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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 2004
Page
1
General Mills plans to close its 11 year old Iowa City Pop Secret microwave popcorn plant by next year and shift production to an undisclosed location. About 83 employees will lose their jobs as the non union facility at 2309 Heinz Rd winds down with 9 to 12 months more of operation.
In Riverside Skate Park Cedar Rapids teens and tweens ride the steel half pipe while others watch. Fifteen year old Travis McInroy says skaters use parks to warm up before street skating highlighting the contrast between park practice and street tricks.
General Mills Inc closes its 2309 Heinz Road Iowa City facility opened in 1993 making Pop Secret popcorn for retail and food service. The plant employs 83 workers with a closing planned for spring or summer 2005.
The International Committee of the Red Cross says it cannot locate detainees reported by the FBI as captured. ICRC spokeswoman Antonella Notari says the U.S. has not provided a full list of detainees, though ICRC has access to thousands in Iraq and elsewhere.
Militants threaten to kill another detainee while Bulgarian authorities report a fatally injured civilian. A Bin Laden confidant surrenders offering information that could aid the war on terror. The U S seeks to stop militants from derailing the Afghan election campaign amid undisclosed actions.
Pro proposed constitutional amendment banning same sex marriage is expected to fail in the Senate today. Republicans proceed with a vote they expect to lose to maintain conservative leverage and frame the fight for future elections.
Analysts say today’s Senate decision is whether to end debate to allow a vote on the constitutional amendment. Supporters need 60 votes to invoke cloture, a threshold unlikely to be reached, forcing Democrats to take a potentially tough election year stance.
A British parliamentary committee urged dropping hereditary and honorary titles from public life, saying the age of chivalry is dead. The Public Administration Select Committee notes titles have become an embarrassment rather than a celebration, affecting figures from rock stars to civil servants.
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