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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1969
Page
16
David Williams 72 founder of Highline Savings & Loan offers $1000 for killing a robber and $500 for wounding a robber at his three suburban offices He cites a Cincinnati robbery where four women were shot and killed urging force to stop violence to save innocent lives.
The Marion independent school district uses income from the Anna Louise Rathbun estate to buy reference books and biographies for the high school library. A committee including Mrs. John Drilling and other residents oversaw purchases. books have arrived and are available to students. The Linn-Mar board renewed its fiscal agent contract with Carlton D. Beh Co. for a proposed 2 million bond issue to fund a middle school and high school additions, with Oct. 29 as a tentative election date and a meeting planned to finalize voting and inspect Bowman Woods School.
George Michael VanGorp a 21 year old Cedar Rapids resident was treated for possible head and arm injuries after his westbound car struck a telephone pole in the 300 block of Marion boulevard. Damage to the car estimated at 1500 dollars and to the pole at 250 dollars. He was released from Mercy hospital.
Britain's Home Secretary James Callaghan will make a return visit to Northern Ireland on October 9 and 10 to check progress in restoring peace, officials announced Friday. The brief note also mentions a cost effective want ad for home freezers selling quickly.
The Robert Lehman Collection, valued by experts at about 100 million dollars, was given to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The gift includes roughly 3,000 items with paintings by Rembrandt and Picasso, along with medieval bronzes, tapestries, and ceramics. Metropolitan director Thomas Hoving called it priceless and historically unparalleled. the donation aims to preserve the collection in perpetuity for people worldwide.
James M. Reusswig is named superintendent of the Iowa City school district and will earn an annual salary of 30000 dollars. He will take the post on November 3, having previously served as superintendent in Stockton California where a crosstown busing plan he designed was not approved.
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