Cedar Rapids News Snapshot and Feature Notes
An exclusive interview with Erick Skogman offers his views on Cedar Rapids. A Marion woman shares insights on beating life insurance odds. The Cedar Rapids Nature Center plans an unusual session to aid homeowners. A Cedar Rapids senator seeks an attorney general ruling on stock ownership for a key state post. Projected state revenues and farm income are discussed.
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Erick Skogman
Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids Nature Center
Planning college financing according to Sylvia Porter
Sylvia Porter argues it is never too early to plan financing higher education in her first of several articles. The piece appears on page 13 and is part of a series guiding families through college costs and funding options.
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Sylvia Porter
White House considering expanded business tax cuts
Questions on why planners worry about proposed business tax cuts and what the administration may do. Also notes ERA deadline approaching and pages pointing to related discussions.
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White House
Church worship center plans approved by congregation
Construction plans for a new church worship center were approved by the congregation Sunday. Occasional rain mixed with snow is forecast tonight and Tuesday with temperatures in the low 30s tonight and a high near 40 Tuesday.
Vacation insight on currency length and value
A brief vacation note states that new two dollar bills do not last longer than the one dollar notes. The remark implies little difference in durability or circulation between the denominations.
Oxygen therapy touted as fountain of youth by study
A National Institute of Mental Health study finds that a couple of martinis may provide as much mental stimulation as costly oxygen therapy chambers used by seniors to boost brain function. The report notes many elderly Americans have spent hundreds of thousands on masks and iron lung like chambers to breathe pure oxygen in hopes of reversing senility.
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Washington
UPI
National Institute of Mental Health
Raskin
Robert Butler
National Institute On Aging
Consumers Digest
NIMH
Nimh Re
NIMH Study Questions Oxygen Therapy as Fountain of Youth
The Archives of General Psychiatry report finds most elderly participants gained little lasting benefit from hyperbaric oxygenation. Among 82 subjects average age 72, memory tests improved for some and by others on air, while critics call the therapy quackery.
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NIMH
Archives of
General Psychiatry
Allen Raskin
Ulster Women Win Peace Prize Amid Global Amnesty Honor
The Nobel Committee in Oslo awarded the 1977 Peace Prize to Amnesty International for its anti violence work and retroactively to Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan of Northern Ireland. The women led peaceful marches and founded a trust for orphans and community projects after Belfast killings.
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Oslo
Norway
Nobel Committee
Amnesty International
Northern Ireland
Betty Williams
Mairead Corrigan
Miss Corrigan
Soviet Soyuz 25 aborts mission after docking attempt
Soyuz 25 aborted 24 hours into its flight after an attempted linkup with the Salyut 6 space station. Cosmonauts Vladimir Kovalenok and Valery Ryumin returned to Earth as docking deviations were cited by Tass. Western observers had eyed a possible space endurance record or a multi station linkup.
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Moscow
Aps
Earth
Valery Ryumin
Salyut 6 Space Station
Space Station
Tass
Col. Kovalenok
Millions in union insurance misused across eight states
Labor unions in eight states face losses totaling millions as California broker Joseph Hauser allegedly diverted about 11.7 million dollars in premiums between 1973 and 1976. Investigators say funds were moved to related firms and investments, with unions including the Teamsters Central States Health and Welfare Fund potentially losing up to seven million in premiums. The probe cites a 1.1 million unexplainable Swiss check and 39 million in premiums across 20 union funds.
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Washington
California
Congressional
Senate
Joseph Hauser
W. Donald Gray
Hauser
Charles Percy
R-Ill
Gray
Teamsters’ Central States Health and Welfare Fund
Arizona
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Illinois
Indiana
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Henry Jackson
D-Wash
Jackson
Trooper heroically rips door free to save driver and dog
Iowa State Trooper Jerry Fehlhafer on I 80 near Tiffin used a wrecking bar then tore the door off a burning car to free driver Joseph Hovy and recover his dog. Hovy, 64, Stockton California, and a semi driver Dennis Hauck of Sioux Falls were involved. Hovy listed in good condition.
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Tiffin
Iowa
Jerry Fehlhafer
Cedar Rapids
Tiffin Interchange
Fehlhofer
Joseph Hovy
Stockton
Calif
Hovy
Fehlhafer
University of Iowa
Dennis Hauck
Sioux Falls
Gazette adopts downstyle headlines for readability
The Gazette shifts to downstyle headlines capitalizing only proper names and initial words. This change aims to improve readability and viewer appeal across pages.
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The
Gazette
Lance denies knowledge of U.S. funds in bank
Atlanta AP report says former Budget Director Bert Lance, a major National Bank of Georgia shareholder, denies involvement in more than 1 million dollars of federal funds in the bank. U.S. District Court clerk Ben Carter explains funds came from federal bankruptcy trustees and notes most were CDs and checking accounts.
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Atlanta
Bert Lance
National Bank of Georgia
Lance
Office of Management and Budget
Newsday
Long Island, N.Y
OMB
U.S. District Court
Georgia
Ben Carter
Lance’s
NBG
Carter
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Marion
New York
Consumer
Cedar Rapids Falcons
Madison
Wis
Robert Ray
Corn Outlook
U.S
Associated Press
NEW York Times
Buffalo, N.Y., Veterans Administration Hospital
New England Journal of
Buffalo
Ulster Women Get Peace Prize
Moscow Radio
Soyuz 25
Vladimir Kovalenok
Ryumin
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