18 Mar 1981
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1981
Page
1
On a rural Marengo farm, Harold and Erna Collingwood found a knot in a dead elm that resembles a human skull atop their kitchen hatch. The discovery happened when Erna’s husband loaded a truck with firewood and misread the knot as a skull, later corrected by inspection.
Gov Ray hails a federal judge as favorable to Iowa’s penitentiary modernization in Fort Madison. Democrats bloc votes against an avowed Democrat on the state Board of Public Instruction. Fuel tax increase faces a rough Legislature path. Marion officials celebrate federal aid.
A light quip notes that a braggart tends to lead every chat, framing boasting as the opening move in conversation. The joke anchors on social behavior and self-assertion.
Wildcat strikes shut 16 mines in southwestern Pennsylvania, six in West Virginia, three in Ohio and one each in Virginia and Alabama after contract talks broke down. UMW President Sam Church warned of a nationwide 160000 miner walkout at contract expiry March 27.
Government figures show American business profits slowed in the fourth quarter while gross national product growth was revised lower. Capacity use dipped to 79.3 percent in February after six months of gains, with before tax profits at 249.2 billion and after tax profits at 164.1 billion. Real GNP rose 3.8 percent to 2.7 trillion, with prior estimates revised downward.
James L. Churchill, 50, promoted to succeed Clare I. Rice as Rockwell Collins top Cedar Rapids executive. Rice, 62, moves to vice president of marketing and assistant to Kent Black in Commercial Electronics Operations based in Dallas.
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