07 Nov 1971
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1971
Page
1
Washington AP report on the Presidents Pay Board weekend session ending with no agreement on pay after the wage freeze. Labor and management talked five hours without consensus on honoring existing contracts or retroactive raises, with a new proposal reviewed before adjournment.
Cedar Rapids postmaster Charles Seda says private handlers like Iowa Parcel and United Parcel Service skim the cream of package delivery, delivering where the post office does not. Private firms promise overnight delivery and fewer wrapping restrictions, while Poste Office modernization aims to cut costs and reverse losses by 1980.
A brief wry joke suggests that wisdom lies in judging whether silence is truly valuable or simply yellow. The line plays on the phrase gold standard and the color yellow to provoke a smile. It lacks concrete names, dates, or places but delivers a humorous observation.
Bettendorf police report 23 year old Howard R Merrell died after his car failed to negotiate a curve on Iowa 417, turning over on its side and sliding 187 feet before hitting an apartment building early Saturday night.
DES MOINES AP State Revenue Director Donald Briggs says property taxes in Iowa will level off, citing a new state school aid formula. The department reports property taxes this year at 747.4 million dollars, up from 685.5 million last year, with gains lower than earlier forecasts.
The Atomic Energy Commission announced the underground Cannikin detonation on Amchitka Island Alaska produced no radiation in the air and seismic readings similar to an earthquake. Officials said the five megaton blast would test Spartan ABM viability and could enter the weapons inventory. Governor Egan welcomed the absence of adverse effects as court and environmental concerns marked the lead up to the test.
Telegraphic protests poured into the White House as the Amchitka atomic test neared. Western Union supervisor Tom Schleiff said thousands of messages from Canada and the United States urged Nixon to oppose the blast, likening the volume to responses to the My Lai conviction. The messages largely warned of potential environmental harm.
Administrators and physicians at the Catholic University hospital in Santiago staged a hoax announcing seven boys were born to Graciela Calderon de Avila to publicize a campus humor week. An actor played the husband at a news conference while the hospital later admitted the act was a joke.
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