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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1971
Page
2
President Nixon met with Republican leaders to press for Senate approval of continuing funding for the supersonic transport. A 4 p.m. Wednesday vote on 134 million for two SST prototypes looms, with Vice President Agnew potential tiebreaker. Critics call the craft a flying toy for the jet set. supporters cite breakthrough and jobs.
Community items include meetings at Merrill Groves and Executive Plaza Building with time details. Local ads list offices for rent and services from knitting classes to travel agents. The theft report notes a tape player and deck stolen from a Washington High School area. Conservation and business ads span interior design and painting services with contact numbers.
City council reviews urban renewal planting for riverfront park between avenue NW and Fourth avenue SW with 300 shade trees 600 shrubs 1272 ground covers 6000 bulbs and 2500 square feet brick surfacing. Public hearing and bid opening set for April 14. completion by November 15. Shive Hattery and Herman Thompson design and landscaping consultants.
Edwin F. Kvetensky 71 of route 1 Fairfax died Monday after a short illness. Born near Fairfax October 29 1899 he farmed the area all his life. Survived by his wife Libbie two daughters Lavona and Mrs Sylvester Kahle four grandchildren and one great grandchild. Services Thursday at 2 pm Brush chapel by Rev Harry Egner. Burial Czech National cemetery. Friends may call at the chapel Wednesday afternoon.
Jerry L. Sanders 24 of 278 Eighteenth Street NW was bound over to the grand jury after a preliminary municipal court hearing Friday on a Jewdness charge related to an incident on February 16.
Cedar Rapids men Jordon Emery and Richard Westmoreland pled guilty in municipal court to contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Emery, 29, received a ten day suspended jail term after being found in Ellis park with two six packs of beer and two 15 year old girls. Westmoreland, 25, received a ten day suspended term after police found three beer cans and a fifth of whisky with three juveniles present.
Orlie McCune, 45, of 5105 Holly Avenue NW, pled guilty in municipal court to first offense drunk driving. He was fined $300 and costs after the second offense charge was dismissed. McCune was arrested January 14 after a highway patrolman observed erratic driving on Edgewood Road NW extension.
Herman J. Baer and James M. Floyd, both held pending arraignment, were arrested Monday night for breaking and entering at the McGrath used car lot at Third Avenue and Seventh Street SE. Baer faces an extra charge of possession of beer as a minor. Tools, a lantern, and 34 sets of keys were stolen and recovered, valued at $74.
Public Safety Commissioner John Oberthien urged Cedar Rapids to study selling beer at municipal golf courses to gain extra revenue amid a 30 mill tax limit. He noted beer is brought to courses now and cited Veterans Memorial stadium sales aiding the minors. Some council members remained noncommittal on the idea.
Pub manager Maurice Cox faced a petition against strip shows in the bar though initial enthusiasm was high. He observed about 80 percent of signers were wives of his regular customers, complicating the plan.
Cub Scouts Pack 23 at St Matthew church honors Tim Murphy Bob Bridell Tom Collins Phil Wirtz Bill Negro Bob Lynch Mike Kretschmer Pete Rehfuss and Mike Kaliban on Monday. Pack 4 at Harrison School recognizes David Hughes David Anders Mike Moore Robert Ohlhauser James Mantor Danny Hobb Jay Podzimek Doug Moylan Gary Perez Larry Kephart Perry Perez and Billy Heitz on Monday night.
Iowa City police report four assaults on women and seven exposure cases between January and March 17 1950s era. One suspect may account for 11 incidents with several victims hospitalized and a severely beaten woman. Police urge caution walk in groups avoid hitchhiking after hours and promise confidentiality for informants.
Alberta L. Price aged 19 of 256 Thirty-fifth Street drive SE had a charge of desecrating the U S flag dismissed on motion of the state. The alleged offense involved a soiled flag attached to her shirt at Donutland on First Avenue SE on November 16.
Michael J. Kauzlarich, 49, of 709 First Street SW, sustained facial lacerations and was in fair condition at St Luke's hospital after a traffic crash at 2 28 AM Tuesday. He allegedly drove at high speed around a curve in the 800 block of Third Avenue SW, clipping a pole, damaging a brick planter, mailbox and street sign, then crossing Third Avenue and striking a parked car owned by Dennis Forrester. The pole then landed on a car owned by Randy Pulda. Kauzlarich was charged with reckless driving and intoxication.
Robert D. Sacora, 36, of Marion, was in fairly good condition at St Luke’s Hospital after his car rammed a road barricade sign and barreled into a farm field near Troy Mills Monday night. Linn County deputies charged him with failure to stop at a stop sign and failure to have his vehicle under control after the collision with a tree stump a feed sign and a farm fence. The crash occurred on county road 51 at its junction with 18, about a mile south of Troy Mills.
Doris Durgen pled guilty in municipal court to three charges of driver's license violation and one meter violation. She received four days in jail on each license charge with credit for time served, and eight meter violation tickets were noted.
Oelwein School Superintendent Art Sensor told the school board he could save over 76000 dollars next year by trimming operations. He noted that recent pay raises for teachers and administrators cost 70450 dollars, and the plan would leave resigning staff positions vacant, including the curriculum coordinator and a French teacher, with possible consolidation of Hazleton and Stanley principals.
Advertisement touts FIXODENT Denture Adhesive Cream as a daily home use product that forms an elastic membrane to hold uppers and lowers, stabilizing dentures for hours. It claims improved biting, chewing, and speech and urges regular dental visits and purchase at drug counters.
Lawrence J. Exline, 39, Fairfax, posted $1,000 bond after officers said he drove west in a east bound lane on Sixteenth avenue and turned onto Highway 149, forcing three cars to the shoulder. Gerald A. Smith, 36, of 1133 Sixth Street NW, faced DUI charges after erratic driving on First Street SW. both men refused chemical testing.
Delmar F. Bear, 56, was charged with drunk driving after his car was involved in a minor accident in Lisbon. He was held in Linn county jail Tuesday pending arraignment.
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