30 Oct 1976
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1976
Page
1
Prices for beef cattle slipped to 31.80 per hundredweight from 33.40 a year earlier, with meat animal prices about 20 percent below last year. Corn fell to 2.33 a bushel from 2.60, wheat to 2.59 from 4.02, reflecting bumper crops and softer demand abroad. Russian grain imports remain substantial but below last year due to a near record crop in the Soviet Union.
Brooks revealed details from a congressional inquiry showing Charles Ruff and Attorney General Edward Levi declined to examine the tapes due to insufficient evidence against Ford. He noted a routine storage room check found five days in early October when White House staff and a security officer accessed tapes for duplication. Copies were said to be erased proof, with no monitoring allowed.
Ford officials in New Jersey and Indiana circulated letters to postal officials claiming a court injunction barred non profit rate mail for political literature. The only injunction concerns enforcement until a merits ruling in Teeley v. Carter Mondale, while postal workers report calls from campaign offices across multiple states. A postal service attorney warned obstructing mail is a criminal offense, though no delays were reported.
The attorney general objected to professors as state employees serving in Triplett arguing a conflict of interest and prohibited compensation for actions against the state. McManus defended Turner’s broader view, calling it a threat to judicial system integrity while noting teaching salaries are not commissions from the case.
The Star in Washington declined to endorse either candidate for president, praising Ford as stabilizing and Carter for his intellect and energy. Other papers varied, with the Charlotte News offering lukewarm support for Ford, and the New Orleans States-Item endorsing Carter, accusing eight years of Republican rule of deceit and drift.
Aleck K. Sheronick 82 of 1430 L Street SW Cedar Rapids died at home Friday after a brief illness He was born April 15 1894 in Jib Jennine Lebanon and lived in Cedar Rapids 64 years He owned a Cedar Rapids grocery for 40 years and helped found the Islamic Center of Cedar Rapids Survived by widow a daughter Amy Sheronick Joseph a son H A Sam Sheronick eight grandchildren. Services at Turner's West Monday burial in Islamic National Cemetery. Military funeral by Veterans of Foreign Wars. Clergy Rev Richard Thompson Trinity Lutheran. References to other obituaries follow in the region but the lead item remains.
Local labor groups including Hawkeye Labor Council AFL-CIO and Local P-3 of Amalgamated Meat Cutters endorse the Carter Mondale ticket and incumbent Second District Congressman Michael Blouin. Kenneth Schriner and Frank Reynolds cite unemployment priorities and labor registration as signs of strong support and dissatisfaction with Ford.
U.S. Attorney Evan Hultman announced that his office will receive complaints on federal election law violations, including civil rights issues, in the area east of Interstate 35 in Iowa. Inquiries and complaints may be filed during office hours until polls close Tuesday at 319-232-6403 in Waterloo.
Cedar Rapids police charged three juveniles ages 14 and 15 after an alleged marijuana possession Friday night near Bever Park at 9 59 p m. The youths were arrested and released to their parents custody.
Diane Harding reports a $60 men’s goosedown coat stolen from Turner Microphone. Glen W. Brehm says a top coat $80 and gloves $10 taken from his Roosevelt Royale rack. A TV valued at $300 was stolen from the Holiday Inn. William Meskimen reports tools and repair parts totaling $180 stolen from his residence. A toolbox and tools worth $500 were taken from Tom Bowker Plumbing’s construction site.
Seventeen Milwaukee railroad cars derailed in the Cedar Rapids area on Friday. Seven cars were behind Bob Zimmerman Ford at 4001 First Avenue SE, and 10 derailed seven miles east of Marion. An eyewitness, John Curtis, waded ankle deep in corn using a vacuum to clear overturned cars. Warren Davis, a Milwaukee car foreman, said the derailed cars included corn and other freight from a 30 to 35 car section. G A McCole, Milwaukee trainmaster, declined to guess at causes. The train, carrying about 100 cars, was bound for Chicago from Omaha with loads of sugar lumber and more, with some cars empty. The Marion-area derailment happened around 8:30 a.m. Friday. the eastern derailment occurred five hours later.
The report lists extended forecast with no precipitation through Wednesday, temperatures mainly in the 50s, and nights in the upper 20s to low 30s. It records two births, and multiple local incidents including malfunctions and assistance calls with locations and times Friday afternoon.
Grant Wood educators may not sign the two year contract after a dispute over how graduate work military experience and a doctoral degree are credited on the salary schedule. Administrators and the GWEA differ on interpretation. eight issues remain, with the sole holdout being placement.
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