Mail fraud costs court and consumers nationwide
A newspaper summary notes that mail fraud tallies 514 million dollars in losses last year and offers guidance on avoidance and reporting. It references Page 10A and suggests actions for victims.
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1977
Page
1
A newspaper summary notes that mail fraud tallies 514 million dollars in losses last year and offers guidance on avoidance and reporting. It references Page 10A and suggests actions for victims.
Highlights include Marie Winn on television impact in families from The Plug-In Drug, research suggesting sex differences in depression, debate over a $50 million land trust plan, grains standards changes in Iowa, John Harty joining Iowa football, record life expectancy figures, and criticism of the $50-per-person stimulus rebate all noted across pages 8B 9B 12C 1B 80 8C.
Showers end tonight with lows near 40. Thursday will be partly cloudy and windy with highs in the mid 40s.
Local price index jumped 2 percent from mid October to mid January versus a 1.2 percent national rise. For 1976 Cedar Rapids inflation at 5.3 percent edged above the 5.2 percent national increase. Food and utilities drove most gains while real purchasing power barely rose for the quarter.
Residents oppose revisions to the Lake Macbride state park plan as 300 people hear changes at Solon high school. The plan still calls for 600 acres of private land, with campers, old lagoons dropped, a feasibility study for a district sewage plant, and a lake circumnavigation bike path amid safety and rip-rapping concerns.
President Carter says Uganda events including killings of an Anglican archbishop and two officials disgust the civilized world. He defends human rights stance, notes visa limits and movement restrictions for communists, and predicts further budget economies and inflation measures.
Omaha firm Brandeis and Sons signs a lease for a 100000 square foot Brandeis store at Cedar Rapids Westdale Mall on Williams boulevard and Edgewood road. The mall receives a $30 million loan commitment from Teacher's Insurance and Annuity Assn. of America.
The Supreme Court ruled 8-0 that federal judges lack jurisdiction to review disability payment claims under Social Security, sending cases to the Health, Education and Welfare secretary. The decision follows other rulings narrowing access to federal courts. In a separate ruling, the court upheld federal water pollution standards for industries and new plants, rejecting plant-by-plant exemptions. Justice John Paul Stevens wrote the opinion.
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