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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1976
Page
1
Fourth graders at Truman Elementary wrote essays about last week's ice storm under teacher Kathryn Weston. Students praised the beauty of icy fragments and described trees and bars in vivid but often misspelled language, with some playful verse and humorous missteps in spelling ice.
Colder with mostly sunny skies today. Highs in the mid 30s. Partly cloudy tonight and Sunday with lows in the low 20s. Weekend outlook shows continued cool, dry conditions across the region.
Truly unique persons take a jewelry making class at Ambroz Recreation Center offering one of a kind items. For context see page 5A. A Mercy student lived and worked in an Israeli kibbutz earlier this year and found life great. story and picture on page 7A. Also a note questions citizen band radio licensing and legality. story on page 7A.
The FAA orders universal baggage screening at U.S. airports by April 15. Current practice screens only passenger carried baggage. The Civil Aeronautics Board also cuts excess baggage charges on international flights to, from the United States.
The Agriculture Department confiscated a 15 inch dwarf tree Nixon brought from the People's Republic of China last month. Officials will not return the plant, which arrived on Nixon's plane Feb 29 and was seized on arrival in Los Angeles. The tree is held at the quarantine station in Glenn Dale Maryland to test for disease.
Crowding marked a Friday rush as residents bought 1976 auto license plates and registrations. Law enforcement will cite unregistered vehicles starting Sunday midnight. The line stretched from the treasurer windows to the basement, causing a minor traffic jam on Third Avenue SW. Waiting times reached up to two and a half hours.
Secretary of State Kissinger severely reprimanded Alfred Atherton head of the Mideast bureau for revealing classified conversations to journalist Edward Sheehan. Lawrence Eagleburger said Kissinger gave no authority for memo briefings and Atherton admitted responsibility. Harold Saunders also briefed the writer and received a lesser reprimand.
UPI reports Judge Oliver Carter will instruct the jury to accord Patty Hearst’s testimony the same credibility as other witnesses in the bank robbery case. Hearst rests ill with flu as deliberations near. prosecutors and defense given 314 hours each to sum up.
State soil leaders on Friday estimated a two billion dollar cost to protect all Iowa soil from wind and water erosion. The plan would require terraces on about 6.2 million acres at 265 dollars per acre and includes 27,000 earth or concrete dams to stop gullies, with additional costs for stripcropping, grassed waterways, ponds, and other conservation practices. Brune notes current funding and rising costs mean the job will take decades and remains only a fraction complete.
New York AP reports the Dow Jones Industrials fell 15.67 points to 987.64, the second largest drop of 1876 after an over 1,000 level, with brokers citing profit taking following a previous 8.03-point gain. Volume reached 26.02 million on the New York Stock Exchange.
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