Academy of Country Music Awards winners hug
George Jones and Barbara Mandrell top the Academy of Country Music Awards while other pages note Tom Jones in Nashville and a wide range of local items. Public hearing in Iowa City approves reapportionment. Penick and Ford resume wet corn milling. Polly Cramer retires after 20 years. HACAP director steps down. Derby preview and league inaugurations are highlighted alongside various features.
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George Jones
Barbara Mandrell
Page
Tom Jones
Nashville
Penick and Ford
Japan agrees to voluntary cut in auto exports to US
Japan will limit auto shipments to the United States by at least 140000 cars in year one of a two year voluntary cutback. The second year limit depends on U.S. recovery. USTR Brock calls plan satisfactory and time for U.S. industry to retool. Autoworkers and automakers react to the plan with mixed views as Congress weighs stricter limits.
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Tokyo
Japan
United States
U.S
Rokusuke Tanaka
William Brock
Congress
Brock
Jack Danforth
R-Mo
Kyodo News Service
Zenko Suzuki
Washington
Reagan
Juvenile home gets a reprieve in Iowa House
DES MOINES The Iowa House rejected a plan to close the Toledo Juvenile Home, restoring funds for its operation in fiscal 1982 and 1983. The 61 to 36 vote approved an amendment to continue operation with $3.5 million across the two years, despite earlier subcommittee recommendations and partisan debate.
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Casette
Des Moines
Iowa House of Representatives
Iowa
Toledo
House
Corrections and Mental Health Appropriations Subcommittee
Larry Pope
Subcommittee
Pope
Janet Carl
D-Grinnell
Ruhl Maulsby
Rockwell City
Paving plan scrapped by Lisbon City Council
Lisbon voters opposed a 40 block, 1 million dollar street paving project, ending in a 4 to 1 vote after a three hour public hearing. Nearly 300 attended at the fire station amid protests over rising assessments and taxes with many residents expressing hardship in the economy.
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Lisbon
Steve Marsh
Pete Greiner
Jefferson Street
Greiner
Wendy Reilly
Richard Seboldt
Douglas Yanna
Tim White
Cedar Rapids
New leadership at St Luke's Hospital announced
The hospital board announces the resignation of Albert A. Curtis as president effective Aug 1. Samuel T. Wallace will succeed him, bringing a background in hospital administration, military service, and community leadership to St Luke's Cedar Rapids. Curtis will serve as consultant for planning and marketing and liaison for the St Luke's Foundation.
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Albert A. Curtis
St. Luke’s Methodist Hospital
Samuel T. Wallace
Curtis
St. Luke's Foundation
Parkland Drive
St. Luke's
Wallace
St. Luke’s
Arkansas
University of Missouri
Washington University
St. Louis
Cedar Rapids
Hillcrest Medical Center
Tulsa
Oklo
Army Medical Corps
Vietnam
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Washington, D.C
Boy Scouts of America
Hawkeye Area
American College of Hospital Administrators
Iowa Health Systems Agency
Southeast Iowa Emergency Medical Services Council
East Post Road SE
Community Mental Health
Cen
Ter
Linn County
United Way
Gazette photographer wins top photo award
Paul Jensen of The Cedar Rapids Gazette won the sweepstakes prize for large newspapers in the 1980 81 Iowa AP M Ed photo contest for a sports image titled Blocked kick The awards were announced at a neon luncheon launching the Iowa APME meeting in Iowa City Jensen 28 joined The Gazette photo staff in 1975 and has earlier top honors from 1976 The Detroit Free Press staff judged this year s contest with a seven judge panel including Taro Yamasaki
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Iowa City
Paul Jensen
The
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Iowa Associated Press Managing Editors
Duane Manhorter
Oskaloosa Herald
Iowa AP
John Lumpkin
Iowa Apme
Jensen
Gazette Photo
Jefferson High School
University of Missouri
School of Journalism
Iowa Press Photographers’ Association
APME
Detroit Free Press
Taro Yamasaki
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State News
Harold
Polly Cramer
Ol’ Blue
People
U.S. Agriculture
John Black
Metro
John Culver
HACAP
University of Illinois
Abby
Marion
A.C
Detroit
General Motors
Ford Motor Co
Chrysler
Ken Sullivan
Kurt Rogahn Garatta Etot
Pho
L.W. Ward
Samuel Wallace
Gazette
Harry Baumert
Des Moines Register and Tribune
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