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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1980
Page
8
Officers Action Committee members discussed the city wage offer of about 9.6 to 10.6 percent and questioned tactics used to push acceptance. About 28 experienced officers face possible step pay inclusion. result could head to arbitration if rejected. Spokesman Stan McClurg says he will vote against the package.
Two Cedar Rapids lawmakers criticized city auditor Robert McMahan for prematurely predicting a next year property tax increase. They noted a bill to roll back commercial valuations could shift revenue to homeowners, and argued local taxing bodies set taxes. They urged fuller disclosure of proposed remedies and state aid options.
Eminent historian James McGregor Burns told about 45 Coe College students at noon Wednesday that the American media have trivialized the upcoming presidential election. He warned this trivialization lowers voter interest and participation.
Jonnie L. Cassell Equal Employment Opportunity officer for Cedar Rapids is honored as the first Martin Luther King award recipient by local 3P United Food and Commercial Workers AFL CIO and the A Philip Randolph Foundation. About 500 people attend the sixth annual commemoration at Mount Zion Baptist Church while L A Dunnigan denounces media trivialization of campaigns and Bernard Burns discusses Kennedy campaign coverage and the 1980 election.
On this date in 1974 Egypt and Israel announced an agreement to separate their fighting forces along the Suez Canal, moving toward reduced military confrontation and calm in the region.
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