County City Realignment Hopes Venture On Joint Coliseum Plan
Linn County and Cedar Rapids officials weigh joint tenancy of the Veterans Memorial Coliseum for county offices amid a shift from the Penick building. The advisory panel flags cost, layout, parking, and governance details as unresolved, urging cooperative studies and public input.
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Linn County
Cedar Rapids
Veterans Memorial Coliseum
Board of Supervisors
Penick and Ford
Penick
First Street
Ninth Avenue
City County Harmony
Coliseum
Veterans Memorial Commission
Penick Purchase
Will Californians Be Iowa Prison Staff Transplants
Victor Preisser, head of the Iowa Department of Social Services, placed ads in four California papers seeking guards and counselors for Iowa prisons after Proposition 13 payroll cuts. Over 200 Californians responded, with several hired this month. Past East Coast transplant attempts failed. this West Coast effort may prove different, but time will tell.
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Victor Preisser
California
Preisser
Iowa
New York City
Big City
Majority favors restrictions on imports
A Harris Survey of 1,500 adults nationwide shows 61 percent favor tighter import limits, 33 percent oppose, up from 51 to 30 percent in 1973. Voters blame Japan and West Germany for job losses and call for freer trade to boost US products and know how, with 74 percent praising foreign goods and 67 percent supporting competition.
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Japan
West Germany
U.S
Harris
Bonn
Dual country government blocks Carter and Congress
A New York Times analysis argues Washington runs as two separate countries with President Carter and Congress in conflict over energy taxes and reform. It compares energies, taxes, and welfare to illustrate a split political system hindering unified action.
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Carter
New York
Washington
Congress
Great Britain
Liverpool
Proper plural usage in savings and subject verb rules
The piece discusses correct plural usage with savings as a plural noun and when subjects join multiple items. It cites examples from editorials and clippings, including Kipling lines, to illustrate when a singular or plural verb is appropriate in coordinated phrases and lists.
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Rudyard Kipling
Margo M. Foster
Moorestown
N.J
Plaster City
el Centro
Imperial
Justice in Cedar Rapids Courts Coercion of Guilty Plea Alleged
A reader claims federal Cedar Rapids courts pressure poor defendants into guilty pleas via court-appointed lawyers and prosecuting attorneys. The letter cites alleged coercion, denied motions, and civil immunity defenses, urging accountability for alleged abuses.
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Cedar Rapids
Denials from federal courts spark charged editor letter
A writer blasts federal court denials in a bank robbery case and attacks taxes citizenship rules and U S aid, arguing Congress should halt perceived giveaways and questioning who would aid the U S if resources run dry.
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Congress
U.S
Stop giveaways noted in The Gazette letter on August
A Gazette letter reports concerns about an alleged SSI and Social Security loophole. It claims a 65 year old alien could enter, stay 30 days, apply for benefits, then return home to receive 295 dollars monthly for life plus medical care.
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SSI
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John Donnelly
Art Heusinkveld
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Frank Nye
John Robertson
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Phillips
Kopel
Horace Greeley
Louis Harris
Harris Survey
United States
Chicago Tribune
New York News Syndicate
By Russell Baker
Arabian Peninsula
New York Times Service
New York Times Syndicate
Wordcraft
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