Cedar Rapids Aims 500 New Jobs With $500000 Drive
The Cedar Rapids Marion Area Chamber of Commerce announced a Committee of 100 to raise 500000 over three years to attract business and create 500 new jobs and 40 million dollars in new capital. Fifty leaders divided 300 prospects. project leaders include Mayor Don Canney and Lee Liu with five co chairs. The effort seeks to fill more than 1 million square feet of industrial space and 500000 of office and retail space. The program marks the first time the area aligns government business labor and industry behind a unified economic development plan. The drive follows Cedar Rapids being sixth in Iowa for development funding while Des Moines leads with 320000 annually.
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Bruce Fishwild
Cedar Rapids
Economic Development League
Cedar Rapids-Marion Area
Chamber
Don Canney
Lee Liu
Iowa Electric Light and Power Co
Jack Evans
Securities Corp. of Iowa
Don Hattery
Shire-Hattery Engineering
Joe Hladky III
the Gazette Co
al Peremsky
Armstrong’s Department Store
Robert Verhille
Robert W. Verhille & Associates
Verhille
Marion
Evans
Cedar Rapids- Marion
Des Moines
Thatcher's Crushing Victory Lands Thatcher in Power
Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher won a decisive election, pushing past the 326-seat majority as Labour leader Michael Foot conceded defeat. The centrist alliance split Labour’s vote, with Thatcher declaring the 10 Downing Street term would last five years.
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London
Margaret Thatcher
Michael Foot
Labor
Foot
House of Commons
Britain
Tony Benn
Radical Left
Social Democratic Party
Thatcher
Downing St
Finchley
Wilson Foods agrees to talks after wage cuts and strike
Wilson Foods chief Kenneth Griggy told UFCW delegates in Chicago the company is ready to negotiate after a wage cut to 6.50 an hour from 10.69 and other benefit reductions. A UFCW official said discussions were meaningful but far apart as strike action and bankruptcy proceedings continue in Oklahoma City and Cedar Rapids delegates press for reinstate contract terms.
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Gary Peterson Sazelle
Sss
Kenneth Griggy
Wilson Foods
United Food and Commercial Workers
Chicago
National Labor Relations Board
Oklahoma City
UFCW
Garry Zimmerman
P-3
Cedar Rapids
Wilson
Griggy
Lewis Anderson
Ufcw Packing House Division
Associated Press
Reagan fund raiser sparks protest as Mondale criticizes spending
Minneapolis police carried off a demonstrator outside a hotel where President Reagan spoke at a Boschwitz fundraiser. Earlier in Hopkins he urged merit pay for teachers and tougher education standards while Mondale accused him of cutting education funds to fund an arms buildup.
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Minneapolis
Reagan
Rudy Boschwitz
Hopkins
Walter Mondale
Iowa lawmakers urge full Army probe into Ranger’s Panama death
Iowa Rep. Tom Tauke and Sen. Roger Jepsen called Thursday for a formal Army inquiry into the death of 20 year old Pfc. Shawn Lau of Oelwein who was fatally shot during a live fire training exercise in the Panama Canal Zone. Lau joined the Army on March 30 1982 and was with the 1st Battalion 75th Infantry Rangers at Hunter Army Airfield Georgia.
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David Lynch
Washington
Iowa
Oelwein
Panama Canal Zone
Shawn Lau
U.S. Army Hospital
Panama
Rep
Tom Tauke
R-lowa
Sen
Roger Jepsen
Army
John Marsh Jr
Lau
Hunter Army Airfield
Fort Stewart
75Th Infantry
Rangers
Branstad signs court bill aims to cut property taxes
Gov. Terry Branstad signed a bill reorganizing Iowa courts and shifting funding to the state. The measure could cut property taxes by about 4.2 million in the year starting July 1 and total relief of about 35 million annually once fully phased in by 1988. The governor said the plan centralizes administration and eases taxpayer burden.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Terry Branstad
Branstad
Comedy Line About Show Canceled During Baseball Game
A wife quips to her husband watching a TV baseball game that she thought the show had been dropped last fall. The remark captures a light, domestic humor moment referenced in the source.
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