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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1971
Page
3
Saturday weather shows high and low temperatures across multiple cities with precipitation amounts and barometer readings. Also listed are recent year comparisons, normal March totals, and numerous funeral notices from towns including Marion Cedar Rapids Anamosa Decorah London Monticello Iowa City and others with service times and locations.
Visual Communicators Al Willenberg of Collins Radio Co speaks on pastel rendering at the Cedar Rapids Art Center Wednesday at 7 30 p m. Downtown Kiwanis J C Lockwood talks on persecution in the Soviet Union at noon Wednesday at the Roosevelt.
Representative John Culver asked the state department for a full statement of reasons why the United States did not accept President Allende’s invitation for the U S Enterprise and its crew to visit Chile. He noted the voyage stopped at Rio de Janeiro and contrasted with past U S vessel visits in South Africa and Greek waters. Culver sits on the Latin American subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
John Everett Triplett 710 Fifth avenue SE Cedar Rapids died Friday in his apartment. Born April 28 1908 in Terre Haute Indiana he was a World War II veteran. Survived by brother F E Triplett Pine Bluff Arkansas and sister Helen T Luckett Houston. Friends may visit Turner chapel east Sunday 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. The body will be taken to Pine Bluff Arkansas for services and burial.
Funeral services are scheduled Monday and Tuesday at various churches and cemeteries. Names include Henry B Bencke Esther L Carstens Lester J Baldwin Richard C Brown Julie D Jenkins Louis C Tufts Edward L Hunter Joan Heald and Lloyd Miner, with burial at Cedar Memorial cemetery and graveside military services for some. Masonic and VFW ceremonies noted. callers advised for visit times.
Loras College in Dubuque will become coed next fall under chair man of the board Donald T. Hines. The program will avoid duplicating Clarke College offerings and expands cooperative ties with Clarke and the University of Dubuque. The board also screens presidential nominees, reviews acting president Burton McQuillan, and adopts a $4 394 000 budget with a $150 tuition increase to 1600 for next year.
In New York AP report Trans World Airline pilots volunteer to contribute 25 dollars monthly with 15 dollars from flight engineers to bolster earnings. They aim to buy first class tickets for influential prospects and set stricter personal appearance rules while boosting performance from 100 to 110 percent. TWA posted a 1970 loss of 65 million and has cut 4,915 jobs since last year leaving 36,885 employees.
Charles Yost aged 63, recently replaced by George Bush as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, accepts a joint appointment as a lecturer at Columbia University and as counselor to the U.N. Association of the United States, officials said Saturday.
Des Moines IA Legislation proposes to shift prisoner care financing in Iowa. A bipartisan group introduces bill requiring county boards of supervisors to pay for lodging feeding and care in counties over 30 000 population. Sheriff led service in smaller counties may be replaced by county funding option.
Forty nine Jewish emigrants arrived Thursday from the Soviet Union in what officials called the largest group in recent years. Most came from Riga Vilna and Kishinev with several from Moscow. Many waited years for exit visas as criticism of Soviet policy grows amid the Leningrad hijack trial coverage.
The trail network knocked out 230 North Vietnamese trucks in 24 hours, the heaviest one‑day traffic cut since the war began a decade ago. In Sepone, Vietnamese forces cleared areas around the town for artillery bases and found a dump covering one square mile with about 1,000 tons of rice, canned goods and ammunition, the largest cache seized so far in the Laos operation.
At the National Conference on Student Involvement in Evanston Illinois 275 student leaders from 148 colleges urged colleges to make teaching their foremost priority while deploring campus violence. Resolutions called for teaching emphasis, faculty promotion based on teaching, curriculum reform, and treating students as individuals.
Washington United States rail unions and railroad negotiators recessed contract talks indefinitely after a two hour session failed to resolve a complex work rules dispute. Government mediator said there is an understanding a nationwide strike would not be called. Assistant Labor Secretary Usery cautioned self help steps remain possible by individual lines.
Eldridge Cleaver, exiled information minister of the Black Panther party, says Huey Newton and David Hilliard have been expelled along with Newton’s supporters. Cleaver's action follows a split between rival Panther factions and prior expulsions by Newton of New York Panthers facing bomb conspiracy charges.
A 12 year old Mount Vernon boy suffered first and second degree burns to his face hands abdomen and legs Saturday afternoon when an explosion tore through a tool shed at his home. Larry Thompson was treated at Mercy hospital in Cedar Rapids in fair condition. Fire officials said a jar of cleaning fluid on a workbench ignited and blew up scattering nails and tearing the metal can. The fire remained confined to the shed roof.
Lloyd Miner 56 died in a house fire near Marengo and services are set for Monday at 1 30 p m at Peppers Halverson funeral home Belle Plaine. Survived by wife Velma five daughters two sons his mother and 11 grandchildren. Burial at Koszta cemetery.
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Nearly 2,000 welfare recipients and sympathizers marched four miles along the Las Vegas Strip led by Jane Fonda Ralph Abernathy and David Del linger to protest welfare cuts. The march briefly interrupted Caesars Palace gambling as organizers urged reinstatement of about 3,000 people dropped from welfare rolls.
Five persons died and 20 were injured after a feud between two motorcycle gangs flared during a cycle show at the Polish Women's hall on Cleveland's East side. Police said a task force was stationed there as violence erupted shortly after 10 p.m. with chains and knives used in the melee.
Volunteers intensified an all night search for Dennis Lloyd a 17 year old Shenandoah High School student and Sentinel photographer missing since last Sunday Police and highway patrol had pursued possible accidents and miles of roads were checked His father Ames professor Dr W E Lloyd questioned motive while friends and Malvern students traced routes to Shenandoah and checked for fuel stops around a 125 mile radius
Five area youngsters took honors at the 14th annual state music festival held by the Iowa Accordion Teachers Assn in Des Moines. First place on accordion went to Linda Herman of Solon and Cheryl Buelsa of Palo. Other honors went to Diane Butterfield of 291 Red Fox Road SE first runner-up Rae Mae Young 2725 Teresa Drive SW second runner-up and Benji Kremanak of Clutter third runner-up. State runner-up on drums was Jim Loukota of Cedar Rapids.
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