Weather Outlook for C R and Elsewhere
Partly cloudy Saturday with a chance of rain Sunday and Monday. Highs in the mid 70s Saturday cooling to the 60s by Monday. Lows mostly in the 40s.
09 Oct 1975
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1975
Page
1
Partly cloudy Saturday with a chance of rain Sunday and Monday. Highs in the mid 70s Saturday cooling to the 60s by Monday. Lows mostly in the 40s.
Births Mercy Oct 8 a son to Steven Kadlee and wife 3316 Franbrook terrace NW Births St Luke's Oct 8 a son to Jerry W Reames Atkins and wife a son to John W Swan 2515 Twenty six street drive SE a son to Ervin Seely 3220 Ken rich drive SW a daughter Out of Town Births At Park Forest Ill Mr and Mrs Harold J Cerveny a daughter Oct 7 Cerveny is son of Harold and family Mrs Cerveny is daughter of Kenneth Smith Blairstown Distress calls and incidents Extricate subject from fence 232 Twenty six street drive SE 12:46 p m Check on emergency 4700 Bowling street SW 3:23 p m Undetermined to gross 6600 block Twenty first street SW 3:56 p m Children with matches 521 Cobbancourt SE 4:05 p m Malfunction of alarm 950 Shaver road NE 9:48 p m Undetermined to leaves 2200 Linden drive SE Bankruptcy Ronald Lee Teager and Beverly Teager debts 33961.53 assets 2110 exempt 1810 James Bailey and Wilma Vernon debts 13140 assets 100 exempt Kane Collins debts 4403.42 assets 150 no exempt Billy Dean and Peggy Romig debts 8505.97 assets 400 and 375 exempt Belinda Van Slyke and Gary Van Slyke and others listed.
Ray E Sturtz 71 longtime Cedar Rapids resident dies after years in Coggan and Ely born January 4 1904. Survived by children Wayne Everett James and others with many grandchildren. Services Saturday at United Methodist church Coggan with burial in Coggan. Turner chapel east and Murdoch Marion sections noted for other obits and fines list includes speeders and license violations with multiple names and addresses across Cedar Rapids area.
President Ford urged Congress to protect defense spending, stating military strength is more important than other programs. He spoke at a Washington navy yard birthday ceremony, vows to keep the navy and armed forces strongest, and rejected calls to diminish defenses. Ford noted his naval service and received bicentennial mementos including a Constitution block and Don’t Tread on Me flag.
Five year old Aaron Steadman fell between a fence and a heavy stick near his home on Wednesday. Firemen pried him free after a 15 minute ordeal. he complained of a headache but was otherwise uninjured. His mother Mrs. Douglas Steadman reported the incident at 232 Twenty six Street Drive SE.
In Porto, about 5,000 centrist Popular Democratic party supporters clashed with leftist demonstrators near rebel barracks. Reports say 60 to 80 injured, including six soldiers, with two gunshot wounds amid rock throwing and a tank intrusion. Authorities cannot confirm gunshot origins. The incident arose from a mutiny by leftist troops calling for reinstatement of purged activists.
Salvador Brazil 13 children died after eating fried ants that had ingested insect poison. Detective Moises Gomes Mustar, probing the Ibirapua area in the Northeast, said the children were fond of fried ants.
Harold LeeMaster, 51, of route one Cedar Rapids, was in good condition at St Luke's hospital with a fractured left leg after an oil drum he was cutting with a torch exploded. The injury occurred Wednesday at MGD Graphic Systems on Bowling street SW where he works as a welder. the blast threw him 15 feet, apparently from fumes.
Kevin D. Leyse, 19, of Cedar Rapids, is acquitted by Linn district court of breaking and entering at the Hiawatha service station on Center Point Road NE. The jury accepted the defense that the state failed to prove Leyse aided in the alleged breakin as a witness tied him to stolen checks.
Deputies investigate two burglaries in Linn County. Henry Matejka reports a $450 charm bracelet and a small change amount stolen from a bedroom dresser after a Wednesday break in. Carma Blofield’s Bali Hai Estates home in Hiawatha saw a $200 television and a $10 sword taken Tuesday night.
A non profit group and Darwin T. Lynner of Des Moines submit competing development schemes for a city parcel. Lynner would add Oak Hill Manor like units tied to FHA rent subsidies while the alternative envisions a nursing home under urban renewal rules. Price per square foot is 17 cents, with total costs around 19 400. City officials say redevelopment plans favor low density multi family housing but may amend if nursing facility is approved.
The Nobel Peace Prize winner Sakharov faced no reply in his apartment and a travel ban raised doubts about his Oslo trip. Pasternak and Solzhenitsyn did not travel to receive prizes, Pasternak barred from leaving the USSR while Solzhenitsyn declined, fearing he could not return and remained exiled.
Jody, a Cedar Rapids resident since birth and a kindergarten pupil at Tyler School, died after running into the street between parked cars. The 5 year old’s death raises the city's 1975 traffic fatalities to eight, with services slated for 10:30 am Saturday at Turner Chapel East led by Rev. Hardy J. Powers. Burial will be in Oakland Cemetery, Manchester. Survived by her mother, sister Tara, half sister Mary Jean Williams of Manchester, grandmother Berniece Wilson, and great grandmother Cassie Newton. Funeral calls may be made at Turner’s East.
The Iowa Department of Public Instruction affirmed local and county decisions allowing The Godfather The Summer of 42 and The Exorcist to stay on Grinnell High School shelves. The ruling noted it did not judge obscenity or educational suitability, leaving such questions to local authorities. A separate 20 years ago item mentions Paraguay expelling Juan Peron if asylum terms were violated.
The senate passed a bill by voice vote suspending one year of RESPA and Truth in Lending Act rules that mandate itemized closing cost statements. The move aims to cut delays and costs for home buyers and sellers while allowing time to craft simpler settlement procedures.
Commissioner James Steinbeck said he may urge the city council to create alternating "wind days" to allow leaf burning on a limited basis this fall. He noted last year fire calls spiked on two of three weekends with open burning and wind likely drove incidents. Public response has leaned toward supporting the idea, though the council has not decided.
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