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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1977
Page
26
AP Special Correspondent profiles Walker Percy, Covington writer and doctor, drawing on his Bayou home life, novels like The Moviegoer and Love in the Ruins, and his sharp satire of behaviorists, politics, and Southern culture.
The interview sketches Percy’s preoccupation with sin and evil, a critique of behaviorist thinking, and his belief in Judeo Christian humanity. It traces his Birmingham origins, Georgetown satire, medical training, and shift from physician to novelist, framing a life shaped by Lang uage science and moral inquiry.
Douglas Lee Schmidt of Bridge City faces an attempted injury to a child charge after allegedly placing his 11-year-old son in the car trunk when the boy cried. A witness reported the act. the boy was found face down with a towel over his mouth and admitted to a local hospital in satisfactory condition.
Jacques Duhamel former Centrist leader in the French national assembly and two time cabinet minister died in Paris after a long illness at age 53. He was elected deputy in 1962 and served as agriculture minister from 1969 to 1971 and cultural affairs minister from 1972 to 1973. He remained mayor of Dole in eastern central France until last year.
The book The Promise of Greatness argues federal social programs in the 1960s and 70s reduced poverty and advanced education and rights for Blacks. It catalogs acts from 1964 to 1974, notes funding rose from 5.8 to 11.2 percent of GNP, and cites declines in poverty from about 40 million to 24 million people by decade end. It also contrasts Johnson and Nixon approaches and warns of urban turmoil risks.
The remains of a Milky Way supernova exploded about 300,000 years ago have been found as an egg shaped gas and dust shell in Cygnus about 3 900 light years away. Researchers Theodore Gull Robert Kirschner and Robert Parker found the remnant at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson Arizona. They estimate the shell diameter at 220 light years and its expansion speed over 100 000 miles per hour. Kitt Peak is NSF supported.
Iowa State University extension specialist Cindy Needles says a federal tax change allows home babysitters to deduct part of home upkeep costs even if space isn’t used exclusively for child care. The law is retroactive, so eligible filers may amend 1976 returns using Form 1040X.
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