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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

May 12, 1975

Page

3

Jazz Adventures eyeing national TV for jazz

New York promoter Jack Tafoya expands his Jazz Adventures from a local WNYC-TV showcase to an hour long series featuring Bill Evans Donald Byrd Stan Getz and Duke Evans. He aims for PBS underwriting and a possible national airing while keeping production modest and non profit.

New York Public TV WXXI Rochester Jack Tafoya Wnyc-Tv Bill Evans Donald Byrd Stan Getz Git Evans Tafoya Public Broadcasting Service Ella Fitzgerald Benny Good New York State Council On the Arts Brooklyn College PBS Wnet TV

To Report Drug Violation Telephone Micheul Dooley

A brief notice instructs reporting drug violations by contacting Micheul Dooley at the listed telephone number 377-8081 for assistance and reporting channels.

Telephone Micheul Dooley

Television Listings Mix Across Stations and Shows

A scrambled telecast guide lists multiple stations and programs including Eyewitness News Weather and Action News blocks, game shows like Let’s Make a Deal and The Price Is Right, classics Gunsmoke and Bonanza, evening specials, and late night news. The clumsy OCR shows channel calls and show titles with inconsistent spacing and several weather and local news segments interwoven.

Sanford and Sen S Hollywood Sas NW Traveler Sanford and San Gunsmoke Smothers Bros Gunsmoke S Smallers Bros Special Town Lal Flectric Co Porarig Guiding Light Doctors General Hospital

Benedict Arnold Leads Bicentennial Fort Ticonderoga Reenactment

In Ticonderoga New York Benedict Arnold Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys staged three re enactions of the Fort Ticonderoga capture an American victory early in the Revolution Estimated 20 000 spectators passed through the fort gates by afternoon as reenactors and visitors shared varied interpretations Ronald Arnold a Kingston Ontario teacher and descendant of Benedict Arnold joked about lineage while Dr John Lattimer an Ethan Allen descendant and Columbia urologist led the attack portraying Allen and demanding the fort s surrender to the British forces

Ticonderoga N.Y Benedict Arnold Ethan Allen Green Mountain Boys Ft Ticonderoga Dpemn Ronald Arnold Kingston, Ont Benedict Arnold West Point Lster Ronald John Benedict Arnold Canada Allen Green Mountain Hoys Ft. Ticonderoga Concord Lexington Essex County Kenneth Goodspeed Jesse Becker Mundelein Green Mountain Becker John Lattimer Columbia University Lake Champlain

Study Says Consumer Spending Rose 75 Percent Since 1960

A Conference Board study shows total consumer spending grew 75 percent from 1960 to 1973, after inflation. Homes plus autos and luxuries drove much of the rise, with real per capita spending up 50 percent and spending patterns shifting toward housing, vehicles, and services.

New York UPI Conference Board Homes Fabian Linden Consumer Research The Board

Safety Unit Cites 18% Drop in Transportation Deaths

Washington reports 1974 transportation fatalities fell 18 percent to 50,541, the largest single year decline since WWII, driven by fewer highway deaths as car, truck, and bus wrecks dropped 9,631 from 1973 while bicycle and motorcycle deaths rose.

Safety Unit Washington UPI National Transportation Safety Board NTSB Totel John Reed National Highway Transportation Safety Administration NHTSA

Policemen Jailed Chaos Sparks Emergency in Connellsville

Connellsville Pennsylvania Mayor John Shaw declared a state of emergency after seven of the city's 23 police officers were arrested in a burglary robbery and arson case. The force will run 12 hour shifts with aid from state and local police to keep order in the town of about 11 000. Five officers including Chief Dominic Mancuso and two civilians have been arrested in the past two weeks over a string of burglaries robberies and fires.

Connellsville, Pa John Shaw Connellsville Arsen Ting Shaw Pennsylvania Dominic Mancuso

Nixon Rejected Jaworski Compromise Over Tapes

In 1974 Sean Jaworski offered to reduce his demand for White House tapes from 64 to 18 and to withhold Nixon’s unindicted co-conspirator status. Nixon rejected the offer after meetings at the White House with Haig and St. Clair, as disclosed in a new book. Separately in Newark a mother and five of her 11 children died in a fire after doors were nailed shut for security.

Washington Sean Jaworski White House Richard Nixon Supreme Court Nixon Jaworski Theodore White White Alexander Haig James St. Clair Jaworksi Haig U.S John) Sirica St. Clair Haldeman CIA FBI United States Fred Buzhardt Buzhardt Newark N.J UPS John Caufield

Mink shortage trims fur coat supply this year

The agriculture department reports a mink shortage with only 870,000 female minks bred to have kits in 1975, a four percent drop from 1974. The Crop Reporting Board cites fewer furs for coats as the cause for reduced supply.

Washington Agriculture Department Department

JFK Probe Ties CIA Unit to Dallas Photo

An FBI photo analyst viewed a Dallas news photo tied to the Rockefeller Commission inquiry into CIA involvement in President Kennedy's assassination. The commission reportedly asked investigators to verify a chain of custody on a photo circulated by activist Dick Gregory. Hunt and Sturgis deny being in Dallas. David Belin says no credible CIA link has emerged.

Washington FBI Dallas Rockefeller Commission CIA Kennedy Dick Gregory Howard Frank Sturgis Gregory Hunt Sturgis Commission David Belin Warren Commission

Successful Art Dealer Stabbed in Hotel Murder Case

Internationally famous art dealer Jon Streep was stabbed 16 times and died as police arrested suspect Harry Orloff, 238, of Troy NY, in Hyde Park hotel. Orloff, shirtless with blood on chest, wore a feather coat after neighbors complained of noise. Streep, a WWII-era immigrant and Mondrian promoter, was to buy works for museums for the shah of Iran.

New York Jon Streep Shah of Tran Hyde Park Noize Streap Harry Orloff Troy Orloff Streep Piet Mondrian

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