Eight Cornell students return to campus after snow stoppage
Eight Cornell students complete the return to campus in Linn County amid transportation issues from last week's snow storm. Three Linn County legislators dispute county officials on the financial effects of the new Criminal Code. A Linn-Mar High School hearing on a proposed oil pipeline draws less attention than similar sessions in eastern Iowa. A feature on butchery and money-saving tips appears on page 26.
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Cornell
Linn County
Linn-Mar
Iowa
Pistol Pete Lake Celebrates His 18th Birthday
The feature notes Pistol Pete Lake marking his 18th birthday in style as the page reviews youth culture and notable personalities. It mentions other items including Emmylou Harris new album and a Joffrey performance at Hancher Auditorium.
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Emmylou Harris
Pete” Lake
Cedar Rapids teachers approve 6.98 percent pay rise
The tentative Cedar Rapids master contract calls for a 6.98 percent salary and benefit increase for 1978-79, costing $1,510,200 for 1,213 professional staff. The base rises 5.7 percent from $9,750 to $10,300 and top salary climbs 5.1 percent from $20,043 to $21,178 as mediation continues with Grant Wood agencies.
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Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids Community School Board
Cedar Rapids Education Association
Grant Wood Area Education Agency
Grant Wood Education Association
District proposes teacher pay increase and benefits shift
The tentative contract outlines a $1,000 yearly district perk raising the average salary to $15,600, plus hospitalization plan increases from $30 to $35 for single and $35 to $45 for family. It adds a $250 career differential for 91 top-salary employees, a $2 deductible prescription plan, and a new monetary incentive program.
Teamsters heads sued over loans
The Labor Department sued Teamsters President Frank Fitzsimmons and 16 former trustees of the Central States Pension Fund over alleged imprudent loans. The suit accuses them of breaching fiduciary duties in questionable transactions tied to gambling venues and risky real estate, with some loans linked to organized crime figures. The government seeks reimbursement for losses from mismanagement of the $1.65 billion fund.
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Washington
Labor Department Today
Teamsters
Frank Fitzsimmons
Central States Pension Fund
Labor
Ray Marshall
Republican sets race for governor
DES MOINES Donavan C Nelson 42 Newell Tuesday announced that he is seeking the Republican nomination for governor. Nelson, a packinghouse worker, cited concerns over Iowa Beef Processors buying beef nationwide and marketing as Iowa grown, and the need to revamp the state prison system. He is the first Republican to enter the race with three Democrats already in.
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Des Moines
Donovan C
Nelson
Newell
Iowa Beef Processors Inc
Iowa
Jerome Fitzgerald
Fort Dodge
Tom Whitney
Warren Strait
Charlton
Top Califano aide on $31,000 pension
Joseph Califano’s administrative officer Thomas Lemuel Johns earns 47 025 a year plus a 31 200 annual pension from the Secret Service for 21 years of service. This creates a total annual income of 78 225 while Califano heads HEW earning 66 000 a year.
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Califano
Thomas Lemuel Johns
Secret Service
District of Columbia Pension System
Johns
Quaker Oats Shuts Plant Over Rail Car Shortage
About 1,100 Quaker Oats employees faced temporary layoff as a plant closed due to a shortage of railroad box cars blamed on a recent blizzard. Operations manager Dick Stimple said production would resume Thursday or Friday, while other grain processors faced potential cutbacks amid ongoing transport bottlenecks.
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Quaker Oats Co
Dick Stimple
Quaker
Stimple
Oga Anderson
Penick
Ford
Cargill Inc
Mississippi River
Cargill
Iowa lawmakers’ pay for 1977 sessions tops details
Iowa legislators totaled 2 000 130 57 in salaries and expenses for the 1977 regular and special sessions plus interim work. House figures show Speaker Cochran earning 23 239 78 and Don Gettings listed lower than Byerly at 9 708 75, with Hultman and Kinley as Senate leaders earning 16 069 92 and 12 696 91 respectively.
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Des Moines
Iowa
David Wray
Iowa House
Steven Cross
Iowa Senate
House
Wray
Dale Cochran
D. Eagle Grove
Senate
Calvin Hultman
Red Oak
Hultman
Sen
George
Sioux City
Richard Byerly
D-Ankeny
Don Gettings
D-Ottumwa
Byerly
Rural Cedar Rapids man dies after Otis Road crash
A 71 year old Cedar Rapids man, Matthew T. Bickford, died en route to St Luke's Hospital after a U Haul overturned on Otis Road east of 44th Street SE. Autopsy ordered to determine cause of death. unclear if medical issues contributed. Mrs Bickford and a relative were with him. the couple planned to move to Arizona soon.
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Cedar Rapids
St. Luke’s Hospital
Otis Road
44Th St. SE
Linn County
Matthew T. Bickford
Route 3
Bickford
Polanski Skips Sentencing After Fleeing U S
Polanski has left the United States and refuses to return for sentencing in a case involving unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13 year old. A bench warrant was issued for his arrest as Superior Court Judge Laurence Rittenband set a 10 day surrender period.
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Santa Monica
Calif
Roman Polanski
United States
Polanski
Superior Court
Laurence Rittenband
Douglas Dalton
Dalton
Snow keeps groundhog in burrow amid winter snow
The groundhog is not expected to emerge Thursday for its annual prediction due to two to four inches of snow. Snow fell across western and northern sections Tuesday night as another winter storm moved southeast from the northwest, with Eastern Iowa seeing slow eastward movement at about 15 mph.
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Iowa
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C.R
Christie Wallace
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
Teamsters Heads
Joseph Califano
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Quaker Oats
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Frank Nye
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