21 Apr 1976
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1976
Page
1
U S labor department data show consumer prices rose 0.2 percent in March, the smallest quarterly inflation in nearly four years, with annualized 2.9 percent over the past three months. Food and gasoline fell while services costs and used cars rose.
The government said 36.3 million beneficiaries will receive a 6.4 percent cost of living raise starting with July checks. Princess Anne was unseated by her horse at a Blandford riding event, injuring a spinal bone and causing a brief loss of consciousness. she remains hospitalized overnight.
Geneva reporters confirm an OPEC meeting in secret to resolve pricing policy differences. Saudi Arabia said the gathering should last about three days amid ongoing talks.
President Ford, addressing the Daughters of the American Revolution, derides critics of U S military strength as engaging in "complete and utter nonsense." He warns against exaggerated rhetoric and urges honest factual debate as Reagan criticism rises in the 1976 campaign.
The United Rubber Workers strike the Big Four tire makers nationwide despite Firestone’s late unlimited cost of living proposal. Six people were arrested at the Goodrich Akron plant during a picket disturbance and a brief window-breaking spree occurred at Firestone’s facility.
Two men Robert Eugene Robideau and Darelle Dean Butler face a murder trial for killing FBI agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams on Pine Ridge. The Cedar Rapids federal court trial, presided by Judge Edward McManus, was moved from Rapid City to Iowa and is slated to begin May 17 after an Eighth Circuit delay.
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In Des Moines Governor Robert Ray praised authorities for maintaining the 65-foot twin trailer truck ban until a ruling by Scott County Judge James Havercamp on legality. IDOT will continue enforcement while the case proceeds, with a mid May decision anticipated. lawmakers and industry figures urge no rush to alter the status quo.
After seven weeks the Iowa house debated the final dozen amendments to a criminal code revision. Proposals to keep adultery and sodomy as crimes were rejected while others backed mandatory drunken driving sentences and repeal of the helmet law. Legislators clashed over sodomy, with Rep. Halvorson defending it as a crime and Rep. Higgins arguing it would criminalize bedroom acts, while Rep. Spradling warned of overbreadth and jail crowding.
A Cedar Rapids man claimed he was refused three job applications due to nationality. The commission found the employer admitted denying employment because the applicant was not a citizen. Officials noted a Supreme Court ruling upholds an employer’s right to refuse a non citizen.
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