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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1982
Page
3
Gov. Robert Ray warns that giving states welfare load in exchange for health care obligations could hurt states like Iowa. He argues treasuries could not bear dumping welfare programs even if Medicare and Medicaid are federally assumed. Marion police say arson is probable in a Tuesday case.
Priscilla Presley accuses Colonel Thomas Parker of hiding Presley contracts and seeks an accounting of earnings from records, TV, movies, and concerts in a petition to the state labor commissioner.
A Saturday blaze extensively damaged an apartment at 412 Fifth Ave. Investigators believe the fire started when combustible material was discarded in a bedroom wastebasket. Marion News page 15A.
University of Iowa President Duane Spriestersbach warned that falling public funding threatens the core mission of colleges to nurture inquiry and advance the American way of life. The remarks appeared in State News on page 12A.
City Council approves 93500 dollars in annual savings from Cedar Rapids downtown parkades by cutting maintenance and operating costs. Measures include closing some exits at First Street and Third Avenue ramps, shorter cashier hours, lighting and heat reductions at Five Seasons and Third Avenue ramps, and trimming maintenance staff.
Iowa Senate trimmed local option powers to two choices future debate will continue. The earnings tax was eliminated by a 29 to 21 vote, while the vehicle tax remained. leaders noted several amendments still to come as Sen. Craft expressed optimism about passage with two options left. Senator Kinley urged metropolitan consolidation, but the idea was ruled non germane to the bill.
Timothy Donohoe, 36, a gas industry lobbyist for Enserch Corp., was fired for lack of judgment after writing Interior Secretary James Watt asking for clarification of his remark that the country is divided between liberals and Americans. Watt’s aide forwarded Donohoe’s letter and his own reply to Enserch’s chairman William McCord.
The Hall Foundation was honored by the Cedar Rapids Marion Area Chamber of Commerce for its contributions in health care and welfare of the aging and handicapped in Cedar Rapids.
State lawmakers were told that up to 20 women could be housed at the Oakdale facility if a $7.27 million addition is built. The plan would add 200 beds to the Iowa Security Medical Facility as part of the Oakdale expansion.
Cedar Rapids Kennedy hosted Dubuque Wahlert in a key Mississippi Valley boys basketball battle. The result could help decide the league championship as the season tightens on page 1B.
Needy residents urged to arrive early for processed American cheese as the distribution runs at sites in Delaware County on Thursday and Cedar County on Friday. The Dubuque County event on Tuesday saw the cheese vanish quickly across 14 sites.
Two climbers Jeffrey Batzer and Hugh Herr of Lancaster Pa were found alive after a three day ordeal on Mount Washington. They were airlifted to Littleton Hospital for frostbite and hypothermia treatment as rescuers recovered from the avalanche that claimed one rescuer.
Iowa Senator questions Penney advertising that asks customers to cash a $1 check and obligates them to buy a $15 tax guide. The matter was referred to postal inspectors and the attorney general for review after objections to the fine print.
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