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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1977
Page
12
Roger McDowell strains to hold the hose as Darold Landuyt watches during Ely unit's water ball contest. Ely Number 2 won the volunteer firefighters division, with Hiawatha second and Van Horne third.
Report on wartime Naval Counter Intelligence notes a network of informants on the Brooklyn waterfront and Sicilian terrain. It says informants provided details on sabotage and espionage and aided placement of workers as operatives in hotels docks and factories. The head of counterintelligence judged the information to be 40 percent accurate.
A declassified report details Cuban DGI influence on Weather Underground and SDS radicals, training in weapons, Venceremos Brigades, and travel routes via New York, Prague, and Canada. It notes aims to recruit Americans with government links and reports coded communications among WUO members.
The Sanitary Farm Dairies announce a price cut of 1 cent per unit, effective immediately, reflecting a 30 years ago industry adjustment. The move aims to pass savings to customers amid market pressure.
Police halted two climbers Edward Drummond and Robert Zipper as they attempted to scale the Transamerica Pyramid. Drummond, 32, of San Francisco, was intercepted on the 21st floor while Zipper, 23, of Los Gatos, was coaxed in on the 11th floor. Two police units and three fire trucks responded to Central Station.
Lamont teen Michael Scott Macheak aged 16 died in a two car collision four miles west of Strawberry Point after the homecoming dance. The Hauge car driven by Kathy Hauge 19 Osage struck the Timmerman car making a U turn. Macheak was a passenger and was thrown from the vehicle. The other driver and Timmerman were not seriously injured. Survived by father Gerald and mother Carol Jaquith. two brothers Tony and Daren. Services pending at Dahl Van Hove in Cedar Falls.
A rural Keswick woman, Katie Ellen Walker 31, died after a head-on collision on Highway 22 near Keswick at 12:15 a.m. Roberta K. Greene 18, of rural Webster, was in critical condition at University Hospitals in Iowa City. The Greene car veered left of center. Walker died en route to Marengo hospital. Funeral arrangements are pending.
London AP reports British born Robert Scanlon was beaten to death with a sledgehammer in a Kampala secret jail on Sept 14 after detention on spying charges. He had lived in Uganda 13 years and held Ugandan citizenship since 1975. authorities had earlier denied executions and noted his arrest amid tensions with Idi Amin.
Carmine Galente a reputed New York organized crime chief will surrender Tuesday morning to federal authorities in response to an arrest warrant. U S Attorney Robert B. Fiske said the 67 year old, linked to parole violation on a 15 year narcotics conviction, will turn himself in to federal marshals after arrangements through his lawyer. The exact nature of the warrant was not released. galente faces possible parole revocation if the charges are upheld. He previously faced contempt of court in Miami in 1974 and had a 20 year narcotics sentence from 1962, with release in 1974 and parole to end in 1981.
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