Meat inspection debate heats Iowa House over rat claw claim
Iowa lawmakers clash over meat safety as Rep. Mezvinsky displays rat claws said to be in dormitory bologna. Rep. Crabb denounces the charge while urging tougher standards, stressing the industry's economic importance hinging on clean inspected meat. The editorial urges focusing on facts and real inspection laxity.
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Iowa
Iowa House
Edward Mezvinsky
Iowa City
University of Iowa
Mezvinsky
Frank Crabb
Denison
Crabb
Rep. Crabb
Iowa Farm Bureau seeks factors other than market value in land tax
A column argues that Iowa lawmakers consider crop suitability, capitalization, soil surveys, and other factors to set farm land assessments, challenging the primacy of sale prices as true value. It notes the difficulty of weighing diverse factors uniformly, and defends the usefulness of actual sale prices despite flaws.
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Iowa
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
Friends
Civic Center plan debated for Cedar Rapids area
A letter-writer questions an eight million dollar Cedar Rapids civic center, urging location near Kingston stadium and ball park to cut costs. He notes no local major teams exist and urges downtown relocation to save property expenses, while criticizing growing safety rules and proposing a nostalgic solution to civic problems.
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Cedar Rapids
Kingston Stadium
Ball Park
Killian’s
Armstrong
Kingston
August H. Brehm
Center Point Road
They Might Be Faking It Russia China Split
A Washington analysis questions the reality of Soviet Russia and Red China tensions, suggesting the clash may be a calculated display to mislead the West. It argues against optimistic hopes that the two powers will destroy each other and warns against isolationist pressures weakening U S readiness in a new cold war.
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Asia
Moscow
Pieping
Central Intelligence Agency
Nixon
CIA
Pentagon
Soviet Russia
Red China
Britain
Hitler
Stalin
America
United States
Teach It Straight At the Present Time Delinquency Message
A reader condemns media messages that urge adults to curb teen theft by removing car keys, arguing such excuses shift blame onto society and undermine moral lessons about stealing. The Cedar Rapids chief of police is cited defending this permissive stance, warning of further decay if continued.
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Cedar Rapids
Colleges infection by Fred M Hechinger New York Times
The president of a major urban college learns his daughter and friends occupied his office, signaling a student upheaval across campuses nationwide. From Harvard to Wisconsin, issues include defense research, black studies, tuition, coed dorms, and faculty appointments. Experts see coordinated yet hortative rhetoric, with outsiders and activists often exploiting unrest.
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EW York
University of Chicago
Harvard
San Francisco State College
Sarah Lawrence and
Briarcliff
Queens College
Wisconsin
Congress
Seeps and Spreads in the Vietnam Era Debate
In the heat of the Vietnam controversy, young radicals are urged to gain support from hard-core Maoists and groups like the Third World Liberation Front as part of a broader national rebellion. The text contrasts Communist and America First camps amid student protests.
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Communist Party
America
Campus unrest spans colleges and high schools, study shows
A study notes radical campus activity stems from broader cultural influence, with Yale? No, Berkeley and Columbia as trendsetters. It warns liberal faculty and reform-minded students face divisions as disruptions rise, while politicians and courts shape responses and Hesburgh warns of a new fascism threatening campuses.
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Theodore M. Hesburgh
Notre Dame University
Columbia
Harvard
Academia
Rockefeller ties shadow Lindsay bid to Rockefeller aid
In New York City the Lindsay camp braces for a tighter primary fight as Rockefeller interests clash with Mayor Lind say over fundraising and support. A June million dollar dinner drew attempts to recruit Lindsay's money raiser Gustave Levy, raising fears Rockefeller aims to alter the political balance. A Marchi challenge from Staten Island looms, with Rockefeller snubbing calls to broker peace amid growing friction in Bronx Queens and Staten Island. A secret housing delay in Canarsie prompts a probe tracing leaks to Rockefeller's State Housing Authority.
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John V. Lindsay
Nelson Rockefeller
Lindsay
State Republican Committee
State Committee
Gustave Levy
Levy
New York Stock Exchange
Rockefeller
City Hall
John Marchi
Staten Island
Bronx
Queens
Marchi
Albany
Lindsays
Rockefellers
Manhattan
Canarsie
Brooklyn
State Housing Authority
Publishers-Hall Syndicate
Cedar Rapids Hit By Second Snow Storm In Week
A heavy snowstorm moved into Eastern Iowa, with 25 to 50 mph winds, downed power lines, and travel warnings. Cedar Rapids received six inches by midnight, as gusts drove snow sheets through the city. The report also notes political and local civic items from Linn County.
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Iowa
Highway Patrol
Cedar Rapids
Eisenhower
Macmilan
Great Britain
Russia
Walter Shupp
Linn County
Linn
Board of Supervisors
Harry G. Hoyt
McKinley Hi Y meeting recalls 30 years past
A YMCA note recalls the McKinley Hi Y club meeting as part of the 10 20 30 Years Ago column. Weather across Cedar Rapids showed springlike swings with a 61 degree high, 12 degree morning low, and damaging wind driven snow flurries that approached blizzard conditions.
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McKinley Hi
Cedar Rapids
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