Mayor Sees Carter Administration Open to City Cooperation
Cedar Rapids Mayor Don Canney and aide Tom Aller returned from Washington where the urban economic policy committee discussed city needs with eight Carter cabinet members. He reported officials favor preprogram consultation, support for long term community development, and possible $4 billion boosts to public works.
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Cedar Rapids
Don Canney
Canney
Tom Aller
Washington
U.S. Conference of Mayors
Urban Economic Policy Committee
Carter
Ford
Harris
Patricia Harris
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Congress
Jimmy Carter
Gerald Ford
Cedar Rapids officials seek federal help for urban programs
Cedar Rapids officials backed transferring public works programs from EDA to HUD and urged faster aid delivery. They cited impoundment concerns and delays, and anticipated a CETA expansion targeting youth employment amid rising unemployment among minority youths. Officials expected rebate checks by early spring and gauged Congress and cabinet support as genuine.
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EDA
HUD
Congress
Canney
Bert Lance
Office of Management and Budget
Lance
Cedar Rapids
Life in the Old Days Mirrors Modern Struggles
The article contrasts ancient Pompeii ads and satirical quotes with modern issues of housing and politics. It notes enduring rent woes, landlord behavior, and sexist tensions, alongside campaign slogans and the formal era of marriage and divorce.
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Gaius
Daily Life in Ancient Rome Shaped by Welfare and Dowries
Dr. JoAnn Shelton, UC Santa Barbara classics professor, updates a course on daily life in early Rome. She notes family divorce practices, dowry disputes, and welfare efforts for orphans and parents, with references to Puritanlike restraint and Seneca research.
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JoAnn Shelton
University of California, Santa Barbara
Italy
Shelton
UC Berkeley
UC Santa Barbara
Seneca
Juvenal
Leaders named for five phases of All Out for Scouting
Hawkeye Area Boy Scout council announced leaders for five phases of the 18 month All Out for Scouting program to run across seven counties next month. District coordinators were named from Iowa City Coralville Cedar Rapids and other towns to head Hit the Goal activities. The plan aims to improve programming training and leadership for both adults and boys across the district council.
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Hawkeye Area
Robert Otto
Iowa City
North Star
Mike Logan
Coralville
Wauhawk
Gib Garrett
Cedar Rapids
Temaque
Robert Thompson
Wapsiketa
Don McGrane
Anamosa
Garrett
Robert Allison
Brownsea
Norman Byers
Central City
Baden-Powell
McGrane
Pinky Wheeler
Hiawatha
Gael Hammer Receives 1977 Standard Oil Medal
Gael Hammer, former Coe College theater instructor, named the 1977 recipient of the Standard Oil Co. Gold Medal of Excellence. The award honors volunteers for outstanding service to the American College Theater Festival Central Region, covering Iowa, Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska. Hammer earned a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa and teaches and directs at Washington State University Pullman.
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Gael Hammer
Coe College
Standard Oil Co
American College Theater Festival
Iowa
Missouri
Kansas
Nebraska
Hammer
University of Iowa
Washington State University
Pullman
Native Prairie Nearly Vanished Across Missouri
Missouri's native prairie has been reduced to about 0.5 percent of its former 15 million acres per the conservation commission. Between 1959 and 1972 the state lost 1.5 million acres of woodlands and urbanization plus highways have consumed over 1.5 million more acres.
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Jefferson City
UPI
Missouri
State Conservation Commission
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Killians
Viner
Ita
Lowe City
the Kiluan Company
Jean Joyce
Tos
Cherge
Ocoo
Budger Store
Lindale Budger Shop
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