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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1971
Page
3
Temperature readings for cities across the region, including Miami Bismarck and New York, with highs and lows and precipitation. Local wind, humidity, barometer, sunrise and sunset timings, and a pool level note. Birth announcements from Mercy and local hospitals, plus multiple police reports, traffic violations, and funeral notices for Oxford Sigourney Garwin.
Listing of funeral services and burials across Iowa towns including Garwin Toledo Wheatland Elkader Tama Garrison and Vinton. Notices include service times at Garwin Christian St Pauls United Church of Christ Witts Mason Hands and Church of the Brethren with burial at Clarence Oak Hill Gowrie Oak Hill and other cemeteries. Names include London Mrs Samuel Kinney Estelle B Smith Roy J Waddle James M Park and Estelle White with ages given where listed.
Albert P. Looze of Sioux Falls is to be arraigned in Cedar Rapids federal court on a kidnap charge. Looze, 18, also known as Albert Kieffer, is jailed in Linn County on a $1000 bond after a grand jury indictment for forcing cab driver Robert L. Jones at gunpoint from Mound View Minnesota to Floyd Iowa. Also jailed in Linn County is Walter J. Svacina of Omaha, awaiting arraignment on a federal car theft across state lines charge.
Soviet Prime Minister Kosygin will visit Morocco next month. He is slated to travel to Algeria October 8 to 12 and will likely stop in Morocco around that trip.
Washington AP The House Democratic leaders postponed indefinitely the vote on a bill to extend federal anti poverty programs for two more years dragging a key measure into political limbo.
The Los Angeles board of supervisors agreed to explore computer coordinated car pools to reduce smog and cut private car use.
Reports claim Mao Zedong's inner circle may be reshaping leadership as Premier Chou En Lai is busy with meetings. Washington observers doubt a grave illness, noting Mao appeared vigorous at the August 7 meeting with Burma's Prime Minister Ne Win.
Pentagon officials warn that Congress may fund a $2.4 billion military pay increase beyond the Nixon administration’s $1 billion proposal. A new presidential order could be needed if pay rises are not approved. If funds are not allotted, defense spending could surpass $77 billion with cuts to personnel, contracts, and bases.
National Geographic reports black widow venom is more potent per drop than rattlesnake venom and causes intense pain. However deaths come from only four or five of the more than 1,000 bites recorded annually in the United States.
Iowa Attorney General Richard Turner seeks removal proceedings against Cedar Rapids Municipal Judges Loren Hulling er Jr and John B Reilly. A 12th District judge from Northwood was named to preside, with hearing timing to be set within 10 to 20 days. The petition cites misconduct and favoritism allegations by each judge and follows prior Iowa Supreme Court actions against Bath judges.
A small plane crashed into the bedroom of 16 year old Margaret Ann Collier in Augusta Georgia. The pilot was killed and the house burned after the crash. Margaret Ann was pulled from debris with a broken collar bone and survived. The Collier family included Robert 14 and Debbie 7. The house and plane were destroyed.
Cedar Rapids residents Lozettie L. Patrick and William W. Hunt were sentenced by Linn district Judge B. J. Maxwell after pleading guilty. Patrick received seven years at Rockwell City Reform School to run concurrently with a Black Hawk county sentence for passing an insufficient funds check totaling $176.39 at a Cedar Rapids department store on August 25, 1970, with $1,110.76 in bad checks overall. Hunt received a suspended ten year term at Anamosa Reform School and was placed on probation for a June 1971 break in at a southwest Cedar Rapids garage.
Wilson-Sinclair Inc. president Henry S. Amalong spoke at a Cedar Rapids Chamber luncheon marking the plant's 100th anniversary. He cited progressive spirit and civic pride as drivers of local investment, noting 2,400 employees and a $20 million annual payroll, with continued renovation and no major expansion planned beyond Building 23. He warned profits drive growth but emphasized social responsibility and adherence to government guidelines, while acknowledging wage and benefit costs for long-tenured workers and the possibility of future acquisitions.
The funeral will be held at Turners Chapel East at 3 p.m. Thursday conducted by Rev. Walter Kellison. Burial follows at Cedar Memorial Cemetery.
Cedar Rapids human rights commission votes to hold a public hearing on an employment case involving a black woman fired and rehired with back pay dispute. The panel also closes several cases while opening four new complaints including housing and public accommodations discrimination.
French authorities say gendarmes forced entry into the prison hospital at Clairvaux. Two hostages, nurse Nicole Comte and guard Guy Giardot, were found dead with throats cut after mutineers Claude Buffet and Roger Bon Temps seized the facility and demanded freedom and arms. The convicts were wounded and captured. six other patients escaped unharmed.
In Dallas the jail atop the county courthouse saw a two hour uprising as up to 500 inmates in two cells clashed with staff. Deputies repelled the disturbance with police dogs and fire hoses while prisoners tossed debris from windows and fashioned crude weapons. The protest cited grievances over visiting restrictions medical care and searches.
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