Health Center Hang-Up in Linn County Waxes Legal Uncertainty
A Linn County health center board faces a power gap over funding programs for the mentally retarded and handicapped. Law and local practice clash, prompting calls for legislative clarification and a formal amendment to define the center's scope and duties.
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Linn County Health Center Board
Linn County
County Board of Supervisors
Health Center Board
Linn County Board of Supervisors
Iowa
County Boards of Supervisors
Home Rule Push Could Let Cedar Rapids Set Pay for City Officials
The legislature may embrace home rule to let Cedar Rapids and other Iowa cities raise council salaries beyond state ceilings. A proposed change would remove the outdated limit, with safeguards: council raises bound by next election, and recall potential to oust overcompensation. The move aligns with the home rule amendment allowing local self government within general laws.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
General Assembly
Nixon reappraisal delays ABM Sentinel program
Capitol Hill Republicans led by Sen. Charles Percy push for a reassessment of the $5 billion Sentinel anti ballistic missile project. Deputy Defense Secretary Packard launches inquiry into ABM viability as Percy margins gain, but lawmakers expect Sentinel funding to survive while debate continues.
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Ashington
Capitol Hill
Charles H. Percy
Illinois
Nixon
David Packard
Sen
Percy
Johnson
Melvin R. Laird
Sentinel
Senate
Armed Services Committee
John Stennis
Mississippi
House of Congress
Pentagon
Laird
China Eyes Less Ideological Policy Amid East Asia Tensions
The piece analyzes how China seeks a more national approach toward the West while avoiding Moscow-Peking splits, pressed by Vietnam talks and Taiwan preconditions. It notes U.S. island-based Pacific strategy, calls for keeping Taiwan, Okinawa, Philippines ties, and warns against rapid shifts before Vietnam peace and regional alliances stabilize.
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China
Vietnam
Peking
Southeast Asia
Moscow
Washington
West
U.S
Taiwan
Formosa
Pacific
Fulbright
Chiang Kai-shek
America
Japan
Okinawa
Philippines
Australia
Korea
Philippine Republic
Manila
Kamejiro Senaga
People’s Party
Merchants National plans Third Street expansion in Cedar Rapids
The firm announces expansion into buildings along Third Street SE in Cedar Rapids with a possible tunnel under Third Street if city approval is granted. City Hall session discussed downtown railroad issue and future work. Gordon DeLay became committee chair, and Warren Walters became YMCA president.
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Third Street
Merchants National Bank
City Hall
Fourth Street
Cedar Rapids
Gordon DeLay
Warren Walters
Ellis Branch
University of Iowa mid year convocation highlights
Ten to twenty to thirty years ago at the University of Iowa mid year convocation Benjamin F Swisher a Waterloo attorney delivered the convocation address Louise Gillis elected president of Iota Epsilon chapter of Phi Omicron business girls sorority Raymond Rieck named third deputy clerk of the district court succeeding Walter C Rech who resigned
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University of Iowa
Benjamin F. Swisher
Waterloo
Louise Gillis
Iota Epsilon Chapter
Pr Omicron
Business Girls’ Sorority
Raymond Rieck
District Court
Walter C. Rech
Definition of Arms Sufficiency by James Reston
EW YORK In his first news conference as secretary of defense Mel Laird said the goal for U S nuclear strength was sufficient power to deter the enemy yet he would not give up maintaining a superior force. The piece notes the vague terms used by hawks and doves in describing arms policy.
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EW York
Mel Laird
U.S
Moscow
Nixon
Laird
Congress
Sufficiency versus Superiority in U S Nuclear Balance
McNamara outlines U S strategic forces including 1000 Minuteman launchers 41 Polaris submarines with 656 launchers and about 600 long range bombers most kept on alert He argues U S superiority could destroy the Soviet Union multiple times but cautions it does not prevent retaliation The piece weighs Nixon and Laird positions on de escalation and urges budget and policy clarity while noting both sides face home front pressures
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Robert McNamara
U.S
Polaris
McNamara
Look Magazine
Soviet Union
United States
Churchill
Johnson
Nixon
Pentagon
Laird
Disraeli
Youth Center Backed To Curb Cedar Rapids Crime
A reader argues Cedar Rapids needs a youth center to reduce teen crime and idle summers. The letter notes past political inaction on gun control and cites Kennedy assassinations as examples of talk without action. Debbie Glessner 713 Ninth Avenue SE.
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John Kennedy
Congress
Robert Kennedy
Debbie Glessner
Ninth Avenue
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Cedar Rapids Gazette
Percy Bucks
Packard
Lee DuBridge
Publishers-Hall Syndicate
By C. L. Sulzberger
Warsaw
Cairo
NATO
Russia
New York Times Service
C.L. Sulzberger
William Mc
Laughlin
Frank Baldwin
State Supreme Court
Helen Galvin
Pleasantville
Johnson County Bar Assn
Hugh
E. Gordon
Marion
Iowa Poultry Improvement Assn
Ray B. France
George Clark
By James Reston
James
Reston
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