Cedar Rapids Editorial Reflects on 3, 1976
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1976
Page
6
Ballot conformity in Iowa elections faces new questions
The Iowa ballot arrangement saga highlights legal ambiguity as judges and county officials clash over petition candidate placement. Solicitor General Haesemeyer notes no code dictates order beyond top two, risking continued misalignment unless the legislature clarifies ballot layout.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meloy
Dubuque
Johnson County
Dolores Rodgers
Iowa
Haesemeyer
Aerial nightclub heads East Coast despite reform opposition
The flying nightclub concept, a spin off from a sea cruise, plans a fall East Coast debut with a Nevada style gambling attraction aboard flights. Price per seat is set at 100 dollars by New York promoters, while critics warn of social impact and legal hurdles remain unresolved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic Ocean
Paronomasiamania and Pun Names Highlight Language Play
The piece explores punning and wordplay concepts led by paronomasia and notes several near homophone names such as Ken Ketcham and Larry Speakes. It discusses Webster’s definitions and the trickiness of fine language, ending with a Greek-rooted explanation of paronomasia and how punning works.
Next campaign can go better ideas for 1980 reform
Tom Wicker argues 1976 federal funding reduced big donor influence and leveled party spending but limited coverage. He proposes higher subsidies or mixed private funds, higher individual limits, open debates to minor candidates, rival debate formats, and scrutiny of incumbents use of White House resources.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
League of Women Voters
Election Forum Laments Campaign Spending Overreach
A letter-writer, calling herself an aging observer, questions presidential and vice presidential candidates. She decries vast campaign spending financed by taxpayers, contrasts promises to aid the unemployed with flighty travel and tax money usage, and warns against hypocrisy and empty platitudes. She ends with a Marie Antoinette quip urging vigilance.
Taxation ideas to Congress letter to editor
A reader asks how a post election congressman would implement campaign promises on taxation. The letter cites a campaign claim to raise federal taxes on business profits and questions benefits for workers, quoting a Wall Street Journal source to discuss the issue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congressman Spoof
America
Peter Drucier
Wall Street
Pension funds own growing share of American equity
The piece argues employee pension funds already control a sizable portion of publicly held U.S. company equity and voting stock. It predicts continued rise toward majority ownership in major firms within a decade. It urges working people to support politicians backing pensions and unions to sustain dividends and national prosperity.
Price on Lives and City Fight Over Widows’ Benefit
A fire department widow's claim faces a city challenge as the judge weighs compensation. The writer argues the annuity and union benefits belong to the two widows, noting deductions from payroll and funds raised by a benefit ball. Public sympathy centers on honoring fallen firefighters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Firemen’s Union
Our Historic Right to Bear Arms and Press Freedom
Letter writers urge reading Field and Stream article Our Historic Right to Bear Arms. They defend the Bill of Rights, oppose censorship, and argue to preserve both gun rights and freedom of the press.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Antigun
Field and Stream
Self-invited jail food critique sparks inmate solutions
A reader comments on jail food issues noting inmates forged keys to enter areas. The letter argues personal responsibility and suggests noncompliance with court orders by offenders as a simple remedy.
Crime and justice in America and the Bronx case
The piece laments crime as a national issue and links it to politics. It recounts Ronald Timmons, a repeated juvenile offender, bail decisions, and a 1972 murder, linking judicial outcomes to public sentiment and U S leaders. It contrasts Ehrlichman’s jail term with Timmons’s freedom and questions justice in a perceived liberal era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Timmons
Judge Kidder
John Ehrlichman
Ehrlichman
Jimmy Carter
America
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