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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1980
Page
4
Spring sunshine gave way to a Cedar Rapids blizzard as slick streets caused a traffic jam at the Wilson Avenue SW overpass of I 380. Maxine Mikenlecky and Mary Utt trudged through blowing snow on Second Avenue and Second Street SE as residents faced soon to be hazardous travel conditions.
Christine Hansen started at the Iowa Commerce Commission in Des Moines as Senate confirmation looms. Governor Ray defends firing Mary Holstad, while attorney general and opponents raise legality questions. Hansen to face a special Senate session. Ray urges a two thirds vote amid calls for new firing safeguards.
Hollywood reports actress Robert Urich will play Pittsburgh Steelers running back Rocky Bleier in the ABC movie Fighting Back. The project stars Urich as Bleier, a football player known for his Comeback during the 1970s.
Des Moines IA March 1968 United Press International reports that Iowa workers are not entitled to time off to attend the bi annual precinct caucuses. Assistant Attorney General Earl Willits says caucuses are not elections and do not nominate public office candidates, so employees cannot use general voting time off.
AP reports two deaths over the weekend in Iowa. Des Moines resident Mary Frances Ayers, 25, was killed when a motorcycle hit a curb and flipped in the Capitol parking lot. rider Michael Lee Bullock, 31, survived with injuries. Neither wore a helmet. Investigators probe possible speed as a factor. Bonita Wyland, 48, of Williamsburg died in a head on collision on Iowa Highway 220 near Middle Amana when a deer avoidance maneuver by another driver led to the crash. her husband Alvin was the driver of the other vehicle, 52.
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