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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1971
Page
4
Weather readings for Saturday and the coming week with times and temperatures plus a long obituary list for various towns and funeral notices. Names include Mahoney Millard Harms Churchill Roberts Voelkel Macek Becker Rohlf Sheets Hoover Landa and others with service details and burial places.
A three car crash on U.S. 20 in Waterloo during a rain storm killed Harold Henninger 56 and his wife Rose 51. Pauline Dell 42 of Waverly, injured, drove one car. a third vehicle driven by Donald Stephens 31 of Waterloo struck the two sedans but he was not injured.
Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota proposed forming a citizens committee to study ways to modernize Congress. The plan aims to gather broad input on reforms and efficiency.
U S intelligence cited a moored submarine tender two bar racks a soccer field basketball courts and a possible swimming area near Cienfuegos as a possible rest and recreation facility for Soviet sailors rather than a base. The briefing remains classified and the administration pursued diplomacy after acknowledging abandonment of the facility.
President Nixon argues there is a balance between the United States and the Soviet Union preventing clear superiority. He rejects meeting Kosygin unless the trip includes the U.S. He says he may consider women for Supreme Court vacancies but seeks justices sharing current judicial philosophy. He also signed repeal ending detention camp authority from the 1950 Emergency Detention Act.
DES MOINES AP reports old crop soybean stocks in all storage positions in Iowa on September 1 totaling 19 million bushels. This is 78 percent below the 86.5 million bushels recorded a year earlier, per the Iowa Crop and Livestock Reporting Service.
Matt Hajek age 10 son of Vernon R. Hajek and wife of 3324 Weing Road NE was in fair condition at Mercy Hospital after his bicycle swerved into a truck driven by William D. Hoffman age 40 of 1713 Twentieth Street NW. Police said the bike’s rider error caused the collision as the bicycle moved north on Circle Drive NE and the truck turned from Glass Road onto Circle Drive. No charges were filed.
Customs agents seized about 200 pounds of heroin valued at $40 million found in upholstery and under floor panels of a late-model car from Italy aboard the Rafaelo. Three Queens men, Guiseppe Giacomazzo 35 Lorenzo D Aloisio 33 and Frank Rappa 30, were arrested on smuggling charges after surveillance followed the vehicle from pier to city spots. The seizure ranks among the three largest heroin busts in New York history and follows a similar 200 pound haul last week connected to a foreign sports car from the Queen Elizabeth 2. Authorities are probing links to other car based smuggling cases in San Juan Spain and Elizabeth New Jersey.
Parole family advocate Ellandson proposes shock probation, a system where an individual is committed to an institution for 90 days to allow the facility to decide if the case should be referred back to court for possible release. He notes several inmates are ready to reenter society after a short institutional period.
The article reports large attendance at youth voter conferences across campuses and cities. It details how groups like the Youth Citizenship Fund and Frontlash mobilize students, workers, and housewives, with major drives at the University of Colorado and in cities from Austin to Los Angeles. It notes high registration rates in Allegheny County and New York City, plus a push by leaders to broaden nonpartisan registration and political organizing among young people.
In Muscatine two veteran party workers were named as possible successors to State Rep Richard Drake who resigned as First district chairman and state committee member after nearly six years. Drake will convene a district meeting to elect a replacement. Mentioned candidates include William Smart of Mount Pleasant and Darwin Diercks of Davenport.
London reports say a senior KGB officer defected to the West bringing documents on agent infiltration plans. Britain expelled 105 Soviet diplomats and officials amid warnings of sabotage from Concorde to Northern Ireland.
President Nixon criticized the sluggish pace of collective bargaining between unions and employers after meetings with Bridges Schultz Hodgson and Counts. He urged urgent settlement while unions seek wage raises a guaranteed weekly wage a 500 monthly pension at 62 and sole control of off dock container handling.
Tipton funeral service for C R Skipper Sheets 71 who died Friday at Mercy hospital Iowa City. Surviving are three sons Robert Tipton Wally Cedar Rapids and Tom Independence one brother Harold Lander Wyoming and nine grandchildren. Services Tuesday at 10 30 A M at St Marys church visitation begins 7 30 P M today with burial in St Marys Cemetery.
Gun larceny reported by John P. Brown of 1963 avenue NE. A rifle and shotgun valued at 230 dollars were stolen from his residence. Gina Mercuriali of 1718 Meadowdale drive NW reported tools stolen from his garage, including a tool box and mechanic's tools valued at 512 dollars.
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