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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1976
Page
6
May 6 1976 Cedar Rapids Gazette reports on local events including civic updates and community notices. The brief items mention city council actions, public meetings, and regional developments affecting residents and businesses.
An Iowa Health Education and Welfare official says the states resettlement effort serves as a national prototype. With about 2 500 refugees Iowa has absorbed 1 3 percent of the nations total while hosting 1 94 percent of the latest wave. Strong voluntary support from churches and sponsors has kept families off welfare by September, though challenges like unemployment and isolation persist.
The New York Times Service reviews Ronald Reagan as an unlikely foreign policy expert whose Panama Canal stance and budget rhetoric appear theatrical. It notes Goldwater Rockefeller and others questioning his grasp of key security issues while predicting the performance may wow audiences but fail as policy.
Congress mulls sunset proposals to force regular justification or dissolution of federal programs. A Senate subcommittee heard a plan combining sunset reauthorization every four years with zero base budgeting, aiming to curb duplication and waste amid public dissatisfaction with government size.
Senator Edmund Muskie argues the growth of federal programs has bred public disenchantment as 1975 counts show 1 030 aid programs across health income security and housing with 44 independent agencies and 1 240 advisory bodies. He cites the need to consolidate to stop waste and confusion. Republican Sen William Roth Jr says trimming is needed to halt the rule that funding must rise yearly. Representative Norman Mineta says reforms could improve federal local relations by cutting red tape and overlapping grant aims.
The piece critiques Muskie's proposed zero based budgeting as a cosmetic reform and notes that similar thrift campaigns surge before elections but fade. It argues Congress already has authority to economize and highlights the struggle to gain collective budget discipline among legislators. It also questions personnel changes and prospects for success this year.
Critics say the Muskie bill would unleash heavy paperwork and a rigid review cycle, with zero-base budgeting urged to be selective rather than nationwide. Witnesses stress defense and census as essential activities may remain protected while reform focuses on controllable programs. A separate letter asks for help locating Harry Loseau and Harriet Loseau in Cedar Rapids.
A Harris poll of 1,072 voters finds Carter ahead of Reagan 53 to 34 and ahead of Ford 47 to 43. The findings suggest Reagan has lost support among affluent, educated and independent voters, with Ford risking a conservative image in pursuing the Reagan challenge.
A West Branch restaurant argues a CBS host Andrew Rooney comment prompted confusion about local dining. They cite Herbert Hoover birthplace tours and the Hoover Presidential Library, noting tourist draws and repeated visits while challenging a judge’s fairness in a separate stop sign ticket case.
A reader thanks The Gazette for giving space to voice opinions on past police probes and the Zacek case and commends reporter Mike Deupree for fair, impartial reporting and a surrounding story that drew many favorable comments.
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