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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1975
Page
4
CBS aired a 90 minute special on hunting called Guns of Autumn showing bears shot near a town dump and a badly botched deer kill. It sparked widespread protest from hunters who called it biased. A CBS follow up Echoes of the Guns of Autumn features Maine hunters reacting and examines the controversy.
Anne Marie Gruber ten suffered abrasions and contusions to her left elbow hip and knee after running into the side of a car on Twenty fourth Street NE near B Avenue. The 10 year old was treated at Mercy hospital and released. Driver Cecelia Burger 27 of Idlebrook Lane NE was traveling about 20 mph. No charges filed. Police note the incident occurred shortly after 3 30 p m.
James O Day, a former stretcher bearer now teaching biology, testified at a state supreme court hearing about guards and state troopers stabbing inmates after the 1971 Attica uprising. He described a fatal hospital to cell transfer and a stabbing incident as part of a broader probe into selective prosecution amid 62 former senators indicted but no officers charged. Governor Carey floated amnesty as a path to equal justice due to delays in prosecutions.
A Cedac Rapids man, 74, lost 3000 Thursday afternoon after joining a three card monte game in a car in a southeast city parking lot. He was approached by three men claiming they found 20000 and offering a share if he played. he won a large amount but the handkerchief given as proof contained only paper. One suspect was a white man about 40, five eleven or twelve. the other two were black men 25 to 30, one three feet six or seven tall, the other missing upper front teeth.
A Central City woman Sherry M. Tiumalu, 18, was sentenced to up to seven years in the Rockwell City women's reformatory for false uttering of a 361 dollar check written May 7. It was her first adult felony, though she has written thousands in bad checks. Danny Wright, 22, of 1011 First Avenue SW, was fined 100 dollars after pleading guilty to tampering with a vehicle stemming from an incident last June 7.
Jerry Maland of J-Tee Associates is elected president of the Eastern chapter of the National Contract Management Association. Officers include Janet Ann Courcelle vice president Joe Brosam secretary treasurer George Ratti program chair Mike Nelson and Herb Davis memberships chair. The 1975 76 year opens with a Longbranch supper club meeting where Dick Bump of First Mid America spoke.
Julia Ann Collins, 26, of 1112 Tenth Street SE, was charged with larceny for stealing household items valued at 420 dollars from 527 Eighth Street SE as she moved. Items recovered except the refrigerator. Owner Caryl Kray of Central City reported the theft Tuesday. Collins held in county jail on 5000 dollar bond.
Robert Moody of 330 Havenne NW and Grant Lacher from Swisher were acquitted of criminal trespass after a magistrate court trial. The incident occurred at a northeast Cedar Rapids residence on August 23.
Ronald David Macal 33 of 7100 Mt Vernon Road was charged with drunk driving after police observed erratic driving on Third Avenue SE near Fifteenth Street. He was held in the county jail in lieu of an $800 bond.
The main body of Benedict Arnold's expedition moved toward Canada but met strong current and shoals on the Kennebec River. Also noted, two hundred years ago today the Continental Congress defeated a motion to discharge all Black soldiers from Washington's army.
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