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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1976
Page
6
In July The Gazette prints a three section bicentennial supplement for Sunday use. Section A covers Eastern Iowa settlement with stories from 17 counties. Section B recalls fire in 1876. Section C looks forward and back to Native Americans and Civil War veterans.
The piece argues Cedar Rapids will keep growing and remain a leading state business center if residents and property owners pursue energy, virtue, and tact. It stresses fully utilizing water power for manufacturing, improving schools, and promoting local industries while maintaining municipal competence and mutual support among neighbors.
Los Angeles based report cites Lowell Ponte claiming CIA and Pentagon seeded clouds in 1963 1970 to curb Cuba's sugar harvest. Ponte says effort aimed to deny rain to Cuban crops to undermine Castro regime, with broader project studying weather as a weapon.
Washington reports the federal government is drafting a disaster plan for nuclear reactors and potential terrorist bombings. The draft cites 3,300 immediate deaths and 45,000 cancer fatalities over 30 years from a reactor accident, plus $14 billion in damages and land abandonment, with EPA challenges to estimates.
President Ford warned against outside interference in Puerto Rico as he prepared for a seven nation economic summit in San Juan. He urged unity to spur world growth and cooperation while independence groups promised demonstrations.
Washington GOP finance chief Jeremiah Milbank says the party is $16.5 million under its $25 million goal as major donors hold back. He notes a drop from 700 contributors at Nixon’s 1972 win to 105 this year, with only gifts over 30000 far fewer.
A Des Moines man, Charles Hayes, 38, drowned in the Coralville reservoir near West Overlook at 6 50 p m. Johnson County Sheriff Gary Hughes said the body was recovered about an hour later with help from the Coralville fire department park rangers and the Coralville water patrol. The death is tentatively ruled an accidental drowning pending questions from friends and relatives.
New York reports Sidney Korshak, a Los Angeles labor lawyer and longtime fixer for organized crime, maintains elite ties to Dinah Shore, Lew Wasserman, and Gulf & Western executives while facing a Justice Department probe into economic crime and labor racketeering. Six-month Times inquiry seeks to uncover how he operates behind the scenes.
The restored Old Capitol in Iowa City will host public tours next weekend with the ceremony on Saturday. Updates include plans for the open house and related activities as part of the renovation completion.
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