14 Nov 1977
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1977
Page
1
A little-known local firm celebrates its 50th year providing intercity bus travel guides nationwide. The notice hints at national influence from a Cedar Rapids office and signals ongoing industry changes.
A Page 11 discussion on balancing honesty about preventive cancer measures with protecting children from distress. It weighs age appropriate information, emotional burden, and parental guidance to decide what to share and when.
Agriculture Department notes last week's estimate of 6.37 billion bushels for the 1977 corn crop may or may not be a record with an 80 percent chance of being slightly lower. The report appears on page 7 amid other sports and weather items.
The U.S. Supreme Court will review Iowa's method of taxing out of state firms with Iowa sales. Moorman Manufacturing, Illinois based, owes over 320000 in back income tax after an Iowa Supreme Court ruling. Lawyers say the system harms free trade and could affect more than 50 similar Iowa cases.
Police arrest 36 year old guard Shin Moo il after a candle left burning while he passed out ignited 30 tons of dynamite aboard a boxcar in Iri. 58 killed, 1,343 injured, thousands homeless, rail damage, and $10 to $20 million in losses. Shin claims drunkenness and remorse.
President Carter unveiled a compromise full employment bill aiming to cut joblessness from 7 percent to 4 percent by 1983. The measure, backed by 32 labor and civil rights groups, presses private sector job growth with a government framework for five year policy goals.
A Sunday explosion and fire leveled three downtown Fond du Lac buildings including the American Family Insurance structure. Ten people were treated for injuries. no fatalities reported. Officials suspect a gas leak caused the blast.
Fire at the seven story Hotel Filipinas in Manila killed at least 50 with 42 bodies recovered. An American victim was Kenneth Charles Eccleston of Riverdale Maryland. Typhoon Kim hindered rescue efforts as winds and rain lashed the city.
Britain’s nationwide fire walkout forces troops and volunteers to man stations after an 84 year old woman dies from a chair fire sparked by a fireplace and two Royal Marines suffer smoke exposure. The walkout tests Labour’s 10 percent anti inflation wage cap as firefighters seek a 30 percent rise.
Linn County Attorney Eugene Kopecky announced no substance to Steve McNeal’s allegations of brutality by Cedar Rapids police during his Oct drunken driving arrest and jail confinement. Nine witnesses and video and medical reviews supported officers’ and jailers’ handling as proper. case considered closed.
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