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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1977
Page
6
A Common Cause study of 1976 commissioner calendars shows industry officials met with regulators far more than consumer groups. DC president David Cohen urges citizen participation while public support for a consumer agency exists, Congress hesitates, and civic groups push for influence rivaling big business and labor.
The State Historical Society, with a 36650 grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, starts a two year county records inventory in Iowa. Osceola and Plymouth are sample counties, with other pairs in each district. The effort aims to catalog existing records, assess condition, and decide retention for legal administrative and historical purposes.
Two thirds of children from the nation's poorest families have never seen a dentist and about 60 percent of those children have chronic medical conditions untreated. The EPSDT program to help needy kids faced delays, with only partial implementation and limited follow up.
A Los Angeles Times Syndicate piece notes the paradox in congressional opposition to neutron weapons. It argues public stance may mislead about desire to develop them and humorously questions funding for shells the Pentagon says it does not want.
A Harris poll finds 48 percent would accept a 3 cent per gallon gasoline tax rather than permanent rationing, while 57 percent oppose standby tax. The survey notes broad distrust of long term energy shortages and warns rationing could surface in Congress as a painful alternative to rising energy prices.
Roscoe Drummond urges a GOP revival with 1000 volunteer centers at the grass roots to aid communities and reduce government intervention. He calls for a bipartisan probe into Korea bribery, a diverse 1980 ticket, and expanded private funding for political education and candidate recruitment. He invites public suggestions.
Reader comments on Aug. 20 Gazette piece by Roscoe Drummond about U S lag in atomic power development. The letter questions the drive for being first and larger spends, notes genuine energy concerns, and challenges calls that environmental activists fear nuclear power are mindless. The writer cites government mistakes as evidence of human error.
The writer argues plutonium waste from nuclear plants remains dangerously radioactive for 24 000 years and warns against relying on people to manage it. He calls for abandoning atomic energy in favor of renewable sources like wind sun and water noting solar energy is limitless and waste free. George Denison Prentice.
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