24 Aug 1979
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1979
Page
1
UPI reports consumer prices rose 1 percent in July, with energy and housing costs up while food and clothing cooled. Inflation runs at 13.1 percent annual rate for seven months, gasoline up 5 percent and fuel oil 6.2 percent, and purchasing power for a four-person family fell 0.4 percent in July.
Actor Cary Grant appears publicly recalling Hollywood’s golden era. The event is highlighted on Page LSA. A separate brief notes a 12 year old worm salesman must remit 64 cents in uncollected sales taxes, shown on Picture Page.
Cedar Rapids Legion Red battles a strong South Dakota club in the winner's bracket of the Central Plains Regional American Legion baseball tournament. The page note places the game on Page 1B.
A five year master plan for Kirkwood college's future receives final approval as reported on page 5A. The article notes strategic directions and anticipated campus changes reflecting long term goals.
The Saturday Gazette column urges readers to prepare for the September 1 start of the hunting season. It discusses off-season challenges and practical steps to ready gear, licenses, and plans for the seaon.
United Nations nonaligned members debated pressing for a vote on a Palestinian statehood resolution opposed by the United States. Some fear forcing a veto by Andrew Young, while others prefer delaying to avoid ending Palestinian debate this session. Senegal, chair of the Palestinian Rights committee, prepared to present the measure amid council talks.
Residents of Johnsonville near Littleton in Buchanan County woke to rising water from the Little Wapsipinicon River more than two feet above flood stage. Some cabins were surrounded by over four feet of water as high water also affected Independence. Squirrels might need to swim for the ear of corn left out.
President Jimmy Carter wrapped a week long Mississippi River tour with speeches and handshakes in St Louis near the Gateway Arch. He urged energy conservation and backed a tax on oil company revenues while facing protest against windfall profit taxes. He visited Dam No 25 Linfield Mo and Lock and Dam 26 Alton Ill before reaching St Louis with Rosalynn and Amy aboard the Delta Queen.
Aleksandr Godunov, Bolshoi dancer and asylum seeker, asked U.S. authorities to allow his wife Ludmilla Vlasova to attend his meetings with Soviet officials. He fears she will be forced to leave the United States without him and notes she did not defect with him.
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