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Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Mar 04, 1977

Page

2

Rescue work continues as coal wall blocks miner in mine

Rescue workers chip away at a 27 foot coal wall to reach Ronald Adley, a 37 year old trapped worker in a water logged mine for three days. Hard coal slows progress and it may take another 24 hours to reach him.

Tower City UPI Ronald Adley

Population up 5.7 percent since 1970 census

The U S population was 215 998 000 on Jan 1 up 5 7 percent since the 1970 count. The gain includes military personnel overseas and total growth for 1976 was 1 56 million, a 0 7 percent rise.

Washington UPI United States Census Bureau

Smith relies on black votes to push land bill through Rhodesia parliament

Prime Minister Ian Smith secures a decisive parliamentary victory on a bill curbing white land holdings in Salisbury with aid from black legislators and two white aides from sickbeds. The measure delivers the internal majority rule goal and marks the first time Smith used black votes to win.

Salisbury Rhodesia Ian Smith Smith

Weather snapshot with temperatures and winds

Forecast notes highs and lows across days with precipitation and wind data. Wind at 10 a.m. 12 mph from a direction not specified. Sunrise Saturday 6 36. Year ago today high 33 low 27 with 1 05 rainfall. Extended forecast little rain Sunday to Tuesday with highs from 30s to 50s and lows from 20s to 30s.

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Haul Road Nightmare Questioned By City Officials

Traffic engineer Mel Meyer warned of a potential bottleneck on the east side next summer if I 380 builds use First avenue as a haul road. 30 to 40 trucks per hour would move fill dirt from south of the Iowa Electric plant to north of avenue NE for three months, July through September.

Mel Meyer Near East Side Interstate 380 First Avenue Iowa Electric Power Plant Avenue NE Meyer Cedar Lake Causeway Seventh Street Thirteenth Ashpit St. Luke’s Hospital

Cedar Rapids Briefs Highlight Local Thefts and Notices

Stolen items valued at 633 dollars from Betty Fisher’s car on Thirty-third Street NE, and 441 dollars worth of materials from a house under construction on C Street SW. Additional reports include 585 dollars of equipment stolen from a Quaker Oats job site, 620 dollars from the Big Stein Inn break-in, and juvenile arrests for a pickup theft. Also notes on a 25 percent plant sale, an Ireland election-eve moment from 25 years ago, and community notices from local merchants and organizations.

Betty Fisher Thirty-third Street Third Avenue SE Quaker Oats Blahnik Construction Co Fiftieth Avenue

Cedar Rapids Woman Injured in Sixth Street Crash

A 27 year old Cedar Rapids woman Islene Hathaway was injured in a Thursday crash near Sixth Street and Third Avenue SW. She remains in good condition at St Luke's with head injuries after a collision with a car driven by Judith Gaal 31 of 1328 Third Street NW at 315 PM Hathaway facing a charge of improper left turn Miriam Makeba is listed as 45.

Cedar Rapids Sixth Street Third Avenue St. Luke’s Hospital Islene Hathaway Forty-second Street Judith Gaal Third Street Hathaway

Vital Statistics Births Reported Across Several Families

The notice lists multiple births with parent names and addresses in Cedar Rapids and nearby areas. It records a mix of births on March 3 and surrounding dates, along with several emergency and incident calls including ambulance assist, a stove fire, mistaken alarm, and a suspected arson at various NE and SE locations. The document names families from Coggan to Denver and Cedar Rapids, with times noted for incidents.

Forty-second Council Streets Oakland Road Washington Avenue

Seize Property Taken in Breakins

Marion police and Linn county deputies seized property believed taken in recent breakins after a search at Mary Robertson's residence. A juvenile is in custody on related charges. another juvenile was arrested for possession of a controlled substance during the same sweep. No stolen items were found at the northwest side residence searched.

Marion Linn County Sheriffs Deputies Mary Robertson Fourteenth Street

Weekend Cedar Rapids Gazette double weekend package

The Cedar Rapids Gazette offers a Saturday morning edition with current news consumer articles editorials features and sports and a Sunday edition with local and general features financial pages farm news entertainment events and Family Focus coverage of Eastern Iowa.

Cedar Rapids Iowa

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Vance Soviet Union Russia Cyrus Vance Agnew Baltimore Justice Department Spiro Agnew State Department FDA Nyt Carter Donald Kennedy Stanford Food and Drugs Food and Drug Administration FEA Federal Energy Administration U.S Delaware Dover Del Pierre du Pont Brazil Bonn West Germany U.S. Asst Christopher Warren Vietnam Bangkok Thailand Hanoi Foreign Ministry National Weather Service New Orleans Great Lakes North Atlantic States Great Plains Anchorage Miam Atlanta Bismarc Mols N. Saunas Denver New York Duluth Phoenix Honolulu Seattle Houston H and K Plumbing Twenty-first Avenue C Street Hiawatha Garden Center Big Stein Inn Sixteenth Avenue SW Ireland Irish Republican Army David Eganhouse G.R. Eganhouse Thirtieth Street Westworth Military Academy and Junior College Lexington Czech Fine Arts Ames Linn Sheriffs Deputies Avenue NW Jerome’s IE Tower St. Matthew’s Church 1St Ave 24Th St Donald Beck Sheriff's Deputies Douglas B. Moylan Fourth Street Moylan Baumhoefener Nursery Johnson Ave Mr. & Ms. Hair Specialists Mary Mallie Redken and Bob Adv Ywca Golf Avenue Floral Pierson’s Florists Elwood P. Dowd Harvey Roosevelt Royale Miriam Makeba Charles Sindelar Coggan Michael Engler Pine Grove Court NE St. Luke's Robert L. Hall Anamosa Dean Solem Minden Lane Rodney A. Young Underwood Avenue Dan Miller Newhall Clifford Paxton Thirteenth Street Gary L. Musel Chelsea Stephen J. Harper Patricia M. Chmelicek John S. Lima Donata J. Eide Michael W. Lynn Laurie L. Landry Colo David D. Cottrell Robin E. Fish Gary R. Matly Jeanie M. Heiken Dennis B. McAndrew Sherry J. Nadal Rantoul Ill Gertie Rose David Jerome Jones Fern E Arthur C. Mills Mary Z Robert H. Taylor Thirty-sixth Street C Avenue B Avenue Mt. Vernon Road Sixth Avenue SE Donnie & Marie Habitrail Wildfire Shifflett Insurance Agency ToRm East Taamsk Macrame Batik Veterans Memorial Coliseum Peoples Church First Avenue S.E Third Avenue S.E
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