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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1971
Page
6
President Nixon, buoyed by victories at a regional revenue sharing conference, intends at least three more private sessions with state governors. The Des Moines meeting on March 1 outlined a plan to share federal revenues with states.
Rep. James Burke says congress weighs a nationwide draft to back Rep. Wilbur Mills as a presidential candidate. Mills refus es candidacy but observers note possible vice presidential appeal with Muskie or Kennedy. Burke cites broad northern support and a potential petition surge across party lines.
IRS reports cigarette manufacturing 50.6 million units in January, up from 47.4 million a year ago. Shipments by manufacturers reached 49.2 million, up from 46.4 million, marking a about six percent increase during the first month of the television advertising ban. Retail sales data were not collected.
The interior department announces a new directory titled Camping in the National Park System listing nearly 28 000 camp sites at 529 campgrounds. The guide is available from the Government Printing Office for 25 cents per copy in Washington D C 20402.
The copy touts biting and chewing comfort with FIXODENT lasting for hours and resisting moisture. It stresses dentures that fit as essential to health and urges regular dental visits and purchasing FIXODENT at drug counters.
The Johnson County Board of Supervisors voted to offer complete Blue Cross Blue Shield health benefits to all full time county employees with employees paying the difference for family coverage. The board also adopted a new billing system to save about 1400 annually and approved a new Xerox copier for the sheriff's department. In other business they denied Continental Mortgage Investment Corp.’s rezoning for a trailer court in southeast Johnson County.
Lincoln police arrested nine people aged 19 to 28 over a weekend in an alleged plan to destroy three buildings including the Nebraska capitol. Investigators linked vandalism at the Brunswick Corp. plant to the plot during a three day probe. officials did not release suspect names or confirm explosives.
Police stated that the student involved had no known association with any radical organization as of the investigation. The remark emphasizes absence of group ties while the inquiry continues.
Leonard Stakenburg, 24, held in Spencer on charges of robbery with aggravation and kidnapping after allegedly forcing a 17 year old girl at a Kentucky Fried Chicken to accompany him with about 350 dollars taken. Girl Susan Blanchard released unharmed. suspect arrested in Storm Lake and arraigned with bonds set at 10000 dollars.
Washington AP Secretary of State Rogers plans to end long standing curbs on travel by Americans to mainland China while keeping limits on visits to North Vietnam North Korea and Cuba. The move aligns with President Nixon’s push for broader Sino American contact though practical effects may be limited.
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