Iowa weighs 55 mph propaganda plans and better safety returns
Iowa safety officials consider using 100000 dollars in DOT funds for a speed limit publicity push. They want to study who violates 55 mph and why, then run ads to boost compliance. Critics question spending a potential million more on campaigns versus funding road improvements.
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Department of Transportation
Kansas City
Iowa Department of Public Safety
DOT
Iowa
Feds
Governor Ray Vetoes Ambiguous Gifts Bill
Governor Ray vetoed a gifts bill passed at session end, saying it weakened ethics safeguards. The bill would redefine gifts and timing while expanding the statute already barring legislators from being wined and dined by lobbyists. The veto preserves Iowa’s stricter current ethics framework.
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Ray
Iowa
Turner
War cards pitch mocks ads with war time memory relics
A New Jersey firm Margrace Corp markets World War II memorabilia as collectible cards like baseball cards. The target audience includes older people who remember Pearl Harbor and Leyte. Skeptics doubt middle aged buyers will bite, given wartime reluctance to discuss the period and the questionable taste of such war memorabilia cards.
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New Jersey
Margrace Corp
Postponed White House Families Conference Faces New Start
The White House Conference on Families, proposed by President Carter, is delayed from 1979 to 1981 due to administrative turmoil. Critics fear political risk, while supporters see a chance for careful planning that respects diverse family structures and minimizes election-year complications.
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White House
HEW
Bicyclist Crash Sparks Iowa Justice Debate
Letter writer condemns traffic laws in Ossian crash where a bicyclist traveling at 20 mph in his lane was hit by a 50 to 60 mph car. The rider, 25 pounds on a bicycle, is seriously injured in Rochester Minnesota hospital as no charges were filed against the motorist and possible charges against the cyclist are speculated.
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Iowa
Gazette
Ossian
Law
Rochester
Minn
Poll propaganda and public opinion in Carter era
The writer denounces polling as propaganda claiming that a 1500 person sample cannot measure the views of over 200 million Americans. The piece criticizes the press and political figures for jeering at President Carter and urges memory of Congress.
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Carter
Community notes praise for local high school performances
A year in, the writer honors Jefferson high for a cantata with punch and cookies, Kennedy and Mount Mercy Christmas plays, Regis group, city churches events, Municipal Band, Sweet Adelines, University of Iowa string ensemble, All-Iowa Fair, and local store support. Reflections on nature and justice follow.
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Kennedy
Mount Mercy
Regis
Nitrates nitrites raise safe food question
A Senate testimony on diet and cancer funding notes Upton may boost NIH research to about 30 million annually by 1981. Nitrates and nitrites in processed meats raise cancer concerns when forming nitrosamines, though they help prevent botulism. The USDA proposes reduced or zero preservative usage with label warnings, prompting cautions from the American Meat Institute about storage and refrigeration. Readers are urged to read labels carefully.
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Senate Nutrition
National Cancer Institute
Arthur Upton
Congress
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Department
Food Safety and Quality Service
American Meat Institute
Attitude shift on quality of life improves slightly
The Harris Survey finds 40 percent say life has improved over the past decade versus 38 percent who say it has worsened, a shift from 1975 when 51 percent felt the opposite. The public prioritizes education, energy conservation, pollution control, safe work conditions, product safety, and privacy as key life quality factors.
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Leyte
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Califano
Donnybrook
Robert Rice
Private Family Services Association of America
Ture
Newspaper Enterprise Association
Wey
Harris
E.G. Bates
Meadowbrook Drive
Jefferson High
Richard L. Worsnop
Insight
John Erskine
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The
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Chicago Tribune
New York News Syndicate
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