02 Mar 1979
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1979
Page
1
Marion heads to double overtime in a dramatic game as the Kennedy team keeps its hot streak. An image of a blue and black matchup hints at injuries amid a tense finish with the Azanas on page 3B.
Fifty residents gather to discuss Marion bus service while some council members object to a Gazette editorial. A long standing re zoning request finally wins approval after months in consideration. The House Education Committee approves a $1.14 billion school funding bill.
Smoke-filled pool halls were once male domains but in eastern Iowa a weekly event lets women take over. Allamakee County teens enter tournaments as adults and require chaperones while competing in their favorite sport.
The forecast calls for mostly cloudy skies with an 80 percent chance of rain and thunderstorms tonight. Lows will dip to the mid 30s, with rain and highs in the low 40s on Saturday. A separate quote notes a father advising his teenage son to start shifting for himself while he still knows everything.
U S energy officials unveil a gasoline tilt pricing plan that could lift average pump prices by about 12.4 cents in two years and push unleaded to roughly $1 a gallon within a year. The plan shifts costs to gasoline and joins a 5 percent World oil cut pledge by the IEA members including the United States.
United Airlines cancels 12 of 18 weekend flights at Cedar Rapids due to Shell monthly jet fuel allocation tied to March 1978 levels. About 500 travelers affected as several Saturday and Sunday departures to and from Chicago are dropped. Systemwide curtailments noted. other carriers report varying impacts.
A National Academy of Sciences panel urged no immediate saccharin ban while recommending labeling or restrictions and a major overhaul of food policy laws to empower regulators. It favored flexible risk categories for additives and contaminants and noted current all or nothing rules hinder accountability. The FDA had linked saccharin to bladder cancer in animal studies, but many panel members warned against a total ban.
Before the Iowa Michigan game fans cheered as Lute Olson announced he will remain Iowa basketball coach next year. Rumors of a USC exit were laid to rest and the decision gave Iowa fans a rare moment of good news on Thursday night.
Officials at a flood seminar warn of potential record flooding along the Rock and Pecatonica rivers with up to 11 feet above stage in northeast Iowa and widespread threat across Illinois. Col. Mueller and experts cite heavy snowpack and warm melt, forecasting major rises and possible catastrophic floods into spring.
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