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Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Feb 08, 1971

Page

20

Mayors Urge Public Hiring For Unemployed

Washington leaders from 16 major cities urge Congress to approve emergency public works funding. Mayor John Lindsay chairs the U S Conference of Mayors as he backs Sen Gaylord Nelson and Rep Jacob Javits plan to allocate 750 million annually when unemployment meets 4.5 percent and add 100 million for every half point rise above that level.

Washington UPI Congress John Lindsay New York Senate U. S. Conference of Mayors Gaylord Nelson D-Wis Jacob Javits R-N.y

Power Failure Strikes Midtown Manhattan Observatories

A transformer failure at a Consolidated Edison plant blacked out midtown Manhattan for over four hours Sunday night. Nine TV stations went off air and Empire State Building observatories at 86th and 102nd floors stranded visitors until firefighters guided them down. Initial reports cited an explosion, later blamed on two short circuits that sounded like blasts. The outage spanned roughly 30th to 51st streets along the East River corridor.

New York Consolidated Edison Co Manhattan Empire State Building Don Edison East River Broadway 30Th 51St Joseph Raguso Harry Goulding Raguso

Nixon vows troops stay until all POWs freed

President Nixon, at White House worship for Apollo 14 crew, said U S troops would remain in Indochina as long as prisoners of war remain held. Mrs James Plowman, widow of a missing navy lieutenant, said Nixon pledged no deviation on this policy during the receiving line.

Plowman U. S

Universal Heavy Construction School Ad

Learn to operate Bulldozers Drag lines Cranes Scrapers and more at our modern facility A high paid career is open to ambitious men Send for information to Universal Heavy Construction Schools Miami Florida Executive Secretary Position also advertised Reliable personnel clerk and testing assistant specified in the text

General Mills, Inc Penneer Iui Mare Cratios R. E. Kendall Exper Ced

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