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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1975
Page
17
AP describes an ITV tour of NBCs Another World noting its 60 minute sorrow cycle and heavy ad load. The piece sketches wedding plots with Mack Rachel Carol Lenore Robert Iris and a visitor’s bafflement at who’s who while commercials interrupt scenes and a Crissey shampoo joke caps the report.
TV guide excerpts list stations KCRG Cedar Rapids WMT Cedar Rapids KWWL Waterloo KTVO Ghumwa WHBF Rock Island with morning and evening programs. Includes news Eyewitness News weather Action News and various soap operas game shows and films across listed channels with times and titles.
The U S Department of Transportation recommends Congress block special funds for construction of the Chicago to Kansas City Expressway and nine other proposed routes. It argues a federal program would set an unwanted precedent and that these routes do not appear uniquely national or warrant new initiatives. Illinois Iowa and Missouri had deemed the expressway feasible, with the study results submitted to Congress last month.
In Shoals West Virginia Saskatchewan nicknamed Skatchy a paralyzed dog now rolls with a custom canine wheelchair built by Wayne High School smithing students. Owner Nicky Napier recalls finding the dog with another dumped and her recovery from distemper before paralysis. Skatchy adapts quickly and roams the farm herding horses as before.
In Kettering Ohio the 500 unit Greenmont housing complex has a massive waiting list for three bedroom rentals at 53 dollars and a half per month. The project was built by the federal government in 1941 for war industry workers and later purchased by residents as a mutual ownership community.
In Des Moines a bill to require state officials to negotiate with Amtrak for passenger service on the North Western route through Clinton Mt. Vernon Cedar Rapids Marshalltown Ames and Council Bluffs was on file in the Iowa House. Sen Carr proposed a state lottery and Gov Kelley spoke on wine sales. M the raid on Mothers barbeque Chicago resulted in 44 arrests for gambling and gun violations.
Des Moines Iowa Republican State Chairman John McDonald accuses the Democratic legislature of denying cost-of-living raises to state workers by delaying action on pay increases until departmental appropriations are approved He warns of a two class status for employees and urges the majority to reconsider and fund promised raises with department requests.
Des Moines report notes Sen. Earl Willits urged Acting Revenue Director Gerald Bair to pursue a broader probe of out-of-state corporations not paying Iowa estate income tax. Major firms such as General Motors and Chrysler were cited. the committee has examined Bair’s appointment and whether Ball should be confirmed.
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