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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1978
Page
2
The Cedar Rapids Gazette displays an early 10 7AM EST forecast noting a 78 degree reading. The clipped item shows a National Weather Service forecast line with time and temperature cues for the day.
Birth notices from Mercy St. Luke's and several addresses announce multiple newborns a son and a daughter. Marriages dissolved list separates two couples. Police log notes accident scene assists and alarms malfunction with locations Cedar Rapids Marion and surrounding streets.
The House sent a heavily amended Humphrey Hawkins full employment measure to the Senate with goals for jobs inflation farm prices and a balanced budget while imposing no mandatory government action. It aims for 4 percent unemployment by 1983 and includes private sector emphasis flexible work hours and reduced red tape despite Republican opposition describing the bill as unworkable.
House energy negotiators for the first time agree to phased deregulation of natural gas prices as part of Carter era energy plan compromises. Conferees seek to reshape Senate deregulation terms to curb industry generosity, risking coalition support and extending the bill impasse.
Women’s rights advocates plan to file suit in federal court challenging the Kentucky Legislature’s decision to withdraw its 1972 ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment. The Kentucky House debated the issue for three hours Thursday and voted 61 to 28.
In St Anthony Newfoundland seal hunters have killed more than 14 000 newborn harp seals amid a North Atlantic gale. Fisheries Department spokesman Charles Friend said the hunt continues but ice conditions prevent travel. About 180 miles north on the floes the sealers are reported to be doing well as the department estimates more than 14 000 of 180 000 pups killed so far, compared with about 55 000 by this time last year.
South Africa says white churches may admit black worshippers without official permission, reversing a 20 year policy. In practice, impact may be limited as many churches already ignore the law and few blacks live near white churches.
The Senate joined others in retracting support for the ERA as Kentucky becomes the fourth state to reverse ratification. The action leaves ERA status uncertain, potentially headed to court to resolve legality. Meanwhile the State Department says the USSR violated international law by revoking citizenship of dissidents Rostropovich and Grigorenko, breaching the UN Declaration and Helsinki Agreement.
The Democratic National Committee will push back the vote on proposed rules to June 9. The measures would shorten the primary season limit outsider challenges, partially revive winner take all, and require entrants to enter primaries 55 days before the election.
The 546 foot Ocean 250, laden with 10.5 million gallons of gasoline, floated free from rocks near Fisher's Island Sound, anchored two miles east of the grounding site. Coast Guard reports a leak rate between 500 and 2,000 gallons per hour after a 21 hour grounding.
Energy officials and a key House committee are negotiating to end the Clinch River stalemate by shifting toward a larger breeder facility using different technology. Congress has pressed to finish Clinch River in Tennessee as a future energy cornerstone, while the Carter administration argues the project risks plutonium production.
John Marshall Butler former Maryland U S senator who rose from obscurity in 1950 as a McCarthy ally died Tuesday of a heart attack in Rocky Mount North Carolina.
Parade Magazine teases Jack Anderson's probing report this Sunday. Readers are urged to explore the fate of the American Dream through investigative perspectives and social questions.
The report notes no precipitation last year. Extended forecast shows partly cloudy skies Sunday through Tuesday with a chance of rain Tuesday. Temperatures range from the 40s to 50s, nights upper 20s to low 30s. NW wind at 17 mph, sunrise 6 14, sunset 6 16.
Police in Rome uncovered the second car linked to the Moro abduction, locating it on the same street as the first vehicle near Trionfale. Blood traces in the first car prompt tests to confirm Moro’s blood, while authorities remain convinced he is unharmed, with 50 000 troops and police hunting suspects nationwide.
On this date in 1968 the United States and six other nations agreed to halt supplying gold to private buyers. This move established a two price system for the metal.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette lists subscription rates by mail with afternoon and Sunday editions. Rates show 7 issues weekly at $5.17, 52 weeks $56, and out-of-state $80 per year, with restrictions on male subscriptions in carrier areas.
Minnie Tybo, honored in 1975 as the oldest living native Nevadan by the North Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce, died Wednesday at age 112 in Elko Nevada.
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