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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1977
Page
8
The Cedar Rapids Gazette prints an editorial page on Sunday May 1 1977 presenting opinion pieces on local politics community issues and civic affairs. Readers are invited to consider editors notes letters and commentary shaping public discourse.
The Iowa Senate approved a bill requiring a one semester course in economics with emphasis on the free enterprise system. Other debates consider mandating creationism alongside evolution and teaching religion in schools, while cautioning against indoctrination and preserving free speech and belief rights.
The plan would offer a 400 tax credit on the first 1000 dollars of solar installation cost plus 25 percent of the next 6400. It would impose punitive taxes on gas guzzlers like a 176 tax for a 1979 model under 17 mpg and up to 2488 by 1985 for limousines at 12.5 mpg or less. Small, efficient cars would receive rebates around 327. The package aims to raise awareness of energy sacrifice and fuel standards.
Washington observers warn Carter energy proposals risk economic disruption as foreign and domestic automakers debate the small car rebate and gas guzzler tax. UAW officials fear policy may favor insiders while harming Chrysler and American Motors.
Iowa farmers increasingly irrigate as drouth lowers streams and shallow aquifers. State Geologist Stanley Grant notes spring rain helps, but the three year dry spell leaves a lasting lesson. A state water use plan under development could sustain water awareness and readiness for future shortages.
An Editor & Publisher editorial argues that cutting postal Saturday service to save money will backfire by reducing traffic and pushing major users to alternate delivery methods, weakening a once proud public service.
A reader analyzes the proposed Collins road extension linking Marion and northeast Cedar Rapids. He argues safety gains on Forty second street and questions downtown opposition, noting existing routes Blairs Ferry road and Forty second street NE and mention of future I 380 completion.
The letter argues salt used for ice and snow causes greater road and vehicle damage than studded tires. It claims salt corrodes undercarriages and fenders, noting high salt purchases by cities and counties. The writer urges banning salt to reduce overall costs to drivers buying new cars.
A letter argues for water conservation via a frozen gallon jug method and questions grooving of cement on a new highway 13 project, suggesting campers and ice users try the jug idea to save water and reduce waste.
The writer argues that courts favor homosexual rights over those of straight citizens and children. They claim the nation risks moral decline as lawmakers back policies that defy common sense and threaten the upbringing of future generations.
A mother thanks a kind passerby who stopped to assist after her son Jeremy fell from a car on First Avenue near Town & Country. She could not get the helper’s name at the moment and asks him to know she is grateful and blessed.
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