25 Mar 1981
Page 1
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 8 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1981
Page
1
Community page notes debate about hazardous waste siting and local legal or financial responsibilities. Newspaper column and features reference TV options and regional topics across multiple pages, with further notices on temperaments, opinions, and local concerns.
A questionable tip promotes a tax loophole claimed to benefit a 65 year old college student who owns an oil well. The message reads like a push to exploit theoretical exemptions and raises questions about legitimacy and targeting.
House Ways and Means Chair Daniel Rostenkowski says Reagan’s three year 30 percent income tax cut is all but dead and urges a bipartisan consensus measure. He cites Democratic opposition and notes talk of a smaller plan and possible changes like removing the marriage penalty to aid lower and middle income workers.
A photographer's flash startles eight kangaroos feeding on a hospital lawn in Cobar New South Wales. Years of drought have pushed wildlife from their usual grazing areas into town at night to feed on lawns and parks.
Vice President George Bush is named chairman of a crisis management team amid a White House clash over foreign policy. He will coordinate emergency responses and plan options for presidential decisions, with duties extending in Reagan's absence. Haig disputed the plan in testimony, then appeared to back the decision in a Brady briefing.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette will switch from evening to morning daily publication seven days a week, with a mid summer start for weekday editions. Editor Joe Hladky III cites faster delivery, fuller news, sports and business coverage, plus better ad impact from home delivery.
Fourteen Grant Wood Area Education Agency staffers will keep their jobs after termination notices were issued to 40 contract employees two weeks ago. The board discussed cost-saving ideas and a 5 percent raise instead of 9 percent, enabling retention for the 14 workers including Jim Davis and Carole Harder.
A Iowa General Assembly subcommittee narrowly approved phasing out the Iowa Juvenile Home in Toledo by October 1 and closing the Women's Reformatory in Rockwell City by December 1 1982. Residents from Rockwell City would transfer to Mitchellville for adult women and juvenile girls to Eldora Training School for Boys, transforming Eldora into a coeducational campus.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.