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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1969
Page
5
Cedar Rapids Art Center opens a Grant Wood show on February 16 featuring ten works owned by the Cedar Rapids school district. It marks the first time the district places many Wood originals in a central public viewing, with works including Young Corn and Trees and Hills. the painting is insured for $100,000. The district owns 17 Wood originals across media.
Reports say a new underground testing site in central Nevada will begin operations by summer, allowing observers to view tests from public roads outside security cords. The AEC plans to fence mini-reservations and monitor roads while offering elevated viewpoints for near or distant detonations without the risk of flash or blast.
Capt J B Brown of Miami testifies before the House committee recounting the Jan 28 hijack of a National Airlines DC-8 to Cuba. He describes armed hijackers, a pistol at his eyes, dynamite sticks, and a tense 15 minute route check before landing. Brown urges swift action to solve air piracy.
Questions asked of the Internal Revenue Service cover inheritance reporting, car expenses, mileage deductions, and household help final returns. Answers note reporting gains on inherited property, deducting actual car operating costs or standard mileage, apportioning mixed use, and tolls or parking deductions. Employers must issue withholdings by January 31, with IRS help available in Cedar Rapids and Kansas City, Missouri.
Loveland Colorado postmaster Fred Brewer handles about 100000 valentines yearly for recipients nationwide and abroad. He personally cancels around 8000 valentines including those to his wife and five grandchildren. The town of 18500 uses a Cupid stamp and a verse for remailing cards bearing the Loveland postmark.
In Ottawa the owners manual found in a new U S made car is deemed legally part of the vehicle and eligible for duty free treatment under the U S Canada auto trade pact. Canadian printers say the rule hurts their business and seek a change.
Trainee milkmen in Sneyd Green Stoke on Trent learn to avoid amorous housewives. Instructor George Nixon says diplomacy and tact are taught to keep relations friendly but not intrusive. The course advises milkmen to be friendly but not familiar, listen but not get involved, and deliver milk without entering homes.
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, at a $6.4 billion budget town meeting in Syracuse, acknowledges a sign asking for a state fish. Eleven year old Christopher Noble and ten year old Bill Eaton propose the pike as the state fish, prompting Rockefeller to remark: “That’s one problem I can solve.”
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