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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1975
Page
4
Washington reports January consumer prices rose 0.5 percent led by higher food costs with cereals bakery products fruits and vegetables. CPI stood 11.7 percent above a year earlier and January unadjusted CPI up 0.6 percent. Real spendable earnings fell 1.2 percent as inflation bites.
WASHINGTON AP The House Banking Committee watered down two bills aimed at rationing credit and pressuring the Fed to lower rates. It rejected the Proxmire bill to expand money supply and adopted a non binding resolution urging lower rates. Chairman Reuss counted the outcome as a concession with a behind the scenes compromise discussed with Fed Chair Burne.
Boston physicians and officials said Dr Kenneth Edelin will remain coordinator of ambulatory care for obstetrics and gynecology at Boston City Hospital while his conviction for manslaughter is appealed. His lawyer filed a motion for reversal or a new trial, and the hospital board will review his status after the legal remedies are exhausted. In Kentucky, Fort Campbell reported two million birds survived a cold snap as the army considers further spraying to reduce the population.
In Des Moines the Iowa Senate approved an abortion law aligned with a 1923 Supreme Court ruling and opened discussion on a clause mandating doctors to do everything possible to save an aborted fetus. The chamber also rejected reinstating a death penalty and kept homicide penalties as life sentence maximum.
Friday marked the fifth day of discussion on a bill to rewrite criminal law. The provision approved Friday bans abortions in the first two trimesters except to save the life of the mother. Continued on page 3.
Daylight Saving time returns Sunday with clocks set forward one hour. Standard time converts at 2 am and daylight time remains eight months. Unless Congress acts, the regular pattern of Standard time all year and Daylight time for eight months will resume in October.
In Belfast the Sinn Fein leader Maire Drum said the IRA will keep its cease-fire despite Protestant extremists attempts to provoke a breakdown after three violent deaths in 24 hours. Two Roman Catholic pubs were bombed causing one death and 26 injuries. Police suspect the blasts were meant to trigger IRA retaliation.
Dublin reports Irish-American donations to the IRA have declined since Garret Fitzgerald warned that aid for Northern Ireland relief could fund killings. He noted growing awareness that dollars support both distressed nationalists and IRA guerrillas fighting the British in Ulster, delaying prospects for reunification.
In Washington AP reports John Mitchell H R Haldeman and John Ehrlichman were sentenced by Judge Sirica to two and a half to eight years for conspiracy to obstruct justice and related counts in the Watergate cover up. Robert Mardian got 10 months to three years. All may appeal and remain free on bond.
Cedar Rapids tourists who reached Honolulu a week ago found no hotel rooms and left after two days. They remain angry at the Imperial hotel over the holiday travel blunder, blaming the hotel not the agency. Some elderly travelers could not visit Pearl Harbor due to changes.
John Leyden, head of the nation’s air traffic controllers union, urged sweeping changes to unify pilot and controller procedures after the December Trans World Airlines 514 crash that killed 92. He called for a single manual, radar monitoring from takeoff to landing, same charts for pilots and controllers, an anonymous immunity system, and a separate FAA unit with public release of inquiries.
A playful notice promotes in-home options within the neighborhood, highlighting no need to travel far. It emphasizes ease, comfort, and speed, positioning the service as a convenient choice for local residents.
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