07 Dec 1978
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1978
Page
1
A roundup from the newspaper highlights weather impacts and several feature items. It notes Tom Tauke’s appointment to the 2nd District seat and mentions a state program seeking volunteers. Other items discuss nuclear power debate, a Mexican air force crash near Omaha, Italian heart attack research, and a governor’s stance on segregation.
A note on alternatives for pregnant teens or handicapped youths when parental housing fails. It outlines options such as shelters, social services, or foster care pathways, suggesting steps to seek temporary care and community resources.
Friday column notes William Safire sees 1979 as a banner year for political news. Thursday evening Kirkwood Community College board meeting coverage forthcoming. Travelers advisory tonight cautions drivers as snow tapers. Weather: snow minor, drifting, hazardous roads, zero to five above, then Friday remaining cold with highs 15 to 20.
A roadside hobo warns a well dressed passerby about a single donation scam. He promises no follow up calls or mailing lists and claims the offer requires no monthly commitments.
The Collins Air Transport Division of Rockwell wins a multimillion-dollar Boeing order for digital flight control systems. The deal covers 200 units of the 767 and 200 of the 757 with options for 200 more, all produced in Cedar Rapids and projected to add about $1 billion in business by 2000. Engineering staff will grow as work stabilizes the avionics unit.
The Labor Department reports November wholesale prices up 0.8 percent led by gasoline, tires, and alcoholic beverages while food prices rose 0.6 percent amid declines in meat fruit and rice. If sustained annual rate would run near 10 percent.
Residential customers of Iowa Illinois Gas and Electric Co will pay about $1.90 more monthly for natural gas starting with this week’s bills. The increases, totaling $9.85 million annually, were authorized by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America. The change follows four rate adjustments in a year and reflects deregulation effects.
Lisa Dorff a 20 year old Marion resident scheduled for a noon Iowa time heart transplant at Stanford University Medical Center California. A team of 15 doctors would operate about four hours with donor heart health checked first. Lisa and her mother have waited in Palo Alto since October and her father traveled there today. Her sister died five years ago of the same condition and this would mark a second Iowa heart transplant if successful.
Cherokee Daily Times recounts the first Pearl Harbor casualty in Mechanicsville and the Haley family's shock as Wilbur Haley is listed as killed in action in Hawaii. The article places the local loss in the wider context of Pearl Harbor's 1941 attack and national reaction.
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