26 Nov 1976
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1976
Page
1
President elect Carter and congressional leaders may prepare a joint budget to replace the Ford plan. Ford aims to submit his 1978 budget January 17 while Carter weighs a joint Carter-Congress budget estimated near 451 billion with an 80 billion deficit.
A digest of brief items from Danville Vermont Lebanon Beirut Mexico City and Salt Lake City includes Mu epidemic memories, Americans in Mexican jails challenging a treaty, a Lebanon risk of Syrian Israeli clash, tax collection failures costing up to 4.8 million annually, Gary Gilmore in confinement on Thanksgiving and a cold forecast with snow chances tonight and Saturday.
Former CIA official David Phillips said Cuban and Soviet officials in Mexico City saw Lee Harvey Oswald as a rook and did not encourage him to kill President Kennedy. He noted Oswald contacted both embassies before Dallas and suggested he sought transport to the Soviet Union via Cuba. Phillips recalled no evidence of embassy encouragement and said details were shared with investigators and not the Warren Commission.
AP report from Pittsburgh notes Arnica Bicel Corp and Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel Corp joined two other producers in lifting prices on flat rolled steel, about 6 percent, aligning with National Steel Corp and Jones & Laughlin Steel. The move drew White House scrutiny as Ford urged production and cost disclosures.
In Meradiye area relief workers battled snow and wrecked roads to reach quake victims. Officials reported 3,027 bodies recovered with fear the toll nears 4,000. Rescuers faced aftershocks, blocked routes, and cold as aid airlifted tents, blankets, and fuel to Van province.
John Thompson II known as sli bid for returning found money received wide praise and gifts including funds totaling 1,825, a thousand dollar check, shoes, clothing, turkeys and a ham. His mother Caroline Thompson says honesty helped feed seven children and ensured a real Thanksgiving.
The Linn County Property Taxpayers Assn plans to appeal a Linn County district court ruling upholding the property issue equalization law as amended by the Iowa General Assembly last year. The case, initially brought by the county and Cedar Rapids along with others, challenges due process in notices for revaluation, following a state Department of Revenue order raising agricultural and residential property values and shifting burden away from commercial property. Judge Louis Schulz ruled the equalization notice adequate, and the association met Tuesday to decide on appeal, with the announcement Friday.
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