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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1976
Page
3
The Teamsters and trucking industry restart negotiations in Arlington Heights after overwhelming strike votes by locals. The current contract ends Wednesday with no immediate work stoppage likely, while a 80 day cooling off period under Taft Hartley may be invoked.
FBI files show 92 break-ins at Socialist Workers Party and Young Socialist Alliance offices in New York from 1960 to 1966, plus two 1960 home burglaries in Los Angeles and Hamden. The documents, part of a $27 million suit, detail photo surveillance of thousands of pages and disruption of legal political activity.
Spencer Iowa report says Clay County Sheriff Boyd Bushey resigns effective June 1 to join North Central Adjustment Co. of Des Moines. Bushey has served as sheriff since 1963.
Dr Jordan Scher warns that Valium mixed with alcohol or other drugs can be fatal. He cites 1974 deaths and urges caution in prescribing to pregnant patients while Hoffmann La Roche notes risk shown in overdoses when combined with barbiturates or other substances.
Richard Arlen, a pioneer film star of Wings and over 250 films, died aged 75 in Riverside hospital after a four week illness from emphysema. Prayer services were set for Tuesday night with funeral Wednesday at St Cyril's in Encino and Holy Cross cemetery in Inglewood. Arlen, famed as a silk-scarfed WWI pursuit pilot, appeared in Legion of the Lost Flyers Power Dive Forced Landing and Sabre Jet and later did television and ads, with a cameo in Won Ton Ton the Dog Who Saved Hollywood.
A 16 to 17 year old Oxford Junction youth was held in Jones County Jail on robbery with aggravation and auto theft charges after allegedly robbing Arnold Sobotka at knife point while he fished near the Wapsi Pinicon river. The suspect fled into Sobotka’s Jeep but was stopped when it stalled. two Marion brothers helped detain him and notify authorities. Sobotka suffered no injuries.
Rolling Stone outlines Patty Hearst scheming to flee with the Symbionese Liberation Army to Boston before her Sept arrest. The piece notes Hearst’s desertion of SLA members and a Los Angeles kidnapping robbery assault case, plus related bomb scares at Wyntoon and San Simeon.
The Supreme Court, in a 6-3 vote, sustains Virginia sodomy laws banning private homosexual acts between consenting adults. Justices Brennan Marshall and Stevens would have heard the case. the court issued no opinion. In a separate action, Alabama’s anti nuisance law padlocked a theater for showing adult films.
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