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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 29, 1980
Page
6
The White House proposes a 15 year program to create a national nuclear waste disposal system. It envisions four to five years of site research with a storage site chosen by 1985 and full scale operation by 1995. The plan studies a dozen potential sites and develops containment methods including stainless steel vessels and possibly ceramic rocklike structures.
Former Iowa attorney general Richard Turner threatened grand jury action to challenge a proposed 36 dollar cable charge in University of Iowa dorms. Regents had approved an 11 percent dorm rate increase including the fee but withdrew the TV charge pending a legality study.
The piece recalls Scotland’s historic leap year custom where women proposed on February 29 a 700 year tradition. It notes the shift away from such practices in modern times and jokes that the leap day offers men a chance to dodge proposals.
Safire surveys a volatile Republican race as Reagan, Bush, and Kennedy swing in momentum. He notes Bush's missteps cost him, Baker’s strategy, and potential moves by Ford and Connally, with Reagan poised to pivot to a substantive crossfire strategy.
A writer riffs on overstatements in print about soup showers and desserts and jokes about chili lore and 9 million Texans eating chili. The piece laughs at grand claims and recalls childhood memories of cherry trees blown down in storms.
The purge of John Sears after the New Hampshire landslide deepens intraparty rifts as Reagan struggles with aged image and ideology. William Simon replaces Sears amid debates over economic policy while critics warn the candidate remains likely to lose to Carter if nominated.
The letter notes George Bush, a Republican candidate, resigned from the Trilateral Commission in October 1978 after exposure by the John Birch Society. It asserts he remained deeply aligned with the group’s aims and mentions David Rockefeller as chairman.
A polemic criticizes a broad conspiracy linking Eastern banks and the Texas oil establishment to a one world government with Jimmy Carter and George Bush as puppets. It warns voters against perceived plots by the Rockefeller network and Chase Manhattan Bank, accusing both leaders of socialism and weak defense while using a duck metaphor to brand them.
A citizen-initiated message urges Campbell Soup Co to maintain beef content and prices in 14 soups. The letter, signed by concerned mothers and beef producers, requests direct company contact at Camden New Jersey to halt perceived cuts and protests a boycott until assurances are given.
Cedar Rapids celebrates one year of Stouffer's Five Seasons Hotel with 55 000 guests overnight in ten months and 37 booked weekends. Convention business rose from 5.5 to 13.5 million in 1979 as 375 staff kept operations running. A lawyerly note warns against nonlawyer court involvement.
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