Tours Aplenty group tours in Cedar Rapids offer 24 options
A Cedar Rapids feature highlights 24 self guided and group tours available to residents and visitors, covering industries hospitals a museum television stations and more. Most tours require advance notice and a minimum group size. Page 4 contains further details and photos. The accompanying image shows downtown Cedar Rapids from Interstate 380 featuring the Quaker Oats complex city hall Cedar Tower the Roosevelt Royale hotel SE Tower and Merchants National Bank viewed from Wilson avenue SW.
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Cedar Rapids
Interstate 380
City Hall
Cedar Tower
Roosevelt Royale Hotel
SE Tower
Merchants National Bank
Wilson Avenue
Cloudy and windy with mild high near 70 today
Increasing cloudiness and wind mark the day with a high near 70. Tonight brings a cooler low in the mid 40s and a chance of showers or light rain. Sunday should top out around 60 with continued unsettled conditions.
How's Your Memory Quiz and Town Writer's Workshop
A readable note invites readers to test memory with a short quiz and points to Page 7A for the full story. It also highlights a Marengo nurse attending Town Writer's Workshop seeking publication, plus a dessert feature by a freelance writer on a Southern trip.
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Marengo
University of Town
Butz Says He Would Testify on Forest Land Use
Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz told Iowa publishers on Friday he would welcome the chance to testify before a committee probing forest service land use for ski resorts. He also acknowledged forwarding a subordinate memo supporting Howard Callaway's Colorado ski resort expansion but denied personal involvement.
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Earl Butz
Forest Service
Iowa
Butz
Howard Callaway
Colorado
Postal Rates Rise Up To 33 Percent Increases
Washington announces temporary postal rate hikes taking effect April 18. Special delivery rises from 60 to 80 cents, certified mail from 30 to 40 cents, minimum registered mail from 95 cents to $1.25, and the minimum money order fee from 25 to 30 cents.
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Washington
Postal Service
Today’s Index Reflects Lessons From Missteps
An editorial note suggests that those who learn from mistakes receive a broad education, pointing to a few men as examples of this process.
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Cooyhant
Family joins spring yard cleanup at Liberty Drive
The Don Lumsdens at 201 Liberty drive SE organize a Friday afternoon spring cleanup with their children Greg 13 Matt 8 Beth 6 and Joe 5 helping.
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Don Lumsdens
Liberty Drive
Greg
Matt
Beth
Joe
Chip
OAU Chief Criticizes U S Invites Soviet Cuba Aid
In Nairobi the OAU secretary-general criticized U.S. policy toward southern Africa and openly welcomed Soviet and Cuban aid to black nationalists fighting white minority rule in Rhodesia and South Africa. He singled out Kissinger, saying the U.S. supports the white regimes and should instead aid liberation movements.
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Nairobi
Kenya
Organization of African Unity
United States
Africa
South Africa
Rhodesia
John Vorster
Israel
William Eteki
OAU
Eteki
Henry Kissinger
Kissinger
U S
Sunday Nation
U.S
Zimbabwe
Angola
Soviet Union
Cuba
Senate Defeats Spending Raises in Budget Debate
The Senate voted down amendments to raise spending for veterans benefits and unemployment programs, keeping the $412.6 billion ceiling proposed by the budget committee. Democrats and Republicans pledged to block higher spending above committee targets as liberal opponents prepare an amendment to cut defense and boost social program funding.
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Ford Administration
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Edmund Muskie
Maine
Muskie
Senate Legislative Committees
Budget Committee
Senate
Veterans’ Affairs Committee
Congress
Ford
Iowa House approves power plant site licensing bill
The Iowa House voted 58 to 32 to require Commerce Commission approval for electric plant sites. The measure, with amendments rejected, aims to create a one stop hearing with health and environmental agencies involved. The bill moves to the Senate.
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DES Moines
Iowa Commerce Commission
Iowa House
House
Iowa
Atomic Energy Commission
Commerce Commission
Robert Anderson
D-Newton
Commission
Cooper Evans
R Grundy Center
Anderson
Prairie City
Iowa Power and Light Co
House Approves $33.3B Weapons Bill Despite Cuts Rejected
Washington tally shows the House passing a $33.3 billion weapons authorization bill by 298 to 32. It rejects proposals to withdraw 47,000 troops from the Pacific and to halt a new multi warhead program. It also spurns delays to B-1 bomber production and $1.3 billion ship funding cut.
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House
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U.S
Pacific
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Salisbury
Mozambique
Sutton-Pryce An
Towa
Joe Rinas
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Andrew Varley
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