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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1971
Page
5
Robins council unan imously agrees to join Linn county health department in using county landfills for town garbage. The pact allows termination with 30 days notice and limits payments to 1 per person yearly, with monthly or quarterly billing.
Independence hosts a two day reunion for the 701st Military Police battalion formed in 1941. About 150 former MPs and wives from eight states are expected to attend with Charles Bradford presiding and C J Shimanek organizing. Events include a noon Saturday start, company sessions, a group photo, a smorgasbord, WWII slides, and a Sunday noon dinner.
Classified want ad offers quick, low cost garage rental with contact dial 369 1234. No further details provided.
Capt. John Fangman barred any Dubuque police officer from taking part in a foot race proposed by the Midnight Marauders. The group sought amnesty for a winter pizza theft if a policeman won, offering 250 dollars to charity, or 500 dollars if the Marauder team won. The route would cover 16 city blocks from the police station to the town clock plaza and back.
State Auditor Lloyd Smith reports a second partial audit into the Iowa Commerce Commission warehouse division over 11 measuring tapes purchased with state funds. The fate of most tapes remains unknown while two 150 foot tapes surfaced at Farmers Cooperative Grain Co. Story City.
Bernard Nelson aged 74, a former associate warden at Fort Madison state penitentiary, was fatally injured when he fell from an apple tree at his Centerville home on Monday.
The theft of two tires from Mac's Skelly Service station in Toledo on September 18 was solved by the Tama county sheriff and Tama police. The tires were recovered. A car with its trunk open led to a Tama residence where two youths, 17 and 16, admitted taking the tires and were turned over to juvenile authorities on petty larceny charges.
The Iowa supreme court ruled 6-3 that license revocation for refusing a breath test is illegal unless a blood test was first offered. The decision could affect enforcement under the implied consent law and the state’s drunk driving campaign, with Commissioner Sellers promising review of its impact. The ruling upholds a Hancock county case and was written by Justice W C Stuart with a dissent by Justices Uhlenhopp LeGrand and Rees.
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