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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1969
Page
9
Reader asks how much a $880 purchase of a $1,000 treasury bond with 8 1/2 percent coupon maturing Nov 15 1973 would yield by December 1973. With $680 invested, annual interest is $41.25, paid as $20.625 semiannually, and at maturity you receive $1,004 per certificate.
Davenport Mayor John Jebens proposed a city school board plan to station policemen in schools to curb delinquency and disturbances. The proposal would cost about 17,600 per officer, with the city sharing costs to implement the program.
Sen. Brooke urged the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to act on his four month old resolution seeking a joint moratorium with the Soviet Union on MIRV testing. He said the move follows Vice President Agnew’s criticism of Sen. Muskie and called for immediate favorable action as 41 sponsors support the measure.
A two car collision at 7 30 pm Thursday at the South Inn Street and Highway 4 bypass intersection injured two adults and a two year old child. Mrs. Richard Straka 22 Town City and her son Yommy 2 were hospitalized then released. Harold F Hardy 2 of Town City also hospitalized with fair condition. Police charged Hardy with failure to stop at a designated light and drunk driving.
Saigon reports U S military aircraft losses in Vietnam total 6000 since January 1981. The weekly tally lists 3114 helicopters and 2886 fixed wing planes lost to North and South Vietnam. Enemies shot down 1355 helicopters in the south and 10 over the north.
Fifty four Black students at the University of Iowa sign a petition denouncing the black studies program and the university's educational system. Jim Rogers, a St. Louis graduate, says the program and system are irrelevant to Black students and the Black community.
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