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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1971
Page
4
SAIGON UPI plans call for ending the U S combat role on June 30 with a switch to advisory and support duties. About 40 000 to 50 000 troops would remain in Vietnam in advisory and support capacities when the changeover occurs.
Justice Hugo Black retires from the Supreme Court due to failing health after a long tenure beginning in 1937. President Nixon accepted the resignation amid speculation on a conservative successor, with Virginia Republican Rep. Richard Poff as a leading possibility. Black, 85, sought treatment at Bethesda Naval Hospital for inflamed blood vessels and leaves a legacy shaped by civil rights rulings and police surveillance precedents.
Washington religious leaders and organizers warn that a proposed constitutional amendment to allow non denominational prayer in public schools could invade religious life and destroy church state integrity. They urge lawmakers to veto the petition amid a near house support tally. In Padua, Italy police recover two more stolen masterpieces in the ongoing art theft crackdown.
President Nixon will extend a trip to include Alaska plus Montana Oregon and Washington state. He will be hosted by Walter Hickel in Alaska and attend events with Japanese Emperor Hirohito before returning to Washington D C.
A truck with about $100,000 in instruments and uniforms of the 46 member U S Marine Band was stolen early Saturday from a motel lot in Woodbridge New Jersey. The touring group is the President's official band often called the official band.
About 75 people filled the Clayton County courthouse as Father Ralph Ruhland, pastor of Immaculate Conception Church, North Buena Vista, was fined 100 dollars for keeping a gambling house linked to a parish picnic. Court ordered confiscated gambling equipment destroyed and cash go to the state school fund. priest’s camp asked for district credit, but no action taken.
Federal scientists in Washington report North Miami as the current outbreak site for African giant snails. USDA officials describe the pest as plant eaters that also nibble house paint and can produce hundreds of offspring yearly. About 1,000 live snails have been found, with the largest reaching five inches, amid ongoing poison pellet eradication efforts.
President Marcos announced the danger of armed Communist revolution has receded enough to restore habeas corpus in 27 of 59 provinces while emergency police powers stay in effect in Manila and major Luzon provinces.
A light memory piece recalls bygone baseball routines with athletes showering at home rather than on television, pairing humor with nostalgia and a nod to era-defining backstage rituals.
Winter storm socked Colorado and Wyoming with heavy early season snow, Denver logging over a foot, Boulder 14 inches, Estes Park 12, Colorado Springs eight, with some locales reaching 18 inches. Widespread frost warnings, travel snarls, power outages, and accidents reported as far east as the Carolinas and Georgia. Edith remnants brought light rain to northern Georgia. Temperatures ranged from 23 at Laramie to 84 in Phoenix and Key West.
Associated Press reports the worst mid East fighting since the ceasefire began as Israeli and Egyptian forces exchange missile fire along the Suez Canal and light up the Sinai with aircraft and anti air missiles. Lebanon also reports cross border firing near Amaich as Dayan condemns the provocation while U N action looms.
David Alan Seymour, seven, rode a five horsepower minibike at 50 mph on a main road in Rutledge Florida. Deputy Coy Granger pursued and stopped him after a stop sign violation. He faces charges for driving without a license no registration tag driving without lights no inspection sticker attempting to elude police and running a stop sign. His father a Cape Kennedy inspector said the boy was scared and he was told not to ride on the street. No court date set yet.
Salt Lake City AP report says a 63 year old man, Thorvald Peterson, charged with first degree murder in the nursing home fire that killed six residents, was ordered to undergo psychiatric examination to determine competency. Fire began in a first floor bedroom, linked to flammable liquid used for mops.
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