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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1969
Page
4
Kenneth Reid Cedar Rapids district manager reminds Social Security beneficiaries to file an annual report if 1968 earnings exceed 1680 dollars, due by April 15. Disability recipients not required to file. Benefits withholdings occur at 1 dollar per 2 dollars earned up to 2880. earnings above that may affect benefits.
John Eisenhower son of former President is expected to be named ambassador to Belgium. The nomination could come on or before Nixon’s February Brussels stop. Eisenhower, 46, a retired colonel, wrote The Bitter Woods about the Battle of the Bulge and has held Republican party roles.
Washington AP Maxine Cheshire a Washington Post society columnist recounts an airline delay incident showing how the Kennedy name can open doors. At New York weathering havoc a clerk refused a solid train seat for Mrs Percy until Ted Kennedy intervened obtaining four tickets.
Reid explains that benefits are withheld at the rate of one dollar for every dollar earned, but no benefits are lost if monthly wages are under fourteen dollars or if self employment is not substantial. People aged 72 or older in January 1968 or earlier do not need to file reports. Those who expected earnings over 1680 will get a report form and can obtain forms at the district office or by calling 366-2411.
A worker repainting the University of Virginia rotunda found a yellowed musty book behind a loose board. The title page bears James Madison's signature along with the inscription Essay on the Impolicy of the American Slave Trade.
AP reports a Soviet tanker with 27 crewmen missing off Japan as authorities and fishermen describe spotting a large oil patch in the area. No further details on the vessel or cause are confirmed.
Three Cedar Rapids men were named as judges for selecting the Gazette’s Young Columbus XII Tunisian Italian Holiday trip for a newspaperboy. Judges are Edwin B. Zeller Cedar Rapids YMCA executive secretary Charles T Seda Cedar Rapids postmaster and the Rev Donald T Caspers Lovely Lane United Methodist church pastor.
Japan and the Soviet Union signed a civil aviation agreement in Tokyo. Japan Air Lines becomes the first foreign carrier to operate the Siberian route linking U S cities to Europe. About 100 newspaper boys will fly the route on a chartered TWA flight. The Soviet Union remains closed to foreign airlines for military security reasons.
A rain loosened wall of mud and rocks shoved a car across the center divider and blocked the Pomona Freeway east of Los Angeles. Edward Jennings of Fullerton said it felt like riding a wave as rocks and mud surged. Seventeen families fled homes in Mt Washington and Laurel Canyon as unstable ground gave way and rooms tumbled into a canyon. Five hillside homes faced danger as fissures widened and earth remained soggy from January rains. a previous storm killed a dozen people in mudslides.
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