Contaminants From Salsbury Dump Stir Cedar River Debate
The Cedar River taints raise questions about Salsbury Laboratories dumping near Charles City. Gypsum forms majority waste, but arsenic mercury chromium and other metals have surfaced downstream to Waterloo. The Cedar Valley aquifer may be affected and state officials probe responsibility.
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Charles City
Salsbury Laboratories
Department of Environmental Quality
Salsbury
Cedar River
Waterloo
Cedar Valley
Editorial underscores shared blame for worsening La Bounty waste crisis
The piece argues that state and federal agencies failed to act on the La Bounty waste problem from 1975 to 1979. It details DEQ urging EPA leadership, EPA reluctance, and the eventual sealing of the site, while noting continued contamination risks from wind, water, and new monitoring wells. It criticizes Iowa’s 1979 hazardous waste bill for excluding non toxic dumps and urges closing the loophole.
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DEQ
Minnesota
Salsbury
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
County Civil Action Targets City and Housing Plan
A county resident reports being served with a summons in a civil suit against the city of Hiawatha and about 30 area homeowners over a proposed group home for six male children. The letter questions cost, legality, and the impact on Linn County taxpayers and local property values.
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Hiawatha
Woodhaven
Missouri
Linn County
Deprivation Pain and Ice Boxes in Postwar Household
A reader recalls Russell Baker's Deprival Pain column and his postwar lesson of frugal living. He contemplates cutting energy use by using an ice box despite higher upfront cost, recalling the distant ice house in a supermarket and a memory of his mother’s thrift. The note ends with a remembered hesitation about the plan.
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Russell Baker
A Mother's Struggle With Scarcity And Small Fortunes
The speaker details a harsh shortage era with debts, job loss, and price hikes. She trims groceries and uses substitutes to feed her family while cutting nonessential items. A series of desperate steps ends with a museum of small losses and a child’s arrest, revealing hardship’s social costs.
Plot to betray Nicaragua to communism warned by critics
A critical warning accuses President Carter and aides of a covert plan to weaken Somoza in Nicaragua by restricting ammunition and arming Sandinista forces. It compares U.S. policy to Marshall China and Eisenhower Cuba, urging citizens to contact congressmen to thwart perceived treasonous encirclement.
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Anastasio Somoza
Nicaragua
West Point
United States
Carlos Fonseca
Carter
Somoza
Cuba
George Marshall
Mao Tsetung
China
Chiang Kai-shek
Eisenhower
Castro
Batista
Freedom
America
Kennedy seen as strong leader in ABC Harris survey
The ABC News Harris survey of 1,243 voters shows 67 percent say Kennedy has the personality and leadership a president needs, with 69 percent agreeing he takes courageous stands and 66 percent saying he cares for the underdogs. Negative claims about Chappaquiddick and spending are largely rejected.
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Sen
Edward Kennedy
Chappaquiddick
Kennedy
ABC News-Harris
Massachusetts
Supreme Court Allows FDA to Ban Laetrile Drug
In a unanimous decision Justice Marshall writes for the court that the Food and Drug Act gives the commissioner authority to ban Laetrile. The ruling rejects lower court views that terminal patients should access the drug despite lack of proof of safety or effectiveness.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Oklahoma City
10Th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Justice Marshall
Commissioner of the Food and Drug Act
Marshall
Free citizens must decide medical treatment despite risks
Commentary argues against broad FDA overreach in cancer drug regulation. Marshall warns courts cannot rewrite statutes and urges respect for individual choice, noting historical medical misjudgments and the danger of banning all but sanctioned therapies for terminal patients. Universal Press Syndicate
Iowa Commission for the Blind gets new member
Gov. Ray appoints Nolden Gentry of Des Moines to replace Elwyn Hemken on the three member Iowa Commission for the Blind. Gentry, a lawyer, brings a neutral stance and working knowledge of prejudice issues to ease conflicts among private groups and agency affairs.
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Iowa
Elwyn Hemken
Blairsburg
Nolden Gentry
Des Moines
Fomer
Kenneth Jernigan
Iowa Federation For the Blind
Iowa Council For the Blind
Commission
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Seneca
Etta Fort Worm Star
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