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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1976
Page
14
Senator Muskie urged short term public works and tax incentives to cut unemployment, attacking Ford's budget as failing to create jobs. He pressed for tax cuts, energy stability, farm incomes, a wage price council, anti trust actions, and a balanced budget tied to economic health.
Mildred R. Stookey 50, longtime Central City resident, died Thursday at home. Born June 34 1617 Corydon she married Nelson Stookey June 30 1944 Washington. Survived by husband two daughters two stepdaughters nine grandchildren two great grandchildren a brother and two sisters. Services 2 p.m. Saturday Noelridge Baptist Cedar Rapids burial Strawn Cemetery east of Shellaburg. Visitation at Murdoch's Central City after 1 p.m. Friday and at church after 12:30 p.m. Saturday. Casket will not be opened after service. Memorial fund established.
George Krabhenhott reported 30 to 40 letters taken from an unlocked mailbox at his apartment building on 2030 First Avenue NE. Another theft was reported by Mike Bean of 1736 A Avenue NE, with two letters stolen from his mailbox.
Washington AP reports the Supreme Court will hear five cases from Georgia Texas North Carolina Florida and Louisiana on March 30 to revisit capital punishment after its 1972 ruling. The court will consider mandatory versus guided executions and mitigating and aggravating factors as it reassesses death penalty standards.
Cedar Rapids man with emphysema urged a council ordinance to bar smoking in buses and public buildings.Jim Roberson urged health and comfort for non-smokers, while council reactions varied as members weighed the proposal. Some smoked or displayed no smoking signs, others praised smoke-free offices.
Don Stamy, Marion farmer, was elected chairman of the Area Ambulance advisory board at its regular meeting Wednesday night. He names Ted Welch as chairman of Cedar Rapids hospital council. The board includes Cedar Rapids hospital council members, city council members and private citizens. A six month fiscal report shows 2,050 ambulance runs versus 2,081 year ago. Thought for today quotes Lyndon Baines Johnson on not wishing to be president after Kennedy’s assassination.
Stanley Baker, 32, a former Minnesota man living near Denison, was sentenced to five years in federal prison in Cedar Rapids after pleading guilty to counterfeiting. He admitted making a plate to manufacture bogus $20 bills in Minneapolis last summer. The sentence runs concurrently with time from a prior counterfeiting conviction in Michigan, while he was on parole during the recent offense.
February council agenda will include leaf burning debate as Joseph Lynch of the state environmental quality department plans a brief one minute talk and a five minute film about the issue. The city council may consider suspending the open burning ban ordinance in spring or fall, a usual pattern for these debates.
Senate intelligence sources say Sam Jaffe, former CBS and ABC correspondent, is cooperating with hearings on reporters as informants for the CIA and FBI. Details of testimony at closed sessions remain undisclosed and Times claims about Jaffe supplying Soviet officials to the FBI while at CBS and ABC are unconfirmed. The draft report notes Kissinger pushed covert aid to Angola to aid Mobutu with CIA and State objections cited. Colby discusses reform options and November 6 CBS interview. On this date in 1791 Washington appointed commissioners to survey the District of Columbia.
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