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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1982
Page
3
Researchers tracking childhood epilepsy patients into their 20s find most outgrow the condition and stop seizures by adulthood. Article notes long term outcomes and implications for treatment and prognosis.
More than 3 million video recorders fill American living rooms raising a clash between movie industry interests and consumer rights. Courts have ruled home taping of TV programs infringes copyright, prompting debates on royalties and front end deals with networks.
A bipartisan group of senior ex-officials urged President Reagan to renounce the first use of nuclear weapons in a European conventional war. Alf Landon, hospitalized in Topeka, Kansas, with a virus, showed improvement and hoped to go home soon. Evidence in a large trial against Procter & Gamble showed the company instructed employees to deny awareness of illness from its Rely product.
Third District Congressman Cooper Evans told Kirkwood Community College students there will be no reductions in student aid programs next year. He backed increasing the Guaranteed Student Loan and other aid while shifting some support away from Social Security, and argued nuclear arms policy and defense spending revisions with campus attendees. Evans faces no GOP challenger in the district race. Democratic contenders seek nomination.
The Cedar Rapids Reds arrive in town from Florida amid a dreary landscape as page 1C in sports covers their arrival and early-impression notes.
A layoff reducing staff to about two thirds of last year will cut 90 workers over the next two weeks at Universal Engineering with the first group released after Friday shifts. Doug Maddox of RuAnn Dairy Farms in Riverdale California spoke at a dairy expo in Waterloo, noting his 40 staff milks 2,000 Holsteins daily.
Cedar Rapids cab drivers will be official eyes and ears for police via the Taxis on Patrol Program sponsored by 7-Eleven Stores. Cab drivers report fires crimes in progress accidents or suspicious activity to dispatchers with direct police links. Awards will honor top tipsters every six months while drivers receive guidance pamphlets and parking privileges at participating stores.
A government survey shows basic monthly charges for the average customer could jump from 9.16 to over 16 by early 1986 due to inflation and deregulation. Rural areas may face higher costs to provide service, said Bernard Wunder of the Commerce Department at a congressional hearing in Oklahoma City.
Ronald G. Nelson of Cedar Rapids says he was treated for Hodgkin's disease beginning in April 1979 and underwent surgery and radiation. Doctors later determined he never had Hodgkin's and had reactive hyperplasia, prompting a lawsuit against Mercy Hospital, Cedar Rapids Radiologists PC, and several doctors seeking unspecified damages.
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