14 Apr 1979
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1979
Page
1
Weather outlook shows clear to partly cloudy skies and moderating temperatures through Sunday. Today highs near 58 to 59 with tonight's low in the mid 30s, Sunday highs near 60 to 62 and lighter winds.
On page 1B Regina announces coach Bob Norton will leave his post as the team stands strong at the season peak. The Midwest League opener saw Clinton Dodgers beat Cedar Rapids Giants 15 6 in Cedar Rapids Friday night.
The selection discusses The Deer Hunter review on Page 11A, Hurricane critique, and film coverage including a Cedar Rapids showing. It notes a government report on wage price guidelines and mentions consumer advocate Ralph Nader commenting on auto repairs. It also references a jet incident and corn price impacts totaling seventeen million dollars.
A witty aphorism notes that if insects ever dominate the globe they should recall with gratitude humanity for including them on picnics. The remark plays on misplaced expectations and humor in survival where insects gain cultural memory.
The Cedar Rapids area expects the first pleasant weekend with highs in the upper 50s to low 60s and lows near freezing. Meanwhile heavy rain and flooding in central Alabama cause evacuations and deaths as storms affect the Southeast.
Kelseyville California doctors report Cocaine and Darvon relieved arthritis in 13 patients but national experts dispute any anti inflammatory benefit. They warn addiction risk and illegality. Somers faces board scrutiny and hospital removal as Arthritis Foundation dismisses results.
A House subcommittee study estimates Carter oil price decontrol and windfall profits tax will lift the average household energy bill by 60 dollars in 1980 and peak at 156 dollars in 1982. The report notes gasoline could rise over four cents per gallon and that the tax would raise about 18 billion dollars for the federal energy fund while reducing oil company profits.
Crowds flocked along the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem as brown robed monks led pilgrims to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. In Jersey City parishioners reenacted the Stations of the Cross at crime sites, while Pope John Paul II led a Rome vigil near the Colosseum amid global Holy Week observances.
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