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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1977
Page
8
The Rock Island district Army Corps of Engineers said the Coralville dam outflow will likely stay at 4000 cfs or less for the remainder of the crop season. Emergency operation remains a possibility if floods occur. The pool has stayed around 670 feet MSL with no flood storage needed since April 21.
In Des Moines Lt Gov Arthur Neu guests Tulip Queen Kathy Thies 17 and Pella Tulip Festival plans are noted during Iowa senate session. Sen Eugene Hill misnames Neu as Senator Van Hill, then clouds over birthday cake inscription to Sen Cloud Robinson.
Iowa Attorney General Richard Turner told a legislative committee he acted properly in halting a Bureau of Criminal Investigation probe into former Scott County Attorney Edward Wehr. Turner said the matter involved maladminis tration of office not embezzlement and forced Wehr to resign after consulting BCI officials.
Randall Christen, 23, of Elkader, was sentenced in Waupun Wisconsin to an indeterminate prison term up to seven years after pleading guilty to concealing stolen property in a case involving $9,000 worth of furs taken from Kenneth Sampson's farm. An armed robbery charge against Kim Wardell, 22, of Boscobel remains, with a new trial date to be set after a judge substitution.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette directs readers to page 1 for daily forecast updates and to page 2 for complete weather reports across Cedar Rapids and the nation, alongside Vital Statistics and In Brief columns.
The National Weather Service forecasts ongoing thunderstorm activity across much of Iowa through Saturday with showers and storms expected north of a frontal boundary. Overnight temperatures range from the 40s to 60s, with daytime highs mostly in the 60s to 70s across the state.
Macksburg will host the national skillet throwing championships on June 25 using the traditional two pound ten inch cast steel skillet. National Skillet Throwing Association officials, meeting in Creston, kept Macksburg as the site despite efforts by some southern members to move or alter the event. The controversy centers on replacing the old skillet with a specially designed model, which supporters say would ruin the contest’s authenticity and raise costs.
Chicago based Milwaukee Road announced plans to abandon 65.2 miles of track from Amana to Rutledge over the next three years due to unprofitability. The Amana station would stay open while Sigourney would be closed. Nationwide, Iowa faces about 950 miles slated for abandonment, with 400 more listed as potential.
A 74 year old Independence man, Charles Arthur Masters, died after his car was struck broadside by a semi at 12 25 p m two and a half miles south of Independence on highway 150 He died later in a Waterloo hospital The crash marked Buchanan county s fifth traffic fatality The semi driver Gary E Polton 40 of Cedar Rapids was uninjured The car pushed into a house porch before stopping in the east ditch
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