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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1973
Page
16
New York AP report notes ongoing turmoil after the 1960s, with shrinking retail trading and profitable blue chips failing to attract customers. It cites worries over capital raising, jobs, and regulatory friction, including a looming battle over fixed commissions and a move toward a central market.
London UPI reports Lucky the kitten survived a 12 mile ride wedged between a car exhaust pipe and gas tank. Robert Dibble heard a strange noise from the back of his car and found the uninjured cat after the perilous journey.
A Mississippi River flood outlook shows rivers stable from St. Louis to the Gulf but renewed rains in Illinois and Missouri dim crop prospects. The river fell below flood stage at Davenport while remaining above flood levels downstream. Memphis is forecast to crest at six feet. Officials plan federal loans and aid for flood damage. damages across six states total 356 million dollars as farmers race to salvage harvests.
Washington AP The senate hunger committee reports federal food programs reach only about half of the nation’s poor and cites Iowa along with Nebraska and Wisconsin as having counties with inadequate food assistance. The study compares 1973 figures to a 1968 hunger inquiry, noting 263 counties still deemed inadequate and 26.7 million people in poverty, with nearly half receiving no aid.
Alabama Governor George Wallace continues acupuncture therapy with Dr Ling Sun Chu after being paralyzed from the waist down in last summer's assassination attempt. The acupuncturist reports improved mental alertness and color returning to Wallace's legs and says he may walk again with possible cautious optimism.
Time magazine reports that wiretap results ordered by President Nixon were stolen from the FBI and used by J Edgar Hoover to threaten the White House. The account says Hoover sought to oust Nixon ally Mitchell and Mitchel l authorized taps on Times reporters and White House aides.
Kilauea volcano erupted with fountains reaching 100 feet and a giant fissure opened causing forest fires. It followed a devastating quake that damaged Hilo 30 miles away. Park rangers fought fires and lava damaged the Chain of Craters and Hilina Pali roads.
Senator William Proxmire charges a C-135 aircraft used by the Air Force has been converted into a luxury liner at taxpayer cost. He cites an exterior skin, paint job, and interior plans including a refrigerator, self-cleaning range, blue carpet, and potential three bathrooms, trash compactor, stereo, 14-foot freezer, and a bar ordered by Gen. Jack Catton. The plane would be based at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio where Catton resides.
California researchers report a chloramphenicol resistant typhoid strain spreading from Mexico to the United States via returning travelers. The epidemic in northern and central Mexico raises risk for border states as American tourists continue to import cases, with seven documented imports.
GALESBURG Ill AP Sharvey G Umbeck 60 longtime Knox College president dies after leaving stage during a parents day program He served 24 years at the 136 year old college the longest tenure in its history.
Representative Les Aspin cites government data, noting 342 gasoline stations mainly in the Midwest and Southeast have closed due to a fuel shortage. He warns up to 930 more may exit business and thousands more face shortages by mid August amid the crisis.
In Tucson Arizona an experiment fed ground newspapers mixed with cattle feed at the University of Arizona experimental farm. Scientists R. S. Swingle and Don D. McGinty reported the cattle took only one taste and refused further, hoping to find a use for old newspapers.
Twenty years ago the Immigration Service announced the arrest in New York of a charter member of the Communist party who had been hunted since 1924. He faced deportation to his native Russia.
In a northeast Dallas house, 49-year-old Waldemar Henniger fatally shot three of his children and then killed himself. His wife Monica and another child were wounded but survived. Monica was hospitalized with multiple bullet wounds. The couple’s son John, 7, was in serious condition but expected to recover.
Mayors John Lindsay of New York and Joseph Alioto of San Francisco visited Leningrad during their Soviet trips. They toured separately with wives and aides, hosted by Moscow Mayor Vladimir Promyslov. Lindsay arrived a day before Alioto.
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