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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1966
Page
7
Sylvia Porter argues there will be no recession through 1966 and into 1967 barring a Vietnam War end. She cites three uptrends—government, business, and consumer spending—driving a continued inflationary boom despite inflation controls and tax changes.
A historical report by Bob Considine presents Westmoreland era data detailing American casualties as light to moderate and contrasts with higher South Vietnamese and enemy losses. It covers killed in action, wounded, missing in action or captured, and notes rice as a critical factor in counterinsurgency warfare with figures for January to July 1966.
Sheriff Milo Quigley recovered 65.65 dollars stolen from Capri Lanes bowling alley in Tama on December 5 1965. Waverly authorities returned the money and arrested three men previously linked to the Tama theft and similar crimes in Missouri and Wisconsin. The money was in the same bag and the suspects were in a rented car with no money spent.
In New York UPI report Assistant U.S. Attorney J Edward Meyer III tells Allen Jacobs he looks familiar in federal court. Jacobs is charged with possessing 407 400 in stolen travelers checks. He and his father had lost to Meyer and his father in a Greenwich Connecticut father and son tennis tournament a decade earlier.
In Huntingdon West Virginia Judge Russell Daugherty proposes keeping Ritter Park open past midnight to give teenagers a public place to park. He says parking is a key part of a teenager’s life and can help manage common concerns from parents.
More Production Taipei AP reports Formosa farm output reached 936.4 million dollars in 1965, attributed to land reform and improved farming methods by the island's provincial government.
Bakersfield reader reports a new product Acryline that holds false teeth with a vacuum seal. The maker claims fit is natural feeling and lasts about six months. Available at drug counters nationwide.
Analysis notes that loss of rice erodes the Viet Cong will to fight and health, making planning less exact and increasing calculated risk. Pre planned operations are postponed as rice caches are destroyed or captured, proving the enemy fights on rice and denying it hastens defeat.
In Nashville Tennessee an anonymous giver sent eight dollars to the Internal Revenue Service with a handwritten note urging prudent spending and loyalty to government. The brief item notes the gift and its polite message to officials to use the money wisely.
Opened after three weeks of talks and surveys, a Japanese trade mission met Soviet officials about possible joint industrial ventures to develop Siberia and the Soviet Far East. Tass said the door to further talks was opened wide.
Bozeman Montana campus student James Bond returns to Montana State University as a sophomore and receives a new ID from an automatic machine that assigns him the number 007 similar to the famous fictional spy.
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