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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1979
Page
7
British rocker Rod Stewart wed Alana Hamilton at L Ermitage in Hollywood after a star studded reception. He heads on tour for Blondes Have More Stewart Fun and plans to start a family at his Beverly Hills home.
Senator Henry Jackson urged President Carter to delay lifting crude oil price controls and back two more years of controls. Carter seeks decontrol to spur production, while deferring on windfall tax. Energy chiefs projected varied price impacts and potential gasoline hikes, with a fresh federal study noting slower growth in residential energy use in the 1970s.
Federal agencies estimate the economic cost of death and illness. The highway safety agency values a traffic fatality at 287 175 dollars while the health statistics center cites lost earnings of 274 496 dollars for a young male cancer death. The reports break down costs into production, home life, hospital, doctors, funeral and more, and estimate total illness costs for 1975 between 239 and 323 billion dollars with cancer illnesses at 19 to 28 billion.
Pope John Paul II reaffirmed mandatory priestly celibacy in a 35 page pastoral letter to priests and an eight page letter to bishops. He warned against secularizing the priesthood and urged tough responses to dispensations while noting priest shortages and rising defections.
A Camden Ark tornado injured at least 27 people and damaged a five mile path, with looting at a shopping center and millions in damage. Gov. Bill Clinton declared Camden a disaster area. Also widespread ice in Michigan left 100,000 without power and caused three traffic fatalities.
Tehran reports confirm 80 executions since Khomeini's rise, including 17 generals. Over 5,000 former officials remain jailed awaiting trial as the regime clamps down after the fall of the Shah.
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