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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1979
Page
1
Cedar Rapids board members of the Friends of the Public Library refuse a bill and contribution of 3305.04. The item appears in page content and reflects a local governance action. The report references editorial pages and quotes commentary on social issues.
A prediction on page 6B suggests only a dozen car makers will remain by century's end. Other items noted include Mayor Koch's stance on punches and eggs, a fire escape from a New Jersey rooming house, parolee name disclosures under scrutiny, Dick Clark on Kennedy's presidential bid, and a mortgage lifting test of strength.
Robert Strauss will lead Carter's reelection campaign with Tim Kraft taking over field operations and Sol Linowitz potentially replacing Strauss as special Middle East negotiator. Linowitz, a Panama Canal treaties negotiator and former OAS ambassador, also chaired Xerox. Evan Dobelle shifts to fundraising duties while Strauss prepares to run the campaign overall.
Don ald L. Hopkins, 48, waives extradition from Kansas City to Iowa where he fled a jail term for securities law violations. He was arrested Oct. 3 after a drunkenness report and held in Missouri. A 1976 plea related to Continental Mortgage Investment Co. led to 30 day terms he skipped in 1977. A civil suit, plus pending escape charges, may affect investors seeking returns.
Li'l Abner cartoonist Al Capp died in Cambridge at Mount Auburn Hospital. He was 70 and had retired two years earlier after ill health and a decline in the strip’s bite. Capp born Alfred Gerald Caplin in New Haven in 1909.
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