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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1982
Page
3
A magazine headline proclaims Yellow Power as anti-Japanese portrayals appear on American television. The trend is noted nationwide, with stronger tensions in economically stressed West Coast areas, reflecting growing racial hostility.
Five years after new ethics codes capped outside income, restrictions have been loosened and disclosure shows lawmakers’ paid speeches attract interest on committees tied to corporate influence. Metro-Lowa.
A Sun City connection brings retirees to Oxford Junction as one third of the town’s 600 residents are over 60. Locals worry what the community will look like in 20 years while many see it as a great place to live. Metro-lowa, page 18A.
Merrill Massare and his wife Teri run the Cedar Rapids region’s only peat bog mining business. They supply florists, golf course superintendents, cemetery owners and gardeners, signaling growth potential in a rural operation.
The Iowa Department of Social Services will send letters this week to elderly and handicapped clients about ending Homemaker, Home Health Aid and Chore services. The notices may alarm readers but the services are not actually ending. wording is the issue. Focus: Home.
The Space Shuttle Columbia will fly next month with a secret Defense Department payload identified only as 82-1. Mission commander Thomas Mattingly and co pilot Henry Hartsfield are under orders not to discuss the cargo, while NASA says some communications will remain uncensored and the Air Force guards secrecy for national security reasons. The device, a super cooled infrared radiation detector, will operate during the seven day flight and be returned to Earth.
A three judge panel of the 5th Circuit reviewed Baldwin's bid to block the execution set for early Thursday at Angola. The 39 year old itinerant laborer would be Louisiana's first execution since 1961 if the stay fails.
About 150 telecommunication workers at a Cedar Rapids town meeting urged Rep. Tom Tauke to oppose the House bill guiding telecom reform. They warned of job losses under the consent decree and pressed for a plan preserving benefits as 22 Bell operating companies would join seven new entities.
British economist and writer Barbara Ward is celebrated on her 68th birthday.
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