Waste Disposal Slowpokes In Iowa Meet Deadlines
The 1975 solid waste disposal deadline looms with about 200 Iowa communities not reporting plans. Only Marion and Palo outline county landfill use. several Linn County towns report vague or incomplete plans. State urges regional cooperation and warns some could face extensions or continued delays.
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Hough
Iowa
Health Department
Jack Clemens
Roland Krekeler
Linn County
Marion
Palo
Center Point
Robins
Mt. Vernon
Coggan
Cedar Rapids
Fairfax
Hiawatha
Linn County Regional Planning Commission
Lisbon
Ely
Bertram
Walker
State Health Department
Prairieburg
Central City
Springville
Alburnett
Regional Planning Commission
Commission
Rock music and fish warned by underwater loudspeakers
The piece notes rock music harms plants and fish, with Penn electric using underwater loudspeakers to ward Lake Erie fish from heated discharges. It contrasts relaxing music and 1960s-70s pop acts, then includes a reader letter praising Anita D Woodard as the city’s second Negro police officer, and mentions Virgil Powell’s retirement-era greeting.
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Lake Erie
Pennsylvania Electric Company
Tommy Roe
The
Turtles
Johnny Ray
Carpenters
Eddie Fisher
Porgie
Bass
Cedar Rapids
Anita D. Woodard
Carl Badger
Woodard
Virgil S. Powell
Carlisle Street
Buy My Land, Too: Cedar Rapids Property Owners Advocate Sale
A letter cites significant land value loss from the 1-380 project in southwest Cedar Rapids. Property owners urge Gordon Sweitzer of the Iowa State Highway Commission to buy their parcels at fair market value, noting widespread affected owners and proposing written contact from Ames 50010.
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Cedar Rapids
Gordon Sweitzer
State Highway Commission
Sweitzer
Iowa State Highway Commission
Ames
Town
Forum Letters Guideline Stresses Substantive Commentary
The Gazette invites readers to submit letters addressing issues or events not personalities. Submissions should stay on a single topic and be concise, with about 400 words. No anonymous posts, with name, address, signature, and writer’s telephone number for authenticity. one letter per month per writer.
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Gazette
Slang in Olden Times and Grammatical Oddities
Theodore M Bernstein surveys enduring slang like corporation meaning paunch and bay window from 19th century. He explains attraction in subject verb agreement with more than one hijacker, and traces plumber from Latin plumbarius to modern plumbing practice. Special Features Syndicate, New York Times.
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Corporation
FBI
Special Features Syndicate
New York Times
When Rights Collide Are Media Asking Too Much
A dissent argues against a universal shield for reporters and favors public access to sources for credibility and fair trials. It cites the Watergate tapes and two jailed reporters to show confidentiality is context dependent and should only be shielded when truly serving the public interest.
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Ashington
Los Angeles Times
Times
William Farr
Charles Older
Farr
New Republic
Red Lake tragedy highlighted by federal neglect and disputed death
A 15 year old Chippewa, Desjarlait, lies dead after a police shooting whose circumstances are contested. Federal reports describe a history of misused aid, broken treaties, and stalled development on the Red Lake reservation, where poverty and unemployment run high and roads and housing are substandard.
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Brian Desjarlait
Red Lake
Red Lake River
United States
Three Amendments Advocated Maverick Electors Spotlight System's Drawbacks
James J. Kilpatrick argues maverick presidential electors expose flaws in the electoral system. He cites MacBride of Charlottesville, noting past electors who opened doors to unconventional votes, and urges abolishing electors, scrapping contingent house votes, and replacing winner take all with proportional allocation.
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James J. Kilpatrick Ashington
Roger L. MacBride
Charlottesville
Samuel Miles
William Plumer
Preston Parks
W. F. Turner
Henry P. Irwin
Lloyd W. Bailey
Doned
Wallace
Mavericks
Neal R. Peirce
Thomas Hart Benton
MacBride
Nixon
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She Gedur Rapids Gazette
People's Forum
Forum Letters
Theodore M. Bernstein
Theodore M
Peter Bridge
Evening News of
Newark
N.J
Pearl Beatty
Tole
Bridge
Los Angeles Times Syndicate
Roscoe
Drummond
By Jack Anderson
Renner
Rhode Island
United Feature Syndicate
Jack
Anderson
B. MacBride
Richard Nixon
John Hospers
Miles
Pennsylvania
Adams
Jefferson
Plumer
New Hampshire
Monroe
John Quincy Adams
Parks
Tennessee
Alabama
Walter E. Jones
Oklahoma
Harry F. Byrd
Dr. Bailey
North Carolina
Takeall
Virginia
McGovern
Hospers
Washington Star Syndicate
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