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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1972
Page
2
Undetailed forecast notes mix with scattered births and service notices. Weather terms drift with city names and times while obituaries, licenses, and ad hoc fines appear, listing addresses in Cedar Rapids and Marion along with several unrelated personal names and dates.
The service at Peoples Unitarian church features lighting of 11 candles for each victim, readings, prayers, and congregational songs, with Julian Bern and Peggy Andrix performing Beethoven and the Cedar Rapids Symphony. Rabbi Neuman delivers a poignant address about choosing love over hatred.
The speaker pleads to the God of Mercy amid mass casualties and ruin. We are tired of death and blood. Our houses are deserts and fields are crossed by tombstones. Sanctify another land and another Sinai, for we have paid for each letter in Your Commandments with blood.
The Cedar Rapids recycling center at 040 Eleventh Street NE will be closed until Sept 23, a spokesman for the Citi xen Environmental Council said Friday. The cutter's storage area is full and nothing more can be accepted until the material on hapa can be frome out, the Spekeyman said, urging the public not to leave material outside the center.
The Gazette earned second place for its Sports Page and tied for best page in internal competition. Mason City Globe-Gazette won general excellence for papers over 12,000. Ames Daily Tribune led under 12,000. Cedar Falls Daily Record won top for small papers.
The fragment mentions a governor named Reuben Ajben and a stance against campaigning for McGovert. It discusses dangers to national security, unemployment, and technological growth, suggesting a political piece on campaign positions and defense considerations, but details are garbled and partially unreadable.
July F. Coon widow of Joseph L. Coon and former Cedar Rapids resident died Thursday in Davenport. Survived by daughters and siblings, services Monday 10:30 am at Ainsworth Cemetery with memorials to Good Samaritan Center Davenport. Lester Suits 79 of Cedar Rapids died Monday after short illness. Retired Penick and Ford employee, WWII Air Force veteran, survived by stepsons and grandchildren. services Saturday 10:30 am Turner Chapel West with burial Oak Hill Cemetery and VFW graveside honors.
Guy St Hahn, born April 29 197 in Bat Vernon, a former sales clerk at Magnus hotel, died after a day of events. He was a Westminster Presbyterian church and Dows Camp member, Spanish American War veteran. Survivors include sister Flora Westfall of Omaha and brother Millard L Hahn of Minneapolis. Services will be at Tyner chapel at 1:30 p.m. Saturday with Dr. John F Woods. burial at Oak Hill. Friends may call at Turner East.
Mrs D J Dunn Atale Laurie Dunn 60 wife of Donald J Dunn died Wednesday in Mantino Illinois where the Dunns had lived since leaving Cedar Rapids. Survivors include three children Thomas Dunn Shirley Menting Phyllis Valentine Exeter Bruns with N J and Margaret Joyce Indianapolis eight grandchildren and a sister Mira Prank Rhea Cedar Rapids. Services at St Joseph's Catholic Church Mantino Saturday at 10 am with burial in Mantino.
Widow of Rex Marion dies after long illness in Cedar Rapids after forty years residency. Survived by a daughter Marilyn Dirks Cedar Rapids three grandsons and brothers Ament in Westbury Ray Ament of Wapello Ted Ament Davenport Pate Ament Jefferson City Mo. Services pending at Turner Chapel East with members welcome after 11 Saturday.
A Cedar Rapids woman sues Target Stores in federal court for 670000, alleging false and malicious arrest on a shoplifting count. Betty Adne Countryman seeks 20000 actual damages and 650800 in punitive damages, claiming agents Randall Harker and Pat Droesgler filed the charge without probable cause to injure her reputation.
Memorial services set for Eomab Lenape J on Saturday at 1 pm at Junebu Kube Funeral Home with Reverend Louis V. McDor. Callers may attend at Cedar Memorial for Linwood cemetery burial for Mary Plam. Edith Biazek to be buried at Czech National via Brush Chapel. funeral to be conducted by Reverend George McDill. Arrangements by Cedar Memorial Funeral Home.
Stark surrendered to Rock County authorities in Rock Totend, Hi, Aug, while Miss Morgan, freed by juvenile authorities, was arrested by the FBI Friday morning. Charles F. Joss, 22, of 1065 Pith avenue SE, was slated for arraignment on a charge tied to an interstate shipment case tried before a grand jury. Schuller, 3100 Thirtieth street, faced charges after a late August search. his wife Lynn remains missing and no evidence of her whereabouts has surfaced. The Friday hearing featured witnesses called by Schuller's attorney amid numerous sustained objections from the county attorney's office as the judge prepared to rule.
Slayin, head of the FBI San Juan office, guided a team of sharpshooters equipped with tele scopic rifles to aid the local police in the search for a suspect. Among eight fatally shot, two were Miami couples, Charles and Joan Messinger and Richard and Ruth Griffin, with Griffin and Messinger employed by Eastern Air Lines. Three others identified include Pat Terbert, John Gulliver, and Nicholas Beale, all connected to the course as club staff or workers.
In June testimony Lavelle acknowledged stretching rules to protect pilots as radar attack authorization was questioned. Admiral Moorer testified he flagged the firing incident and noted immediate review and a corrective end to the misinterpretation. Sgt. Franks described widespread falsification of after action reports from Udorn, with 16 aircraft escorts and secret cables masking preplanned strikes as protective reaction. The scheme allegedly began in January 1972 and continued through early March, involving many pilots, navigators, and intelligence staff.
UPT reporter Edward Bassett noted no action against a third force amid a Friday counterattack by government troops on Communist units near Then Phuoc district capital. Saigon said defenders abandoned Tien Phuoc, but Bassett observed Communist occupation of the town’s military compound edges. Casualty reports range from zero to ten since fighting began with no confirmation of Communist lash outcomes.
The wholesale price index rose to 119.8 percent of the 1947 baseline, reflecting higher costs for food, materials, and manufactured goods compared with five years earlier. In the past six months the index showed a seasonally adjusted annual rate increase of 5.4 percent, with volatility tied to global events and supply pressures.
Rowe, long tied to utility advertising and GOP leadership in Linn County, was noted for extensive civic work including presidencies at the Public Utilities Advertising Assn and Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce. He taught advertising at the University of Iowa and held multiple club memberships. Services Monday at St. Michael's Episcopal Church followed by burial at Oak Shade Cemetery. Friends may donate to St. Michael's memorial fund.
Dwayne Ampey, 38, had a federal hijack threat charge dismissed after authorities said there may be insufficient evidence to sustain a conviction. He was jailed on a narcotics case and remains free on bond while awaiting sentencing.
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