17 Feb 1978
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1978
Page
1
The article notes a third attempt by Safety Commissioner Floyd Bergen and the Cedar Rapids Police Department, aiming for new objectives. It cites ongoing efforts to address public safety and enforcement in the city.
A state Senate committee opts to maintain a tax loophole dating from the Depression era. The move is noted as continuing a longstanding fiscal provision despite calls for reform.
In Turkmenia, a sparsely populated Soviet republic, an experimental factory preserves an ancient craft. The project highlights traditional methods and aims to sustain regional heritage amid modernization.
Readers recount acts of kindness that restored hope as volunteers helped others on Page 10 while cautioning that such good deeds may draw scrutiny or legal concerns in certain situations.
A world champion all round freshwater fisherman from Minnesota will visit Cedar Rapids soon. The piece notes Dairy Queen restaurants now open and asks if spring may follow. Beverley Duffy recalls a traveling piano tuner who visited a small southwest Iowa town in the late 1940s. Mental preparedness for icy water rescue is essential for the Iowa County Underwater Search Unit.
The forecast calls for clear to partly cloudy skies tonight through Saturday. Lows dip 0 to 8 below zero with highs in the teens on Saturday. Local sections list advice, comics, Marion, competition, movies, crosswords, and various notes.
FBI agents traced Theodore Robert Bundy to a Pensacola jail cell by fingerprints revealing him in the disguise of a college track star. He faces questioning in the Jan. 15 Florida State University sorority murders while Cooperating with investigators and linked to 35 other sex slayings across California Oregon Washington Utah and Colorado.
Former aide H R Haldeman asserts Nixon and Kissinger spurned Moscow’s 1969 invitation for a joint atomic attack on China. They feared Russian retaliation and aimed to deter a unilateral strike while warning of wide fallout impacting Japan and U S forces. Haldeman also claims Kissinger exposed a Cuban nuclear base project.
Steven Fisher slid from a ridge of snow near his home at 2915 Circle Drive NE and ended up on the street while Shane Toms at 2921 Circle Drive NE appeared to navigate safely. Cedar Rapids has endured 40 straight days below freezing with no temps above 32 since Jan 7 when a 33 was logged at the airport.
FRA officials plan a March Iowa meeting with Gov. Ray and lawmakers to discuss Midwest rail problems. The session follows January and weekly conferences. FarmRail proposals by John W. Ingram draw initial interest, with no federal commitment and a six to twelve month review window.
Gloria Jean Hoover, 26, was shot at her 317 H Ave home and pronounced dead at St Luke's Hospital. Police call the death a possible homicide pending medical examiner determination, with a suicide theory raised by friends and family.
In Des Moines a $266 million education bill for 1978 79 advances with a $400 000 item to furnish textbooks to nonpublic students in districts providing public school texts. Senator Eugene Hill opposes the item saying it risks religious bias and questions legality while noting existing $16 million for private school programs.
Washington AP reports labor talks in the 74 day soft coal strike resume with an informal Carter administration deadline to clinch a contract by day’s end. Labor Secretary Ray Marshall mediates sessions with union officials and Bituminous Coal Operators Association after keeping negotiators at the table near continuously from Thursday morning to 2 a.m. today.
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