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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1973
Page
2
A Thursday 7 30 a.m. kickoff breakfast at Suburban restaurant launches the Marion division Chamber of Commerce membership drive. Ten two man teams will contact 60 prospective members. Red Ribbon cards will be placed on doors of current members. Co chairs are Robert Verhille and Richard Rice.
Linn-Mar and Marion Independent schools report high illness related absences. Nurses urge parents to keep ill children home and consult doctors on any fever or headache. no single illness dominates. Longfellow Elementary hit hard. other schools show rising illness rates with some improvement this week.
The United Auto Workers and machinists union denounce the Economic Stabilization Act as a fraud and a hoax. They urge Congress to let the wage price authority expire on April 30, saying controls fail to curb living costs and have allowed prices to rise faster than before August 1971.
Eighteen cars of an eastbound North Western freight derailed at the old highway 30 viaduct two miles west of here about 6 a.m. Wednesday. Lumber and white sand spilled from shattered box cars. Both tracks were blocked and cleanup began at once. Cause not immediately given.
Burglars took a valuable rifle, six handguns, watches, binoculars and 10 silver dollars during a burglary at the Frank Law residence in Oelwein on Tuesday. Estimated loss set at $500 with firearms among the items taken.
The Gazette circulation and subscription department operates Monday through Saturday until 6 PM and Sundays until 12 noon, with holiday hours 10 PM to 7 PM. Phone lines are listed as 398-8217, 396-8234, and 396-8222.
Governor Robert Ray said he is not opposed to liquor by the drink on Sundays though he has no strong interest. He noted many dine out on weekends and Sundays and that state liquor stores will not open Sundays. The comment followed a senate committee vote to legalize Sunday sales from 11 30 am to 2 am Monday.
Eastern Iowa youth earned top honors at the Iowa Accordion Teacher's Assn festival in Des Moines. State champion accordionist was Diane Butterfield, with Wendy Harrelson as runner-up. Also winning were numerous outstanding students, guitarists, duets, trios, and quartets from Cedar Rapids, Solon, Palo, Swisher, Monticello, Tipton, and other towns.
Charles Walters aged 20 of 1420 Eleventh Street SW is jailed in Linn County on $110 bond for false uttering a check. Police say he wrote a $36 bad check to Giant Store at 3111 Sixteenth Avenue SW on March 6, 1972.
The Iowa county board faced both sides over unpaved roads near Amana. Lenox township residents accused loggers of damaging roads as timber moves from Amana Society lands. Amana Society secretary Den Shoup sought paving funded by road use tax. Supervisors debated embargoes and rock spreading while noting Johnson County road embargoes and funding limits. Shoup pressed for paving a 940 foot street in a new subdivision and for continued use of state funds for Main Amana highways, arguing Amana villages generate significant road tax revenue. The panel weighed maintenance duties and long term costs, with county attorney noting paving implications for future upkeep.
In Tokyo UPI reports China ends a three year embargo that blocked trade with American firms in Japan and with Japanese companies tied to Taiwan and South Korea. The International Trade Promotion Assn., a federation of Japanese firms active in China, announced the move.
Two Tama men classified as deserters by military authorities were arrested Monday by Tama city police. Charles David Savage 19, AWOL from Camp Pendleton California since January 14 and deserter since February 13, and Richard Graff 21 AWOL from Fort Hood Texas about five months away, were taken to Marshall county jail for military arrival.
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