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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1978
Page
10
The Miller family picnic at Bever Park in Cedar Rapids ended when a can of lighter fluid ignited beneath their 1978 Chrysler with 11 000 miles. Firefighters contained the blaze but the car interior and floor were burned. no injuries. Insurance coverage anticipated.
Des Moines Iowa House and Senate leaders from both parties were asked to meet at 8 a m Thursday to resolve the impasse over the controversial interest rate issue. Democratic Leader Jerome Fitzgerald of Fort Dodge urged a joint bipartisan conference to clear the air on possible action this year.
A skeleton crew of legislators will meet briefly Tuesday to extend the recess as the Senate resumes consideration of the interest rate issue Thursday. The House reconvenes Friday to act on Senate moves. The dispute centers on a bill to lift the 9 percent cap on home mortgage interest and reduce revolving charge account charges. House Democrats push a combined measure while Senate Republicans want separate treatment. The package passed the House June 30 and was defeated by the Senate the next day, leaving Fitzgerald's goal unresolved.
All-Iowa Fair closes with attendance improving from midweek lows. Friday saw about 3,000 free passes and 6,093 paid attendees, ranking as the third highest of the eight days. total excluding Saturday around 57,000.
Bond set at 100000 for Jerry Masters 30 Frank Bode 43 and Gayle Gosnell 19 as authorities link them to the deaths of Ben Johnson 82 and his son Millard 43 near Glenwood Mills County autopsy shows drowning for Millard and shooting for Ben Johnson investigation coordinated by Mills County sheriff's office BCI and Council Bluffs police with transfers to Mills County District Court pending.
A Cedar Rapids item notes Recovery-Recovery, the organization for nervous and former mental patients, will meet Monday at 1 p.m. in the lounge of First Christian Church at 840 Third Ave SE. The meeting is open to the public and the topic is Partial Views and Total Viewpoint.
Iowa Department of Social Services promotes Bernita Jacobson to child advocate replacing Larry Jackson. Jacobson, longtime superintendent of Mitchellville Training School for Girls since 1977, will supervise Toledo Mitchellville and Eldora juvenile facilities and oversee the new juvenile justice law.
Three volunteers from the Grant Wood area Red Cross chapter in Cedar Rapids depart for Rochester Minnesota to assist flood victims for about two weeks. Paula Gentz Rebecca Botkin Knowles and Chris Schmidt join Kit Fuller already there. The exodus follows a Cedar Rapids support team extra workers. On this date in 1835 the Liberty Bell cracked during John Marshall funeral.
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