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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1964
Page
4
14 month old Tammy Lee Jones, thought dead by her mother, was found alive after 60 hours in a cotton field south of Mesa. Doctors call her condition extremely good. Tammy’s mother, Wayne Gregory, faced charges for making a false report and may face a polygraph test.
A mid January ruling will alter how firms report equipment deductions, yielding an estimated 200 to 400 million dollars in tax savings. The change relates to 1962 depreciation regulations, with a three year transition to conform to the reserve ratio test and prepare returns due in July.
Des Moines AP reports a record 13 000 Iowa licenses suspended in 1964 up 45 percent from 1963 as the State Safety Department tightens penalties to curb a death toll exceeding 800. Speeding violations, three offenses in 18 months, and probationary permits for first-time applicants drive the action.
Helicopters and private planes braved rain and fog to ferry food and medicine to thousands of northern Californians after the state's worst flood in decades. Thirty two helicopters— including twenty from the carrier Bennington— airlifted medicine and doctors to Hum boldt Mendocino and Del Norte counties while civilian pilots dropped supplies from Rohnerville air strip. Some planes landed on highways where residents had cut poles and signs for makeshift runways. The unofficial flood toll reached 13, with six deaths linked to a coast guard helicopter crash. copter fatalities were unconfirmed.
Elsie May Bell Grosvenor 86 daughter of inventor Alexander Graham Bell and wife of Gilbert Grosvenor of the National Geographic Society died Saturday. She traveled the world with her husband shaping the magazine’s geographic reach and authored pieces from Alaska to Africa.
The Navy reports the submarine Daniel Boone with sixteen 1800 mile range Polaris missiles is deployed off Asia after sailing from Guam. It marks the first of a seven ship squadron for the Far Western Pacific, as China develops nuclear capabilities and targets are revised on the joint strategic target list.
Saul Pett analyzes the Congo in publication after independence four years earlier. He paints Leopoldville amid civil war with a mercenary, a corrupt road system, and a nation torn by tribalism and foreign influence. The piece contrasts a jetliner age with rural poverty and maps the political tensions fueling ongoing violence.
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