1975 Outstanding Business Year in Cedar Rapids Area
Cedar Rapids Marion area ends 1975 with strong economy and a $7 million downtown community center approval. Unemployment around 5 percent, housing starts up, and retail sales set a post-holiday record. Industrial and commercial growth continued with over $2.3 million in industrial and $8.3 million in commercial expansion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C.R
Cedar Rapids-Marion
Manpower, Inc
Faxon
Cedar Rapids
Turner Co
Collins
Carfrae Meats
Amana
Explosion Rips Fremont Hotel Killing 11 Injuring Dozens
A six story Pathfinder hotel in Fremont Nebraska exploded and burned on Saturday killing at least 11 people and injuring more than 80 as flames raged. Police feared more bodies would be found in rubble while hotel manager Jim Rhodus reported gas smell beforehand and delayed assistance from the gas company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pathfinder
Fremont
Neb
Fremont, Neb
Jim Rhodus
Rhodus
OAU Summit Splits Over Angolan Aid At Addis Speech
An emergency African summit began in Addis Ababa with President Samora Machel urging support for the Soviet backed Popular Movement in Angola. He called for resisting South African aggression as UNITA and FNLA leaders faced Western backing in the civil conflict.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
Samora Machel
Mozambique
Popular Movement
Angola
Machel
National Union
UNITA
National Front
FNLA
Africa
Leopold Senghor
Senegal
South Africa
Russia
Cuba
Organization of African Unity
Seretse Khama
Botswana
OAU
Vietnam
Cambodia
Pravda
Moscow
MPLA
Man Sought After Fatal Shooting At Hiawatha Tavern
Authorities seek a man after David Pettit 45 Cedar Rapids construction worker died from a chest wound in a Hiawatha area shooting. Pettit died at St Luke's hospital after being shot at Play Mar lounge early Saturday. Pettit had been a Cedar Rapids resident for 30 years and is survived by a son and daughter. Funeral services planned in Fayette with burial at Fayette cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David James Pettit
Hiawatha
Pettit
St. Luke's Hospital
Linn Sheriff's Department
Play-Mar
Center Point Road
Sheriff's Department
Cedar Rapids
Fayette
Turner Chapel East
Wilson Hyde
Trinity United Methodist Church
Fayette Cemetery
Turner's East
Iowa 66th General Assembly Opens Amid Tax Debate
Iowa lawmakers begin the 1975 76 session as presidential campaigns draw attention. Key issues include property tax reform and the state budget with a $250 million surplus facing rising costs and existing commitments. A 20 percent rollback plan and local option taxes are discussed to curb tax increases while maintaining highway funding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kinley
Jerome Fitzgerald
Fort Dodge
Fitzgerald
State Revenue
Gerald Bair
Legislative
Bair
Ford and aides mull overhaul of U.S. intelligence
President Ford spent about two-thirds of a day in talks with Vice President Rockefeller and senior officials on possible reorganizations of the intelligence community. Participants included Henry Kissinger, Donald Rumsfeld, Edward Levi, William Simon, and CIA Director William Colby. No detailed plan was disclosed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Ford
Rockefeller
Henry Kissinger
Defense
Donald Rumsfeld
Atty
Edward Levi
Treasury
William Simon
CIA
William Colby
White House
Dear Rapids Community School District Job Survey
The Dear Rapids Community school district conducts a survey to determine student needs for job training. An experimental career exploration program is underway at Wilson junior high. Story and pictures on page 10A. Precinct caucuses set for January 19 with locations listed on page 19A. Wind power used by a Shellsburg resident for part of home electricity. Story and picture on page B.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dear Rapids
Wilson Junior High
Weather outlook and a father's TV complaint
Decreasing clouds today with clear skies tonight and Monday. Highs in the upper 20s and teens tonight. A father laments his children’s TV watching with the quip a six year old only says shhh. Copyright Today's Index Social.
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Chamber of Commerce
Robert Faxon
KCRG
Cedar Towers
Mt. Mercy College Nursing Education
Life Investors Office
Brenton Financial Center
Sheraton
South
Cedar Rapids Engineering
Marion
Pittsburgh- Des Moines Steel Co
Vigortone
Kirkwood College
Cedar River
Westside
Jack Carfrae
the Gazette
Nebraska
Omaha
Bob Bergreen
Bergreen
Fred Whitt
Gazette
David Ray
Dawn Rene Pettit
Susan Pettit
John
William
Frank
Leona Steggal
Oelwein
Lavon Bailey
Luzerne Valley
Calif
Idi Amin
Holden Roberto
Jonas Savimbi
Agostinho Neto
United States
George Sangambe
Money Matters
By Frank Nye
Des Moines
Iowa
66Th General Assembly
Senate
George Kinley
Linn County
IEBN
Iowa Educational Broadcasting Network
Shellsburg
Today's Index
City Hall
N.Y
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