatening to oppose peace talks. The crisis widens as Syrian forces reinforce Lebanon while clashes continue around Beirut and nearby mountains. Nearly 200 killed as fires burn in the port area and embassies evacuate.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Libya
Abdel Salam Jalloud
Jalloud
Tal Zaatar
Jisr al-Basha
Extensive Fire Destroys Clarence Morningstar House
Mt. Vernon and Lisbon fire crews battled a blaze south of Lisbon at the Clarence Morningstar residence on Sutloff road. The one story attached utility room is believed to have the cause by spontaneous combustion. Morningstar suffered arm burns while attempting to hook a hose and was treated at a clinic. The two story house sustained heavy fire, water and smoke damage and is uninhabitable. Lisbon firefighters assisted.
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MT. Vernon
Lisbon
Clarence Morningstar
Sutloff Road
Larry Covington
Morningstar
Covington
Fire Inspection Fee Refunds Set
The city refunds the difference between old and new fire inspection charges after a council review. Refunds apply to individuals and organizations who paid fees this year before reductions. Safety Commissioner Ed Colton notes few refunds due due to prior billing delays and a late council review.
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Ed Colton
Ossian Man Falls Sixty Feet While Building Silo
George Tieskoetter, 19, of Ossian, was seriously injured Monday after scaffolding on a silo under construction broke, dropping him 60 feet to the ground. He, an Iowa Star Silo Co. employee, remained in serious condition in an Ames hospital ICU Tuesday. The incident occurred during work to erect a 72 foot silo on a farm west of Eldora.
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Ossian
George Tieskoetter
Tieskoetter
Iowa Star Silo Co
Ames
Eldora
Oelwein Motorist In Fatal Crash
A Reinbeck woman Joanna Wiese aged 79 died after a two car crash five miles west of Oelwein on Monday night. Detlaf Wiese 84 and Martha Wiese 81, also from Reinbeck, were injured and remained in poor condition at a Waterloo hospital. Steve Graesch 24 of Oelwein, the other driver, was in fair condition at the same hospital.
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Hudson
Reinbeck
Here
Joanna Wiese
Detlaf Wiese
Martha Wiese
Waterloo
Steve Graesch
Oelwein
Cedar Rapids School Board discusses unemployment compensation avoidance
The Cedar Rapids Community School District informally reviewed efforts to avoid unemployment compensation for some staff. Assistant Superintendent Lash cited a local hearing on two substitute teachers, with a new Des Moines hearing to follow. The board noted classified staff would receive contracts to prevent summer unemployment claims, while federal law may override state rules until March 31, 1977.
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Cedar Rapids
Board of Education
Newell Lash
Iowa Employment Security Commission
Lash
Des Moines
The
Employment Commission
Kansas City
Iowa
Marvin Maire
Iawa
Ford Heads New Airport Safety Force
Former Marion chief of police Leighton Ford is named chief of Cedar Rapids airport safety force. Ford, 58, will lead security, law enforcement and emergency services when fully staffed, taking over duties from city firefighters and police.
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Marion
Leighton Ford
Cedar Rapids
Roy Jameson
Monday Ford
Eleventh Avenue
Iowa Department of Public Safety
Linn County Attorney’s Office
Man Without Fingerprints Dies in South Carolina Prison
Robert James Pitts known as the man without fingerprints died in jail Saturday at South Carolina’s central correctional institution. Officials said he was about 62 and had his prints removed in the 1930s to foil police.
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Columbia
S.C
Robert James Pitts
South Carolina
Central Correctional Institution
Grants Approved By Cedar Rapids School Board
The Cedar Rapids Community school board approved nearly 10000 dollars in Title IV C grants under the ESEA. One grant for 4880 will fund individualized instruction for kindergarten at Tyler early primary center, adapted from Waupun Wisconsin. The second grant for 4994 funds Project Empathy, first used in Omaha public schools, for two days of administrator training on interviewing and selecting teachers.
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Cedar Rapids Community School
Tyler Early Primary
Waupun
Wis
Omaha Public Schools
Empthy
McMichael Installed As Rotary Governor
Dr Glenn McMichael was installed Monday as governor of district 597 Rotary International at the Cedar Rapids Rotary Club luncheon in the Roosevelt Royale hotel Manchester official Robert Hall retired district governor installed him. McMichael has been a Rotary member since 1942 and previously served as a United Methodist pastor He was elected at the Rotary International convention in New Orleans earlier this month and will coordinate 50 clubs.
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Glenn McMichael
Rotary International
Cedar Rapids
Rotary Club
Roosevelt Royale Hotel
McMichael
Robert Hall
Manchester
Rotary
United Methodist Church
New Orleans
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Mary Burke
C.R
Maire
North Vietnam
Hanoi
Haiphong
United States
John Erger
Erger
Charles Polansky
Policeman’s Union
Donald Sawyer
Cedar Rapids Policemen’s Protective Assn
Stokely Carmichael
Great Plains Gas
S.E
Insulation Dept
Raynor
Collins Rose
Town House
C.R. Board
Ford
Bishops
Lindale Plaza
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