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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1975
Page
19
The council authorizes purchases and contracts including a rebuilt wrecker from Newmire's and lighting at Veterans Memorial stadium. It sets hearings on property vacations, accepts a warranty deed for the Vinton ditch project, approves storm sewer improvements, and signs various professional and construction agreements. It also handles rezoning petitions, annexation requests, eminent domain matters, and parade permits.
The Ford administration endorses legislation to ban the cancer-causing growth hormone DES in animal feed while opposing a proposed one year moratorium on its use as a post-coital contraceptive. Caspar Weinberger cites FDA frustration with courts over DES removals and defends emergency contraceptive use.
A 19 year old Israeli soldier was killed when a parcel filled with explosives detonated after he collected it at a Tel Aviv area post office in Herzliya. Police are unsure if Arab militants or Jewish extremists sent the package. The soldier’s mother was wounded in the blast. ON THIS DATE in 1970, Chiang Ching Kuo escaped an assassination attempt in New York.
Haruo Hirota, one of the last surviving Japanese kamikaze pilots, poses in the Ohka kamikaze training plane at the Navy Museum in Washington. Hirota, rescued in World War II by an American destroyer crew, now works as a chef at a Washington motel.
A panel of doctors led by Dr. Joshua Perper reports a definite link between alcoholism and severe testicular damage. They found atrophic testes in heavy drinkers with fatty livers, suggesting liver dysfunction or alcohol toxicity as causes, while direct liquor impotence remains unsettled.
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