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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1978
Page
22
Cedar Rapids garbage pickup shifts to a day late next week due to Memorial Day. Offices at Pig is Coming and Cedar Memorial will close at 3 p.m. on Memorial Day. Various ads note sales, events, and local services including salons, banking holiday closures, and a motorcoach tour.
UPI reports Memorial Day in the United States coincides with France’s Day of the Ashes honoring Napoleon’s remains return from St Helena. Southern women led by Cassandra Oliver Moncure chose May 30 to decorate Union and Confederate graves. Memorial Day was made a federal holiday in 1971 for the last Monday in May to honor fallen servicemen. Napoleon was crowned King of Italy in 1805.
William M. Mercer Inc asserts private pension plans in the United States are properly funded and unlikely to collapse. The firm argues unfunded liabilities are misunderstood and that actuaries are prudent professionals adhering to ERISA, while noting only a severe 1929-style downturn could threaten benefits.
Winners Thursday at Kenwood Park Presbyterian Church include Viola Schenken and Ruth Helm in first two, with Mary Mullin and Frank Zeman also noted. The event continues with upcoming Thursday noon play and medalist honors for 18 and 9 holes among multiple flights.
The Carter administration has considered calling out the Army to deliver mail in a postal strike to curb inflation. An unnamed White House official cited by the Los Angeles Times said the option was discussed and that the postal workers' unions and the Postal Service were negotiating to renew contracts expiring July 20.
Adaline Caputo, 14, skipped eighth grade to care for her ailing parents in Euclid Ohio. She writes letters to strangers asking them to “care, we are all humans,” with about 40 letters received. Her family relies on Social Security. she left school briefly and plans to return in fall.
Jackson Elementary students in Janesville Wisconsin take part in a game like course named Consumer to learn budgeting. They earn 120 monthly points by choosing items and facing credit offers and penalties, learning to distinguish needs from wants and the realities of limited resources through mock loans and purchases.
Ronald Logan, freed after a 13 year prison term later deemed based on perjured testimony, campaigns in Lansing for compensation. He plans to stay with his wife Molly, camping and courting lawmakers while contemplating legal relief and public support.
The Carter administration sends legislation to Congress to lure investment and jobs to distressed areas through tax credits and small bond exemptions. It applies strict eligibility: unemployment above national average, slow five year employment growth, slow population growth, and low per capita income. At least three of four tests must be met, reducing eligible communities to about 12 000 of 39 000 units.
Ronald Douthit, condemned for the 1975 shooting of his cousin Leonard Karl Frasier in a life insurance scheme, received a 20 day stay from Cobb County Superior Court Judge Luther Hames after the U S Supreme Court denied a request to delay the May 26 date. Legal observers note potential further appeals could prolong the case beyond the stay.
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