25 Mar 1978
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1978
Page
1
A Cedar Rapids man reveals a large antique watch collection highlighting historical craftsmanship and beauty from a bygone era. The piece underscores local interest in vintage timepieces and regional culture.
Readers learn area church sunrise and Easter service plans on page 8A while Cedar Rapids features new film openings, including a 1978 pick and a Walt Disney release on page 10A. Weather notes expect diminishing snowfall with highs near 35 and lows in the upper 20s.
United Mine Workers members vote 55 626 to 42 391 in favor of a new pact with the Bituminous Coal Operators Association. The 109 day walkout ends as miners return to work, with a 31 percent wage rise to 10 20 an hour over three years and a cost of living clause.
Parks Commissioner Stan Reinis discusses the annual planting program and city plans for flower shows and open houses in the City Hall Notes column of Sundays Gazette. Cyclamens frame the scene with lavender petunias in the foreground.
A Cedar Rapids woman recalls elegant Easter bonnets from past decades while milliners report a shift to lighter spring hats not worn mainly for Easter.She notes New York Fifth Avenue style influence and the contrast with the era of extravagant flowered creations.
Pope Paul VI, weakened by influenza, did not lead the outdoor Good Friday way of the cross at the Colosseum, watching on television. The 80 year old pontiff addressed Christians via a 600 word message broadcast to 24 nations from his apartment, urging personal awareness of Jesus love. About 19,000 attended the ceremony. Vatican hopes he recovers in time for Easter Mass.
An intense low pressure system centered in southern Missouri brought freezing temperatures and snow to Eastern Iowa. Interstate 80 incidents near Davenport to Iowa City clustered with jackknifed trucks near the Tiffin interchange. Snow concentrated 20 to 40 miles wide between Cedar Rapids and Lamoni, with one inch recorded at Cedar Rapids airport by midnight.
The Defense Department said Cosmos 849, launched last August and weighing about 900 pounds, will likely burn up on re entry and poses no nuclear threat. It may fall around May 6, with unknown entry point, unlike Cosmos 954 which dropped radioactive debris in Canada last January.
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