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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1977
Page
12
Gov Robert Ray announces a one issue special session for June 21 focusing on collective bargaining, noting lawmakers prefer to watch the Iowa Iowa State football rivalry. He jokes about the timing as the longest day of the year to “see the light.”
Congressional Quarterly records show Eastern Iowa members voting on water projects anti busing and international development. House rejected a Carter backed amendment to cut 17 water projects funds 194 218. Senate approved ban on U S funds to Vietnam Cambodia Laos 58 32 with Clark Culver voting against.
Iowa State Senator Eugene Hill asks Attorney General Richard Turner whether enrolled and attending are synonymous in the new mandatory immunization law. He wants to know if the provision applies to all current entrants or only first time enrollees for elementary, secondary schools, or day care centers.
John Dwight Letze, a 32 year old escapee from the Iowa state penitentiary, was recaptured after exchanging gunfire with state troopers near Carlisle. Letze abducted Des Moines resident John Chiovaro at gunpoint and forced him from the car before a chase ended in a ditch. no injuries were reported.
Evansdale council votes 4 1 to confirm the reinstatement of Floyd Warneka as police chief. Warneka had stepped down eight months earlier, Aldrich served briefly and resigned last week after a prior firing for allegedly slanderous remarks about Mayor Nichols.
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